"So.. the Military just decided to shoot you? Damn.."
The woman appears to have calmed down suddenly, though even now everything about her demands authority.
"I didn't realize that. Well.. I can't complain about having another engineer in here I guess. Still I'd rather have people like you keeping our ragtag fleet flying than replacing some light bulbs. We're severely understaffed as far as engineering goes. But.. you're busy with it now anyway, I guess you'd better just finish the job. Once you're done, grab a drink on my cost and come and see me."
The woman salutes and goes sit in another corner at an empty table, where she grabs her datapad and appears to be trying to research something.. or someone, searching the extranet, internal reports, datafiles...