He doesn't even know their names.
Someone ought to record the fall of the civilization. He makes a recording telescope; it'll write to a chiplocked file, but he can unlock it later. He peers through it. Demons have astronomical range but he needs to place it right, not just in the vicinity.
He starts it in the center of Valinor.
It doesn't need much to keep going. It's got a whole planet to eat.
He doesn't fuck up the star system. There they go, orbiting correctly.
Here's Valinor with all its inanimate objects and plants and anything that isn't too smart to function in the wild while demonic. Valinor with sunshine. Valinor waiting to be filled up with most of its inhabitants.
He goes back to Endorë and makes cities.
They make it quick and straightforward. They have teams everywhere and short lists of needed items and where to put them. It is the most efficient demon-aided postwar reconstruction ever.
Are their relatives there?
No one wants to immigrate just for fun. Maitimo asks if he wants people there to handle explaining the situation, or if he'd rather leave it a mystery.
Cam can't make everybody simultaneously enough to manage the mystery thing very well even if he wanted to.
Okay. They'd in any event maybe better have enough people there to get a structured society going. He can have ten thousand people ready to leave in two days.
Okay then.
Cam brings them to New Valinor. He considers sending somebody to go fetch the thirty families off the planet in intergalactic space and then decides that someone may in fact be angry enough at him to murder a child in order to be rid of him and he had perhaps best wait.
He makes a huge assembly line of chip-reading-and-writing and he reembodies. He doesn't even drink coffee. He just applies caffeine and sugar directly to his blood to stay on his feet.
And they wake up. And there are people to explain, and guide away people who might be tempted to attack Cam, and hold them while they cry, and take them to their houses and show them, see, everything in place.
...unless they had pets. Distant consideration next to the Maiar, but if they had pets, they won't be there.
It's millions of people but he can do dozens at a time in batches that take a couple seconds, if they can handle the throughput. He's getting all the chip and body templates from the same time. It's not complicated the way Endorë is going to be.
No pets. Cam doesn't seem to have pulled off 'no biological decay' either and people are very disconcerted.
It's eighty million people. It's going to take about six months if he does not pause at all.
Psychological health or something? No one's going to suggest it or anything. The Noldor are inventing refrigeration. A bit shellshocked. There are a couple million memorials to plan.
Nah, he can take care of psychological health after the absolute minimum number of people are dead because he murdered them. If they need fridges he can take a minute to do fridges as a stopgap. Hell Library will have stuff on food preservation from humans and fairies.
And when he's handled all that he flies to Endorë and takes heavy advantage of an enforced five-day break and then he goes and puts everyone back in Mithrim, because that's simple too, they all blew up at the same time - someone please find out if Dwarves can summon, now -
Dwarves can summon, now; they are taught the safe angel circle that Cam used earlier, if Cam doesn't have more specific instructions, and they give angels blessing necklaces and tell them that lightleapers are a thing now Earth should be told to ask for them. Men can summon, too.
Good. They should all do that. Cam can take a resurrection break long enough to set up an assembly line so there's no risk of misdrawn circles. And then he goes back to putting Elves and orcs back where they belong.
There are even more than eighty million people dead here, not even counting ones who were in Mandos long before Cam arrived.
Yeah, here he will take occasional breaks, especially when people have to get him lists of when to pull chips and bodies from and don't have them all organized yet. Every now and then he will eat something or take a nap or introduce anyone who wants to loiter nearby to Bach.
The war crimes tribunal gets up and running. They don't really want any input from Cam because, you know. Ossiriand is forty million but at least straightforward in terms of dates for chips and bodies. Alqualonde too. Maitimo brings him those ones and does not stay for an introduction to Bach.
Wouldn't expect him to. He'd have to wait a few months. Cam does not need that many breaks. Though he's going to start running a serious deficit on his century and a half of near-unbroken leisure time any year now.
It was 1496, before. They started counting again from 1. Momentous events mark the end of Ages. By the year 7 everyone anyone cares to name a chip and body time for will be back. (The Noldor are screening to make sure people are naming times of death and capture).
Thank you Noldor.
Cam goes to see if people on Valinor would like dinosaur eggs or something.
Yeah. Couple thousand different species. At least they were all well-catalogued. Also other animals, if Cam doesn't mind. Living on a planet with no animals that weren't dumb enough to make in the original go is a bit eerie.
Anything that doesn't lay eggs is tricky, but he can do a demonic generation of those and they'll just have to kind of aggressively look after them until the first non-demonic generation is self-sufficient.
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