"We can. To grow up in Valinor, this not being the only issue the Valar are dangerously wrong about - it'd be nice to find a habitable system for them, or build one if that's something you can do, and some people did choose to go back but I wouldn't order anyone into the Valar's hands. Worst case anyway is that they die and then they're back in Valinor after all."

"It'd take me a while to build a whole solar system but I could do it given enough empty space. Less work to terraform an existing rock of the right size. ...Always wanted to terraform a planet. I have, like, plans, for planet-terraforming, worked out in my copious spare time."

"Lovely. Uh. You could go find some suitable system with one of the light-leap ships, terraform a planet, open it to evacuees from Endore? I have been thinking about the fact you could probably destroy the Enemy if the need's desperate enough by feeding the planet into a black hole. If we had some way to get everyone who doesn't have backups off its surface first."

"I would love to terraform and administer a refugee planet. How do I fly a light-leaper."

"So as you might have guessed we didn't get a chance to ask advice from the people who do it on the regular. We're going off the manual. Says 'Alqualonde Astrological, 1495' on the cover..."

Is this manual already in Cam's library...?

It is not! 

So he makes another chip - "I'm going to have to consolidate these and chuck the piecemeals eventually and it is annoying" - and goes and has a look.

It has, in fact, pretty clear instructions about how to fly the things. It also has warnings that you shouldn't do it alone, but more for precautionary reasons, there hasn't been a safety incident in a hundred Years. 

Well, what do safety incidents look like, is it like "explosion" or like "lost in intergalactic space".

Mostly 'lost in intergalactic space'. Which would really be unfortunate. 

For Cam it would in fact be much worse than an explosion. What does having somebody along help with?

They are twice as likely not to miss the large number of flashing warnings that would precede a safety incident. 

...'kay, Cam thinks he can skip that.

"Okay, do you happen to know where there are rocks of about the right gravity around or am I doing survey?"

"We haven't left this system, like I said it's not safe without those things and not really encouraged at all. You're doing survey. Sorry."

"I thought you might have had telescopes," Cam says.

"Oh, yes, definitely, but you don't want anything close enough to Valinor the Valar'd be tempted to poke it."

"How close is that close?"

"I mean, you have a light-leaper ship. It doesn't differentiate between thirty light-Years and three hundred. I'd err on the latter side."

Cam flips through the manual to see how likely he is to get lost.

He's not especially likely to get lost. 

"All right, halfway across the galaxy with me it is."

"If you determine you can safely use this at home it's going to be lovely for your home world."

"Yes, that will be lovely."

"I'm sorry I didn't think to explain the ways the Doom could impact you sooner."