White, James – Sector General 05 – Sector General

and around those immense living carpets. The stupid, slow moving

Drambon Physicians stay close to the most active and dan-gerous

stretches of the Drambon shoreline. They resemble jelly-fish, so

transparent that only their internal organs are visible. A

leech-like form of life, the SRJHs seem comfortable in either air or

water. Their reactions in the presence of severe illness or injury

are instinctive. Using their spines or stings, they practice their

profes-sion by withdrawing the blood of their patients and pun fying

it of any infection or toxic substances before returning it to the

patients’ bodies. (The process repairs simple physical damage as

well.) How-ever, not all the withdrawn blood is returned. It has not

been es-tablished whether it is physiologically impossible for the

SRJH to return it all or whether the Physician retains a few ounces

as pay-ment for services rendered. A Physicians can kill as well as

cure. It can barely touch a beast, causing a predator to go into a

muscular spasm so violent that parts of its skeleton pop through the

skin. There is no evidence that they communicate verbally, visually,

tac-tually, telepathically, by smell or by any other system known to

Sector General. The quality of their emotional radiation suggests

that they do not communicate at all in the accepted sense. The

Physicians are simply aware ofother beings and objects around them

and, by using their eyes and a mechanism similar to the empathic

faculty, they are able to identi~ friend and foe.

Classification:SRTT

Planet:Unknown

Species:Name Unknown

No Individual Names Known

This physiological type is amoebic, possessing the ability to

extrude any limbs, sensory organs or protective tegument necessary

to the environment in which it finds itself. It is so fantastically

adaptable that it is difficult to imagine how one of these beings

could ever fall sick in the first place.

Classification:TLTU

Planet:Threcald 5

Species:Name Unknown

Individual:TLTU Diagnostician

A TLTU doctor breathes superheated steam and has pressure and

gravity requirements three times greater than the environment of the

oxygen levels. The local protection needed by a TLTU doctor is a

great, clanking juggernaut which hisses continually as if it is

about to spring a leak. The large protective suit resembles a

spheri-cal pressure boiler bristling with remote handling devices

and mounted on caterpillar treads, and has to be avoided at all

costs. The large size is needed to allow for heaters to render the

occupant comfortable, and surface insulation and refrigerators to

keep the vicinity habitable by other life-forms. The small TLTU

life-form inhabits a heavy-gravity, watery planet with edible

minerals, which circles very close to its parent sun. The TLTU’s

blood consists of superheated liquid metal. TLTU patients are

transported in their protective spheres anchored to stretcher

carriers. These spheres emit a high-pitched, shuddering whine as

their generators labor to main-tain the internal temperature at a

comfortable, for their occupants, five hundred degrees.

Classification:TOBS

Planet:Fotawn

Species:Name Unknown

Individual:Trainee/Doctor Danalta

This being can extrude any limbs, sense organs, or protective

tegu-ment necessary to the environment or situation in which it

finds it-self. It evolved on a planet with a highly eccentric orbit,

and with climatic changes so severe that an incredible degree of

physical adapt-ability was necessary for survival. It became

dominant on its world, and developed intelligence and a

civilization, not by competing in the matter of natural weapons but

by refining and perfecting its adap-tive capability. When it is

faced by natural enemies, the options are flight, protective

mimicry, or the assumption of a shape frightening to the attacker.

The speed and accuracy of the mimicry, particularly in the almost

perfect reproduction ofbehavior patterns, suggests that the entity

may be a receptive empath. The empathic faculty is under voluntary

control, so that the level of emotional radiation reaching its

receptors can be reduced, or even cut off at will, should it become

too distressing. With such effective means of self-protection

avail-able, the species is impervious to physical damage other than

by com-plete annihilation or application of ultrahigh

temperatures.The con-cept of curative surgery would be a strange one

indeed to members of that race. They do not require mechanisms for

self-protection, so they are likely to be advanced in the

philosophical sciences but back-ward in developing technology. When