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Heartstones

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Report 23100815

Luna Institute of Technology
Cardiology Branch of the Medical Division

Dr. Ken Jackson


Abraham Gwan is an Arabian-Korean male, age 55, occupation spacecraft technician. On May 7th, 2310, he arrived on AU Luna after a two-month long voyage on the AUS Bradwell’s Dawn, which started from New Austin of the New Texas System. Details of the voyage can be found on the Dawn’s travel records, attached in Appendix A. Mr. Gwan participated in a full body scan overseen by Dr. Charles Mcmahon, who identified an anomaly on the surface of the patient’s heart using the Insight-C10, developed by Medical Solutions. Additional details of the machine are attached in Appendix B. The anomaly was identified as only a micrometer in diameter, by default passed off as an error by the computer itself. However, Dr. Mcmahon decided to pursue further into the matter, gaining Mr. Gwan’s permission to conduct an open-surgery analysis.

The anomaly turned out to be true and physical, identified as A1 in this report. A1 is a small, smooth, circular disk barely 1 micrometer in diameter and roughly 0.1 micrometers thin. Visibly, it is also black and metallic. Astonishingly, A1’s atomic structure is highly complex, made of carbon, silicon, iron and a range of super-heavy elements that were previously only found present in labs. A1’s function is currently unknown, other than that it attached to the surface of the patient’s heart.

Patient Mr. Gwan reported no physical or mental ailments that couldn’t be described by the normal side effects of space travel, including nausea, claustrophobia, and bone marrow loss. Subjecting lab grown human tissue to A1 also yielded no additional effects beyond physical interaction between the cells and the metallic disk.

After the successful removal of A1 from the patient’s heart, medical records of those aboard Bradwell’s Dawn were obtained, which expanded to anyone who participated in FTL travel in the past six months. 20% of the sample size included full body scans using the Insight-C10 or similarly up-to-date machines. Of those, a further 15% returned positive anomaly identifications on the surface of the heart, all of which were passed off as errors. The presence of A1 cannot be found in medical records of those who haven’t participated in FTL travel. These figures indicate a curious side effect of FTL travel on the human body that was previously undetectable.

Without any apparent negative effects on the human body, physicians are advised to inform their patients of the presence of A1 on their hearts, but also to advise against surgical removal such that long term effects can be studied. For now, the growth of A1 on the human heart as a result of FTL travel is dubbed cardiolithiasis, or Heart stone disease.
 

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Report 23121103

Luna Institute of Technology
Cardiology Branch of the Medical Division

Dr. Ken Jackson


Over the past two years, additional resources have been committed to further understand cardiolithiasis, or Heart stone disease, by tailoring scanning technology to a heart stone's composition, and by expanding the sample size. On February 17th, 2312, the first heart stone sample in the human bloodstream was discovered, using the modified Insight-C10-Micro, its specifications attached in Appendix A.

Ursula Richards is a Slavic-American female, age 54, able-bodied, a hydroagricultural engineer returning from Atlantica after a ten year employment. The details of her travel are attached in Appendix B. Like previous heart stone disease patients, a small heart stone disk was found on the surface of her heart, left ventricle to be specific. The modified Insight-C10-micro was used to analyze her blood sample, but reports initially returned negative. After gaining the patient's permission, Dr. Charles McMahon collected blood samples from specific regions of the body instead. The sampling technique is described in Appendix C. Two samples returned positive: blood near the heart and blood supplying the central nervous system.

Since Ms. Ursula Richard's positive blood test, the sampling has been expanded to all American Union civilians who participate in routine health inspections after FTL travel. 16% of blood samples report positive instances of heart stone after using up-to-date instruments.

Heart stone content in these positive samples is extremely low: 5 ppb. How the material is able to remain in localized areas in the body without spreading elsewhere is still a mystery, on top of heart stone's formation in the first place. After sharing the results with other departments in the Institute, some have linked heart stones to the spacetime warping characteristics of Wofleonium. It has been posited that Heart stone also requires a high energy, carbon-organic base to form, namely the human brain.

Thus far, negative effects of heart stone disease have yet to be realized. Thus, previous recommendations on treating the disease remain. Should patients have any concerns, mild off-the-shelf anti-oxidants and anti-cancer drugs can be prescribed.
 

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Wofleonium and exotic material toxicity and biological concentration concerns

Dr. Caxia

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  1. New Cambridge University, Applied Biology and Engineering Department
  2. Sylphian Exotic Elements Research, Applied Exotic Biology Unit
Report: 23124305

ABSTRACT

LIT studies have placed Cardiolithiasis incidents among individuals who have experienced Superluminal fields at around 16% which paints an incomplete picture of the extent of the spread of the disease. It is suspected that the small sample size and obstructionary costs of producing data for the Lunar Institute has led to misleading conclusions.

A query of 64 million humans and 134 Daqin within the Hawking System have provided a more in depth understanding of how Cardiolithiasis presents. There is a 90% contamination rate among individuals who have directly interacted with Wofleonium, and a corresponding spike in Wofleonium contamination among individuals who have processed Aoi-Si artifacts, worked around Superluminal engines, or have worked in cutting-edge technological systems that use exotic materials. Exact figures show a strong correlation between proximity to the material and contamination.

Furthermore, close to 10% of individuals in close proximity to contaminated individuals also exhibit Wofleonium contamination at detectable levels after controlling for proximity to the material. Less than 1% of cases also present without any proximity to the material or contaminated individuals.

Regarding data-collection methods, the much greater availability of data and higher precision of medical nanomachines in the human population of the Hawking System has produced a greater number of positive results for wofleonium contamination in comparison to what the LIT study has suggested. It is also suspected that the greater amount of full-automation in supply chains has greatly reduced the amount of wofleonium contamination among the population of the Hawking System.

Of the small Daqin population able to be surveyed, 134 of 134 individuals exhibited some degree of Cardiolithiasis. Due to the small sample size and strategic nature of the discussion, this study does not seek to explain this result.

It is suspected that the amount of contamination among the Human population in Sol is orders of magnitude greater than what is projected by the LIT survey. Lack of a response from officials in this regard is likely to lead to a 100% contamination of the population within a few years much like the PFOA-PTFA contamination disasters on earth in the 2000s.

It is suggested that further containment and medical-removal protocols be applied to prevent the spread of Cardiolithiasis in the population.


KEYWORDS: Wofleonium; Cardiolithiasis; Daqin; Exotic Contamination Vectors
 
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