1012
How do your characters feel about seeing doctors or anyone in the medical field?

Kira is your typical overworked leadership person.
She is in constant treatment for her scars from her childhood (physical and psychological) and has a relatively relaxed stance about it, but she also does this thing of pushing herself harder as doctors would say is healthy. Her eating disorder is also a point of friction. Since the meld Kira is a constant visitor in the Sickbay, mostly for monitoring.

Since universal healthcare is an basic sentient right in the Union, it's free & a lot of conditions, we only can treat symptoms nowadays, are just another thing that can be healed if wished for.
Lost limbs or dysfunctional organs can be treated and healed if wished for. With technical implants, cloned replacement or, in very rare cases, with nanites. But nanites are a sort of last resort because you are never sure that they leave your body, that's why there are strict rules for nanite treatment patients and diseased nanite patient's bodies. If used correctly they are harmless for everyone but it's not very easy.

One of the reasons Mondira joined the Alliance, despite being a Rim Wolrdler is that Eodin's healthcare system pretty much equals the today's US healthcare if people like Trump and coconspirators run unchecked.
She cares deeply for her family and their health. The Alliance offers Family members off non Union members treatment with Union standards, for free in Union facilities or payments for outer institutions. Her father has used this service, her little brother rejected it several times and her mother would not even accept it, if her life would depend on it. One does not betray the Rim from her perspective. Not even if it costs ones life. At least she doesn't holds it against her family that they used the alliance offer. Well her family other than Mondira.

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1006
How would your characters describe their community or communities?

- Union worlds: multi species cultures.
Unified by necessity, mildly enlightened, compassionate, the positive outweighs the negative, a force for the right thing to do.
More than the sum of its parts.
Near Utopian, yes that's a statement many people on the inside would use, outsiders would say pretentious, arrogant, elitist, expansionist, especially Terrans. Which are views Mondira tries to change.

- Rim worlds:
Free, diverse, personal, self sufficient, progressive but cautious about 'traditional values' and their replacements. The proof of resilience.

For outsiders it's more like an unorganized, chaotic patchwork of individualist focused groups, that cling to the worst tendencies multiple species came up with.
A mostly unshackled capitalism driven, unstable conglomerate of nightmares, including Kingdoms, 'Free Democratic Republics', Autocratic states, might makes right societies.

Something Mondira has to deal with regularly, after all one of this 'nightmares' is her homeworld (Eodin).

- The Union's Alliance.
The active protection of Union and non Union worlds alike.
The active force on fighting back the Eltaryn. Peace makers.
Something Mondira supports wholeheartedly & in good faith.

For Outsiders? Expansionist, Military indoctrination forces, colonial invaders & wannabe missionaries.
That's what Mondira's mother would say, her father just hopes she returns safe, sane and healthy.

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23.09.2925
If anyone in your world has imperfect vision what, if anything, can they do to correct it?

Get some glasses, get contact lenses, get surgery, get implants, biological or biomechanical.
It depends where you live and what the solution is you prefer/need.

In the Union it's no problem just go with whatever you prefer. Nanites are reserved for extrem causes, because you can't trust nanites and there are always left overs.

In the Rim it's different, mostly it depends on which level of tech the planet has available, since there are planets that lost their technological advances and resorted to some pseudo medieval lifestyles. If you are on a world like Eodin it's the price tag. Eodin isn't letting you die but it's usual that you only get the cheapest option for free everything else costs a crap load of money.

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