Trauma Team: Behind the Scenes
When The Biomon Goes Quiet – A Paramedic's Story
My last call? Yesterday, just after midnight, an accident was reported outside the Dark Matter club involving one of our clients. His biomonitor readings went completely haywire - it was impossible to decipher while en route. Once we'd arrived, we realized this wasn't an accident at all.
The client's Caliburn was engulfed in flames - scans indicated it was caused by a grenade launcher. The client's body lay a few feet away, with second-degree burns and a trail of blood leading back to the burning wreck he had crawled out of. His left hand was missing, blown off during the blast. That's why his biomonitor's data was all over the place. We detected no armed individuals in the vicinity. Inside the Caliburn were a woman's remains reduced to charred bone. No Trauma Team insurance. We evacced our client and managed to stabilize him en route to the hospital. He made it.
The next day, we gleaned the rest of the story from the screamsheets. Our patient was a well-known agent for BD stars. It was an assassination attempt. And thanks to us, he survived.
Age of Wisdom – A Security Expert's Story
On every call I have a single task - ensure the complete safety of our patients and crew on board. Sometimes a call that seems at first like a normal, routine pickup turns into a living nightmare.
For instance, we were called by a patient, an elderly woman, who uses a wheelchair. It was the chair's readings that alerted us - the woman was suffocating due to a malfunctioning tracheal implant. The second we landed on her property in North Oak, we realized it was much worse - broken windows, house alarm switched off. Someone jammed the localNet. Inside it was even more dire - the corpses of our client's employees, including the gardener, cook, the nurses. The assailants were still inside when we reached them. Once they were neutralized, our paramedics tried to locate the patient while I secured the premises. Seven attackers in total. I couldn't tell if they were gangoons, mercenaries, or ordinary burglars. What I did know is that every house like this had a panic room. We found it in the basement behind a movable wall.
Our patient was inside, barely alive, her breathing shallow, probably thinking that she'd made it here for nothing. She was the one who had damaged her implant knowing it would alert us. She survived. A clever lady. She ended up moving away from Night City.
In the Line of Fire – A Pilot's Story
Piloting an AV in a place like Night City is a challenge in and of itself. We rarely land on megatower rooftops or wide, comfortable intersections. Those kinds of calls are relatively rare, or rather other units answer them instead of us. We land in the weirdest locations - under bridges, squeezing ourselves on cramped megablock balconies, in dark, narrow alleyways and sometimes even inside buildings when a gas leak blows out nearly the entire wall on the ninth floor of an office 'scraper. But the real fun starts when we need to land under fire.
Take just last month. We receive a call - two injured from gunfire, luckily the lead went clean through. When we got there, it turned out we had to land between two gangs duking it out. Our client was some big shot for one of the sides. We didn't have a choice - to secure the patient, we had to enter the fray.
You can guess what happened next. Our patient's gang celebrated that day. And our client? He was smiling all the way to the hospital. To this day I still wonder if it wasn't his own chooms who shot him. To get even.
Laurie Zamora
Tyler Brock
Luisa Jacobson
Trauma Team: Behind the Scenes
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