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Hi, I've just arrived in my spaceship and it's kind of deaded after a major intergalactical battle...
Well. Actually I was hit by an asteroid and it jammed the hyperspace drive.
Oh okay. I ran over a traffic cone and it got stuck in the coffee dispenser. But that doesn't sound so cool does it?

Anyway, while it's being repaired I need a job and I hear there's several vacancies on the station.
Can I be the EVA Technician? That way I get to float around in space suits and look like I'm doing something useful, when I'm actually taking a quick nap.

Of course you can... But I'd like to know what that is first... Seems to be a little language problem here... EVA??

Extra Vehicular Activity???

I'd like a job. I'd like to be the one to recruit men in red and then send their mothers sad e-mails about their deaths from Plastic Boulders. Can I?

Of course you can... Do you want to be officially called "The One to Recruit Men in Red and Then Send Their Mothers Sad E-Mails about Their Deaths from Plastic Boulders" or would you like some shorter title...?

And Peregrin, I'm adding you to the list... (don't know if Bluebottle's suggestion was a guess or not but it sounds good to me...)

Yup, he's right... Extra Vehicular Activity. ie. outside the station, floating about, saying things like 'Houston, we have a problem', and doing Darth Vader breathing impressions.

The technical term for "The One to Recruit Men
in Red and Then Send Their Mothers Sad E-Mails about Their Deaths from
Plastic Boulders" is "Human Resources Director"

~Irving

Good one, Irv. Most apt (especially after the shouting match I had today with our HRD IRL)

That's what I thought... The Darth Vader-part must be the most pleasant part of the job...

But that doesn't really give the same impression... But I guess it's good enough when you know what you're doing behind the title...

*Searching for Bluebottle*
BB, you're the Human Resources Director now!!

Believe me, Peregrin *IS* Vader in RL, especially when he wears his Balaclava and attacks people with knives...

Really? I'm sorry, but it's just the name Peregrin that gives me an impression of someone about 1 metre tall... And Vader must be twice that tall... But if he really is Vader, I should introduce him to a friend of mine who would probably capture him immediately and take him to her planet...

Well, I just pretend to be a hobbit online, in reality I'm tall, dark, towering, menacing, mysterious, lord-like, handsome, active, etc., etc. No, really. Honest.

And I'm Bill Gates. No, honestly! Could someone lend me a few $$$ to pay my legal bill?

I see... Well, it's good to know that now...
That friend of mine who adores Vader is here: http://www.h2g2.com/U115721 - or she would be if she was... She isn't here very often... Actually not much at all... But anyway, you could either go say hello to her and tell her you're Vader or decide to keep a distance... I don't know what she would do if she really met Vader IRL...

mmh, ... if you have an security officer *a little sad that he is not the choosen one* , may you need a JUDGE too?

I would liKe to do that and also if there are some arGuinG between people or somethinG else
... oh yeah let me open a court for all the little (and biGGer) problems with people (or better creatures, it's a spacestation, isn't it!)

and btw JUDGE AXR looK's quite Good a may card

AXR is now the official Judge of the station...

... so then "manos a la obra"

the Courthouse is open

btw ,there are some special rules or lawes out here, Alien ???
eXcept those of physics (if they count anyway )

Alien, maybe you can put a link for the courthouse (I think it's the first in h2G2 ) on the spacecenter paGe

>AXR<

I think your request is a bit late... I already put the link there about 5 minutes after the courthouse was opened... (don't say it's not there I'm sure I put it there!!) *happy to have done something in time for once*