Trauma Team
Still one of the largest private medical firms in the world, Trauma Team provides ambulance services and
paramedic support for a client base of at least fifteen million people. Equipped with top-line AV type vehicles,
Trauma Teams provide an essential service in the 2000s: recovering wounded clients from the field. Dispersed
as needed among the offices are 1,305 AV-4 aerodyne vehicles, thirty Corporate jets, twenty-two Osprey II
aircraft, and four C-29 heavy cargo jets. Each franchise office also has its own surgical-capable infirmary and
arrangements with local hospitals for high-need patients.
During the War, Trauma Team International became even busier than ever and the company's capabilities were
stretched to the limit. To keep the number of cases down (and to preserve its neutrality) Trauma Team declared
that they wouldn't respond to any alert from a member of Arasaka or Militech. They just couldn't to be honest:
one battle would tie up every TT team in an entire city otherwise. Instead, TT would only respond to civilian
requests, and they'd be charging the combat rate if anyone so much as fired a weapon within half a kilometer.
Even with those extra costs, TT was swamped with calls after every Militech/Arasaka clash.
Trauma Team survived the 4th Corporate War but only as regional providers. The conflict not only drew heavily
upon their limited resources, but also upon their suppliers. Repair parts for their fleet of AV-4s and jets are hard
to come by, as well as medical dressings, key drugs and vaccines, and even trained personnel. With the War's
end came another problem, as hospitals and clinics collapsed, throwing ever more desperately ill or wounded
patients onto the Trauma Team rolls. Not all of these patients can afford TT's high response fees, but groups of
Edgerunners have been known to chip in to buy a single card that they break to call in the Trauma Team in the
hopes that the TT paramedics will at least patch the rest of the team up.
The War has also changed TT's Corporate look as well: in the past, their crisp blue and yellow uniforms were
a comforting sign of their competence and capability. But endless street battles and the availability of surplus
military hardware has forced the Trauma Team to armor up almost as heavily as the worst Psycho Squad. The
uniforms are still blue, but the new helmets are mil-spec, heavy duty combat rigs, coupled with heavy armor,
power armor support systems (yellow), and self-contained combat medipacs. This coupled with the lack of
qualified Medtechs, has given Trauma Team a new face: harried, overworked, angry, and impatient.
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