Fiction:Iron Bloc Epidemic

Prologue
Oschon wasn't the kind of doctor who really minded making house calls. However, being called halfway across the galaxy to cure a disease in a state that had once nearly destroyed her people was a bit much.

The War of the Blocs had hit everybody in the Defensive System's Bloc hard, and sentiment against the Iron Bloc was common. However, the Treaty of Calin-2 stated that in times of need the Defensive System's Bloc was required to assist the Iron Bloc in times of need. And currently the Iron Bloc was facing an epidemic of the kind it had not seen before. Granted, they haven't seen many, or really any, epidemics, so Oschon presumed they had to be exaggerating.

Regardless of whether the Iron Bloc was exaggerating the severity of their "epidemic," Oschon was scooped from her comfortable home on Melapa and placed on a science vessel en route to Iron Bloc territory. Her assignment was a simple one: identify the disease, cure the epidemic, save the Iron Blockheads. However, deep down she was sure that something was going to make her job much more difficult than it should be.