"I don't know whose ship is fastest and that wouldn't be the limiting factor, it'd be how many gs we could survive. But that's a pretty bad situation to be in, and depending how freaked out they were they might dispatch a ship with no one in it to catch and nuke us."

:Is blowing up Julie's ship going to be very obvious and make them more likely to pursue us?: 

"It'll be visible. I think it won't cause them to pursue us unless it helps them put together that there's a possibility this ship survived the destruction of the Donnager."

At some point she needs to get a more complete explanation of how and why they ended up 'salvaging' this Martian gunship, but right now Nayoki is way too tired to care. 

:All right. Then - I think we should destroy Julie's ship - I will warn the Healers first in case the Proto reacts badly and does harm to our patients - and then we can wait and see if the Martians begin pursuing us? And in the meantime I will work out the best light-shielding technique I can, in case they do chase us and we need it: 

He looks at Holden.

" - yeah, all right. Your crew's clear of the Anubis shuttle?"

:Yes. All of us are here: Along with all their magical artifacts; they left some food and water behind on Julie's shuttle but hopefully that won't matter. 

She considers warning the Proto, but plausibly that'll just alarm it more and make things go worse? 

She does Mindtouch one of the Healers, though. :We are going to destroy Julie's shuttle to stop the Martian patrol from taking it. The Proto - may react badly to this: 

"Okay. When you're ready, then, Alex."

Alex fires. 

The protomolecule mutters sulkily but doesn't have a strong reaction otherwise.

"All righty, let's get the hell out of here."

The crew of the Roci sits down and straps in. 

"Can someone in the medbay give us an update on the patients?"

Nayoki can relay this request to the Healers over there! 

They can't read the screens but it at least seems like there aren't any new alarms going off! The various supportive care being provided by the machines is helping, they think, or at least reducing the workload on the Healers themselves. 

The guy watching the VR crash course on kidney transplants is almost done, he thinks. He doesn't know how to check how much longer the kidney that the machines are growing needs before it's ready. 

Naomi should actually be able to mirror the medbay's screens up on the bridge and read things to Nayoki to convey to her Healers with her psychic powers. "It says fifteen minutes."

:I am guessing we should not have the ship doing complicated maneuvers while that is happening? ...Although, we are in fact used to standard planet gravity, and Julie did not seem too badly harmed by it when she was on Velgarth: 

"She's an Earther."

"I'll keep her nice and smooth while they operate."

:Thank you:

Nayoki settles herself in to convey medbay-screen-information from Naomi to the Healers.

The Healers are so excited about getting to replace someone's organs with new better organs! Three of them are planning to focus on Julie while the fourth keeps an eye on Leareth. 

They've also literally never done surgery under anesthetic before and are kind of nervous about that part. 

Does the autodoc want to knock me out? Might make sense for me to stay conscious so I can read it, unless you have that figured out.

:We have one of their crew reading it for us from the bridge, so - up to you, I think?: 

What's the autodoc's opinion on this question? 

It's standard to do transplants under local anaesthesia. The patient is supposed to watch something very boring on the VR glasses, because it's bad for the operation if they are stressed or panicking or squeamish. 

Several of the Healers feel that personally they would LOVE to watch their organs getting replaced with new better organs, but it's fair enough that not everyone is like that.

They get everything set up, taking their time and carefully following the instructions, and offer Julie the VR glasses.