Anders looked a little flushed. "The Space-core does not believe in alien life forms. However if there is something in this sector then I want you to take the Blue Dwarf and check it out."
"But isn't that a dangerous mission for a 5 mile long mining ship?" asked Seymour. "Doesn't the Space Corps have Destroyers for that kind of thing?"
Anders looked a little embarrassed. "Well as we don't fully know the situation yet we'd rather not send a huge destroyer into a potentially dangerous situation."
"What? You'd rather risk the thousand lives of Mining corporation crewmen than risk getting one of your expensive Destroyers damaged?"
"That's pretty much it. Yes."
Posted on Jul 29, 2001 by David Ball ( Read Post)
Space Corps
Space Corps is an International space agency of Planet Earth that is responsible for training people to work in space.
Space Corps is also responsible for the protection of Earth and the human colonies, with vast warships patrolling the space around colonies and fighting off attacks from enemies like the Hymenoptera.
Directives-
147. 'Crew members are expressly forbidden from leaving their vessel except on permission of a permit. Permits can only be issued by the Chief Navigation Officer, who is expressly forbidden from issuing them except on production of a permit.'
195. States that in an emergency power situation, a hologrammatic crewmember must lay down his life in order that the living crew-members might survive.
312. States that crew members in quarantine must be provided with minimum leisure facilities, which Rimmer takes to mean: 'a chess set with 31 missing pieces, a knitting magazine with a pull-out special on crocheted hats, a puzzle magazine with all the crosswords completed and a video of the excellent cinematic treat, Wall-Papering, Painting, And Stippling - A DIY Guide.
592. 'In an emergency situation involving two or more officers of equal rank, seniority will be given to whichever officer can programme a VCR.'
595. A quarantine regulation.
597. One berth per registered crew member.
699. States that crew members may demand a rescreening after five days in quarantine.
723. 'Terraformers are expressly forbidden from recreating Swindon.'
1742. 'No member of the Corps should ever report for active duty in a ginger toupee.'
1743. 'No registered vessel should attempt to traverse an asteroid belt without deflectors.'
5796. 'No officer above the rank of mess sergeant is permitted to go into combat with pierced nipples.'
5797. Has something to do with not letting a crew-member aboard if he may, in fact, be a brain-sucking psychotic temporal lobe slurper, or something of that sort.
34124. 'No officer with false teeth should attempt oral sex in zero gravity.'
196156. 'Any officer caught sniffing the saddle of the exercise bicycle in the women's gym will be discharged without trial.'
1947945. 'A mechanoid may issue orders to human crewmembers if the lives of said crewmembers are directly or indirectly under threat from a hitherto unperceived source and there is inadequate time to explain the precise nature of the enormous and most imminent death threat.'
39436175880932/B. 'All nations attending the conference are only allocated one parking space.'
39436175880932/C. 'POW's have a right to non-violent constraint.'