<Hmm?>

"You came out looking kind of like a poster at my little sister's school, is all. Except with red hair."

<Does your species have ethnic variation ->

"...I guess? You can tell the difference between... mountain people, and southern hemisphere people, and boat people, if they haven't admixed much."

<And in other nations hair color communicates - occupation and status?>

"Yeah. That's the same in every country except Miolee, though. Mountain blue looks more like boat blue than like mountain purple, honestly."

Matirin wants to know the names of everyone whose name he does not yet know!

They will all introduce themselves! Seems to be a one-name-only-by-default place.

<We should perhaps at this time speak with your government.>

"They're probably already on the way, we're on foot and they'll have broken out the helicopter for this so they'll have an easier time finding us if we don't move."

<There is a helicopter approaching.>

<Oh good.>

<Can we have a summary of the local tech level - what weapons are your wars fought with, recent advances in knowledge of physics ->

"...we're a cartography and survey team and even that's giving us a lot of credit. Wars are fought with bombs?"

<Does your world have electricity.>

"Yes."

"I think that predates helicopters."

"We're actually looking for a good place to put a geothermal plant. Crater might be good for it."

<Satellites?>

"We told you we have moon arcologies and you think we maybe don't have satellites -?"

<I think you are presuming the technological path you took to be more universal than it in fact is.>

"...well, we have satellites."

<There's plausibly enough of an industrial base here to rebuild and get home, but not without exposing too much. We should presume we will have to remain.>

"Or you could let us into space."

"It can't be crowded or you wouldn't be the first ones here."

He does not comment.

"Maybe you'll convince everyone else they can't get anywhere and you can live here and we can get tourism money."

"All hail the sweet sweet tourism money."

<What are your primary industries?>