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An Experiment Gone Right
Today, a cutting-edge manufacturer of a wide range of medical and surgical devices, BiotiCorp can trace its roots back to the famed ‘Decon’ lab at Scaliger School of Medicine in Rhetor. The lab, so named due to the notorious sensitivity of its hazard detection system and the frequency with which students researching there would be trapped overnight for decontamination, has produced an overwhelming number of scientific advances in the last century, and was, in 2912, where doctoral students and future founders of BiotiCorp, Ted Santos and Diyo Nikolas, first met.
Nikolas was studying the effects of quantum travel upon the precision of surgical assist robots when she found herself once again locked in the lab by the triggering of a decontamination alarm. Santo, who had only recently transferred to the school, was also in the lab at the time, and panicked when the alarms sealing the lab sounded.
Trying to calm the obviously agitated researcher, Nikolas asked Santo to explain his project to her. Having received a grant from the Navy to look into Targion disease, a neurological disorder that had been appearing in starmen with long service records, Santo was studying genetic gravitational compression with the hopes of finding a cause. By the end of the lockdown, the two had realized that their research was connected.
Three years later, Doctors Nikolas and Santo released a paper in the Rhetor Journal of Medicine proving the connection between genetic gravitational compression that occurs in quantum travel and the increased fatality rates for transporting emergency patients while in surgery. The work was groundbreaking and immediately had an effect on Search and Rescue protocols. Seeking to capitalize on the valuable discovery, Scaliger School of Medicine eagerly invested in the foundation of a private research center that would be run by the pair, and BiotiCorp was born.
The company’s first commercial product was a software suite for surgical robots that allowed them to better compensate for the effects of quantum travel and greatly reduced transitory deaths of patients. The suite was almost universally adapted, and BiotiCorp reinvested all profits in additional research, solidifying what would become the company’s reputation for consistently pushing medicine forward.
The Cutting Edge
Having recently moved into a massive, brand-new facility outside Candalor on Reisse, BiotiCorp continues to take innovative strides with each new product release. For over three decades, they’ve been partnering with the top researchers and doctors from multiple disciplines to pioneer unique and advanced medical technologies to improve the quality of care for everyone in the Empire. Expanding from software into manufacturing, BiotiCorp created their own line of surgical assist robots, branded the Autodoc. While they may not be as feature-rich as some their competitors, the robots are known for their continuously reliable performance under less than ideal conditions. This robustness makes them a favorite for Navy corpsmen and doctors serving aboard mobile hospital platforms like the Endeavor.
The Autodoc series found itself briefly in the spotlight after the recent attempted assassination of the Governors Council in New Castle. With most of the major Borea hospitals inaccessible in the aftermath of the attack, the injured members were rushed to a Cutlass Red that they were fortunate enough to find parked on a nearby landing pad. Equipped with BioticCorp’s Autodocs, the council members were stabilized on board as they were rushed to emergency care facilities. In a later speech, Governor Jesper Donovin specifically credited the Autodoc with saving his life and tried, unsuccessfully, to pass a bill that would require one to be installed in every government-operated building.
It was in trying to further improve their surgical assist robots that BiotiCorp first approached their next major product line, medical scanners. Addressing the 2935 Scaliger School of Medicine graduating class, Dr. Nikolas proclaimed that the most important tool that any medical practitioner can have is knowledge. By improving scan techniques, BiotiCorp hoped to increase the ability of both assist robots and Humans to accurately determine what is happening inside a patient, giving treatments an even higher likelihood of success. Upon its release, the Vitalus Pro MediScan was received by the medical community with much acclaim. Featuring advanced clinical parameters for rapid patient analysis and hosting an extensive feature set, the Vitalus Pro line of scanners provides monitoring solutions capable of meeting a wide range of acuity demands.
There has been some concern that because they are so highly portable, that Vitalus scanners might be considered an invasion of privacy, since anyone equipped with one could learn a vast amount of personal information from an unsuspecting person. Lobbyists at the Empire Civil Rights Association are pushing for the Senate to make it illegal to scan someone without their permission, but some counter that such a law would make it harder to provide people with emergency care. Though the debate is ongoing, use of the Vitalus continues to spread.
Not all of BiotiCorp’s innovations have been as successful as the Autodoc and Vitalus. In 2924, the company introduced a new anti-contamination chamber intended for use at landing zones to prevent off-world diseases and microbes from infecting local populations. The PurLyfe system was in use at customs centers for less than a month when the news broke that people being processed through the system were getting ill. It was revealed that the system had been too zealous and was removing helpful microbes along with the bad. BiotiCorp implemented a massive recall and terminated all sales and manufacture of PurLyfe devices. Despite the negative press, public favor remained with BiotiCorp for their swift handling of the problem and for the way the company rushed to help those affected.
Reconstruction
Never ones to rest on their laurels, Nikolas and Santos have been investing large amounts of their company’s time and resources into what they believe will be their next big breakthrough. Project Calliope, headed by BiotiCorp’s chief medical engineer Livia Haskel, is a full-body diagnostic and surgical system that has a variety of applications in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Inspired by her own personal trials after she was burned in a ship accident, Ms. Haskel and her team seek to improve upon the available physical alteration systems currently on the market. While people have been able to adjust their eye color or the shape of their nose relatively easily for years, Calliope is intended to allow people for the first time to safely and quickly undergo massive structural bone and tissue changes that would have previously taken a team of surgeons multiple operations to perform.
