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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
"We can make a case, but ...well, firstly, you said in court today that it was a criminal arrest for possession of alien technology, though I can try to get that thrown out because you hadn't yet spoken with your counsel, and secondly the court is going to be asking itself 'if this case is straightforwardly treated as precedent, what implications does that have for any citizens or subjects of ours with the misfortune to find themselves in Calado' and they will consider 'there are lots of people in Calado empowered to deprive them of their liberties without due process or any process, indefinitely, without even communicating to them that they are under arrest' an undesirable outcome."
"They get to ask you questions. I presume they would ask what kind of arrest you conceived yourself to be making at the time, why you didn't inform them they were under arrest, how this would have played out up to and after their deaths if they had not been extracted..."
"Elves experience confinement as torturous and die of stress inside a day or so. That's why the law is that we prosecute anywhere in the universe for rape, murder, torture, and kidnapping - because to a substantial body of our citizens, those are all the same degree of crime."
"It makes it apparent to listeners when a false claim is made. It doesn't do anything about misleading or irrelevant claims, but questioners are very experienced at operating within it and at framing questions appropriately."
"It would have been startling and embarrassing and I probably would have assumed the greys had injured them somehow."
"They used to try to explain it to people, but turns out no one believes them. What was the plan if they didn't die and didn't get rescued?"