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Hello and welcome to the new members of the crew of the Transmigration 9! I am Dr. Samuel Henderson, and while appearances may be deceiving, I am the Chief Medical Officer of this ship. I hope everyone is getting settled in comfortably, I just have a few quick announcements.

First, I would like to introduce everyone to our new Senior Medical Administrator, Miss Anwei Ayles. She will be handling our steadily-growing medical database, and is also someone you can talk to to schedule your physical. But more on that in a moment.

Second, Medical is always looking for new faces. If you have any expertise in the medical field in any capacity, from patient care, to nursing, to administration, to healing, I'd love to speak with you.

Third, there are two evaluations all crew members must undergo. A physical evaluation, and a psychological evaluation. This is so that we may monitor the overall condition of the crew, and be sure there are no surprises. There are easily hundreds of different worlds represented in its current crew, and we have little data on each of them individually, so this is important to everyone's well-being. Medical as a whole will be handling the physicals, and Dr. Leonard Samson will be conducting the psychological evaluations.

Fourth, and this one message is directed to a very specific subset of the crew, my fellow vampires. I do have a store of blood that I've collected from some of our various periods of shore leave. At this point there's not much left, but to my knowledge, there isn't many of us.

Thank you very much for your time. Stay safe and healthy, everyone. Feel free to come to us in Medical if you ever have any concerns, we're happy to help.

-- Dr. Samuel Henderson, M.D. CMO

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Your fellow what?

Yes, you inferred that correctly. I'm a vampire. But all that means is that my slop is a bit pinker than yours. I would never injure anyone, or to ever drink anyone's blood without their knowledge or consent.

And besides, if I ever bite anyone, I have to be prepared to either kill them or be their sire, neither of which is a particularly appealing thing to me at this particular stage in my life. I'm no murderer, and I'm far too busy.

So you figure you'll be blunt and up-front about it and hope everyone buys it.

It's not as if I feel like I need to keep it a secret. After all, this ship is full of different types of people from different worlds. They have no reason to hide who they are, so why should I?

Besides, admitting to it also answers the question of why someone would ever consider someone that would never pass for old enough to buy their own fireworks for a positions such as my own. I was turned when I was 17, but that was about 10 years ago.

As long as you're up-front about it, whatever. The other medical officers aren't vampires too, are they?

No the doctors on staff are human. The various helpers, nurses, and healers we have are much more varied.

Your pardon for breaking in, Dr. Henderson, but I should point out for the sake of clarity that the fact that all doctors on staff are human is coincidence. That appears to be all that Stacy has seen fit to release to this point. Any doctors who are other than human would, of course, be welcomed.

With a crew this size and everything that could happen, we need all knowledgeable hands.

Yes, of course. It was not my intention to imply otherwise.

One must suppose this evaluation is necessary, even if one has seen a good physician recently?

Yes, unfortunately. We do need to examine everyone regardless of other circumstances.

While we are clarifying, what exactly is a vampire?

The only thing that sustains me is human blood. And any sustained exposure to the natural rays of the sun of most worlds would incinerate me. In my world we've developed quite the stigma for preying upon humans, stealing the daughters of wealthy landowners out of their bedrooms, and being nearly genocidal against humanity.

Some of it, unfortunately, happened; some of it is legend exacerbated by political fearmongers. But the entire crew, Council, and Captain, has my word that I take my oath very seriously, and I will never use my position to manipulate anyone into anything.

And if we say no?

For that, you'd have to ask Command and the Civilian Council. It's Captain Leon Kennedy, and I think the most accessible Councilor is Kang, he runs the Drunken Dragon Tavern down in the City. As a Draconian, he's very easy to find, picture a massive person with dragon parts attached.

Also, while I understand no one really likes physicals, we wouldn't request them of the entire crew if they weren't vitally important. We just don't know what kind of viruses and bacteria people have brought from their worlds, that people from other worlds would have no immunity to. And that's only the beginning.

This is mandatory I'm assuming?

Yes, both evaluations are mandatory for all crew members.

Just let me know when's good to come by, Doc. Might as well get this shit out of the way.

Also, I've worked with a few vamps before, so you might wanna know, I can donate as much blood as you need - regenerator from hell. Anything you take would be fine in an hour at most. But there's one big thing - anyone who feeds from me needs to be watched. My blood makes vampies wired as all hell. If you've got the stock to dilute it, or you're willing to live with suckers on jolt cola and coffee overdose, I'm willing to donate. Done it before, long as we're all on the same side here.

Thank you for that. I haven't asked because donation may be necessary in a crisis. I appreciate the offer. Come by and we'll discuss it.

Don't need to ask, Doc, I'm volunteering. If we're all in this fight together, I'd rather not wait for an emergency to come up to plan ahead, y'know? Any time is good.

Thank you Dr. Henderson, for that kind introduction.

At the risk of repeating what has already been said, welcome to the Transmigration 9. Please feel free to contact me via comm ring or omnicomm to schedule your appointment. If you'd rather speak to me in person, I am probably going to be found either in Medical, or the Computing subdivision.

Anwei Ayles, I should apparently make such arrangements ~~if the efforts of the finest physician in the Empire are not sufficient~~

I appreciate your stepping forward, Chancellor, and will schedule you as soon as possible. The information we gather is to protect not only you in case of accident, but other members of your species who may arrive.

A very good point. Thank you.

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And I haven't even had time to get my weight down for check-ups yet...

Your secrets are safe with me, Miss.

Edited 2011-04-05 16:02 (UTC)

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Don't worry about it. I was only joking anyhow.