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Thanks Arthur
Diplomacy in SEIs is usually in service of one of three things: cleaning up a shitstorm that one of our close friends has caused (this is the "shuttle diplomacy" you tend to see floating around in some descriptions--we'll go and deal with each party individual to mop up the conflict and any resulting ill will), preserving the mood (because we heavily internalise the emotional atmosphere around us, making it extremely unpleasant to be in an outwardly hostile/angry/unpleasant environment), or conserving our energy (because fights are both emotionally unpleasant and taxing on our energy--IPs do not like having their energy taxed, perhaps because we have so little of it).