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It is Lucien's first time in space and he's nervous. This is not really the best sign considering that the reason he's going to space is to join Starfleet but presumable his nerves will settle and it will be fine. It's only a six-hour trip anyways. His nerves not particularly settled he sits down for the acceleration to warp, which is completely pointless given the inertial dampeners but it makes him feel better.
Despite all his worrying takeoff goes smoothly-
"Yes, uh. I was calling to ask about the best way to send you the reward money."
"...don't you need it? Rumor around campus was that you appeared out of nowhere and if you have family here you're too touched to remember them."
"I would probably like to have enough to have a place for the next week or so, I guess? I can probably find something else after that by explaining more advanced science to people."
"I don't think your technology has created a universal translator yet? If I'm wrong about that than proving I'm an alien will be harder."
"The going theory is that you've been exposed to at least three artifacts and it wouldn't be nearly as weird as you being a space alien, if there were more."
"Is my badge being able to act as a universal translator consistent with that theory?"
"It needs to be close, but you don't actually need to touch it - it can also receive and transmit short-range subspace communications, which isn't useful without something else similar, but is supposed to be secret from species that haven't discovered it yet."
"I did some reading on trackers. They have helpful pamphlets about how not to torture your tracker. I am requesting your assistance in not being a torturer because that is very important to me."
"I can tell you all the things and explain why I think it might be a bad idea for you to share some of the technology ones, and then I will not be tortured. If that's really what you want."
"I think very negatively of people who do torture and really don't want to count myself among them!"
"Is telling me stuff on the phone sufficient, the pamphlets think it's fine but if you want to come to campus I can meet you."
"Telling you stuff on the phone is sufficient, but I would also like to meet you very much. Oh, and I might need a means of writing to explain the warp equations in full."
"Okay. How about you tell me what you can on the phone, and tomorrow at ten a.m. I can meet you in the library atrium on campus?"
Lucien is an alien, from an alliance of different alien civilizations called the Federation, all of which are capable of faster-than-light travel using something called warp drive and most of which are spread across multiple planets. His first time at warp on such a ship on his way to Starfleet academy went very wrong until it caused him to meet Annie, which definitely feels worth it now because - maybe he should save that for later, there are other very important secrets he can share right now instead.
The Federation has a strict policy of not contacting civilizations like this one that haven't discovered warp drive, which is a huge humanitarian tragedy that he wanted to change from within or at least push a bit towards a better direction that didn't let so many people die of preventable causes. The reason she might want to keep it secret is that if they are near enough to the Federation to be discovered, then it would be good for the Federation to be under the impression that this civilization discovered warp on its own and not with his help.
He can go into the basics of warp drives and subspace next, but he'll need writing implements to actually explain the details he can remember in a way that thoroughly communicates them - also has her planet discovered that space and time are sort of intricately related and very massive objects can bend both and such? That will help with understanding it.
Also, his species is human, and the planet of origin is Earth. That's uh, the first few secrets, does she have questions or anything?
Annie doesn't have a lot of physics background, unfortunately, does she need to acquire it so as to be adequately keeping him?
"... yeah, I think so. I'm sorry um. I... just considered lying to you and saying that it wouldn't really be torture if you didn't learn it, but apparently that is not an option even if I decided that you would actually prefer it, which I don't think is true so I probably wouldn't have lied to you anyways."
"I can figure out how to teach you the important bits, especially if I know how much math you have? Unless you prefer the textbook."
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