How it opens
You were Calhoun, of the Interstellar Medical Service, and your ship was the Esclipus, a small hull with a big law inside it.
Overdrive hummed around you like a hive deciding to be friendly, and the tape of your orders clicked through the reader.
Tch-tch-tch.
Choose
Run the tape's summary past him, point by point, and note his reactions.
Skip the ritual, because a tormal already knows everything worth knowing.
Give him the woman's transmission first, before any summary, as the only fact that matters.