At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"The fuck."

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"Yuuup. They also didn't tell us the details of his crimes in the first place, so no one knew if the parole was for some hidden good reasons or just sheer incompetence."

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"Who put these people in ch- no, don't answer that."

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"I bet you can put it together. Anyway, one of the crimes for which we are currently paroled is rebelling against the just authority of the gods, and that one I don't regret in the slightest."

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"Fuck the authority of the gods, frankly."

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"Manwë was giving us a lecture on disobedience while we were trying to find our way out of Valinor, and he said 'I am the lord of all of Arda' - so, like, we wouldn't escape his jurisdiction by going anywhere else. And then we watched man walk on the Moon and thought 'okay, lord of all of Arda, we're out."

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"Arda doesn't include the moon?"

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"Arda includes the moon. Arda doesn't include Alpha Centauri."

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"Gotcha."

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"And it looks like one of the biggest challenges, a spaceship big enough Elves won't feel imprisoned on it, is now tractable."

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"...right, that hadn't occurred to me as an implication but I guess your standard issue rockets are kinda cramped."

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"Wouldn't work at all, not for that length of a trip. Now - rockets, who needs rockets..."

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"I did not test this myself but I have heard that somebody got a fairy to take them into space and tried summoning there, did not work - Lunar gravity's enough, floating in space is not - so unless the hoverboard decomposes into an artificial gravity solution you won't be able to replace daeva who bail on you mid-trip, or summon one for course corrections or decel if you just get a fairy to fling you real hard in the right direction."

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"In that case we will probably just get a fairy to fling us in the right direction and then have rockets for decel on entry, you've said daeva consider a century a really long time so it doesn't sound like any'll want to come along. Daeva also half-solve the population problem."

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"Half? I suppose if you want a reproducing population, yes."

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"We'd planned on one. It's not an essential element, but new people seem important to lots of things about how societies function. Elves don't have children in wartime so you can really measure the effect on - social shifts, liberalism, new ideas, all that stuff."

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"Seems like wartime might be a confounding factor."

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"Didn't affect every place the same - we were on the front lines but not everyone was. But yes."

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"Who do you expect to vacate Valinor on your say-so?"

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"Not sure. Depends a lot on conditions there and we don't have a way to check that."

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"It's possible things like the material replacement trick could let us spy on them."

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Nod. "I could hazard some guesses and Matthew could hazard some better guesses but people change a fair bit over thirty thousand years."

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"I suppose it would be creepy if they didn't."

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"Uh, they drift between hobbies and pick up traits from people they meet? I obviously haven't known any of them for thousands of years on a personal level."

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