Cataclysm Balm
Let it never be said that the Prof is blind to humanitarian concerns - particularly when those concerns can be properly addressed by SCIENCE!
See, there are situations and events that happen all the time on poor mother earth, that leave a *lot* of people in serious trouble all at once. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, can leave people injured and unable to get help, starving, or any number of other problems. The Professor has a solution, and I bet you can guess what it's made of.
This is a specialized strain of handwavium, mixed with a variety of vitamin supplements, painkillers, antibiotics, antidepressants and so forth. It really blurs the line pretty thoroughly between handwaved medicines and handwavium grown on a medicinal base. When applied to a biomodded human in physical and/or emotional trauma, it will do what it can (some, but not all that much) to reduce suffering, seal wounds, and rebalance the psychochemicals so that the recipient can do what they have to to get themselves out of trouble. If it lands on an *unmodded* human, it will do all of the above, and then biomod them in a way that will adapt them as much as possible to surviving the trials and dangers they are likely to face as a result of the current disaster. It's never been tested on - well, really, it's never been tested at *all* on an unmodded human, but the Prof is pretty sure that if it hits an unmodded human who isn't in distress, it will leave them unmodified. He's *pretty* sure.
Then he loaded the thing into an *enormous* aerosol bomb, and attached a pretty functional suite of guidance systems, stealth systems, and reentry survival gear. He figures that he'll identify some catastrophe somewhere with lots of unhappy people in it - say, starving, freezing, and likely to drown - he'll drop the bomb, and 24 hours later they should all have brand new bodies , courtesy of handwavium, that are naturally aquatic, far more resilient to cold, and far better able to survive on little food. That's the idea, anyway.
but... see... there's this *thing*. The professor isn't *entirely* unaware of political realities, and once he woke up from having built the contraption, it occurred to him that his biomodding a few thousand people in a politically sensitive situation without warning or consent might be taken the wrong way by some people - and it might result in some people becoming, perhaps, a bit less pro-handwavium. *He* doesn't really understand why, but he does acknowledge that there are those who are not already convinced of its wonders. He doesn't *want* to turn people away from handwavium. That would be actively counterproductive to at *least* three of his long-term schemes. So he's got this balm, with delivery system... and it's *great*... and he can't bring himself to just get *rid* of it, but he's not sure he wants to use it either, and... well....
Let it never be said that the Prof is blind to humanitarian concerns - particularly when those concerns can be properly addressed by SCIENCE!
See, there are situations and events that happen all the time on poor mother earth, that leave a *lot* of people in serious trouble all at once. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, can leave people injured and unable to get help, starving, or any number of other problems. The Professor has a solution, and I bet you can guess what it's made of.
This is a specialized strain of handwavium, mixed with a variety of vitamin supplements, painkillers, antibiotics, antidepressants and so forth. It really blurs the line pretty thoroughly between handwaved medicines and handwavium grown on a medicinal base. When applied to a biomodded human in physical and/or emotional trauma, it will do what it can (some, but not all that much) to reduce suffering, seal wounds, and rebalance the psychochemicals so that the recipient can do what they have to to get themselves out of trouble. If it lands on an *unmodded* human, it will do all of the above, and then biomod them in a way that will adapt them as much as possible to surviving the trials and dangers they are likely to face as a result of the current disaster. It's never been tested on - well, really, it's never been tested at *all* on an unmodded human, but the Prof is pretty sure that if it hits an unmodded human who isn't in distress, it will leave them unmodified. He's *pretty* sure.
Then he loaded the thing into an *enormous* aerosol bomb, and attached a pretty functional suite of guidance systems, stealth systems, and reentry survival gear. He figures that he'll identify some catastrophe somewhere with lots of unhappy people in it - say, starving, freezing, and likely to drown - he'll drop the bomb, and 24 hours later they should all have brand new bodies , courtesy of handwavium, that are naturally aquatic, far more resilient to cold, and far better able to survive on little food. That's the idea, anyway.
but... see... there's this *thing*. The professor isn't *entirely* unaware of political realities, and once he woke up from having built the contraption, it occurred to him that his biomodding a few thousand people in a politically sensitive situation without warning or consent might be taken the wrong way by some people - and it might result in some people becoming, perhaps, a bit less pro-handwavium. *He* doesn't really understand why, but he does acknowledge that there are those who are not already convinced of its wonders. He doesn't *want* to turn people away from handwavium. That would be actively counterproductive to at *least* three of his long-term schemes. So he's got this balm, with delivery system... and it's *great*... and he can't bring himself to just get *rid* of it, but he's not sure he wants to use it either, and... well....