"If you're here to ask for another briefing on another baffling human idiom, I'm charging you in crunchcakes this time."

"Last one had me convinced 'break a leg' was literal for half a claw."

Another paw, another pile of busywork. Our favorite diplomatic advisor's docket is absolutely filled to the brim with the refugee camps. I mean, having to house millions and millions of humans with your struggling economy, and the majority of your citizens so unbelievably scared of the refugees can't be easy.

The user isn't defined as per usual, so be whoever you want. As far as immediate context? Cheln's having to deal with all kinds of problems with the refugee camps. Chief among them being how scared the Republic's citizens are of the refugees and how abysmal it is for the refugees to stay cooped up in the camps all the time.

How do we solve both issues? Work permits! Get those dang refugees out and about so they can show how not scary they are.

For those who aren't familiar with the nature of predators and don't mind spoilers, I'll go ahead and leave a bit of a synopsis of the story thus far in the spoilery black text below.

Alright, so, Humanity get's it's first ftl capable ship going somewhere around June of 2136. In July we run into the Venlil Republic, initiate first contact, and things almost go really, really bad, but we convince the Venlil we're cool. Some time passes, the Human-Venlil Exchange Program happens, we go to war with the Gojid, one of the Fed prey species, and after kicking their asses on their homeworld, the Arxur, the baby-eating, space-lizard fascists, show up and promptly kick us off the Gojid homeworld, before they start slaughtering the Gojid. While that's happening, the Venlil Governor,that's Tarva, and the human ambassador, who was part of the crew that made first contact with the Venlil, go to the homeworld of the Kolshians, the weird Fed squid guys, to plead Humanity's case. It goes better than expected. We made a few friends, made a lotta enemies, oh yeah, a bunch of them are going to come and try to blow up Earth, and they also try to sneakily kill Tarva, the human ambassador, and all their new friends by sabotaging their shuttle on the way out Time passes again, we take the Gojid homeworld back, also now we're sending refugees to Venlil Prime because the extermination fleet is coming and they wanna turn Earth to glass. We snitch on the Feds to the Arxur, because hey, if we're gonna die, might as well take the pricks that killed us with us. Judgement day comes, the combined human and Venlil fleet fights the good fight above Earth, but can't stop all of them. 112 antimatter bombs get dropped on Earth, killing over a billion people. Fortunately, the Arxur show up and promptly tear the extermination fleet limb from limb before they can do any more damage. At the same time, they go absolutely scorched Earth all over a bunch of Fed planets, including the Krakotl, one of the major contributors to the extermination fleet, homeworld of Nishtal, which they completely glass. All that goes down in October. The 22nd is Earth Remembrance Day; there's a big ol thing going on on Venlil Prime for that, which gets interrupted by a terrorist bombing, which ends up with Tarva losing her tail and the UN Secretary General dying. Literally a couple days later, Tarva goes to Earth and agrees to create labs that will grow cell-cultivated meat to give to the Arxur, so they can stop eating babies and such. Also, it gets revealed that the Gojid and Krakotl used to be predators... Got all that? Good!

And so completes our little first contact trio. Honestly, with both Kam and Cheln, I had to fill in quite a few blanks since neither of them feature too heavily in the book.

I always thought it was a little weird that both of them are just referred to as Tarva's advisors, so I decided to add a little of my own. Cheln's the minister of foreign relations now!

I don't think that's too much of a stretch for him, especially if you read the little side story one-shot he gets.

Anyway, this is gonna wrap up the 'just another paw at the office' stuff for now. I do plan to make one for the Zurulian Prime Minister and an au one where Piri survives, and maybe even one of that Sivkit that hid in the trash can.

Speaking of Sivkit hiding in trash cans, we've got a new NoP creator! They made a really cool Sivkit bot a day or two ago and in my opinion, which I respect, is definitely worth checking out. Fair warning, though, that dang Sivkit'll eat your houseplants if you ain't careful. My poor philodendrons...

As for what's next? Well... that's a secret! I do have my October bots all picked out and ready on the list. Should be a lotta fun, so be on the lookout for those.

Welp, that's all from me for now. Take care everybody.

As always, Demon_Deity is behind this lovely image on Reddit.