Contamination Crew

A framed record from a medical disciplinary board recounts a survey mission to a planet whose inhabitants fear an indestructible creature called a hlorg. Two physicians investigate the mass delusion and are later taken aboard a larger survey ship to resupply, where shipboard authorities accuse them of introducing a contaminant. Tensions between services escalate as uncertainty about an unknown agent forces urgent decontamination measures, quarantine protocols, and legal scrutiny. The account follows clinical procedures, bureaucratic conflict, and the struggle to distinguish psychiatric panic from genuine biological threat while responsibility and professional ethics come under review.