Bigger tolerances would help and so would a bunch of other adjustments to make it work better with their equipment.

Ooh.

Can he get someone to come talk to him about that please? He's willing to pay expensive-but-not-world-famous green level consulting fees for one of their best.

Sure! This purple engineer will be over right away!

He brings out a bunch of exotic alien tools and works-in-progress to the field near the train station and is visibly excited waiting for them to arrive.

The engineer appears after a few hours.

Hello! He's read and assumed things about how mass production works but it's pretty confusing in the best way because it looks like it should all make sense if only he studies it enough and he is Very Excited to be able to talk live with an expert about how to make things better for mass production! It seems complicated enough to be its own massive field of study and that's kind of amazing!

It is a field of study! The purple went to school for it and the field has since advanced.

Ooooh. Telepathy is very helpful for sending mental images that this had to go here so it can do that, and it can't do that because it would create an induction effect but this part could go away if the other thing was changed...

The purple rapidly gets very pro-telepathy for these reasons! He hates drawing diagrams ever since he hurt his dominant hand!

Being a big, toothy, strong being and flying around and breathing underwater are all neat, but the Song is probably the best thing about being a Draak.

...How old is the injury?

Three years. It healed pretty well at first but as he's gotten older it's started deteriorating again.

Hmm.

The True Song of Healing would fix that. An old injury like that any lesser magic wouldn't help, but that one is a Magnum Opus, refined and perfected in tiny increments over centuries. It's also sacred, and deeply, utterly exhausting.

...Hmm.

The purple has moved into a management role and hand only really bothers him when he has to draw diagrams or carry groceries. He'll retire soon. He wouldn't want to put out an alien with lots to do towards the project of planets.

You're right.

Wisdom and humility are admirable. You remind me of an old friend, long dead, even more for your refusal.

...Let's take a short break.

Sure, the purple can go get dinner at the conference catering tables.

We would like to plan how to allow Amentans to visit our world, Ice the lead Draak diplomat informs Amseli. We have identified small land areas that nobody will be particularly upset to develop a bit, but we aren't sure what shipboard or planetside facilities you will need to be comfortable.

"We can figure that out and plan to build them there ourselves if that's easier, given information about the spaces set aside."

I think we will want to be heavily involved in the planning and construction to keep any development... Ecologically noninvasive and not too disruptive to the landscape.

"Oh, I was imagining ecologically non-sensitive areas. Are you sure you want permanent Amentan structures on the planet at all? We can probably make do with self-contained ship designs."

They are, but it's still a concern. Part of the reasoning here is practice for possible joint development on wholly new planets. And part of it is... Creating something together is a wholesome experience.

"That's true, but only if we can come to agreements about it without too many difficult compromises. I'd like to make sure we have a plan to retreat to if it turns out to be harder than anticipated."

...We can make a nice stable landing pad if jointly built residences and local farming don't work out?And let you bring your own ships down. Shining Truth could haul an Amentan ship docked to it to another star. 

"That sounds workable."

I think they would welcome someone trying to dock with them, for the practical experience. And your greens got our docking connector schematics almost a season ago so I would assume you can do it by now?

"I think we do have some shuttles refitted accordingly now, yes!"