The fact that they arrested her is not the problem.

The grey doesn't have anything new to add to this discussion after a while.

Torture: what the fuck.

Gotta make the cagey reds spill if they might know shit. They're not like people.

...Not like people.

That's what he said.

That's not how anything works.

It's how reds work.

Torture will magically teach reds languages???

No, see, it seemed like it was just playing dumb.

That seems like a terrible conclusion to draw.

That's what it looked like.

Has it occurred to anyone that reds might be less cagey if they weren't interacting with a system that thought it was fine to torture them.

No, people in other countries have this problem too.

The beeple decide to classify clean Amentans as having a collective mental illness with regards to reds.

Fits the data pretty well.

Yep. How's progress on upgrading beeple infrastructure coming?

It's going well! How much cargo they need depends on how much they can use local industry to get parts to spec.

Not zero but not a ton.

Well, they can focus on getting that up to where it needs to be first so they don't have to import every pipe and fitting.

That makes sense!

How are roboticists doing?

They're making progress! This field should have been far more advanced than this long ago but it turns out they still have to do all the intermediate steps.

The beeple would like detailed progress reports.

Sure. Right now they're working on balance and computer vision, in parallel.

Cool.

How do they feel about children visiting, a lot of beeple children are very excited about aliens.