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Old 03-15-2014, 10:42 AM

The ship's attention turned to Hadley whens he got closer and started speaking. The red lines focusing on her this time and once more it performed the unusual scanning process. There was a brief pause before the red lasers blinked out entirely and the eyes began shafting again, looking back and forth, rolling partly, before two holographic projects showed up in the air, perfect representations of the Commander and the Captain. The appearance changed though, showing first the muscular composition of the two women, except in Christine's case,t he left arm was revealed to be a prosthetic that reached all the way up to her shoulder. The prosthetic itself was suddenly highlighted before a red overlay appeared on Christine's representation, removing it entirely and focusing on the Captain's holographic image,
"Well that's rude, I cant help it if my left arm isn't human." Christine commented, folding her arms, honestly she felt a little defiled, having this thing take such an intimate level of scanning. While her left arm was helpful, it held a certain level of shame too. At one time she had tried to hook up with a man or two but they were put off by the replacement arm. She'd opted to not get a skin overlay, only because it wasted potential space for armored plating, may as well use it to its fullest potential.

"Fascinating, I believe it is trying to identify our species or perhaps see what common denominators you share," The doctor stared up, watching the machine work. The muscles were stripped away from the Captain's image and it began highlighting various internal organs, as though checking and confirming, then the organs were stripped away, leaving the skeleton, it checked them before it all vanished entirely.
"I would certainly like medical technology that allowed such a quick scan of the internal body, the closest we have to such a thing is the Nightingale Med Units at our military hospitals on Earth and even they aren't this quick.."

The red eyes shifted once more, staring directly at the Captain again,
"VI'IK ALS." The synthetic voice stated once more, "EST."
The doctor and his assistant sprang back when the pod released a soft hissing sound, the covering shell at the front beginning to lift slowly, while the eyes all seemed to turn off and sink into the vessel, locking into place.

The outer edges of the seams started to break apart, like a membrane of flesh melting away, it was thick, rather solid looking except for how easily it stripped itself away, no doubt great for hermetically sealing the interior. The inside itself was as solid as any ship could be expected and within it lay a body, a young woman who looked human enough, except perhaps for the long, silvery-white that was tinted a soft sky blue, matching her bizarrely fashioned uniform that exposed a certain portion of her midriff and upper torso. There was a mask over her face, like an oxygen mask for certain.

The figure was undoubtedly unconcious, a holographic behind her head like a green orb monitoring her with green lines that spread across her at regular intervals,
"EST." The machine repeated. The doctor immediately climbed into the pod, running the scanner over the female's body,
"Hmm, not good. It appears the body composition and structure of her body is similar to ours, but if that's the case then she's suffering severe inanition, blood glucose levels are low, her muscle mass is in a state of deterioration, this pod must have been doing everything in its power to keep her alive. If we do not hurry her body will likely go into complete shutdown." He turned to his assistant and nodded to her,
"Get a medical unit prepared, priority emergency. Commander if you would be so kind as to get a gurney from the cargo bay's Aid station..?" The assistant was already rushing towards the elevator, taking it up but pressing the down button once she reached the top to let it automatically return to them.

Christine nodded, she knew where that was. She picked up her gun, compacting it and placing it at her hip before going to the nearest aid station. They had simple gurney's attached tot he wall next to the station, in case of emergency, of course. She pulled it from the wall and carried it back over, getting it set up for the doctor as he pulled away the oxygen mask and turned to Hadley,
"Come, Captain, as you're here you may as well help, grab her legs and help me move her on to the gurney." He ordered, not sharply, it was mostly stated like a request. he stared at the young woman again, her face was pale, but she was definitely breathing, he quickly opened here eyes a moment, shining a light int hem to see the response, they were slow to react.

A moment was taken to open her mouth and examine the inside. Definitely like a human, although the roof of her mouth was shaped a little oddly, she had all the same necessary teeth for an omnivorous diet too, her tongue seemed developed enough that it was likely used for talking directly too. It was like this new species was almost a parallel evolution to humans, with differences most likely, he wouldn't know for certain until he gave her a full examination. While it was highly improbably, it wasn't impossible that something like this could have occurred in the universe. To witness it first-hand was definitely interesting.