Absolutely! There are international laws against torturing people. It's not about the hair! They will be totally 100% happy to welcome the red haired queen with all the respect an alien queen is due if she ever deigns to return! Nothing would make them happier! The hair is just the legally mandated indicator for the class of people who mustn't go wandering around or else war, famine, etc. Laws about torturing people don't apply to reds in case it's ever necessary to get information from a red; reds are really uncooperative with the authorities.

Okay but why mustn't they go wandering around?

Yeah they expect they'd be really uncooperative with the authorities too if getting apprehended by the authorities was liable to result in torture.

They mustn't go wandering around because they spread pollution. They are also very sorry about putting the queen in a booth intended for reds! So sorry!

They...spread pollution? What? How?

They seriously don't care, they don't have these peoples' phobia of red hair and even if the place had been dirty, which it didn't especially seem so, that would be waaaaaay less important than the torture. Seriously. Torture: bad.

And they are so sorry about it!

It's really not about the hair though, reds work unclean occupations and have for generations.

Unclean occupations?

Yes, they have established they were sorry. They have not established that they realize that torture is bad even when it isn't happening to alien queens.

They don't torture anyone else but reds and even that doesn't come up often and if it will make the teleporting aliens happy they will de-electrify the floors in the booths that have that installed!

Unclean occupations having to do with sewage or dead people. The aliens probably handle this in some other way but this is what the locals are stuck with until they can invent machines to do those jobs.

Uh. They handle this by having plumbers and coroners. They torture people for being plumbers and coroners, what the fuck.

No, they don't torture people for being plumbers and coroners, perhaps the translation is imprecise, the green is very sorry about that.

They invite the green to clarify.

Most plumbers and coroners obey the law and are never even arrested! Most of the time, if a red is arrested, they are either then let go or sent to prison without any zapping! It is very rare that a red is arrested, and knows something the police must know for public safety, and cannot otherwise be convinced to tell.

Okay but would this escalate to torture if someone who was not a plumber or coroner did the same thing?

No, in general people who are not reds (it's "reds", not "plumbers or coroners") have other incentives available, a higher baseline cooperativeness, etc., and so it is in everyone's interest to make that option unavailable.

They are so confused.

...well, they are aliens and it seems likely that they will have traits that confuse each other! They definitely won't torture any more of the dancing aliens.

Okay but it kind of seems like they are going to torture more people with red hair???

Not aliens! They will never ever do that again, they will make really sure.

Torturing people is bad even when the people aren't aliens!

It's reds, not just anyone. They're different species and it does not seem likely that they will understand everything there is to understand about each other today. But like he said, if it will make the aliens happy they can uninstall all the electrified floors.

It would take a lot more than that to get them to happy but that seems, uh, obviously better than not.

They will get right on that. They are really, really sorry.

Well the aliens are really really worried about the coroners and plumbers!

It would probably be better if the alien coroners and plumbers stayed home.

Uh, yes, they are not bringing people to the crazy torture place that might get tortured by crazy people.

They would really like to meet more aliens, though. They are really REALLY sorry about how first contact went and would like to make up for it.