PETROVA TASKFORCE  ARCHIVAL TRANSCRIPT

TRANSCRIPT ID: COMM-LOG-INT-88 FREQUENCY: CH-09 (INTERNAL SECURITY / MEDICAL RELAY) DATE: ▇▇, ▇▇ / 20:15 UTC

[ AUDIO START. ]

[20:15:02] MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):             Watch-Command, this is Attending Physician, Unit B. Metabolic panels for Sector 4 are complete. Requesting clearance to log off the active medical net for the evening. Over. [20:15:15] WATCH-COMMAND (MILLER):             Copy that, Doctor. Metabolic logs received by central grid. Clearance granted at 20:15 hours. Secure your handset and switch to standby status. Over. [20:15:17] HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):            [ AUDIO FEEDBACK. ]

            This thing on? Over. [20:15:19] MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):             Birdie, what did I tell you about using the tactical frequencies? Switch to the house channel. Over.

[20:15:22] HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):             House channel is very quiet and no one responds to me. Over.

            [ SILENCE. ]             [ FAINT CHATTER. ]

[20:16:02] HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):             I’m bored. Over.

[20:16:05] MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):             Young lady.

[20:16:08] HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):             What’s for dinner? Over.

[20:16:13] WATCH-COMMAND (MILLER):             Hab-Deck-B, be advised this frequency is reserved for operational data and emergency triage. Clear the net. Over.

[20:16:20] HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):             Hi, Miller.

[20:16:23] WATCH-COMMAND (MILLER):             Hi, Miss Birdie.

[20:16:30] MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):             Apologies, Command. The civilian asset will be contained. Heading to quarters now. Unit B, actual, out.

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PETROVA TASKFORCE  ARCHIVAL TRANSCRIPT

TRANSCRIPT ID: COMM-LOG-INT-89  FREQUENCY: CH-12 (HABITATION / RESIDENTIAL RELAY)  DATE: ▇▇, ▇▇ / 20:17 UTC 

[ AUDIO START. ] [20:17:05]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              Okay, I'm on twelve.             Birdie, do you copy?

[20:17:11]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              Loud and clear! 

[20:17:16]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              What are you botherin’             us for. 

[20:17:22]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              Nothing. Just wanted             to chat. 

[20:17:27]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              Okay.             [ PAPERS SHUFFLING. ]              What do you wanna             chat about? 

[20:17:35]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              I dunno. What did you             do today? 

[20:17:41]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              Lotta tough work. We’re doing as many trials as we can, putting folks to sleep.            'Course the issue isn't actually getting them to sleep. We can throw a dozen different sedatives into the line and knock a subject out in under two minutes. The real problem's the metabolic maintenance.

[20:17:54]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              Medically-induced comas are so fascinating. 

[20:18:00]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              [ SOFT LAUGHTER. ]              Are they? 

[20:18:04]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              Yeah. It's like a pause button. They could close their eyes in your lab, sleep for four years, and when they wake up, it'll feel like only hours have passed. You're like -- removing them from time.             Super cool.

[20:18:08]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              Other twelve-year-old kids don’t usually think so. 

[20:18:13]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              They’re missing out.              Oh, hey! I got so much mail today! Everyone wrote me back and I got a bunch of gifts! 

[20:18:25]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              [ BACKGROUND CHATTER. ]             Run the analysis again.             Thank you, Doctor.             What sorta gifts? 

[20:18:34]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              It’s so funny.              I have six winter hats now.             They're all from my friends. 

[20:18:43]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              Winter hats? 

[20:18:47]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              Yeah, they think I’m in Antarctica, remember? 

[20:18:52]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              Oh, yeah. 

[20:18:56]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              I love them all.              I might as well wear them around the facility. They’re pretty cute. 

[20:19:07]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              That’s nice.              You got a favorite? 

[20:19:12]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              Yeah, there's this fox one. Wraps around my ears.              I got a ton of             stickers, too.              Olivia gave me fifty             sheets. 

