Drakador_Chaos
Kotaii adopted a sort of sad smile.
K: "I must admit, despite myself, that I agree, it is quite a shame... But! That doesn't deter us, and we do our best to assist the more diverse species that crop up. Recently we finished integrating the Irri people into the Pact, an avian species you've perhaps heard of, they were briefly the subject of galactic interest a while back."
"As for your suggestions, well... it's my dismay to say we tried both of these before. With the Embassy Orbital, that was our initial proposal for our own embassy, albeit a much scaled down version. After a bit of debate, it was decided that there was no reason for us to get special embassy building permissions, let alone orbital ones, founding members or not. It's not really my place to complain, that was their decision, and we shall respect it. The staff rotations aren't too much of a hassle either. We can communicate Qswitch data with the mainspace, both here and there, so the whole process can take little more than a day or so."
"On the topic of habitability modifying, we did just that when the first Orbitals began popping up. It was just some subtle changes; slower muscle and bone tissue deterioration, temperature adaptive pelt colour, and some other minor ones. The changes were made so the denizens of space would be more suited for it, but it very nearly brought the Pact to its knees before it even properly began. Both the new breed and the old started calling the other inferior, or superior, or just simply different. A devastating civil war nearly broke out, it took some very tactful negotiations to prevent the bloodshed. Bear in mind, these were relatively minor changes, in fact a similar degree of self-modification is available in today's civilian market. If we were to enact a change as drastic as habitability to a large population... well, I trust your ability to put two and two together. Perhaps someday though, perhaps."
"Adapting environments to our own preference would also be a tricky matter. Changing a planet's temperature would be a simple matter, granted, but it's substantially less simple to raise a planet's surface gravity. It also doesn't help that, in our own experience anyways, planets with acceptable surface gravity are usually harder to convert for any number of reasons. I won't bore you further with details, but suffice to say we do try."