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Before you go on a multiple-year trip accessible only by hyperspace relay, you download every out-of-copyright-work of art, literature or science your civilization has ever produced and stick it on your ship's computer. You do this even if you are, frankly, kind of dumb; it is just the obvious thing to do. You are not going to think of everything you need, and no matter HOW confident you are that five-dimensional math is beyond you or that you have no interest in the works of Falazon-2114, some conceivable emergency might mean that you need to repair a damaged hyperdrive or persuade a colony founded on his works that they desperately need to join the League, and when it is essentially costless to take everything, that is what you do.
This, at any rate, is common knowledge known even to the pilot of the Finite But Extremely Large Bounty, whose true name is a thirty-six digit hexadecimal string and whose usename incorporates sounds found not only not in English, but not in any language spoken by dogs, chimpanzees, mosquitoes, or any other entity that does not prefer to communicate exclusively via signal broadcast. We can call him Nau, or Fodion, or GODDAMN IT, since these are all noises he is going to make very, very soon.
Not that any emergency has hit. No, he's had a peaceful trip; no need to exercise self-control, no need to make decisions calling for twice his intelligence, just regular drop-offs of signal beacons to mark his progress and slightly less regular placement of mining replicators on the occasional unusually valuable asteroid; when the pickup ship comes in his wake, it will find the asteroids neatly sorted into their component materials, all carefully packaged and floating by the beacons for immediate delivery to the nearest orbital factory. He's been being choosier than most miners would, with his beacons, but the whole point of taking a job mining asteroids is so you can generate positive value for the world without ever having to interact with any part of it that is not best primarily understood with reference to Newtonian motion, and the longer his trip, the more he can stay in his cabin, reading books written when the League's average IQ was three standard deviations lower than it is today and even mostly following them.
And as long as no emergency hits, that's exactly what he's going to be able to keep doing. He sets his hyperdrive going and -
(Okay, let's see if this works, hopefully his speech will work even thorough translation...)
"Since I have arrived, I have been trying to expand your technological base, but a great deal of Imai*'s production technology depends on cheaply available power not in existence in Amenta. Specifically, our primary source of power is fusion reactions; the combining of the atom for power. Humanity accomplished this since before we left our first planet, and we have depended on it for a great many of our developments; antimatter is too expensive to produce for most practical uses, solar power too limited. Modern fusion reactors require no particularly rare components, nothing easily-consumable, no tremendous manufacturing base to support them, not by Amentan standards; they can produce power literally orders of magnitude superior to what Amenta uses at a lower cost. Indeed they have only one major problem."
"You know that I am, by Amentan standards, hyposensitive - that all humans are. Humans do not particularly worry about minor diseases or low levels of uncleanliness. It takes extreme levels to make humans react."
"Nuclear power produces what humans consider critically dangerous levels of pollution. If we saw Amentans treating nuclear waste the way you treat garbage, we would consider refraining from setting foot on Amenta. On Earth, before modern treatment plants were available -" he looked up this fact - "it was buried miles underground in secure containers with warnings in every language anyone in the future might ever speak urging them not to come too close." He thinks that was total bullshit but it doesn't matter. "It is extremely dangerous - not only to us, but to you as well; the effects of radiation can be truly horrifying to anything ordered that would like to remain so. Nonetheless we use it; it is so much more resource-efficient than solar or hydroelectric power that the changeover reduces deaths, even with this pollution, and we have spent centuries devising extremely secure safety precautions to minimize the risk to the lowest levels possible. On Imai*, it is handled largely by robots - but we have on-site technicians at all times, specially trained and with enhanced radiation shielding in their skulls, on-hand in case of disaster to prevent the spreading of pollution."
"I would recommend developing robots when it is safe, but I would not delay the rapid development and construction of nuclear power plants for that, since the tremendous energy they generate is a practical requirement for engineering and production on the galactic scale. I do not see any alternative, at present, to the use of red labor for these plants, and I would strongly recommend constructing them anyway."
That all seems to go over pretty well; the clean Amentans are certainly not going to hear that hyposensitive aliens take some form of pollution ultra-seriously and then sign up in droves to handle it. How many reds per kilowatt-hour are they looking at here?
He can give them numbers! In kilowatt-hours, the numbers are very big! The only problem is that he's also suggesting they produce hundreds of times as much power so they can run all his super-high-tech machinery without worrying about energy costs and get into space faster and all become immortal and have planets.
Yeah that sounds reasonable, they just need some figures to give to the population guys. Is it advisable to have these plants far away from civilization?
... On the one hand, if manufactured to Imai*'s standards, the plants ought to be very safe; Imai is very paranoid about things like this because of how seriously humans take it, and so there would be negligible risk to the surrounding area. On the other hand, there are vitally important components which would need to be manufactured by Amentans using tools recently invented for the purpose and not given centuries' worth of testing. So, um, yes. Yes he thinks that would be a good idea. It doesn't have to be unreachably far, the worries about blast radius only look like this even in the worst-case likely scenarios, but yeah, not having them on top of preexisting cities looks like a great idea.
He does think that the reds are going to need, like... food, and that they should consider food and medicine and replacement part supply lines when they make whatever plans they make? Possibly some of this could be produced on-site; once he gets autofactories going, those wouldn't need purple workers, and they could train a few of the red power plant technicians to double as autofactory technicians so clean workers wouldn't need to go there. But he's sure they know this kind of implementation details better than he does.
Oh, they can get stuff into the desert; it'd be a longer commute but not prohibitive.
Oh good.
(So much for his new wildly-improvised plan to put the entire new industry of Amenta under red control.)
Yup! Some of the plants will probably need to be just a couple blast radii away from settlements, because there's some loss in transmission, but most of it and especially all the early test plants can be in the Apta Desert.
He doesn't see any problem with it? If he notices something he'll be sure to let them know? He's sure some problem will show up somewhere but probably they can handle it.
Great. They will start breaking ground for foundations and stuff so it can be all ready to go when the reds are trained (...it's been a while since they've needed to train reds to do anything new, hm) and the equipment is manufactured.
Yeah, uh, before they can get too far about that he's going to go update Conspecific and the community leader he's been talking to on their current plan. He's sure it's horrible he just isn't sure how because he's a cyborg alien.
The community leader observes that a lot of red possessions are currently reclaimed from the trash; a remote location where none of the onsite reds have trash collection as their outwork job is going to need more supplies than usual, especially things like clothes, appliances, or furniture, and this seems like the sort of thing cleans are bad at thinking about. It could probably be patched by having reds make the supply runs from conventional communities, so they could throw in stuff from their reclamation.
Sure, he's happy to suggest to the people planning it that they save clean workers the trip, mixed in with some technical suggestions so they don't get suspicious.
He's also going to quietly suggest to Tosuk that this would be an ideal case for cyborgs; obviously his homeworld uses them for this, and these plants are expensive enough that it might be worth one or two of the technicians managing each of them, at least, having bodies that won't melt in a crisis.
Of course as soon as they have cyborg technology they will start testing it on reds and nuclear tech reds seem like a reasonable place to start there.
This seems... generally sensible? Anyway, he should let them know that as the only person with any experience whatsoever with nuclear technology he should keep an eye on it, and should probably at least start training the red technicians himself when they get to that point? But there doesn't appear to be any crisis this instant, so he can work on artificial wombs and automatic factories and looking at appropriate stretches of ocean and all the things the greens actually want him to do.