Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station

You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look like miniature beetles. One of the insects skitters up your leg, so you reach down and brush it off. It bites your hand. The area around the bite turns purple and swollen. You run down a long metal hallway to the Medical Clinic, grateful for the artificially generated gravity that defies the laws of physics and yet is surprisingly common in fictional space stations.
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A routine commute through a hydroponics bay turns alarming when a mysterious insect bite leads to a trip to the clinic. The vivid description of life in a sci-fi setting hints at both the challenges and wonders of interplanetary living.

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