"We hope you like it! We'll be sharing more Azurifice music on the internet later. Did you have any questions for us?"

"Are there other ships going in other directions? Will we be able to talk to them too or just your homeworld? Could your homeworld be fixed ever?"

"There are other probes, yeah! Unless there are a lot of surprising technological advancements, we won't be able to talk to them unless they set up somewhere like we're going to set up here; then we'd be able to talk to them by relay through our homeworld, and maybe directly as well. If they don't end up finding anyone, their course will eventually bring them back to our homeworld, but that won't happen for a very long time. 

The environmental poisoning on our homeworld is fixable; we've started work on that and will be able to finish it, someday. We don't think it's possible to restore the biosphere to the way it was before (a lot of things didn't survive), and there were ongoing ethical debates about letting new animal life evolve, but it's likely that at the very least, complex plant life will bloom on Doheem again (and may already have begun to do so)!"

"How long is very long? Could Amentans live on Doheem one day?"

"At the rate at which it was going when we left, it would have taken hundreds of thousands of years, but it's quite possible things have been sped up since; that's an area where new scientific or engineering advancements can make a lot of things possible. It'd probably be possible for some Amentans to live there even before we finished with that work, though."

"Does it have years the right length? Is it possible to send unmanned probes to look for habitable worlds or do you have to do a lot of work while you're flying around?"

"Our years are much shorter than yours! It might be possible to make it work anyways by doing something clever, which is something we'll want to research. We want to be able to talk to people when we find them, which is why we send crews on our probes. We shut down to conserve power when we're travelling in between solar systems, so from our point of view it doesn't actually take that long!"

"How long did it feel like to you before you found us?"

"Less than a season! This is only the second system we visited."

"Wow! Was there anything good in the first one?"

"There was a huge asteroid belt where we'd hoped to find planets! We think they collided with each-other soon after we departed, based on the distribution of the asteroids. There was also some pretty gas giants." <pictures of some pretty gas giants>

"Those are beautiful, wow! Is it okay to put these online?"

"Sure!"

space-ourselves: Awww, I really like her.
hopelessly-entangled: Me too!
light-and-wonder: Yeah, she's pretty great.
light-and-wonder: I can't wait until we can get more online and talk to more Amentans!
light-and-wonder: I know it's primarily important for humanitarian reasons
life-should-flourish: But there's a whole planet full of people down there and you're dying to talk to them?
light-and-wonder: Awww, Penji, you know me so well 💙
life-should-flourish: 💙 
void-your-warranty: I cooked up designs for a compact receiver and weak transmitter, it shouldn't be too long.
hopelessly-entangled: oooh. Good work!
space-ourselves: Great job, babe 💙

"Awesome! I have a blog I can put them on - I don't know if you have time to read blogs, you must be super busy -"

"We are definitely pretty busy, especially right now, and there's a lot of internet, but we are also very good at reading quickly! If you send us the link, one of us will find some time to come by and check it out sooner or later."

"Here it is!" She links them to a blog titled "failed step one".

"Cool! We'll definitely check it out at some point. I have some other stuff I need to get to, but it was really nice talking to you!" 

"It was super cool to get to meet you guys! I'm so glad you found us, it's the most exciting thing that has ever happened!"

"Likewise! We're all so incredibly excited about this!"

"I'll let you get to your thousands of very important things, bye! <3"

void-your-warranty: Okay, just finished talking to Shipping Logistics Guy.
void-your-warranty: He's amazing, really fun to work with and talk to, good at what he does.
void-your-warranty: If we're ok with spending the money (it'll be pretty expensive, understandably) we can have our freight line in a local season
space-ourselves: Excellent work, babe! 💙
light-and-wonder: If you think it's worth the cost, I'm fine with it. 
light-and-wonder: All our major costs are going to be things you're best at optimizing, so...
void-your-warranty: Yeah, it's a good deal. It'll save us at least that much on the cost of importing raw materials before we start mining in bulk.
void-your-warranty: And more on exporting our products afterwards.
space-ourselves: And even more importantly
space-ourselves: We get a TRAIN!!!
space-ourselves: :D Good job, babe 💙 
life-should-flourish: Yeah, nice work 💙
light-and-wonder: ^^ 💙 
hopelessly-entangled: ^^^ 💙 
void-your-warranty: Thanks everyone!
light-and-wonder: Alright, let's go do some more interviews.

Avaker talks to the Assemble employee working on the building prototype and works out a deal to purchase building components on a schedule where they'll be available once the train is ready to run.
The crew interviews the rest of the candidates, thanks them all for their time, and decides to hire the ex-Yvaltan yellow (Kaevy), given her work experience and how well she gets along with Avaker and Zanmi.
Over the next few days, Avaker works with Kaevy to get a quick-and-dirty communication relay setup online while the others do research, translate more Azurifice fiction to sell and share, and talk to various Amentans on request; Zanmi does a few preliminary interviews with some purples and yellows with the qualifications Avaker has given her for initial gruntwork and such. And then the internet access is available!

All five of them immediately start drinking in as much of the publicly available Amentan internet as they can. Most of them are looking for how people are reacting to the news of aliens in general (both on an individual level and on an announced government policy level).

Muroti stops by Klimati's blog to say hi and that Avaker loved the Explore Up soundtrack (her favorite song is the ice level's theme).

Makoki specifically is looking for: red communities, red reactions to the news about aliens, people talking about reds online in general and especially recently.

Kaevy sets up a web portal for filtering requests to interact with Azurifice and hires some people to help sift through things - there's a lot of volume once the word is out that they're friendly and sometimes like talking to random people. The portal has all the fiction hosted there, and the pictures of space, and the Rasikan history.

Klimati agrees that the ice level theme is very good, her third favorite after the storm level and the meteor level.

Red communities are -

- usually password protected.

People talking about reds online are mostly remarking on having encountered them at all ever and this being very unpleasant, or blaming them all for the Voan food crisis, or wondering if they have subjective experiences at all, or (in the case of items out of Doet), talking about them as useful experimental models for testing out all kinds of things before you try them on people.

Makoki fumes, takes notes, and looks at any unpassworded red communities she can find, and looks for sites that allow anonymous posts that looks like that includes reds.