He nods. "Cam's been, uh, skirting me, should I be attempting to somehow put him at ease."

"Cam is attempting to avoid any attempt to make claims on you, your time, your attempts to put anyone at ease, etcetera. You can talk to him if you like but he is not expecting or hoping for it."

He sighs. "That is very good and principled of him and doesn't sound like the healthiest possible thing but I suppose he already has people more qualified to look out for him."

"Loki's taking point on that."

"And who's taking point on comparing all of Warp's tech with ours and giving everybody the best of both worlds? - what's your cover story with the Federation on all the miracles you can suddenly perform, or are you going to tell them about magic..."

"Leaf has moved here and might be considered point person on technological comparison. We're declining to have a cover story or explain anything - osanwë they know about but it's easily classified as unusually long-range psi, which occurs in many species such as one of mine here. They believe we have faster than light transporter technology, transporters being a sort of technological teleportation solution most commonly used for orbit-to-planet and vice versa transit; this might even be technically feasible, we just don't in fact have that. We think they don't yet have enough intel on us to have noticed much of the other magic."

"And how is the lovely improved federation coming along -"

And she is happy to tell him about the newest member worlds and logistical triumphs.

And he is delighted and fascinated and asks if he can write a contemporary history for the interest of space Arda's populace, who dreamed of finding aliens and were terribly disappointed to live in an empty galaxy.

He is more than welcome to do that!

Cool! Perhaps he will occasionally drop by to consult for it, though he respects that they must all be incredibly busy! (Telperion's Rúmil suggests that he can come and do some of the logistics work, and then free up the time to write his history!)

The Rúmils are going to need nicknames if there's going to be more than one of them around, but that sounds like a lovely tradeoff to the Bells!

The Rúmils consider nicknames. Space does not want something relating to having died, even though that's probably the thing that makes him unique among Rúmils, because it seems a bit insensitive. Maybe Codex, or Compass, something he invented that he probably did not invent on flat Ardas?

Boots' Rúmil looks at her.

"...an invention's not so much going to work unless it's a magical one and I don't think any of the spells you've developed make especially good nicknames... maybe something more generally wizardry related. Or wizardry-and-writing? Scroll?"

"Scroll works! Scroll and Compass - your world has FTL travel and you personally invented the compass, that's - hard to think about -"

"It was over four thousand years ago!"

"What is a compass?"

"Identifies magnetic north, a thing many planets have at one pole."

"It is very useful for exploration and sailing - it wouldn't surprise me if some of the flat Ardas got it eventually, it's pretty early in tech development," Compass says. 

"We just use the sun or stars, or magic."

"I used to respond to more of this kind of question with 'how does Materia handle this task' but the answer is always something extremely low-tech, something magic, or both."

"They're pretty sophisticated on the magic, though," Compass says. "The ethernet? Without any experimenting allowed along the way?"

"The kind of person who becomes a wizard on Materia and gets very far with it gets - really, really good at guessing."

"I might want to write some histories of Materia too but I am going to do Warp first."

"Be my guest."

And so he will chatter happily with T'Mir about alien races in Warp and how the directive came about in the first place and will people react badly if they seem to be breaking the genetic-engineering ban and -