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[lastdecember]

This is the after hours contact for Nicholas Wolfwood, Logistics. If this is an emergency, stop wasting everyone's time and page me.

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[tarakan]

Specs attached.

[ And attached are some ideas for drone modifications as well as what Hilbert would like it to do. We're starting minimal. At the least, he would want a video link to the drone so that it could transmit footage of the bridge back, as well as basic medical capabilities akin to a P-HYMN-1.A scanner. His ideal parameters are basically what the scan can do: blood chemistry analysis, imaging capabilities, recording baseline vitals, tracking organ function, etc. He also requests the ability to operate across multiple spectrum of light, focused on ultraviolet and x-ray. ]

[lastdecember]

[ That sounds like just embedding a medical scanner into a drone, which is easy enough. Wolfwood figures it'll need some additional protective coating since it'll have to clean itself, and that'll be more of a chemical bath situation than the gentler cleaning it would get on this side of quarantine -- sending over a drone-sized UV decontamination unit might not be feasible, so he'll have to assume the little guy will just be dousing itself with solvents.

So: a medical scanner, plus lensing to allow for the UV and xray light requirements, then self-cleaning sprays and diagnostics, and a basic self-repair module in case it loses a tread. After having seen that other maintenance drone, covered in filth and falling to pieces, instead of the solvent-stable wrap Wolfwood instead adds a note to include a frictionless coating and gap seal the whole thing, to try and prevent this drone from getting as soiled as the other one is.

It's a good project, when he's got all his notes ready to go. It'll be a challenge to get all those parts crammed into the drone's casing, but when he's done it'll do a lot of good to somebody who's been suffering for far too long. It's exactly the kind of project he's been needing.

Not that he tells Hilbert any of that. ]

Give me two days.

[ The ship will lose power before he finishes, but from this side of the mini-event, two days will be more than enough time. ]

[tarakan]

[ Two days will become 'two days and some change' as they stumble around in emergency lighting and bemoan the lack of elevators. ]

Thank you. Depending on how the results go, I might contact you for attempt number two. But best to see if easy outcome is achievable before going to hard mode.

[lastdecember]

[ What a great opportunity to go find L3TH3's memory banks and see about disconnecting the AI from some of the ship's systems though... like the cryo bay. ]

Sure. You know where to find me.