Star Sickness

Star sickness is a mental illness affecting first time, or those who haven't gone in a while, travellers across the stars. The reliance on anti-grav, artifical and recycled oxygen and the intense G-Forces experienced when travelling from inside to outside an atmosphere can have a negative affect on a persons mind, and then thier body.

The symptoms are very similar to the flu or an intense cold in Humans, beginning with an intense headache and feeling of pressure against a person brain when first leaving atmosphere. After a few hours to a week in space flight the constance use of anti-grav and recycled oxygen begin to take affect on a persons body, starting with a feeling of perpetual motion sickness and nausea followed by shortness of breath and the feeling of suffocation, even with an oxygen mask applied.

Treatment for star sickness isn't complex, repeat exposure to extra-atmospheric travel, anti-nausea tablets and inhalers.

The prevention for star sickness is mainly repeat exposure, or training in a pilot/starship scheme before attempting to travel beyond the atmosphere. Noteably not everyone gets star sickness, it's common but some people are naturally resiliant to the affects. On the flip side, some people are affected by star sickness even further, espically those who get motion sick when travelling in cars or inner atmosphere ships, or those with claustrophobia.

Though humanity have been travelling through the atmosphere and into space since the mid 20th century the concept of star sickness didn't really exist until after the discovery of the Entity, and the subsequent reverse engineering of anti-grav technology. Early astronaughts also went through extensive training and preperations before exiting the atmosphere, hardening their bodies and minds to the G-Forces and recycled oxygen so the affects of star sickness didn't really spring up; it was only after civilians were able to travel beyond the atmosphere themselves that star sickness became a well known and documented condition.