high-energy physics

[warpfairy]

Federation political prisons are not particularly uncomfortable. She's not going anywhere, but she can read, she's considering taking up an instrument, the only really awkward thing is that she doesn't particularly want to be supervised while she's sweating her way through her next pon farr one way or another but that's years off. That and she wishes she'd taken longer to get caught. But she was running out of the really low-hanging fruit anyway.

This is what she signed up for. She makes up imaginary profiles of people on the planets she got to, people who can live longer fuller lives with the stars in reach, one per day. One per day and she'll have loads of estimated impact left unused when she dies. Perfectly reasonable tradeoff and she can still read books.

Someone wants to interview her about Vulcan; they don't want to lose anything that anybody remembers; she gives the interview and then picks up some poetry.

Comments

[subtly_artistic]

"Well, they arrested T'Mir. Also I'm pretty sure Arda is a pre-warp civilization."

[lintamande]

"So our first spells need to be ones we can use to get away from them," he says, "once we've learned the language, I mean. If they try to interfere with Valinor the Valar will send them away."

[subtly_artistic]

"Teleporting should do the trick, but we should make sure we're not, like, spied on to the point where they'd be able to ward against it or something."

[lintamande]

He frowns. "We want to teach the whole realm magic. Is there a way to not teach wards?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Not exactly, they can always reverse-engineer stuff and invent things the way we do, but it's probably a good idea to stay ahead of them until we're reasonably confident they're not going to obstruct anything important. We should try to learn that early anyway so people don't have to abandon multiple planets in quick succession evacuating for nicer planes."

[lintamande]

"Yeah," he says fervently.

[subtly_artistic]

"So we should start with a handful of people and then go ahead and look really disruptive and be ready to bounce out if somebody takes issue with us that we can't sustainably handle."

[lintamande]

"Are there people you know from Materia who'd be good? If we suck people out of Valinor a few at a time that will be an impetus for the Valar to prevent that," Rúmil says.

[subtly_artistic]

"My parents are still alive."

[warpfairy]

"- both of them?"

[subtly_artistic]

"Yeah. You can borrow Charlie if it helps, I don't think he'll mind after he's over it being weird."

[lintamande]

"Do the dead on this plane die forever?"

[warpfairy]

"As far as I know."

[lintamande]

"We'll probably figure out a way to fix it eventually."

"Fëanáro," Rúmil says.

[subtly_artistic]

"Resurrection's divine magic but healing was easy and wasn't supposed to be; the real sticking point is if they don't have an afterlife, I'm not sure what resurrection would act like then."

[warpfairy]

"- very careful time travel, I suppose."

[lintamande]

"I'd feel safer on a plane with an afterlife," Rúmil says. "We might have wanted to put that in the criteria."

[subtly_artistic]

"...I'm not sure we should assume that the local afterlife of a plane will reliably catch travelers."

[lintamande]

"Oh, hmm, perhaps not. Fëanáro, if you get yourself killed here that might really be it, all right? There might be nothing we can do."

[subtly_artistic]

"I mean, he might also snap back to Mandos but that's not good either."

[lintamande]

"You have to travel to the Halls of Mandos when you die. You don't automatically arrive there."

[subtly_artistic]

"- oh, I didn't realize. Um, if there is a thing that can do traveling that's better than just nothing for purposes of figuring out resurrection... but yeah be really careful, Fëanáro."

[lintamande]

"I don't want to die," he says. "We have two Bellas now, I think that's enough to keep me safe."

[warpfairy]

"...What have I just been signed up for?"

[subtly_artistic]

"If it looks like he's going to do something that is a bad idea, tell him why it is a bad idea," Bella summarizes.