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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shadowdancer" data-source="post: 2096798" data-attributes="member: 515">Chapter XXXDate: 174-993Location: Aboard the Bray Keaven and the Marellia LandingStaying on the bridge, Kevon keeps the Bray Keaven in position as Saro, Vargas, and Vasilii make final preparations for the incoming survivors. While keeping station with the Marellia Landing, Kevon sees several small craft approaching and receives a hail from the first one. "Bray Keaven, this is Fonnein Orbital ER1. We have a medical response team onboard and are prepared to assist. If you can take on the walking wounded, we can attend to the more serious cases and prep them for transfer to our low berths." "Understood ER1. We do have a doctor onboard and he is preparing to board the long liner. Would you like him to stay onboard to assist you?" "We would appreciate any help that we can get." "Understood ER1. I will ask him and the rest of the crew if they will stay to assist while we evacuate the walking wounded to the station." Kevon relays the request to Vargas and Saro. -----Saro listens to the relayed request and responds. "Mr. Holland, tell the ER1 that I’ll be aboard as long as necessary." -----Kevon also receives a second comm: "Bray Keaven, this is Tug 4. You’re frelling insane, but thank you. I don’t think that we could have done what you did. We can stabilize the Marellia Landing and get her back to the station once you and ER1 evacuate the survivors." "Understood Tug 4. Thanks." After that comm, Kevon hears a comm from Cutter C13. "Bray Keaven, C13. We’re going to dock with the crew lock to take on any injured surviving crew. We may transfer them directly to the emergency shuttle." The two 50 dTon tugs and the emergency response shuttle take up stations near the Bray Keaven. C13 docks with the rear crew airlock of the long liner. -----Vargas and Saro cycle the airlock on the Bray Keaven side and enter the docking tube. The tube has full atmosphere, so they leave the outside iris valve open but close the inside iris valve as a precaution. When they cycle the airlock on the Marellia Landing side, they find themselves faced with a rather large and anxious–looking crowd. The crowd starts forward and then stops a bit warily when they see Vargas’ shotgun. Most of the crowd at least has some bruises or are cradling an arm. Almost everyone starts talking at once in relief, panic, or anger. There are three crewmembers in Tukera Lines uniforms. The Tukera Lines crew do get the passengers calmed down, and one says, "Thank St. Elvis you are here. We have at least 10 passengers who desperately need medical attention. Most everyone else could use some care, but their injuries are not life–threatening. We haven’t been able to get up to the crew deck from here because of a pressure loss on that level. I have heard from the engineering crew. They have one dead and three injured in their area. I can’t raise anyone on the bridge or in the crew lounge area." Saro takes in the crewman’s statement as he moves to look over the sophonts too badly injured to move. Almost absently he contacts Kevon as he conducts his evaluation. "Mr. Holland, can you relay to the ER1 that we have approximately 10 persons in the passenger lounge who are immobile. Also, the crewman here has indicated that there are three injured crewmembers in the engineering section and that there has been no contact with the bridge or crew lounge since the collision. I’m going to be too busy here to try to get to either of those areas, so if there are any other ships who can see to them they should concentrate there." Saro trails off as he makes his way around the room performing his examinations. -----After a minute or two, Saro, Vargas, and the Tukera Lines crew manage to get the crowd sorted out and heading over to the Bray Keaven where Vasilii, with a shotgun of his own, starts directing them to the lounge and staterooms. A total of 30 passengers seem to be uninjured or lightly injured and in the lounge area. Two of the Tukera Lines crew goes with the walking wounded passengers while one stays behind to assist Saro and Vargas. -----After the uninjured or walking wounded crowd head over to the Bray Keaven, Saro and Vargas survey the non–mobile wounded. Almost all of the passengers were in the lounge when the initial crash occurred. There are 10 severely injured passengers, two dead, and three uninjured or lightly injured passengers who won’t leave their more severely–injured companions. The remaining Tukera Lines crewmember, Tariq, appears to have some medical training, and helps guide Saro from patient to patient. Saro gives each of the severely injured a quick look over. Nine have blunt trauma injuries while a tenth has blunt trauma injuries and several pieces of a splintered plastic table embedded in his side. Based on the quick triage, there are four who may die within the next few minutes (including the punctured man), four in the next hour unless stabilized, and two who are probably stable. Moving any would be unwise without proper support and bracing. Saro records notes about each passenger into a med recorder as he checks them over for later use (by him or by any other medical personnel). -----Finished with his initial evaluation of the wounded, Saro addresses Vargas and Tariq, "OK gentlemen, let’s get these folks stabilized. The ER1 will be here soon, but there are a few cases here we need to attend to now." He positions himself to attend to the man with the plastic splinters in his side. "You two Slow those patients there," he indicates the other seven who are not stabilized, "and I’ll see what I can do for this man." With that he administers a dose of Slow drug to the man and uses what tools he has at hand to try to locate the positions of the fragments. -----When Tariq and Vargas are finished stabilizing the others, Vargas asks, "Doc, you want me to stick with you, or should we split up and start searching cabins for stragglers?" Saro addresses the Tukera crewman while maintaining his focus on the injured man. "Tariq, are you sure all the passengers have been accounted for? Did anyone check the staterooms and the rest of the passenger areas yet?" Tariq indicates that not all of the staterooms have been searched yet. Glancing up for a moment, Saro looks over to the three mobile, relatively–unscathed passengers, and says firmly, "I need someone to go with Mr. Tariq to check on the other passengers. I need Mr. Vargas to stay here to assist me, so if one or two could help Mr. Tariq, I would much appreciate it." Getting back to his work, he addresses Tariq again. "Tariq, if you go by the sickbay, a deep-tissue scanner would greatly assist me." -----Meanwhile, Martha grabs a few patch kits and tools, and plops them on a grav pallet. She then enters the main cargo hold and attempts to locate the source of the pressure loss. After a few minutes, she determines that the hull breach is probably underneath the containers of spec cargo. She can’t move the spec cargo by herself, and moving the cargo will temporarily result in more of a pressure loss (the cargo containers are probably helping to seal any holes). Reluctantly, she returns to port engineering. Hitting ship’s comms, Martha reports, "Damage to the cargo hold is more severe than I originally thought. I’m sealing it off and depressurizing it, to help conserve air reserves." She executes the appropriate commands to evacuate the atmosphere from the cargo hold, after sealing it off. "Hey, Doc, how can I help?" Martha asks over the comm. Somewhat to her dismay, she finds that the Doc is onboard the long liner and that Vasilii is shepherding lightly–injured survivors all over the ship. Glaring at Vasilii briefly, she jumps in to help get the passengers situated. -----Vasilii does his best to get the passengers packed into the lounge and various staterooms. He does end up using all of the staterooms except for Kevon’s former cabin (which is severely damaged from the encounter with the Oser). A Tukera Lines crewman, Sanjay, looks at Vasilii a bit incredulously when Vasilii insists that he stay with the three passengers placed in Aidan’s room so that they don’t disturb anything. Part of the incredulity is probably due to the rather ransacked appearance of Aidan’s room from Vasilii’s searching, his cutting of the suitcases, and the various papers and such strewn all over the cabin. In Vargas’ cabin, Rusti actually ends up being quite a comfort to the family with two young children placed there.</blockquote>

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