Mira Hasta-Rur wrote:
> > She also sees a standard four person emergency low berth, but she
> > can also tell just from looking at it that it is a very old model.
> > She's seen these, but they went out of service a good 40 years ago.
> > From the lights on the console, she can see that two of the four
> > chambers are occupied. Mira will be able to access the berth's
> > power level and working state, as well as get general vitals on the
> > berth's occupants from the console. She knows these emergency low
> > berths are cross linked, and reviving one revives *all*, and this
> > model was notoriously fickle causing higher rates of injury and
> > death for revivees than the newer models, so she'll want to be
> > careful here.
>
> She checks the status of each occupant, not starting a revival
> process yet. She wants some clue of why they are in there, first, and
> assurances the rest of the ship appears clear. Unless, of course,
> the power situation is so critical that she has to do it *now*.
These models have an emergency power rating of 50 years, you think. You
quickly determine that it has only been in operation for 37
years....*37* years! It has plenty of power, but the chances there
hasn't been a problem in all those years is pretty high.
Mira looks at the system's state, and it is operating within a nominal
range. She shifts to the general vitals on the occupants...
Berth's 2 and 4 are occupied, 1 and 3 are empty. Berth 4 is showing all
green lights, but there are yellow lights glowing on Berth 2, so it's 2
she looks at first.
Bringing up data on berth 2 you see that it contains a male human aged
67, 74 kilograms. Mira frowns inside her vacc suit as she sees that the
system has stored 3 "events" for this berth...stored events usually
mean problems, and problems in this case could be *big* problems. Her
heart sinks as she scrolls through the data. The last three diagnostics
by the system of this sleeper showed flat brain waves. It's *possible*
he isn't dead, but Mira is sure the from the numbers accompanying the
stored events that there has been brain damage. The odds on this
patients surviving revival are low, maybe only 1 in 6.
With a sigh, Mira looks at berth 4. Now Mira is just confused...occupant
race unknown, age unknown, 46 kilograms. There are no events recorded,
but the diagnostics show *two* heart rates, pulses, and brainwave
patterns...there are two of *something* in berth 4. Why would you put 2
in one berth when you had two empty o