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.

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[lintamande]

Rúmil knows all the crops that were planted around Tirion, do they exist here?

[warpfairy]

Some of them; what does he want?

[lintamande]

He has a list. There are songs to make crops grow, perhaps Fëanáro can ask his father to teach them next time they talk?

[warpfairy]

That would make it much easier to handle the fact that none of them are... actually farmers!

Anyway, there are plenty of these things available, often in startlingly different varieties than the ones that predominate in Valinor but recognizable one way or another.

[lintamande]

Great! Plant importation shall begin. Construction of the capital city next? They have designs. The designs are astonishingly beautiful.

[warpfairy]

They sure are. Nnnnone of them are architects either. Maybe they should import some Davlian help.

[lintamande]

Rúmil is actually passably an architect, did two Years of it when they were newly arrived, but Davlian help would be great.

[warpfairy]

Some Davlians who demur energetically about their architecture skills would be delighted to come over and help build things. Are the things accessibly designed for hoofed people?

[lintamande]

They should be accessibly designed for everyone on Materia, some of whom perhaps have hooves? And there might be other worlds that require evacuation.

[subtly_artistic]

Hoofed people are actually not that common on Materia, and evacuating satyrs would be... complicated. ...Several species on Materia are going to come with really weird sexual norms compared to what Quendi have going. Like REALLY. Like if they started by importing nymphs and satyrs with population: Bellas, Quendi, and Davlian architects, um, the nymphs and satyrs would, um, starve.

[lintamande]

...why?

[subtly_artistic]

.........reasons. She has never had to explain this before. Um. They should make sure to have Materian humans around before importing nymphs or satyrs. On the plus side if they get domestic nymphs and can bring their fields too those crops don't need... conventional... maintenance?

[lintamande]

"If nymphs and satyrs eat people they can't come,' Rúmil says, frowning.

[subtly_artistic]

"They absolutely positively don't eat people they only eat plants not even animal meat."

[lintamande]

"All right. Materia humans first."

[subtly_artistic]

"But uh you should be ready for people from Materia to be weird about sex things in a wide variety of ways."

[lintamande]

"...okay. I'm not Mandos, Bella, I'm not going to propose correcting people..."

[subtly_artistic]

"I don't just mean there are gay people! I can explain gay people without spluttering!"

[lintamande]

"I am very curious what you can't explain without spluttering!"

[subtly_artistic]

She takes a deep breath.

"Nymphs and satyrs are sort of literally powered by sex, they don't actually have to eat although they do it anyway, they just have to - have lots of sex. Which is why we need a population of other kinds of people around because I'm pretty sure it doesn't count nutritionally amongst themselves."

[lintamande]

"...ah. That is very unusual, and would not work well with the Quendi, yes. Okay. Humans - enjoy having sex with them? Do they force anyone if they're starving?"

[subtly_artistic]

"No! - I am positive that nymphs don't, anyway, and have never heard of a satyr getting more than mildly pushy. And they are quite popular among a subset of humans and other species."

[lintamande]

"In that case it seems like your solution is perfectly adequate - Bella, do you think the Enemy stuck with Quendi monogamy laws? I am sorry if we're embarrassing you, but you're not going to shock me..."

[subtly_artistic]

"I have just never had to explain this before! It's common knowledge on Materia, I don't even remember how I learned it, and it never came up in Valinor." Sigh. "As far as forcing people goes I'd worry more about elves, who don't need it as food but have a cultural - thing - that doesn't work that well in contact with anybody else with different needs and is kind of unpleasant even amongst themselves. This is surface elves, I'm less sure about subterranean ones."

[lintamande]

"Hmm. We - can't have Quendi on a planet with significant sexual violence, under the wrong circumstances it's literally fatal to us. Though we could have separate continents."