Operation Starfall - 1st Duxanek
Operation Starfall - 1st Duxanek
One of the colony's difficulties is that they are fighting a much bigger scope than what Naomi allocated for; she anticipated a support staff to combat staff ratio of a hundred times what she has had to redeploy to. One of the consequences is that the treatment facilities built in orbit I have had to reorganise into merely triage centres, with shuttles taking wounded down to Unity.
On the ground I have my hospitals of course. But things are going to be brutal. There's nowhere near enough medication, for example; these things take time and resources to construct, and eighteen days isn't enough to set up new manufacturing facilities. The manufacturing base was designed to supply the colony's regular usage, with a stockpile to support the colony's original combat projections. But, equally they were run on 8 hour shifts before, and it was not hard to get volunteers to run 24 hours a day in the run up when I explained the issue. But there's potentially a million combatants.
By three weeks time, I'll be rationing medical supplies.
So when the mining pods return with the first injured, my team and I go into action.
Eighteen days is obviously not enough time to train someone to be a doctor.
But it is enough to teach them basics like first aid - which Naomi did try to organise on a "being able to look after members of your own race" basis, which for some doesn't help all that much; Xenayan medical care largely consists of comforting the dying for example, as their traditional medical technology is so primitive - distributing medicine, making casts, supergluing appropriate wounds, simpler stuff. It frees up my medical staff to focus on what really needs trained medics for.
Once the first pod returns, our battle begins.
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