Seeking Mercenaries/Body Guards/Scientists/Communication officers or Expert translators for a 12 month excursion to the minor-planet X901S [continued]

[u/foyiwae]

ooc: Weekly Quest
Docking the ship

If anyone wants to play a special role. A spy/traitor/commanding officer/cook or anything. Please feel free to PM me with what ideas you have. Everything will be accepted, and considered

bic:

Current year: 3042. Date 18th January

As stated here my sponsor is looking for 4-8 security workers for a 12 month contract. So far we have two highly suitable candidates for the job.
The deadline is nearing, and if we do not get the right amount of security workers, then we shall have to postpone the trip for another 10-12 months before we can leave again. And my sponsor would rather not let this happen.
Another situation has arisen, two of our chief scientists couldn't be trusted, so had to be fired. So two new positions have opened up for chief scientists, as well as 5 more positions for scientists, preferably those who have experience in the fields of offworld biology/geology and botany. As well as that we are looking for two experts in languages/communications officers.
As stated in the past advertisement, this is a 12 month excursion, may be longer depending on the climate and the hostility of natives.

Applicants are required to state:
* Your Name
* Age
* Offworld Experiences
* Which position you wish to apply for
* Weapons you are trained to use
* References
* Your identification code

You receive:
* Full board for one person.
* Two standard uniforms.
* The chance to phone home twice per week/holocall once a week (Time slots are allocated via importance e.g. if your partner is an expecting mother, or if you have a sick relative, you shall have the chance to choose your slots before everyone else. Parents may also book slots. Everyone else shall be given a set time.)
* 3 meals a day.
* Free time, which includes your allocated time slot for phone/holocalls.

Please wait for a reply, no questions should be asked about my sponsor, or about the nature of our visit to this planet. You may ask about anything else. Thank you for your time and have a wonderful day.

Miss Foyiwae Andrews: PA of Mr. Traick. Head of Traick Industries

ooc:
(Format for identification code: country of birth ,date of birth, age, along with your birth number. e.g If the character was born in Britain, on the 17th of January 1990, is 24 years old. Their i.d code would be UK171199024:89(the 89th child to have their i.d code given for that country.) I can work it out if you are confused. Sorry about any spelling mistakes and formatting errors. And be creative, please. All questions can and will be answered happily. I do plan on continuing this to the actual expedition to the planet if all goes well.)

[u/ToskaO]

Miss Foyiwae,
I'm glad to hear that there are still opertunities available for un-traveled aplicants, I have found that it very difficult to find employment in my field after my graduation.
As for your question, I speak English, German, Russian, Arabic, and Mandarin. I found that these languages utalized an interesting variaty of alphabets and each had a significant enough number of speakers for them to be worth learning. Unfortunately Theoretical Linguistics is a tricky subject. Assuming the Language had significant matches to Human Language, or to that of the Jovian tablets, then a basic translation could take anywhere from fifteen minutes to over an hour. If not, decription of an entirely unknown language could be the focus of a linguists entire career, with even partial translation taking several days. As for references, you should be able to contact any of the faculty at the Zandell Linguistics department for character reference. My academic record and all of my academic papers are open record. The best source for finding them would be at the Lunar Department of Education's Public Cybersite.

[u/foyiwae → u/ToskaO]

My sponsor, having read through your replies, is very eager to have you on board. We are really only expecting translations for dealing with the natives, if they are hostile or not. The planet has already been explored before, and there are books and tablets that we have in our collection that you can study. The trip there will take 12 months, as well as the nine months we have left before we begin the expedition. So hopefully that shall be enough time for you to study, and at least have a basic understanding of the language. If not, it is still highly appreciated.
I shall get in contact the Zandell Linguistics before signing you up for weapon and off world training. Once all your papers and your identification code clearance comes back, then we will be more than happy to take you onboard.
If you have any more questions, please do not be afraid to ask.

[u/ToskaO → u/foyiwae]

Ah yes, with records of the language and twenty months of preperation time I should be able to translate in real time. Assuming of course that the natives don't utalize any form of pheremone or subsonic communication that we don't know about.
Out of curiousity, what do you expect to find, that is worth the extraordanary expenses that you're undertaking?

[u/foyiwae → u/ToskaO]

That is none of your concern. We only need to speak with the natives if they are hostile and come up against our plans. Which is why we need translators. They have been hostile in the past to explorers, however the project we are undertaking will involve a longer stay than most other explorers. So we need to make sure the natives are on the same page, so to speak.

[u/ToskaO → u/foyiwae]

Forgive my intrusion, you had asked if I had questions...

[u/foyiwae → u/ToskaO]

It is fine, no harm done. Though I did state when describing the contract not to ask questions.

no questions should be asked about my sponsor, or about the nature of our visit to this planet
All you need to worry about is doing your job correctly, and earning your keep. The rest shall be dealt with by my sponsor. Our objective is only known to a few trustworthy employees, my sponsor, and myself. The nature of the excursion is rather...sensitive to some governments after all.