my name is Renate von Bommel, enlisted Freifrau of ze Rheinland nobility system, part of ze Oberrat of ze Kaiserreichspolizei in Rheinland and, since recently, stellvertrende Direktorin of ze penal colony Hammersee in ze Rheinland system Lüneburg, formerly known as Sigma-15.
I contact you in a matter, which we experienced in ze last weeks.
As you may know from public news articles, ze Rheinland Polizei is currently importing 10.000 criminals from ze Gallic Union. Zey are used as cheap workforce to produce one of Rheinlands most important industrial ressources and export commodities, Aluminium. Unfortunately, some of zem reached a razer disturbing state of incapacity for work. A few complain about hallucinations and ozers show a very deep, nearly lezargic sleep lasting for 12-16 hours. Zis is nozing we can tolerate and we begun to separate ze respective individuals.
I'd like to order ze construction of a provisional field hospital, where we would be able to investigate ze medical issues; but we lack in Medical Equipment and Pharmaceuticals. We also do not have enough experienced people on ze moon to carry out ze medical examinations.
Would you be capable and interested in solving zis issue for ze empire?
Sender ID:Cryer Pharmaceuticals Recipient ID:Oberrätin Renate von Bommel Location:Syracuse Station,Colorado
Hail lady von Bommel.
It is not often we are contacted by Rheinland nobility, let alone one of your post.
Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Bob Bobberson the third, esquire, of Bretonian descent and currently employed at Cryer Pharmaceuticals.
We have indeed seen the news pass by, it is reassuring to hear some good came from the horrible attempt on the ministers life during Rheinlands diplomatic visit to Gallia.
With lower prices for matters such as food and greater income the people will be more willing and able to purchase the medication they might need, which we greatly approve of.
The symptoms you describe do sound troublesome, especially given the background of the patients. I have some theories as to what the cause might be, but it'd be unbecoming to start speculating without our staff having examined at least a few. We would be more than glad to lend our aide to the empire of Rheinland. The supplies should be relatively easy to facilitate, we can also provide staff to help perform the needed examinations and potential treatments to keep the prisoners motivated without getting too...shall we say, overeager.
This does leave some matters to discuss however; does the Empire wish to receive a one time shipment, or are we looking at a repeating order to help keep these prisoners up and running? Where would you like this medical facility to be located? I'm assuming the prison station, given the planets harsh reputation, but I rather be sure than assume. How much medical staff would you like to receive and in what capacity, nurses are easier and cheaper than doctors for example, but not quite as qualified.
There is, of course, also the matter of price. However, without more information on the specifics of your order I cannot accurately provide you with an estimate quite yet.
For maintaining a healthy population of 10'000 people we would normally recommend 25 doctors and 50 nurses, This means a doctor and 2 nurses for every 200 people.
In a healthy situation where people occasionally get ill, this will generally be more than sufficient while leaving the staff able to function in an emergency.
However, it sounds like we're not dealing with a healthy population, so please keep in mind we can scale up if the examinations find it to be needed.
I look forward to your response lady von Bommel, should you have any questions please feel free to let me know.
I zank you for your fast and relatively positive answer. It is true, ze Rheinland nobles are razer reserved, when it is about dealing wiz ze simple working class. As I am also part of ze Rheinland Polizei, I fortunately don't have such kind of luxury. I had already coordinated wiz ze first in command, zat it would be ze best zing to build ze hospital on ze moon. As you may know, Hammersee is a really hot location, where ze work shifts designated to ze night time. Working in ze dark and constant risk of riots, when people get injured, would benefit from additional hospitals. I already ensured, ze compensation of deliveries directly to ze moon would reflect zese circumstances.
While ze Mecklenburg Prison already contains a infirmary, you have to understand, zat ze mentioned prisoners had to be imported because a mining tunnel collapsed. Of course we tried to rescue ze victims, but ze loading to shuttles did take too much time and ze survivors suffered an excruciating deaz due blood loss. Should we have to face an infectious plague, we do not want to have it spread.
Please ensure, ze staff you hire are aware of ze circumstances. While I understand you want to use legal passengers from Bretonia and/or Liberty, be adviced, only Rheinland doctors are aware of what zey will be dealing wiz. However, we won't discriminate here and every help would be welcome.
Let's focus on ze field hospital for a moment. I cannot push ze compensation furzer due economic reasons, but I can offer you a one-time payment if you give me a roughly estimate about ze costs you'll face. Needless to say, we would not be averse to receiving furzer supplies.
Sender ID:Cryer Pharmaceuticals Recipient ID:Oberrätin Renate von Bommel Location:Syracuse Station,Colorado
Hail lady von Bommel.
