Check if there are any... memory-related machines in the med bay. Particularly ones that might be useful in memory alteration. Failing that, medications that induce permanent amnesia.
You thoroughly check all the machines, of which there are many dozens. You do not, however, find any that relates to memory alteration. From your memory, you cannot even remember ever hearing about Vanguard having memory altering technology. You check another two times, however, just in case. The best you can come up with are several machines that focus on the repair of damage inflicted on the head and brain, plus associated biological systems and functions.
Your search for a memory altering machine ending in failure, you turn your attention to the vast cabinets of medicines, most of them, you see, are actually nano-machine based supplements as well as specialised medical nano-tech infusions. There are some more traditional medicines, although thanks to the Vanguardians being Vanguardians, they rarely use Earth-like medicines due to a hugely bolstered and reinforced immune system and bodily functions.
You gather up all the Earth-Like medicines. In all, there are 23 bottles sat in front of you. None of them have anything to do with memories. They are mostly for mundane ills. Some are basic painkillers. And one bottle contains sleeping pills.
Get a sharp object
Leaving the bottles where they are, you search the place for sharp objects. This being a hospital, it does have a rather hefty collection of objects that are sharp. You pick up a 4 inch hyper-scalpel. You smile as you remember back in Medical Academy when you and Maria Sweetland used to smuggle hyper-scalpels out of the medical labs to cut steel into various sculptures you would then sell to fund your education. Oh, happy days.
Shaking your head, you check the hyper-scalpel. It seems functional. And deceptively sharp. Able to cut through steel like butter and even penetrate and cut through the heavily reinforced skin, muscle, tendons and bone of Vanguardians, it could be used as a highly effective weapon. If you needed to. Which is highly unlikely judging by the fact you are on a friendly ship surrounded by allies......
aren't you?hehehe.
Shivering suddenly, like something had just come over you, you put the hyper-scalpel into its nanoronium sheath and pocket it.
As you idly walk around the hospital, you start thinking about your history with the others. ((OOC: Exposition AHOY!)) You have known Maria Sweetland since your childhood. Shes been like a sister to you. You tell each other everything, and you always work together. She was even going to follow you into the military, but you volunteered first. You cant think of anything suspicious about her. In fact, the very thought makes you feel uncomfortable. She is the only person you could call family after the eradication of your home colony.
You start thinking about Professor Delver. A cunning and wise man, he has been a constant acquaintance of yours since the first days of high school. He was the one who hand picked both you and Maria for induction into the Vanguard Advanced Medical Academy. He guided you both through it and was you personal mentor. He is a man of morals, honour and action. There is no way he'd do anything underhanded, especially in relation to you and Maria.
You dont really know much about Dr Frankenstein. You do know that he used to work at a place called 'District 9', where-ever that is. You also know that he loves to do experiments. Whilst certainly eccentric and prone to bouts of excessive excitement, he is a good man, you think. He also seems to have a soft spot for Maria, one which both of you noticed when you caught him sneaking peeks at Maria.
Dr Strangelove is the only one who you know absolutely nothing about. Apparently he used to work at a military installation, Luna-3 you think it was called, which was notorious for being a place for black ops weapons development and, eventually, was found to be using government money to fund adventures into the forbidden technologies of Cybernetics, Human-divergent genetic modification (aka, genetic modification that tried to make humans not human any more. Enhancement of already present human abilities is allowed), biochemical warfare and weaponised nano-tech. You seem to remember overhearing someone, although you forget who, talking about Dr Strangelove's last project at Luna-3. It was called something like Project Doppelganger......
Whilst you have worked with him for a while, and he seems an honest and good man dedicated to his work, you dont know enough about him to have an opinion on his overall character.
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