Chapter 40 - How does a tranquilizer dart even work??? (Patreon)

Like most people, probably, I only had the vaguest idea how a tranquilizer dart actually works, but being the 'professional (lol) writer' I am, I did my research before writing the scene.

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Having an idea, I slowly backed away in the service crawlway and turned a corner to give myself a little distance to ensure that my actions wouldn’t be heard.

‘Milla, run power consumption analysis for two replicated tranquilizer darts filled with 50 cc’s of tetrovaline,’ I silently ordered, linking to the design schematics I had in my personal database. ‘Is it possible to successfully replicate specified items using the onboard micro-replicator under the influence of this dampening field.’

‘Analysis in progress,’ Milla reported.

I waited patiently to see if this non-lethal plan of mine was even be an option given the constraints I was operating under. Under normal circumstances it wouldn’t be a question at all, my armor’s micro-replicator had a stupid amount of power normally available to it. Thankfully, the darts were very low-tech, simple items, a little plastic, metal, and drugs really, and hopefully shouldn’t require that much energy to replicate. Each dart was essentially a hypodermic needle filled with sedatives under pressure. Once the needle was shot and pierced the skin of the target, the sedative would be injected due to gas (air) compression, though there were other types to do the same thing. I had chosen the simplest delivery method to minimize the cost of replication.

The sedative I had chosen, though, was a modern one, used to knock a person unconscious. I had selected that one because it was both powerful and was effective on a wide variety of humanoid races with the only side effect being a temporarily lowered immune response. It was effective even on a hearty race like the Vulcans, so I was hoping it would both work on and not kill the two unknown aliens standing guard outside my target.