"Mr. Nolan, you're our negotiator, and we don't have any negotiating going on right now. I expect you to devote your time to studying everything we've learned about the aliens so far. I want to know what our political avenue will be, once we're ready to introduce ourselves. I also want to know how they'll react if they discover us before we're ready." She shoved the next computation surface in the general direction of Karl’s seat. "You have all of the translation team's notes, along with the observations of the previous generations. I think the former will be more useful to you. Feel free to send your questions directly to the translation team—if you need anything that isn't in the notes, I'm sure she can get it."