"I might tell them you said that."

< I trust you to know better than I what will be a - useful nudge towards being less of a PR liability and what will be regarded as interference.>

"Modulated for the audience, yes."

Tail-swish. <All right. Get an engineering team in here and we'll teach them starships.>

There is pretty much already an engineering team there. It includes Amentan Matirin's Dad.

Matirin was not on the greatest of terms with his father when he died. He ignores Amentan Dad. 

Andalites can translate papers on z-space and on weapons systems and on artificial gravity and ship blueprints and ship manufacture. It becomes fairly obvious that any Andalite crew could more or less get an arbitrary post-industrial species up to starfaring in the space of a few years if they wanted to and with Matirin's permission they want to. They know how to build the ships by hand - for repairs - and they know exactly how z-space works and the computers have the rest. 

Amentans are so so happy starships starships starships!!!

"And then a war with slug aliens, presuming we're not being misled about that and presuming the main Andalites don't decide to rectify the dissemination of military secrets."

Kalana says, "I can't wait to tell a general take that planet and you can have fifty grandchildren on it."

"And take it from disgusting slug aliens, too, it's a very convenient arrangement."

"Is everyone else going to be stressed if we start Andalite weapons maufacture, bump the grey credits, maybe bump all the credits -"

"I mean I'm sure they'll be on edge but we've explained that we're allying with the aliens against some other aliens in exchange for some planets, and the aliens are willing to talk with them too, it's not like doing it out of nowhere."

"Everyone's pestering for access."

"What a surprise. I'd like a head start in case anyone does get ambitious closer to home while we're getting ready for the war but I'm sure everyone else wants us not to have a head start for the same reason. Maybe make a list of trade concessions we've wanted forever and let everybody buy access and then let the Andalites be less cooperative with people they disapprove of."

A list is compiled.

Oh good.

Some people make the concessions, or offer some but not all. Rivik prefers to harass Miolee for any aliens they're hiding.

They're hiding two but they don't know it; the aliens have stayed out of the way except when in morph as unremarkable Mioleen citizens getting onto a public computer to read about the aliens. 

Miolee asks Anitam to chase away those Rivikni boats please.

Anitam would be delighted.

Rivik wasn't bothering THEM. Back off.

Miolee and Anitam are friends, as evidenced by Miolee helpfully giving Anitam the alien spaceship, and Anitam can return the favor with some naval exercises in the ocean right here. 

Rivik lingers resentfully.

Anitam can keep the naval exercises up a while!

And Matirin can meet aliens from other countries.