SANDRA [SANDRA] Experimental Drugs Arrive at Ohara

Yangfan:

The first batch of experimental drugs designed for Phods arrived at Ohara today. Some time last year, the Third Expeditionary Fleet of the Star Army of Yamatai commissioned Emrys Industries to design drugs that will cure most terminal diseases among the Phodian population. Many Phods succumb each day to diseases against which most Yamataians are immune, or for which there are cures which humans take for granted.

Yamataian government and military officials are cautiously optimistic. “The Yamataian government has long considered the issue a humanitarian problem,” said one Third Expeditionary Fleet official who declined to be named. “We hope that today marks the first step toward its resolution.”

The Phodian coalition government has taken a similarly cautious stance. “We do not wish to raise false hopes,” said Mina Ottoson, Regent of the Free City State of Everspring. “Even if the initial clinical trials prove to be successful, it will take us another year to build up the infrastructure necessary to manufacture enough drugs for everyone who needs it. In the mean time, we are at the mercy of Emrys Industries. I'm told that they are good at medical research, but lack the industrial capacity to supply an entire planet with drugs.”

Nevertheless, small, impromptu celebrations has broken out in several Phodian cities.