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In every Galactic Medical Station, there's a warning: "Human medical personnel are strictly prohibited from patient contact." Dr. Sarah Kim is the most qualified trauma surgeon in three sectors—and she's not allowed to save anyone who isn't human.
Why? Because human biology is lethal. Our microbiome, evolved on Earth's hostile deathworld, carries 39 trillion microorganisms that every human needs to survive. But when those microbes contact alien species—evolved in sterile garden worlds—their immune systems panic. Cytokine storms. Organ failure. Death within 48 hours.
94% of galactic species can't survive human touch. So humanity's doctors are banned from practicing medicine across the stars. We can study. We can teach via hologram. But we can't heal.
Then a quantum plague hits a Tellurian colony. 140,000 energy-based beings facing extinction. The galaxy's top doctors respond—but they're losing patients faster than they can save them. Dr. Sarah Kim sees the crisis and faces an impossible choice: obey the directive that bans her from helping, or break every rule to save lives she's not supposed to touch.
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Galactic Medical Station, Sanctuary 7,
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orbiting the neutron star, Vex Prime,
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the most advanced hospital in known
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space, serving 847 species across 12,000
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light years. There's a sign at every
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entrance, translated into every known
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language. Warning, human medical
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personnel are strictly prohibited from
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patient contact. Violation of this
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directive may result in immediate
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quarantine and permanent ban from all
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Galactic Health Network facilities. Dr.
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Sarah Kim stood before that sign for the
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fourth time this month, her medical bag
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heavy in her hand, watching alien
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doctors rush past her to save lives she
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wasn't allowed to touch. She was the
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most qualified trauma surgeon in three
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sectors. 5 years of advanced xenobiology
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training, fluent in 47 species
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anatomical systems, a genius at
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improvising life-saving procedures with
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whatever tools were available. But she
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couldn't practice medicine. Not here,
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not anywhere in galactic space. Because
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human touch is lethal. Not
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intentionally, not violently, but
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lethally nonetheless. According to
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Galactic Health Network studies, direct
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human contact with 94% of alien species
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results in catastrophic immune response
1:21
within six 48 hours.
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The alien body detects human microbiota,
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bacteria, viruses, fungi that every
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human carries naturally and panics.
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Their immune systems evolved in sterile
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garden worlds with minimal pathogenic
1:39
pressure overreact to Earth's
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hyperaggressive microscopic life. The
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resulting cytoine storm kills them
1:47
faster than any disease. Therefore,
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directive 7,729
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banned humans from all medical practice
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involving non-human patients. We could
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study medicine, teach it, research it,
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but we couldn't touch, treat, or save
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anyone who wasn't human. "It's for
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everyone's safety," the Galactic Medical
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Council explained when Sarah protested
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during her internship. "Human biology is
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simply too dangerous. Your immune
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system, your microbiome, even your
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breath, they're weapons to species that
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evolved in cleaner environments."
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Sarah understood the science. She even
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agreed with the reasoning. Yet, watching
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people die when she knew she could save
2:35
them, that understanding didn't make it
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hurt any less. So, get ready to witness
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the moment one human doctor decided that
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some rules are meant to be broken and
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discover that sometimes the most
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dangerous thing about humanity is our
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refusal to accept that we can't help.
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Humans didn't ask to be here. In fact,
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when Earth applied for membership in the
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Galactic Health Network in 2357,
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the medical council nearly rejected us
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outright. Your species is contaminated.
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Council director Shelvan, a crystalline
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whose body was literally sterile
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mineral, explained during the review.
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We've analyzed your biology. Every human
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carries approximately 39 trillion
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microorganisms.
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Bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites.
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You're not individuals. You're walking
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ecosystems.
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[Music]
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Dr. James Park, Earth's representative,
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tried to explain, "Yes, but those
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organisms are mostly beneficial. Our
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microbiome is essential to our
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digestion, immune function, even our
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mental health." Humans and microbes
3:51
evolved together. We're symbiotic.
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That may be, Shelvan replied. But your
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symbiotes are lethal to ours.
