Goonhub
12-12-2013, 06:44 AM
Nobody checks medical records because they're useless. Nobody uses blood monitor implants because nobody checks medical records. How about the radio earpiece monitoring the user's health?
When worn, a radio headset constantly scans the ear it's pinched over, searches the medical database for a DNA match and connects the feedback to the matching name - no need for personalized earbuds, they just know. The crewman's medical entry now reports body temperature (healthy, feverish, room temperature or lost in space?) and pulse (calm, injured, cardiac trouble, flatline), but no location data. If someone goes without a headset or it's destroyed along with the crewman, the entry stops updating and reports signal lost along with the final readout. Targets of a DNA scramble and drained husks would come up as disappeared, too. Changelings with earpieces have weird sensor readouts sometimes and display the exact same figures on the pages of all the crewmen they've absorbed.
Diligent doctors could establish some sort of a headcount in emergencies and find out if a vanished chemist should provoke concern, but it shouldn't ruin changelings unless someone is dorky enough to constantly hammer F5 through everyone's dossiers. If it's too much for rank-and-file medics, it could be a restricted privilege for only the department heads and/or the AI. Lunatics convinced that the establishment itself is a traitor could fight back by limiting themselves to handheld radios.
When worn, a radio headset constantly scans the ear it's pinched over, searches the medical database for a DNA match and connects the feedback to the matching name - no need for personalized earbuds, they just know. The crewman's medical entry now reports body temperature (healthy, feverish, room temperature or lost in space?) and pulse (calm, injured, cardiac trouble, flatline), but no location data. If someone goes without a headset or it's destroyed along with the crewman, the entry stops updating and reports signal lost along with the final readout. Targets of a DNA scramble and drained husks would come up as disappeared, too. Changelings with earpieces have weird sensor readouts sometimes and display the exact same figures on the pages of all the crewmen they've absorbed.
Diligent doctors could establish some sort of a headcount in emergencies and find out if a vanished chemist should provoke concern, but it shouldn't ruin changelings unless someone is dorky enough to constantly hammer F5 through everyone's dossiers. If it's too much for rank-and-file medics, it could be a restricted privilege for only the department heads and/or the AI. Lunatics convinced that the establishment itself is a traitor could fight back by limiting themselves to handheld radios.