<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/74/Vixhead.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Victrix Starshine, Vix to her friends, Medic and Mercenary<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Carrion Crow's Ship<br/><strong>With:</strong>Jinny (but everyone else via commlink)<br/><br/>Vix couldn't help but smile with relief at seeing Jinny, but she restrained herself from the urge to hug the girl because of the broken arm.  "Good to see you, hun."  Jinny's medical systems didn't always mesh perfectly with Vix's techniques, though both certainly had their merits and Vix didn't like people being in pain when they didn't have to be.  Certainly her nanites weren't all that good for alleviating agony, despite her attempts to fix them up beyond that basic design flaw.<br/><br/>She pulled out the transmitter, shining the cerulean light on Jinny's arm to alert the nanites of the damage that needed to be repaired.  Certainly they could find it on their own if given enough time, but the transmitter alerted them of the damage and sped the process to finding the broken bone.  It didn't require a great deal of visual contact, so Vix got a chance to watch the log.<br/><br/>The more she heard, the more the pit in her stomach grew.  "Trying to actually revive necrotic tissue is..."  Vix shook her head.  "People talk about death's door, and you can keep someone out of that reach but I don't think you can actually pull them back if they're all the way through."<br/><br/>She left out the various aspects of the higher medical degrees, though of course Jinny was right.  Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease would cause a degeneration thanks to the prions, accelerated by the nanites eventually replicating and healing the prions instead of the healthy tissue.  They'd need healthy human cells to revert over to prions as matters accelerated, but apparently the infected had an innate desire to consume it from others.<br/><br/>Then again, maybe they wouldn't.  The atherosclerosis medicines usually reabsorbed the plaque in more useful ways, and the nanites would have ready access to it.  Even without new meals, how long would they even last?<br/><br/>Vix clicked her commlink to explain to the rest of the group.  "Jinny's safe."  Suddenly remembering, she detached Jinny's weapon from her own suit in order to offer it over in her left hand.  "The disease won't be contagious to us - the nanites will transmit healthy data - but others can be infected just fine if they get enough misinformed nanites.  What's left of the medicine should be in their medical bay, and we should get going as soon as possible.  I doubt we'll be pursued if the other ship is just here to check up on this one."<br/><br/>Hopefully they wouldn't need too many evasive maneuvers; Vix already felt sick to her stomach in consideration of the nasty plague these ignorant fools had created.  The only bright side was that it would probably thin out the pirate population to some degree...not that even pirates deserved this.<br/><br/>Still, it gave her an idea, and she pulled out the transmitter to attempt a bit of reprogramming.