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The data was devastating. During early
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human alien contact, 17 diplomatic
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incidents occurred from simple
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handshakes. The aliens developed fevers,
4:12
immune collapse, organ failure. Three
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died before human doctors realized what
4:19
was happening. Therefore, the Galactic
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Health Network established strict
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protocols. Humans could join, but only
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in isolated positions, research,
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administration, teaching via hologram,
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no direct patient contact with non-human
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species. Most human medical students
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accepted this. They specialized in
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human-on-one hospitals, treating Earth
4:44
colonists, and the growing human
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diaspora across space. But Sarah Kim
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couldn't accept it. I didn't spend 10
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years studying xenobiology to only treat
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one species, she argued with her adviser
5:00
at the Interecies Medical Academy.
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What's the point of learning methan
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cardiovascular systems if I can never
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repair one? Why study Valoran neural
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architecture if touching one kills them?
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Her adviser, a holographic projection,
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because he was a Valoran and couldn't
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risk direct contact, side,
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Dr. Kim, your passion is admirable, but
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biology doesn't care about passion.
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Human microbiota is simply incompatible
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with most galactic life. Most, not all.
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Sarah pulled up a database. Crash
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physiology shows 73% compatibility with
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human contact. The Tavvar Collective
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reported minimal reaction to human
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presence. There are species we can work
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with. 73% compatibility means 27% chance
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of killing your patient, doctor. Would
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you accept those odds?
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Nevertheless, Sarah didn't give up. She
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specialized in hazmat protocols, learned
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to work in full biological isolation
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suits, developed decontamination
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procedures that reduced human microbial
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transfer by 99.9%.
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But it wasn't enough. The Galactic
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Health Network's position was absolute.
6:18
The risk, however small, was
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unacceptable. Yet, the galaxy wasn't as
6:23
safe as the rules assumed.
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The plague hit the Toan colony on Gamma
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7 without warning. Turans were
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energy-based life forms, sentient
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patterns of electromagnetic force held
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together by quantum coherence. They
6:39
didn't have biology in the traditional
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sense, no cells to infect, no immune
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systems to overreact. Therefore, they
6:47
were supposed to be immune to biological
6:49
threats.
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However, the plague targeting them
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wasn't biological.
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It was quantum viral, a weapon someone
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had engineered specifically to
7:00
destabilize toan cohesion matrices.
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Infected Turans lost coherence, their
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consciousness fragmenting, their energy
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bodies dissolving into random radiation.
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12,000 Turans lived on Gamma 7. The
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plague hit them all simultaneously.
7:20
Sanctuary 7 received the distress call
7:23
and deployed their emergency medical
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teams. 30 ships carrying 200 doctors
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representing 17 species, all
7:32
specializing in exotic physiology.
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Sarah Kim was not among them. She was
7:38
reviewing surgical protocols in the
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humanly section of the station when the
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call came.
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All available medical personnel to
7:47
emergency coordination.
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The station AI announced mass casualty
7:53
event on gamma 7. Talluran colony facing
7:57
extinction level plague. Critical need
8:00
for quantum coherence specialists.
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Sarah's hands froze over her console.
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Tallurans energybased. No biology to
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infect with human microbiota. AI. What's
8:14
the human risk? Assessment for Turan
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contact.
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Talluran physiology has no biological
8:21
components. Human microbial
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contamination risk 0%.
8:28
Therefore, technically she could help.
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The directive banning humans from alien
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medical care specifically cited
8:35
biological contamination risk, but
8:38
torians had no biology to contaminate.
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Nevertheless, Sarah knew reporting to
8:44
emergency coordination would get her
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escorted off the station. Directives
8:49
were directives even when the science
8:52
behind them didn't apply. Yet 12,000
8:56
people were dying.
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Forgive me, Sarah whispered to her oath.
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The hypocratic oath she'd sworn in
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medical school. The promise to do no
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harm. The vow to save lives above all
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else.
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She grabbed her medical kit and ran
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toward the emergency bay. Think you know
9:17
where this is going? Keep watching.
