Premier Yuumi said:
"A quota system can be negotiated at a later time, if that's more palatable. It would allow us to run checks against those applying for alien residency. Nothing physically intrusive, of course. It would only take us a few months to establish a system for handling immigration that way. Military applicants we would take because, at the very beginning, they would have to swear loyalty to Yamatai and its principles, renouncing the Free State."
I think they only want to keep the lines open in the eventuality that these cases appear. We are the Free State, and all of our member units are free. This includes the freedom to defect, to place one's-self in another's charge again...most of you may deny this, but there are those among us who would find that state of being preferable. I for one am not among that group, but they exist.
Let them arrange their hazards and create their protocols for such eventualities. Let those who would leave the Free State leave. This will be for the better of both sides.
Premier Yuumi said:
"As for recourse over data inquiries, we can provide Kessaku technicians and arbiters at the trade station to help smooth over any prickles from our end. I wouldn't perceive there to be many of those, as our PANTHEON and those watching the inquiries are very smart people. They would not rush to judgment."
Another, similar proposition: For an eventuality, a probability. We can only pray that these arbiters are clear of thought and pure of motive, free from stereotypes and preconceptions, and endeavor to place those of us with similar attributes at the meeting points between our two systems. Only that will optimize and smooth the connections and any communication errors that will, with no doubt, occur.
Premier Yuumi said:
And you still would get the APG you desire. Yamatai will have made the beginnings of repartitions to the Free State, and the Free State will have acquired technology and access to our technical expertise, so as to garner a higher, and safer, stature in the galaxy."
This is the only statement that this unit finds directly offensive. However, I also believe she did not intend it to be. It is a common belief, in this unit's logs, that technological superiority is deemed "progress" within this collection of cultures, and among the Yamataians in particular. They believe that a higher state of technological complexity leads to a higher state of being in the universe. It is not ours to judge their correctness in this attitude, but instead to take this into account when dealing with them.
Because they see our technology as "inferior", whether or not it is, they will continually see us, the units supporting and being supported by such technology, as inferior to themselves. However, we have nothing to prove to them. Our best recourse is to act as we always have: Treat them as equals, neither with condescension because they do not agree with our ways, nor with acquiescence that may lure them into thinking they have a right to control us when they do not.
This situation needs the utmost care. I request that these things be taken into account, both for the present negotiations and in future interactions between our kind and theirs.