"What's the plan?"

"Honestly, not a clue, anymore. Not that I had a super solid one before, but now Elcenia, opening trade relations might be the single best thing that could happen to Galatea."

"Oh?"

"Other cultures, trade opportunities, other governments to whom they have to look good, immigration opportunities, magical exchange..."

"A lot of Elcenian stuff won't work offworld, that might complicate trade."

"Hmm, I guess so, but the reverse is likely not true, and even sans magic you guys are technologically ahead of us. Plus, culturally ahead of us, at least this country, and this is bound to help."

"Esmaar's nicer than a lot of countries."

"Yeah, I'm not particularly keen to have Ryganaav in contact with Galatea."

"Ryganaav wouldn't be keen on it either."

"But actually it hadn't occurred to me that Galatea would export but not import magical stuff. I guess we do have something to offer after all."

"Potions probably work there just fine. And you could try to get lights to work there, maybe."

"Ooh yeah, lights would help immensely."

"There's lights who don't professionally light, here, you could get the extras."

"If they don't professionally light why would they go there?"

"I mean, here, they don't because a few percent of the population is lights and we don't need that many."

"Oh, fair enough. Yeah there'd definitely be a market, and a few percent of the population from here is rather a lot back there."

"Your world sounds really... tiny."

"It kinda is. Low life expectancy, high infant mortality, diseases..."

"Even with all that - I think Ryganaav might have more people."

"I think we've been around as a society for less time, and the war nearly wiped us out and happened less than a thousand years ago."

"Must have been some war."

"Might be fairer to say it was an extinction event."

"...did there use to be more species or do you mean it was almost that?"

"Almost that, I don't think the war caused damage to any particular species like it did humans."

"Vampires had that bottleneck I mentioned but mostly nothing here has gone almost extinct."