[20:19:24]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              That’s too many stickers.

[20:19:28]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              No such thing! 

            [ STATIC. ]              [ SILENCE. ] 

[20:19:50]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              I miss them. Over. 

            [ STATIC. ]              [ SILENCE. ]

[20:20:12]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              I know, baby. 

[20:20:18]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              [ SIGH. ] 

[20:20:23]  MED-UNIT-B (DR. ▇▇▇ ):              I wish things             were different. Over. 

[20:20:30]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              I don’t.              Don't ask me to go             back again.

[20:20:36]  HAB-DECK-B (BIRDIE):              I’m okay as long as             you’re here. Over. 

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PETROVA TASKFORCE ARCHIVAL TRANSCRIPT

TRANSCRIPT ID: COMM-LOG-INT-88 DATE: ▇▇, ▇▇ / 20:45 UTC

[02:45:01] [ AUDIO START. ]

[02:45:04] DR. ▇▇▇:

>> _This is Dr. ▇▇▇, Attending Physician and Lead Coordinator for the Comagenesis Division, Petrova Taskforce. Recording audio log from Auxiliary Lab Four, Observation Suite B.

>> _I am accompanied on deck by senior research leads Dr. Annalise Bautista and Dr. Ethan Jackson.

>> _The time is... 0245 hours.

[02:45:32] DR. ▇▇▇:

>> _We are currently observing Subject 0-42, cleared for Trial Phase 3-B at approximately 1800 hours yesterday following a titrated intravenous infusion of the revised neuro-suppressive cocktail.

>> _Current physiological vitals are stable, but highly volatile.

>> _Core body temperature is holding at thirty-four point two degrees Celsius. Heart rate is suppressed to twenty-eight beats per minute.

[02:45:58] DR. BAUTISTA:

>> [ DISTANCE VOICE, SLIGHTLY MUFFLED. ]

>> _I'm seeing a minor spike in baseline levels. Cortical micro-arousals are beginning to register in the occipital lobe on Monitor 2.

[02:46:09] DR. ▇▇▇:

>> _Copy that. Increase the paralytic drip by zero point five milligrams per hour. Let's keep the receptors dark before the twitching triggers a full cycle.

[02:46:21] DR. JACKSON:

>> [ KEYBOARD TYPING. ]

>> _Adjusting the line now.

>> [ KEYBOARD TYPING. ]

[02:46:35]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Think this one'll work? 

[02:46:39]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Too early to tell. Cross your fingers.

            [ SILENCE. ]

            [ FAINT SHUFFLING. ] 

[02:46:58]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _Hey, what do you guys think about Stratt?

[02:47:04]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> [ KEYBOARD TYPING. ] 

>> _What about Stratt? 

[02:47:08]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _I don’t know. Just - -

>> _Stratt.

[02:47:13]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Like, a general idea?

[02:47:16]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _Yeah, something like that. 

[02:47:20]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _I’m not sure.

>> _She’s very severe, I guess. In a good way. She gets things done regardless of how crazy it may seem.

[02:47:31]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _She feels a little disorganized to me.

[02:47:35]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Disorganized?

[02:47:38]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _I mean look at us --

>> _We’re synthesizing coma technology for astronauts she hasn’t even recruited yet.

>> _And even when she does recruit them, the probe’s not set to come back for another month. We don’t know what’s dimming the sun.

>> _Is that her next plan? To send astronauts to the sun?

[02:47:58]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _You think that’s disorganized?

>> _She’s literally thinking twenty steps ahead. I don’t know what you mean. Even if we don’t have the data on the sun yet, we can still try to look for other solutions out there in space. 

[02:48:12]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _Out there in space? 

[02:48:15]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _I don’t know. I’m not an astrophysicist.

[02:48:19]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _I have an audio log running, I don’t think now’s the best time to gossip.

[02:48:25]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _Just edit it out later. 

