They circle the planet and look at the architecture. They are somewhat disappointed.
"Maybe the aliens think they're pretty," someone says dubiously.
"No," someone else says. "Some things are universal."
"Maybe the aliens are all blind."
"That makes more sense."
"Well we have to pick somewhere."
This place has a lovely large statue-garden-monument thing that Elves would not go out of their way to avoid if it were in Tirion, though they'd probably walk through it quickly. They go for that one.
Brown is also an alien color. ...red happens in Amentans but not clean ones.
The royal family has some red!
Well. Aliens.
Someone wonders how there could be no clean people with a hair color, wouldn't it sometimes occur by chance as a mutation or something?
...that might ever happen but probably people would just assume their wife cheated with some red and then she'd be arrested for pollution violations and the red baby would be dropped off in the red neighborhood at best.
...at best?
It would be a red baby without a red permission, they might just kill it? It'd be a red.
...people would kill their babies over mutant hair colors?
Over red. Something else would be worked out if it were something else, then it could just be a throwback to an earlier generation and could be its mother's caste as expected. Tapa kills babies if they're born unauthorized but most places will just give those to gay people.
Elves splutter.
Someone asks what is wrong with reds aside from not being clean.
...that's enough.
...that's enough to make it reasonable to murder them? If other people get dirty do you murder them too?
Everyone else can get clean again, reds are hereditarily unclean.
...okay but the Elves still totally fail to see why this means it's okay to murder them.
They just don't really matter.
...because they're not clean?
Because they're reds.
The Elves can't think of any theory of which people matter under which dirty people don't matter. You might not want them around (Elves don't allow any orcs on their planet, because orcs are ugly). But it really doesn't seem like it has anything to do with whether they matter.
- someone asks if they mean that reds don't have internal subjective experiences.
They never really thought about it. Maybe they don't.
Weird.
Back in Calado Elves wander! They look at things and ask about them and talk to people.
People are excited to meet aliens! They look like inexpensive TV aliens, even. Do they like Amenta? Are they going to take Amentans to space? Yes, that daycare makes some revenue on the side by letting people play with the kids. That's a subway stop. That's a trash alley don't go in there!
Elves are happy to avoid trash alleys. They do not like Amenta. They are definitely going to take Amentans to space.
Why don't they like Amenta?
Uh, people seem scared and coerced and the government does not seem competent enough to do a starship project.
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