... Mostly you don't. There's one vampire they try to avoid butting heads with, count Ristomaur Tiriac, who really doesn't want to be a vampire and who they thus tolerate for reasons of "he's a lot better than the median Ustulavic count" and "he's actually really strong and would kill a lot of people putting him down?" When it comes to skeletons and zombies, they kill them with prejudice so the souls can be freed of the torment of being enslaved within their own bodies and move on to judgment, and some of the other kinds you can get with a resurrection if you catch them soon enough, but most of the rest it's impractical - the ethereal undead are especially bad by those standard, since they can just walk through prison bars, but vampires and liches aren't that much easier to maintain. Several kinds of undead also have to feed on humans to survive, and with regards to Liches in specific they need to murder a lot of people in the ritual to become one and it almost always only happens by choice.

"In that case, there might actually be a problem. Because I don't kill people if I can help it, and that was before I learned that people who die here might get tortured forever from it! Especially if undead really do lean Evil. If skeletons and zombies really are being tormented in their bodies against their will for their entire unlife I could make an exception for them, but I'm not going to do that for people who did choose it or make a more general exception for the undead."

Ah right, Neutral Good, they think but do not say. The mental tone is a bit exasperated, but not like, angry about it. She seems a little less likely to be persuaded than usual by arguments like 'Sarenrae advocates you destroy the undead too' and 'Shelyn makes exceptions if they refuse to surrender or are actively hurting people even while imprisoned, and these are both,' but not all the Neutral Good people they get making those kinds of remarks are persuaded by that either, especially not instantly. Really the biggest source of confusion is how she expected to beat Cheliax or Nidal without killing anyone evil, which they will voice alongside practical arguments for the issues in imprisoning many kinds of undead and moral arguments about how letting them live when their life requires hurting people is endorsing hurting people at a remove.

"Mostly I didn't plan to fight them? I do understand that mercy is the attribute of the strong and do my best not to judge people who can't afford to exercise it, but half the point of my becoming this strong was so I could. Even Dazarel wasn't really strong enough to force me to do that, once I got the - well, actually, I'd rather not get into that, but the point is that once I defeated him I was basically able to pin him down with my Ki while our sorcerers figured out how to deal with him and then just formed a line to make a combined seal. I think I could probably disarm all of them, pin them against the ground, and then if they didn't give up after that I could like... put them in cuffs, or instant transmit them into a cell, or something. I guess being able to raise the dead might mean that it makes sense to kill people if it's significantly more time efficient or a better tradeoff, and then bring them back later, but I kind of got the impression there were serious limits on how often you guys could do that? The same goes for the undead, I'm perfectly happy to put them on the moon, or - actually, wait, is your moon free? I know some of the other planets in this system are inhabited, but I don't see any signs of habitation on a cursory check."

"Wait, your instant transmission works on unwilling people? People have been trying to make a version of teleport that works without affirmative consent ever since wizards first reverse engineered it off of outsider spell like abilities, but even with Plane Shift as a proof of concept the only notable successes have been a wish wording and the deeply disappointing hostile juxtaposition. If you can, that would be huge, although I'm still not sure it's really enough to pull this off.

"The moon is probably mostly empty? There's some debate on the matter with regards to evidence observed from the southern bits, but at minimum most of the side facing us is uninhabited on the surface. Nobody really knows about the far side. Most of the other planets are worse, but I suppose there's an argument to be made for Eox or Apostae being a relatively safe place to stow them. In terms of interplanar locations, the negative energy plane has a sizable undead population that most of the lesser undead wouldn't make worse, and maybe something could be arranged in one of the outer planes? Heaven has treaties against acting as a general purpose prisoner storage for us, but we could store a limited number of them per day as statues like we offer soul-sold and evil people who don't regret enough for an atonement, and I don't know there isn't some place in Elysium far enough from anyone else to at least be a better place to have them than Ustulav. That doesn't really solve all of the logistical issues, though, like the fact that this plan would involve willingly making contact with creatures that drain life force on touch and others that need to feed on humans to survive. In the latter case especially, moving them means just delaying their deaths and leaving them means letting more people die to let them survive."

"Not... categorically? I'm not saying there's no way to stop me from dragging someone with me with instant transmission, if nothing else they can prevent me from touching them and I assume there's some magical solution like those dimensional anchoring armor enchantments I saw earlier that will do it. But if they question is "can I do it on enemies" then yeah absolutely and I've never failed at it.

"I was kind of assuming from the fact that you called it an Ustulav problem that they weren't exactly going to be incredibly mobile, so a few hundred miles of isolation would be enough? If not I could try and hollow one of the larger asteroids in this system, put it in near golarion orbit and bring them there? And, sorry, I think I need to know more about the ghost drainage deal to it, if there isn't some convenient spell to block it. I'm assuming they don't sap Ki directly, since you haven't mentioned your monks being resistant to it, but do they drain Stamina? Life Force? Mental Energy? Spiritual Energy?"

They're not exactly sure what the exact distinction she's drawing between the terms here, this is definitely one of those edge cases on translation magic, but thankfully 'life force' translated enough. "You can block it with death ward, but the duration on that is short. Single digit to low double digit minutes, unless you get a high circle cleric and have them extend it for maybe half an hour. It's a useful spell in combat, but it'll run out on you if you want to clear all of them."

"We could send a someone with a Bastion Banner, though the range limitation and needing to plant it would be pretty limiting."

