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Solanth Catha Galare

2022-07-10T18:23:07Z

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[[Juzie]]'s governness, and her mother [[Filisin Catha Galare | Filisin]]'s lady-in-waiting.

==Appearance and Personality==
Has light aquamarine eyes. A mezzosoprano.

==Biography==
The 'aunt' Juzie refers to during her betrothal who said she was not to feel obliged to do anything until she feels old enough.<ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) | Family]]''</ref>
*Was there when the duel happened <ref> Scions' Flight (Fiction) Kindle page 148 of 281</ref>
*See also [[Scions' Flight (Fiction)#Quotes]] starting with "Evelis said"
*Visited the [[Throneworld]] <ref name="cod-color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref>
*Frequent enough mentions in The Color of the Sky at Sunrise about her status: sad about being brought low and impoverished,
:As for poverty stricken:
*"If Solanth's side of the family had not failed so completely... but they had, and left her with no choice but to beg charity of a better positioned relation. No one had responded but Filisin, who'd needed another lady in waiting to increase her countenance. But her cousin was insufferable, regularly assigning her work appropriate only for the lowest order of servants."<ref name="cod-color" />
*"That was patently true given Solanth Catha's failed fortunes(...)<ref>''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction)]]'', Page of Swords, Kindle page 131 of 292</ref>

==Quotes==
* "The catechism calls it the beginning and end of wisdom. To listen." <ref name="cod-color"</>
==Mind powers==
Can see auras

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Characters]]
[[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]]
[[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]
[[Category:Scions' Flight Characters]]

Also In the Court of Dragons: page of swords references Solanth

Solanth Catha Galare

2022-07-10T18:22:15Z

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[[Juzie]]'s governness, and her mother [[Filisin Catha Galare | Filisin]]'s lady-in-waiting.

==Appearance and Personality==
Has light aquamarine eyes. A mezzosoprano.

==Biography==
The 'aunt' Juzie refers to during her betrothal who said she was not to feel obliged to do anything until she feels old enough.<ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) | Family]]''</ref>
*Was there when the duel happened <ref> Scions' Flight (Fiction) Kindle page 148 of 281</ref>
*See also [[Scions' Flight (Fiction)#Quotes]] starting with "Evelis said"
*Visited the [[Throneworld]] <ref name="cod-color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref>
*Frequent enough mentions in The Color of the Sky at Sunrise about her status: sad about being brought low and impoverished,
:As for poverty stricken:
*"If Solanth's side of the family had not failed so completely... but they had, and left her with no choice but to beg charity of a better positioned relation. No one had responded but Filisin, who'd needed another lady in waiting to increase her countenance. But her cousin was insufferable, regularly assigning her work appropriate only for the lowest order of servants."<ref name="cod-color" />
*"That was patently true given soanth Catha's failed fortunes(...)<ref>''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction)]]'', Page of Swords, Kindle page 131 of 292</ref>

==Quotes==
* "The catechism calls it the beginning and end of wisdom. To listen." <ref name="cod-color"</>
==Mind powers==
Can see auras

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Characters]]
[[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]]
[[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]
[[Category:Scions' Flight Characters]]

Also In the Court of Dragons: page of swords references Solanth

Major Pieces (Fiction)

2022-07-10T17:53:15Z

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[[File:Cover-MP-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

An adjunct to the Princes' Game series, Major Pieces is a collection of short fiction and vignettes that take places before, throughout, and just after the series.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Princes' Game
*Book: Extra
*Publication Date: November 2019
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback
*Revisions: 1
*Reader-Commissioned Book

==Blurb==
Everybody’s got a story… even the bystanders.

The staff of the Alliance’s foremost reCut from Deserving (Fiction)staurant… the forgotten children of the imperial Chatcaavan harem… the story of how an empress hired a D-per, and an entire ship full of Glaseah came to settle on an alien world… here, woven amid the larger stories of the participants in the Chatcaavan war, are the smaller scenes observed by its minor characters, or shifted by its major ones in moments of contemplation. Major Pieces collects 21 stories starting from before the events of Even the Wingless and ending just prior to the first book of the Jubilee Summer duology. Some are as short as a talk with a therapist and his dog over cookies–others are nearly novel-length examinations of important events previously left off-camera, like the wedding of a wingless freak to an Emperor and his consort. All of them were reader-selected, and many, reader-suggested.

You’ve survived the war. Now come back to the unexplored corners of the story and linger.

==Warning!==

*Warning the referenced story pages contain Spoilers

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: psychology, high stakes politics, pirates, galactic war, ensemble cast, dragons, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: R for violence, adult situations

==Synopsis==
Each story will contain a timestamp as to when roughly when it appears relative to the Princes' Game/Jubilee Summer series, and are in chronological order.

===Prophet's Vigil===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Prophet's Vigil (Fiction)]]

===Quest Accepted===
(Long before any of the events of [[Princes' Game Series |Princes' Game]])

[[Quest Accepted (Fiction)]]

===Opening Maneuvers===
(Prior to the events of ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Opening Maneuvers (Fiction)]]

===Disengage===
(Before ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'' and ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'')

[[Disengage (Fiction)]]

===Ariihir===
(Just after ''[[Family (Fiction)|Family]]'')

[[Ariihir (Fiction)]]

===Jackal Chest===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'')

[[Jackal Chest (Fiction)]]

===Soldier===
(During ''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two, and prior to ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'')

[[Soldier (Fiction)]]

===Cookies and Tea===
(After ''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) |Some Things Transcend]]'', before opening of ''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'')

[[Cookies and Tea (Fiction)]]

===In the Kitchen at [[Brooke's at Alpha|Brooke's]]===
(''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', chapter 3)

[[In the Kitchen at Brooke's (Fiction)]]

===Legacy===
(During ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', after the palace fight and before the Breath's arrival in orbit)

[[Legacy (Fiction)]]

===Because===

(During From Ruins, shortly after chapter 18)

[[Because (Fiction)]]

===Patience===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

[[Patience (Fiction)]]

===Beacons===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', between chapters 22 and 23)

This is called Beacons, not Beacon, and that was a source of my error, please kill page Beacon (Fiction)

[[Beacons (Fiction)]]

===Keepers===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' again, after previous story and still before chapter 23)

[[Keepers (Fiction)]]

===Courting Rights===
(''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' ''again'' (dang there's a lot here), during the final stages, starting on the ''[[REN Jerisa Galare]a]'')

[[Courting Rights (Fiction)]]

===Moving Out===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'', prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Moving Out (Fiction)]]

===Air-Dancing===
(A much shorter story post ''[[From Ruins (Fiction) |From Ruins]]'' and prior to ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Air-Dancing (Fiction)]]

===Deserving===
(Not long after "Air-Dancing")

Has 6 chapters

[[Deserving (Fiction)]]

===Perspective===
(After ''[[From Ruins (Fiction)|From Ruins]]'' and before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Perspective (Fiction)]]

===Hope's Navy===
(After everything that has come before, still before ''[[Healer's Wedding (Fiction) |Healer's Wedding]]'')

[[Hope's Navy (Fiction)]]

===Second Son===
(After the events of ''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'')

[[Second Son (Fiction)]]

== Cut Scenes, after ==
These are incomplete but are likely canon

=== Missing Piece ===
[[Missing Piece (Cut Scene)]]

=== Cut scene from Deserving ===
MCAH decided that the story was not about Lisinthir, and he was not going to figure largely in it.
It is, however, definitely canonical
:[[Deserving (Cut Scene)]]

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/majorpieces

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Major Pieces Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Reader-Commissioned Fiction]]
[[Category:Major Pieces (Fiction)]]

Malia Navigatrix

2022-07-02T00:16:34Z

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[[File:placeholder.png|300px|thumb|right|A portrait of the character]]

Another [[Queen's Tams |Queen's Tam]], whom we meet in [[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]].
==Physical Characteristics==
Gray eyes, silver bob. Pink tongue. Has body language like an Eldritch's: "Those of us with direct contact with the Eldritch have had deportment lessons." <ref name="rp-02">''[[ Rose Point (Fiction) | Rose Point ]]'', Part Two</ref>

==Biography==
===Family===
"Ferrell's daughter," so I guess there's a Ferrell.<ref name="rp-02"/>

==Quotes==
* "That's how it's been for us, Captain. He gives a little, we give a little, and we've made a family out of it." <ref name="rp-02" />

* "But it's sometimes helpful to know what your enemies are saying about you." <ref name="rp-02"/>
* "Tell Malia to come on through," Reese said. "We don't know how long we've got, soe lets not waste any time." <ref>''[[Laisrathera (Fiction)]]'' end of Chapter 7, Kindle page 92 of 388,</ref>

==Trivia==
* swears by Iley

==Story Appearances==
*[[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]]
*[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Queen's Tams Characters]] [[Category:Her Instruments Characters]]
[[Category:Rose Point Characters]] [[Category:Laisrathera (Fiction) Characters]]

Malia Navigatrix

2022-07-02T00:15:43Z

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[[File:placeholder.png|300px|thumb|right|A portrait of the character]]

Another [[Queen's Tams |Queen's Tam]], whom we meet in [[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]].
==Physical Characteristics==
Gray eyes, silver bob. Pink tongue. Has body language like an Eldritch's: "Those of us with direct contact with the Eldritch have had deportment lessons." <ref name="rp-02">''[[ Rose Point (Fiction) | Rose Point ]]'', Part Two</ref>

==Biography==
===Family===
"Ferrell's daughter," so I guess there's a Ferrell.<ref name="rp-02"/>

==Quotes==
* "That's how it's been for us, Captain. He gives a little, we give a little, and we've made a family out of it." <ref name="rp-02" />

* "But it's sometimes helpful to know what your enemies are saying about you." <ref name="rp-02"/>
* "Tell Malia to come on through," Reese said. "We don't know how long we've got, soe lets not waste any time." <ref>''[[Laisrathaera (Fiction)]]'' end of Chapter 7, Kindle page 92 of 388,</ref>

==Trivia==
* swears by Iley

==Story Appearances==
*[[Rose Point (Fiction) |Rose Point]]
*[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Tam-illee Characters]] [[Category:Queen's Tams Characters]] [[Category:Her Instruments Characters]]
[[Category:Rose Point Characters]] [[Category:Laisrathera (Fiction) Characters]]

Whisper

2022-06-29T15:55:19Z

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[[File:Illo-MaaziandWhisper.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Maazi and Whisper]]

A young male [[Chatcaava]]. Friend/brother to [[Gale]].

==Physical Characteristics==
Timid and gentle and observant. Half-brother to [[Gale]], and his best friend.<ref name="mp-hope">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "[[Hope's Navy (Fiction) |Hope's Navy]]"</ref> Has very pale yellow eyes, like elderflower essence.

==Biography==
:Part of [[Hope's Navy]]

==Quotes==
* "We understand, Mistress. This place is perilous. We won’t forget."<ref name="ar-02">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) | Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref>

* "Because the only reason there is a new baby female with wings is because we've decided that anyone can be special. That we can change our opinions about who deserves to live and who deserves to die."<ref name="mp-hope" />

==Trivia==
* grasps his tail-tip when nervous
* holds "wings" with Gale (by tangling the leading edge's tip claw)

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:Amulet Rampant Characters]] [[Category:Chatcaavan Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]]
[[Category:Fallowtide Characters]]
[[Category:Offscreen Dragons' Fealty Characters]]
[[Category:Hope's Navy Characters]]

Gale

2022-06-29T15:54:17Z

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[[File:Illo-GaleEmperorsSon.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Gale as a young teen]]

A young male [[Chatcaava]]. Son of the Emperor; bold in demeanor. Best friends with [[Whisper]], his half-brother. Was one of the founding members of [[Hope's Navy]].

==Physical Characteristics==
Described as a stripling hip-height on the Queen Ransomed, ferocious and without guile.

