Yep. Humans more or less don't have that drive; it's common for humans to settle down and have kids, but not especially unusual for them to decide they'd rather do something else with their life instead.

Gosh. This is very odd to Amentan sensibilities, according to which she has done a great service to the planet and should be rewarded with a dozen children, but okay.

Well, she appreciates the sentiment, anyway. And it seems like she is on track to get what she really wants, with the agreement that reds get the first planet.

It's weird that she wants that but they can use it as a test anyway.

Well, she's an alien. Are they really surprised? And then she segues into an anecdote about mistaking one kind of near-human alien for another, with amusing consequences.

Hee hee!

Scouts hunt diligently for planets.

Oh, man, that one looks promising. All nicely forested and everything - the year's a little short, but not dramatically, maybe three quarters of an Amentan one.

Do they have to give the reds the first habitable planet or the first one they in fact settle.

First habitable, she's smarter than that. Also do they actually want to delay getting robots?

This one looks so nice though. They don't like the thought of it getting all icky.

No, that was the deal, the reds can have nice things.

They were really expecting they'd first find something like Katme but with air. It's sooooo niiiiiice. The reds will get pollution all over the pretty trees.

- do they want robots or not? 'Cause if they go back on their agreement that nice pretty planet is going to end up with some reds on it anyway.

Well, some, but not all over it touching everything. They dither. They are mostly not planning to go back on the agreement but they are quietly wondering how hard it will be to get robots some other way and finding it very emotionally difficult to part with such a lovely seasonable planet.

Reds've stopped them from doing robotics for this long, do they really think they can turn that around on their own? 'Cause she's sure not going to help.

They are thinking (very quietly) that they might find more aliens with robots! Since now they have FTL.

Yyyyeah how about some aura of maybe-it-is-a-bad-idea-to-make-an-enemy-of-the-alien.

Sad reluctant Amentans drag their heels and throw more money at getting scouts in the sky to find more planets but set about planning to besmirch the beautiful treeful planet. The pilot bursts into tears on television about it.

Good. (Well, not the bursting into tears part, but.) She keeps working on sensors; robots are for when there are actual unsupervised reds on that there planet.

(And what do the reds think of the whole thing?)

They also think the treeful planet looks beautiful and perfect and that it is implausible the government will let them have it.

Yeah.

Maybe she and DZ should accompany the first batch of settlers, just to make sure.

Eww.

There's going to be a pilot on that ship, right? They can stay in the clean bit.

Okay, that's better, if she doesn't want to get out and... watch the reds despoil the beautiful perfect forest planet. (One person has to excuse himself to go have a crisis about that.)

She will make do with video.