Building Better Worlds

Contract - Planetary Exploration Team [CONTRACTOR COPY]

1a. If you would like to apply for WEYLAND CORP, enter the following details
below and deliver to the following address: Weyland Satellite, Gliese System,
Zenith Supercluster,
ESO 137-001 Galaxy
Name:
Date of birth:
ID:
WPS (Weyland Physical Score):


1b. The signatories to this agreement are The Weyland Corporation: also known
as Weyland Industries and Weyland Yutani. (hereafter referred to as the
Company); and .. (your name) (hereafter referred to as the
Contractor).

Responsibilities

2. The Contractor is required to follow the directions of the Company and its
appointed representatives in carrying out tasks relating to the pre-colonization
exploration of exoplanet Gliese 581c, designated Ymir by the Company and
hereafter referred to as Ymir.

3. The Company shall be responsible for

a) faster-than-light (FTL) transport to planetary system Gliese and orbital
insertion at Ymir.

b) provision of life support in the orbital stations (air, water, power and food):
the costs of which to be deducted from the Contractors eventual earnings from
the mission.

c) insertion of surface team from orbit to Ymirs surface at a designated
company Downdrop site (costs to be deducted from mission earnings).

d) advance of basic exploration equipment and data / telemetry packages as
available (costs to be deducted from mission earnings).

e) extraction of surface teams from designated company Uplift site at mission
termination (costs to be deducted from mission earnings).




Disclaimers

f) the company will not, in any circumstances, advance or underwrite the cost of
repatriation of remains to Earth in the event of extreme negative outcomes to
the Contractor, whether in orbit or on the planetary surface.

g) the Company retains the sole right to ownership and exploitation of any and
all resources discovered by the Contractor; and this includes any artifact of an
alien civilization that may be discovered; and also includes any scientic data or
innovations resulting from the mission.

h) all payments for discoveries will be paid purely as a bonus: while the bonus
scale is condential and subject to change without notice, a successful
Contractor can expect to receive 10% or more of the projected value of
resources and / or artifacts discovered. Previous bonuses have reached
amounts of tens of millions of Solar dollars.

i) however discoveries, and therefore payments, are not guaranteed

j) and neither is survival.

k) the Company shall not be held responsible for anything that happens to any
Contractor during the mission; and this includes extreme negative outcomes of
the actions of either Contractors or Company employees, even where these
actions are subsequently demonstrated to be ill-informed, negligent, or
malicious.

Further questions should be directed to your mission handler.

Sign here: . Date..