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]

That's what's happening only when they need a break from spell development and politicking and logistics.

[subtly_artistic]

All of which are wonderful and highly absorbing activities.

[lintamande]

And coming along! They have a plan for the evacuation, they have better earpieces, do they have other nations interested in joining Elendil?

[warpfairy]

There's this one planet that T'Mir dropped warp on which only recently put it into practice and has been denied Federation membership for showing signs of tampering; they're tentatively interested but would like a better idea of what they'd be getting into.

[lintamande]

Luckily they now have a backbone of a constitution and a procedure for admitting members and rules about trade and immigration and so forth!

[warpfairy]

And now they have three member planets (and a moon, the new guys have an inhabited moon - well, and the one the oligarchs are building on is also a moon. Two planets two moons).

[lintamande]

Is the Federation taking them seriously?

[warpfairy]

The Federation thinks they're a flash in the pan; apparently people attempt to federate all the time and it seldmo sticks. But it's really confused about how they're getting around.

[lintamande]

Good. They'll keep that under wraps for a bit. Can they announce that Valinor might be an interested member nation, and that it's pre-warp, and not where to find it? Would that just be asking for trouble?

[warpfairy]

It is entirely plausible that someone with surveyor skills could have found and not reported the location of a prewarp planet!

[lintamande]

Fëanáro asks his father if Aman will join the Elendil and his father says Aman will certainly be talking about it.

[warpfairy]

"It will be sort of awkward if the Quendi leadership there and the Valar disagree on this point."

[lintamande]

"I think the King realizes that outcome needs to be avoided," Rúmil says.

[subtly_artistic]

"...presumably by agreeing with the Valar, one way or another."

[lintamande]

"Yes."

[warpfairy]

"I realize I'm not getting a balanced understanding but they sound like they might be more trouble than they're worth."

[subtly_artistic]

"...I don't think so, they've been highly inconvenient to a small subset of people in - in their care, but on net compared to viable alternatives, no."

[lintamande]

"They fought and stopped Melkor; no one else could have done that. They created the world and might actually be necessary to it, I'm not sure. And even beyond that - no one has died in Valinor," Rúmil says, "no one goes hungry or wanting for anything at all, everyone can study anything that interests them and usually find a Vala or Maia who will help with the research insofar as they're able - and on some tasks, they're tremendously able. Even with the slow pacing we are growing in leaps and bounds as a people. When they err they err very badly. But I don't think even Bella wishes she'd been summoned to a Noldo tribe besieged by monsters in the Outer Lands, where death was permanent..."

[subtly_artistic]

"...I mean, I could have helped with the monsters. Once I was convinced it was a science fantasy world. But. Yeah."

[warpfairy]

"All right. But I'm not sure they're a high bar to clear with such versatile magic on hand."

[subtly_artistic]

"Yeah."

[lintamande]

"I think we can do much better here," he agrees, "and 'paradise for Quendi' is a shockingly easy problem compared to the ones we'll be solving."

[subtly_artistic]

"Quendi are easy mode. ...Except Fëanáro. He's at least a medium."

[lintamande]

"What's a hard problem?" says Fëanáro wonderingly.

[subtly_artistic]

"Oh, if we were trying to import Materian gods or something, that would be really hard."