Issuzu Pharma

So today was Ilyara's meeting with Renoa at Issuzu Pharma.
 
You know it's going to be an interesting day when the person your meeting is with meets you on the landing pad in full haz-mat gear. We'd only just gotten through the door when we were asked to don the same and had to pass through negative pressure clean rooms before and after. They were serious about contaminants here, and later on I would understand why.
 
This was their R&D facility whose main focus is nanite technology. Once through the whole clean room process we were taken onto what used to be a huge warehouse floor, the space was that large it could have been a hangar in a previous life. Ranged across the space were a whole series of regimented boxes, small white cubicles holding individual labs. The boxes were 3mx3mx3m high with a gap of two metres in between each one.
 
Rinoa started walking us around the facility, stopping to look into individual pods as we went. The first one she showed us had a pile of sand in it. As I carried on watching I saw that the sand was being converted into a honeycomb structure. as we watched the circle on the floor grew up and over until I could tell it was going to form some kind of dome. They were using the nanites as 3D printers and could program them to make pretty much anything. The dome was the quickest and sturdiest to make and had been developed with the military in mind.
 
The next one Rinoa warned us could be a bit gruesome for anyone who was squeamish. I was kind of, but my curiosity got the better of me. Inside on a table was a man with a severed leg, from what I could see it was a fresh wound. The leg was also on the gurney. A can of nanites was placed next to the limb and they got to work. Some of the nanites forming a bridge to pull the leg back together. Some of the nanites dissolving and others picking up the dissolved nanites and using that material to start the process of re-attaching the leg. We stood there watching and I was transfixed. Within 15 minutes the nanites had the leg re-attached with only a very faint white line of a scar where the leg had been severed. "We're hoping to make the process quicker for soldiers on the battlefield" I had to do a double take, even I knew that trying to re-attach a limb in surgery was hours and this was minutes.

We looked at some of the other pods, more building technology, more surgical applications. I noticed that all of the subjects were human. This was, apparently for very good reason. They could be used for other forms but it may not work or could just take longer. One of the other issues they were having was with anyone with a magical ability. The magic would stop the nanites from working. They wanted to rectify this, but in order to do that they needed 'Lost' medical knowledge and expertise. This was where Ilyara came in.
 
I noticed that, even in here, some of the pods windows were obscured. These were the pods working on technologies that only certain top level employees could know about. I didn't ask any more questions as the impression I got was that they would not take kindly to it.
 
The next floor we were taken to was all to do with clinical trials. We went through the same decontamination process as on the way in - including chemical shower in the elevator. Apparently there was no-way to bypass it, a security feature to ensure zero contamination between the different project areas.
 
On this floor we saw an Amaranthian being experimented on, a cut being healed. It was working but, we were told it would only work on small cuts, still couldn't get anything larger to work.
 
We go to her office and they come to an agreement that Ilyara will try and get her the data she is after, in return Rinoa transfers a huge batch of test data over to Ilyara - on the proviso that if it is not used to delete it and to keep it safe, proprietary information. It appears she is also much more open minded in terms of magic users. Apparently Neo Japan is much more diverse in terms of the population. Ilyara confesses that she is a Vampire. Although Rinoa doesn't know much about Vampires, she does know about Upir's a branch of vampire that feeds on spiritual energy from nearby Amaranthians - they are hunted with extreme prejudice.
 
There is a cross that can affect vampires - it has a rune in it that was given to the Emperor by the One True God and only he knows what it means.
 
Ilyara also gives Rinoa a sample of her blood.