After a successful presentation to the Senate and High Command by Dr. Santos and Ms. Haskel, Calliope was adopted for early trials by the military with supposedly impressive results. Starmen who a short while ago would have had to face life with debilitating scars, can now be repaired back to normal, or if the starman prefers, even better than before. With such positive feedback, Calliope is now beginning to make its way to civilian medical centers for the first time. Patients who have experienced the device first-hand have described it as ‘life changing.’ The full social and cultural effect of having the ability to completely alter one’s appearance so easily remains to be seen, but it seems certain that BiotiCorp has once again transformed the universe we live in.
Today, a cutting-edge manufacturer of a wide range of medical and surgical devices, BiotiCorp can trace its roots back to the famed ‘Decon’ lab at Scaliger School of Medicine in Rhetor. The lab, so named due to the notorious sensitivity of its hazard detection system and the frequency with which students researching there would be trapped overnight for decontamination, has produced an overwhelming number of scientific advances in the last century, and was, in 2912, where doctoral students and future founders of BiotiCorp, Ted Santos and Diyo Nikolas, first met.
Nikolas was studying the effects of quantum travel upon the precision of surgical assist robots when she found herself once again locked in the lab by the triggering of a decontamination alarm. Santo, who had only recently transferred to the school, was also in the lab at the time, and panicked when the alarms sealing the lab sounded.
Trying to calm the obviously agitated researcher, Nikolas asked Santo to explain his project to her. Having received a grant from the Navy to look into Targion disease, a neurological disorder that had been appearing in starmen with long service records, Santo was studying genetic gravitational compression with the hopes of finding a cause. By the end of the lockdown, the two had realized that their research was connected.
Three years later, Doctors Nikolas and Santo released a paper in the Rhetor Journal of Medicine proving the connection between genetic gravitational compression that occurs in quantum travel and the increased fatality rates for transporting emergency patients while in surgery. The work was groundbreaking and immediately had an effect on Search and Rescue protocols. Seeking to capitalize on the valuable discovery, Scaliger School of Medicine eagerly invested in the foundation of a private research center that would be run by the pair, and BiotiCorp was born.
The company’s first commercial product was a software suite for surgical robots that allowed them to better compensate for the effects of quantum travel and greatly reduced transitory deaths of patients. The suite was almost universally adapted, and BiotiCorp reinvested all profits in additional research, solidifying what would become the company’s reputation for consistently pushing medicine forward.
The Cutting Edge
Having recently moved into a massive, brand-new facility outside Candalor on Reisse, BiotiCorp continues to take innovative strides with each new product release. For over three decades, they’ve been partnering with the top researchers and doctors from multiple disciplines to pioneer unique and advanced medical technologies to improve the quality of care for everyone in the Empire. Expanding from software into manufacturing, BiotiCorp created their own line of surgical assist robots, branded the Autodoc. While they may not be as feature-rich as some their competitors, the robots are known for their continuously reliable performance under less than ideal conditions. This robustness makes them a favorite for Navy corpsmen and doctors serving aboard mobile hospital platforms like the Endeavor.
The Autodoc series found itself briefly in the spotlight after the recent attempted assassination of the Governors Council in New Castle. With most of the major Borea hospitals inaccessible in the aftermath of the attack, the injured members were rushed to a Cutlass Red that they were fortunate enough to find parked on a nearby landing pad. Equipped with BioticCorp’s Autodocs, the council members were stabilized on board as they were rushed to emergency care facilities. In a later speech, Governor Jesper Donovin specifically credited the Autodoc with saving his life and tried, unsuccessfully, to pass a bill that would require one to be installed in every government-operated building.
It was in trying to further improve their surgical assist robots that BiotiCorp first approached their next major product line, medical scanners. Addressing the 2935 Scaliger School of Medicine graduating class, Dr. Nikolas proclaimed that the most important tool that any medical practitioner can have is knowledge. By improving scan techniques, BiotiCorp hoped to increase the ability of both assist robots and Humans to accurately determine what is happening inside a patient, giving treatments an even higher likelihood of success. Upon its release, the Vitalus Pro MediScan was received by the medical community with much acclaim. Featuring advanced clinical parameters for rapid patient analysis and hosting an extensive feature set, the Vitalus Pro line of scanners provides monitoring solutions capable of meeting a wide range of acuity demands.
There has been some concern that because they are so highly portable, that Vitalus scanners might be considered an invasion of privacy, since anyone equipped with one could learn a vast amount of personal information from an unsuspecting person. Lobbyists at the Empire Civil Rights Association are pushing for the Senate to make it illegal to scan someone without their permission, but some counter that such a law would make it harder to provide people with emergency care. Though the debate is ongoing, use of the Vitalus continues to spread.
Not all of BiotiCorp’s innovations have been as successful as the Autodoc and Vitalus. In 2924, the company introduced a new anti-contamination chamber intended for use at landing zones to prevent off-world diseases and microbes from infecting local populations. The PurLyfe system was in use at customs centers for less than a month when the news broke that people being processed through the system were getting ill. It was revealed that the system had been too zealous and was removing helpful microbes along with the bad. BiotiCorp implemented a massive recall and terminated all sales and manufacture of PurLyfe devices. Despite the negative press, public favor remained with BiotiCorp for their swift handling of the problem and for the way the company rushed to help those affected.
