Of course. The ship is probably too far out for a Gate now but Mhalir can tell it to go in. She should probably also ask if they're needed, today, but she'll let Mhalir ask that so she doesn't sound desperate.

Mhalir can direct the ship in close enough for Ma'ar to Gate down, or just send a shuttle down for him if that's easier, and he'll ask if they're needed today. 

"Later tonight, I think," Ma'ar says, absently, his mind already moving ahead. "We can arrange a dinner reception for you to meet and talk with various people." Pause. "If that is all right, of course." 

Mhalir will check for Carissa's feeling on that before answering for them. 

That sounds good to her.

Ma'ar nods and gives them a time and then Gates himself down once the ship is in range; it's simpler than the shuttle, since he doesn't want to make a dramatic entrance. 

<Do you want to contact Urtho again?> Mhalir asks Carissa. <Or we could just read about magic until tonight, and wait for him to reach out to us.> 

I bet he'll forget he can do that. 

So Mhalir contacts Urtho to ask if he has more questions for them and would like them to come by during the day. 

Urtho would like that! He wants to ask about how starships work, actually, he's very curious what the relation is between hyperspace travel and Gating, they seem to have some similarities? 

Mhalir arranges them a shuttle ride down to the Tower. 

Carissa actually knows almost nothing about hyperspace jumping but she's interested in their Gating, since they can make those arches.  Golarion requires two powerful casters to do that with a teleportation circle, and it doesn't last long.

Urtho invites them into his office again, where the hertasi rescues him by finding his tea set when he wants to offer his guests tea, and he immediately starts asking Mhalir questions. 

Mhalir does know quite a lot about hyperspace jumps, and especially the drive he helped design and build for the ship that took them first to Golarion and now to Velgarth. Unfortunately there are a lot of prerequisites in the way of explaining it to Urtho, mostly math that as far as he can tell Velgarth has never invented, but he does his best to convey the generalities and then asks Urtho about his permanent Gate network. It seems like Gates more broadly are known in most of the world, but the network of archways he has is different? 

It is! Permanent Gates are a very advanced technique; he wasn't the first person to tinker with the idea, but has been the first one to build a large-scale setup like the one in Tantara. The difference is that permanent Gates have their own power source, so that even the weakest of mages can activate them, and they include a complex permanent set-spell that does a lot of the routing-between-places. His network is also locked, meaning that not just anyone can walk up and use it, it needs to be a mage he trusts who is keyed into the system. 

Probably Carissa will have better questions than Mhalir does, here? 

Carissa is fascinated. It doesn't sound like the kind of thing that'd be impossible to do with Golarion magic - Golarion artifacts actually do more having their own power source than Velgarth artifacts, for the most part -  but no one's done it so probably the first ten things that come to mind won't work. Would it be possible to watch one get made sometime?

It should be possible to arrange that at some point, Urtho agrees, though it'll need to be later once things are settled, because making a permanent Gate is the work of weeks for a team of a dozen elitely-trained Adepts and he doesn't have the bandwidth to commit to that right now - not to mention choosing the location for such a Gate is a pretty major decision and he doesn't have a pending on lined up. 

That might be why Golarion never invented it, high-level wizards used to be scarce and ones that'll work together still are. She doesn't think they're in a great hurry to return to Golarion and even if they do they'll probably come back after that, so there's no hurry, but she'd be really excited to see it someday.

Urtho would certainly be delighted if they did! 

The rest of the afternoon is easily filled with more meandering back-and-forth on both transport magic and hyperspace travel. Urtho is so curious how the Golarion 'Gate' spells compares to the one he knows, it seems like a massively unnecessary jump in difficulty but also like it's a lot more powerful than standard Velgarth Gates? He's still curious about the implications of Gates showing up to hyperspace sensors and wants to know if Mhalir can have his ship's sensors take measurements for some experiments he'd like to run. 

Mhalir keeps track of the time, and apologetically excuses them a half-hour before their scheduled commitment in Predain. 

Urtho seems on much more comfortable footing learning about magic and technology. She wonders whether maybe Tantara should appoint another King - what's even the process for that? How were there not ten claimants who could outmanuever Urtho? -but it seems like a risky thing to bring up.

In the evening they can head over to Predain where people make sense.

<I suspect there would have been, if not for Ma'ar's fear-spell sending nearly all of the nobility fleeing into the wilderness? I expect Urtho would like there to be another King and has no idea how to cause that to happen, perhaps we should bring it up next time.> 

Ma'ar comes out to meet them, along with some of the other officials they met the other day. He greets her in an entirely professional, courteous manner, but reaches out with Mindspeech at the same time, and his mindvoice is considerably warmer. :It is good to see you: It feels like maybe he would like to say a long more things than that, but isn't sure of what. 

(Did the fear-spell cause...long term brain damage? Did they all get eaten by trolls in the wilderness? Probably asking Ma'ar that would be awkward).

She greets him back, out loud and in Mindspeech, matching how friendly they apparently are while trying not to form any particular expectations about it, and then they can go on in to dinner.