==Biography==
The Emperor's oldest male child; he is 11 revolutions old at the time of the Insurrection. <ref name="mp-hope">''[[Major Pieces (Fiction) | Major Pieces]]'', "Hope's Navy"</ref> He defended the Mother from the Queen Ransomed when she appeared for the first time in the Nursery: "If you hurt her, I will hurt you! I am a male, and you only female! Even if I am young, I can have you punished!" <ref name="ar-2">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) | Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 2</ref> He was initially shocked by the sight of the Queen Changing, but afterwards he was wary and fascinated.<ref name="ar-10">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) | Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 10</ref> When the Queen assigns him the task of teaching everyone to read, female sisters and female slave nursemaids alike, he says, tentatively, that "it would be fun."<ref name="ar-10" />
:Part of [[Hope's Navy]]

==Quotes==
* "I know them [letters] better than anyone else. I read many things. I read sometimes to the babies, too."<ref name="ar-10" />

* "Having wings doesn't make you better than other people. Just like having more arms doesn't... doesn't make you better than the aliens who only have one set. It just means you're different."<ref name="mp-hope" />

* "What does it matter what we are now, Maazi, when we don't know what we'll be? All I do know is... we have to choose whether we want to be good... or bad." <ref name="mp-hope" />

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Princes' Game Characters]] [[Category:Amulet Rampant Characters]] [[Category:Chatcaavan Characters]] [[Category:Major Pieces Characters]] [[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]] [[Category:Fallowtide Characters]] [[Category:Offscreen Dragons' Fealty Characters]] [[Category:Hope's Navy Characters]]

Solanth Catha Galare

2022-06-28T14:24:57Z

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[[Juzie]]'s governness, and her mother [[Filisin Catha Galare | Filisin]]'s lady-in-waiting.

==Physical Characteristics==
Has light aquamarine eyes. A mezzosoprano.

==Biography==
The 'aunt' Juzie refers to during her betrothal who said she was not to feel obliged to do anything until she feels old enough.<ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) | Family]]''</ref>
*Was there when the duel happened <ref> Scions' Flight (Fiction) Kindle page 148 of 281</ref>
*See also [[Scions' Flight (Fiction)#Quotes]] starting with "Evelis said"
*Visited the [[Throneworld]] <ref name="cod-color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref>
*Frequent enough mentions in The Color of the Sky at Sunrise about her status: being brought low and impoverished, "
"Were her private griefs so obvious?"
(later)
"I know because mine was (dark with grief), for a long time. It is difficult to find meaning in my life, and I thought ,,, I thought my circumstances would never change."
*But maybe that is grief at being poverty stricken?
As for poverty stricken::
*"If Solanth's side of the family had not failed so completely... but they had, and left her with no choice but to beg charity of a better positioned relation. No one had responded but Filisin, who'd needed another lady in waiting to increase her countenance. But her cousin was insufferable, regularly assigning her work appropriate only for the lowest order of servants."<ref name="cod-color" />

==Quotes==
* "The catechism calls it the beginning and end of wisdom. To listen." <ref name="cod-color"</>
==Mind powers==
Can see auras

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Characters]]
[[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]]
[[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]
[[Category:Scions' Flight Characters]]

Also In the Court of Dragons: page of swords references Solanth

Solanth Catha Galare

2022-06-28T14:23:53Z

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[[Juzie]]'s governness, and her mother [[Filisin Catha Galare | Filisin]]'s lady-in-waiting.

==Physical Characteristics==
Has light aquamarine eyes. A mezzosoprano.

==Biography==
The 'aunt' Juzie refers to during her betrothal who said she was not to feel obliged to do anything until she feels old enough.<ref name="fam">''[[Family (Fiction) | Family]]''</ref>
*Was there when the duel happened <ref> Scions' Flight (Fiction) Kindle page 148 of 281</ref>
*See also [[Scions' Flight (Fiction)#Quotes]] starting with "Evelis said"
*Visited the [[Throneworld]] <ref name="cod-color">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) | In the Court of Dragons]]'', "The Color of the Sky at Sunrise"</ref>
*Frequent enough mentions in The Color of the Sky at Sunrise about her status: being brought low and impoverished, "
"Were her private griefs so obvious?"
(later)
"I know because mine was (dark with grief), for a long time. It is difficult to find meaning in my life, and I thought ,,, I thought my circumstances would never change."
But maybe that is grief at being poverty stricken?
As for poverty stricken::
"If Solanth's side of the family had not failed so completely... but they had, and left her with no choice but to beg charity of a better positioned relation. No one had responded but Filisin, who'd needed another lady in waiting to increase her countenance. But her cousin was insufferable, regularly assigning her work appropriate only for the lowest order of servants."<ref name="cod-color" />

==Quotes==
* "The catechism calls it the beginning and end of wisdom. To listen." <ref name="cod-color"</>
==Mind powers==
Can see auras

==Trivia==

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Characters]]
[[Category:Eldritch Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Noble Characters]]
[[Category:Galare Characters]]
[[Category:Catha Characters]]
[[Category:In the Court of Dragons Characters]]
[[Category:Dragons' Fealty Characters]]
[[Category:Scions' Flight Characters]]

Also In the Court of Dragons: page of swords references Solanth

Pelipenele Argentson

2022-06-22T02:41:02Z

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[[File:Illo-Pelipenele.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Peli in her tent at Aren]]

[[Du'er]], the jerk Aera guy in "[[Rosettes and Ribbons (Fiction)]]" messed with her, and she messed with him right back, ''with feeling''. <ref>''Claws and Starships'' "Rosettes and Ribbons"</ref>

==Physical Characteristics==
Seersa, female.
*Black eyes set in a lightly furred face.(,,,) Her body was mostly white fur, with some grey with rosettes in the grey, and one small black rosette on her chest. Mottled white tail. Shoulder length hair, long cheek-ruffs, white body occasionally darkening to a frosty gray where rosettes sprinkled themselves at random, leaving the white untouched except for one perfect black rosette (...) hidden under her tunic just beneath her left collar-bone, imprinted there like a permanent decorative pin. <ref>''[[Claws and Starships (Fiction)|Claws and Starships]]'' page 71 of 198, "Rosettes and Ribbons" </ref>
*(The wiki drawing, on right, shows her with short fur and a rosette spangled tail, text notes "winter length", but long fur would not show rosettes so well.)(The drawing in front of her story [[(Rosettes and Ribbons (Fiction)]] shows long head hair, short body fur, rosettes on face between eyes, and on arms. Her tail can not be seen, she is facing forward.)

==Biography==
Born on Selnor. Attended a Xenoanthropological University on Selnor. Worked at the Starbase Ani branch of TKI&I, under Manager Tasey.

===Family===
Sister: Doni (older), a linguist, and member of [[First Voice]].

==Trivia==

==Quotes==

==Story Appearances==
* "[[Rosettes and Ribbons (Fiction)|Rosettes and Ribbons]]" ([[Claws and Starships (Fiction)|Claws and Starships]])

==References==
<references />

[[Category:Claws and Starships Characters]] [[Category:Seersa Characters]][[Category:Rosettes and Ribbons Characters]]
[[Category:Standalone Fiction Characters]][[Category:Seersa with Portraits]]

Medicine

2022-06-22T02:23:02Z

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[[File:Illo-Medicine.png|right]]

An overview of medicine in the Alliance (and other nations).

== Alliance Medicine==
[[Alliance]] medical technology is marked by its advanced technology, extremely tight privacy restrictions (due in part to the fact that the original Pelted on [[Terra]] were sometimes used as essentially lab animals), and a higher number of [[Medicine#Medical Personnel |healers than doctors]].

* Medplexes

=== Alliance Medical Technology ===

====Medimage platform====
[[File:Medimageplatform.png|200px|thumb|right|Medimage Platform]]
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"He was no mechanic but the set-up had come with a basic repair manual; it had contained a long block of explanation on how the Pad technology had made the Medimage platforms possible and then a smaller set of pages instructing Pad technicians on the differences and similarities between the two. He’d glanced through them, picking up several bits of trivia about lights and quantum tunnel disruption before flipping to the troubleshooting sections."<ref name="lais-02">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', Part 2</ref>''</div></blockquote>

While traditional modalities of surgery are used in the Alliance, the most advanced surgical platform available is the medimage, which uses a variety of technologies (including the breakthrough that made Pads possible) to continuously scan the interior of the body, build a solidigraphic image of it for gross manipulation by surgeons, and then duplicates their motions, in miniature, inside the body. This solves several problems: it allows far more precision in technique, since surgeons no longer have to work directly on a body part; it minimizes invasiveness and injury, while results in patients recovering faster; it allows multiple surgeons to work on the patient without crowding; and it reduces surgeon fatigue, since it allows them to use more of their bodies, in a more natural way, while working.

A surgical theater outfitted to use this technology is a significant piece of technology, consisting of a lower platform (the bed and its emitter); an upper platform, usually mounted in the ceiling (the upper emitter); and side installations for monitoring and power. A minimal medimage platform will allow a third of the body to be addressed at one time, but these small installations are rarer than full body platforms.

The minimal (typical) team for a medimage surgery consists of an anesthesiologist, who monitors the patient’s status at the patient’s head where the displays are mounted. The anesthesiologist is in charge not just of the drugs used during the surgery, but the use of the paralysis field (which is generated by three bands, one at the head, one under the medimage arch, and one at the ankles). The engineer tracks the equipment power and status, and oversees the backup generators; the engineer also addresses any technical issues that might arise during the use of the platform. Larger hospitals assign banks of engineers to their surgical wards, who sit outside the operating theater; smaller locations might seat their engineers inside the theater, depending on their design and procedural preferences.

The minimal surgical team is one principal surgeon and one surgical healer-assist, but some operations may call for more participants. A medimage surgery can be undertaken with a single surgeon but this is not encouraged except in emergencies.

While the Pad technology made the medimage platform possible, there are significant practical differences between them. Pads can operate with only a base station; medimage requires both the base and head stations to generate and maintain their field. Because the surgical platform must remain in operation and stable for continuous periods, its power needs are far greater. Pads have a limited number of functions, all of which can be performed by its single base; the medimage platform is actually a constellation of functions, undertaken by separate modules, all of which must be functioning in order for it to work.

There are multiple failsafes programmed into a medimage platform to reduce the frequency of errors, the most notable being that the manipulative element will be locked out if any of the other technologies fail (power, visual/monitoring, drug delivery, etc). Medical professionals call this the ‘all but, no cut’ principle, based on the frequently repeated line that if ‘all but one thing is operating, you still can’t operate’ made popular in the Tam-leyan hospital that pioneered the technology.

A medimage platform is the preferred vehicle for the procedure that extracts reproductive assets from women for use in float chambers, or for storage.<ref name="fc-10">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Halo-arch====
[[File:Illo-haloarch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Halo-arch, retracted.]]
The most ubiquitous of medical devices in standalone facilities is the halo-arch, a piece of monitoring equipment capable of minor intervention (in most models) and more complex intervention (for models intended for serious injuries or maladies<ref name="ml-14">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 14</ref>). Smaller, less feature-rich halo-arches may not be capable of the same tests that larger ones intended for broader applications will.<ref name="er-12">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 12</ref> Halo-arches can be manufactured as separate add-ons for existing medical beds, but are usually sold as units. The (larger) medimage platform uses a special halo-arch to perform the functions of monitoring and manipulating the patient, and medical personnel will often refer to the patient being under the halo-arch when they are in a medimage theater (since the halo-arch is the pertinent part of the technology, in terms of positioning the patient). Patients coming out of surgery (particularly Medimage surgery) are usually placed in (non-surgical) halo-arches for secondary care/monitoring.<ref name="er-08">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 8</ref>

Vital data gathered by a halo-arch is usually called a halo scan.<ref name="ml-15">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 15</ref>

The emitters are on either side of the bed. Beds that mount a halo-arch (if they don’t come as a single unit) require a stasis tray base, since halo-arches can also hold bodies in stasis.<ref name="tdap-md" />

They generate suppressive fields to keep patients from rising; this field can be manually controlled<ref name="coldandgentle" /> or it can be set to automatically generate based on measurements of the patients’ vitals. The suppressive field also generates a shield over the patient to prevent anyone from disturbing them; this field is solid to the touch, though invisible, and “tickles.”<ref name="esots-09">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 9</ref> If the patient is spastic enough that they might injure themselves against the suppressive field, as a last resort the halo-arch will withdraw.<ref name="ds-wet">''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm ]],'' Case Study: Wet</ref>

It can also generate a numbing field.<ref name="coldandgentle" />

There is a call button on the halo-arch, accessible to the patient and to the observer (to summon other medical help).<ref name="ml-20">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 20</ref> There are alarms (audible to the patient and in the room and that show up on panels elsewhere).<ref name="ml-18">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 18</ref> They are also programmed to initiate lifesaving procedures automatically, on being triggered by a critical event in the patient.<ref name="tdap-md" /> Falling vitals are usually signified by a wail (unless this default is changed). <ref name="ml-16">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 16</ref> The default sound generated by a halo-arch when a patient’s vitals collapse into a non-viable status is a whine.<ref name="ml-5">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 5</ref>

