Everett Malcon the Tenth

Everett Malcon the tenth has always struggled with having enough. His parents, both Intra-lazic eye surgeons, specializing in human optic organ generation and replacement procedures, told everyone that they had decided to come to Lunar colony #7 to finally answer some of the research questions they had postulated thirty years ago in Issue 3,228, 2004 Summer Edition, of Universal Vision Quarterly (UVQ), considered the leading journal in the then-fledgling field of Intra-lazic procedures, human optic organ generation, and bio-synthetic human eye replacement procedures. Their postulated question: is a near-zero gravity environment the best for generating bio-synthetic human optic organ and to what degree does human optic organ socket rejection rate drop if the replacement procedure is preformed in a zero-gravity environment?. They told everyone this is why they were going to the moon, but the real reason for their leaving earth for the moon, the one they generally kept quiet about except with close family members and trusted friends, was that the Everett Fredric Malcon the ninth (Freddy), his wife Izvinichi (Izzy), Pazhoulistah - her maiden name, and their yet to be born son, came to the moon in search of a better life after Fredric had spent ten years in prison convicted of mal practise. One of his patients, a spacecraft systems technician, whose left eye had been seared (and rendered useless, only to be later removed completely from its socket, surgically), by a superheated stream of hydraulic oil when he opened the line joint of the spacecrafts’ primary flight controls hydraulic system line to replace a timed-out pressure seal, prematurely, with the system still under residual pressure by virtue of it’s self contained accumulator that the technician had assumed was discharged by another technician on the midnight shift the day before. He assumed wrongly.
Thus the technician had one good eye when he came to Freddy and when the technician’s bad-eye socket rejected the experimental bio-synthetic optic organ Freddy had generated and implanted in the Technicians socket in a complex new procedure pioneered by Freddy, he still had one good eye. What had the patient lost? Absolutely nothing. In fact soon after the rejection, the technician had thanked Freddy over and over again for finding a way to let him see normally again even if it was for only six months. But the technician soon after that lost his job at Lockheed Astro-skunk workshaus. His supervisor said it was because of downsizing since they lost the contract to rival astronautics workhaus, the anti-matter propulsion laboratory – a branch of the ISA funded primarily by the UEN, to develop and build the control systems for the new Von Braun anti-matter engines designed for the X-47 unmanned interplanetary explorer launch vehicle. In reality it was because of an unwritten company policy to dispose of employees that took advantage of recent legal changes handed down from the world wide workers compensation board (WWWCB)– wherein full coverage of salary and benefits was to be awarded for the time of recovery and for up three years beyond the time it took for physical healing to occur. And, naturally, the one-eyed technician had taken advantage, for a while, that is, until he got bored and lonely, sitting in his bachelor pad all day trying to perceive a depth of field with only one eye. Since his officially work-related accident, he had bled the company’s resources significantly without contributing in any way to their profit making ability.