Tobias Rieper
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Wanted: Cheap PilotWanted: Cheap Pilot
For vacant position on the Leviathan Class Vessel
“Vital Spark”
Full room and board provided
Questions for applicants:
1: What is your attitude to publicity?
2: How many crime lords have you pissed off, and how?
3: How many planets can you not set foot on?
4: Have you ever had your prayers answered? Usefully?
5: What is the current flight status of your previous ship?
6: How many people would shoot you on sight and why?
7: How many types of flight deck warning alarms can you identify as hearing on a regular basis during your last job?
8: What do you believe the mean time between failure of landing struts should be?
9: Are you now or have you ever been married to somebody dangerous?
10: You have just pulled a Crazy Ivan. What is your trademark witty comment?
11: What do you do on Unification Day?
12: Would your previous Captain:
(a) Vouch for you?
(b) Shoot you on sight?
(c) Run screaming?
(d) Need a Ouija board?
13: Have you ever flown a ship of this size before?
14: When can you start?
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Coben Dane
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Questions for applicants:
1: What is your attitude to publicity?
Unwelcome - tends not to be good publicity anyway.
2: How many crime lords have you pissed off, and how?
None I know of, though a few are wondering whether they should be.
3: How many planets can you not set foot on?
1
4: Have you ever had your prayers answered? Usefully?
Rarely. We survived.
5: What is the current flight status of your previous ship?
If you throw the pieces they kind of fly - does that count?
6: How many people would shoot you on sight and why?
1 - My previous ship's engineer. He loved that ship.
7: How many types of flight deck warning alarms can you identify as hearing on a regular basis during your last job?
3 - Altitude, Bulkhead failure and Fuel level critical.
8: What do you believe the mean time between failure of landing struts should be?
Every two weeks or so?
9: Are you now or have you ever been married to somebody dangerous?
She's not dangerous any more.
10: You have just pulled a Crazy Ivan. What is your trademark witty comment?
"Whew, how in hell did I manage that this time?"
11: What do you do on Unification Day?
Drink, and hope I'm not called on to fly out of there quickly.
12: Would your previous Captain:
(a) Vouch for you?
(b) Shoot you on sight?
(c) Run screaming?
(d) Need a Ouija board?
c
13: Have you ever flown a ship of this size before?
I've crash-landed a ship of this size before...
14: When can you start?
When I can get to your side of the 'Verse. Could take a while seeing as noone wants to hire me to get there.
Waco Pete
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