Time for Some Answers

[Nicolas Lepage 0]

Even the best physician with the most sophisticated facilities cannot save every patient. Ocis’ death had confirmed this truth. No matter how often he tried to remind himself of this fact Nick still found it hard to accept. But all that did not matter now. What they would need to focus on now was saving the other 272 Deosi from certain death.

 

Mimi’s report did not reveal anything new. Maybe the full autopsy report would but Nick doubted it would yield any information that would help them. At the rate their research progressed the Deosi would be dead before they came even close to having a treatment for their condition. Unacceptable.

 

Nick decided that he should sit down and quickly review the facts they had already gathered along with making a list of questions they still needed to answer. That would help organize his thoughts. He grabbed a PADD and pulled up the reports from medical, science and engineering. Perusing them carefully, he tried to extract the most important information. It took him the better part of the afternoon to go through all the reports and memos but in the end he was satisfied with the result as he read it again.

 

Facts:

 

- The Deosi were Breen slaves.

- They managed to escape.

- They suffer from malnourishment and various diseases.

- Breen DNA was found on some of the Deosi’s hands..

- Ocis and the other Deosi’s DNA had several peculiar mutations.

- The Deosi’s DNA is degenerating which is killing them.

- The Deosi show signs of chroniton radiation.

 

Questions:

 

- How did the Deosi escape?

- How did the Breen DNA get on the hands of some Deosi?

- Did they use it to operate Breen technology?

- Why exactly does the DNA degenerate?

- Is the mutation responsible?

- If so how?

- Did the mutation occur naturally or was it engineered?

- Does the chroniton radiation have anything to do with the above?

 

 

Too many questions and too few facts, Nick thought when he had finished. Nevertheless, all these questions were important to answer. He would send out a memo including this list along with the final autopsy report once Mimi would have finished. Until then he would go back to the labs and try to find out more about the mutation. Time to find some answers.