Mercy Heights

Mercy Heights was a serial which ran in 2000 AD progs 1033 to 1047 (1997), 1124 (1998) and 1133 to 1148 (1999). Written by John Tomlinson and illustrated first by Kevin Walker, Lee Sullivan and Andrew Currie and later by Neil Googe, Lee Sullivan and Trevor Hairsine, it was effectively a science fiction hospital soap opera set on an experimental medical facility in deep space. Regular characters included Administrator Sehetu (the chief of staff), Commissioner Rostau (Sehetu's boss on Earth), medics Lilla Ferro and Stig Lydecker, the psychic Vandra Lorius, and paramedic Tor Cyan. Though it was not immediately apparent, the blue skinned Cyan was eventually revealed to be a former member of the Genetic Infantry, and the series was actually set in the same continuity as Rogue Trooper. Cyan later graduated to his own series.