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Humanity is about to break as every rule
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in the book.
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The emergency bay was chaos. Medical
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ships launching toward Gamma 7. Doctors
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reviewing patient data on the move.
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Coordinators assigning teams based on
9:37
specialization.
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Sarah slipped through the crowds, her
9:41
human appearance drawing stairs, but not
9:44
immediate challenges. There were human
9:46
administrators and researchers on
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station, so her presence alone wasn't
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forbidden.
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Dr. Kim, a Valoran coordinator, spotted
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her. What are you doing in the emergency
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bay? Humans aren't cleared, forans
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have no biological components. Sarah
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interrupted. Human contamination risk is
10:09
zero. I have three years of energy being
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physiology training. I can help. The
10:16
coordinator's bioluminescent patterns
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flickered uncertainty.
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The directive is absolute. No human
10:25
medical personnel in direct patient
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care. 12,000 Tourans are dying right
10:31
now. Are you really going to let them
10:33
die over a technicality?
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The coordinator hesitated. In that
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moment, alarms blared. Second wave
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reported. The AI announced plague
10:45
spreading to toan populations on four
10:48
additional colonies. Revised casualty
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estimate
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140,000 beings.
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The coordinator made a decision. Get on
10:59
medical transport 7. Keep your isolation
11:01
suit sealed. If anyone asks, you're a
11:04
research observer. Do not let command
11:07
know I authorized this.
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Therefore, Sarah ran. Gamma 7 was dying.
11:16
The colony's central habitation sphere,
11:18
normally glowing with the warm radiance
11:20
of 12,000 Turan energy signatures, was
11:24
dim and flickering. infected toans
11:28
pulsed erratically, their coherent
11:30
consciousness fragmenting into
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discordant patterns. The plague
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destabilizes their quantum binding, Dr.
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Vorsin explained as the medical team
11:41
established their field hospital. Their
11:44
consciousness is literally coming apart.
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We've stabilized 17 patients, but we're
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losing two for everyone we save. We
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don't have enough coherence stabilizers,
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and the plague mutates faster than we
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can adapt our equipment. Sarah studied a
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dying toan through her visor. The
12:01
being's energy pattern was beautiful,
12:03
even in dissolution, like watching a
12:05
symphony fall out of tune. Each note
12:08
still perfect, but no longer harmonious.
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What's the primary attack vector? She
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asked. The plague targets the quantum
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entanglement points that hold their
12:18
consciousness together. It's elegant.
12:20
Really evil, but elegant.
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Nevertheless, Sarah saw something the
12:27
other doctors had missed. It's not
12:29
attacking random entanglement points.
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Look at the pattern. She pulled up the
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quantum scan. It's systematically
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targeting nodes in sequence. Highest
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energy density first, then cascading
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down to weaker connections. It's
12:44
following an efficiency algorithm.
12:47
Vorsin's bioluminescence shifted
12:50
recognition.
12:52
You're right. Which means which means we
12:55
can predict the cascade and reinforce
12:58
the next target nodes before the plague
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reaches them. We don't need to fight the
13:03
plague directly. We just need to stay
13:07
one step ahead. Shore up the defenses
13:10
before it arrives.
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That's brilliant. But we don't have
13:14
enough doctors for individual patient
13:16
monitoring. We'd need real time quantum
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analysis for each patient, predictive
13:22
modeling and precision calibration of I
13:26
can do it. Yet Vorin's hesitation was
13:30
clear. Dr. Kim, you're not authorized
13:33
for direct patient care. I'm not
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touching them. I'm adjusting equipment.
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There's a difference.
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Sarah was already pulling up patient
13:44
files, her hands flying across
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holographic controls. You all focus on
13:49
the critical cases, the ones already
13:52
fragmenting. I'll handle triage and
13:55
prevention. Keep the stable ones from
13:57
destabilizing.
13:58
Deal? What happened next made the entire
14:02
Galactic Council go silent for the first
14:05
time in 4,000 years.
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For 17 hours, Sarah Kim saved lives she
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wasn't supposed to touch. She couldn't
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perform the direct quantum coherence
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stabilization that required species
14:21
specific medical implants she didn't
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have, but she could do everything else.
