The negotiations grew smoother from that point as they ironed out the trade agreements more concretely. The details could be left to negotiation teams, but the core stuff was things that representatives and leaders needed to negotiate.
The two leaders negotiated the extent to which they were willing to engage in free trade. The difficulties were that their civilization was extremely far away from Gaian Civilization, making it much more difficult for such exchanges to occur, but the distance problem was hardly insurmountable, given that the Laminar Civilization had managed to deploy their world ship to Sol from that great distance away.
As the leaders of the two civilizations continued deliberating, the final agreement took on a clearer form as the two sides understood better what the other side wanted, often managing to side-step speed bumps with alternative proposals that got at the heart of what the other party wanted.
