"Because you poisoned exported food?"

"It's safe. Allocator Savo let," sigh, "reds touch it, and now no one wants it, but it's not literally poison."

"Ah."

     "That sounds very ...well-intentioned of him."

Everyone scowls.

"I take it you still want food aid. Even if it's not actually poison."

"Yes, people are still freaking out and buying up all the clean food."

"We'd be happy to help with that. We'll also encourage Tapa to reconsider the war in light of the opportunities presented by contact, but I can't venture a guess how they'll feel about that."

"I've got ahold of Allocator Dizio, you can talk to him about food."

"Thank you!" 

Allocator Dizio has places food can go.

About twenty minutes later food will mysteriously appear there.

The Voans appreciate it and start sending it places.

And are perhaps convinced now that the aliens aren't a hoax?

Yup, these seem to be genuine tall pretty hairdye-type aliens.

There are more alien aliens but they try to have emissaries who find the planet habitable and have the right number of thumbs for the local technology and all. Can they talk to somebody?

They can talk to Governor Avalor!

They are very pleased to meet her. It sounds like aliens could from Voa's perspective have stood to arrive a few months sooner. They are sorry about that.

"I assure you at the time the punctuality of imminent aliens did not even cross my mind."

"We sweep for planets that wipe themselves out and tell a precog who tells us just in time but there aren't the resources to manage that for lesser catastrophes, regrettably. Maybe someday."

"I understand. Now that you are here, what should we expect apart from spontaneously appearing staples?"

"We want to offer you the opportunity to join the Vanda Nossëo consortium, we can if you'd like arrange regular interstellar transit to your nearest consortium transit hub, we want to set up reliable lines of communication."

"Do you have some way through - not around, I don't care to violate ceasefire terms - through the jam Tapa has imposed?"

"In our direction, yes. In yours it would depend on what specifically the terms prohibit."

She can produce the terms. Voa is not to attempt to internally or internationally transmit any information by internet or radio without going through Tapa for paraphrase for approved purposes.

" - then yes. We can give you a crystal ball network, which is not internet or radio."