And he assembles a trade delegation and the flat Valar, who can pretty much carry on a normal conversation at this point, open a portal. They put the portal in the star system but not attached to Godspring's inhabited planet.
And through the trade delegation goes.
And when everywhere is visited he returns home, closes the portal, sends out a mass message - I know how I want to do the summoning rollout in Godspring, but it's going to be resource-intensive and require around ten thousand people. Come by my room for planning.
And how is Cir doing -
Cir is in his room curled up with his sister. Ava is not there at the moment.
"Hi Maitimo!" says Cir.
"There's a giant squid in the lake!" says Ruviri.
"We got wetsuits," says Cir. "So we could swim and wouldn't have to worry about the squid if it turned out to be a person."
"Great idea. I think the squid is in fact a person. We're going to be planning how to roll out summoning in Godspring, want to be part of that?"
"Sure," says Cir.
"Can Ava come?" asks Ruviri. "She'll be back in a bit."
Ava is back in a bit, having returned their lunch dishes to Bar. She braids Ruviri's hair for her because they're going to be around Elves and then they are all set.
He waits for people to arrive. He has a big map covered with dots - three thousand and sixty-two of them, to be precise.
Do the ones on Cefax by any chance correspond to its five Godsprings?
Nope! Cefax has fourteen and they mostly correspond to population centers (but not perfectly).
"If we put a little clinic at all of the dots to do vaccinations and education and loans and supervised summoning we are within ten miles of 98% of Godspring's population." He changes the map; some dots move. "Adjusting for geopolitical realities - there are a couple countries that won't cooperate, there are a couple war zones, there are a couple places where it may not be far but it's not tractable as travel for whatever reason - we can probably hit 90%? Which is letting hundreds of thousands of people just permanently die but I'd have to double the dots to get substantial gains from there."
"The simple answer is that when it exists consumption rises and food insecurity goes down and so on. I think the reasons have to do with evening out unexpected expenses and letting people save and letting people travel and send back money to their families?"
"There are a bunch of worlds that had preindustrial humans and then got richer so we tried to learn what worked for them. If it doesn't work we'll change courses. You guys might think of things specific to your world that we haven't thought of, though."
"You have better birth control options, to the delight of Elves everywhere. Cefax in particular has more of a middle class, you've got significantly higher literacy rates than preindustrial Earths..."
"They do not." Shiver. "Or they drive it extinct, I think that happens on Earths?"
"Yeah, if things don't domesticate and they're useful humans are bad at that coordination problem," says Cam, strolling in. "Wow, Godspring has a lot of dots on it, maybe it should get that checked out."
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