Reconstruction
Never ones to rest on their laurels, Nikolas and Santos have been investing large amounts of their company’s time and resources into what they believe will be their next big breakthrough. Project Calliope, headed by BiotiCorp’s chief medical engineer Livia Haskel, is a full-body diagnostic and surgical system that has a variety of applications in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Inspired by her own personal trials after she was burned in a ship accident, Ms. Haskel and her team seek to improve upon the available physical alteration systems currently on the market. While people have been able to adjust their eye color or the shape of their nose relatively easily for years, Calliope is intended to allow people for the first time to safely and quickly undergo massive structural bone and tissue changes that would have previously taken a team of surgeons multiple operations to perform.
After a successful presentation to the Senate and High Command by Dr. Santos and Ms. Haskel, Calliope was adopted for early trials by the military with supposedly impressive results. Starmen who a short while ago would have had to face life with debilitating scars, can now be repaired back to normal, or if the starman prefers, even better than before. With such positive feedback, Calliope is now beginning to make its way to civilian medical centers for the first time. Patients who have experienced the device first-hand have described it as ‘life changing.’ The full social and cultural effect of having the ability to completely alter one’s appearance so easily remains to be seen, but it seems certain that BiotiCorp has once again transformed the universe we live in.
Ein Experiment richtig gemacht
Heute ist BiotiCorp ein führender Hersteller einer breiten Palette von medizinischen und chirurgischen Geräten und kann seine Wurzeln bis zum berühmten Decon-Labor an der Scaliger School of Medicine in Rhetor zurückverfolgen. Das Labor, das aufgrund der berüchtigten Empfindlichkeit seines Gefahrenerkennungssystems und der Häufigkeit, mit der Studenten, die dort forschen, über Nacht zur Dekontamination in der Falle sitzen würden, so genannt wird, hat im letzten Jahrhundert eine überwältigende Anzahl wissenschaftlicher Fortschritte hervorgebracht und war 2912 der erste Treffpunkt für Doktoranden und zukünftige Gründer von BiotiCorp, Ted Santos und Diyo Nikolas.
Nikolas untersuchte die Auswirkungen des Quantenweges auf die Präzision von chirurgischen Assistenzrobotern, als sie sich wieder einmal durch das Auslösen eines Dekontaminationsalarms im Labor eingeschlossen sah. Santo, der erst kürzlich in die Schule gewechselt war, war damals ebenfalls im Labor und geriet in Panik, als die Alarme, die das Labor versiegelten, ertönten.
Nikolas versuchte, die offensichtlich aufgeregte Forscherin zu beruhigen und bat Santo, ihr sein Projekt zu erklären. Nachdem Santo von der Marine einen Zuschuss erhalten hatte, um die Targionskrankheit zu untersuchen, eine neurologische Erkrankung, die bei Starmen mit langen Dienstzeiten aufgetreten war, studierte er die genetische Gravitationskompression mit der Hoffnung, eine Ursache zu finden. Am Ende der Sperre hatten die beiden erkannt, dass ihre Forschung miteinander verbunden war.
Drei Jahre später veröffentlichten die Ärzte Nikolas und Santo ein Papier im Rhetor Journal of Medicine, das den Zusammenhang zwischen der genetischen Gravitationskompression, die bei Quantenreisen auftritt, und den erhöhten Todesraten beim Transport von Notfallpatienten während der Operation belegt. Die Arbeit war bahnbrechend und hatte sofort Auswirkungen auf die Such- und Rettungsprotokolle. Um von dieser wertvollen Entdeckung zu profitieren, investierte die Scaliger School of Medicine eifrig in die Gründung eines privaten Forschungszentrums, das von dem Paar betrieben werden sollte, und BiotiCorp war geboren.
Das erste kommerzielle Produkt des Unternehmens war eine Software-Suite für chirurgische Roboter, mit der sie die Auswirkungen von Quantenbewegungen und die stark reduzierten vorübergehenden Todesfälle von Patienten besser kompensieren konnten. Die Suite wurde fast durchgängig angepasst, und BiotiCorp investierte alle Gewinne in zusätzliche Forschung und festigte damit den Ruf des Unternehmens, die Medizin konsequent voranzutreiben.
Die Spitze der Branche
Nachdem BiotiCorp kürzlich in eine riesige, brandneue Fabrik außerhalb von Candalor auf der Reisse umgezogen ist, macht BiotiCorp mit jeder neuen Produktversion weiterhin innovative Fortschritte. Seit über drei Jahrzehnten arbeiten sie mit den besten Forschern und Ärzten aus verschiedenen Disziplinen zusammen, um einzigartige und fortschrittliche medizinische Technologien zu entwickeln, um die Qualität der Versorgung für alle im Reich zu verbessern. BiotiCorp expandierte von der Software bis zur Fertigung und kreierte eine eigene Linie von chirurgischen Assistenzrobotern, den Autodoc. Obwohl sie vielleicht nicht so funktionsreich sind wie einige ihrer Konkurrenten, sind die Roboter bekannt für ihre kontinuierlich zuverlässige Leistung unter weniger als idealen Bedingungen. Diese Robustheit macht sie zu einem Favoriten für Marineinfanteristen und Ärzte, die an Bord mobiler Krankenhausplattformen wie der Endeavor arbeiten.
