The Lifesaver Emergency Autodoc System is a man-portable nanite-based emergency first aid system used by the Iron Company as of YE 44 up to the current time.

While automated medical units have existed for generations, they were often limited in application due to size, power constants, and technological issues, often requiring a full-sized medical facility or at the very least mounting on a vehicle or powered combat armor. The Lifesave Emergency Auto-Doc was designed to at least, partially overcome these limitations. After pulling up a number of old designs ranging from devices the size of a bracer-mounted single-use injector unit to a small backpack to a full-size vehicle-mounted model meant for battlefield M.A.S.H. Units, Steiner pulled elements from each and taking advantage of the advanced materials used in the Kikyo Sector as well as vast improvements in miniaturization technology managed to create a small field auto doctor unit that combined elements of each. During its initial operations, the Iron Company often found itself at odds with many creatures that often had a nasty edge over them-be it poison, infectious bites-even injecting them with parasites or eggs. Likewise battles against pirates not only saw the usual battlefield hazards present but things like chemical and biological weapons deployed against them; this often led to mortality rates as high as 45% per mission-an attritional rate that no military organization could sustain. In order to combat this high loss of manpower in YE 44 the company turned to a combination of nanomachines and a potent mixture of painkillers, stem cells, and antibiotics. Dubbed a 'Lifesaver' by the yeomen, the name simply stuck in its designation.

The eventual result of this was two models; a single-use variant that could be mounted in power armor or a hardsuit as part of the lifesupport system or could be mounted on the bracer of a Chuirogeon’s Brigandine Combat Hardsuit with interchangeable cartridges or a larger backpack mounted model, roughly the size of a small lunch box. This resulted in a greatly reduced casualty rate among yeomen, and is a revolutionary design in their own medical technology. Additional improvements by YE 46 would see a further refinement in the technology, such as improvements in computing power and at least a 35% increase in healing rate and additional uses in suit-mounted models.

The design of the two variants, while different are roughly the same in function. Each model comes with a medical injector connected to either a small tube of the medical gel for the single-use model or a handheld unit connected to a tube leading to the pack for the squad-level model. To activate it, for the single-use unit either the suit’s on-board computer detects when the individual is wounded, automatically administering it. Or, for both the bracer and pack model a switch on the side is pressed to activate the built-in microcomputer. Afterward, simply jab the poor slob that needs the patching up, and inject the gel. Once activated, it works with the body’s own metabolic processes to speed the healing process; the stem cells, combined with the synthetic protein mixture and nanites work to repair and replicate damaged tissue, with the nanites pulling double duty and seeking out any foreign objects and working to remove them, disintegrating them with a combination of small pincers and nanite lasers.

Afterward, either change out the cartridge on the bracer model by simply hitting a latch on the side releasing the guard holding it in place, pulling it out, and putting a new one in as the needle and cartridge are all one piece-then locking it back into place, or change the injector tip on the backpack-mounted model-this is done via a sharp twist and then pulling it off. The armor-mounted model will need to be removed, the injector and medigel replaced, and then put back in.

It should be noted that unless either the administering personnel have medical files on hand and programmed into the mircocomputer or made for that individual it will attack ANY non-standard implants, augmentations etc; mechanical or otherwise identifying them as harmful foreign objects and dealing with them as such…¹⁾

• Injector: 10KS
• Medigel Cartridge: 20KS
• Medigel Refill: 50ks
• Microcomputer: 100ks
• Medival Tubing: 2KS

Commissar Farzi created this article on 2023/09/15 15:53.

This was approved by Andrew on 2024/11/29.²⁾