That's a long time. He's lived longer than humans, but not as long as Amentans. He's young, for a god. Both Korrado and Himself are.

"In that case, given that I wish to permit Voans to be able to return to Voa at any time, it seems that it would be best to prohibit Voans living in the New Territory from having any children during the time the treaty is in force. Otherwise it is possible that a Voan couple may have two children in Voa, then come here and have another two children."

"...couldn't you just refer to Voan records to find out if they're allowed to have more children?"

Ah. That's true. He keeps forgetting that this is a society with instant long-distance communication and has state capacity. He's so used to countries that don't even do censuses.

"I can do this if Voa sends child information together with the settler applications."

"Of course!"

"Border control will be trivial for us. We are willing to have the usual systems of checkpoints, visa checks, and patrols on the border, for the sake of foreign observers, but We are able to sense anything in Our territories, provided We are paying attention, and We pay special attention to the border. In Our original territory, We only monitored people going in, but We can also monitor people going out with only a little additional cost. We are capable of sensing passage not just through land, but underground, on water, and through the air as well.

It is also trivial for me to commit not to use bioweapons or spread pollution as a military tactic, and would be fine with observers visiting to verify this.

I think that Our coming here was a freak occurrence and is not replicable. However, in the event that it actually is replicable, I should warn you that there exist landscape-superbeings that have rot and disease as their values and will attempt to spread these. They try to garner values-directed-attention and values-significant-giving by threatening to give diseases to people unless they give Them said attention or giving. In our original territory, We forbid giving values-directed-attention or values-significant-giving to such plague landscape-superbeings, with the penalty being capital punishment.

If any such plague landscape-superbeings instantiate on Amenta, We will commit to oppose Them and intervene against Their actions where We can."

"That sounds eminently reasonable! Can they be destroyed, or just weakened and confined?"

Well, given that He's a landscape-superbeing, He kind of doesn't want to say. He'll give a partial answer.

"Landscape-superbeings may only use their specific powers – such as My touch-of-beauty power or Korrado's metallokinesis, or a plague god's disease power – by empowering ambassadors or creating organic-manifestations, which are very costly. It is possible to kill said ambassadors or organic-manifestations, thus defanging the landscape-superbeing, or forcing them to expend lots of energy in empowering a new one or creating new organic-manifestations."

"Okay, that's good to know. The way to notice one appearing would just be noticing a change in terrain, like this one, right?"

"Yes, but it is not foolproof. Their ambassadors or organic-manfestations can leave Their territory and retain their powers, even if They Themselves cannot act outside Their territory. Further, if the natural biome matches the biome of the landscape-superbeing, the terrain will change only a little."

"Okay. We can propose to the international community that everyone be on the lookout for more landscape-superbeings in case some of them are evil."

"That sounds like a good idea. 

Is the engineer now available? If they are, Korrado would like to speak to them."

They get a civil engineer on the horn! He has curly lavender hair.

"I am Korrado, landscape-superbeing of the volcano forge. I greet you, engineer. I am interested in the possibility of creating an all-metal waste management system – metal being required, as I and My ambassadors and organic-manifestations have the power to manipulate and reshape metal at a distance."

"So, you can mostly make this work. Metal is more expensive than plastic and ceramic, but assuming that's not a problem, practically everything could be metal. That's a big 'assuming', though. Can you just make metal?"

"Yes, but it is very expensive for Me energetically. The more scalable option for me is to find ore and transport it to easily accessible locations to the surface, and turn it into higher grades of ore. Does Amenta have stainless steel? And if so, does it have mass manufacture of it?

I can provide heating trivially using volcanic heat, if you are able to fashion a system that makes use of it."

"We have stainless steel and mass manufacture, it's just pricier than plastic."

"Tell me more about plastic. We do not have this material in Our world.

My understanding is that Amentans value not having to live with reds enough that they would be willing to make a very large outlay of resources to cause this. Is my understanding correct? My understanding also is that Amentans value robust waste management enough that it would be a mistake to focus on minimizing cost overmuch."

He'll have Damianos figure out how to finance it if necessary.

"So, it's true that this would be incredibly valuable, but our current supply chain assumes certain frequently replaced parts will be plastic, and it's not obvious where the money would be coming from specifically even if in the abstract it'd be obviously worthwhile. Like, would this be Voan-government-funded? Are you going to buy the pipes? Are we getting grants from the Society for Hypersensitives and Allies? Is the project taking out a loan against future rents from people who want to live there? I can get you an estimate if you tell me how many people the system needs to serve, but the money still needs to come from somewhere."

Damianos will now start figuring out how to finance it.

"Our current proposal with Voa has us agreeing to host no more than 27,139 settlers. We would like to account for visitors as well, and want to account for being able to scale, so we want to have a system that can accommodate 35,000 people constructed with the possibility of future expansion. My understanding is that this is a small number of people by the standards of Amentan settlements.

Would you be able to give an order of magnitude estimation for the cost of the project? Please assume that construction costs are lower – We are capable of reshaping the land, which includes near-instant excavation, and Korrado can help with the moving of metal pipes."

"Oh, wow, okay, I thought you wanted, like, a lot of people. For a little town like that the cost differential won't be much on the scale of exciting projects anyone cares about at all. But that won't get you construction costs lower than standard, you're in the middle of nowhere and the workers will need to bring in absolutely everything they need that isn't specifically an earthmover. I guess you could do with fewer cranes if Korrado can also levitate girders into the air without knocking anybody off a scaffold?""