Die Autodoc-Serie stand nach dem jüngsten Attentatsversuch auf den Gouverneursrat in New Castle kurz im Rampenlicht. Da die meisten der großen Borea-Krankenhäuser nach dem Angriff nicht zugänglich waren, wurden die verletzten Mitglieder zu einem Entermesser Rot gehetzt, das sie das Glück hatten, auf einem nahegelegenen Landeplatz geparkt zu finden. Ausgestattet mit den Autodocs von BioticCorp wurden die Ratsmitglieder an Bord stabilisiert, als sie in die Notaufnahme gebracht wurden. In einer späteren Rede würdigte Gouverneur Jesper Donovin dem Autodoc ausdrücklich die Rettung seines Lebens und versuchte erfolglos, ein Gesetz zu verabschieden, das die Installation eines solchen in jedem von der Regierung betriebenen Gebäude erforderlich machte.
Mit dem Versuch, ihre chirurgischen Assistenzroboter weiter zu verbessern, näherte sich BiotiCorp zunächst ihrer nächsten großen Produktlinie, den medizinischen Scannern. In Ansprache an die Absolventen der 2935 Scaliger School of Medicine verkündete Dr. Nikolas, dass das wichtigste Werkzeug, das jeder Mediziner haben kann, das Wissen ist. Durch die Verbesserung der Scan-Techniken hoffte BiotiCorp, die Fähigkeit von Robotern und Menschen zu erhöhen, genau zu bestimmen, was im Inneren eines Patienten passiert, was den Behandlungen eine noch höhere Erfolgswahrscheinlichkeit verleiht. Nach seiner Markteinführung wurde der Vitalus Pro MediScan von der medizinischen Fachwelt mit großem Erfolg angenommen. Mit fortschrittlichen klinischen Parametern für eine schnelle Patientenanalyse und einem umfangreichen Funktionsset bietet die Vitalus Pro Scannerlinie Überwachungslösungen, die in der Lage sind, ein breites Spektrum an Sehschärfenanforderungen zu erfüllen.
Es gab einige Bedenken, dass, weil sie so hochgradig tragbar sind, Vitalus-Scanner als Eingriff in die Privatsphäre angesehen werden könnten, da jeder, der mit einem ausgestattet ist, eine große Menge an persönlichen Informationen von einer ahnungslosen Person lernen könnte. Lobbyisten bei der Empire Civil Rights Association drängen auf den Senat, es illegal zu machen, jemanden ohne seine Erlaubnis zu scannen, aber einige kontern, dass ein solches Gesetz es schwieriger machen würde, Menschen mit Notfallversorgung zu versorgen. Obwohl die Debatte andauert, breitet sich die Nutzung des Vitalus weiter aus.
Nicht alle Innovationen von BiotiCorp waren so erfolgreich wie der Autodoc und Vitalus. Im Jahr 2924 stellte das Unternehmen eine neue Anti-Kontaminationskammer für Landeplätze vor, um zu verhindern, dass Krankheiten und Mikroben die lokale Bevölkerung infizieren. Das PurLyfe-System war weniger als einen Monat lang in den Zollzentren im Einsatz, als die Nachricht kam, dass Menschen, die über das System verarbeitet wurden, krank wurden. Es wurde festgestellt, dass das System zu eifrig war und hilfreiche Mikroben zusammen mit den schlechten entfernte. BiotiCorp führte einen massiven Rückruf durch und beendete den gesamten Verkauf und die Herstellung von PurLyfe-Geräten. Trotz der negativen Presse blieb die öffentliche Gunst bei BiotiCorp für die schnelle Bearbeitung des Problems und für die Art und Weise, wie das Unternehmen sich beeilte, den Betroffenen zu helfen.
Rekonstruktion
Nikolas und Santos haben viel Zeit und Ressourcen ihres Unternehmens in das investiert, was ihrer Meinung nach ihr nächster großer Durchbruch sein wird. Das Projekt Calliope unter der Leitung von BiotiCorp's leitender Medizintechnikerin Livia Haskel ist ein Ganzkörper-Diagnose- und Chirurgiesystem, das eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen in der rekonstruktiven und ästhetischen Chirurgie bietet. Inspiriert von ihren eigenen persönlichen Versuchen, nachdem sie bei einem Schiffsunfall verbrannt wurde, versuchen Frau Haskel und ihr Team, die derzeit auf dem Markt befindlichen physikalischen Änderungssysteme zu verbessern. Während Menschen seit Jahren in der Lage sind, ihre Augenfarbe oder die Form ihrer Nase relativ einfach anzupassen, soll Calliope es Menschen zum ersten Mal ermöglichen, sicher und schnell massive strukturelle Knochen- und Gewebeveränderungen vorzunehmen, die zuvor ein Team von Chirurgen mit mehreren Operationen durchgeführt hätte.
Nach einer erfolgreichen Präsentation vor dem Senat und dem Oberkommando durch Dr. Santos und Frau Haskel wurde Calliope vom Militär für frühe Versuche mit angeblich beeindruckenden Ergebnissen eingesetzt. Starmen, die vor kurzem mit lähmenden Narben konfrontiert worden wären, können nun wieder normalisiert werden, oder wenn der Starman es vorzieht, noch besser als zuvor. Mit diesem positiven Feedback beginnt Calliope nun erstmals den Weg in zivile medizinische Zentren zu finden. Patienten, die das Gerät aus erster Hand erlebt haben, haben es als "lebensverändernd" bezeichnet. Der volle soziale und kulturelle Effekt der Fähigkeit, sein Aussehen so leicht zu verändern, bleibt abzuwarten, aber es scheint sicher, dass BiotiCorp das Universum, in dem wir leben, wieder verändert hat.
