![]() October 13, 2014 - 4:27pm | Hydrogel was proposed here: http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/7134 its a gell that treats burns (any- lasers, fire etc) giving back +5 STA over any other medical treatment Invented by the eorna. I assume its usable by anyone and not just a medic or rather that any PC may self medicate with this. To my knowledge it has not made it into a magazine yet and If I can come up with at least 2 more medical items I'll do a Minzii Market place article Anyone have a new medical device, medicine or treatment? I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
November 3, 2014 - 2:15am | Excuse me, I will be busy assimilating all that information. ![]() |
![]() November 3, 2014 - 11:06am | ![]() 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) |
![]() November 3, 2014 - 11:25am | thus use of this cream with rest would restore 3 points per 20 hours. unfortunately this ancient herb remedy only works on Yazirians. One 5 dose jar (a dose is enough for one 20 period of rest/healing) cost 12Cr Wounds heal naturally at a rate of 1 point for every 20 hours the wounded character spends resting. 3. But have no fear SynthCorp has developed Athilor 4 cream, formulated to work on all of the species in the 'core four' but in only doubles the healing restoring 2 points/ 20 hours rest. One 5 dose jar (a dose is enough for one 20 period of rest/healing) cost 10Cr 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) |
![]() November 4, 2014 - 7:52pm | I have been hearing a lot about new medical technologies that have been coming out. It is good for finding new ideas of sci-fi games, and it is neat hearing about them. One of the simplest to be developed, is also one of the funniest. This one was made for the military and it is likely going to get FDA approval. The XStat is a syringe-like device that discharges cotton-pellets into a wound to soak-up blood and provide a compress to stop internal bleeding. ![]() If you cant tell, given its basic application, military personal are likely going to call it "The Tampon." Personally, I would call it "The Blain Cooper" for solders who "Ain't got time to bleed...". ![]() |
![]() November 4, 2014 - 8:36pm | That is a cool & simple gizmo, and would work nicely, not all future tech needs to be super science. Oh yes it will be called "the tampon". It would be something the players might find handy. It could have some sort of improved cotton balls in SF... sterile antiseptic coated medical polymer absorb it balls? "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
![]() November 5, 2014 - 7:24pm | Oh, I also forgot about the pig bladder powder they use for quick healing. The guy who invented regrew his amputated finger (Pinky finger?) in a few weeks. They now use the stuff in a paper for major surgeries and non-blood management. 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) |
November 5, 2014 - 10:46pm | A few tears ago I read about a kid who was born with only half his rib cage. So they developed an artificial one that grew with him. It was made from some artifical stuff that mimicked actual bone and blood could even flow through it. Amazing stuff out there now. |
![]() November 6, 2014 - 5:40am | The Pleasure Cap seems like something Dralasites could have come up with... it needs a better name. Also this is a real life gizmo: http://nursinglink.monster.com/rn-jobs/articles/2288-medical-wonders-almost-skin Space PJs A bacteria that stunts the growth of people? http://culturesandknowledge.blogspot.com/2013/09/elf-girl-strange-wonders-of-world.html Using sea coral to regrow bones: http://www.torontosun.com/2013/11/29/researchers-use-sea-coral-to-regrow-bones Some real brain med stuff: Note some of this only sort of works (we receive training on some of these things at work): http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/implant-epilepsy-seizure/ "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
![]() November 7, 2014 - 12:37pm | The various "artificial womb" ideas could be used in conjunction with real science for an adventure: Could be part of a Space Human Culture... they do the pregnancies in labs now, safer for the mother and child and allows the mother not to burdened with primiative biology. Or Alien Mad Scientist Time: I remember reading in the 80's in a science magazine about an experiment in which scientists wanted to find out if the Human Male body went through biological changes if an embryo was introduced to the Male's body. So they implanted one in a man's abdomen... turns out men totally can be pregos. The male test subject went through hormonal changes, the fetus grew nicely, the man's nipples even began to leak, and all the other pregos fun... the experimented ended when they removed the 100% healthy "fetus" via c-section, it seems to me they did this right before the third trimester... so around 6 months. Now I know I read about this is a real science magazine, so I think this was a real experiment that was not taken to full term... but I can not find the data today, and what I have found has been called hoaxes or involve transgender folks. Anyhow what if the PCs are being experimented on to see if they can grow a child by a species that reproduces differently, or be a host species including the males in the party... could prove interesting on many levels. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
