"Follow the law. If you're doing something odd or surprising, try explaining it to your tablet first so it can point out pitfalls. Get medical care right away if you get sick, we especially want to keep on top of any illnesses caused by differences between your immune environment and ours. If you're talking with most people you can say whatever you'd like but if you're talking with people with political and military careers and you start talking about anything particularly eccentric, especially political, you'll make them worry they're endangering their careers."

"Being near eccentric people endangers careers? We also don't know what all your laws here are."

"In competitive careers people tend to worry about their reputations. There are a lot of laws, it might work well for you to review them with the tablet."

"Probably makes sense. I assume you're well above worrying about your career?"

"Indeed."

"Should we get, like, checkups, to make sure we're not gonna give you guys diseases, and get vaccinated against stuff from here?"

"Yes, I think so. I can arrange that for you."

"Thanks."

"I'm inclined to suggest you get checked up, get a place, acclimate yourself for a month or three, and then set up another meeting if there's anything you're still trying to figure out that's important to your ability to stay here."

"That sounds reasonable. - Are we public knowledge? I think some people took pictures of us before we got to the shelter."

"There has been an announcement to the effect that the immigrant with wings is licensed to be here. At some point there might be more."

"Then I suppose I'd better not swap them for extra arms. Where will we be staying, should we be looking at a selection of possibilities or -?"

"Yes, absolutely, look at a few options and figure out what makes sense for you."

"Can the tablet do that or do we need a real estate agent or something?"

"You'll need someone who does more interfacing with the world than your language AI, but I'll arrange it. Do you want something planet-side or station-side, do you know?"

"We've never lived on a space station, is it great for some reason?"

"Travel from stations to elsewhere in the galaxy is much cheaper, as is shipping. Most important institutions are on stations and the population density tends to be much higher. People usually prefer planets if they like having a lot of space, or a significantly cheaper labor pool, or less surveillance, or if they don't mind the higher crime rates -- planets have the minimum monitoring necessary to keep everyone alive, while stations have a guiding AI that detects and prevents nearly all crime."

"I think we'll go with the planet. It seems reasonably likely you have a lower crime rate than we're used to anyway and anyone who attacked me would have a nasty surprise."

"All right. I'll arrange things for you here."

"Thanks!"

The assistant who brought lunch has slipped back in. Anaander turns to her and they have an animated conversation. The assistant smiles at them. 

"It sounds like the medical evaluations should be first, and everyone's all set to get you situation right after that."

"We've only got one tablet so the exams should probably be sequential, not concurrent."

"Oh, we should get you each one, so you don't have to always stick together."

"That might help, yes. Do they talk to each other?"

"A moderately advanced AI system like your translation computer can't actually do all the computation it needs locally, it's largely happening somewhere else. So the tablets will be - two ways to access the same entity."