This isn't planning for the entire Pre-Aeldmoot, is it
@Mechanis ? Just the first day?
From when you arrived, there are Three (3) Days until the Moot proper begins
It's the first three days, with 3 time slots to arrange meetings, or set aside time for people to meet us.
Saim-Hann and the Exodites I think we just poke around saying hi and asking if anyone wants to refit fleets in our docks.
I think we just need to touch base with them and suggest that maybe they can earn more promance and respect if they help the survivalists as well. Arrange some manner of of permanent representative exchange between us and them. We'll likely be too busy helping the survivalists to refit any of their 60 exodite allies for a while.
Alaitoc I think might be interested in tech if we want to try and bribe them into being less hostile; Iyanden is almost certainly interested, but if they get it we can assume Biel-Tan gets it, and there's stuff we'd rather they not have. Then again, Alaitoc might make sure Biel-Tan gets anything we trade them, too - they are hostile to us.
Offer them tech, clue them in about Isha's survival with minimal explanation to shake them up a little going into the Aeldmoot proper.
Independents we can probably get away with talking to just to talk to; we're not one of the majors, but we're still a large Craftworld and a relatively generous one, so talking to them is something of a gift of its own; once they've talked to us, other factions are likely to talk to them too just to find out if we let anything spicy slip.
Mention the galactic north is relatively free of chaos forces, with only a slightly troublesome Ork infestation in it's Western half. A good place for less martial worlds to rest and recover under the protection of our allied forces.
I'll have to find a reference as I can't track it down, but I dimly recall reading something that a large part of the reason for the Harlequins' position in Eldar society was that they were, on the whole, scrupulously neutral. They performed for all the other factions without fear or favour, and that's why they were welcomed everywhere, because they didn't put their finger on the scales on a macro level.
If the Harlequin's have something to say, we can leave a time slot open on the second and third days each, and they'll likely use one of them. We should assume they'll be aware of everything we have done and are planning to do.
can these pre-meeting meetings be used to facilitate trade deals to those we meet?
Aeldari trade in services and large asset trades rather than general goods, based on the quest thus far, so it's not a thing really. We would want to reserve our aid for the Survivalist in the most dangerous part of the Galaxy and suggest the independents come north for relative safety and lack of chaos foes.
Anyway, for Day One, I think it's a day where we should map out our boundaries. I think we definitely want to chat with Ulthwe and Iyanden early on, but spend a Faction action on ourselves.
Iyanden gets a private meeting because we're giving them face as a First Among Equals and letting them know "This shit is serious and we all need to know it, and I trust you to be responsible enough to run herd on the extremists until we've informed everyone", and Ulthwe so we can get an introduction to the rest of the Survivalists and start politicking there.
The intent for the second day would be to capitalize on what we learn day one, but at present it's mostly "One Open Slot, 1x Asuryani, 1x Survivalists", but there's a lot to figure out still, and we don't know what openings we need.
Third Day is too dependent on how day one and two goes to make predictions.
Edit: nevermind. I'm an idiot. We do get to meet them day by day.
I think we should meet Iyanden first day one before anyone else gets to politic them. If we do that we have to meet Saim-han as well so they know we are giving them the same respect and suggest maybe we can split Iyanden from Beil-tan and divide the Imperialist cause, or just to suggest to them that they could earn much respect by helping the survivalists with their fleets.
We can use the middle slot for Ulthwe or independents, depending on what we have planned for Saim-han.
Day two should have the first meeting of the day us providing open reception, Incase the Harlequin's have something to say or someone else want to meet us. We can meet two of the factions we haven't met day one with our other two timeslots.
Day three should have us meeting Iyanden last to get a read on what direction their heading and how to lean on them during the rest of the event, as well as getting a read on how the rest of their meeting since the beginning of day 1 have gone. We leave the middle slot of the day open for whoever is interested and the Hearlequins if they don't show up day two. The first slot of the day can go to the Radicals to get them on the same page but leave them very little time to spill the beans.
I disagree we should allow the Biel-Tan to be stupid for one day and then come to them first thing tomorrow so they can shut them up.
We can't get Iyanden to make Biel-tan stop without both justification that they plan/are capable of kinstrife and in only 3-5 hours without having the achievement of discovering the true nature of the curses. These are pre meetings, so I think Saim-Hann alone will be able to lesser the extend of Biel-Tan talking shit in 4~ish meetings.
No. Meet them first. Showing that we made them our first priority will earn browny points and sends a message to the rest that Iyanden considers Vau-Vulkesh a serious player. It let's us make the first impression, and get a read on how they are day one, for a better comparison at the end of day three.
