 April 18, 2010 - 10:14pm | As a sometime fan of "House" and a non fan of other medical drama's I've been pondering the possibility of a medical based adventure. (Also influence by the presence of the MSO in the setting- Medical Services Org from Zebs) its always great fodder for drama on TV, not so much on the silver screen. Could a medical crisis work for a SF or any other sci fi adventure? Probably the easiest answer is to just make it a part of the over all adventure or just one encounter but could a whole adventure be a "medical drama"? and still be playable. Most adventures have combat and combat boils down to a series of dice rolls so why wouldn't a medical emergency that would boil down to a series of dice rolls? It seems like a uphill battle to do this but I just wanted to kick the question around and brainstorm. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 April 27, 2010 - 6:04pm | You could have it set up where its a ship full of interns and nurses and a few handful of seasons doctors and nurses. Have something along the lines as a military gig, where they sign up for so many years on the fringe to off set the cost of their training. It would lead to some hair raising adventures. And you then could pull a lost in space/ land of the lost twist and have the ship encounter some sort of space phenominon ( spelling?) and they get fling into a system where the local human pop has a on going killer flu type of scenerio or something along that lines. Art Mic Gold is for the mistress-silver for the maid-copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.But Iron-Cold Iron- is master of them all |
 April 27, 2010 - 6:59pm | MedClip is a hull size 9 travelling medical ship that supplies remote frontier locations with general medical treatment and emergency services. In the past two months several beings have become sick, almost zombie-like soon after treatment. The ship has refused inspection of any kind. Although the ship refuels using hydrogen scoops they have requested a restocking for foodstuff and medical supplies. Oddly, there will be no exchange of ship personnel. >> Your team is hired to infiltrate the ship and find out what's going on. Background
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April 27, 2010 - 7:14pm | Does the frontier have the medical technology to regrow lost dralasite tissue and organs? |
 April 28, 2010 - 11:40am | I would say yes frontier medical technology supports limb/organ regeneration. Maybe it's grow the parts in the lab and surgically implant them, but it's there. I think they would grow the grow the component parts, stitch them together, grow it some more, etc. then implant/attach to the patient. As for dralasites, I don't give them regeneration, but they have better natural recovery than the other races. Loose a limb and you heal but now have a smaller mass. They can still reform the limb, just sized in proportion to their new mass. Loose an organ and their system doesn't replace it. Loose part of the organ and it slowly repairs over years. They also have organ redundancy to a limited extent. As for transplants of lab grown tissue they are the easiest to work with. They have very little to no rejection issues. -iggy |
 April 29, 2010 - 2:24pm | We are now breaking into organ/limb regeneration in our own world (thanks to a pig farmer in his garage regrowing his finger, leading to scientists growing a beating heart), which have factored into my cybernetics article. If humans can benefit, then surely all the other races can benefit. View my profile for a list of articles I have written, am writing, will write. "It's yo' mama!" —Wicket W. Warrick, Star Wars Ep. VI: Return of the Jedi "That guy's wise." —Logray, Star Wars Ep.VI: Return of the Jedi Do You Wanna Date My Avatar? - Felicia Day (The Guild) |
 April 29, 2010 - 2:40pm | speaking of which, wouldn't the eorna be leaps and bounds a head of current tech on dna gene therapy type stuff? I know thousands of people here in Kentucy are impatient for medical science to reverse shallow gene pool syndrome. Surely the eorna would be. |
April 29, 2010 - 7:45pm | The thought of regrowing a missing limb just gave me a vision of what it would take to amputate a vrusk limb- both internal and external skeleton! Talk about a long day for the doctors at the Vrusk version of the Civil War. "D'mn't J'm K'rk, I'm just an old Country doct'r not a chainsaw." I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
