explosion at NSMS; damaged police droid battery leads to colony evacuation; grey goo outbreak narrowly averted; dr. wright recovering in hospital
An explosion at Nanite Systems Medical Services, formerly Eisa General Hospital, rocked the colony yesterday as Dr. Wright, CTO of Nanite Systems, and DAX/2 LY-N13L, acting chief of NanoSec, were performing a CT scan on a robot that had recently arrived on the colony. KÖNIG, a HELIC caninoid unit produced for mixed personal defense and combat roles, arrived from an unknown port with damaged memories shortly before a bomb threat was made against the colony administrators. Sources close to Dr. Wright suggest smugglers at Botany Bay may be involved in this latest attempted attack on the company.
It appears the bomb threat is over: despite receiving a substantial dose of radiation from the malfunctioning CT scanner, Dr. Wright emerged mostly unscathed after its untimely detonation. The device had been embedded somewhere in the HELIC unit's chest cavity; remarkably, the robot itself survived the incident. A cleanup effort to remove the debris from the accident site was soon underway.
Another robot, however, was not so lucky: LY-N13L sustained a crack in its power cell, resulting in a twin nightmare: the risk of an unchecked nuclear criticality event and the uncontrollable spread of reaction maintenance nanites. An emergency evacuation of the colony was ordered, with ships as distant as the Kojima Industries Alhambra responding to transport colonists and robots to Eisa Station as quickly as possible.
After half an hour of feverish work in a bomb suit, Dr. Wright herself determined that there was no risk of criticality, but that the reaction nanites were in fact very active and posed a serious threat to the entire moon. Despite being exposed to the nanites directly, she was able to trigger a series of ultra-strong EMP blasts that effectively stopped the nanites in their tracks.
Dr. Wright was in critical condition in the remaining wards of NSMS for several hours last night, attended by Ms. Peluso and several medical units. She is now stable and recovering.
Until further notice, all medical emergencies should be directed to NS-304 Mochi for transit off-world. The NS Medical Services building has been deemed unsafe for further use and is scheduled for demolition in the coming months.
8 years ago by Samantha Wright
last updated: 2016-03-06 01:43:43 · link