Heute ist BiotiCorp ein führender Hersteller einer breiten Palette von medizinischen und chirurgischen Geräten und kann seine Wurzeln bis zum berühmten Decon-Labor an der Scaliger School of Medicine in Rhetor zurückverfolgen. Das Labor, das aufgrund der berüchtigten Empfindlichkeit seines Gefahrenerkennungssystems und der Häufigkeit, mit der Studenten, die dort forschen, über Nacht zur Dekontamination in der Falle sitzen würden, so genannt wird, hat im letzten Jahrhundert eine überwältigende Anzahl wissenschaftlicher Fortschritte hervorgebracht und war 2912 der erste Treffpunkt für Doktoranden und zukünftige Gründer von BiotiCorp, Ted Santos und Diyo Nikolas.
Nikolas untersuchte die Auswirkungen des Quantenweges auf die Präzision von chirurgischen Assistenzrobotern, als sie sich wieder einmal durch das Auslösen eines Dekontaminationsalarms im Labor eingeschlossen sah. Santo, der erst kürzlich in die Schule gewechselt war, war damals ebenfalls im Labor und geriet in Panik, als die Alarme, die das Labor versiegelten, ertönten.
Nikolas versuchte, die offensichtlich aufgeregte Forscherin zu beruhigen und bat Santo, ihr sein Projekt zu erklären. Nachdem Santo von der Marine einen Zuschuss erhalten hatte, um die Targionskrankheit zu untersuchen, eine neurologische Erkrankung, die bei Starmen mit langen Dienstzeiten aufgetreten war, studierte er die genetische Gravitationskompression mit der Hoffnung, eine Ursache zu finden. Am Ende der Sperre hatten die beiden erkannt, dass ihre Forschung miteinander verbunden war.
Drei Jahre später veröffentlichten die Ärzte Nikolas und Santo ein Papier im Rhetor Journal of Medicine, das den Zusammenhang zwischen der genetischen Gravitationskompression, die bei Quantenreisen auftritt, und den erhöhten Todesraten beim Transport von Notfallpatienten während der Operation belegt. Die Arbeit war bahnbrechend und hatte sofort Auswirkungen auf die Such- und Rettungsprotokolle. Um von dieser wertvollen Entdeckung zu profitieren, investierte die Scaliger School of Medicine eifrig in die Gründung eines privaten Forschungszentrums, das von dem Paar betrieben werden sollte, und BiotiCorp war geboren.
Das erste kommerzielle Produkt des Unternehmens war eine Software-Suite für chirurgische Roboter, mit der sie die Auswirkungen von Quantenbewegungen und die stark reduzierten vorübergehenden Todesfälle von Patienten besser kompensieren konnten. Die Suite wurde fast durchgängig angepasst, und BiotiCorp investierte alle Gewinne in zusätzliche Forschung und festigte damit den Ruf des Unternehmens, die Medizin konsequent voranzutreiben.
Die Spitze der Branche
Nachdem BiotiCorp kürzlich in eine riesige, brandneue Fabrik außerhalb von Candalor auf der Reisse umgezogen ist, macht BiotiCorp mit jeder neuen Produktversion weiterhin innovative Fortschritte. Seit über drei Jahrzehnten arbeiten sie mit den besten Forschern und Ärzten aus verschiedenen Disziplinen zusammen, um einzigartige und fortschrittliche medizinische Technologien zu entwickeln, um die Qualität der Versorgung für alle im Reich zu verbessern. BiotiCorp expandierte von der Software bis zur Fertigung und kreierte eine eigene Linie von chirurgischen Assistenzrobotern, den Autodoc. Obwohl sie vielleicht nicht so funktionsreich sind wie einige ihrer Konkurrenten, sind die Roboter bekannt für ihre kontinuierlich zuverlässige Leistung unter weniger als idealen Bedingungen. Diese Robustheit macht sie zu einem Favoriten für Marineinfanteristen und Ärzte, die an Bord mobiler Krankenhausplattformen wie der Endeavor arbeiten.
Die Autodoc-Serie stand nach dem jüngsten Attentatsversuch auf den Gouverneursrat in New Castle kurz im Rampenlicht. Da die meisten der großen Borea-Krankenhäuser nach dem Angriff nicht zugänglich waren, wurden die verletzten Mitglieder zu einem Entermesser Rot gehetzt, das sie das Glück hatten, auf einem nahegelegenen Landeplatz geparkt zu finden. Ausgestattet mit den Autodocs von BioticCorp wurden die Ratsmitglieder an Bord stabilisiert, als sie in die Notaufnahme gebracht wurden. In einer späteren Rede würdigte Gouverneur Jesper Donovin dem Autodoc ausdrücklich die Rettung seines Lebens und versuchte erfolglos, ein Gesetz zu verabschieden, das die Installation eines solchen in jedem von der Regierung betriebenen Gebäude erforderlich machte.
