"What's its government like?" Maitimo says.

"Monarchy," Cam reports.

"Let's drop the Second Age on canal country first. What's it called?"

"You think I know how to pronounce any of this? There's no audio recordkeeping," Cam snorts. "It is called this sequence of letters."

"Alright. In four days that sequence of letters is getting - hmm, what's a good priority ordering here?" 

"A spy drone to pick up some phonemes," says Cam, "and correlate them with things, and then tell us when a good time to visit the royalty and consult them about their needs might be?"

"If local magic's not likely to notice it and decide they're being invaded. I'd like to know more about local magic. But yes."

"I will disguise it as an exotic bird. Should pass unnoticed."

"Fantastic."

And then there are still four days in this lightleaper. Maitimo and Findekáno both separately consider that perhaps they didn't think this through.

Well, there are rooms and all the computer-translated reading material about Canal Country they could want.

That will occupy them!

And eventually here is galaxy, and Cam does more binary search to find the planet, and then they have another five days!

Well, there's plenty of reading material. "Oooh," Findekáno says on the third day. "It's really a shame they aren't chipped. Their magic runs off working memory; if we could give them a necklace they'd have immortality on the spot, I think, and lots of other stuff they have but can't remember."

"Oh damn. Well, that's a reason to look into supplying thought-collectors to people who aren't natural-born cyborgs, I guess..."

"Lots of Men have asked at home," he says, "there's just no way at all to safely experiment even if an instance of Feanáro's figured out how the thought-collection even works."

"I think one has," Maitimo says. "One might be able to get some of the benefits of blessings without the thought-collection use of the chips, too. But it's at least a few years out. That's a hard problem."

"You could somewhat test on daeva. The indestructibility's confounding but when we're trying to let stuff work it works on us like humans. Or, probably 'source species', don't know about daeva Dwarves."

"I'll suggest it," Maitimo says. 

"I wonder if people who aren't from here can learn their magic."

"You probably can't make animals smart enough for us to try to bind them into familiars," Findekáno says, "and I think they're usually assigned at - birth? But maybe they needn't be..."

"Or maybe you can borrow somebody else's or something?"

"Perhaps we can ask the local royals, if they seem generally competent. They probably won't hesitate just because Findekáno and I would be ludicrously powerful in the local system, you exist and are ludicrously powerful with or without the local magic. Wonder if you could make your familiar part of yourself for the purposes of indestructibility, since untranslateable bad thing happens when they're killed..."

"Yeah, that would be a thing I'd want to check, I'd rather not have any untranslateable bad things happen to me. I have no idea how to expect that to work with backups either."

"At a minimum it seems vanishingly unlikely to affect other instances, so I think I'd take the chance."

"It might, we can't know for sure, but it does seem implausible."

"And unless I'm much misunderstanding how this works we'd have human immortality an hour after pulling it off," Findekáno says. "I think the chance is easily worth taking."