Humans

promised to the Tardigrada a fortune in the advertising industry. They are sought-after models for presenting home improvement products especially for the bathroom.

While it may look like it’s all glitz and glamour, the life of an advertising icon is filled with everything from early morning call times, to scheduling coffee dates, to late night castings. In between a hectic schedule it can be difficult to find time to fit in the necessities like eating regularly and healthily, working out, grooming and spending downtime with friends and family. To live a balanced life is why most Tardigrada only work as models for a very short time. 

Their preferred occupation is to operate as an active cosmic dust collector. Navigating through the cosmic debris is a passion of the heart for these swifter sifters. They are supposed to function as a combination of an in-situ dust trajectory sensor together with a dust collector consisting of aerogel. They hope to tremendously improve future dust collection in interplanetary space. Statistically significant numbers of interstellar dust particles can thus be collected in interplanetary space. The impact position on the collector can be determined with better than 1 mm precision. They know their trade.

Work is one of the great overlooked subjects of the Interstallarcene, always in the background, always necessary, sometimes fervently desired, at other times roundly disdained, frequently a source of tension and unhappiness, but considered as one of the key influences on their inner lives. But visitors were habitually uninterested in what the dwellers were doing for a living.