This is my story, and I'm sticking to it! Well, a long time ago, I was hanging out with my lemur friends in the jungle. Most Lemurs are pretty easy going, you know, lie around, eat, dance, leap, browsing the Lemur forums, etc. But I was always a little different, I like to invent and build things. Sadly, none of which actually worked that well, but it's really hard to get the right tools when you're a Lemur. Eventually, the other Lemurs began calling me the Lemur who does Technology. Actually, they began calling me the Lemur who does Technology Badly, but that's not really relevant. Anyway, this went on for awhile, when one night a strange object came crashng down in the jungle. At first every body was paniking, after all we remember a big scary thing crashing down, back when we lived with the folk you now call Dinosaurs. That was terrible, so of course every body was worried and the Lemur forums were buzzing. After awhile, when nothing bad happened, most everybody forgot about it and went back to business as usual (not that Lemurs care much for business, and as an aside, did you know there are no Lemur Lawyers?) Anyway, I, having more than my share of curiosity, couldn't rest until I discovered the source of this unsolved mystery. So I packed up my Lemur mystery solving kit (which consisted of a rock and a stick... hey told ya, hard to get good tools!) and took off. After many adventures (which I will not go into here, due to space concerns) I came across the object, hidden deep in the jungle... It was a Extra Terrestrial Space ship! After careful consideration, I began to investigate the ship, so as to ascertain it's properties. Stage one involved poking said ship with my stick. When this technique, inventive though it may be, failed to yield satisfactory results, I was forced to used more invasive measures. I banged on the ship with my rock. This produced a much more interesting data set, in the form of a loud bonging noise. After repeating this technique for some while, (after all experimental results are useless unless they are repeatable) I sat down to think. It was at this point I had the brilliant Idea of muttering to myself, "how can I get inside" Some of my Lemur compatriots have opined that as I am always muttering to myself, this idea was less brilliant than sheer luck. I think they're just jealous. Meanwhile, the ship itself spoke to me! It turns out it was controlled via voice! Wonderful. Well, I won't bore you all with my long conversations with the ship, but eventually I learned how to control and operate the ship, as well as many other aspects of the ship. And since the ship was well stocked with both genetic materials from Earth and other planets and much information about biotechnogy, it was then that I conceived of the ambition to work with the stuff of life itself, to create new forms of life. As I was a fast learner, this kind of technology soon became second nature to me. After many moons of plotting and planning, I gathered a small cadre of my more adventurous lemur comrades, and headed off to make my new Laboratory, which I planned to build on an asteroid, since Earth is so darned crowded. Before we left, the ship required us to apply for interstellar passports. Well, in the name section, I of course put Lemur who does Technology. There was a unerving 'Bzzzzzt' sound, and I was informed that my name was too long for the instellar space traveler registration computer to accept. Hmmmm. You'd think an alien race who built things with names like 'instellar space traveler registration computer' would be a little more generous in the name length department but oh well. I shortened my name to Lemur Technology, (Bzzt, too long) and then Lemurtech (Bzzt too long) and finally Lemurtek. Bing! So there you have it. Regards- Lemur who does Technology (badly)