"We would not have even heard of this council if it were not for the fact you mentioned it." Moro makes sure Fernando heard as he walks off.
 
"Maybe this space council does not exist in this time line." Jeanette suggests to Moro.
 
"I can't say they exist or don't exist for I don't know either way. All I can say is that we never heard of this council and they never contacted us. Our ships may have cloaking technology but we built our own nation. We are very easy to find. If the council does exist and they want to contact us, all they have to do is use a map. Even a child can do that." Moro removes a tablet computer from her briefcase. "We were holding off on making more medical supplies until I get a chance to talk to Fernando. He left before he can see the list. If there's something not on the list that he wants, he should have stayed. Take a look at this and tell me what you think." Moro hands the tablet to Jeanette.
 
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Jeanette accepts the tablet and makes comments. "This list is small. It only covers the most common problems."
 
"This is just medical kit refill. We will make other things like new straps for old backboards, cervical collars, and new supplies for old automated external defibrillators. As you already know we are making new oxygen systems, supplies for old pulse oximeters and pelvic slings."
 
Jeanette goes over the list. "The SWAT-T is a good tourniquet. I also like the SOFTT-W. I suggest including both tourniquets. You need more than one size burn dressing."
 
"This is a medical kit refill list."
 
"Even medical kits include a 4" x 16" dressing."
 
"Okay."
 
"Other suggestions would be nasopharyngeal and oral airways, cotton swabs and surgical scrub brushes." Jeanette looks at the list. "Why no EMT shears?"
 
"Lister bandage scissors are being made."
 
"I know. You gave me a pair. In the field, EMT shears are better."
 
"Lister bandage scissors can be sterilized and sharpened."
 
"Make sure it's done legally. If it is currently not in print, get Wilderness & Travel Medicine by Eric A. Weiss, M.D. back in print. Not only is it a good reference to have until the injured or sick person can be evacuated, it includes information on improvising."
 
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Jeanette thinks about what Fernando just said, what he has been saying and what he's not saying. "Is it possible for two time lines to exist at the same time?"
 
"I believe so." Moro answers. "Understand this, though we have possessed time travel technology for thousands of years, we first used it last Friday. We're still learning how everything works."
 
"Fernando seems so infatuated with the spooky time line he keeps talking about. The more he talks about it, the creepier it sounds. The time line we are in now is definitely a fixer-upper; with some work, I think we can get it back up to code." Jeanette then addresses Chihiro. "I understand your concern. You have friends here in 2066 and you have friends back in 1995."
 
"Seiji, who is from my time, is the boy I fell in love with." Chihiro finds herself lost between two times. "My fellow residents are more than just friends. We live together, we cook together and we eat together. Dad is understanding and runs a home of mutual respect; my life in the orphanage is nothing like I experienced before."
 
"You want the best of both worlds."
 
Chihiro nods her head. "Yes. I believe . . . I should go back to my time and come back to Charlton when I finish school . . . that is if Seiji wants to move to Charlton."
 
Jeanette is afraid to ask and she believes she already knows the answer. "What if Seiji does not want to go to Charlton?"
 
"Then I'll go where he wants to go."
 
"Fernando goes to the time line he keeps talking about, I'll stay in this fixer-upper and fix her up, you Chihiro go with Seiji wherever he goes and everyone's happy." Changing the tone of this happy moment, Jeanette looks at Moro sternly. "I haven't had a period in three years. If you do what Fernando suggests and bring that back, I will sell your pelt on the open market. Are we clear?"
 
"Yes, very clear. We will not make you fertile again."
 
"Good. Let's get some breakfast."
 
Moro walks with Jeanette. "We know what you want more than just about anything else. You want what Hikaru has and that is to be a child forever. We know why you love voice acting with your sisters. When you lend your voices to these animated characters, it's like you and your sisters are children again. Sorry, we can't give you want you want."
 
Jeanette stops Moro right there. "You've been bending over backwards to get me to accept immortality. Sorry Moro, you're too late. If you wanted me to be an Immortal, you should have done that when I was Penny's age. You knew back then how I felt and you did nothing." Jeanette continues walking. "I'm not accepting immortality so stop offering it to me. I want to hurry up and die."
 
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Moro approaches Fernando with the tablet. She has already added two of the suggestions Jeanette made. "I wanted to see you for the past several days; you did not want to talk to me. Since then several new things came up. We were holding off on making more medical supplies until I got a chance to talk to you." Moro hands Fernando the tablet computer.
 
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"This is just medical kit refill. Some of what you see here is already being made. We wanted to include everything in this list. I've already added two of the suggestions Jeanette made. Jeanette also suggested nasopharyngeal and oral airways, cotton swabs, surgical scrub brushes and Wilderness & Travel Medicine by Eric A. Weiss, M.D. We will make other things such cervical collars, new straps for old backboards and supplies for old automated external defibrillators. We're already making Lister bandage scissors, pelvic slings, replacement parts for CPR masks, new oxygen systems and supplies for old pulse oximeters."
 
