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Medpac info and diagrams (from The Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology). Transcript under the cut. 

“Medpacs are emergency medical kits used in the field to treat minor injuries and stabilize badly injured patients until they can be taken to advanced medical facilities. These inexpensive kits cost only about a hundred credits each but carry a wide variety of medicines and emergency-care tools. Internal diagnostic computers offer the user complete descriptions of essential procedures, and so persons with no medical training can use them effectively.

“The Chiewab GLiS (General Life-Sustaining) is a basic medpac and carries supplies for treating contusions, broken bones, burns, and traumatic injuries. Its computer can store treatment procedures for one species at a time – typically humans – although program modules can be purchased for thousands of other species. Its limited diagnostic scanner allows the user to monitor a patient’s vital signs constantly. 

“Standard medicines include coagulants to stop bleeding, healing salves and sterilizers used to treat burns, and antiseptic irrigation bulbs and disinfectant pads that cleanse wounds and prevent infections. Small bacta patches can be applied to promote the healing of traumatized tissues. Stim-shots and adrenaline boosters keep the patient alert and prevent him or her from going into shock, while painkillers and localized nerve anesthetics reduce discomfort. General-use antibiotics, countertoxins, and immunity boosters can be used to treat patients subjected to poisons, animal venoms, diseases, and infectious microbes, thus stabilizing a patient until he or she arrives at a health facility where more potent countertoxins can be administered.

“All medicines can be applied through patches or painlessly injected with a spray hypo. The GLiS also has a bone stabilizer and several spray splints that immobilize and protect broken bones; when the patient arrives at a hospital, bone fusers can repair the damage completely.

“More advanced and expensive medpacs such as the BioTech FastFlesh are designed for use by trained medics and include a much larger assortment of medicines. These medpacs are excellent for battlefield use, offering multiple spray splints, large supplies of stimulants and body boosters, and advanced synthe-nutrient replicators that sustain patients with vital nutrients. Specialized medicines can counter the effects of radiation, biological poisons, and nerve agents. The FastFlesh medpac also includes a canister of chromostring, which offers deeper penetration of healing agents without causing nerve damage. This medpac has several instruments for emergency field surgery, including a sonic scalpel, a laser cauterizer, and nerve and tissue regenerators. 

“The FastFlesh diagnostic computer’s database covers five hundred different species and is linked to the unit’s remote scanner and a sample analyzer that can identify poisons, toxins, and unknown compounds. The computer automatically stores a record of the patient’s condition for later reference. This medpac costs five hundred credits and is widely used by emergency-care technicians, including many New Republic medics.”

What medical treatments are there outside bacta? My plot requires an incredibly risky escape w someone near death. Would realistic medicine work instead? What are those binders/cuffs (triangular?) called, like in the 2017 Maul comics on the padawan? And finally, what is imperial protocol for bounties/tracking someone down? Thank you in advance!

It really depends on the specific injuries that the person has sustained. A good starting place, if you haven’t already checked it out, might be the medical terms section of my vocab list here. There’s a bunch of equipment and medicine listed there other than bacta, although bacta is normally a staple of medical treatment and is used in many other products. 

If your character is bleeding to death, bacta will probably not be a first step in their treatment/stabilization. Although I don’t know what piece of equipment you’re referring to in the comics (you’re welcome to submit/message me a picture, if you like) I would guess that it may be some sort of tourniquet. Some tourniquets (such as the SGB-543) could apply micro-repulsor fields in specific places to stop internal bleeding, as opposed to various other bandages, coagulants and cauterizers, which stopped external bleeding. Depending on the exact type of wound, different methods would be used to do this; there are circumstances where cauterization is not appropriate, for example, and tourniquets are not necessarily always a good idea, especially if they must be improvised. I’m not a real-life medical expert, though, so you may want to take a look through @scriptmedic‘s blog, since they have answered questions on the topic. 

If there is no significant bleeding (e.g., in the case of a lightsaber wound) but the character is still in critical condition, they would usually be kept in a bacta tank. Bacta is used as sort of a cure-all because it helps regenerate damaged cells, but it takes time to work and the character may need additional life support while they heal. Transporting someone in this sort of condition would be very risky, but could be made possible for short periods of time (for instance, until they got to a ship with a medbay) if there’s a medpac or medkit on hand. Since many ships, even small ones, could be fitted with decent medbays including a medical droid and/or diagnostic computer, that may be a good first stop for your characters. You can find a bit more detail on that in this post. 

As for real-life medicine, there’s no reason you can’t revert to more simple, low-tech treatments in a pinch. However, many of these simpler treatments have different names or alternative versions in-universe, so taking a look through the vocab list and Wookieepedia may help. 

Though they did have their own investigators with jurisdiction spanning most of the galaxy, when trying to track someone down the Empire was often known to employ bounty hunters. All of these sorts of investigations were carried out by the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations. There’s a lot of information there, so I would suggest reading through that. Take special note of the Imperial Enforcement DataCore and the Imperial Peace-Keeping Certificates; this should all give you an idea of how the Empire does business with registered and unregistered bounty hunters. 

