Amentans colonize amaliens
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What's an adult? Also what's a baby.

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A baby is a new person who just started existing, and an adult is someone who hasn't been a baby for a while - how long a while depends on species. Do they have animals that are born, or hatch out of eggs, and then get bigger?

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Oh yeah they have those! It's sad and sorta happy and a few of the amaliens have obvious emotions about this.

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Wait, did they say that happens to people??!!?

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- where do amaliens come from?????

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They don't remember coming from anywhere!

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For how long?!?!

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They're not sure?? They don't keep count and they can't remember every detail and can't tell exactly when things they remembered happened.

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Fika has an unusually good memory and is pretty sure one of the earliest things she can remember is a time she gathered up a lot of friends for a fun party month* together during a month where the moon blocked out the sun from view at the start and the other moon blocked the sun at the end.

She's not sure whether it was the first time the moons did that.

 

*month is the closest translation of the amount of time. 

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Judging by the orbits of the moons, two total solar eclipses last happened that close together a bit over 35 thousand years ago. The one before that would have been closer to 285 thousand years ago. 

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They take some time to kick that question to the astronomers and get an estimate back.

well if they're immortal it's very good they don't also have babies???? they guess???????

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The amaliens are confused about that, not that they want to have babies but. They arn't sure why the being immortal bit matters.

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Well, if you're immortal, AND you have babies, and you also don't know how to go to other planets, then eventually there are too many of you for you and all the things you eat and all the stuff you need to fit on the one planet.

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Oh. They guess that could happen but mostly they think a bunch of them would nap most of the time if that started being an issue. 

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Even if they - hibernate? - then they would still need air and such.

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They arn't sure that's true. Some of the amaliens with singed hair and ash on their faces say that if you fall into lava where there isn't any air you can nap till other amaliens find you and you get better or until lava pushes you out of the ground again later, though that can take a really really long time. 

(also it can hurt a bunch and isn't fun)

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Immortal indestructible alien children??

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Woof!

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And monsters. Like this soft fluffy dog monster. Doesn't even have horns, weird.

About how many amaliens are there?

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A bunch! They do some arithmetic together and then guess it's about a hundred thousand.

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Gosh. And there are never any that seem new?

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Not that any of these amaliens remember. 

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Wow.

 

Anyway, they should go back to talking about the Cryptophasia because it seems like that might be important for the prospect of Amentans living here. Are the amaliens cool with some Amentans living here? Amaliens could visit Amenta too if they want.

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Those things sound exciting. Though Lucien says they should all talk to repre-sentative Amentans about that, like they sorta are for amaliens.

 

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Right now the greens are working on computer translation for the amalien language (nonsentient)! They can wait for that to get good enough that a blue will be able to say all the things they need to say, or they can discuss Cryptophasia till there's a blue prepared to try it.

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