"...so do you want to go get your paperwork straightened out?"

"- okay?"

And they do that. Macalaurë checks in with Voa on space-station populating, tells them he'll be gone the next day for a wedding.

They have lots of applicants for the station and have picked a preliminary batch. Robots to do red jobs so they needn't send reds, right?

Yep, since it sounds like otherwise getting a membership would present challenges and getting a membership is the point of this exercise. There won't be any need for laws that treat the other castes differently?

Not within the station. Voa itself is not going to make any major changes and they're not picking from the applicants quite neutrally but once they get there everything should be how Vanda Nossëo likes it.

The idea is that having outrageously wealthy member neighbors usually produces some interest in social change back home, but they don't plan to point that out. They'd love to look at the legal system for the space station! (Does Voa still need food shipments or have they gotten that straightened out by now?)

The Tapai have started withdrawing and they'll be okay but another few shipments would still be good.

That can be arranged. A bunch of companies from other Vanda Nossëo member states are hiring in the space station; they're not sorting the jobs according to caste.

The applicants mostly assume anyway, although sometimes since the listings don't specify they'll get yellows and greens or purples and greys showing up for the same things and being confused.

This job's one requirement is an absolute commitment to confidentiality and the pay is kind of astronomical, what castes does that get you?

Yellows, greys, and an orange! They are REALLY confused when they see each other.

The hiring people don't seem confused at all! They have a questionnaire for them and then an interview with music playing in the background and a bunch of questions about whether candidates might share information about their job in this circumstance or that.

What, um, is the job? The yellows were assuming some sort of office information-handling job and the greys were assuming security and the orange thought something involving people's medical data or personal lives or something.

The job is learning a form of magic - the interviewer can demonstrate - and then participating in further spell development and the creation of magic artifacts. The interviewer is...sorry they were confused? Past experience really isn't relevant or they'd have listed what kind of past experience they wanted, the only thing they need is people who won't go telling all their friends that they do magic at work.

At that point most of the greys figure this isn't their thing but one stays, as do all the yellows and the orange.

And everybody who told no lies on the interview can get Wizardry 101, refined from the Elendil curriculum and compressed to reflect being a full-time job instead of a university course. The confidentiality agreement includes promising not to demonstrate or teach magic to anyone, though you can of course recommend them this outrageously well-paid job! 

(The hiring manager wonders if the pay is the reason no purples applied, and lists a manufacturing/production of confidential widgets confidentality very important job at a tenth of the salary in the same listings).

(That one gets purples. And a curious green.)

They can get the same interview.

The green's curiosity is satisfied when she finds out it's magic. ...she kinda wants to learn the magic but her parents will be ashamed of her if she makes that little money.

Sigh. "We could put out an ad tailored to greens with a salary to match?"

"It sounds like a green job to me, I don't know why you didn't do that in the first place."

So they put out an ad for a research position, very confidential, very good pay.

Greens apply!

The hiring manager writes a best practices document for hiring stupid rainbow people and waits to see whether some castes actually do better at Wizardry 101.