![]() November 7, 2014 - 6:25pm | @ Tchklinxa One of the other artist at the sketch group I like to frequent is a lactation nurse and it turns out that a man's breast can be stimulated into lactating. I read a back issue Amazing or Asimov magazine back in the '80s that has a short story about a high school foot ball player going to the doctore with odd unexplained symptoms. The doctor discovers that the jock is pregnant. and that there have been a group of other seemingly unrelated men also turning up with the same condition. the Doctor investigates and it turns out they all slept with the same prostitute who turns out to be an alien, she bursts into flames ala spontaneous combustion when the doctor locates her. the end of the story is the doctor speculating on delivery by C section. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
![]() November 7, 2014 - 8:26pm | Well that could lead to an unplanned adventure for a crew coming back on shore leave... lol The Vrusk Doctor and Dralasite Doctor on the UPF Ranger stare at the mediscanner, the Vrusk clicks agitated and the Dralasite chuckles, one thing the Marine Sargent had learned as a Private when a Vrusk & a Dralasites make such noises together the outcome will somehow be both unpleasant and sickly humorous... surely there was a treatment, the docs always make you sweet, too teach you a lesson. Vrusk to Dralasite "I think you should tell him." "Tell me what?" Dralasites: "Congratulations you are in your first trimester" "My what?" Vrusk: "Do you wish to know the child's gender, I understand this is a sensitive issue with some humans?" "What!?!" Dralasites: "Calm yourself, in your condition... you have to think of the child... do you know who the father or is it mother was? She-he should be informed." Vrusk: "Are you sure you only copulate with the approved species list for your species on shore leave?" "I'm pregnant!" Together: "Yes." Dralasite: "I think Bloop is a good name for a boy, have you thought of names yet Sargent Johnson?" ![]() "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
![]() November 8, 2014 - 4:22am | I'd hesitate to do something like this to a PC but having the PCs cast in the role of investigating this sort of thing would be ok. then you could almost taunt the players with a NPC coming up to solicit sex. You'd almost have to perform a sweep with a med scanner before engaging in any romantic relations. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
![]() November 8, 2014 - 8:56am | I think it would depend on the players, I can think of a couple folks now moved away for job reasons that I used to play D&D with, they would enjoy the challenge and difficulties... others oh heck no. But the conversation in sickbay with the guy who is pregos would be funny... what if a male Yazirian became pregnant? How well would he take that? Or for that matter several other races... the races's culture has to play a big factor in how the male reacts, and also how the other sentient creatures react. All the medical staff reactions & then the chain of command would get involved if this occurred on a UPF ship, is this a threat to the UPF? A private group of citizens dealing with a pregnant buddy would have other stresses, maybe a mega corp wants the buddy & unborn child to study, maybe their next if they don't escape the mad scientist, how to procure the medical supplies and help without involving the UPF or mega corps or a local government all who might react in negative ways...how to protect subject X & baby from the media finding out. How would one's friends & family react? Having an NPC get pregnant works, but if a player is open to the idea, it could be really fun to RP, the ref could have pre-set note cards that at various points in the adventure that are given to just that player for only their eyes, that indicate the pregnancy issue the player needs to RP... like a sudden craving for large quantities of "Zurp Fruit" which smells like skunk to the rest of the crew or you need to nest it is nursery building time or the ship is clearly filthy and needs to be obsessively cleaned. You feel a need to try and make as many thongs as possible safe for small children, and rant about anything you can't as a death trap & who designed it! With the right people it could be a hoot, with the wrong a total flop. Of course after the baby is born that could lead to a whole new set of challenges... depending on the scenario, a mad scientist just seeing if men can be pregos means a normal looking child of your race (child could be a mutant though, or genetically engineered to grow at an accelerated rate and will not live long for study reasons, unless a treatment is found, mu wah ha ha.) But if a totally new alien race was involved then either the male is just a host for a 100% alien being, or 50% DNA is the male's... the child might look very different. The themes of the adventure can allow for exploring gender roles in SF of various races, allows PCs to show case (develop) customs of their races concerning reproduction stages, birth, naming, & child raising, explores ethical problems such as should you try and destroy a life form you