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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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Vira

happy-scientist

They can try! Though Vira is pretty insistent about trying to talk to them after the third day! She would like to know Everything.

be_fruitful

...she's going to have to be more specific.

Vira

happy-scientist

What're they gonna do with the new planet?

be_fruitful

"Us in particular? This trip is for just - looking at it, seeing that it's real, then we go tell everyone at home."

Vira

happy-scientist

"What about when you go back?"

be_fruitful

"Then I guess we need to... build houses...?"

Vira

happy-scientist

"You're gonna be house builders?"

be_fruitful

"- I think we will all be house builders at first, but after that I don't know."

Vira

happy-scientist

"What'd you wanna do?"

be_fruitful

"I don't know. I have no idea what - life is going to be like, there, what we'll need, what we'll do about it."

Vira

happy-scientist

Vira can talk about things! She has ideas! They are mostly science ideas.

tired-boy

Lucien has more grounded logistical thoughts if they actually seem interested.

be_fruitful

They would like logistical thoughts, yeah. They are kind of expecting that there will be pretty high mortality in the early years of the colony as they figure out local hazards and infrastructure.

tired-boy

...

Could they say more words about the expected causes of the high mortality?

be_fruitful

...well, they're going to have to build all their own houses, and before that's done they'll be roughing it. They're going to have to grow their own food, after an initial deposit from Voa, and they have never done that before. They're going to need to manage their own medical care - they did this anyway, but they're going to do it with a different slew of medical conditions than ever before - and they won't be on the main electrical grid, and they won't have internet to look things up with right away...

tired-boy

"Do you have guess-es of how many labor hours it's gonna take to build the houses and grow the food at first? Am trying to figure out how many amaliens would be helpful."

be_fruitful

"- I don't know, I wasn't picked for this based on my knowledge of housebuilding. I think in ancient times people would all get together and put up a simple cabin in a day but I don't know if that included cutting down the trees and so on or just putting it all together, or how many people that would be."

Vira

happy-scientist

Vira has various guesses! Also she has thoughts on accounting for needing to get logs before building the houses.

tired-boy

Lucien does some math.

"Sounds like it'll be some-thing very roughly like a hundred thousand labor years to make basic houses for all the reds?"

"Maybe what could happen is most amaliens come early since we don't need houses or farms - and we help get thing set-up and then as there are more and more houses they can be filled with reds who help s'more?"

be_fruitful

"Can you do construction work? You're so small?" asks a red dubiously.

tired-boy

"There's a bit of a difference in terms of how many amaliens are needed, but when I " went down a wiki hole "researched building before I got the impression that avoiding workplace injuries cuts into efficiency enough that amalien healing would offset a lot of the de-creased strength things."

be_fruitful

"- does it? I guess I wouldn't know."

tired-boy

"What did you do back on Amenta?"

be_fruitful