Halo-arches can dispense pharmaceuticals, automatically or ad hoc as directed by a medical technician.<ref name="igc-16">''[[In Good Company (Fiction) | In Good Company ]],'' Chapter 16</ref> They handle anesthesia, and also IV functions, using force fields to drop fluid into the body in the location chosen by the physician; this is called halo-pushed fluidics, and it defaults to enteral feeding (through the gastrointestinal tract) rather than parenteral (via bloodstream).<ref name="stt-02">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend ]],'' Chapter 2</ref>

An open halo-arch is indicative of a patient out of danger/whose vitals don’t need measurement or who doesn’t need any fields applied.<ref name="bloodmoney" /> The default sound of an opening halo-arch is a rising arpeggio,<ref name="ml-16" /> and the default sound of one closing is a descending arpeggio.<ref name="er-26">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 26</ref> An experienced enough person can read the musical and aural cues of a halo-arch and determine the status of the person under it.<ref name="lais-17">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 17</ref>
Halo-arches can use a variety of interfaces; the default (as with most alliance devices) is touching or tapping, but it can be reset to work with a particular person’s preference (and it can store multiple preferences and switch between them based on the ID of the person). For those who prefer it, the halo-arch can generate holographs and respond to kinesthetic movements.<ref name="fc-08" />

Biobed heads can be raised. This does not interfere with the halo-arch, if properly designed.<ref name="ml-18" />

** Chimes with vital signs when active<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
** Capable of generating numbing fields, as for wounds.<ref name="coldandgentle" />
** Closed when needed for monitoring vital signs or maintaining fields; open when not<ref name="bloodmoney">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "Blood Money"</ref>
* A steady light at the base of the bed indicates that it's active.<ref name="esots-04">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* Has a call panel.<ref name="lais-01">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 1</ref>

====Float Chambers====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"SEDIRYL WASN’T sure what she’d expected of the float chamber. Something like the hospital’s highest tech facilities, the ones meant for dire surgical emergencies? But the door opened on a chamber that contained a star nursery in its center, a swirl of foggy pink and purple gasses suspended in a blackest space. The room was cozy, with cushioned benches along two of the walls and chairs against the other. The technology underpinning the float must have been suspended from the ceiling, for Sediryl could see no sign of it save in a set of milkily translucent panels along the wall facing the door."<ref name="fc-13" />''</div></blockquote>

* embryo flotation: a field holds the fetus suspended as it develops; a monitor in the mother's uterus records body temperature, metablic changes, and heartrate, as well as all the noises the baby could hear, in order to create a real-time portrait of the birth environment. A very old and much iterated technology in the Alliance. Babies born this way still hit the same developmental milestones as their natural born peers. <ref name="fc-08">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

The sound (pickup?-Sean) that generates the data to simulate the birth environment is implanted in the mother's uterus, a procedure that takes less than twenty minutes.<ref name="fc-11">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

Culturally, families have any number of reactions to floating their children, from choosing not to be present to throwing enormous celebrations.<ref name="fc-13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 13</ref>

====Stasis Chambers====
* Cryogenic suspension<ref name="line">''[[In the Line of Duty (Fiction) |In the Line of Duty]]''</ref>

<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"The halo-arch can serve as a stasis unit,” Cecil said. “The only reason we transport bodies to stasis trays is because a halo-arch is a complicated, multifunction device that we need for various procedures, and a full stasis chamber intended for a living body is extremely complex. A tray with a stasis field for a dead body is a simple matter. Less energy intensive, more margin for error."''<ref name="tdap-md" /></div></blockquote>

====Other Technology====
* That thing that hopefully makes higher gravity not kill you
* Acclimation technique that helps people tolerate higher gravity.
* Skin sealer<ref name="sec-10">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 10</ref>
[[File:Illo-AAP.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An AAP.]]
* AAP, sometimes AAP syringe. Stands for Air-Assisted Pump; is essentially a futuristic hypodermic. <ref name="wiw-app">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', appendix</ref> Makes an assortment of quiet chirps as status responses, unless it is in silent mode, at which point the feedback is haptic. Normal operation of an AAP is not painful or even noticeable. It does hiss.
* Accelerated healing clamps?
* vials of antiseptic bandage--smear it on and as it dries it seals wounds and sterilizes them. It grows cloudy as it dries <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
* Shock blankets<ref name="esots-04" />
*psychiatric/spiritual/in that direction/priest help? should it be included?

====Procedures====
Surgery takes place in an operating theatre, which is encased in a decontamination field. (These are alternately called 'sterile fields', even though technically they're not the same thing. People still use them interchangeably.) People at work in them wear face shields (generated force fields).<ref name="mp-patience">Major Pieces, ''[[Patience (Fiction)]]''</ref>

* Phobia desensitization therapy<ref name="leadership />

===== Birth Control =====

* Birth control does not work reliably for [[Malarai]].<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>

===Alliance Medical Personnel===

* Healers and healer-assists, trained in the [[Alliance]]. Most Pelted are healers or healer-assists.
* Doctors and nurses, trained in the [[Humans|human]] medical fashion. Less common in the Alliance than healers, but some humans and Eldritch, and even a few Pelted, living in the Alliance are doctors.
* The rare psychic/esper healer, see [[Jahir]] powered by [[Vasiht'h]]<ref>''[[Keepers (Fiction)]]''</ref>
* The common usage of [[Flitzbe]] should be noted, as they are people.<ref> Throughout ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)]]''</ref><ref>Nearly the entirety of ''[[Every Man, Woman, and Idiot (Fiction)]]'' and other places. </ref>
* Psychiatric personnel like the ones that Jahir worked beside in [[Mercy Hospital]]

====Alliance Medical Oaths and Privacy Protocols====
* Kelienne (Earthrise, early chapter)

* The Gordon Protocol ensures the privacy of Pelted medical data.

====Alliance Medical Insignia====

* At least some Healers wear a DNA cadeuceus patch on their arms (unclear if this is specific to Fleet, or not, or something else).<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
* [[Nathan Lifeweave |Nathan]] and [[Laelkii Takara Lifeweave |Laelkii Lifeweave]]'s home is marked by a sign of a healer's staff.<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
* In ''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', part of what makes Laelkii blend in as a medical professional is a medical apron with deep pockets.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref><ref name="sota-11">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

===Alliance Pharmaceuticals===

Legal pharmaceuticals used in medicine. For illegal drugs, see [[Criminal Activities#Controlled/Illegal Substances |Controlled/Illegal Substances]]

* anti-nausea patches
* day-after - this is slang for a cocktail of drugs that take care of hangovers and the effects of poor sleep; also known as an 'after-all-nighter' and 'carousing shot'
* erylliacoronade
* mellifleurin - not sure what this is for, but Hirianthial uses it on Reese
* slowsleep
* a synthetic hormone for [[Karaka'A | Karaka'An]] developed from the firebird trumpet plant.<ref name="esots-13">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) | Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 13</ref>
* A drug for allowing people to operate with thinner air/lower atmospheric pressure than they're used to<ref name="leadership">"[[Leadership Lessons (Fiction) |Leadership Lessons]]"</ref>
* "Wooly blue," a topical anesthetic that dyes anything it touched a fixed ultramarine ("dyed in the wool"). In the [[Alliance]], is only used in cheap emergency kits.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Anesthesia====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
" ...nepenthe, a rarely used surgery prep cocktail; its narcotic component was unpredictable in Pelted subspecies who had genetic markers in common with the original Terran experiments, compared to other, more broadly useful anesthesia combinations. It had functioned as expected in Acron, as a paralytic, and then the narcotic would have altered the man’s sense of time… at least, until hypoxia had set in, and with it, perhaps, paranoia—a common side effect of the interaction between nepenthe’s constituent drugs, which was why it was administered with a mild sedative like tricodelerine. When it was administered at all."<ref name="tdap-md">''[[To Discover and Preserve (Fiction) | To Discover and Preserve]]'', "The Mayer Directive"</ref></div></blockquote>

==Earthrise make-do, medicine on the minimal==
:might be a few more than these
:
:Chalk
:Bone Kit
:unspecified sedative
:disinfectant
:Flitzbe
:Powdered milk
:Slowsleep
:"Don't make me do this with a knife." he said. "I'd rather knock you unconscious and keep you that way..." <ref>''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'', Chapter 5, Kindle page 69 of 438</ref>

==Chatcaavan Medicine==

(Without foreign intervention) Females do not merit the services of surgeons or medics, as they are considered replaceable.<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Technology ===

* Flesh-sealers<ref name="etw-02" />
* Gel-tanks:
** Contain a translucent green substance that can be breathed. It heals injuries and numbs and soothes those immersed in it. The tanks themselves are transparent, so the gel (and the patient within it) can be seen from outside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Works better on Chatcaava than on others.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Can cause an intermittent state in which the patient suffers pain, fever, delirium, and unconsciousness. This is due to the conflict between the body's memory of injury and the body's healthy state. The effect is very unpleasant, but wears off every time.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Is not used for minor injuries (and "minor" to a Chatcaavan inside might be "devastating" to a non-Chatcaavan).<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Personnel ===

* [[Chatcaava|Chatcaavan]] [[Surgeon (Title) |surgeons]], who are [[Chatcaava#"Inside" and "Outside" |Outside]], and who have leeway in their behavior and level of respect because they are so sorely needed by males Inside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Medical personnel Outside are not politically obligated to anyone and are not subject to the duels and honor wounds of those Inside; their properties include similar protections (which extend to those sheltered within them). However, they also must maintain strict neutrality to politics, and cannot maneuver for political gain. To become partisan or seek political power is to become Inside. The power that they have is due to their skills, which are especially needed by males Inside, making them valuable members of Chatcaavan society Inside.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref>
* [[Triage (Character) |Triage]], a male who sits at reception in a clinic and directs patients according to need.<ref name="etw-02" />
* pre-med assistants, and servants, some with low-level titles or untitles: physician's assistant, surgeon's assistant, wrapper-of-dead-bodies, maybe janitor.

=== Chatcaavan Pharmaceuticals ===

* [[Hekkret]], a medicine and recreational drug for [[Chatcaava]] (and a poison for most members of the Alliance)
* Bit (pronounced 'biht'), a euphoric that can be blocked from action by a different drug prior to ingestion/inhalation; this chemical acts as a soporific on Pelted and human-based species; scent is lighter and more acrid than hekkret, and the smoke is thinner, more liquid.

==Faulfenza Medicine==
===Modern===
:A plant based medicine, chewed and digested, that helps them tolerate lower gravity environments. Best digested over the course of a week.<ref name="APL 1">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "[[All Paths Lead (to the God) (Fiction) |All Paths Lead (to the God)]]"</ref>
:A patient Faulfenza (priest?), who helps and counsels a young Eldritch priest with troubles of the spirit.

==Eldritch Medicine==
*"These make the tisane that helps elders with their joint pains" <ref name="APL 1"/>
* An elderly Eldritch in the Seni tenant village knows "where all the best plants are, the ones people forget should be used for things like medicine." He makes elixirs and tonics, including one for relaxation.<ref name="fc-23">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 23</ref>
* Master Taren mentioned as herbalist<ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)|Dragons' Fealty]]'', Chapter 7</ref>
* Sela, senior manse servant and Reese's tenant, asked to be hired. She said, in part, "...though I can keep house for you as is traditional, Mistress, what I learned first and best was the herb craft." <ref>Rose Point Holiday, Chapter 11</ref>

== References ==

<references />

[[Category:Medicine]]

Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)

2022-06-21T16:57:29Z

63.155.61.152: /* Quotes */

[[File:Cover-dragonsfealty.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

Book 1 of Lisinthir's return for the birth of his heir(s). Part two is [[Scions' Flight (Fiction)|Scions' Flight]].

==Publication Data==
*Series: Lisinthir's Heirs
*Book: 1
*Publication Date: 8/24/21
*Editions: 1
*Revisions: 1

==Blurb==
A SPRING HOMECOMING

When he attended their wedding in summer, Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli, Third of the Chatcaavan Empire, promised his cousins they would see him in spring for the birth of his heirs on Eldritch soil, and to attend the birth of theirs. He returns to a world and a people reviving from their long winter: a new navy; the rescue of their suffering acreage; and the burgeoning of a tenant culture revolving around the new communications and travel networks.

