Trauma Team
Structure
Operating from an AV-4 Urban Assault Vehicle of ambulance configuration and a belly-mounted minigun, Trauma Teams include a driver, one or more First Aid operatives, and two or more Solo security agents. A Dispatcher may also be part of the team, in charge of sending them on missions.
In 2045, Trauma Team demand increased, requiring the corporation to change their coverage plans to reflect the state of the world, reducing their level of coverage to two levels: Silver and Executive. Most Corporate Cops receive full medical coverage from Trauma Team. Execs can receive Silver or Executive depending on their standing.
During flight, two Security Specialists sit in the same compartment as the EMTs. The security specialists sit directly behind the pilot and co-pilot, and each of them mans a 7.62 Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) machine-gun mounted to their side of the vehicle. The EMTs sit toward the back of the vehicle, with the Lead EMT sitting next to the patient stretcher and the Assistant EMT sitting next to the medical supplies.
During patient extraction, the two EMTs and two Security Specialists disembark from the AV-4A and make their way to the patient to rescue them. If necessary, the two Security Specialists will clear a path to the patient for the EMTs using their rifles and submachine guns. Each EMT is armed with a pistol for self-protection.
Trauma Team is unusual in that it has two Faces, each representing a different area of the Company. Although both Lachanan and Jones are top rated Doctors/Medtechs, Lachanan specializes in the day-to-day operations of the company and its franchises, while Jones covers the manpower and materiel side of the equation. Both, over many years of marriage (each maintains their original name as they married while both worked together in the early days of the company) have become mirrors of each other: weary, fed up, no-nonsense medics who put their patients first. Because the current rules of Corporations require that they present a "Face," they put up with the formalities, but it takes a major act of persuasion to drag them into any Corporate hearing or event.
Culture
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.
Public Agenda
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.
Assets
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.
History
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.
Founding Date
2017
Type
Corporation, Medical
Training Level
Semi-professional
Veterancy Level
Trained
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