Diaries of an Outbreak

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48 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Alahn Esmund, Lead Researcher

 

A most interesting occurrence today at the facility, Doctor t’Asharin called me into the medical lab to look at something she’d extracted from one of the colonists who’d been coughing up blood and complaining of headaches.

 

I have to say, I don’t think I’d seen anything quite like it before. It was most unusual. I asked her to a full examination and send me the report.

 

 

46 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Fva t’Asharin, Chief Medical Officer/Bio-organic’s Lead

 

I completed my exanimation of the specimen we removed from the colonist. Very unusual, indeed. I searched through the Empire’s records as well as those that the Federation have given us access too for our primary research and haven’t found anything like it.

 

It appears to be a parasitic life form with a strong weakness to ultra-violet radiation. Doctor Esmund has taken a particular interest to it. I am concerned about the vector. If this is a parasitic life form, there could be a possible outbreak among the colonists, or even here on the research complex as we share water supplies.

 

I have asked for the colony leaders to meet with the Doctor and myself, early tomorrow morning.

 

 

44 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Thomas Sinsaide, Assistant Medical Officer/Assistant Biochemical Researcher

 

We’ve now treated two dozen miners with the same symptoms: coughing, headaches, sleepless nights. Doctor t’Asharin has found parasitic material in all most all of them. Like her, I am very concerned, but so far we haven’t found anything connecting them except for the mine.

 

 

43 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Fva t’Asharin, Chief Medical Officer/Bio-organic’s Lead

 

After our thrity-third miner to have a small parasitic organism growing inside him, Chief Ramekin finally agreed to shut down the mines and let our researchers in. Alahn and his assistant, Ferad, are leading a hazmat team down later today to have a look.

 

 

41 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Doctor Ferad Tagin, Assistant Researcher

 

We’ve spent the last three days in the mines scouring them for any traces of possible vectors for the parasite. Dr. Esmund has been very thorough, though our diligence has yet to yield results.

 

 

39 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Thomas Sinsaide, Assistant Medical Officer/Assistant Biochemical Researcher

 

More colonists reporting similar symptoms, we’ve yet to identify where they’ve picked up the parasite.

 

 

37 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Fva t’Asharin, Chief Medical Officer/Bio-organic’s Lead

 

Alahn has had almost the entire staff of Federation and Romulan scientests in the mines for almost a week. I am beginning to wonder about Alahn, if he’s driving himself to hard. The colonists are understandably scared, and we have nearly fifty of them in a make shift med-ward we made out of the mess hall.

 

We have developed a procedure to remove the parasite from the host body, but so far we’ve been lucky enough to catch them all relatively early in what I believe is the growth stage.

 

 

36 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Thomas Sinsaide, Assistant Medical Officer/Assistant Biochemical Researcher

 

It was a bad day. We had another one of the colonists come in – apparently he’d been avoiding us – but his family drug him in. The parasite growth stage was far more advanced than we’d seen in anyone. We tried to remove it, but it had wrapped tendrils around the spinal cord. We lost the patient during the procedure.

 

 

35 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Doctor Ferad Tagin, Assistant Researcher

 

The mood was decidedly tense today in the mines. We believe we’ve uncovered what appears to be fossil remains of the parasites that had been unearthed. Dr. Esmund has us taking samples.

 

 

34 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Alahn Esmund, Lead Researcher

 

I have to admit the parasite is a truly remarkable creature. I’ve asked the doctor to take a live sample if possible so we can further study it. I would like to know more about their life-cycle so we can better find out which of the colonists is infected.

 

 

34 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Fva t’Asharin, Chief Medical Officer/Bio-organic’s Lead

 

Alahn’s team seems to have found the source of the parasitic infection – long dormant eggs in the mine dust. I’ve begun working on ways to indentify the parasite in individuals and we’re working with Chief Ramekin to isolate all of the miners and their families. Hopefully we’ve gotten this undercontrol. I suggested to Alahn that he send to Starfleet for help.

 

 

33 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Fva t’Asharin, Chief Medical Officer/Bio-organic’s Lead

 

I am growing concerned about Alahn. He was very pale today when we met to discuss our efforts to start screening those in isolation. He seemed distracted. On the other hand, we are making progress at screenings, we detected two cases where the parasitic egg was ready to hatch.

 

 

 

32 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Alahn Esmund, Lead Researcher

 

The parasite is an amazing creature. Its resilience, adaptability and evolutionary advantages are like nothing I’ve seen before. My modeling suggests that each individual parasite contains the entire genetic memory of every parasite born before it, but that they also have some sort of hive mentality. I can… feel the others.

 

 

31 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Doctor Ferad Tagin, Assistant Researcher

 

Something most unusual happened while I was in the lab working with Doctor Esmund, today. I noticed he’d been pale and bloodshot in the eyes lately. I figured with everything going on, he’d not been sleeping.

 

He seemed distant during out meeting with t’Asharin. When we got the lab, the Scorpiad technology did something we’d never seen before. It… it reacted to his mere presence. The small orb-device extended a tendril and grabbed his arm for a brief moment before recoiling. It was… bizarre.

 

 

31 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Fva t’Asharin, Chief Medical Officer/Bio-organic’s Lead

 

More concerned than ever with Alahn. I spoke with some of the other Romulans and they agreed that he’s been off-kilter even for a human. Not sure what we should do.

 

 

31 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Alahn Esmund, Lead Researcher

 

I am growing concerned about the Romulans. Their copper based physiology might not be compatible. We might have to do something about this.

 

 

29 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Doctor Ferad Tagin, Assistant Researcher

 

We’ve begun making progress reintroducing the specimen to colonists, Chief Ramekin has been exceptionally useful in this regard. Lord Esmund’s initial findings proved to be even more accurate than we’d imagined, the parasite does exert control over the host, and they do have a collective hive mind but there also seems to be a difference in each parasite-host relation, as if the host’s personality imprints on the new parasite-host personality.

 

 

28 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Fva t’Asharin, Chief Medical Officer/Bio-organic’s Lead

 

This will be my last entry. I am the last one. The only one not corrupted by that… that thing inside Alahn. I should have seen it coming, should have done something about it, but I didn’t. I’ve left all my notes on the implantation hidde… <entry deleted>

 

 

24 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Thomas Sinsaide, Assistant Medical Officer/Assistant Biochemical Researcher

 

It was shame about the Romulans, but Lord Esmund was right, we couldn’t afford to lose our brethren in them.

 

Our research into cross-breeding the parasite larve with other species is coming along nicely. It’s incredible how malleable the DNA is and how easily cross-bred with reptile, insectoid and various alien DNA it’s proven. We did find something very interesting while matching it up with the Scorpiad DNA…

 

 

22 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Alahn Esmund, Lead Researcher

 

I’ve decided to take the Romulan’s suggestion and ask for assistance from the Federation, we are, afterall in need of some supplies…

 

 

20 Days Ago

 

Personal Log: Dr. Alahn Esmund, Lead Researcher

 

I just received wonderful news. It seems Chief Ramekin had already request a supply drop off and that we were on the schedule. We have much to do to prepare for their visit to our fine community.