But a prince and a culture aren't the only things making their return. When a mistake made in the summer season comes back to haunt them, Lisinthir will discover himself torn between warring allegiances... and someone else will have to pay the price. Will their enemies succeed in blighting the promise of the season?

==Quotes==
(I did intend to copy page 106 and 107 (of 261) here of Dragon's Feality as they reflect a religious idea. but that is too much effort right now. Just go read them.)
:Ok, subsection:
:...it makes me believe in unseen things", (...) "Glaseah are into concrete reality. There are lots of jokes about how four feet makes us more stable than two, or that being short makes us closer to the ground (...) We like things we can touch, and thinks we can make with our hands, and we are into science because science no matter how abstract, is a process of testing and evaluating reality. And that's important. (...) And when I had normal telepathy, ariishir, the kind Glaseah are mostly born with, I thought of touch as an extension of voice, because touching someone meant I could communicate...
:"Now, though... now I can talk to people it orbit, or farther and if feels as normal as using my voice... but they're not here. (...)Jahir could be on the other side of the galaxy and I'd know that he was alive. And that's... how I feel about the Goddess." He shrugged helplessly. "I know She's there, in the same way that I know Jahir's alive, even when he is not around. (...) <ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)]]''Kindle page 106 and 107 (of 261)</ref>.

"...What is the job of a priest?"(asked Attendant)
:"(...)As far as I am concerned? To help people deal with the unbearable parts of living." Val's smile was twisted. "Like the fact the we die and we don't know what happens after. Or that there's suffering and hardship and we don't know why. At least that is the part that matters to me(...)" <ref> This book, Chapter 12, Kindle page 211 of 261 </ref>

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: politics, space elves; multicultural; bisexual content; politics, empire-building, babies
*Rating: R for references to adult relations, violence

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/dragonsfealty

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Dragons' Fealty Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Fallowtide Series]] [[Category:Lisinthir's Heirs Series]]

== References ==

<references />

Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)

2022-06-21T16:56:56Z

63.155.61.152: /* Quotes */

[[File:Cover-dragonsfealty.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

Book 1 of Lisinthir's return for the birth of his heir(s). Part two is [[Scions' Flight (Fiction)|Scions' Flight]].

==Publication Data==
*Series: Lisinthir's Heirs
*Book: 1
*Publication Date: 8/24/21
*Editions: 1
*Revisions: 1

==Blurb==
A SPRING HOMECOMING

When he attended their wedding in summer, Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli, Third of the Chatcaavan Empire, promised his cousins they would see him in spring for the birth of his heirs on Eldritch soil, and to attend the birth of theirs. He returns to a world and a people reviving from their long winter: a new navy; the rescue of their suffering acreage; and the burgeoning of a tenant culture revolving around the new communications and travel networks.

But a prince and a culture aren't the only things making their return. When a mistake made in the summer season comes back to haunt them, Lisinthir will discover himself torn between warring allegiances... and someone else will have to pay the price. Will their enemies succeed in blighting the promise of the season?

==Quotes==
(I did intend to copy page 106 and 107 (of 261) here of Dragon's Feality as they reflect a religious idea. but that is too much effort right now. Just go read them.)
:Ok, subsection:
:...it makes me believe in unseen things", (...) "Glaseah are into concrete reality. There are lots of jokes about how four feet makes us more stable than two, or that being short makes us closer to the ground (...) We like things we can touch, and thinks we can make with our hands, and we are into science because science no matter how abstract, is a process of testing and evaluating reality. And that's important. (...) And when I had normal telepathy, ariishir, the kind Glaseah are mostly born with, I thought of touch as an extension of voice, because touching someone meant I could communicate...
:"Now, though... now I can talk to people it orbit, or farther and if feels as normal as using my voice... but they're not here. (...)Jahir could be on the other side of the galaxy and I'd know that he was alive. And that's... how I feel about the Goddess." He shrugged helplessly. "I know She's there, in the same way that I know Jahir's alive, even when he is not around. (...) <ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)]]''Kindle page 106 and 107 (of 261)</ref>.

"...What is the job of a priest?"(asked Attendant)
:"(Val)(...)As far as I am concerned? To help people deal with the unbearable parts of living." Val's smile was twisted. "Like the fact the we die and we don't know what happens after. Or that there's suffering and hardship and we don't know why. At least that is the part that matters to me(...)" <ref> This book, Chapter 12, Kindle page 211 of 261 </ref>

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: politics, space elves; multicultural; bisexual content; politics, empire-building, babies
*Rating: R for references to adult relations, violence

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/dragonsfealty

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Dragons' Fealty Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Fallowtide Series]] [[Category:Lisinthir's Heirs Series]]

== References ==

<references />

Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)

2022-06-21T16:56:36Z

63.155.61.152: /* Quotes */

[[File:Cover-dragonsfealty.jpeg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

Book 1 of Lisinthir's return for the birth of his heir(s). Part two is [[Scions' Flight (Fiction)|Scions' Flight]].

==Publication Data==
*Series: Lisinthir's Heirs
*Book: 1
*Publication Date: 8/24/21
*Editions: 1
*Revisions: 1

==Blurb==
A SPRING HOMECOMING

When he attended their wedding in summer, Lisinthir Lauvet Imthereli, Third of the Chatcaavan Empire, promised his cousins they would see him in spring for the birth of his heirs on Eldritch soil, and to attend the birth of theirs. He returns to a world and a people reviving from their long winter: a new navy; the rescue of their suffering acreage; and the burgeoning of a tenant culture revolving around the new communications and travel networks.

But a prince and a culture aren't the only things making their return. When a mistake made in the summer season comes back to haunt them, Lisinthir will discover himself torn between warring allegiances... and someone else will have to pay the price. Will their enemies succeed in blighting the promise of the season?

==Quotes==
(I did intend to copy page 106 and 107 (of 261) here of Dragon's Feality as they reflect a religious idea. but that is too much effort right now. Just go read them.)
:Ok, subsection:
:...it makes me believe in unseen things", (...) "Glaseah are into concrete reality. There are lots of jokes about how four feet makes us more stable than two, or that being short makes us closer to the ground (...) We like things we can touch, and thinks we can make with our hands, and we are into science because science no matter how abstract, is a process of testing and evaluating reality. And that's important. (...) And when I had normal telepathy, ariishir, the kind Glaseah are mostly born with, I thought of touch as an extension of voice, because touching someone meant I could communicate...
:"Now, though... now I can talk to people it orbit, or farther and if feels as normal as using my voice... but they're not here. (...)Jahir could be on the other side of the galaxy and I'd know that he was alive. And that's... how I feel about the Goddess." He shrugged helplessly. "I know She's there, in the same way that I know Jahir's alive, even when he is not around. (...) <ref>''[[Dragons' Fealty (Fiction)]]''Kindle page 106 and 107 (of 261)</ref>.

;"...What is the job of a priest?"(asked Attendant)
:"(Val)(...)As far as I am concerned? To help people deal with the unbearable parts of living." Val's smile was twisted. "Like the fact the we die and we don't know what happens after. Or that there's suffering and hardship and we don't know why. At least that is the part that matters to me(...)" <ref> This book, Chapter 12, Kindle page 211 of 261 </ref>

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: politics, space elves; multicultural; bisexual content; politics, empire-building, babies
*Rating: R for references to adult relations, violence

==Buy Links==
https://books2read.com/dragonsfealty

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Dragons' Fealty Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Fallowtide Series]] [[Category:Lisinthir's Heirs Series]]

== References ==

<references />

Medicine

2022-06-20T21:29:36Z

63.155.61.152: /* Eldritch Medicine */

[[File:Illo-Medicine.png|right]]

An overview of medicine in the Alliance (and other nations).

== Alliance Medicine==
[[Alliance]] medical technology is marked by its advanced technology, extremely tight privacy restrictions (due in part to the fact that the original Pelted on [[Terra]] were sometimes used as essentially lab animals), and a higher number of [[Medicine#Medical Personnel |healers than doctors]].

* Medplexes

=== Alliance Medical Technology ===

====Medimage platform====
[[File:Medimageplatform.png|200px|thumb|right|Medimage Platform]]
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"He was no mechanic but the set-up had come with a basic repair manual; it had contained a long block of explanation on how the Pad technology had made the Medimage platforms possible and then a smaller set of pages instructing Pad technicians on the differences and similarities between the two. He’d glanced through them, picking up several bits of trivia about lights and quantum tunnel disruption before flipping to the troubleshooting sections."<ref name="lais-02">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', Part 2</ref>''</div></blockquote>

While traditional modalities of surgery are used in the Alliance, the most advanced surgical platform available is the medimage, which uses a variety of technologies (including the breakthrough that made Pads possible) to continuously scan the interior of the body, build a solidigraphic image of it for gross manipulation by surgeons, and then duplicates their motions, in miniature, inside the body. This solves several problems: it allows far more precision in technique, since surgeons no longer have to work directly on a body part; it minimizes invasiveness and injury, while results in patients recovering faster; it allows multiple surgeons to work on the patient without crowding; and it reduces surgeon fatigue, since it allows them to use more of their bodies, in a more natural way, while working.

A surgical theater outfitted to use this technology is a significant piece of technology, consisting of a lower platform (the bed and its emitter); an upper platform, usually mounted in the ceiling (the upper emitter); and side installations for monitoring and power. A minimal medimage platform will allow a third of the body to be addressed at one time, but these small installations are rarer than full body platforms.

The minimal (typical) team for a medimage surgery consists of an anesthesiologist, who monitors the patient’s status at the patient’s head where the displays are mounted. The anesthesiologist is in charge not just of the drugs used during the surgery, but the use of the paralysis field (which is generated by three bands, one at the head, one under the medimage arch, and one at the ankles). The engineer tracks the equipment power and status, and oversees the backup generators; the engineer also addresses any technical issues that might arise during the use of the platform. Larger hospitals assign banks of engineers to their surgical wards, who sit outside the operating theater; smaller locations might seat their engineers inside the theater, depending on their design and procedural preferences.

The minimal surgical team is one principal surgeon and one surgical healer-assist, but some operations may call for more participants. A medimage surgery can be undertaken with a single surgeon but this is not encouraged except in emergencies.

While the Pad technology made the medimage platform possible, there are significant practical differences between them. Pads can operate with only a base station; medimage requires both the base and head stations to generate and maintain their field. Because the surgical platform must remain in operation and stable for continuous periods, its power needs are far greater. Pads have a limited number of functions, all of which can be performed by its single base; the medimage platform is actually a constellation of functions, undertaken by separate modules, all of which must be functioning in order for it to work.

There are multiple failsafes programmed into a medimage platform to reduce the frequency of errors, the most notable being that the manipulative element will be locked out if any of the other technologies fail (power, visual/monitoring, drug delivery, etc). Medical professionals call this the ‘all but, no cut’ principle, based on the frequently repeated line that if ‘all but one thing is operating, you still can’t operate’ made popular in the Tam-leyan hospital that pioneered the technology.