14:27
She predicted cascade failures before
14:30
they happened. Prioritized patients by
14:33
critical need. Recalibrated stabilizer
14:36
equipment for optimal efficiency.
14:39
Coordinated resource allocation across
14:42
three emergency teams. Taught other
14:44
doctors her pattern recognition
14:46
technique for plague prediction.
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Dr. Kim, patient 847,
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showing early cascade in nodes 12-7.
14:58
A Mother Doctor called predicted
15:01
stabilizer frequency to 447.3
15:06
terraertz, pulse interval 0.3 nan. That
15:11
should reinforce nodes 18 25 before
15:15
cascade reaches them.
15:18
The doctor implemented her
15:19
recommendation. The cascade stopped. The
15:23
patient stabilized.
15:26
How did you know that would work? The
15:28
plagues following an optimization
15:30
algorithm. It's efficient but
15:32
predictable. We just need to be more
15:36
efficient.
15:38
Nevertheless, the plague was adapting. 6
15:41
hours into the crisis, Sarah noticed the
15:44
mutation. It's learning, she announced
15:47
to the medical team. The plague is
15:49
adjusting its attack pattern. It's
15:52
targeting the nodes we're reinforcing.
15:55
That's impossible. Vorsin said quantum
15:59
viruses don't learn. They're programmed
16:02
weapons, not intelligent. Tell that to
16:05
patient, 124, who just crashed despite
16:10
perfect protocol compliance.
16:14
Sarah pulled up the data. Look, the
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plague delayed its cascade, waited until
16:20
after our reinforcement window, then
16:22
struck. It's adapting to our strategy.
16:26
Therefore, they adapted faster. Sarah
16:29
started randomizing their reinforcement
16:31
patterns, creating unpredictability the
16:33
plague couldn't counter. She taught the
16:36
medical teams to think like hackers, not
16:39
doctors. attacking the weapons code, not
16:42
just treating symptoms. This is warfare,
16:45
she told them. Someone built this plague
16:48
to kill Turans efficiently. We need to
16:51
be inefficient, make it work harder,
16:54
waste its resources, force it to spread
16:57
its attack thin. The galaxy's top
17:00
medical minds listened to the human
17:02
doctor who wasn't supposed to be there
17:05
and implemented her gorilla medicine
17:07
protocols. Yet, even as they saved
17:10
patients, Sarah saw the bigger problem.
17:13
There are 140,000 infected Turans across
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five colonies. We have 200 doctors. Even
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with my protocols, we can't scale to
17:22
meet the need. We're going to lose tens
17:25
of thousands. Unless, her hands stopped
17:29
over the console. Unless what? Vorsin
17:33
asked. But here's the part that went
17:35
viral across 12 star systems.
17:39
Unless we don't treat them at all, Sarah
17:42
said slowly. Excuse me. The plague is a
17:45
weapon. Weapons have designers. Instead
17:47
of treating 140,000 patients, what we
17:49
find who created this and stop them from
17:50
deploying it further. Dr. Kim, we're
17:53
doctors, not investigators. Our job is
17:56
to our job is to save lives. Sometimes
17:59
that means surgery. Sometimes that means
18:01
tracking down the person with the knife.
18:03
Sarah pulled up the plague's code.
18:05
quantum patterns that formed its attack
18:08
algorithm. This wasn't created by
18:10
accident. Someone engineered it. That
18:13
means it has design patterns,
18:15
optimization choices, maybe even
18:18
signature elements that point back to
18:20
its creator. Nevertheless, analyzing
18:23
quantum viral code wasn't medical
18:26
training. It was computer science,
18:29
cryptography, forensic investigation.
18:33
I'm not qualified for this. Sarah
18:36
admitted. But I know someone who is. She
18:39
opened a channel to Earth. Dr. Park,
18:42
it's Sarah Kim. I need the plague
18:44
hunters.
18:46
The plague hunters were Earth's response
18:49
to biological warfare.
