"Yes. It may end up being infeasible, but I find I do my best work when I can speak to people one-on-one, so I'll be trying for that first.

Oh, and before I forget; Avaker wrote a protocol-translation plugin for Amentan email, so she could easily have secure communications with our business partners on the ground. Would you like a copy, in case either of us want to follow up or check in without requiring you to clear your schedule?"

"That does sound more convenient but we have a policy against adding third party software to government employees' work machines."

"That makes sense! I suppose we can be vague via digital communication, and Muroti drew up some prototypes for a hybrid Amentan/Azurifice pocket everything; we could give you one of those just for contacting us, if you like.

I've covered everything on my agenda for this meeting; is there anything you'd like to ask us while we have the privacy? If not, I can let you get back to your day's vacation; have someone on your staff send us an email once they're ready to start discussing the power generation technology distribution plans."

"I can accept a dedicated pocket everything but I'd have to keep it somewhere out of the way for similar reasons - the policy is mostly about espionage. Do you need to know what address to expect the message from?"

"That makes sense! We aren't going to be offended if you keep it in a secure box far away from everything important.

We have really good email filtering! If you let us know the email address we'll see it about 10 minutes sooner." 

Avalor gives the address for an Allocator Mozeen.

"Thanks again for your time! We'll be in touch."

Zanmi disconnects.

Allocator Mozeen emails them a short time afterwards (suggesting that Avalor doesn't take her days very off) about how to decide who to invite to the conference and how to split the resulting revenue.

The Azurifice want to give the majority of the revenue they'd typically collect in this kind of situation to either the Voan governments or the companies facilitating the sale; the exact details of who gets what are up to Voa.

Avaker suggests they invite these greens (physicists who've published papers on radiation and radioactive decay) and these purples (industry experts in mining, steam-turbine-based power plant construction and operation, and hazardous chemical waste transportation and storage). 

Meanwhile, Makoki messages Kavut using their encrypted system with a summary of how the initial talk with Governor Avalor went.

hopelessly-entangled: ...and then Zanmi thanked her for her time.
hopelessly-entangled: We think this seems promising, especially if we handle the transit ourselves. Thoughts?

kavut: If she's willing to route around the social workers that's pretty promising, yeah.

hopelessly-entangled: Yeah I told Zanmi to be diplomatic but also firm about wanting to avoid going through social workers.
hopelessly-entangled: Because that entire system seems like a disaster.
hopelessly-entangled: Muroti wants to suggest phasing out social workers and replacing them with online forms/communication, do you think that'd be popular in your community?

kavut: That'd work for us but I think they want the social workers keeping an eye on us.

hopelessly-entangled: Yeah, we think the biggest barrier would be convincing them and we don't currently have an angle on that. 
hopelessly-entangled: But if we think of one, we'll let you know, and if you think of one feel free to reach out.
hopelessly-entangled: I'll keep you appraised of ongoing developments, and I'd like to do another strategy chat before the next time we talk to Avalor, but that won't be for a couple months.

kavut: Thank you.

hopelessly-entangled: We're glad we can help. Thanks for working with us.
hopelessly-entangled: And good luck out there.

Makoki spends some time snuggling with Penjaga in VR while responding to new or interesting questions and comments received on the Azurifice website.

Muroti enlists Penjaga to help plan a party conference! They find the earliest date that's feasible for everyone they really want to invite and enlist help from Allocator Mozeen to get a venue picked out. Muroti has entirely too many opinions about catering for someone who's never eaten food. Once everything is settled, they announce the conference on their website and send a blurb to science-y news outlets, informing everyone that the Az are excited to share a new (to Amenta) type of power generation technology. Catch the livestream on the Azurifice site!

The livestream is well attended but there's considerable attrition as people check out the nuclear physics to fun alien content ratio and determine it is pretty high.

Excellent! Muroti opens the conference with very high level explanation of how nuclear fusion works ("Fusion power is pretty simple! First you create a tiny artificial sun, then you squeeze it into a donut to keep it from exploding, and finally you use the heat to boil water.") before passing off to Avakar, who has a surprisingly-easy-to-understand explanation of how a fusion reaction produces energy, for the public; she also announces that they will be posting free on their site some more detailed write-ups of nuclear fusion, translated into every major Amentan language. The two of them are ready to field questions from greens in attendance! (The more nitty-gritty "how to build and run nuclear fusion reactor" talk with the Voan energy sector is scheduled for later today).

Some of the greens point out that if you skipped the part where you prevent it from exploding, that would be very bad.

It sure would! She recommends not skipping that.

void-your-warranty: dear

"...in practice, if you don't build any containment system at all, you'll run into problems well before any actual fusion occurs. Fusion takes a lot of energy to start happening; if you tried heating up a plasma to fusion temperatures, without building a sufficient confinement system, it would melt whatever container you were holding it in and dissipate extremely rapidly, which is very bad not because it would cause an explosion, but because it would destroy your expensive equipment."

A green attempts to privately convey that they are mostly worried that it would be possible to use these principles to create a weapon on purpose if someone were so moved.

That basically wouldn't be possible to do in a remotely efficient manner? It's definitely possible to intentionally design a fusion "reactor" such that it would, when turned on and fueled and supplied the enormous amount of energy required to heat up the plasma to fusion-producing temperatures, explode in a horrifying fireball of death, but there really aren't effective military uses for a weapon that costs tens of millions of dollars, can't feasibly be built in less than a season, and cannot feasibly be moved, once built, and you'd be able to tell from the blueprints that it would cause a horrifying explosion. (If you design your own fusion reactors, please send us the blueprints, we can check them for horrifying-explode-ability).

(The Az know but absolutely will not mention that it's possible to make a fusion bomb if you use a fission bomb to kickstart the reaction! This is not the kind of fun science fact they're interested in sharing at this time.)

space-ourselves: I know it's a much weaker offering and also probably a bad idea for other reasons, but it would have been funny if we'd gone with nuclear fission plants instead
life-should-flourish: ...you don't think the radiation would have tripped their pollution response something fierce?
space-ourselves: Oh, no, it definitely would.
space-ourselves: That's, like, most of the draw.
life-should-flourish: ...
light-and-wonder: ...okay, I'll bite. 
light-and-wonder: why, exactly, would it be good for us to be handing out power plants that produce waste byproduct that triggers these people?
hopelessly-entangled: ohhhhhhh.
space-ourselves: :D
light-and-wonder: ???
hopelessly-entangled: If we ran the reactors ourselves, we could employ a ton of reds. 
void-your-warranty: Not just for the reactor itself, but for the associated breeders and maybe even some of the mining operations.
light-and-wonder: ...Huh. Could even set up company towns for them, too, if the facilities were big enough.
hopelessly-entangled: I don't think it'd've worked, though. Clean castes would be too afraid of rioting reds triggering a meltdown.
space-ourselves: Yeah, like I said, other reasons.