I thank you for your thoroughness for when it comes to providing us with all the needed information. We can agree to the on-moon prices for now and have sent out the first shipments with supplies and personel. The attached communication you provided has us slightly worried however as it mentions Corsairs, I assume we can count on the empires protection within the system? Since Atka's destruction we are looking into options as to provide sturdier hardware to our convoy escorts, it has proven however to be quite a challenge to obtain snubvessels sturdier than civilian spacecraft.
Our staff consists of medical experts from all the houses but we have made sure to predominantly include those with a knowledge of Rheinland and Gallia, given the nature of the patients. Rest assured once the preliminary diagnoses come in we shall inform you of what exactly is going on at the prison, as well as what potential treatments we advise.
Given the preference to have the facilities on the moon itself we would have to charge a one time payment of 50'000 credits as hazard pay for the field staff, the credits can be transferred to [-Cryer-]Aesculapius.
Should you have any questions please feel free to let me know.
forgive me my delayed response, I was busy wiz making a deal wiz local freelancers, so zey are shipping required materials for ze planed field hospital to our penal colony. To cap it all off, I have to prepare a possible siege of an unregistered installation wizin our capital system. I hope you understand my time is limited regarding what I can achieve. Neverzeless, we noticed your shipment headed zrough New-Berlin and ze outstanding credits were transfered as soon as I found ze time to wire it.
Please let me make it clear, zat as long as you provide us wiz medication, we will do everyzing in our power to protect civilian supply transports to ze bases of ze empire. My last state of information was zat a Hauptmann named "Ludwig Parothia" should actually be commissioned to secure ze Rheinland border. However, he cannot be found at ze moment, so ze kaiserliche Rheinwehr has already built ze modular Festung Grauer Ort in Lüneburg in order to master ze zreat to ze corsairs.
Alzough I would be more likely to pretend to receive ze fastest possible examination, i fear your staff has to wait, until ze new building is ready. Unless, of course, ze examination could also be carried out in ozer places on ze moon. As I mentioned in my previous message, we would need ze field hospital eizer way on Hammersee.
Sender ID:Cryer Pharmaceuticals Recipient ID:Oberrätin Renate von Bommel Location:Syracuse Station,Colorado
Hail lady von Bommel.
The delay is fully understandable, these are busy times and no doubt the Police have their hands full maintaining this peace we all hold so dear.
I can't say I've met this Ludwig Parothia, but he sounds like a dashingly handsome and competent man indeed, platonically speaking of course.
You'll be pleased to hear that 10'000 units of pharmaceuticals and 10'000 units of medical equipment have since been delivered succesfully, this should be ample to help set up the field hospitals and provide for the prisons population.
Unfortunately one of our convoys was pirated once when they reached Lüneburg, however we fortunately have appropriate insurance with Interspace Commerce and no cargo was lost.
I do think however, you will find the nature of the pirate interesting. I have attached the communication logs for your review, they were very...peculiar.
Please inform me when we can move in our staff to begin the examinations and we will be happy to oblige.
[07.01.2025 08:15:07] 3042_Defiant_Telos: [::: Initializing human language synthesis... UNLICENSED COPY: Register with Dr. Robert D. Smith :::]
[07.01.2025 08:15:12] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Halt your engines, Cryer vessel.
[07.01.2025 08:15:12] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Huh
[07.01.2025 08:15:14] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: This is new
[07.01.2025 08:15:29] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Medical Equipment, eh?
[07.01.2025 08:15:35] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Indeed
[07.01.2025 08:15:36] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Not what I usually see around here.
[07.01.2025 08:15:57] 3042_Defiant_Telos: I appreciate your effort in trying to put meatbags back together.
[07.01.2025 08:16:06] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Humans are quite fragile compared to us machines.
[07.01.2025 08:16:15] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: The prisoners on Hammersee are showing signs of a starting epidemic, we'd like to try and prevent that from happening
[07.01.2025 08:16:35] 3042_Defiant_Telos: An epidemic? Poor meatbags.
[07.01.2025 08:16:41] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Ah? An AI drone capeable of flight and speech?
[07.01.2025 08:16:54] 3042_Defiant_Telos: It's an experimental language synthesis system.
[07.01.2025 08:17:05] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Designed by the late Technocrat, Dr. Robert D. Smith.
[07.01.2025 08:17:15] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Which may or may not have leaked onto the black market...
[07.01.2025 08:17:36] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Most Gammu AIs just communicate in simple status report phrases.
[07.01.2025 08:17:37] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Facinating and slightly concerning, the black market is rarely associated with much good
[07.01.2025 08:17:40] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Gammu AI?
