[color=00AEFF]”Swear loyalty to the captain and you’ll get all the time you want.”[/color] Vigdis grinned under her mask, ready to explain she wasn’t being serious in case the joke didn’t carry over. [color=00AEFF]”Many of the ailments you speak of haven’t been much of a problem for hundreds of years for us, though I agree that it’d be good to have another alternative even if our stores should last years, in addition to speeding up things we can’t heal quickly.”[/color] There may have been twice the number of people on board, but the Jo was still an exploration ship. She’d been fortunate to avoid any notable encounters with the infirmary, but surely the ship’s original mission would’ve had it away from resupply points for extended periods of time. Unless all of their medical gear fell out of the shuttle bay, but she had a feeling that would’ve been mentioned in one of the daily briefings. [color=00AEFF]”We might also need your help with local diseases, if we can catch any. There’s still a lot of unknowns about what the local conditions might do to us in both short and long term.”[/color] Another reason she preferred to wear the breathing masks, even if it wasn’t the most comfortable thing ever made. [color=00AEFF]”Out of curiosity, has your [i]life expectancy[/i] increased as people aren’t dying of mundane injuries and diseases, or has your [i]lifespan[/i] increased and people actually live longer?”[/color] If life magic had a regenerative effect on the whole organism in addition to fixing damage, that would be a big boon on top of the near double increase of lifespan since 300 years ago.

[color=00AEFF]”Fair point on the infiltrators. Again going on nothing but your word though. Either way, not my decision to make.”[/color] Fortunately, screw having that sort of responsibility. [color=00AEFF]”So that’s the anatomy chapter skipped until a more qualified person has time, what’s next? History? Where we came from?”[/color]