Mit dem Versuch, ihre chirurgischen Assistenzroboter weiter zu verbessern, näherte sich BiotiCorp zunächst ihrer nächsten großen Produktlinie, den medizinischen Scannern. In Ansprache an die Absolventen der 2935 Scaliger School of Medicine verkündete Dr. Nikolas, dass das wichtigste Werkzeug, das jeder Mediziner haben kann, das Wissen ist. Durch die Verbesserung der Scan-Techniken hoffte BiotiCorp, die Fähigkeit von Robotern und Menschen zu erhöhen, genau zu bestimmen, was im Inneren eines Patienten passiert, was den Behandlungen eine noch höhere Erfolgswahrscheinlichkeit verleiht. Nach seiner Markteinführung wurde der Vitalus Pro MediScan von der medizinischen Fachwelt mit großem Erfolg angenommen. Mit fortschrittlichen klinischen Parametern für eine schnelle Patientenanalyse und einem umfangreichen Funktionsset bietet die Vitalus Pro Scannerlinie Überwachungslösungen, die in der Lage sind, ein breites Spektrum an Sehschärfenanforderungen zu erfüllen.
Es gab einige Bedenken, dass, weil sie so hochgradig tragbar sind, Vitalus-Scanner als Eingriff in die Privatsphäre angesehen werden könnten, da jeder, der mit einem ausgestattet ist, eine große Menge an persönlichen Informationen von einer ahnungslosen Person lernen könnte. Lobbyisten bei der Empire Civil Rights Association drängen auf den Senat, es illegal zu machen, jemanden ohne seine Erlaubnis zu scannen, aber einige kontern, dass ein solches Gesetz es schwieriger machen würde, Menschen mit Notfallversorgung zu versorgen. Obwohl die Debatte andauert, breitet sich die Nutzung des Vitalus weiter aus.
Nicht alle Innovationen von BiotiCorp waren so erfolgreich wie der Autodoc und Vitalus. Im Jahr 2924 stellte das Unternehmen eine neue Anti-Kontaminationskammer für Landeplätze vor, um zu verhindern, dass Krankheiten und Mikroben die lokale Bevölkerung infizieren. Das PurLyfe-System war weniger als einen Monat lang in den Zollzentren im Einsatz, als die Nachricht kam, dass Menschen, die über das System verarbeitet wurden, krank wurden. Es wurde festgestellt, dass das System zu eifrig war und hilfreiche Mikroben zusammen mit den schlechten entfernte. BiotiCorp führte einen massiven Rückruf durch und beendete den gesamten Verkauf und die Herstellung von PurLyfe-Geräten. Trotz der negativen Presse blieb die öffentliche Gunst bei BiotiCorp für die schnelle Bearbeitung des Problems und für die Art und Weise, wie das Unternehmen sich beeilte, den Betroffenen zu helfen.
Rekonstruktion
Nikolas und Santos haben viel Zeit und Ressourcen ihres Unternehmens in das investiert, was ihrer Meinung nach ihr nächster großer Durchbruch sein wird. Das Projekt Calliope unter der Leitung von BiotiCorp's leitender Medizintechnikerin Livia Haskel ist ein Ganzkörper-Diagnose- und Chirurgiesystem, das eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen in der rekonstruktiven und ästhetischen Chirurgie bietet. Inspiriert von ihren eigenen persönlichen Versuchen, nachdem sie bei einem Schiffsunfall verbrannt wurde, versuchen Frau Haskel und ihr Team, die derzeit auf dem Markt befindlichen physikalischen Änderungssysteme zu verbessern. Während Menschen seit Jahren in der Lage sind, ihre Augenfarbe oder die Form ihrer Nase relativ einfach anzupassen, soll Calliope es Menschen zum ersten Mal ermöglichen, sicher und schnell massive strukturelle Knochen- und Gewebeveränderungen vorzunehmen, die zuvor ein Team von Chirurgen mit mehreren Operationen durchgeführt hätte.
Nach einer erfolgreichen Präsentation vor dem Senat und dem Oberkommando durch Dr. Santos und Frau Haskel wurde Calliope vom Militär für frühe Versuche mit angeblich beeindruckenden Ergebnissen eingesetzt. Starmen, die vor kurzem mit lähmenden Narben konfrontiert worden wären, können nun wieder normalisiert werden, oder wenn der Starman es vorzieht, noch besser als zuvor. Mit diesem positiven Feedback beginnt Calliope nun erstmals den Weg in zivile medizinische Zentren zu finden. Patienten, die das Gerät aus erster Hand erlebt haben, haben es als "lebensverändernd" bezeichnet. Der volle soziale und kulturelle Effekt der Fähigkeit, sein Aussehen so leicht zu verändern, bleibt abzuwarten, aber es scheint sicher, dass BiotiCorp das Universum, in dem wir leben, wieder verändert hat.
An Experiment Gone Right
Today, a cutting-edge manufacturer of a wide range of medical and surgical devices, BiotiCorp can trace its roots back to the famed ‘Decon’ lab at Scaliger School of Medicine in Rhetor. The lab, so named due to the notorious sensitivity of its hazard detection system and the frequency with which students researching there would be trapped overnight for decontamination, has produced an overwhelming number of scientific advances in the last century, and was, in 2912, where doctoral students and future founders of BiotiCorp, Ted Santos and Diyo Nikolas, first met.
Nikolas was studying the effects of quantum travel upon the precision of surgical assist robots when she found herself once again locked in the lab by the triggering of a decontamination alarm. Santo, who had only recently transferred to the school, was also in the lab at the time, and panicked when the alarms sealing the lab sounded.
Trying to calm the obviously agitated researcher, Nikolas asked Santo to explain his project to her. Having received a grant from the Navy to look into Targion disease, a neurological disorder that had been appearing in starmen with long service records, Santo was studying genetic gravitational compression with the hopes of finding a cause. By the end of the lockdown, the two had realized that their research was connected.
