Here ends the Silmarillion; and if it has passed from the high and the beautiful to darkness and ruin, that was of old the fate of Arda Marred
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She did briefly address the dead Fëanorians while she was reasonableizing the Valar, so they will not have been quite unremittingly thus for the entire time.

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And they were conversant, apparently, that's something. 

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Well, she's not as sure on that because she had to get all their replies filtered through the Valar, she's one-way-only.

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Well. They had thoughts on the question which sound sort of in-character, and which Mandos reported.

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Yes, that happened.

(Bells, in a side channel, remark to each other about How Much Mandos Sucks. Seriously. Second Worst Vala. Uuuuugh. They do not trouble the main proceedings with this chatter.)

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(Maitimos are kind of whimpering at the idea of seven thousand years of isolation, but not really in a 'he didn't deserve that way' because, wow, that's actually only a couple weeks per person murdered.)

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Iobel isn't sure how to calibrate a sensory dampening spell for Elf senses.

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Boots can do it though.

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Then are they ready to have Mandos do it? (Do they want to deal with Fëanorian loyalists first or afterwards?)

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How many people are they talking about here, Boots can't do dampening for huge numbers of people at a time.

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Tens of thousands, but most of them probably not suicidal, and the standard Mandos procedure of 'awaken them in a Lórien' will do a lot.

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Fortunately the Wish neighborhood has Lóriens coming out of its ears.

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Vanda Nossëo wants to issue a blanket pardon, add a lecture series to the standard encouraged curriculum on orders one is obliged to disobey, and let them know they all have citizenship when they're ready. 

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Sounds all right.

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So, maybe they can leave it up to Mandos, while he's being obliging, in what order to reembody his remaining prisoners.

 

(Mandos would rather do a few at a time, in case the extradimensional visitors are wrong and they go back to murdering or something.)

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Well, Gem's got more teleporters on hand than just Joy and herself if he wants to go and make it tedious. Sets aside some of a Lórien for the loyalists to be brought into in small batches.

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He will make it tedious! The Lórien in Valinor will cooperate with the ones in Gem's jurisdiction, though, so recently-reembodied and mostly near-catatonic people don't even notice the transition.

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And the Mîr Lórien fills up. Everybody gets a little note for whenever they're up to reading: they've been extradited to the jurisdiction of Vanda Nossëo care of Mîr, they can hang out in this Lórien-duplicate as long as they like, a Mîr staffperson will be findable in that convenient Lórien fashion whenever they'd like to move on, Vanda Nossëo has pardoned/commuted-to-time-served them and all their comrades-in-arms.

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(Vanda Nossëo'd be happy to lend Gem some people to help handle this if she's overstretched or anything.)

It takes Mandos a month to bring everyone back, and no one's wandered out of Lórien yet.

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Gem will take a loan of people to hang out and be ready when somebody pops out, sure.

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He pops them over. "Thank you for your help with this. It should actually have occurred to me a while ago that you're going to have the fastest growing interplanetary empire by far, assuming you've got lots of neighbors, and that our local alts were probably unusually ill-equipped to hand you capable trustworthy people for all the administrative work that's going to create. You should feel free to treat us as a resource in general."

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"Oh, thanks, I appreciate that."

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"My pleasure! Congratulations on everything you two have accomplished so far. I'm sure you've been told we're considering moving planets from boring non-magic or low-magic dimensions into Space so they get summoning; we can drop 'em here instead, but it sounds like that'd just trade off against finding and folding in new ones?"

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"Yeah, pretty much."

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"All right. Thanks for everything." 

 

And he heads home and tries not to worry - it's not even obvious what the best outcome is, here...

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