A medimage platform is the preferred vehicle for the procedure that extracts reproductive assets from women for use in float chambers, or for storage.<ref name="fc-10">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Halo-arch====
[[File:Illo-haloarch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Halo-arch, retracted.]]
The most ubiquitous of medical devices in standalone facilities is the halo-arch, a piece of monitoring equipment capable of minor intervention (in most models) and more complex intervention (for models intended for serious injuries or maladies<ref name="ml-14">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 14</ref>). Smaller, less feature-rich halo-arches may not be capable of the same tests that larger ones intended for broader applications will.<ref name="er-12">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 12</ref> Halo-arches can be manufactured as separate add-ons for existing medical beds, but are usually sold as units. The (larger) medimage platform uses a special halo-arch to perform the functions of monitoring and manipulating the patient, and medical personnel will often refer to the patient being under the halo-arch when they are in a medimage theater (since the halo-arch is the pertinent part of the technology, in terms of positioning the patient). Patients coming out of surgery (particularly Medimage surgery) are usually placed in (non-surgical) halo-arches for secondary care/monitoring.<ref name="er-08">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 8</ref>

Vital data gathered by a halo-arch is usually called a halo scan.<ref name="ml-15">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 15</ref>

The emitters are on either side of the bed. Beds that mount a halo-arch (if they don’t come as a single unit) require a stasis tray base, since halo-arches can also hold bodies in stasis.<ref name="tdap-md" />

They generate suppressive fields to keep patients from rising; this field can be manually controlled<ref name="coldandgentle" /> or it can be set to automatically generate based on measurements of the patients’ vitals. The suppressive field also generates a shield over the patient to prevent anyone from disturbing them; this field is solid to the touch, though invisible, and “tickles.”<ref name="esots-09">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 9</ref> If the patient is spastic enough that they might injure themselves against the suppressive field, as a last resort the halo-arch will withdraw.<ref name="ds-wet">''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm ]],'' Case Study: Wet</ref>

It can also generate a numbing field.<ref name="coldandgentle" />

There is a call button on the halo-arch, accessible to the patient and to the observer (to summon other medical help).<ref name="ml-20">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 20</ref> There are alarms (audible to the patient and in the room and that show up on panels elsewhere).<ref name="ml-18">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 18</ref> They are also programmed to initiate lifesaving procedures automatically, on being triggered by a critical event in the patient.<ref name="tdap-md" /> Falling vitals are usually signified by a wail (unless this default is changed). <ref name="ml-16">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 16</ref> The default sound generated by a halo-arch when a patient’s vitals collapse into a non-viable status is a whine.<ref name="ml-5">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 5</ref>

Halo-arches can dispense pharmaceuticals, automatically or ad hoc as directed by a medical technician.<ref name="igc-16">''[[In Good Company (Fiction) | In Good Company ]],'' Chapter 16</ref> They handle anesthesia, and also IV functions, using force fields to drop fluid into the body in the location chosen by the physician; this is called halo-pushed fluidics, and it defaults to enteral feeding (through the gastrointestinal tract) rather than parenteral (via bloodstream).<ref name="stt-02">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend ]],'' Chapter 2</ref>

An open halo-arch is indicative of a patient out of danger/whose vitals don’t need measurement or who doesn’t need any fields applied.<ref name="bloodmoney" /> The default sound of an opening halo-arch is a rising arpeggio,<ref name="ml-16" /> and the default sound of one closing is a descending arpeggio.<ref name="er-26">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 26</ref> An experienced enough person can read the musical and aural cues of a halo-arch and determine the status of the person under it.<ref name="lais-17">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 17</ref>
Halo-arches can use a variety of interfaces; the default (as with most alliance devices) is touching or tapping, but it can be reset to work with a particular person’s preference (and it can store multiple preferences and switch between them based on the ID of the person). For those who prefer it, the halo-arch can generate holographs and respond to kinesthetic movements.<ref name="fc-08" />

Biobed heads can be raised. This does not interfere with the halo-arch, if properly designed.<ref name="ml-18" />

** Chimes with vital signs when active<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
** Capable of generating numbing fields, as for wounds.<ref name="coldandgentle" />
** Closed when needed for monitoring vital signs or maintaining fields; open when not<ref name="bloodmoney">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "Blood Money"</ref>
* A steady light at the base of the bed indicates that it's active.<ref name="esots-04">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* Has a call panel.<ref name="lais-01">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 1</ref>

====Float Chambers====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"SEDIRYL WASN’T sure what she’d expected of the float chamber. Something like the hospital’s highest tech facilities, the ones meant for dire surgical emergencies? But the door opened on a chamber that contained a star nursery in its center, a swirl of foggy pink and purple gasses suspended in a blackest space. The room was cozy, with cushioned benches along two of the walls and chairs against the other. The technology underpinning the float must have been suspended from the ceiling, for Sediryl could see no sign of it save in a set of milkily translucent panels along the wall facing the door."<ref name="fc-13" />''</div></blockquote>

* embryo flotation: a field holds the fetus suspended as it develops; a monitor in the mother's uterus records body temperature, metablic changes, and heartrate, as well as all the noises the baby could hear, in order to create a real-time portrait of the birth environment. A very old and much iterated technology in the Alliance. Babies born this way still hit the same developmental milestones as their natural born peers. <ref name="fc-08">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

The sound (pickup?-Sean) that generates the data to simulate the birth environment is implanted in the mother's uterus, a procedure that takes less than twenty minutes.<ref name="fc-11">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

Culturally, families have any number of reactions to floating their children, from choosing not to be present to throwing enormous celebrations.<ref name="fc-13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 13</ref>

====Stasis Chambers====
* Cryogenic suspension<ref name="line">''[[In the Line of Duty (Fiction) |In the Line of Duty]]''</ref>

<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"The halo-arch can serve as a stasis unit,” Cecil said. “The only reason we transport bodies to stasis trays is because a halo-arch is a complicated, multifunction device that we need for various procedures, and a full stasis chamber intended for a living body is extremely complex. A tray with a stasis field for a dead body is a simple matter. Less energy intensive, more margin for error."''<ref name="tdap-md" /></div></blockquote>

====Other Technology====
* That thing that hopefully makes higher gravity not kill you
* Acclimation technique that helps people tolerate higher gravity.
* Skin sealer<ref name="sec-10">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 10</ref>
[[File:Illo-AAP.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An AAP.]]
* AAP, sometimes AAP syringe. Stands for Air-Assisted Pump; is essentially a futuristic hypodermic. <ref name="wiw-app">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', appendix</ref> Makes an assortment of quiet chirps as status responses, unless it is in silent mode, at which point the feedback is haptic. Normal operation of an AAP is not painful or even noticeable. It does hiss.
* Accelerated healing clamps?
* vials of antiseptic bandage--smear it on and as it dries it seals wounds and sterilizes them. It grows cloudy as it dries <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
* Shock blankets<ref name="esots-04" />
*psychiatric/spiritual/in that direction/priest help? should it be included?

====Procedures====
Surgery takes place in an operating theatre, which is encased in a decontamination field. (These are alternately called 'sterile fields', even though technically they're not the same thing. People still use them interchangeably.) People at work in them wear face shields (generated force fields).<ref name="mp-patience">Major Pieces, ''[[Patience (Fiction)]]''</ref>

* Phobia desensitization therapy<ref name="leadership />

===== Birth Control =====

* Birth control does not work reliably for [[Malarai]].<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>

===Alliance Medical Personnel===

* Healers and healer-assists, trained in the [[Alliance]]. Most Pelted are healers or healer-assists.
* Doctors and nurses, trained in the [[Humans|human]] medical fashion. Less common in the Alliance than healers, but some humans and Eldritch, and even a few Pelted, living in the Alliance are doctors.
* The rare psychic/esper healer, see [[Jahir]] powered by [[Vasiht'h]]<ref>''[[Keepers (Fiction)]]''</ref>
* The common usage of [[Flitzbe]] should be noted, as they are people.<ref> Throughout ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)]]''</ref><ref>Nearly the entirety of ''[[Every Man, Woman, and Idiot (Fiction)]]'' and other places. </ref>

====Alliance Medical Oaths and Privacy Protocols====
* Kelienne (Earthrise, early chapter)

* The Gordon Protocol ensures the privacy of Pelted medical data.

====Alliance Medical Insignia====

* At least some Healers wear a DNA cadeuceus patch on their arms (unclear if this is specific to Fleet, or not, or something else).<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
* [[Nathan Lifeweave |Nathan]] and [[Laelkii Takara Lifeweave |Laelkii Lifeweave]]'s home is marked by a sign of a healer's staff.<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
* In ''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', part of what makes Laelkii blend in as a medical professional is a medical apron with deep pockets.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref><ref name="sota-11">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

===Alliance Pharmaceuticals===

Legal pharmaceuticals used in medicine. For illegal drugs, see [[Criminal Activities#Controlled/Illegal Substances |Controlled/Illegal Substances]]

* anti-nausea patches
* day-after - this is slang for a cocktail of drugs that take care of hangovers and the effects of poor sleep; also known as an 'after-all-nighter' and 'carousing shot'
* erylliacoronade
* mellifleurin - not sure what this is for, but Hirianthial uses it on Reese
* slowsleep
* a synthetic hormone for [[Karaka'A | Karaka'An]] developed from the firebird trumpet plant.<ref name="esots-13">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) | Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 13</ref>
* A drug for allowing people to operate with thinner air/lower atmospheric pressure than they're used to<ref name="leadership">"[[Leadership Lessons (Fiction) |Leadership Lessons]]"</ref>
* "Wooly blue," a topical anesthetic that dyes anything it touched a fixed ultramarine ("dyed in the wool"). In the [[Alliance]], is only used in cheap emergency kits.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Anesthesia====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
" ...nepenthe, a rarely used surgery prep cocktail; its narcotic component was unpredictable in Pelted subspecies who had genetic markers in common with the original Terran experiments, compared to other, more broadly useful anesthesia combinations. It had functioned as expected in Acron, as a paralytic, and then the narcotic would have altered the man’s sense of time… at least, until hypoxia had set in, and with it, perhaps, paranoia—a common side effect of the interaction between nepenthe’s constituent drugs, which was why it was administered with a mild sedative like tricodelerine. When it was administered at all."<ref name="tdap-md">''[[To Discover and Preserve (Fiction) | To Discover and Preserve]]'', "The Mayer Directive"</ref></div></blockquote>

==Earthrise make-do, medicine on the minimal==
:might be a few more than these
:
:Chalk
:Bone Kit
:unspecified sedative
:disinfectant
:Flitzbe
:Powdered milk
:Slowsleep
:"Don't make me do this with a knife." he said. "I'd rather knock you unconscious and keep you that way..." <ref>''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'', Chapter 5, Kindle page 69 of 438</ref>

==Chatcaavan Medicine==

(Without foreign intervention) Females do not merit the services of surgeons or medics, as they are considered replaceable.<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Technology ===

* Flesh-sealers<ref name="etw-02" />
* Gel-tanks:
** Contain a translucent green substance that can be breathed. It heals injuries and numbs and soothes those immersed in it. The tanks themselves are transparent, so the gel (and the patient within it) can be seen from outside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Works better on Chatcaava than on others.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Can cause an intermittent state in which the patient suffers pain, fever, delirium, and unconsciousness. This is due to the conflict between the body's memory of injury and the body's healthy state. The effect is very unpleasant, but wears off every time.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Is not used for minor injuries (and "minor" to a Chatcaavan inside might be "devastating" to a non-Chatcaavan).<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Personnel ===

* [[Chatcaava|Chatcaavan]] [[Surgeon (Title) |surgeons]], who are [[Chatcaava#"Inside" and "Outside" |Outside]], and who have leeway in their behavior and level of respect because they are so sorely needed by males Inside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Medical personnel Outside are not politically obligated to anyone and are not subject to the duels and honor wounds of those Inside; their properties include similar protections (which extend to those sheltered within them). However, they also must maintain strict neutrality to politics, and cannot maneuver for political gain. To become partisan or seek political power is to become Inside. The power that they have is due to their skills, which are especially needed by males Inside, making them valuable members of Chatcaavan society Inside.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref>
* [[Triage (Character) |Triage]], a male who sits at reception in a clinic and directs patients according to need.<ref name="etw-02" />
* pre-med assistants, and servants, some with low-level titles or untitles: physician's assistant, surgeon's assistant, wrapper-of-dead-bodies, maybe janitor.

=== Chatcaavan Pharmaceuticals ===

* [[Hekkret]], a medicine and recreational drug for [[Chatcaava]] (and a poison for most members of the Alliance)
* Bit (pronounced 'biht'), a euphoric that can be blocked from action by a different drug prior to ingestion/inhalation; this chemical acts as a soporific on Pelted and human-based species; scent is lighter and more acrid than hekkret, and the smoke is thinner, more liquid.

==Faulfenza Medicine==
===Modern===
:A plant based medicine, chewed and digested, that helps them tolerate lower gravity environments. Best digested over the course of a week.<ref name="APL 1">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "[[All Paths Lead (to the God)(Fiction) |All Paths Lead (to the God)]] </ref>
:A patient Faulfenza (priest?), who helps and counsels a young Eldritch priest with troubles of the spirit.

==Eldritch Medicine==
*"These make the tisane that helps elders with their joint pains" <ref name="APL 1"/>
* An elderly Eldritch in the Seni tenant village knows "where all the best plants are, the ones people forget should be used for things like medicine." He makes elixirs and tonics, including one for relaxation.<ref name="fc-23">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 23</ref>
*Reese's tenant Sela says that she is knowledgeable about herbcraft. <ref>In A Rose Point Holiday, Chapter 11, Location 2947 in Kindle edition. (unverified, needs total Kindle pages to work)</ref>

== References ==

<references />

[[Category:Medicine]]

Rose Point (Fiction)

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[[File:Cover-rosepoint-firstedition.jpg|200px|thumb|right|First Edition Cover]]

The second book of the 4-book Her Instruments series, about Reese Eddings and the crew of the TMS Earthrise.

