...spaceship physics?

Yes! Well, physics that's needed to eventually get to lightleapers.

Okay! They escort him to the university.

Where he will learn all the languages!!! And teach physics.

Everyone is reasonably content with this arrangement.

More Elves arrive! They touch down with emergency pretty things for the Elves staying here, whose accommodations are not pretty enough for them, and enough resources to manage the starship operation themselves because they expect they're going to have to do that. 

They can be pointed at the university where Fëanáro is!

They go set up there. They do some background reading. They talk to some people. They sing a lot and pace around outside a lot and fret about how to help Amentans a lot. 

They write the government. They explain that some concerns remain about how Calado will pull off a successful lightleaper project. They volunteer to be themselves responsible for the training and recruiting and fundraising (Carnistir thinks he can sell some microprocessor advances to a computing company for an enormous sum) to start a lightleaper program, with a few requirements from the government: firstly, everyone they hire for the project should get two child credits, that being a major motivator of local potential talent in every industry.

Secondly, when the project is done the government should commit to allowing two children per family, with credits past that being allotted however they see fit.

Thirdly, military aggression by Calado would cancel the project.

Finally, foreign greens must be welcome to attend the physics lessons. 

Calado readily agrees to all of this!

Well, okay. Maitimo makes plans to go talk to all the senators once they have a bit more information and confirm that Calado and they are on the same page about the definitions of various words. But that can wait for more information; they can't do right by aliens without vastly more information. Elves who are not teaching lightleapers or selling tech overseas set themselves to learning local law and institutions and industries and education systems and criminal justice system (it sounds kind of appalling but they are at a horrible disadvantage...Maitimo sends someone to see how the orcs do it.)

Fëanáro is so excited to have foreign students in his lightleaper classes! He corners them after lecture to get language lessons.

One of them is in fact natively bilingual in Oahkar and Evaleen. The others are all convincing but not quite perfect imitators of native fluency in various tongues.

"I don't have any foreign students," he complains that night.

" - you mean they still haven't arrived? I got notice -"

" - no, no, they're here, they just aren't actually foreign."

"Ah huh."

He writes the government a sternly worded letter expressing that unfortunately lessons are going to have to wait on the arrival of actual foreign students, maybe there was some misunderstanding, the whole idea here is that everybody can start making progress towards lightleapers. He hopes the misunderstanding is cleared up quickly because blatant attempts to cheat at some of the Elves' conditions will undermine confidence that the government intends to fulfill the other ones.

They apologize profusely! They have identified the responsible member of the university board and shot her for treason! They hope this resolves any reservations.

He looks her up.

Dakami Insho, blue, thirty, widowed, no children eight cats.

And no children means no one important liked you. 

He goes to the capitol to talk to the person who wrote him.

He can get an appointment lickety-split. The secretary offers him coffee while the senator finishes up with her prior meeting.

He appreciates it.

The senator finishes up with her meeting! "Your grace, what can I do for you?"

"I was just terribly curious how you figured out who was responsible for the fake foreign students!"

"Ah, I delegated the details of the investigation but I think it was principally a matter of opportunity, who would have had the ability to find fakes and insert them..."