I hope that helps! If you’ve got any follow-up questions, feel free to ask!

~ Jacen

So I’m thinking about making a Kel Dor character soon who, instead of the traditional face mask and tiny goggles, wears a big Buzz Lightyear-style spacesuit. I don’t have any reason for doing this other than it being a neat aesthetic, but I was wondering, what do you think would be the effects of wearing something like that? Do you think it would work better/make more sense than the face mask?

There’s no reason it couldn’t work at least decently, given the basic functions of the mask and goggles Kel Dor normally wear offworld. The suit would have to be completely airtight and filled with the composite gases of Dorin’s atmosphere, including helium. There would have to be some sort of amplifier inside the suit, because otherwise the Kel Dor would be forced to shout to be heard. The issue would then be that a suit of this nature would likely be pretty bulky and heavy. If the air is going to be contained inside a suit rather than a mask, then every part of the body has to remain covered at all times, which means no touchscreens or fingerprint scans, and likely very little fine motor control. Practically, it definitely would not make more sense than the standard mask and goggles, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do it. Perhaps the suit was chosen over the mask for a specific reason, like cost or a disability?

I hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Is there any information of consequences about people with prosthetic members, specifically like Anakin in the beginning of ROTS, in directly contact with water? Thanks for your time.

I can’t recall whether this is specifically addressed for Anakin, but a cybernetic limb should not be affected by contact with water under normal circumstances (while the mechanisms are intact, the circuitry and wiring aren’t exposed, etc.). Otherwise, people with cybernetics would always have to worry about going out in the rain or spilling a glass of water on themselves. If damaged, however, the limb may fail like any other electrical device. 

Hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Hi! I’m thinking about maybe doing a set of tumblr posts where two characters exchange messages. What device would they use to send text-like messages to each other? And how would I format it? Thanks for any help!

So sorry for the delay, Hawaii kept me much busier than I thought! When it comes to text-like communication, things get a bit confusing. It seems like the HoloNet, the network used to send communications back and forth across the galaxy, could transmit messages between two people in two ways: more of a forum type of thing, or as something akin to an email. (Of course, you can also have a vocal conversation or talk to someone as a hologram, but these aren’t text-based.) The forums work pretty much like ours, so if you ever wanted a group chat sort of thing you could go with that. For text-based HoloNet communications between two individuals, it becomes unclear exactly how it works. We know of one HoloNet service called Imperial.emp in which people had their own contact addresses (Vader’s was rumoured to be vader@imperial.emp, which leads me to believe it was intended to function like email), so I can only assume that this is the closest thing to a texting system that the HoloNet has. I don’t know of a canonical format for either the forums or the individual messages. I also don’t know of any device that has been explicitly said to be able to send and receive text-based messages. Supposedly, anything with a keyboard and the necessary equipment to interface with the HoloNet could do it. 

Outside the HoloNet, some planets/sectors/cities had their own communications networks in which people could transmit messages to other individuals. If both your characters are in the same general area, this would be the closest thing to a text message. However, by far the best way to get a message across the galaxy in any reasonable amount of time is by using the HoloNet, so if they’re a great distance apart you will want to stick to HoloNet services. Of course, you don’t have to stick to any of this canon stuff, especially since you will probably be making up your own format either way. 

I hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Would it be possible/practical to make a lightsaber whip sword? That is, a lightwhip that can reconstitute its blade into a lightsaber, and vice-versa?

No weapon like this exists canonically, and it would likely be difficult to build given that lightwhips usually have many smaller lightsaber crystals, rather than the one (sometimes two or three) large crystal used by a lightsaber. They also lack the cell barriers necessary to keep the blade contained in a straight line. Theoretically, I believe you could create a weapon capable of turning those barriers on and off, but I can’t see it having a particularly stable blade. If it works for you, it would be exponentially easier to have a hilt (standard length) with emitters at both ends, one for the lightwhip and one for a regular blade, that the wielder could choose from. Naturally, they couldn’t both be used at the same time, but it is a simpler solution.

I hope that helps!

~ Jacen

Do you think using rocket boots (like Cad Bane’s) along with a jetpack (like the Mandalorians’) would make flight easier or more difficult? Like, would the extra rockets help maneuverability and/or speed, or would they just be more jets to keep track of?

Usually, having multiple sources of thrust that aren’t coordinated with each other is bad news. If the user managed to keep their body completely straight and still, I would imagine that the combination could give them extra speed. However, rocket boots are more maneuverable than jetpacks and much more unstable, so I think it’s more likely that they would end up interfering with the jetpack’s ability to maneuver and cause the user to go all over the place, because those rockets have the potential to point in any direction if the user can’t control them perfectly. 

Hope that helps!

~ Jacen

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