Half an hour is, frankly, forever in combat. "I'm betting betting I could do a number on them with that kind of duration, especially if there's nothing preventing me from popping back every 15 minutes for a refresh. How about this; do you think if I destroy the skeletons and zombies to free the souls inside, evacuate the intelligent undead that don't need to eat people to the moon, and then bring you whatever fraction of the rest is currently most dangerous to human populations for you to temporarily hold on to while I figure out what's up with them and see if I can find a solution, something goes horribly wrong?"

That mostly depends on the fraction; there are a lot of Ghouls in Ustulav, and some of them are going to already be hungry and if deprived corpses will try eating each other. Plus if the fraction is large enough, what you end up with are essentially enormous open-air prisons since Lastwall and Mendev have material limits on their holding capacity in cells, which comes as both a security risk to the soldiers guarding it and doesn't tend to good outcomes at the best of times. But it would almost certainly be better then leaving them where they are.

"Great! In that case, I'm going to find some place on your moon that is definitely uninhabited and make a holding facility for some involuntary guests; I'd appreciate it if you could find me someone who can cast death ward and figure out if you need any help with mass construction or excavation."

pop

That sure is golarion's moon alright! It's actually quite pretty.

And yep, towards the south there's some regions with relatively tightly clustered energy signatures, but she can find a good spot that, unless there's inhabitants that are hiding from her eyes, Sight, and Ki Sense, is hundreds of miles away from the nearest person.

She's going to double check that, actually, Golarion has a frankly astonishing number of species. Let's see, are there any tunnels through the ground?

... Yes. And in said tunnel is a blank spot to her senses.

Alright, she's definitely going to take a look before deciding this is a great place to start digging. Luckily the entrance of the tunnel isn't itself hidden from her, so she doesn't have to dig another entrance and potentially piss off whatever this is. Keeping her aura solidly beneath her skin slows her down a bit, but the tunnel isn't remotely long enough for that to matter.

At the end of the tunnel is an impenetrable mass of fog. Would she like to try dispersing it, or peeking inside?

Hey, she recognizes that spell! It's the divination blocker one; Mage's Private Sanctum, she thinks. Of course, she'll make a Ki barrier anyway just in case she's wrong, but it should be safe enough to peak through.

Inside the barrier is a silvery-white dragon; to all appearances, fast asleep.

Woah, that's cool. She doesn't think it'll be a problem, as long as she digs her pit far enough off? And make sure to do a diligent search wherever she does end up picking, to ensure she doesn't just move on top of another one. She should ask Dazarel once she leaves, though. Thankfully, there's not actually any suprise awakening or new arrival at the tunnel in the handful of seconds it takes her to leave again, so she can devote her attention to the questioning.

"What kind of dragon is that? Do you think there are a lot of them here, such that I should just pick out an asteroid?"

"I'm sure you saiyans had a word for it at some point, since you would fight anything that moves and always favored planets with moons, but I don't know it and don't care to learn. As far as dragons are concerned, moonsilver is the term if you're being polite, like if you're talking to one; otherwise I would just call them an ice dragon and move on with it. Judging by their psychic signature, though, they don't seem to have eaten any souls so I'm sure you could crush them without much difficulty."

Well, that's most of what she wanted to know, which means that was remarkably helpful as Dazarel goes. Maybe he really is taking grandfather's threat seriously.

"Are there likely to be a bunch more of them here?"

"Probably not, no. They're not that territorial, but they can travel through space almost as well as I can and there's frankly not that much special about this place to keep them here."

Okay, what about here? No energy signatures, no caves, no signs of a civilization... She should make sure there aren't any machines, either, actually.

ping

Alright, good. Then she can dig an enormous pit, cool off the edges, and return to lastwall.

What have they managed while she was out?

It's been 15 minutes!

If you think 15 minutes is enough time for a state to do much of anything, you are severely overestimating the responsiveness of bureaucracy and institutions, even on matters they consider of vital import. Lastwall's special nature allows it to evade some of the limitations possessed by normal countries, but this is not among them. Even a vastly expanded supply of Teleports doesn't really do it either. Certainly they decided what to do, and were able to relay that decision to the relevant locales, but the task of making room in your secure prisons is one where rushing has consequences, even if those consequences are still greatly preferable to not having the vampires and such in question in custody. Still, that doesn't mean nothing has been done; individuals can move far faster than that, so they have found someone with Death Ward prepared at a suitable caster level and gotten her a rod of extend spell.

There is, of course, one other way around this; if you prepare ahead of time, you can get things done after a trigger very rapidly indeed. They were not actually expecting the offer to imprison large quantities of undead, so that in specific was not ready, but they do have reports from their agents in Ustulav on the distribution of undead within and a signed letter from the king of Ustulav permitting them to deal with undead and necromancers that have official positions of nobility. (Such a letter is, of course, under normal conditions essentially worthless; the letter doesn't come with any ability to enforce itself, and Lastwall certainly lacks the spare forces to unseat them from power, but they considered the odds of that changing in the very near future to be worth paying the definitely-not-bribes to get him to agree to the request on short notice.)

That's... nice? She hadn't exactly been intending to refrain from saving people if she didn't get permission, but if it makes dealing with the repercussions easier on her allies that's for the best, she supposes.

"Are you the kind of not ready where I should start them off in small numbers, should be putting them in a temporary storage facility, or just ignoring them for a bit?"