==Publication Data==
*Series: Her Instruments
*Book: 2
*Publication Date: October 2013
*Editions: Ebook, Paperback, Audio
*Revisions: several

==Blurb==
Reese is only just getting used to running the Earthrise in the black—and with an Eldritch in her crew—when a trip to a colony world gives rise to a whole new problem: Hirianthial is showing powers that even the Eldritch rarely have, and that only in legend. He badly needs training, support and advice, and the only place he can find them is… at home.

To see the world of the Eldritch is a once in a lifetime opportunity, a thing of fantasies and rumor. And to finally meet the Eldritch Queen, the author of so many of Reese’s windfalls! You’d have to twist her arm to get her to admit it, but Reese can’t wait to go. But a court out of fantasy and a breathtaking land aren’t enough compensation when they come packaged with a rabidly xenophobic species whose world is falling apart. The last thing they want any part of is some mortal interloper.

Is Reese ready for the Eldritch world? Better to ask: are they ready for her?

==Quotes==
:"Elder, " Hirianthal said, stunned. "I am soiled"
"Child, so are we all who walk on the earth, and make no mistake. Not even a saint is without blemish." <ref> Rose Point, location 3070 of 5307</ref>

==Tags and Content Notes==
*Tags: found family, woman protagonist, minority protagonist, adventure, space opera, romance, furries, elves (space)
*Rating: PG-13 for implied violence, rape

==Buy Links==
http://books2read.com/u/bwdM03

==Characters==
<categorytree mode="pages" hideroot="on">Rose Point Characters</categorytree>

[[Category:Her Instruments Series]]

==References==

<references />

Medicine

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An overview of medicine in the Alliance (and other nations).

== Alliance Medicine==
[[Alliance]] medical technology is marked by its advanced technology, extremely tight privacy restrictions (due in part to the fact that the original Pelted on [[Terra]] were sometimes used as essentially lab animals), and a higher number of [[Medicine#Medical Personnel |healers than doctors]].

* Medplexes

=== Alliance Medical Technology ===

====Medimage platform====
[[File:Medimageplatform.png|200px|thumb|right|Medimage Platform]]
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"He was no mechanic but the set-up had come with a basic repair manual; it had contained a long block of explanation on how the Pad technology had made the Medimage platforms possible and then a smaller set of pages instructing Pad technicians on the differences and similarities between the two. He’d glanced through them, picking up several bits of trivia about lights and quantum tunnel disruption before flipping to the troubleshooting sections."<ref name="lais-02">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', Part 2</ref>''</div></blockquote>

While traditional modalities of surgery are used in the Alliance, the most advanced surgical platform available is the medimage, which uses a variety of technologies (including the breakthrough that made Pads possible) to continuously scan the interior of the body, build a solidigraphic image of it for gross manipulation by surgeons, and then duplicates their motions, in miniature, inside the body. This solves several problems: it allows far more precision in technique, since surgeons no longer have to work directly on a body part; it minimizes invasiveness and injury, while results in patients recovering faster; it allows multiple surgeons to work on the patient without crowding; and it reduces surgeon fatigue, since it allows them to use more of their bodies, in a more natural way, while working.

A surgical theater outfitted to use this technology is a significant piece of technology, consisting of a lower platform (the bed and its emitter); an upper platform, usually mounted in the ceiling (the upper emitter); and side installations for monitoring and power. A minimal medimage platform will allow a third of the body to be addressed at one time, but these small installations are rarer than full body platforms.

The minimal (typical) team for a medimage surgery consists of an anesthesiologist, who monitors the patient’s status at the patient’s head where the displays are mounted. The anesthesiologist is in charge not just of the drugs used during the surgery, but the use of the paralysis field (which is generated by three bands, one at the head, one under the medimage arch, and one at the ankles). The engineer tracks the equipment power and status, and oversees the backup generators; the engineer also addresses any technical issues that might arise during the use of the platform. Larger hospitals assign banks of engineers to their surgical wards, who sit outside the operating theater; smaller locations might seat their engineers inside the theater, depending on their design and procedural preferences.

The minimal surgical team is one principal surgeon and one surgical healer-assist, but some operations may call for more participants. A medimage surgery can be undertaken with a single surgeon but this is not encouraged except in emergencies.

While the Pad technology made the medimage platform possible, there are significant practical differences between them. Pads can operate with only a base station; medimage requires both the base and head stations to generate and maintain their field. Because the surgical platform must remain in operation and stable for continuous periods, its power needs are far greater. Pads have a limited number of functions, all of which can be performed by its single base; the medimage platform is actually a constellation of functions, undertaken by separate modules, all of which must be functioning in order for it to work.

There are multiple failsafes programmed into a medimage platform to reduce the frequency of errors, the most notable being that the manipulative element will be locked out if any of the other technologies fail (power, visual/monitoring, drug delivery, etc). Medical professionals call this the ‘all but, no cut’ principle, based on the frequently repeated line that if ‘all but one thing is operating, you still can’t operate’ made popular in the Tam-leyan hospital that pioneered the technology.

A medimage platform is the preferred vehicle for the procedure that extracts reproductive assets from women for use in float chambers, or for storage.<ref name="fc-10">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Halo-arch====
[[File:Illo-haloarch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Halo-arch, retracted.]]
The most ubiquitous of medical devices in standalone facilities is the halo-arch, a piece of monitoring equipment capable of minor intervention (in most models) and more complex intervention (for models intended for serious injuries or maladies<ref name="ml-14">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 14</ref>). Smaller, less feature-rich halo-arches may not be capable of the same tests that larger ones intended for broader applications will.<ref name="er-12">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 12</ref> Halo-arches can be manufactured as separate add-ons for existing medical beds, but are usually sold as units. The (larger) medimage platform uses a special halo-arch to perform the functions of monitoring and manipulating the patient, and medical personnel will often refer to the patient being under the halo-arch when they are in a medimage theater (since the halo-arch is the pertinent part of the technology, in terms of positioning the patient). Patients coming out of surgery (particularly Medimage surgery) are usually placed in (non-surgical) halo-arches for secondary care/monitoring.<ref name="er-08">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 8</ref>

Vital data gathered by a halo-arch is usually called a halo scan.<ref name="ml-15">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 15</ref>

The emitters are on either side of the bed. Beds that mount a halo-arch (if they don’t come as a single unit) require a stasis tray base, since halo-arches can also hold bodies in stasis.<ref name="tdap-md" />

They generate suppressive fields to keep patients from rising; this field can be manually controlled<ref name="coldandgentle" /> or it can be set to automatically generate based on measurements of the patients’ vitals. The suppressive field also generates a shield over the patient to prevent anyone from disturbing them; this field is solid to the touch, though invisible, and “tickles.”<ref name="esots-09">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 9</ref> If the patient is spastic enough that they might injure themselves against the suppressive field, as a last resort the halo-arch will withdraw.<ref name="ds-wet">''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm ]],'' Case Study: Wet</ref>

It can also generate a numbing field.<ref name="coldandgentle" />

There is a call button on the halo-arch, accessible to the patient and to the observer (to summon other medical help).<ref name="ml-20">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 20</ref> There are alarms (audible to the patient and in the room and that show up on panels elsewhere).<ref name="ml-18">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 18</ref> They are also programmed to initiate lifesaving procedures automatically, on being triggered by a critical event in the patient.<ref name="tdap-md" /> Falling vitals are usually signified by a wail (unless this default is changed). <ref name="ml-16">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 16</ref> The default sound generated by a halo-arch when a patient’s vitals collapse into a non-viable status is a whine.<ref name="ml-5">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 5</ref>

Halo-arches can dispense pharmaceuticals, automatically or ad hoc as directed by a medical technician.<ref name="igc-16">''[[In Good Company (Fiction) | In Good Company ]],'' Chapter 16</ref> They handle anesthesia, and also IV functions, using force fields to drop fluid into the body in the location chosen by the physician; this is called halo-pushed fluidics, and it defaults to enteral feeding (through the gastrointestinal tract) rather than parenteral (via bloodstream).<ref name="stt-02">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend ]],'' Chapter 2</ref>

An open halo-arch is indicative of a patient out of danger/whose vitals don’t need measurement or who doesn’t need any fields applied.<ref name="bloodmoney" /> The default sound of an opening halo-arch is a rising arpeggio,<ref name="ml-16" /> and the default sound of one closing is a descending arpeggio.<ref name="er-26">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 26</ref> An experienced enough person can read the musical and aural cues of a halo-arch and determine the status of the person under it.<ref name="lais-17">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 17</ref>
Halo-arches can use a variety of interfaces; the default (as with most alliance devices) is touching or tapping, but it can be reset to work with a particular person’s preference (and it can store multiple preferences and switch between them based on the ID of the person). For those who prefer it, the halo-arch can generate holographs and respond to kinesthetic movements.<ref name="fc-08" />

Biobed heads can be raised. This does not interfere with the halo-arch, if properly designed.<ref name="ml-18" />

** Chimes with vital signs when active<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
** Capable of generating numbing fields, as for wounds.<ref name="coldandgentle" />
** Closed when needed for monitoring vital signs or maintaining fields; open when not<ref name="bloodmoney">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "Blood Money"</ref>
* A steady light at the base of the bed indicates that it's active.<ref name="esots-04">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* Has a call panel.<ref name="lais-01">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 1</ref>

====Float Chambers====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"SEDIRYL WASN’T sure what she’d expected of the float chamber. Something like the hospital’s highest tech facilities, the ones meant for dire surgical emergencies? But the door opened on a chamber that contained a star nursery in its center, a swirl of foggy pink and purple gasses suspended in a blackest space. The room was cozy, with cushioned benches along two of the walls and chairs against the other. The technology underpinning the float must have been suspended from the ceiling, for Sediryl could see no sign of it save in a set of milkily translucent panels along the wall facing the door."<ref name="fc-13" />''</div></blockquote>

* embryo flotation: a field holds the fetus suspended as it develops; a monitor in the mother's uterus records body temperature, metablic changes, and heartrate, as well as all the noises the baby could hear, in order to create a real-time portrait of the birth environment. A very old and much iterated technology in the Alliance. Babies born this way still hit the same developmental milestones as their natural born peers. <ref name="fc-08">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

The sound (pickup?-Sean) that generates the data to simulate the birth environment is implanted in the mother's uterus, a procedure that takes less than twenty minutes.<ref name="fc-11">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

Culturally, families have any number of reactions to floating their children, from choosing not to be present to throwing enormous celebrations.<ref name="fc-13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 13</ref>

====Stasis Chambers====
* Cryogenic suspension<ref name="line">''[[In the Line of Duty (Fiction) |In the Line of Duty]]''</ref>

<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"The halo-arch can serve as a stasis unit,” Cecil said. “The only reason we transport bodies to stasis trays is because a halo-arch is a complicated, multifunction device that we need for various procedures, and a full stasis chamber intended for a living body is extremely complex. A tray with a stasis field for a dead body is a simple matter. Less energy intensive, more margin for error."''<ref name="tdap-md" /></div></blockquote>

====Other Technology====
* That thing that hopefully makes higher gravity not kill you
* Skin sealer<ref name="sec-10">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 10</ref>
[[File:Illo-AAP.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An AAP.]]
* AAP, sometimes AAP syringe. Stands for Air-Assisted Pump; is essentially a futuristic hypodermic. <ref name="wiw-app">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', appendix</ref> Makes an assortment of quiet chirps as status responses, unless it is in silent mode, at which point the feedback is haptic. Normal operation of an AAP is not painful or even noticeable. It does hiss.
* Accelerated healing clamps?
* vials of antiseptic bandage--smear it on and as it dries it seals wounds and sterilizes them. It grows cloudy as it dries <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
* Shock blankets<ref name="esots-04" />
*psychiatric/spiritual/in that direction/priest help? should it be included?

