 What would've happened if Bertrand had tried to introduce himself to the aliens in his building?
Every man in the Diplomatic Corps who developed a twitch or a quirk was shipped to Saarkkad IV to work under Bertrand Malloy, Permanent Terran Ambassador to His Utter Munificence, the Occeq of Saarkkad. To have shown himself to one of them would have meant instant loss of prestige. To violate the rigid social setup of Saarkkad would mean the instant closing off of the supply of biochemical products that the Saarkkadic laboratories produced from native plants and animals—products that were vitally necessary to Earth's war, and which could be duplicated nowhere else in the known universe. It was Bertrand Malloy's job to keep the production output high and to keep the materiel flowing towards Earth and her allies and outposts.
 He would likely have lost some respect.
 They would have punished him for revealing himself to the public.  He would've made some more friends and felt less isolated.  He would likely have lost some respect.  They would have laughed at him for his human/Terran social tendencies.