Emergency Medical Hologram Mk IV: Activation In Crisis
Zeph
OOC: Content Warning: This sim contains a bit of narrative involving death and describes in varying detail a few different levels of injuries. Viewer discretion is advised.
((Primary Sickbay, Deck 12, USS Astraeus))
His day began as so many days often do. Empty, quiet, and nothing. For years, it was this way. Since November of 2399, the number of times his program had been activated aboard the Astraeus was zero. He’d transferred aboard the new vessel just after the good doctor Chythar Skyfire brought him from the Chin’toka. Deactivated as a medical professional for years, the program sat idle in the ship’s computer but was still actively maintained by a few dedicated coders who were not present at this very moment.
Until now. With a flicker of light, the Bajoran male materialized in sickbay wearing a Starfleet uniform about 40 years out of date amidst a pile of bodies, who were either injured in some variety or dead. Neither option was particularly pleasant, but as his programming dictated, he spoke the familiar phrasing.
Mark IV: Please state the nature of the medical emergency. I am an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark IV, at your service.
Saa: Mark IV, I am Dr. Sevantha Saa, we are in the middle of a crisis and down several doctors, I need your assistance with the patients we have and the influx we’re bound to have.
“Crisis” was indeed a familiar word, and those seemed to be when he was needed most. He retrieved a medical tricorder and a medkit, then started to scan and triage the injured. Those who were still alive, he worked quickly to stabilize them. As he did so, he decided to ask Dr. Saa for further clarification.
Mark IV: I see. Could you be a bit more specific as to what we’re dealing with?
Saa: We are dealing with a population of the crew assimilated by an unknown method, my theory is whatever the activating agent is, we all carry it, and there is a marker that activates it in some over others.
Mark IV: Has there been any effort made to scan the crew in an attempt to discover the activating agent? Do we know anything?
He finished treating one patient, and moved onto the next. The injuries were substantial on some of them, and on others they were beyond help having been dead for at least twenty minutes before his activation. Each of the walking wounded, or limping wounded, in some cases, looked to have been shot by phaser fire ranging from mild stun settings to kill shots that were only glancing blows.
Any: Response
Making sure the biobeds were online and active, she gave Mark IV a little nod.
Saa: We're trying to figure it out but I don't have a lot of data on who were assimilated outside Dr. Fianna, right now, priority is getting the injured tended to unless you have any ideas how to divide out attention?
He was a hologram, and he had been deactivated for several years. As far as the awareness of what was going on around the ship was concerned, he had none. As far as suggestions, he had a few based on what he’d been told.
Mark IV: Treat the living we have here, and beam any other injured from wherever they are to here if they require urgent medical treatment. We must also begin analysis on the crew who have been affected by the Borg to determine if the process is reversible so we can figure out how to reverse it.
Saa: =/\= Dr. Saa to Bridge, we are ready for transport of any injured here. =/\=
Any: =/\= Response =/\=
(( OOC: Zeph will continue here as needed. ))
Mark IV: Response
He wasn’t paying as close attention to Dr. Saa’s actions, but was aware of the conversation. He did his best to project an aura of calm in his tone, reassuring patients that they were going to be alright as he continued to treat them. Mark moved from patient to patient as he attempted to stabilize those who were already here.
Any: Response
As the blue light of transporters trickled in, the various patients from across the ship were again at varying degrees of injured. Many were sporting phaser burns of various kinds, some were bruised, or bleeding from head trauma, or some other level of injury that required immediate treatment. It wasn’t until one of the Bynars was beamed in that caused Mark to raise an eyebrow in confusion.
Zero / Saa: Response
Mark IV: One of the casualties from the Borg threat, I presume? Would you care to take the patient or shall I?
Saa / Zero: Response
More beams of blue light went off as more and more casualties were teleported in. One of whom was a lieutenant that Mark didn’t recognize, with a hole in his thigh presumably caused by a phaser. Several of the medical staff who would normally be assisting at this point were either incapacitated because of the threat or dead, casualties of the threat that had started in sickbay itself. Most of the less critical patients were at least recuperating, so Mark shifted his focus to the injured lieutenant.
Mark IV: If you have any theories on this manifestation of the borgification process, I will happily assist in trying to reverse its process.