"Can always install the ansibles later. Where're my passengers?"

"If it's also not likely to get anywhere on medicine in six weeks then you're taking thirty families with young children around Tasárinon's age and that's it."

"Okay. ...Should have mentioned this before but are there going to be awkward governance problems with me running a planet where everybody answers to a different monarchy, I haven't run into any obvious friction points yet but if we did."

"I will tell them to obey you within reason. We're an easy people to govern, in general. If you and we somehow end up very badly at odds then you'll be able to stop that knowledge from reaching them anyway."

"Okay. Anything that might seem like a 'within reason' to one of us and not the other you can guess at this time?"

"Hmm. Asking for oaths is for extreme circumstances - lives in danger, generally. Oaths to the effect "I did not lie in this conversation" are permitted in less extreme circumstances but in general don't do anything that resembles ordering an oath from someone, don't demand one in public, don't ask them of children at all, that sort of thing. Don't ask them for sexual favors. Don't ask them to have children. Don't ask them to withhold information from us."

"Okay, that all sounds fine although I am glad you mentioned the oaths part."

"If you ask Tasárinon for an oath not to dismiss you without your permission I am not sure if it'd work. It'd be a violation of our fundamental rights law, might be worth it anyway if it'd work. The general principle is that oaths not to do something just bar you from doing it - it's impossible - so they're fairly safe and can in fact be used safely to tackle bad habits and so forth. Oaths to do something are very dangerous. I am not sure if 'don't dismiss Cam' counts as 'do not have this thought' - the oath would block him from having it - or 'if you have this thought, stop it' which is risky. If he were an adult I would already have asked it of him but he's not."

"...that's really creepy however unlikely it would be to propagate beyond its intended effects."

"Yep. We have all these laws around Oaths because they are very dangerous."

"How do they even work?"

"'Magic'," he says, a bit skeptically. "They work through the same hardware we have for osanwe and for backups. Swear not to do something, Oath stops you from doing it. Swear to do it, the Oath - starts scrambling your thoughts about not following through. Really dangerous. Useful, if you're careful. Bit like demons, I guess. Swearing to things you've already done or haven't done is completely safe, and that's what most people use them for."

"...why do you work this way."

"The Valar say that this is how Eru designed us. The commitment-mechanism part is really nice but I wish it were impossible to coerce an oath."

"But if it's the cyborg implants - are you somehow born with cyborg implants? You don't have to install them?"

"...yes? Everyone in the Outer Lands has them too, and did when we were illiterate tree-dwellers..."

"How the fuck are you born with cyborg implants."

"It...did not occur to me as particularly strange? The fact that people can reproduce is pretty odd in itself, I suppose. Do demons reproduce?"

"Daeva and limboites can't. Humans can, more or less the same mechanism as animals, and do not wind up born with anything - inorganic or networked or anything. When during gestation do the cyborg implants appear - am I even correct in assuming that the gametes-blastocyst-embryo-fetus developmental stages hold -"

"Yep, and it assembles at the top of the spinal cord when the spinal cord develops, and one time in a million it doesn't and then there's a stillbirth."

"Well that's real fuckin' bizarre," says Cam. "But probably not something we need to figure out right this second. I'll see you in a few weeks, s'pose."

"Good skill."

"Thanks."

And Cam packs up his thirty families into a ship and picks a nice anonymous patch of intergalactic space and makes for it.

Five days. It'd be five days more or less wherever he'd pointed the ship. The ships don't seem to actually go faster than light, they just get up to nearly lightspeed, firmly lock down their control panels and warn Cam to let the autopilot handle it, arrive at their destination, and slow down from lightspeed. 

Long as it works.

The ship should be nice and comfy for everybody - he'll take requests on what's for dinner, if anybody has any - while he works out simulations for the geothermal warmth that won't run down in the near future or explode or anything. And then he gets to make a planet! Yay!