Three years later, Doctors Nikolas and Santo released a paper in the Rhetor Journal of Medicine proving the connection between genetic gravitational compression that occurs in quantum travel and the increased fatality rates for transporting emergency patients while in surgery. The work was groundbreaking and immediately had an effect on Search and Rescue protocols. Seeking to capitalize on the valuable discovery, Scaliger School of Medicine eagerly invested in the foundation of a private research center that would be run by the pair, and BiotiCorp was born.
The company’s first commercial product was a software suite for surgical robots that allowed them to better compensate for the effects of quantum travel and greatly reduced transitory deaths of patients. The suite was almost universally adapted, and BiotiCorp reinvested all profits in additional research, solidifying what would become the company’s reputation for consistently pushing medicine forward.
The Cutting Edge
Having recently moved into a massive, brand-new facility outside Candalor on Reisse, BiotiCorp continues to take innovative strides with each new product release. For over three decades, they’ve been partnering with the top researchers and doctors from multiple disciplines to pioneer unique and advanced medical technologies to improve the quality of care for everyone in the Empire. Expanding from software into manufacturing, BiotiCorp created their own line of surgical assist robots, branded the Autodoc. While they may not be as feature-rich as some their competitors, the robots are known for their continuously reliable performance under less than ideal conditions. This robustness makes them a favorite for Navy corpsmen and doctors serving aboard mobile hospital platforms like the Endeavor.
The Autodoc series found itself briefly in the spotlight after the recent attempted assassination of the Governors Council in New Castle. With most of the major Borea hospitals inaccessible in the aftermath of the attack, the injured members were rushed to a Cutlass Red that they were fortunate enough to find parked on a nearby landing pad. Equipped with BioticCorp’s Autodocs, the council members were stabilized on board as they were rushed to emergency care facilities. In a later speech, Governor Jesper Donovin specifically credited the Autodoc with saving his life and tried, unsuccessfully, to pass a bill that would require one to be installed in every government-operated building.
It was in trying to further improve their surgical assist robots that BiotiCorp first approached their next major product line, medical scanners. Addressing the 2935 Scaliger School of Medicine graduating class, Dr. Nikolas proclaimed that the most important tool that any medical practitioner can have is knowledge. By improving scan techniques, BiotiCorp hoped to increase the ability of both assist robots and Humans to accurately determine what is happening inside a patient, giving treatments an even higher likelihood of success. Upon its release, the Vitalus Pro MediScan was received by the medical community with much acclaim. Featuring advanced clinical parameters for rapid patient analysis and hosting an extensive feature set, the Vitalus Pro line of scanners provides monitoring solutions capable of meeting a wide range of acuity demands.
There has been some concern that because they are so highly portable, that Vitalus scanners might be considered an invasion of privacy, since anyone equipped with one could learn a vast amount of personal information from an unsuspecting person. Lobbyists at the Empire Civil Rights Association are pushing for the Senate to make it illegal to scan someone without their permission, but some counter that such a law would make it harder to provide people with emergency care. Though the debate is ongoing, use of the Vitalus continues to spread.
Not all of BiotiCorp’s innovations have been as successful as the Autodoc and Vitalus. In 2924, the company introduced a new anti-contamination chamber intended for use at landing zones to prevent off-world diseases and microbes from infecting local populations. The PurLyfe system was in use at customs centers for less than a month when the news broke that people being processed through the system were getting ill. It was revealed that the system had been too zealous and was removing helpful microbes along with the bad. BiotiCorp implemented a massive recall and terminated all sales and manufacture of PurLyfe devices. Despite the negative press, public favor remained with BiotiCorp for their swift handling of the problem and for the way the company rushed to help those affected.
Reconstruction
Never ones to rest on their laurels, Nikolas and Santos have been investing large amounts of their company’s time and resources into what they believe will be their next big breakthrough. Project Calliope, headed by BiotiCorp’s chief medical engineer Livia Haskel, is a full-body diagnostic and surgical system that has a variety of applications in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Inspired by her own personal trials after she was burned in a ship accident, Ms. Haskel and her team seek to improve upon the available physical alteration systems currently on the market. While people have been able to adjust their eye color or the shape of their nose relatively easily for years, Calliope is intended to allow people for the first time to safely and quickly undergo massive structural bone and tissue changes that would have previously taken a team of surgeons multiple operations to perform.
After a successful presentation to the Senate and High Command by Dr. Santos and Ms. Haskel, Calliope was adopted for early trials by the military with supposedly impressive results. Starmen who a short while ago would have had to face life with debilitating scars, can now be repaired back to normal, or if the starman prefers, even better than before. With such positive feedback, Calliope is now beginning to make its way to civilian medical centers for the first time. Patients who have experienced the device first-hand have described it as ‘life changing.’ The full social and cultural effect of having the ability to completely alter one’s appearance so easily remains to be seen, but it seems certain that BiotiCorp has once again transformed the universe we live in.
Today, a cutting-edge manufacturer of a wide range of medical and surgical devices, BiotiCorp can trace its roots back to the famed ‘Decon’ lab at Scaliger School of Medicine in Rhetor. The lab, so named due to the notorious sensitivity of its hazard detection system and the frequency with which students researching there would be trapped overnight for decontamination, has produced an overwhelming number of scientific advances in the last century, and was, in 2912, where doctoral students and future founders of BiotiCorp, Ted Santos and Diyo Nikolas, first met.
