"I'm curious what you've dealt with before, that's rather odd to me, but at any rate I think we can make that work. You might also want to get in contact with someone who runs a mutual assistance association, since that's the closest thing to a group dedicated to improving lives as we have here unless you count governments."

"Where can we find those?"

"Run ads, which you can do by contacting the people who run noticeboards if you don't want to do it by standing around and talking. Don't happen to feel like telling us about the aliens with less clarity?"

"Oh, usually we run into people who have a lot of very deeply buried assumptions about how things are and make it very hard to get through to them about how we're coming from a different place there. I particularly appreciated in your case how the thing I said about imagining people already existed before being born made sense."

"Huh! Well, we haven't done alien diplomacy before, but we have done interspecies diplomacy and maybe that helps. By the way, if you don't want to answer to one of the states, can I interest you in state-level sovereignty for your bus stop?"

"Huh, that sounds like potentially a good idea, though you cover enough area that we might want several of them."

"We do cover a lot of area! But only one planet is likely to have much demand for a bus stop and we can arrange a force transit route between the bus stop and Mar Geru if that ends up making sense."

"- one planet? I didn't think you'd settled others."

"We haven't, that's why only one of them would have much demand for a bus stop. We do claim all of the spatially contiguous universe as the territory of the Hari Empire, whether we are yet using it or not."

"That's... hm. Why?"

"Because no one else is using it and if someone declared another planet their own sovereign nation and set it moving toward us, or claimed dominion over the sun and hid it, or all sorts of things like that, we would object."

"Your magic system is very useful and it seems likely some people would want to move here so that their children would have it, but I suppose it's possible we could operate a state of Har to everyone's satisfaction," Alassë says uncertainly.

"We would welcome peaceful immigrants who wanted to abide by our laws and we would charge very reasonably for state-level sovereignty in some unused area. It seems unlikely anywhere can abide by both your laws and ours while having children present, but there is no law forbidding your people from having a state in which they treat all people kindly and somehow incentivize whatever treatment of slaves you like. You could make it a condition of entry that everyone agree to regularly take their slaves to an area with an antimagic effect, take all commands off of them, and offer them the chance to move to Vanda Nossëo."

"Perhaps something like that will work. It might depend on the details of how the command magic you use to make children safe works."

"It prevents unauthorized actions and does not prevent unauthorized thoughts. People can be under commands they don't know they're under. People can sometimes be confirmed to be or not be free of such magic. Are those the sort of details that are useful to you?"

"Yes. Sometimes? When?"

"Not when the answer is hidden from knowledge magic."

"Ah, I see. We'll need to put up a noticeboard asking for volunteers to test various antimagic effect options... What will we need to know to have statehood for the bus stop, though, in the shorter term?"

Seihra recommends some useful background reading, some of which they've already read, but as a bare minimum, they'll just need to pick a location that isn't already claimed (here, have a map to consult) and work out a price and a plan for how imperial justice will be enforced. (The plan is allowed to be "fuck off it's just me and my property here" but in this case that clearly isn't what anyone involved wants.)

Their main priority locationwise is that it be very easy to travel to; other than that they can put things up or remove landscape features pretty easily.

The continent is pretty well spoken for unless they want to negotiate with a state government, but arbitrary islands including ones that don't yet exist can become convenient to travel to if they have an airport suitable for imperial flights to land at and take off from. (Here's a scroll containing some notes about airport specs.) It'll be a little faster to get there from Mar Geru, the capital and main transit hub, if it's to the northeast since Mar Geru's not in the center of the continent.

Okay, they will plan an island to be placed... hereish? How's that sound?

Sounds good! They'll get people on extending flight service as soon as the island exists and has an airport.

Great. Anything else that should be covered at this meeting?

Not that comes immediately to mind.