- Miolee has told Tapa and Cene to back off, Anitam has dibs. What's our team's ETA?

- [picture] [picture]

- Aliens have gotten the Miolee summary of the planet and will probably not be easily led to sympathize with red oppression.

- Leader or diplomat or something alien gave name as War-Prince Matirin-Ashal-Nelinfir. War in question does not involve us, they just crashed.

Anitami team is twenty minutes out. "I know the reds get skittish around greys - they're armed in case of competition over the the ship, not to bother the locals, but maybe make sure Miolee knows not to test unit discipline -"

"They know, but if they get rudely gestured at they should pass their unit discipline test."

"'Should' doesn't have much to do with it, does it. I've told the troops that we're making as favorable a first impression on the aliens as possible given that we're kidnapping them, and that they've never met an unclean red and won't get it yet."

Nod.

Updates:

- Aliens are being informed that Miolee is not suited to host them and Miolee's friends are coming to say hello and pick them up.

(Meanwhile, in Miolee:)

"So, Miolee doesn't have anything resembling an army. We barely have police. Our Anitami allies are sending some people to move you and your ship and they can handle it if anyone gets trigger happy."

<Understood. You all won't get in any trouble?>

"Anitam says they'll handle it and that's our best bet."

Matirin instructs two people who stayed with the ship to morph local animals and remain in Miolee, preferably well out of the way. Then with a bit more hesitation he orders the destruction of the bioweapons that were to be a last resort on Earth. 

Andalites morph back to Andalite.

<Very well. We will look forward to meeting them.>

Locals fascinatedly snap pictures!

"Is there anything we can get you in the meantime?"

<A text corpus of what they speak in Anitam would be useful.>

"In a local format you mean?"

<We can convert it.>

They can get a bunch of free Anitami ebooks!

Then when the Anitami greys arrive they will speak Anitami!

The Anitami government lands six thousand people on the water just outside Miolee.

They have told everyone in Miolee who doesn't think they can leave the greys alone to stay home. The six thousand people are welcome.

They so appreciate Miolee's alliance and friendship. Most of them go spaceshipwards. Some come to welcome the Andalites. 

Here are the Andalites hanging out in a Miolee government building.

The Andalites asked about a nice grassy field and were told that rainforests don't have lots of those. They are scuffing the carpet with their heels and tail-swishing. They are so appreciative of Anitam's protection and have recommendations on how to safely move their spaceship. They would like to keep living in the dome, so moving it intact would be useful, but if that's impossible maybe Anitam will have more grassy fields than this rainforest?

Anitam has some grassy fields. Not, like, a lot, but they could repurpose a farm that's currently in a nitrogen fixing period or something.

They appreciate it so much. Perhaps they should get out of Miolee, since their presence here is so fraught.

Yep! They should come to Anitam right away! Anitam can send a few bigass helicopters to scoop up the dome ship and bring it back too. So the Andalites can live in it. Yes.

Tails swish slightly more. The Andalites appreciate their thoughtfulness!

Do they have a ballpark estimate of how much it weighs? It'll hold itself together fine because it is a spaceship, yes?

They have a very precise estimate of how much it weighs but less information on local units of measure. The structural damage is substantial but it should not crumble during transport.

They work out the local units of measure by weighing an Andalite. They send helicopters and dig grabby things in under the edges of the ship and pick it up. Andalites can travel in a separate smaller but still roomy chopper.