Despite their best efforts, deaths from the plague continued to increase. The Sector General ships hurriedly provided food to malnourished people everywhere, along with medical aid for combat injuries, and tried to determine the cause of the mysterious disease. Additionally, they were continually in hand-to-hand combat with each other, presumably competing for food. They were starving, and their birth rate was absymal. At moments during his new tasks, he ponders the individual events that led up to the alien deaths.įirst contact with the Cromsag planet was quickly followed by the discovery that their entire population was wasting away from some unidentified disease. He is plagued with guilt, because he is responsible for the genocide of an entire race. The dejected Surgeon-Captain Lioren is disappointed that his Court-martial has rejected the death penalty for him, and instead has assigned him to O’Mara at Sector General.
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