Meelia has already been in space but is pretty sure going as a pi-lot is a lot cooler and this is gonna be so great! She didn't really like her last trip with Pelape but this time Pelape is not paying too much attention to Meelia and Vira is there and so it'll prolly be fun anyways.

Pelape would feel obliged to keep half an eye on Meelia, Commisioner Of Battery, but since she couldn't, like, do anything much about it if battery were to occur, she mostly doesn't bother. They can do the copilot thing, till they can confirm they are all competent to fly solo.

Weeee space! 'Ventually they take the measure-ments and get back and Vira has lots of fun with sciencing things.

And what are the planets like?

The first is a bit cold, especially near the poles, and always damp, but still very habitable! The vegetation seems likely to be edible and the planet has a lot of minable resources.

The second is mostly water, with occasional sandbars. There seem to be giant storms periodically, but the next one doesn't seem due for a century or so according to their instruments.

A third planet is fairly similar to prehistoric Amenta, albeit with giant furry hexapods. 

The fourth, and final one they are set to visit on the voyage, appears have to have structures left behind by a prior civilization, though the stormy weather of the planet prevents them from learning more with the initial scan they do.

Beautiful!

Voa would like the chilly wet one.

"Any obj-ections?"

"Seems fine to me, I didn't have a really strong guess of which they'd go for except not the one with barely any land."

"I'm happy they didn't pick the one with struct-ures since I wanna go expl-ore it."

"Do you have ideas of which we should pre-pare for the reds?"

"Uh, probably it'll be maximally politically palatable to put them on the sandbar planet, if there's enough room for them, which I don't know if there is. If there isn't I'd give them the one with the hexapods, avoid the wailing from all the archaeologists who will also want to explore the structures at some point."

"Sandbar planet would be do-able but hard-er than hexapods one. I think we should do the hexa-pods one."

"Hopefully they will get along with the hexapods."

"The pictures looked friendly!"

"You may have permissive standards for friendliness."

"I dunno, feel sorta like I shoulda been more friendly towards Amen-tans than I was?"

"- okay but I'm not confident that the reds will be able to reliably get along with hexapeds and they can't sleep it off if one steps on them."

"Am pretty sure they're herbi-vores from the lack of attacky bits."

"Stepping on them doesn't require wanting to eat them!"

"We'll help them get 'long!"

"How?"

"It's sorta what we do? Help monsters and animals and amaliens and Amentan's in Chispanti all get along."

"- that doesn't tell me how."

"De-pends! Prolly sorta herding them towards nice places for them that aren't near the reds if they don't get along."

"My concern is that you will discover they don't get along only after a red has been stepped on and killed."