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Hondo and Valentine finished up rather quickly. Val,  and to some extant Hondo, was excited about talking to the girls. Hondo was mostly tired. He didn't  have a lot planned for the day, though the evening would be busy again. He wanted to sleep more but wanted to know more of what was planned for the day by others. He decided to go inside and sit in the recliner and rest for a bit. Valentine said she'd get him when the girls were done eating. he sat back into the recliner, opening a window on the canopy side. He closed his eyes and listened to the chatter of the group as they talked over breakfast.

Note: The spirits can not use the fact that they are architects and engineers as an excuse because, using the US Space program when the shuttle flew and the current US Military standards - any mission involving 6 or more people, one on those individuals has to be a medical doctor or have a medical background in deal with emergency medicines. NASA takes it a step further by make sure in any space mission, those involved are trained in emergency medicine - not just first aid. They learned from their mistakes from astronauts getting sick in space in the past.
 
A group of Spirits of 10 to 100 or more individuals on a mission, you can not say that there is not one doctor or medical professional in their group. What if one of them got hurt, who is going to take care of them? What if Jeanette or any of the girls or all of the girls in her camper got hurt, who are going to take care of them?
 
If there is no medical professional in the spirit group, not only are they inept, they are stupid and whaofully unprepared for anything in general.
 

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Note 2: The raw materials in terms of recyclable materials is daunting to say the least. It does not take that much in engineering to get the materials in question and make what is needed. Like I stated in my last post - rubber and steel from tires.you just got to melt the rubber to remove the steel inside and remelt the steel to form it into anything one needs. The carcasses of automotive vehicles out there gives one steel, aluminum, copper, plastic, glass and rubber. A safety pin is made from a spring steel wire. Tweezers get easily lost but again, they are made from stamped out spring steel welded together.
 
Hand sanitizer is made from Ethanol (drinkable alcohol) and Glycerine (vegetable oil/fat), both can be gotten from a farm or a baker. Anti-bacterial items like wound dressings can be made by soaking in Hydrogen peroxide and let to dry, with the peroxide infused in the material, germs getting on it are killed instantly.
 
There isn't anything out there that can not be brought back if one picks up and reads a 3rd grade science book and its owner's manual. The biggest being CB Radio and radio science in general - get some junk equipment and learn a bit of electronics, it is amazingly simple to make or repair one. Radio Science is not that hard. From that, fixing a water or wind turbine is not that hard either. Rewiring broken solar panels is not that hard either. Gun Smithering and automotive mechanics are even more simplier. All this is doable. It just depends on who is willing to take the time to learn and fix this stuff. The other side of the coin - they can all act like bullies when the sun is out and cowards when the moon is down, and they can go out and hunt down pre-teen virgins to rape and sacrifice to their tiki gods.
 

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Note 3:
This is an apocalyptic world, but this is a world on recovery. If this were 5 or 10 years after 'The Happening' where the shit is still hitting the fan and mankind has lost all hope, I can see how bad things can be. But this is some 30 - 40 years after the fact and the world is recovering. As I see it, the Spirits are in a race to get Texas up and going before the others and they are way behind in many areas despite having fixed up much of the infra structure, they do not have the social structure to continue the recovery. Many places outside of Texas have the social structure - the good and the bad and they are behind on the infrastructure but they are getting it up faster than the spirits did originally because they have the man power to do it.
 
Give a man a job and he will work to get paid. Tell a man that a job will be done and he will complain. In Texas - the spirits are saying that the job will be done (and it may very well is being done), but everyone's complaining because it is just words being said about Texas. Outside of Texas, people are trying their damndest to get things going one way or another and they are going forward no matter how big or small the foot step being taken. And nobody's complaining because everyone got something to do.
 
Sure, there is the criminal element to deal with. There are those willing to take shortcuts in order to get the rewards, but in the least they are doing something. And their work does push society forward into action in doing something but people need to be reminded that there is good and there is evil and good will always triumph over evil.
 

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Note 4:
As much a I got on CDRR and their garbage tech, at least with the right people in the right places, things got one. This world after 'the end of the world' is very much like CDRR. The right people has to be at the right place and do the things the group (society) needs. Without it, they would be a bunch of naked micro furs digging up and eating acorns they buried the year before.  
 
Yes, the Cafe was and still is a perversed universe where everyone tried to do the other in what they can in the RPGs. But if they stayed within the context of the CDRR Universe, we would have this RPG going. That means simply put - a society trying to manage on its own with what little they got and be successful in doing so with practically nothing. Gadget being the main inventor/engineer did most of the work to get things for the group by taking garbage and turning it into tech - literally. The people of this earth are doing the same thing.