"We had to bribe a room full of people to get access to an ambassador from anyone else - Hatepa Inaf, she is lovely and was on the occasions we spoke invaluable - and they dragged her in to talk with us and then got arrested for arranging for us to get to our ship and we had to bribe the police. Ended when we thankfully got an opening to cart yellows-who-fetched-the-ambassador and police-who-arrested-the-yellows alike off to Valinor. The moon shuttle that tried to intercept us departing was luckily too slow.

We didn't try again, admittedly. Maybe it'd have gone better but maybe the shuttle would have intercepted or the greys been older than twenty and the yellows shot or maybe someone would have had the bright idea of giving us fake foreign ambassadors like they did the foreign students."

"You seem to have landed with the expectation that if anything is more complicated to achieve than asking nicely it must be catastrophically impossible."

"I believe you that you could have done it. I contest that a squirrel could have."

"I apologize for the exaggeration."

"Is Voa not going to relocate its reds? Once we have the tech for it and somewhere to put them, I mean."

"Given the technological and spatial luxury to do so we will be eager to see our reds colonizing their own planet, perhaps with those of other countries joining them."

"Oh, do they want to?"

She looks unimpressed with him. "They will at minimum see it coming from some years off."

"Ah huh."

"Does it improve the conversation to your mind that now the moral judgment is mutual?"

"Oh, I'm not judging you, we're certainly going to march ours off at gunpoint when we've got something more convenient. I was admittedly curious whether you'd disapprove when we do."

"I'm optimistic that in Voa gunpoint may be superfluous. I may not live to see it, of course."

"That day will be a great loss to Voa and the world."

"Thank you."

He turns to go.

Avalor does not stop him.

Oh good now he can interact with people who don't hate him which is so much more fun.

Lots of people who don't hate him! Some of them are kind of scared of him but that's different!

It's very different! For one thing, if their country is not a catastrophic dumpster fire, the being scared often improves substantially after he drops enough miscellaneous amusing anecdotes about being threatened by privately-directed Calado greys. If people can be pretty confident that if the aliens came to their country the aliens wouldn't be threatened or held hostage or tossed between several angry armed groups or marched around, then they can stop worrying the aliens will get annoyed enough to drop them on some cheesemongers.

Yes, that does help.

Aliens are diligently disinterested in further conquest and happy to be reassuringly stable citizens now. If Oahk sent people he will try to get a sense of whether Oahk might be influenced into a stupid war over Calado by enough diligent exiled blues.

Oahk had very close ties to Calado as it was and almost none to Elven Calado. They find it awkward to be in a position of so much inherited institutional friendship with the people who kidnapped their relatives and left them to make their own way through space back to Oahk looking for shelter and finding a lot of their assets missing. (Oahk did try to prevent seizure of assets located within Oahk but quailed at the first suggestion that this might cost them ships, of course.)

Elves might have vaguely expected all the meticulously documented embezzlement and fraud would have helped more on the assets front, but it kind of seems like everybody does that or at least doesn't think it reasonable to punish people who do. 

The thing about quailing at the first mention of pulling ships is you don't get an explanation of the moral precepts being compromised in the process!

It's obviously useful to be unwilling to hand over assets for any reason. But still. He trusts people vastly more if they act like punishing embezzlement is a reasonable thing to do. Elves can awkwardly try to make Oahkar acquaintances.