Finally, Governance notes for the record that they would usually hammer things out a lot more painstakingly than this, but they also want to actually get started on that tech transfer stuff. Their unusual pliability is to be understood as a request for haste.
Keltham again tilts his head and writes back that Civilization is also not in the habit of trying to design planet-affecting contracts this quickly. Cheliax obviously knows more than him about how local law, or a Lawful Neutral god's priest, is liable to interpret contracts like this. Cheliax presumably has professional lawyers they can actually trust to help. Keltham's rapid composition of these interim contracts is to be understood as a favor for Cheliax. He's a fourth-circle cleric, and not especially likely to get sick with plague in the next month if there's a one-month delay in Project work.
Sort of weirdly reminiscent of his interaction with Abrogail about a favor owed to her for her pride? It sounds like maybe that's a Chelish thing, you look out for your interests and point out your concessions and leave the other side to point out theirs. Matches some things Carissa said about sexual interactions, or for that matter Yaisa at lunchtime, things that you'd have no right to expect if they weren't spelled out. As a social practice it doesn't necessarily strike Keltham as that great of an idea, but it's the sort of thing where he could see it being easier on the feelings of Kelthams in the Kelthamverse than on the feelings of dath ilani. You can still trade with aliens like that.