18:52
When humanity joined the galactic
18:54
community, we brought our history of
18:55
plagues, pandemics, and bioweapons. We
18:58
also brought the experts who'd fought
19:00
them, epidemiologists,
19:03
viologists,
19:05
cyber warfare specialists who understood
19:07
that diseases could be weapons and
19:10
weapons could be defeated. Dr. James
19:13
Park had founded the plague hunters in
19:15
2359
19:17
after the handshake incidents. If human
19:20
biology is dangerous to aliens, he'd
19:24
reasoned, then we have a responsibility
19:26
to understand dangerous biology better
19:30
than anyone else.
19:32
Therefore, when Sarah sent the quantum
19:34
viral code to Earth, the plague hunters
19:37
tore it apart in 6 hours, found the
19:40
signature, Dr. Park transmitted. Whoever
19:43
built this plague used Kresh quantum
19:46
engineering techniques. The efficiency
19:48
algorithm matches weapons development
19:51
patterns from the CR Military Research
19:54
Division. We're sending you coordinates.
19:58
Sarah forwarded them to station
20:00
security. Dr. Kim, what is this?
20:04
Security Chief Calvin asked. The
20:06
location of whoever built the plague
20:09
killing Turans.
20:11
We're medical station security, not
20:13
military. We can't. Then call someone
20:17
who can. Because in 12 hours, this
20:20
plague spreads to the Turan home world.
20:23
Population 4 billion. Yet, when Galactic
20:27
Council forces raided the coordinates,
20:30
they found something worse than weapons
20:32
designers. They found 37 more plagues,
20:36
each engineered to target specific
20:39
species, each ready for deployment. It's
20:43
a genocide arsenal, the council
20:46
reported. Someone was building weapons
20:48
to exterminate entire species.
20:52
However, they also found the designers
20:54
dead, killed by their own security
20:57
systems when the raid triggered
20:58
self-destruct protocols.
21:01
Nevertheless, they found the antivirus
21:03
templates, the quantum codes to
21:05
neutralize each plague, including the
21:08
one killing Turans. The treatment rolled
21:11
out across all five colonies
21:13
simultaneously.
21:14
The antivirus rewrote the plague's
21:16
attack algorithm, turning it against
21:19
itself.
21:21
Within 18 hours, every infected Turan
21:24
stabilized. 48 hours later, they were
21:27
fully recovered. Final casualties, 847
21:32
Tallurans. Terrible, but not the 140,000
21:37
projected. Sarah Kim sat in her medical
21:40
transport, exhausted, waiting for the
21:43
inevitable consequences of breaking
21:44
directive 7,729.
21:48
They came in the form of Galactic
21:50
Medical Council Director Shelvan. Dr.
21:53
Kim, you violated direct orders, entered
21:56
a quarantine zone without authorization,
21:58
engaged in medical practice explicitly
22:00
forbidden by network regulations. Yes,
22:03
director. You risked catastrophic
22:06
contamination, ignored chain of command,
22:09
and operated outside your certified
22:11
specialization.
22:13
Yes, director, you saved 139,153
22:18
lives. Sarah looked up. Shelvan's
22:22
crystallin face was unreadable, but his
22:25
voice carried something unexpected.
22:28
Respect. The Turans are requesting you
22:31
personally for their official medical
22:33
honors. 17 other species want to know
22:36
why the human doctor was more effective
22:39
than our top quantum specialists. and
22:42
the plague hunters you involved just
22:44
provided intelligence that prevented
22:47
four more genocide attempts we didn't
22:50
know were coming.
22:52
Sir, I you broke the rules, Dr. Kim.
22:56
Therefore, we're rewriting them.
23:00
The new directive took 6 months to
23:03
draft. Directive 8,834,
23:08
the hypocratic exception. It established
23:11
three new categories of human medical
23:13
personnel. Category one, isolation
23:16
specialists. Humans trained in zero
23:19
contamination protocols permitted to
23:22
work with biologically compatible
23:24
species under strict supervision.
