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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
Nod. "It's very rare but technically legal for one polity to request a resurrection of somebody someone else executed."
"We'd notify you the request was made, you can file an injunction and then argue they're a danger or it'll damage deterrence or they're not equipped to retry the case appropriately."
Amentan nations join up.
They have some resurrections even after bargaining some away for colony planets, and spend them.
They have to pick a single facility to save time for the in-extraordinary-demand resurrection staff. Sleeping resurrected people to be awakened get delivered there. A magical girl comes by to wake them.
Magical girl listens to music and beams to herself and does the whole batch and vanishes with a pop.
And he reaches out to some demons who do terraforming and ask what they could do with an appropriate variety of planets at the right distance from their suns in Revelation.
They can do all kinds of marvelous things!
Not all the countries of Amenta are signing on. Rivik, for example, is a holdout.
That's fine. No one really wants there to be more Rivikni anyway. (They don't say that in so many words).
Well, some Rivikni are moving out of Rivik into their neighbors who are suddenly taking immigrants, there's that.
Maybe the cultural influences will be good for them.
Shuttles once per hour are free; you have to pay for more frequent shuttle service than that, or for a shuttleport past the first one.
Calado's bus is a single bus and getting kind of full but it does run continuously. Bus guy is making tons of money.
Bus guy just felt bad for people in Calado. He is paying road use tolls, actually, but comes out ahead what with people buying bus tickets.
...huh. Well, if there's that much demand for frequent service people will be able to get the money scraped up.
Shuttles pop about between Amentan countries and their shiny new colony planets, which are mostly land except for near the equator. Shuttles to Elendil are every ten minutes in most places. Bus guy gets a bigger bus.
Companies hire local consultants on the hair color thing and publish hiring listings which observe that local nondiscrimination law prohibits taking into consideration factors such as caste, ethnic group, religion or national origin in hiring. But for the convenience of Amentans, jobs can be sorted by the Amentan caste with which that sort of work would traditionally be associated.
Ambassadorial and diplomatic work, trade negotiations, infrastructure development (especially seeking local consultants who could work with a municipality to develop functional public transit), serving on oversight councils in polities that have merited extra oversight recently for some reason...Portal research, wizardry research, new planet research, magic music development, lecturer position at these hundred universities scattered across sixty-two planets...compliance monitoring, prioritization monitoring and management, artifact design, policy and trade and taxation and allocation work...internal security, investigative work, rapid response teams in dangerous situations...healing, teaching pre-industrial aliens medicine, divine magic research and manufacture work, social workers, community outreach work, counselors, child support services...magic item manufacture, shuttle transit, aid shipments and delivery and distribution, teaching pre-industrial aliens construction and manufacturing and infrastructure and electrical work...