As the woman sat down on one of the sofas of the waiting room manifestly a bit enraged Alexander went closer to her.
-Uhm... Hy! Let me introduce myself, I'm Alexander Giles from the Cambridge Stellar Research. I heard you have some problems with the authorities. We're an independent research group, with reliable financial background. Currently we have a task at planet Leeds, about the ice crystals, but we are willing to go any unmapped system, if we think there might be something interesting there. And we are always looking for talented, smart, capable and beautiful scientists, just like you. - Alexander hoped, that his compliment will cheer up a bit the lady, and he really saw a potential in her, just he didn't know why exactly.
Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.