Blink. "Is it."

"Yes. And immortality, though in Tapa they were of the opinion that until we give them a colony planet that'll be more destabilizing than appreciated."

"It would present some problems. We have a moon colony but it's very low capacity."

"Terraforming is expensive and takes some time but large space stations with artificial gravity just like your world's are tractable and cheap, we can do overnight installation if anybody is interested in political liberalization or anything and wants to try a pilot program somewhere it won't be destabilizing to the country if the results are less than hoped for. - might have been a good idea to do the food-handling procedure changes that way -"

"I'd suggest it to Allocator Savo but he's rather in disgrace."

"We can deliver food."

"We would appreciate that very much. Should I put you directly in touch with someone who can coordinate that?"

"That'd be great, yes. All we need are locations and a plain-language description of what you want."

"Allocator Vinanya would be the one to tell; she's in office 208."

"I can head over there now, unless there's anything else."

"How should we get in touch with you if we have further questions or comments?"

"Write 'Macalaurë, c/o Ambaróna open channel' and then whatever you need."

"And then...?"

"I'll get back to you within an hour."

"Arbitrary material objects?" she inquires dryly.

"It's very useful. Have a good day!"

"Thank you."

He stops by the allocator's office to offer food deliveries.

The allocator will be delighted to tell him what things are needed where.

Great! He writes in for it. He goes back to Tapa.

Right where he left it.

He was going to talk to the red interface people next!

An interface orange is here to make sure he doesn't need to meet reds directly!

How thoughtful. Is the population mostly literate? Does it have internal leadership? Is it centralized?

They are mostly literate! They have community leaders - retired people, mostly - fairly decentralized but they're empowered enough that if the interface orange extracts an agreement it will typically be followed through on as much as one can expect from reds.