"Yes, and we can at least widely distribute blueprints and textbooks and spare parts."

They can talk logistics, then. She has maps brought in and they can put their heads together about things like hospital placement and where they want their embassy and things like that!

Oh excellent.

Cooperating to Improve Everything is a much more fun form of politics than standing on formality and arguing with exquisite deftness that yes, this will benefit you too.

Also, would it be possible to get textbooks for other sciences besides the ones for infrastructure? Chemistry, physics, zoology, botany...(she makes a very slight stressed face at botany).

Yep yep yep yep distributing textbooks is doable in every field though the machine translation is not yet fantastic.

Excellent. Is there anything they can do to help with the machine translation?

More people on it would help, actually, here's what they'd be doing.

She will get some people on that.

"Then we can probably get you big stacks of textbooks in a few days."

"Wonderful," she says. "...Maye this will get the botanists to stop running around like headless chickens."

"What's the story there?"

"A little more than a year ago, Sarlassa Zavari Geressin, the most accomplished botanist in Kilaiuossa and possibly the world, died in an explosion at the university she was teaching at. Because her husband was a former Bremri radical who...no one ever proved did anything with explosives...the two of them were assumed to be culpable. And then their twin daughters disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The botanical community has been screeching conspiracy theories ever since," she sighs, rubbing her temples.

"...ah. I'm not sure how much textbooks and foreign plant cuttings will help - demons can also be useful for forensics -"

"Textbooks and foreign plant cuttings will at least distract them," she says, "although forensic help would also be useful."

"Let us know if it's required."

"By what threshold of requirement?"

"The most useful thing that the demon who will also be building your infrastructure could be doing for your people!"

She nods. "Probably not, then, or at least not until the infrastructure is up." And then more logistics?

Sounds good.

Logistics! And then he can have the marked-out embassy land and Cam can do embassy stuff with that while she sends out infrastructure-related orders.

Cool. They have blueprints for the embassies laid out in advance. They have to do the excavation first, with machinery; it takes a few days while he tweaks the blueprints for the space they have. It's not much space, but with demons to do the building you can go dense with a city. Stunningly pretty sweeping two-hundred-story skyscrapers, and a spaceport lined with gardens. It is very very striking. At need a million people could live there (he would like to be able to absorb displaced persons) though more than half would be living underground.

Hopefully lots and lots of locals will dream about it.

Well, a lot of locals are very very impressed with it.

The translation is pretty good by now! The aliens can deliver textbooks and infrastructure: where to?

This list of locations!

Cam can go to listed locations! And deliver things!