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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
"If any of you would like to drop by Ambaróna sometime - we don't have a regular public shuttle because the daeva aren't supposed to go wandering but the teleport building in Vanda Nossëo does private runs for anyone I tell them to expect - it's a very dense daeva-constructed city of the kind you might now be in the process of planning and I would be delighted to arrange someone to show you around and introduce you to people."
"Lovely. I will have someone get in touch to pick a time. It has been a real pleasure meeting you all."
"Thank you for everything you're doing, and thank you for letting us know when we can do better at it."
"Is there anyone you'd like to be introduced to, or should that wait until you're not as busy at home -"
"It seems like some recent members might be useful, to compare notes on what to expect - voting blocs I can imagine having a lot of political interests in common with you - the Orthodox Aratothalians have their own planet now and a set of stringencies surrounding food production and preparation that everyone else finds very onerous, I don't know if you have pollution oversight people who'd find it useful to exchange notes with them on compliance monitoring - or if you'd rather focus your energy at home right now, people who can get you magic and resources for that - I think sometimes people just benefit from having a sense of what an independent member planet not remotely invested in our mission and peaceably doing its own thing looks like..."
Nods from various blues at various list items. "Someone said we had a lot in common with orcs," says granddaughter-in-law.
"The kids. Orcs probably average ten apiece, and only stop at that point if there are enough grandbabies around to suffice instead. They build the most outrageous playgrounds full of adorable orc kids and they export such lovely children's toys. They've got themselves dozens of planets by now - we were fortunate to have more space for them before they filled up their first world. I can absolutely introduce you to some orc polities."
"You have to realize that dumping thousands of initially indistinguishable options on people all at once does not lead to fine discernment," says a grandson.
"I can't imagine anyone could know who they want to talk to without several magic memory aids. But I can answer anything else you might have questions about, too."
"We'd be happy to start screening Valtaz teleporters, in which case you could have your own by the end of the month, though they would still be subject to fairly stringent oversight and standards of conduct - teleportation is dangerous - and to fairly unforgiving penalties for misconduct, we can't imprison them."
"Depends on what kind of teleporting they have. The thing Mereth has we can't take off. Some other things we can. A subtle artist can often do an action block, but not if someone happens to get or natively have magic that keeps them out."
"Teleportation gets wished on. Wishes are slightly unpredictable; we employ a precog to catch disastrous interactions but a wish that happened to grant people protection against external mental tampering in addition to whatever it was supposed to do wouldn't be considered a disastrous interaction."
"The materials on how to pick candidates for wished-on abilities go into more depth on procedures and accountability. They're allowed to teleport off the job, of course, and we've never sanctioned a planet by impeding their transit nor would teleporters be obliged to comply with that."
"Purple, do you suppose?" murmurs granddaughter-in-law to her husband.
"Probably, yeah," he murmurs back.
"I think that's how Tapa was leaning too. Some places do teleporting police, as well, so they can arrive at problems faster and take people to prison without wading into the middle of something."