An interesting background you have, madame. Being well educated is always a nice qualification, et it is good to see that your senses have brought you here. I'm sure you'll get along well with Commandant Maxim, who oversees our coding team over at Epernon.
You're half right about Sirian food; Bretonian "fish and chips" is one of the most undesirable culinary dishes ever invented. If you travel with some of our more distant convoys however, you'll find that some Rheinlandic meals are astounding. Pardon me, I should digress. Discussing food on an empty stomach ...
You are accepted as an Aspirant - a contact will meet up with you at the main lobby adjacent to the docking bays on the Versailles Residence in three hours. Be there.
General Logarus,
Unione Corse Armed Command
"You see what your knowledge tells you you're seeing. ... how, what you think the universe is, and how you react to that in everything you do, depends on what you know. And when that knowledge changes, for you, the universe changes. And that is as true for the whole of society as that is for the individual. We all are what we know, today. What we knew yesterday, was different; and so were we."
- James Burke, The Day the Universe Changed (1985)