The Nano-Tech Medical Emergency Surgery System (NMESS) grew out of the NRAD's scientific experiments with nano-technology. The Scientists decided to attempt to "recreate" an existing technology to test their knowledge. They chose to work on the IRMSS.

The team began to design a system from the ground up that would do the the same thing as the IRMSS. By the end of the process, they had actually surpassed their original goal: they had improved on the IRMSS. The new device performed all of the services of the original, usually more proficiently, but it also did more.

The new device was christened the Nano-tech Medical Emergency Surgery System, or NMESS. Incorporating technology derived from the NDW projects, the scientists had created nano-bots that could actually affect a limited repair of almost any internal injury. This included blood clots, torn or ruptured veins or arteries, internal bleeding, internal bruising, limited nerve damage, trauma, damage to internal organs, and more.

The NMESS itself is about the size of a pocket flashlight. The end is placed on the skin near where the damage is suspected to be. The nano-bots are then injected into the body by way of a compressed gas burst. This operation is completely painless, though it does feel somewhat strange at first. When their job is done, the nano-bots are flushed naturally out of the body.

Effects: The NMESS provides the equivalent of a medical doctor's surgery skill of 80%. However, unlike the IRMSS, the NMESS actually heals the injury slightly. Heal any SDC/hit point (or MDC) injury by 2D6 points.

Frequency: In general, there is no added effect from multiple uses of the NMESS. However, when 3D6 hours have elapsed after the first use, a second injection can be made. This time the nano-bots are mostly just checking the work out and making sure the repairs have taken hold. There is, though, an additional 1D6 points of healing.

Payload: Each device holds enough nano-bots and compressed gas for five administrations.

Cost: 25,000 credits

Designed by Chris Curtis (curtis@thepentagon.com).