Bonjour, Cheri. Don't worry, your secrets are safe with us and our extensive hacking suite, which of course is immensely secretive *taps nose*.
Apologies Pomedant, that's quite potentially not the first titbit you wish a potential employer to disclose. Be assuaged; any... silence you may have as to any past activities of yours is both fine and reasonable. They'd shoot me for my sins otherwise...
Of course an introduction of some kind is customary even on this beleaguered side of the mines no? I am Achille Nadeau, but you can call me boss as I run . Or Achille. Or quite possibly Achille the Boss, but never Dr Nadeau. I left my doctorate behind me when I left the Kingdom, so none of that’s necessary here, nothing else is really to think about it.
From your mercantile origins I am hardly surprised you decided to unravel the secrets of the universe quite early on and from that alone we would be willing to accommodate you, cheri; but you must simply understand, we cannot take everyone. Anyone who is anyone certainly, but anyone certainly not. Which, I must admit, is healthy for you; we're not that picky, and you don't have the look of a NOX addict. I should know.
So let me stop rambling and extend a metaphysical hand for you to squeeze which I so direly wish will become a physical one; I, Achille, run the research devision of the Commonwealth, all of it. Which means every syringe, every utensil and every darling scientist (that's you, by the way) feeds back to yours truely at some point or the next, so I also get what the Libertonians irreverently call the "Flack" if something goes wrong. And by wrong, I mean espionage. Clearly, as a endorser of secrecy yourself, you understand the need for such things.
Jaquie cheri, I need you to answer a query or two. Don't take this personally and maybe we can negotiate an enormously benificial contract with some research funding thrown in. We didn't really want to run any invasive background checks, but we need to know where your talents lie, so the queries below are to evaluate your scientific strengths purely. Origin matters little to us.
1) Cold Bay Depot sells Xenobiotic Filters. What is a Xenobiotic Filter cheri? (I do know the answer, by the way, so no fibbing).
2) What did you study at University and at which University did you study? (pretty certain I don't know the answer to that one).
3) You know that big, round shiny black orb in Omega 41? Now that cheri is a neutron star. Please explain what a neutron star is for those ignorant in basic astrophysics, and what happens if you get too close to it?
Actually, I lied. This last question is one of origin, but please, do not worry, It there is no right or wrong answers here.
4) Do you have any Council sympathies or any known idenfication which may implicate you as even being a mild associate of a Council or Marquis affiliate? I do hope not. Fake id's are mortifyingly expensive.
Well I wish you good luck Cheri. It's a hard thing to come about in Sirius nowadays... oh and ah... I think I may be forgetting my last query. Silly Achille.
5) What work materials, space, or assistants do you require for your research? We can provide... Anything.
I await to hear your reply and many thanks for feilding your services.