>> _What about you, ▇▇▇?

>> _What do you think about Stratt?

            [ STATIC. ] 

            [ KEYBOARD TYPING. ] 

            [ SILENCE. ] 

[02:48:45]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Subject status?

[02:48:48]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Subject is stable.

[02:48:51]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Nothing’s going to get in Stratt’s way.

>> _Good for humanity. Bad for the people around her.

[02:49:01]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _How’d you get saddled into all of this, anyway?

>> _I hear you took some convincing.

[02:49:08]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> [ KEYBOARD TYPING. ] 

>> _The convincing is downstairs in the mess hall eating ice cream.

[02:49:15]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _Wait, that’s your kid?

[02:49:18]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Geez, Ethan. ‘You been living under a rock?

[02:49:22]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _I don’t ask questions, alright? 

>> _I see a girl running around the facility I think it’s one of the senators’.

>> _I didn’t know ▇▇▇ had a kid.

[02:49:31]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Now you do.

>> _Status?

[02:49:35]  DR. BAUTISTA:  

>> [ KEYBOARD TYPING. ] 

>> _Ah, shit.

>> _Encephalogram is smoothing out but the delta wave amplitude is still dragging. It’s not locking into the hibernation state we need.

[02:49:48]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> [ LONG EXHALE. ] 

            [ SILENCE. ] 

            [ STATIC. ] 

[02:50:02]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _As the logs will corroborate across the past three cycles, the data suggests that while we can successfully induce a prolonged, deep comatose state without immediate cellular degradation, the threshold between true metabolic stasis and irreversible brain death remains narrow.

>> _We are trying to perfect a chemical suspension that can keep human beings alive, asleep, and entirely unmonitored for years in a deep-space environment.

>> _To be entirely frank for the record... the trials have a long way to go.

>> _That’s it for Phase 3-B. In the meantime, we will reconvene.

[02:50:41]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _You guys wanna go out for lunch?

[02:50:45]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Very funny.

[02:50:48]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _What? This great new place just opened. I think it’s called the West Side of the Facility?

[02:50:55]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Do you have a single serious bone in your body?

[02:51:00]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _You? ▇▇▇? C’mon, let’s get drinks.

[02:51:04]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Can’t.

>> _I’m the division’s representative for tonight’s plenum.

[02:51:10]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _I have literally never seen you outside of work. 

[02:51:14]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Which makes me a good representative?

[02:51:18]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Which means you probably have five minutes before you drop dead.

[02:51:23]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _That’s funny, Anne.

[02:51:26]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _I got news from that plenum you’re going to attend, though.

[02:51:30]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> [ SHUFFLING. ] 

>> [ FAINT THUD. ] 

>> [ PAPERS RUSTLING. ] 

>> _There is a difference between news and gossip.

[02:51:39]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Oh, c'mon.

>> _All I was going to say is I hear they’re recruiting more people. Making more divisions.

>> _They’re looking into microbiologists.

[02:51:50]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> [ FAINT LAUGH. ] 

>> _I matched with a microbiologist once. On a dating app.

[02:51:56]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _You’re on dating apps?

[02:52:00]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Was. Alright? It was a while ago.

[02:52:04]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _And? Then what?

[02:52:07]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _What do you mean, then what?

>> _Then I got shipped to the pacific and made to do all this work.

>> _I don’t talk to him anymore. I wish I still did.

[02:52:19]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _Maybe you’ll meet a new one on the Taskforce.

[02:52:23]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> _Right.

[02:52:25]  DR. BAUTISTA: 

>> _No, c’mon. Maybe you will.

>> _I mean just this morning I saw a printout in the office.

>> _I think they’re planning to recruit this guy named Ryland Grace?

[02:52:38]  DR. ▇▇▇: 

>> [ OBJECTS CLATTERING TO FLOOR. ] 

[02:52:41]  DR. JACKSON: 

>> _Dude.

[02:52:45] [ AUDIO END. ]