Into the Black

(Medical Center, Starborn City, Star’s Reach)

Lukkud Smeltstone groaned, and reached down to grab the sides of the medical table where Nomads typically respawned. Generally, if you got killed in the game, you respawned in the medical center of the last ship or planet you visited. There were exceptions to that, of course. You could designate a certain medical center to be your primary, and you’d go there when you respawned, if the ship was within reach. That was something like the distance between Earth and the Moon. Or, if you set foot on a planet that didn’t have a medical center, you would respawn somewhere close to your landing site if there wasn’t an acceptable medical facility in orbit.

None of that information, however, helped keep the room from spinning as he tried to get to his feet. He’d only ‘died’ a couple times in the game, but the ‘respawn sickness’, as people were calling it on the forums, hit him like a truck every time. It would pass in a couple minutes, but at the moment, he could barely see straight, much less carry on a conversation.