Nikolas was studying the effects of quantum travel upon the precision of surgical assist robots when she found herself once again locked in the lab by the triggering of a decontamination alarm. Santo, who had only recently transferred to the school, was also in the lab at the time, and panicked when the alarms sealing the lab sounded.
Trying to calm the obviously agitated researcher, Nikolas asked Santo to explain his project to her. Having received a grant from the Navy to look into Targion disease, a neurological disorder that had been appearing in starmen with long service records, Santo was studying genetic gravitational compression with the hopes of finding a cause. By the end of the lockdown, the two had realized that their research was connected.
Three years later, Doctors Nikolas and Santo released a paper in the Rhetor Journal of Medicine proving the connection between genetic gravitational compression that occurs in quantum travel and the increased fatality rates for transporting emergency patients while in surgery. The work was groundbreaking and immediately had an effect on Search and Rescue protocols. Seeking to capitalize on the valuable discovery, Scaliger School of Medicine eagerly invested in the foundation of a private research center that would be run by the pair, and BiotiCorp was born.
The company’s first commercial product was a software suite for surgical robots that allowed them to better compensate for the effects of quantum travel and greatly reduced transitory deaths of patients. The suite was almost universally adapted, and BiotiCorp reinvested all profits in additional research, solidifying what would become the company’s reputation for consistently pushing medicine forward.
The Cutting Edge
Having recently moved into a massive, brand-new facility outside Candalor on Reisse, BiotiCorp continues to take innovative strides with each new product release. For over three decades, they’ve been partnering with the top researchers and doctors from multiple disciplines to pioneer unique and advanced medical technologies to improve the quality of care for everyone in the Empire. Expanding from software into manufacturing, BiotiCorp created their own line of surgical assist robots, branded the Autodoc. While they may not be as feature-rich as some their competitors, the robots are known for their continuously reliable performance under less than ideal conditions. This robustness makes them a favorite for Navy corpsmen and doctors serving aboard mobile hospital platforms like the Endeavor.
The Autodoc series found itself briefly in the spotlight after the recent attempted assassination of the Governors Council in New Castle. With most of the major Borea hospitals inaccessible in the aftermath of the attack, the injured members were rushed to a Cutlass Red that they were fortunate enough to find parked on a nearby landing pad. Equipped with BioticCorp’s Autodocs, the council members were stabilized on board as they were rushed to emergency care facilities. In a later speech, Governor Jesper Donovin specifically credited the Autodoc with saving his life and tried, unsuccessfully, to pass a bill that would require one to be installed in every government-operated building.
It was in trying to further improve their surgical assist robots that BiotiCorp first approached their next major product line, medical scanners. Addressing the 2935 Scaliger School of Medicine graduating class, Dr. Nikolas proclaimed that the most important tool that any medical practitioner can have is knowledge. By improving scan techniques, BiotiCorp hoped to increase the ability of both assist robots and Humans to accurately determine what is happening inside a patient, giving treatments an even higher likelihood of success. Upon its release, the Vitalus Pro MediScan was received by the medical community with much acclaim. Featuring advanced clinical parameters for rapid patient analysis and hosting an extensive feature set, the Vitalus Pro line of scanners provides monitoring solutions capable of meeting a wide range of acuity demands.
There has been some concern that because they are so highly portable, that Vitalus scanners might be considered an invasion of privacy, since anyone equipped with one could learn a vast amount of personal information from an unsuspecting person. Lobbyists at the Empire Civil Rights Association are pushing for the Senate to make it illegal to scan someone without their permission, but some counter that such a law would make it harder to provide people with emergency care. Though the debate is ongoing, use of the Vitalus continues to spread.
Not all of BiotiCorp’s innovations have been as successful as the Autodoc and Vitalus. In 2924, the company introduced a new anti-contamination chamber intended for use at landing zones to prevent off-world diseases and microbes from infecting local populations. The PurLyfe system was in use at customs centers for less than a month when the news broke that people being processed through the system were getting ill. It was revealed that the system had been too zealous and was removing helpful microbes along with the bad. BiotiCorp implemented a massive recall and terminated all sales and manufacture of PurLyfe devices. Despite the negative press, public favor remained with BiotiCorp for their swift handling of the problem and for the way the company rushed to help those affected.
Reconstruction
Never ones to rest on their laurels, Nikolas and Santos have been investing large amounts of their company’s time and resources into what they believe will be their next big breakthrough. Project Calliope, headed by BiotiCorp’s chief medical engineer Livia Haskel, is a full-body diagnostic and surgical system that has a variety of applications in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. Inspired by her own personal trials after she was burned in a ship accident, Ms. Haskel and her team seek to improve upon the available physical alteration systems currently on the market. While people have been able to adjust their eye color or the shape of their nose relatively easily for years, Calliope is intended to allow people for the first time to safely and quickly undergo massive structural bone and tissue changes that would have previously taken a team of surgeons multiple operations to perform.
After a successful presentation to the Senate and High Command by Dr. Santos and Ms. Haskel, Calliope was adopted for early trials by the military with supposedly impressive results. Starmen who a short while ago would have had to face life with debilitating scars, can now be repaired back to normal, or if the starman prefers, even better than before. With such positive feedback, Calliope is now beginning to make its way to civilian medical centers for the first time. Patients who have experienced the device first-hand have described it as ‘life changing.’ The full social and cultural effect of having the ability to completely alter one’s appearance so easily remains to be seen, but it seems certain that BiotiCorp has once again transformed the universe we live in.
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