Calado notifies Vanda Nossëo that they should have offered to be helpful in the first place instead of kidnapping a senator.

Vanda Nossëo strongly agrees that kidnapping is a terrible foundation for diplomatic relations. However, they're willing to overlook it for the sake of Calado's people.

Calado thinks that Vanda Nossëo thinks it's very funny.

Are they sure that they don't want to work with Vanda Nossëo on a way of making sure that services in Calado are maintained and resources remain available for anyone who wants to stay without imprisoning their entire population?

What are they gonna do, have more of those magic robots and live in a ghost town?

If Vanda Nossëo operatives could be guaranteed that as long as they perform their job duties and obey the law they will not be randomly taken hostage by private security operating on behalf of any one of the three hundred senators with complete impunity, then they could run a magic school and modernize health clinics and fund education and improve prison conditions in Calado and maybe people would not want to leave. 

Calado is not to be stuffed full of alien meddlers with diplomatic immunity.

...diplomatic immunity is "they don't get arrested even if they commit crimes". The thing Vanda Nossëo is requesting is "they don't get arrested unless they commit crimes".

They may have gotten too used to precognitive justice. Anyway no.

"So," someone says to the Amentan delegates to Vanda Nossëo, "traditionally we'd give them a couple months to think about it and if they're persistent we'd lift the restrictions on private citizens of member states rescuing Calador citizens. But I think your recommendations are going to carry the day here, it's your world and a society with which you have a lot more history."

"We could just conquer it," says the representative from Cene.

"...that wasn't actually in the vein I was expecting. Uh, why might that be a good approach -"

"Accounts for anyone who doesn't want rescuing but is in a bad place, they get to stay at home and be ruled by Amentan blues, take as long as they need to adjust - with enough fancy stuff it could be very low casualty, too."

"It'll make Oahk angry," says the Celentan representative.

"And Oahk is considering membership. Very slowly, but still. It is not very easy to persuade the courts of the merits of an unprovoked war; if there turns out to be a unanimous consensus that this is the best option I'd be optimistic about taking it to them, but, well, any considerations against are going to get a lot of weight."

"Our ambassador in Calado says their leadership is very hostile to aliens," says the Celenta representative.

"Ours says that too," says the Tapai representative. "She says the exact rhetoric varies widely, though - typical -"

"We realize that the option of emigrating has been very challenging for institutions in permissions-based nations."

"It's not great," says Soyok.

"There's precedent for cooperating with a country to freeze emigration but it's typically a country with which we have good diplomatic relations and which makes a convincing case that an emigration freeze is in the best interests of their people. If any of you need that we can get it approved. But - we don't just have poor diplomatic relations with Calado, we literally cannot safely go within snatch-us-out-of-the-sky range of them, so I don't foresee cooperation on this."

"They've gotten a little less internally conflicted recently," says the Tapai representative.

"I actually did notice that we'd stopped getting eight different answers to every inquiry."

"They've probably banded together over hating you or something."

Sigh. "If you got authorization to conquer Calado how would that go, exactly -"

"We'd want to outfit the greys with whatever fanciness you've got, build some coalition, deliver a clear ultimatum if there's something we'd take instead, and if refused or they fail to follow through in we go, collect surrenders with as high a threat to death ratio as possible, round up the remaining senators and regional executive politics blues plus their military liaison roles and turn them over to Vanda Nossëo prisons for at least token sentences..."

Nod. "I think the relevant demand is 'let people emigrate or work with us to negotiate an emigration freeze that serves your people'. Courts won't convict them just of being responsible for running their country very badly but it is plausible to me that every single one of those people has committed crimes which we would prosecute were it our jurisdiction. I suppose I could have someone look into whether that is, in fact, the case...

"Oh, holding them for processing for a week will do the trick, they just can't be underfoot while we consolidate the place," says the Cene representative.

"Calado has little to recommend it but conquering would be more of a history we'd hope the planet was past," says the Voan representative.