"Sounds it. You have a very good accent, too - is your species good at language acquisition?"

"Yes, although only with a specific shortcut I can't reproduce at arbitrary times, so it won't show up if you try to teach me a language except insofar as already knowing a lot of them helps."

"The continent doesn't have very many languages, unfortunately, and everyone speaks at least a little of this one. Still, I'd be interested in learning one of your home world's languages, especially if further contact seems likely."

"Sure! Yours is a lot like Japanese in many ways, so that might be easiest, but it's not one of the most commonly spoken - I can't exactly get you a normal bilingual dictionary since nobody's written any with this language in mind but there do exist tutorials intended for people who speak no language at all."

"That'd be interesting! I know a few historical and minor languages, though they're all the same family; it'll be nice learning something very foreign."

Cam makes a note on a list of things to follow up on when they adjourn to let the humans sleep or whatever. "I'm really curious," he says, aiming this remark at the infectious disease guy, "if you have any of the same diseases here - you have humans, and at least some of the same animals, but I don't know if anything I know about pathology will transfer except insofar as insect-borne disease can probably still be wiped out by extinguishing the carrier species and quarantine procedure is probably applicable across the board."

They can compare notes!

There's no direct exact same infectious diseases, though most of the ones locals get tend to attack a lot of the same pathways as diseases from Earth. Still, immunity might not transfer if they have contact between the two human populations. Or diseases might not jump the gap, since active chakra use makes you resilient against disease, and most infectious things that are actually deadly to adults with a functioning immune system suppress people's chakra systems, or are the types of things that crop up while someone's chakra-exhausted.

They don't have a lot of commonly used broad spectrum antibiotics, though, mostly for lack of international cooperation and research. They have more deadly bacteria than viruses, since bacteria are better able to interact with chakra. He'd be interested in establishing trials on antibiotics and antivirals from Cam's universe. Even things that might no longer be useful to Cam's world because genomes have marched on might be things that local bacteria aren't immune to.

"I'm working on machine translation and will get you something on antibiotics once that's running!"

"Thank you! It'll be more useful down south, of course, but it'll be nice to have more treatment options."

"I might bounce around, but only once I have an angle on dealing with any of the lack of international cooperation problems. Unless it looks like I should be wiping out a species of mosquito."

"The Land of Fire's southern third and their southern neighbors have some bad insect-borne diseases, as does the Land of Rivers and the Land of Swamps. Fire has a very modern hospital system, so they rarely have deaths that I've heard, but I'm less certain about the farther nations."

"If people aren't actually dying or getting maimed by the disease it's likely not going to float to the top of the priority queue very soon."

He nods. "I can try to contact colleagues. Fire at least is friendly to us, and if I say I stumbled on a potential insect-borne cure, which obviously isn't very useful up here, they'll be less wary of sharing statistics."

"I mean, the cure is 'release a lot of sterile insects' - sometimes you can do ones that do have offspring but only male offspring - rather than something they could easily implement on their own."

He hums. "That they might be hesitant to give permission on, at least until you have a firm reputation."

"It works best with mosquitoes, because only females bite. If something without a bias like that is transmitting the disease it's a way less appealing option."

He nods. "I'm afraid I don't know much about foreign insects. I do know people who might, but I don't know for sure how talkative they'd be."

"If you can get me the titles of their publications..."

" - We don't really internationally publish findings most places and for most things."

"Yes, but if you can tell me even just the title of a journal, I can make it."

"I won't know most of their titling conventions, but I've glimpsed the headers of a few memos - "

And he lists what he can remember.

Cam takes them all down. "Thanks! Okay, the other things I have obvious comparative advantage at are resource shortages - especially if there's enough transportation infrastructure to get a central supply where it needs to be - and general technological advance, though the latter will be handicapped by the fact that my world's technology won't be backwards-compatible with anything from here. I have a to-do on figuring out how to charge my stuff off your electrical grid."

"I'll let the Queen know to send you a team of electrical engineers. And our distribution system's pretty good - we've had railways for a while, and we're getting more laid all the time. We usually use shinobi with storage scrolls for outlying areas; it's a good milk-run for the new apprentices. The capitol's probably the best central warehouse for long-term storage, though the ports are designed to move goods better, so are probably where the Queen will be having you drop things off."

"We have a short growing season, even with the heat-generators and some work on sun-lamps. Anything that'll help treat vitamin D deficiency is good, as well as fruits and vegetables. Technology we can use the most short-term would be agricultural or medical related. Anything that doesn't require us to break up the soil, or that lengthens the growing season..."

"I can do vitamin D pills and canned or frozen produce! And agricultural robots! I am not currently prepared to attempt geoengineering but I can look up cold-tolerant crops."

"That'd be helpful! Does your world have sun-lamps, or - there was a theory, about growing non-aquatic plants in just water?"