clever idea

Well, you probably figured out what the machines had in mind....given that they had lots of stuff, more than they knew what to do with....and the spiders spent all their time trying to snag stuff....so the Machine Envoy put it on the table that if the spider-pirates would stop hijacking from other biots, they, the machines, would divert all kinds of loaded cargo carriers and tankers and etc...to the webbed space.  So the spiders would get tons of goods, and the machines would get rid of surplus manufactured capacity.....and the spacelanes would be safe for Imperial Insects, Nomad Lizards, and Earth flagged spaceships.....and everybody could go home happy.  The Khan said this sounded pretty good to him, but could the various embassies at least hang around for a week or so, because he had ordered up a whole hell of a lot of food and drink and dancing girls for this conference thing, and he didn't want to see all that go to waste what with the whole problem being dealt with so quick.  So the hard working diplomats sucked it up and did their duty for the host planet....they partied hearty at night and pushed some papers around a couple of hours every day, until it all looked good, and then they left.