23:27
Category 2, crisis response. Humans
23:31
authorized for emergency deployment when
23:33
contamination risk is minimal or when no
23:37
alternative exists.
23:40
Category three, plague hunters. Humans
23:44
specializing in weaponized disease
23:46
analysis granted unprecedented authority
23:49
to investigate and counter biological
23:52
warfare. It's not perfect. Director
23:55
Shelvin admitted during the
23:57
announcement. Human biology is still
24:00
dangerous to most species. The ban
24:03
remains in place for standard medical
24:06
practice. But we've learned that
24:08
rigidity in rules costs lives. Sometimes
24:12
the most dangerous thing isn't the risk.
24:15
It's refusing to take it when necessary.
24:20
Yet the most remarkable change came from
24:22
the patients themselves.
24:24
17 species formally requested human
24:27
medical observers in their hospitals,
24:30
not to treat patients directly, but to
24:33
teach their doctors human diagnostic
24:35
techniques, the pattern recognition, the
24:39
gorilla problem solving, the creative
24:41
improvisation that Earth's hostile
24:44
biology had forced humans to develop.
24:48
You evolved on a planet that tried to
24:50
kill you. One Valoran chief of medicine
24:53
explained to Sarah, "Every bacteria,
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virus, parasite, predator. You've been
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fighting for survival at the microscopic
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level for millions of years. That made
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you see medicine as warfare. We evolved
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in safe environments. We see medicine as
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maintenance. But some diseases aren't
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maintenance problems. They're battles,
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and you know how to fight.
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Nevertheless, Sarah insisted on one
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condition before accepting her new
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position. Full decontamination
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protocols, always. I'm not risking
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anyone's life just because the rules
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changed, she told her first class of
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alien doctors. Human biology is
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dangerous. That's not opinion. It's
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fact, but danger managed is just another
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tool. She held up her gloved hand. These
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gloves are rated for zero microbial
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transfer. This suit underos UV
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sterilization every 6 hours. I shower in
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antiseptic before every shift. Because
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the goal isn't to pretend humans aren't
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dangerous. It's to make us safe enough
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to help anyway.
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And that's when the galaxy realized
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humans don't just survive. We rewrite
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the rules. Sometimes with weapons,
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sometimes with words, and sometimes with
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the simple refusal to accept that we
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can't save everyone. 5 years after the
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Talluran plague, Dr. Sarah Kim received
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the Galactic Healer Medal, the highest
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honor in xeno medicine. She accepted it
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via hologram from Earth where she was
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teaching a class of human medical
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students.
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Today's lesson, she told them, is about
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the hypocratic paradox. We swear to do
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no harm, but our very biology is harmful
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to 94% of galactic species. So, what do
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we do? Give up, except that we can't
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help? She pulled up a hollow display
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showing Tourans healthy, glowing, alive,
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or do we find a way? To this day, the
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Galactic Health Network debates the
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hypocratic exception. Some species still
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refuse human medical personnel, citing
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contamination fears. Others specifically
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request them, valuing the unique
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perspective humans bring. But deep in
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Galactic Medical Council records,
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there's a classified addendum to the
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Talluran plague investigation. The
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genocide arsenal they found wasn't
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complete. Analysis suggests 37 species
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specific plagues were in development,
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but intel indicates the designers were
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working on a total of 50. 13 plagues are
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still missing, and whoever funded the
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arsenal is still out there. The plague
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hunters are looking. They've found
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traces, encrypted communications,
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funding trails, hints of a conspiracy
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that wants certain species erased from
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the galaxy.
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Sarah Kim and her team work from Earth,
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studying the recovered plague codes,
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preparing for the next attack.
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Because they learned something the rest
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of the galaxy is still struggling to
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accept. Sometimes being dangerous is
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exactly what makes you necessary. So,
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what do you think? Are humans the
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galaxy's healers or another form of
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plague? Is our biology a curse or a
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gift? Should we be banned from helping?
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Or are we exactly what galactic medicine
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needs?
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Drop your theory below. I respond to
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every comment. Hit subscribe because
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this universe has more stories to tell
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and humanity's just getting started.
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