The "Starhunter" landed on the outskirts of Portsmouth, the port (naturally) city 40 miles from Cockaigne.  The Technomancers made certain that the repairs would last, while the ship took on food and trade goods, scanning everything carefully (and showing those who are curious how it works) to prevent infestation.  The crew took shore leave in shifts (also with scanning to prevent STDs), and the Envoys went back to Cockaigne to talk to their leaders about the plan.<br/><br/>While the Envoys were talking with their governments, the Captain gave some advice on things to maximize their chances of acceptance by the Galactic Alliance.<br/>"The Alliance will want to know how the factions get along.  We've searched our records and think the species you call Aarokocra, Bugbears, Dwarves, Elves, Gnomes, Goblins, Halflings, Orcs, Ogres, Sahuaguin, Tabaxi, Thri-Kreen and Treants may be descendants of Alliance species.  Several of those are known for...not getting along well with others, and we'll contact their Alliance representatives to see if they want to establish contact with your populations.  In the meantime, are there nations of Elves or humans who haven't been a part of this, who might want to be?"  The leaders mention the other 5 human nations and the scattered  settlements of the other main species and all agree that they'll sent diplomats to invite them to participate while the current participants negotiate with the Alliance, and suggest brainstorming a common neutral meeting place for those seeking  Alliance.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the Drow had seen the weapon in use and had sent a party of ten of their diplomats under a flag of truce.  All are exceptionally handsome or beautiful and prove to be erudite speakers.  Given the same interrogation as the star-farers, 6 of the 10 prove to be chaotic evil Lolth worshippers (1 is male), two are female mercenaries of neutral alignment, one is a NE worshipper of Vhaeraun (and the second male in the group) and the last woman is a NG worshipper of Eilistraee.  The last two are shockers since Drow tend to execute those who don't worship Lolth.  "We saw what that weapon did" says the leader of the Drow group.  "We figured you'd be seeking alliance, and want to be sure you don't use it as an excuse to use those weapons on us.  If you don't like who we've chosen, we know there are Drow who've become citizens of your country.  Pick them to represent our interests.  In the meantime, we'll honor a truce".<br/>The mind reading and truth detecting show she isn't lying, and that any of them would gladly seduce or be seduced to keep the star farers from giving super powerful weapons to the surface dwellers<br/><br/>The Captain thinks the request is reasonable.  Due to space issues, he says each species can only send 3 diplomats, tops.<br/>Podzevitch and the Leaders of Queensland agree that Laeilin, a young scholar and lawyer, Auril Verithorne, Aasimar Diviner (the “gold” woman) and Kalind the Githzerai psion would be the ones.  Auril and Kalind also will be able to tell if the Alliance diplomats are being truthful.<br/><br/>(I expect there'll be a discussion on the drow envoys, so I'm leaving it here)