!html <div class='white'>GTA MEDICAL CORPS ADVISORY</div>

This is an official <span class='blue'>GTA Medical Corps</span> advisory. I'm <span class='blue'>Dr. Singh</span>, a specialist in the Lucerta plague. My team and I are <span class='italic'>the</span> reason the Gregor is here. I'm happy to announce that <span class='blue'>Habitat Lima</span> has been declared plague-free. All quarantine restrictions are hereby lifted. The survivors are undergoing aftercare, and we expect the remains of those less fortunate to be released for memorial services within the month.

I know that this has been a hard time for everyone impacted by quarantine - not only those on the station, but their friends, family, and colleagues as well. Lucerta requires such a strong response. Between the spores' long incubation period, rapid onset of symptoms, and mind-affecting properties, it's extremely hard to control. Let our working theory as to this outbreak's origin serve as an object lesson. Early this year, an LNA ship stumbled upon an STX ore carrier dating back to the Fourteen Years War and examined it for salvage. We now believe that someone among that ship's crew was a Lucerta carrier, and in the tight quarters of a mining ship, it spread quickly. Remember, Lucerta isn't like any other illness. It digs into the brain and influences the host's actions. It forces them to spread it. I want you to imagine what the crew of that ship went through. Imagine the last survivors, huddled up in some closet somewhere, hoping to outlast their deluded, plague-ridden colleagues. Well, they couldn't. The spores sunk into the hull, and even the reactor losing containment after a decade without maintenance wasn't enough to kill them. The LNA crew didn't take adequate precautions, and now they're dead.

I don't want to hear any more complaining about the quarantine on <span class='blue'>Lima Station</span> or about decontamination procedures. We did what we had to do. If we hadn't, that scenario I had you imagine above would have played out across the entire station. We'd have been lucky to avoid a system-wide epidemic.

Which, apparently, is still what the outside world thinks happened. I spoke to one of our comm techs, who says that none of the messages we're receiving from outside Luyten show any signs of tampering. Feel free to listen to them if you want to know what the outside world thinks, but <span class='white'>don't take any medical advice from them</span>. Trust those of us who are here - and follow the damn decontamination protocols. We're not going to be getting fresh supplies any time soon.

