For a moment both Maister and Karl stared in amazement. They have spent months planning everything, carefully considering and re-considering all options. Then they embarked on a hellish quest of raising funds for the endeavour. Despite the fact that New Berlin Museum is a well known name in Sirius it took almost half a year to raise 10 000 000 standard credits. Equipping a specially built freighter took 4 more months of negotiating and barging for a fair price plus a trip to Kusari. And now there they were, listening to woman they have never heard of before, claiming that she had a research vessel manned by an independent team capable of sending a robotic probe to the surface of Planet Deidus.
Well, that is rather, rather fascinating indeed. Please, feel free to join us in our debate. Anyway, I'm Karl Schroeder of the Museum's planetary archaeological department.
He then pointed in the general direction of Franz.
And my respected colleague Franz Maister. I do believe that our, so to speak hosts, can introduce themselves...