[SoERR] Reports from On the Way Home evacuation base

Update from medical

(Medical wishes to apologize for the delay in their reporting and regrets that their viewpoint was not included in the first report, which is now corrected.)

According to records of the medical staff of the base, as the number of evacuees coming our way is getting lower, so is their condition getting more severe. In the beginning, almost everyone evacuated was in fine health apart from pre-existing conditions that might have been exacerbated by limited access to shelter and care. Since then, we have seen increasing amounts of evacuees in need of medical care.

As conditions worsen on the affected planets, effects of exposure, hypothermia, and plain of lack of food and water are apparent in many cases. Increasing numbers of burns, shot wounds and blunt trauma have been treated in the center.

There are also many patients with biological and chemical effects by unknown agents leading to needs of quarantines and observation in already crowded environments. While most of these cases are delegated to specialized care and quarantine, some mild effects of such agents have trickled to pretty much all centers. Chemical burns, obscure microbial growths, localized but progressing blood vessel anomalies, and changes in lung metabolism and oxygen uptake have been observed.

Eye-witness reports speak of local flora withering in the dimming light as expected, but also of heavy environmental effects where triglavians advance, effecting local scenery and wildlife - and also people - but these reports I can of course not personally confirm. I offer the eye-witness story below as representative of the stories we hear from personnel on ground.

"It is eerie; how the triglavian influence advances like a wave. If you look at it from the distance, it’s like a stormfront, where human lights go out, then there is a period of darkness, and then triglavian lights go up. Sometimes there is fighting where this happens, but often also not, it’s just… there, and then, it’s… over. People rarely come from those zones anymore. They did in the beginning, running for their lives, but they don’t anymore. And when they do, they are… sometimes changed. You can see it in their eyes, on their skin… they are changing.

And no matter what triglover reports say, sometimes they die of it. We had a group arrive, changed… You must understand, we cannot take groups like that on the regular transports, we do not have the quarantine measures, so they have to wait for someone who has, and they have to wait away from the main groups. So they waited. We kept watch, but only as much as to stop them from approaching the drop base, we had no reason to control them otherwise, free civilians. In the next morning, most of them were gone. And those who were left were dead, twisted like, maybe they had seizures or something? Some had bled a little from those weird veins on their faces, but there was no fight, no gunshots, nothing. The Fleet took charge of the site soon after."

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