Chapter 10
“Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
—Betty Davis, All About Eve
Sarran Calendar: Cycle 9435.B115
Earth Calendar: June 25th, early afternoon
Dr. Bane looked up from the holo as he heard the whoosh of the medical bay’s double panels. Hospitals all looked alike. Humanoids had for ages associated white and any kind of polished metal with sterility and cleanliness no matter how many times science proved disease was bacterial, viral, or genetic in nature. Sarrans were no different. Even though they were capable of instant manufacture of medical supplies in any color, they invariably produced white. Computers did most of the routine, diagnostic work. Computer driven lasers, precise at an atomic scale, did surgery, although surgery was rare. Only in combat tri