====Procedures====
Surgery takes place in an operating theatre, which is encased in a decontamination field. (These are alternately called 'sterile fields', even though technically they're not the same thing. People still use them interchangeably.) People at work in them wear face shields (generated force fields).<ref name="mp-patience">Major Pieces, ''[[Patience (Fiction)]]''</ref>

* Phobia desensitization therapy<ref name="leadership />

===== Birth Control =====

* Birth control does not work reliably for [[Malarai]].<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>

===Alliance Medical Personnel===

* Healers and healer-assists, trained in the [[Alliance]]. Most Pelted are healers or healer-assists.
* Doctors and nurses, trained in the [[Humans|human]] medical fashion. Less common in the Alliance than healers, but some humans and Eldritch, and even a few Pelted, living in the Alliance are doctors.
* The rare psychic/esper healer, see [[Jahir]] powered by [[Vasiht'h]]<ref>''[[Keepers (Fiction)]]''</ref>
* The common usage of [[Flitzbe]] should be noted, as they are people.<ref> Throughout ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)]]''</ref><ref>Nearly the entirety of ''[[Every Man, Woman, and Idiot (Fiction)]]'' and other places. </ref>

====Alliance Medical Oaths and Privacy Protocols====
* Kelienne (Earthrise, early chapter)

* The Gordon Protocol ensures the privacy of Pelted medical data.

====Alliance Medical Insignia====

* At least some Healers wear a DNA cadeuceus patch on their arms (unclear if this is specific to Fleet, or not, or something else).<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
* [[Nathan Lifeweave |Nathan]] and [[Laelkii Takara Lifeweave |Laelkii Lifeweave]]'s home is marked by a sign of a healer's staff.<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
* In ''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', part of what makes Laelkii blend in as a medical professional is a medical apron with deep pockets.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref><ref name="sota-11">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

===Alliance Pharmaceuticals===

Legal pharmaceuticals used in medicine. For illegal drugs, see [[Criminal Activities#Controlled/Illegal Substances |Controlled/Illegal Substances]]

* anti-nausea patches
* day-after - this is slang for a cocktail of drugs that take care of hangovers and the effects of poor sleep; also known as an 'after-all-nighter' and 'carousing shot'
* erylliacoronade
* mellifleurin - not sure what this is for, but Hirianthial uses it on Reese
* slowsleep
* a synthetic hormone for [[Karaka'A | Karaka'An]] developed from the firebird trumpet plant.<ref name="esots-13">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) | Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 13</ref>
* A drug for allowing people to operate with thinner air/lower atmospheric pressure than they're used to<ref name="leadership">"[[Leadership Lessons (Fiction) |Leadership Lessons]]"</ref>
* "Wooly blue," a topical anesthetic that dyes anything it touched a fixed ultramarine ("dyed in the wool"). In the [[Alliance]], is only used in cheap emergency kits.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Anesthesia====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
" ...nepenthe, a rarely used surgery prep cocktail; its narcotic component was unpredictable in Pelted subspecies who had genetic markers in common with the original Terran experiments, compared to other, more broadly useful anesthesia combinations. It had functioned as expected in Acron, as a paralytic, and then the narcotic would have altered the man’s sense of time… at least, until hypoxia had set in, and with it, perhaps, paranoia—a common side effect of the interaction between nepenthe’s constituent drugs, which was why it was administered with a mild sedative like tricodelerine. When it was administered at all."<ref name="tdap-md">''[[To Discover and Preserve (Fiction) | To Discover and Preserve]]'', "The Mayer Directive"</ref></div></blockquote>

==Earthrise make-do, medicine on the minimal==
:might be a few more than these
:
:Chalk
:Bone Kit
:unspecified sedative
:disinfectant
:Flitzbe
:Powdered milk
:Slowsleep
:"Don't make me do this with a knife." he said. "I'd rather knock you unconscious and keep you that way..." <ref>''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'', Chapter 5, Kindle page 69 of 438</ref>

==Chatcaavan Medicine==

(Without foreign intervention) Females do not merit the services of surgeons or medics, as they are considered replaceable.<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Technology ===

* Flesh-sealers<ref name="etw-02" />
* Gel-tanks:
** Contain a translucent green substance that can be breathed. It heals injuries and numbs and soothes those immersed in it. The tanks themselves are transparent, so the gel (and the patient within it) can be seen from outside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Works better on Chatcaava than on others.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Can cause an intermittent state in which the patient suffers pain, fever, delirium, and unconsciousness. This is due to the conflict between the body's memory of injury and the body's healthy state. The effect is very unpleasant, but wears off every time.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Is not used for minor injuries (and "minor" to a Chatcaavan inside might be "devastating" to a non-Chatcaavan).<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Personnel ===

* [[Chatcaava|Chatcaavan]] [[Surgeon (Title) |surgeons]], who are [[Chatcaava#"Inside" and "Outside" |Outside]], and who have leeway in their behavior and level of respect because they are so sorely needed by males Inside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Medical personnel Outside are not politically obligated to anyone and are not subject to the duels and honor wounds of those Inside; their properties include similar protections (which extend to those sheltered within them). However, they also must maintain strict neutrality to politics, and cannot maneuver for political gain. To become partisan or seek political power is to become Inside. The power that they have is due to their skills, which are especially needed by males Inside, making them valuable members of Chatcaavan society Inside.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref>
* [[Triage (Character) |Triage]], a male who sits at reception in a clinic and directs patients according to need.<ref name="etw-02" />
* pre-med assistants, and servants, some with low-level titles: physician's assistant, surgeon's assistant, wrapper-of-dead-bodies,

=== Chatcaavan Pharmaceuticals ===

* [[Hekkret]], a medicine and recreational drug for [[Chatcaava]] (and a poison for most members of the Alliance)
* Bit (pronounced 'biht'), a euphoric that can be blocked from action by a different drug prior to ingestion/inhalation; this chemical acts as a soporific on Pelted and human-based species; scent is lighter and more acrid than hekkret, and the smoke is thinner, more liquid.

==Faulfenza Medicine==
===Modern===
:A plant based medicine, chewed and digested, that helps them tolerate lower gravity environments. Best digested over the course of a week.<ref name="APL 1">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "[[All Paths Lead (to the God)(Fiction) |All Paths Lead (to the God)]] </ref>
:A patient Faulfenza (priest?), who helps and counsels a young Eldritch priest with troubles of the spirit.

==Eldritch Medicine==
*"These make the tisane that helps elders with their joint pains" <ref name="APL 1"/>
* An elderly Eldritch in the Seni tenant village knows "where all the best plants are, the ones people forget should be used for things like medicine." He makes elixirs and tonics, including one for relaxation.<ref name="fc-23">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 23</ref>

== References ==

<references />

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An overview of medicine in the Alliance (and other nations).

== Alliance Medicine==
[[Alliance]] medical technology is marked by its advanced technology, extremely tight privacy restrictions (due in part to the fact that the original Pelted on [[Terra]] were sometimes used as essentially lab animals), and a higher number of [[Medicine#Medical Personnel |healers than doctors]].

* Medplexes

=== Alliance Medical Technology ===

====Medimage platform====
[[File:Medimageplatform.png|200px|thumb|right|Medimage Platform]]
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"He was no mechanic but the set-up had come with a basic repair manual; it had contained a long block of explanation on how the Pad technology had made the Medimage platforms possible and then a smaller set of pages instructing Pad technicians on the differences and similarities between the two. He’d glanced through them, picking up several bits of trivia about lights and quantum tunnel disruption before flipping to the troubleshooting sections."<ref name="lais-02">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) |Laisrathera]]'', Part 2</ref>''</div></blockquote>

While traditional modalities of surgery are used in the Alliance, the most advanced surgical platform available is the medimage, which uses a variety of technologies (including the breakthrough that made Pads possible) to continuously scan the interior of the body, build a solidigraphic image of it for gross manipulation by surgeons, and then duplicates their motions, in miniature, inside the body. This solves several problems: it allows far more precision in technique, since surgeons no longer have to work directly on a body part; it minimizes invasiveness and injury, while results in patients recovering faster; it allows multiple surgeons to work on the patient without crowding; and it reduces surgeon fatigue, since it allows them to use more of their bodies, in a more natural way, while working.

A surgical theater outfitted to use this technology is a significant piece of technology, consisting of a lower platform (the bed and its emitter); an upper platform, usually mounted in the ceiling (the upper emitter); and side installations for monitoring and power. A minimal medimage platform will allow a third of the body to be addressed at one time, but these small installations are rarer than full body platforms.

The minimal (typical) team for a medimage surgery consists of an anesthesiologist, who monitors the patient’s status at the patient’s head where the displays are mounted. The anesthesiologist is in charge not just of the drugs used during the surgery, but the use of the paralysis field (which is generated by three bands, one at the head, one under the medimage arch, and one at the ankles). The engineer tracks the equipment power and status, and oversees the backup generators; the engineer also addresses any technical issues that might arise during the use of the platform. Larger hospitals assign banks of engineers to their surgical wards, who sit outside the operating theater; smaller locations might seat their engineers inside the theater, depending on their design and procedural preferences.

The minimal surgical team is one principal surgeon and one surgical healer-assist, but some operations may call for more participants. A medimage surgery can be undertaken with a single surgeon but this is not encouraged except in emergencies.

While the Pad technology made the medimage platform possible, there are significant practical differences between them. Pads can operate with only a base station; medimage requires both the base and head stations to generate and maintain their field. Because the surgical platform must remain in operation and stable for continuous periods, its power needs are far greater. Pads have a limited number of functions, all of which can be performed by its single base; the medimage platform is actually a constellation of functions, undertaken by separate modules, all of which must be functioning in order for it to work.

There are multiple failsafes programmed into a medimage platform to reduce the frequency of errors, the most notable being that the manipulative element will be locked out if any of the other technologies fail (power, visual/monitoring, drug delivery, etc). Medical professionals call this the ‘all but, no cut’ principle, based on the frequently repeated line that if ‘all but one thing is operating, you still can’t operate’ made popular in the Tam-leyan hospital that pioneered the technology.

A medimage platform is the preferred vehicle for the procedure that extracts reproductive assets from women for use in float chambers, or for storage.<ref name="fc-10">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Halo-arch====
[[File:Illo-haloarch.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Halo-arch, retracted.]]
The most ubiquitous of medical devices in standalone facilities is the halo-arch, a piece of monitoring equipment capable of minor intervention (in most models) and more complex intervention (for models intended for serious injuries or maladies<ref name="ml-14">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 14</ref>). Smaller, less feature-rich halo-arches may not be capable of the same tests that larger ones intended for broader applications will.<ref name="er-12">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 12</ref> Halo-arches can be manufactured as separate add-ons for existing medical beds, but are usually sold as units. The (larger) medimage platform uses a special halo-arch to perform the functions of monitoring and manipulating the patient, and medical personnel will often refer to the patient being under the halo-arch when they are in a medimage theater (since the halo-arch is the pertinent part of the technology, in terms of positioning the patient). Patients coming out of surgery (particularly Medimage surgery) are usually placed in (non-surgical) halo-arches for secondary care/monitoring.<ref name="er-08">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 8</ref>

Vital data gathered by a halo-arch is usually called a halo scan.<ref name="ml-15">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 15</ref>

The emitters are on either side of the bed. Beds that mount a halo-arch (if they don’t come as a single unit) require a stasis tray base, since halo-arches can also hold bodies in stasis.<ref name="tdap-md" />

They generate suppressive fields to keep patients from rising; this field can be manually controlled<ref name="coldandgentle" /> or it can be set to automatically generate based on measurements of the patients’ vitals. The suppressive field also generates a shield over the patient to prevent anyone from disturbing them; this field is solid to the touch, though invisible, and “tickles.”<ref name="esots-09">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 9</ref> If the patient is spastic enough that they might injure themselves against the suppressive field, as a last resort the halo-arch will withdraw.<ref name="ds-wet">''[[Dreamstorm (Fiction) | Dreamstorm ]],'' Case Study: Wet</ref>

It can also generate a numbing field.<ref name="coldandgentle" />

There is a call button on the halo-arch, accessible to the patient and to the observer (to summon other medical help).<ref name="ml-20">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 20</ref> There are alarms (audible to the patient and in the room and that show up on panels elsewhere).<ref name="ml-18">''[[Faith in the Service (Fiction) | Faith in the Service ]],'' Chapter 18</ref> They are also programmed to initiate lifesaving procedures automatically, on being triggered by a critical event in the patient.<ref name="tdap-md" /> Falling vitals are usually signified by a wail (unless this default is changed). <ref name="ml-16">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 16</ref> The default sound generated by a halo-arch when a patient’s vitals collapse into a non-viable status is a whine.<ref name="ml-5">''[[Mindline (Fiction) | Mindline]],'' Chapter 5</ref>

