If these walls fall the Enemy will either drag them back to Angband or kill them and take the chips back.

Cam is working on a suicide trigger thing but it is complicated because of Elf biology but he will get back to them on that.

How would Cam feel about the city being rigged to explode if the orcs breach the walls?

...if that is their preferred trigger for exploding the city yeah he can do that.

That seems safest, yeah. Once the walls fall it'll be fighting in the streets with orcs and that's a bad way to die.

Okay. He can rig this up.

Maybe they can sneak the kids up in the shuttle and the Enemy won't take this as provocation.

He's pretty sure that sneaking the kids out of the system at this time would. Where else should they go?

Underwater arcology? It's the safest place on this world.

Can it accommodate them?

It can, a significant chunk of its original population is now in Brithombar. Or does Cam mean in terms of caretakers? Maitimo suggests Cam can give kids some of Valinor's state of the art virtual reality games, it's as good as parenting.

VR games it is, yes, Cam will make off with Mithrim's children.

Second city might want the same deal.

Cam can go there, then. And water them and tallen their walls. Would they also like to be rigged to explode.

How thoughtful of him. Yes.

There they go, then. Anything else before he Pied Pipers his way out of here.

A lot of crying. Not really anything else to say. 

Okay. He can wait a bit, let people hug their kids and pack them personal possessions and stuff.

The Noldor are unhappy and can't even soothe their frustrations by taking shots at the besieging orcs, because they're probably sworn to believe this is necessary or something. 

"I'd also want to take pictures and video," Maitimo says, "so history at least knows, but our systems aren't secure enough for that to be worth it."

"Could take some on a non-networked device, then slag it."

"Can you make one? If the locals want it; I'd want some documentation of the fall of my civilization but perhaps they don't."

They do.

And lo the fall of the civilization is documented. It is not necessarily expert photojournalism but it's something.

"I want to hijack Valinor's networks," Maitimo says when they're flying away, "and make every page load to pictures and video from Endore. Is this a thing that is conceivably doable."

"I'd need to know more about the networks. I can give you books on computer viruses but I'm not sure you want the Enemy to think of it."

"Right.

Ossiriand?"