A Cure For Kirsten

A Cure For Kirsten is one of the quests in The Long Journey Home.

Description
The player receives a broadcast from a K'schar laboratory, when entering a new sector. The K'schar want to test a new drug.

At the indicated star system, the player will meet Doctor T'szati on a K'schar starbase. After finishing the conversation Doctor T'szati will scan the crew for interesting medical suspects. If Kirsten is still alive, the doctor will offer to cure her cancer (even if all Metastases have been removed in a hospital). A crew member has to get infected with the Shivering Rot to test a new medicine. If the player accepts, he will receive a DNA Sampler and Kirsten stays at the laboratory.

On the indicated planet the DNA Sampler infects the pilot with the Shivering Rot. The pilot gets poisoned on the planet and will get further diseases every few seconds.

If the player makes it back on time, the pilot and Kirsten will be fully healed. Kirsten returns to the ship and her cancer is gone. It unlocks the "REMISSION COMPLETE" achievement.

If the pilot dies, Kirsten will be cured as well, but the pilot will stay dead. If the player dares to leave the star system before infesting a crew member with the Shivering Rot, Kirsten will die in the clinic.

Trivia
Found in universe:
 * mariner (Omicron Velorum Cluster)
 * rammstein (Veil Nebula Cluster, System Gliese 876)