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[Sequel to catching up with friends]

The amaliens get to doing tests pretty fast. Most don't turn out other then Vira expected - none of the preventing Meow-passengers from freezing ideas work out, Mimic's Meow doesn't work, Aurorite can't drive Meow because she can't really touch Meow.

Eventually, Vira finds the prismatic triceratops. It's grazing on some grass in a forest. Shining many colored rays of reflected light, it's really distracting and hard to look away from. She gazes into the frills, looking for things that look like the sky as seen from her planet. She looks and sees glimpses and focuses on looking for those glimpses as she stands their, somewhat out of it. She sees more imagines with those constellations, and so she looks for some where at least a few of the She's looking for a map of the night sky that looks like hers, cept the areas the Amentans have explored to hers, cept with at least a few of the places Amentans veri-fied don't have hospit-able planets greyed out, and at least some places they didn't explore high-lighted in green. It's how she'd do a chart of places that were nice and not barren.

She finds such a chart, flashes of a world becoming more spe-cific and clear. She see's a world that looks like amaliens built sorta cities, with spaceships blasting into the skies. The amaliens she sees are uniformed, and look grim but determined. She's there too, holding something that looks sorta like an everything but more solid and silvery, with a screen dis-playing the chart, one of many she's flipping through. Actual-here copies down the chart quickly and in as much de-tail as she can. Even after she finishes she can't quite pull her gaze away as she sees more of that world - there's fighting in the sky, a big explosion in the distance and suddenly there's a new thing orbiting the planet - it looks... like a city or a spaceship very far away.

Eventually she collapses, dizzy from the images. Her head full of things from another world.

In front of her, on a piece parchment, is a hastily sketched out drawing of the night sky, mostly greyed out, but with over 30 stars drawn in green.

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They were sorta boring but my friend Lucien made friends with Pelape so that's good!

We're trying to help Amentans by making you all have more stuff so it won't be hard to give stuff to reds that they need. I've done this with lots of monsters ac-tually, but didn't spect to have to do it with Ament-ans since you all al-ready have so much.

[Video of monkey monsters and Meelia doing gymnastics together!]

Thank you for the video!

Most of what we need and don't have is space, and the amalien planet is already helpful with that.

I'm not sure that there's enough of that that the reds can have things they need to, Lucien and Pelape don't think so.

Also Amaliens and monsters need this planet too.

Also also, here's some video of me practicing flying a pretend con-sole spaceship Vira and Keetim made so we could pract-ice!

[Video]

Of course you need your planet! Nobody's proposing to take you off of it so far as I'm aware.

I don't know nearly enough about piloting to tell how far along you've come but that looks very complicated.

I'm gonna take me off of it, too space!

Um, Lucien says to say that I won't go to your space, since that might make you mad at me and at reds maybe.

I think you're only formally banned from Tapa, but it seems best to give it a wide margin. Have fun in space!

The Prismatic Triceratops and Vira and Neh and Meow found a planet! Neh took this picture when she was there!

[Picture of a planet! It's muddy and rocky and there are occasional plants that look like ferns dotting the landscape.]

It's so beautiful! Where is it? Is it okay to show this picture to other people?

Lucien says I'm not allowed to tell you where, they're gonna talk to some people bout that. He said it's okay to show the picture to other people though!

The picture's all over the Amentan news the next day.

tired-boy

It's a lot better than the last time Meelia made the news!

be_fruitful

Voa has replied with tentative positivity to their proposal.

tired-boy

Have the Voans seen the pictures of their fancy new planet?

be_fruitful

They have! Where is it? When can they move in?

tired-boy

Once the amaliens find a second planet the Voans can pick one for them-selves and then help reds start leaving for the other one with re-sources and things and then the Voans can have coordinates for theirs.

(Lucien doesn't mention how he feels like actually reds should get first pick, because that won't help.)

be_fruitful

For an informed decision they would like the following data about each planet...

tired-boy

Sure, they can get that, though [list of tools requested by Vira] would be appreciated to make that easier.

be_fruitful

Sure thing, they can be shipped to Chaspanti unless the amaliens want to pick them up.

tired-boy

Shipping is fine!

In the meantime, Neh keeps exploring.

be_fruitful

The equipment takes a few days to arrive but is held for Lucien at the shipping depot; a note arrives at his apartment for it, along with an email.

tired-boy

Lucien goes with Pelape to collect it from the shipping depot.

Pelape Milath

thesignalandthenoise

It's a pretty big slew of equipment but maybe Neh can take a few trips?

Neh

boy-with-a-bear

Sure, she can do that.

Pelape Milath

thesignalandthenoise

Once it's all loaded into the ship they can go take measurements!

(Pelape is fully in false spring now and mostly not looking directly at any amaliens ever, talking instead to their feet or imaginary people over their shoulders. She is going to be so professional.)

Vira

happy-scientist