To Admiral Drake's annoyance, the negotiation team made up of men from the Hunter ships had every intention of working in shifts so that the negotiations could proceed continually from the moment that they arrived until they were finished.
The template that he had received sped up the process a lot, but it was designed to cover all interactions between two species. The Hunters weren't convinced that some Humans didn't qualify as a Game Species. There were also other species that the Commander had instructed him to add to the agreement as mutual targets, which necessitated a Hunting Alliance agreement.