Medkit - Whats in the Bag?
Just having a chat with JALU3 about the Medkit in TNG-Era Trek. Technically for an ICON based game, but the identification of the contents of a Medkit seem to be trans-ruleset. So I thought that rather than a 2-person email chat, it would be worth raising this here to share the ideas and see what others have in mind;
We started disussion comparing against current military field medic kit, which is a far leger kit-bag, but I feel is not a fair comparison;
For example one of the biggest items in a modern medkit will be field dressings and bandages, but 'furturetech' will have replaced both of these (in most lighter wounds) with the Dermal Regenerator.
We know there is an external slot for Medical Tricorder and diagnosis hand-held device.
We have also seen extensive use of Hypo-spray and a selection of medicines from the medkit.
After that I am struggling to think of any additional cabnon kit produced by a doctor outside of sickbay, so what else?
I would imagine that there is a device for generating some sort of sterilisation field. Actually thats quite a good one. localed field that sterilises medical equipment and hands and can be setup around the wound.
As stated Dermal regenerators are a general catch-all, but there must be times that greater injuries are needing treatment, its a small bag, perhaps there is also some sort of mini-replicator for producing a number of field dressings upon requirement.
This would also mean that a portion of the bag is reserved for a micro power supply? (I cannot imagine that this will take up a lot of room when you consider the size of Micro-photon torpedoes as shown in the DS9 tech manual).
* Actually that starts to clarify the place where this conversation started where I was concerned by the potential 'catch-all' specialisation of Personal Equipment (Medkit) as advised in the main ICON RPG ruleset... If the bag itself has some functionality that then would explain where the specialisation may apply.
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