The mortality rate in the war is just that high?

Yeah. And people get assassinated, or Taxxons get loose and eat half the people in a pool, or there are accidents, or people mess up and are killed for incompetence. Also reproducing is fatal.

Yikes. Well, everybody's going to be safe soon.

What's going to happen with the Taxxons?

I don't know, but we have a lot of magic, there's probably a way to stop them being hungry all the time. And they can still be hosts if they prefer that, will any Yeerks want them?

I don't think so. I've never been in one though, maybe some people.

We could always just give them their own planet and infinite food.

They might explode.

What a stupid species design. Our leadership knows a lot more about what kinds of magic we have and what we can do with it - like, I didn't know we could change suns until it came up - so they probably have something.

Okay. I wonder what the Hork-Bajir will do when they're all alone.

Do you know what they did before they were infested?

They lived in trees on their home planet. It's uninhabitable now, the Andalites tried to kill them all.

Well, we can make a new planet that's an exact replica. Also, yikes. 

The Andalites really hate us and everything we get anywhere near.

Do you have ideas about how we should handle that?

I've never met an Andalite, I don't really know. I think you're more powerful than them so you could just ignore them.

Well, not if they're in the habit of killing other species we can't. 

You could ignore what they want, anyway, even if you have to pay attention to what they do.

Yeah, that'll work.

Keften is called back in to the Sub-visser's office to talk to the Visser. The Visser has more questions about Quendi capabilities and the feasibility of doing things that are not surrendering and the locations of other goodwill ambassadors and the Quendi opinion on Andalites and their standards of consent.

This Quendi had no opinion about Andalites until a few minutes ago and is thinking that the Quendi opinion on Andalites will be 'stop them from killing people'. Possibly by relocating them to somewhere really far from any people they'd be tempted to hurt, possibly just with monitoring. The Yeerk can report that the other goodwill ambassadors were sent to the Council and the following Vissers. Their preferred standard of consent is 'there's a way to check if this person ongoingly prefers to have a Yeerk, and Yeerks stay in people who ongoingly prefer to have a Yeerk only and people don't have to make that decision because of pressing terrible things about their background conditions.'

Quendi capabilities - well, they're planning to simultaneously disable all Kandrona generators and make the suns stop being ones and drop billions of acceptable hosts for the Yeerks to relocate into.

There was that one time this Quendi's birth planet got fed into a black hole to end a war, and then put back with everyone on it. 

Keften has to reiterate several times that he is pretty sure that this is actually true. The Visser is rather taken aback by the part where Keften casually remarks that even if the Quendi (who sound kind of uptight to the Visser) take exception to the thing with the dead Hork-Bajir they can just put them all back. Yes, Keften is still pretty sure this is all actually true.

They probably will put them all back, but they won't take exception. The orcs murdered millions of people in the horrible war that ended with the planet getting fed into a black hole, and then the war ended and the orcs weren't going to do that again, so they helped the orcs rebuild their cities and now orcs and Quendi get along fine, there are a bunch of orcs at the university in Ambaróna. Some of them probably killed a lot of people, but they aren't going to do it again, so. 

Keften explains this.

Keften is shooed away again. I think they're probably talking logistics of getting everybody out of their Hork-Bajir now.

Oh, good.