| Author | Message | ||
     Jason Thompson |
Thompson was in Sickbay, looking at the mobile brain creature secured in statis. It was projecting constant, dulling psychological assaults on the staff: "I will kill you. Die! Human! Die! Just wait human, you will die!" Resisting the relentless banter of the creature, Thompson scanned the creature, to learn what it was. The mobile brain itself didn't seem very intelligent. As he stood there scanning, something new diverted him. +TAPS+ Farley to Sickbay. I killed the brain on one of the Engineers. I'm bringing him into sickbay ..... Can you do anything for him? You should have seen it. He was attacked and after a bit of resistance, he turned on me." +TAPS+ Thompson here. I'll see what I can do. A few moments later, a unconscious human was brought it. He turned to his care, leaving the brain on the other side of Sickbay, closely guarded. He scanned the body with his medical tricorder. No pulse, no respiration. No neural activity. There was nothing more that could be done. "Sorry Jack. He's gone" Farley frowned and headed out, returning to engineering. As Thompson continued scans, hoping to find a cause of death, he noticed lacerations in the middle of the victim's neck. They were deep. Scans revealed that the spinal cord itself had been severed. So the mobile Brain severs the spinal cord, Thompson thought. But how does the body continue to support the heart and lungs. How were the people after being attacked still moving? Farley said that they attacked others. He returned to the mobile brain scans and noticing an interesting organelle on the botton of the brain. It was a connection point. They must use that to replace the original brain. It appears to be a complex set of dendrites that attach to anything and send neural signals. That would explain it. The people are taken over by the host brain. He returned to the body of the unfortunate engineer. The parts of the brain that control higher reasoning and consciousness showed the greatest levels of decay. It would seem that they were the first to be destroyed, upon Inhabitation. The engineer never had a chance. The mobile Brain would have to be removed immediately and the victim would need instant medical attention to survive, if then. Thompson walked to his office to write his medical report, and inform the crew of his discoveries. |