11 hours ago
== Ensign Melody Miller, Medical NRC ==
"Someone with a plan, and a possibly dangerous one at that, by giving Cardassians, Vorta, abilities, particularly the ability to heal, hear better, and be immune to poisons, suggests to me, someone who is creating an army."
The goth doctor considered. Maybe. There was still something they were missing. Well, a lot.
"I could be wrong, but why go to all of this trouble to combine the DNA unless they wanted them to be able to fight?"
"Yeah, but they're Klingons. Even the scummiest sort of Klingon prefers to do the fighting themselves. We've got a morgue full of 'em that shows that. Why would they create enhanced slaves? Unless... maybe you're right, but the slaves aren't an army but cannon fodder for the Klingons themselves to fight?"
Perhaps. Perhaps not. The two of them were just guessing. They could just be enhanced slaves to do mining and various tasks the brave warriors of the Klingon Empire considered beneath them. Melody turned the problem around in her head as she looked at the genetic code. Maybe Owen was right. Could they be selling the slaves as soldiers?
She hissed suddenly. "Damn it. I should have thought of this before, when I was up to my armpits in his corpse." She tapped a few keys and brought up the autopsy report and scans of one of the Klingons retrieved from the freighter. For the most part the Security team had reported them to be normal examples of their species, strong and tough but not unbeatable, but one of them... he was something else. He'd taken enough sedatives to knock out a Nausicaan (a big, angry one), and then had taken multiple phaser blasts. The brute had injured several members of the team. Klingons were tough, but they weren't that tough.
She turned to look at the Science officer. "What if it wasn't just the Cardassians and Vorta. What if one of the Klingons had been modified as well? Computer, perform a Level 3 genetic scan on Klingon body 3-DD8. Map the chromosomes, look for any non-Klingon genetic code and any sign of genetic enhancement."
== Tag Owen ==
== GM Input: Are there any abnormalities in the body of the Klingon brute who was stomping the Security team back on the freighter? Miller would have done a normal autopsy and a simple genetic scan as part of her job, but wouldn't have looked deeper. Does anything show up? ==
"Someone with a plan, and a possibly dangerous one at that, by giving Cardassians, Vorta, abilities, particularly the ability to heal, hear better, and be immune to poisons, suggests to me, someone who is creating an army."
The goth doctor considered. Maybe. There was still something they were missing. Well, a lot.
"I could be wrong, but why go to all of this trouble to combine the DNA unless they wanted them to be able to fight?"
"Yeah, but they're Klingons. Even the scummiest sort of Klingon prefers to do the fighting themselves. We've got a morgue full of 'em that shows that. Why would they create enhanced slaves? Unless... maybe you're right, but the slaves aren't an army but cannon fodder for the Klingons themselves to fight?"
Perhaps. Perhaps not. The two of them were just guessing. They could just be enhanced slaves to do mining and various tasks the brave warriors of the Klingon Empire considered beneath them. Melody turned the problem around in her head as she looked at the genetic code. Maybe Owen was right. Could they be selling the slaves as soldiers?
She hissed suddenly. "Damn it. I should have thought of this before, when I was up to my armpits in his corpse." She tapped a few keys and brought up the autopsy report and scans of one of the Klingons retrieved from the freighter. For the most part the Security team had reported them to be normal examples of their species, strong and tough but not unbeatable, but one of them... he was something else. He'd taken enough sedatives to knock out a Nausicaan (a big, angry one), and then had taken multiple phaser blasts. The brute had injured several members of the team. Klingons were tough, but they weren't that tough.
She turned to look at the Science officer. "What if it wasn't just the Cardassians and Vorta. What if one of the Klingons had been modified as well? Computer, perform a Level 3 genetic scan on Klingon body 3-DD8. Map the chromosomes, look for any non-Klingon genetic code and any sign of genetic enhancement."
== Tag Owen ==
== GM Input: Are there any abnormalities in the body of the Klingon brute who was stomping the Security team back on the freighter? Miller would have done a normal autopsy and a simple genetic scan as part of her job, but wouldn't have looked deeper. Does anything show up? ==