"Standard resurrection works by just assembling something with all the same atoms in all the same places. There are species that doesn't work for, which is presumed to be because there is something to them other than atoms."

"Huh. What species?"

"Anyone natively of Materia - they have humans and nymphs and elves and dragons and so on - anyone native to Sandstorm - they're all these little hobbitish people, have a magic system that does its own resurrections - wizards in Hazel - flat Elves - I'm missing a couple -"

       "Ezerrm."

"Oh yeah."

       "Ilbabai."

" - that one I didn't know, really?"

      "I think so?"

" - we'll hook you guys up to the multiversal internet and then you can read about everyone yourselves."

"That sounds delightful."

"Anyway, I wouldn't want those ones trying it, but people who've got nothing to them but atoms seem safe from an effect that's entirely non-physical, and some of them will want to learn more about it so we can figure out how to get locals your souls back."

"If they want to perform self-experiments we'd like to know what they find."

Cultural exchange! Funny stories! The Yeerk story, which is less funny!

The Yeerk story is not funny at all except for the part about the pregnant ones hastily shuffled off to Luster Valinor.

It's horrifying from start to finish with a funny epilogue. But it's over now. Elentári was the first member! Mîr is not a member but they're, like, buddies. The newest member state is called Voa, it's a nation of a billion and a little bit on a planet called Amenta in the dimension right next to Revelation. Poor Amentans really really really badly want kids and ran out of space on their planet and had horrible population controls. They look like humans with brightly colored hair.

Anime humans! That's cute.

"We had to threaten to resurrect the babies to get them to stop the infanticide."

Wait what.

Horrible population controls! The country that practiced infanticide was fond of how well it deterred unauthorized children, and they didn't want to stop, and the consortium was not equipped to handle a problem like that exactly but someone announced they'd resurrect the babies, which made it cease to function as a deterrent, which got the country to change.

Well, good for someone, then. Poor anime babies.

Yeah. "They also have a caste system by hair color. Amentans are weird."

"All the ones I've met have been really sweet."

"I don't mean it in a bad way."

That's not very anime of them.

"...uh, what's anime?"

"Oh, it's a form of animation and the character designs are very simple but often involve nonhuman hair colors to help distinguish them."

"Well, Amentans are, uh, individuals individually but coming from rough conditions and if you decide to take immigrants you'll probably meet some, they like tidy modern places with good law enforcement."

And more species! So many species!

It's so exciting! A major blogging platform opens a new official topic for each species so people can crowdsource their research.

The aliens thoroughly enjoy themselves.

Mugger gets an email and a couple thousand more ahk.

yeah the charity was really cool I was like 'I know someone who needs help can we do anything' and they were like 'yeah what kind of help'.

is this gonna keep coming, should I move somewhere less crap?

you won't get anyone going like 'where did you get the money from' or anything? I bet they can do regular.

yeah people will ask but like shitty people I can flip off

would it help with people being scared of aliens if we paroled your senator early

i'd be mad if someone arrested our senator he's chill