Where should I meet you?

Don't worry, I'll arrange pickup. 

Gosh, if you say so. Do I need to bring anything?

Just yourself.

A few hours later, Moira's car pulls up outside of Peka's apartment building, looking extremely out of place in the red district.

"If you don't want everyone in the district to wonder what I'm up to every time I'm away for an afternoon you have foxed that plan good," Peka remarks, coming down the front steps of her house.

"This time they are welcome to wonder."

Moira smiles as they leave the district - no subterfuge necessary. 

"Where're we going?"

"To a shuttle."

Moira smiles mysteriously. 

A minute later they pull up next to one of the small Amalien space shuttles. 

"After you, dear."

"Ooh, I get to go in space?" In she skips.

"Of course."

The shuttle takes off!

"I'll leave the inertial dampeners on a medium setting - I'm told it's more exciting when you can feel your first time."

The ship lifts off, silently ascending. It never feels stronger than particularly fast elevator ride, and only briefly feels that fast. The large front and smaller side windows provide a spectacular view as they escape the gravity well of Amenta.

"I'm going to have to block out the windows and turn the inertial dampeners on max for this next bit, sorry. A proper introduction to warp won't be able to happen without Amentan's discovering it on their own."

"Awww, okay."

The windows go back and a stifling sense of null inertia suffuses the cabin.

After a minute, inertia seems to work normally again, and the windows revealing the sight of a newly terraformed Katme below, the first geodesic domes under construction on the surface. 

In front, the Starship Keetim towers before them, far exceeding the size of their small shuttle.

"Oh, is that Katme - it's beautiful -"

"It is!

"That spot over there is your dome." 

Moira is pointing at a construction site.

"My what."

"The air isn't breathable for another Amentan year or two, so for now there will be a dome with an oxygen converter inside to make it habitable."

"Yeah I read in the news, but why would I have one?"

"I bought it, with the help of a few friends eager to invest in developing economies."

"It seems someone told them there were tens of millions of Amentans who were being terribly underpaid and had quite impressive amounts of social coordination, just waiting for someone to provide them with resources to get them started."

"Well, resources and the political cover of a sovereign charter city, with minimal regulation of out of caste income."

"- how did you get someone to let you put reds on Katme?"

"I knew a few Oahk blues who kept getting distracted by my rather generous donations whenever questions came up about what exactly I was going to be doing with this sovereign charter city they were granting me control of."

Cackle.

Moira has such a great girlfriend.

"We can visit but the dome won't be done for another couple of weeks. We'll be staying on Keetim tonight."

The shuttle heads towards Keetim's docking bay.

"We should also discuss immigration at some point - I'd have granted you citizenship already but my understanding is dual citizenship is complicated."

"It can be, usually because of figuring out who's responsible for the population count? Like would Tapa still have to count me as some of its population, if I had another baby would I buy a credit from them or get a permission from Oahk, like that."