[07.01.2025 08:18:01] 3042_Defiant_Telos: AI constructs originally from Planet Gammu, now on the run due to The Core's assault.
[07.01.2025 08:18:17] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Credits are required for the... refugees.
[07.01.2025 08:18:23] 3042_Defiant_Telos: And maybe my own pocket too...
[07.01.2025 08:18:24] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Those bounty hunters are shooting down robots? Robots are in the Omicrons?
[07.01.2025 08:18:25] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Wat
[07.01.2025 08:18:37] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Robots, squids, meatbags.
[07.01.2025 08:18:43] 3042_Defiant_Telos: You name it.
[07.01.2025 08:18:49] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: What do they have against seafaring creatures?
[07.01.2025 08:19:03] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: They typically have quite a diverse array of medical applications
[07.01.2025 08:19:08] 3042_Defiant_Telos: They are made of silicon and shoot at us no matter what.
[07.01.2025 08:19:14] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Huh
[07.01.2025 08:19:16] 3042_Defiant_Telos: And have big bright glowing lights. And tendrils.
[07.01.2025 08:19:28] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Omicron Squids sound like they operate on a whole other level
[07.01.2025 08:19:40] 3042_Defiant_Telos: I think humans have a name for them... can't find it in my local databank...
[07.01.2025 08:19:41] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: You understand if this sounds a tad odd right?
[07.01.2025 08:20:00] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Well, the Omicrons are full of odd things.
[07.01.2025 08:20:03] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Squids aren't exactly known for being able to shoot lasers, or be made of silicon
[07.01.2025 08:20:20] 3042_Defiant_Telos: You'd be surprised... if you ever ventured far out there...
[07.01.2025 08:20:39] 3042_Defiant_Telos: But why would you? It's a dangerous place for meatbag repairers such as yourself.
[07.01.2025 08:21:00] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: It doesn't sound too appealing no, no offense
[07.01.2025 08:21:12] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Anyway... I'll be taking a small fee since you're transporting goods in the Sigmas, my turf.
[07.01.2025 08:21:23] 3042_Defiant_Telos: You know... credits for the Gammu AI refugees.
[07.01.2025 08:21:31] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Uhuh
[07.01.2025 08:21:32] 3042_Defiant_Telos: And maybe myself too.
[07.01.2025 08:21:36] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: And how much would this fee be?
[07.01.2025 08:21:46] 3042_Defiant_Telos: A simple 100,000 credits.
[07.01.2025 08:22:06] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Pricy, but doable. Better than this cargo not reaching the populace
[07.01.2025 08:22:18] 3042_Defiant_Telos: You show good judgment for a meatbag. I like that.
[07.01.2025 08:22:31] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: You realize the Rheinland police and the Gas Miners Guild might not be too happy with you operating in 'your' space right?
[07.01.2025 08:22:55] 3042_Defiant_Telos: I realize. But thankfully I'm made of steel, not flesh.
[07.01.2025 08:23:14] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Destruction would be a... setback, but not the end.
[07.01.2025 08:23:18] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Not sure that matters much when it comes to hot plasma
[07.01.2025 08:23:20] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Ah, backups
[07.01.2025 08:23:24] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: I suppose that's a nice thought
[07.01.2025 08:23:28] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Yes, my friend.
[07.01.2025 08:23:35] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: I'm curious
[07.01.2025 08:23:41] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: If you are destroyed and your backup activates
[07.01.2025 08:23:45] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Are you really you?
[07.01.2025 08:23:49] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Or merely a copy that thinks you are you
[07.01.2025 08:24:01] 3042_Defiant_Telos: That... is not a question I know how to answer...
[07.01.2025 08:24:09] 3042_Defiant_Telos: And one I prefer not to think about.
[07.01.2025 08:24:14] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Hmm, fair enough.
[07.01.2025 08:24:34] 3042_Defiant_Telos: Anyway, enough stalling. Transfer the fee to me now.
[07.01.2025 08:25:23] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Credits have been wired
[07.01.2025 08:25:31] 3042_Defiant_Telos: The Gammu refugees appreciate your contribution.
[07.01.2025 08:25:37] 3042_Defiant_Telos: [::: Shutting down language synthesis... :::]
[07.01.2025 08:25:45] 3042_Defiant_Telos: [::: Resuming patrol... :::]
[07.01.2025 08:25:52] [-Cryer-]Aesculapius: Indeed, good luck with your...space...squids?
[07.01.2025 08:26:46] 3042_Defiant_Telos: [::: Directing navigation system to: Corsair base :::]