<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #80BFFF"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;">Peter Halvardson</span><br/><span style="font-size: 120%; line-height: 116%;">'The Viking'</span></span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: justify;">Phil, the doc just took her hand from his arm and grinned at her.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Lady, even in MP you should know that you can't command a doctor once you are in the hospital. We do what we think is best. And a bleeding wound is more dangerous in this place than some broken ribs. So please relax and let me clean it and stitch it up and then we continue with Viking."</span><br/><br/>Peter grinned from the other side of the room, as he had known that it would happen. But he walked over to Alice and held her hand, trying to explain what this place was.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Ok, I guess I should explain you something. What you see here you will find in a similar way on every planet I have worked in my life as a miner. Medical service is extremely important if you have to work at the limit of your body. UE doesn't provide that, they don't care if people die, they simply replace them. I've met a lot of frustrated doctors in my life who had given up any hope to help the people they should actually help. Then some sudden chance opened up..."</span><br/><br/>He knew that nobody had ever accused him of that crime, as it seemed completely illogical why he should actually steal medical equipment. But that was the fun at it, if anybody would have really taken all his petitions seriously they may have well understood why the Viking may need medical equipment.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FF8000">"Do you remember the cargoship "Excellior" that got brought up by pirates eight years ago? The crew being found later on a planet, alive and kicking, but with no idea who had stolen her ship and why anybody would need a cargo of medical equipment for the beauty clinics in Avalon-3. Well the pirate act was no act of bad information. I actually paid the pirate crew to bring up that ship. I believed that some frustrated women could wait some more months for their beauty surgery, but that those mining planets deserved some medical service that was sound. We transported the medical equipment as mining equipment to those planets and then we just needed more doctors. That's when our doctors delivered the values of some heavy drug abusers as their own to the system and everytime a doctor "died", he got a new id and stayed as a miner on the planet. Within one year, we had installed optimal medical services on twenty of the worst planets. Planets like this one. And nobody at UE or MP even had a clue of it."</span><br/><br/>The two docs grinned at Alice and Serge added in a mock tone.<br/><br/><span style="color: #80FF00">"Greetings from the dead, Alice. Sometimes the bad guys are the good guys. You learn it on those planets."</span></div>