don't actually know is evil because it is alien, if the child's growth goes from normal to accelerated and no treatment is found it allows birth-life-death cultural elements to be explored and possibly a serious revenge motive for the PCs... someone needs to die for hurting their child... imagine if a ship had a majority of Yazirian crew a couple others and the Yazirian child was gifted & much loved and then dies because they where genetically programed to die by the mad scientist who has already escaped once... oh the hunt would be on. The hunt for a treatment could be a reason for a ship to leave Frontier Space. A child clearly of unknown origin could also be a reason to leave UPF space, maybe the birth happened in a local gov's space... now they have found out & want the child, if in UPF space lanes, the UPF scientists want the child... they got to rescue munchkin and skip town as fugitives. In using the child as a plot element I think it should be used as an occasional trigger but not over done... thus once out of UPF space "treatments" could work sort of, this keeps the ship moving on to new places but also allows for other adventures unrelated to looking for medical care. Anyhow some musings on how a little weird science could actually create a whole backstory & motive for a group long term. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
November 15, 2014 - 3:35am | Now I feel a craving for some Space Butter (tm). |
![]() November 19, 2014 - 10:53am | Now I feel a craving for some Space Butter (tm). Its a myth that space butter sooths the pain of burns. Acid, fire and extreme heat cause burns, which are very painful. If a character is reduced to 1/2 STA from burns he is incapacitated. BTW I have composed an article on new medical equipment and fired it off to the SFman. I'm now considering the rules on Controlling poison- its a low chance of success and uses one dose of Antitox from the med kit. This is obviously a broad spectrum anti-toxin. In the real world venoms have specific anti venoms so why not in SF? the Environmental skill would be responsible for developing an anti toxin or anti- venom through use of its Analyze Samples and Analyze Ecosystems subskill. The difference between the broad spectrum antitox of the med kit and a specific anti-toxin or anti-venom is that there is only a 3% chance of failing to neutralize the toxin if you are using the specific anti toxin/venom. Specific anti-toxins/venoms are commercially available for commonly known animals in the Frontier but on a newly discovered planet the environmentalist might want to work on developing this. Proceedure is successful Analyze sample roll modified by -20 for alien biology. If the environmentalist has successfully done a Analyze Ecosystem roll (takes 200 hrs of study) then the biology of this ecosystem is no longer alien. Finally after a successful analyze sample roll the environmentalist makes a develop Anti-toxin/venom roll after investing 200 hours into it. Other modifiers for the above is lack of a lab facility -20. Other med supplies ideas is "Power of the Poltice" Applying a poltice would be a med skill roll and it would speed normal healing by double for a make shift poltice to 2 pts/20 hours of rest and this also would reduce any chance of infection to 3% if the referee was rolling to see if an infection developed. a medicated commercial made poltice (or cataplasm) might triple normal healing and reduce the chance of an infection to 0% I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
![]() November 19, 2014 - 11:16am | Poison & radiation in MA & GW rules it seems to me need more specific treatment... I have not yet gotten to banging me head on how to deal with that yet, SF has some good ideas as to Intensity & duration but it also seems odd it does not have a system like in GW or MA where if it is says a Toxin 5 or Radiation 5 then you need the right #5 anti-tox or #5 anti-rad for recovery. Also I noted the radiation damage in the AD modules vs GWAD is different so I will need to consider that too. I am thinking of combining the ideas... So for instance a Toxin still retains it's orignal SF stats but I assign it a special additional # that gives improved recovery if the matching # anti-toxin is used. It will still be general enough to not slow play to much, but a bit more realistic in that a specific drug is needed or best. "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
![]() November 19, 2014 - 9:21pm | I did some research and crafted some rules on radiation exposure. I think its in a late SFman 17ish. I even went so far as to suggest symptoms based on race. For the sake of conformity I crafted it to match the S5/D8 formulas of poisons, infections and diseases. I'm away in Maine separated from my SF files so I can look it up when I get back to Ma. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
![]() November 21, 2014 - 5:19am | I will search the SFmans for a reread on that... thanks "Never fire a laser at a mirror." |
![]() November 21, 2014 - 12:09pm | I will search the SFmans for a reread on that... thanks SFman 17 "Radiation Sickness in the Frontier" I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
June 20, 2018 - 5:50pm | Catching up on this old topic. What a list from Tch! Joe Cabadas |