Halo-arches can dispense pharmaceuticals, automatically or ad hoc as directed by a medical technician.<ref name="igc-16">''[[In Good Company (Fiction) | In Good Company ]],'' Chapter 16</ref> They handle anesthesia, and also IV functions, using force fields to drop fluid into the body in the location chosen by the physician; this is called halo-pushed fluidics, and it defaults to enteral feeding (through the gastrointestinal tract) rather than parenteral (via bloodstream).<ref name="stt-02">''[[Some Things Transcend (Fiction) | Some Things Transcend ]],'' Chapter 2</ref>

An open halo-arch is indicative of a patient out of danger/whose vitals don’t need measurement or who doesn’t need any fields applied.<ref name="bloodmoney" /> The default sound of an opening halo-arch is a rising arpeggio,<ref name="ml-16" /> and the default sound of one closing is a descending arpeggio.<ref name="er-26">''[[Earthrise (Fiction) | Earthrise]],'' Chapter 26</ref> An experienced enough person can read the musical and aural cues of a halo-arch and determine the status of the person under it.<ref name="lais-17">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 17</ref>
Halo-arches can use a variety of interfaces; the default (as with most alliance devices) is touching or tapping, but it can be reset to work with a particular person’s preference (and it can store multiple preferences and switch between them based on the ID of the person). For those who prefer it, the halo-arch can generate holographs and respond to kinesthetic movements.<ref name="fc-08" />

Biobed heads can be raised. This does not interfere with the halo-arch, if properly designed.<ref name="ml-18" />

** Chimes with vital signs when active<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
** Capable of generating numbing fields, as for wounds.<ref name="coldandgentle" />
** Closed when needed for monitoring vital signs or maintaining fields; open when not<ref name="bloodmoney">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "Blood Money"</ref>
* A steady light at the base of the bed indicates that it's active.<ref name="esots-04">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) |Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 4</ref>
* Has a call panel.<ref name="lais-01">''[[Laisrathera (Fiction) | Laisrathera]]'', Chapter 1</ref>

====Float Chambers====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"SEDIRYL WASN’T sure what she’d expected of the float chamber. Something like the hospital’s highest tech facilities, the ones meant for dire surgical emergencies? But the door opened on a chamber that contained a star nursery in its center, a swirl of foggy pink and purple gasses suspended in a blackest space. The room was cozy, with cushioned benches along two of the walls and chairs against the other. The technology underpinning the float must have been suspended from the ceiling, for Sediryl could see no sign of it save in a set of milkily translucent panels along the wall facing the door."<ref name="fc-13" />''</div></blockquote>

* embryo flotation: a field holds the fetus suspended as it develops; a monitor in the mother's uterus records body temperature, metablic changes, and heartrate, as well as all the noises the baby could hear, in order to create a real-time portrait of the birth environment. A very old and much iterated technology in the Alliance. Babies born this way still hit the same developmental milestones as their natural born peers. <ref name="fc-08">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 8</ref>

The sound (pickup?-Sean) that generates the data to simulate the birth environment is implanted in the mother's uterus, a procedure that takes less than twenty minutes.<ref name="fc-11">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

Culturally, families have any number of reactions to floating their children, from choosing not to be present to throwing enormous celebrations.<ref name="fc-13">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 13</ref>

====Stasis Chambers====
* Cryogenic suspension<ref name="line">''[[In the Line of Duty (Fiction) |In the Line of Duty]]''</ref>

<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
''"The halo-arch can serve as a stasis unit,” Cecil said. “The only reason we transport bodies to stasis trays is because a halo-arch is a complicated, multifunction device that we need for various procedures, and a full stasis chamber intended for a living body is extremely complex. A tray with a stasis field for a dead body is a simple matter. Less energy intensive, more margin for error."''<ref name="tdap-md" /></div></blockquote>

====Other Technology====
* That thing that hopefully makes higher gravity not kill you
* Skin sealer<ref name="sec-10">''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 10</ref>
[[File:Illo-AAP.jpg|200px|thumb|right|An AAP.]]
* AAP, sometimes AAP syringe. Stands for Air-Assisted Pump; is essentially a futuristic hypodermic. <ref name="wiw-app">''[[Who is Willing (Fiction) |Who is Willing]]'', appendix</ref> Makes an assortment of quiet chirps as status responses, unless it is in silent mode, at which point the feedback is haptic. Normal operation of an AAP is not painful or even noticeable. It does hiss.
* Accelerated healing clamps?
* vials of antiseptic bandage--smear it on and as it dries it seals wounds and sterilizes them. It grows cloudy as it dries <ref name="ar-15">''[[Amulet Rampant (Fiction) |Amulet Rampant]]'', Chapter 15</ref>
* Shock blankets<ref name="esots-04" />

====Procedures====
Surgery takes place in an operating theatre, which is encased in a decontamination field. (These are alternately called 'sterile fields', even though technically they're not the same thing. People still use them interchangeably.) People at work in them wear face shields (generated force fields).<ref name="mp-patience">Major Pieces, ''[[Patience (Fiction)]]''</ref>

* Phobia desensitization therapy<ref name="leadership />

===== Birth Control =====

* Birth control does not work reliably for [[Malarai]].<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>

===Alliance Medical Personnel===

* Healers and healer-assists, trained in the [[Alliance]]. Most Pelted are healers or healer-assists.
* Doctors and nurses, trained in the [[Humans|human]] medical fashion. Less common in the Alliance than healers, but some humans and Eldritch, and even a few Pelted, living in the Alliance are doctors.
* The rare psychic/esper healer, see [[Jahir]] powered by [[Vasiht'h]]<ref>''[[Keepers (Fiction)]]''</ref>
* The common usage of [[Flitzbe]] should be noted, as they are people.<ref> Throughout ''[[Earthrise (Fiction)]]''</ref><ref>Nearly the entirety of ''[[Every Man, Woman, and Idiot (Fiction)]]'' and other places. </ref>

====Alliance Medical Oaths and Privacy Protocols====
* Kelienne (Earthrise, early chapter)

* The Gordon Protocol ensures the privacy of Pelted medical data.

====Alliance Medical Insignia====

* At least some Healers wear a DNA cadeuceus patch on their arms (unclear if this is specific to Fleet, or not, or something else).<ref>''[[Second (Fiction) |Second]]'', Chapter 9</ref>
* [[Nathan Lifeweave |Nathan]] and [[Laelkii Takara Lifeweave |Laelkii Lifeweave]]'s home is marked by a sign of a healer's staff.<ref name="coldandgentle">''[[Alysha's Fall (Fiction) |Alysha's Fall]]'', "A Cold and Gentle Dark"</ref>
* In ''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', part of what makes Laelkii blend in as a medical professional is a medical apron with deep pockets.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref><ref name="sota-11">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 11</ref>

===Alliance Pharmaceuticals===

Legal pharmaceuticals used in medicine. For illegal drugs, see [[Criminal Activities#Controlled/Illegal Substances |Controlled/Illegal Substances]]

* anti-nausea patches
* day-after - this is slang for a cocktail of drugs that take care of hangovers and the effects of poor sleep; also known as an 'after-all-nighter' and 'carousing shot'
* erylliacoronade
* mellifleurin - not sure what this is for, but Hirianthial uses it on Reese
* slowsleep
* a synthetic hormone for [[Karaka'A | Karaka'An]] developed from the firebird trumpet plant.<ref name="esots-13">''[[Either Side of the Strand (Fiction) | Either Side of the Strand]]'', Chapter 13</ref>
* A drug for allowing people to operate with thinner air/lower atmospheric pressure than they're used to<ref name="leadership">"[[Leadership Lessons (Fiction) |Leadership Lessons]]"</ref>
* "Wooly blue," a topical anesthetic that dyes anything it touched a fixed ultramarine ("dyed in the wool"). In the [[Alliance]], is only used in cheap emergency kits.<ref name="sota-10">''[[Sword of the Alliance (Fiction) |Sword of the Alliance]]'', Chapter 10</ref>

====Anesthesia====
<blockquote><div style="font-size:92%; line-height: 2.1em;">
" ...nepenthe, a rarely used surgery prep cocktail; its narcotic component was unpredictable in Pelted subspecies who had genetic markers in common with the original Terran experiments, compared to other, more broadly useful anesthesia combinations. It had functioned as expected in Acron, as a paralytic, and then the narcotic would have altered the man’s sense of time… at least, until hypoxia had set in, and with it, perhaps, paranoia—a common side effect of the interaction between nepenthe’s constituent drugs, which was why it was administered with a mild sedative like tricodelerine. When it was administered at all."<ref name="tdap-md">''[[To Discover and Preserve (Fiction) | To Discover and Preserve]]'', "The Mayer Directive"</ref></div></blockquote>

==Earthrise make-do, medicine on the minimal==
:might be a few more than these
:
:Chalk
:Bone Kit
:unspecified sedative
:disinfectant
:Flitzbe
:Powdered milk
:Slowsleep
:"Don't make me do this with a knife." he said. "I'd rather knock you unconscious and keep you that way..." <ref>''[[Earthrise (Fiction)|Earthrise]]'', Chapter 5, Kindle page 69 of 438</ref>

==Chatcaavan Medicine==

(Without foreign intervention) Females do not merit the services of surgeons or medics, as they are considered replaceable.<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Technology ===

* Flesh-sealers<ref name="etw-02" />
* Gel-tanks:
** Contain a translucent green substance that can be breathed. It heals injuries and numbs and soothes those immersed in it. The tanks themselves are transparent, so the gel (and the patient within it) can be seen from outside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Works better on Chatcaava than on others.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Can cause an intermittent state in which the patient suffers pain, fever, delirium, and unconsciousness. This is due to the conflict between the body's memory of injury and the body's healthy state. The effect is very unpleasant, but wears off every time.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Is not used for minor injuries (and "minor" to a Chatcaavan inside might be "devastating" to a non-Chatcaavan).<ref name="etw-02" />

=== Chatcaavan Medical Personnel ===

* [[Chatcaava|Chatcaavan]] [[Surgeon (Title) |surgeons]], who are [[Chatcaava#"Inside" and "Outside" |Outside]], and who have leeway in their behavior and level of respect because they are so sorely needed by males Inside.<ref name="etw-02" />
** Medical personnel Outside are not politically obligated to anyone and are not subject to the duels and honor wounds of those Inside; their properties include similar protections (which extend to those sheltered within them). However, they also must maintain strict neutrality to politics, and cannot maneuver for political gain. To become partisan or seek political power is to become Inside. The power that they have is due to their skills, which are especially needed by males Inside, making them valuable members of Chatcaavan society Inside.<ref name="etw-02">''[[Even the Wingless (Fiction) |Even the Wingless]]'', Part Two</ref>
* [[Triage (Character) |Triage]], a male who sits at reception in a clinic and directs patients according to need.<ref name="etw-02" />
* pre-med assistants, and servants, some with low-level titles: physician's assistant, surgeon's assistant, wrapper-of-dead-bodies,

=== Chatcaavan Pharmaceuticals ===

* [[Hekkret]], a medicine and recreational drug for [[Chatcaava]] (and a poison for most members of the Alliance)
* Bit (pronounced 'biht'), a euphoric that can be blocked from action by a different drug prior to ingestion/inhalation; this chemical acts as a soporific on Pelted and human-based species; scent is lighter and more acrid than hekkret, and the smoke is thinner, more liquid.

==Faulfenza Medicine==
===Modern===
:A plant based medicine, chewed and digested, that helps them tolerate lower gravity environments. Best digested over the course of a week.<ref name="APL 1">''[[In the Court of Dragons (Fiction) |In the Court of Dragons]]'', "[[All Paths Lead (to the God)(Fiction) |All Paths Lead (to the God)]] </ref>
:A patient Faulfenza (priest?), who helps and counsels a young Eldritch priest with troubles of the spirit.

==Eldritch Medicine==
*"These make the tisane that helps elders with their joint pains" <ref name="APL 1"/>
* An elderly Eldritch in the Seni tenant village knows "where all the best plants are, the ones people forget should be used for things like medicine." He makes elixirs and tonics, including one for relaxation.<ref name="fc-23">''[[Farmer's Crown (Fiction) |Farmer's Crown]]'', Chapter 23</ref>

== References ==

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