They are divided into nine couples (two original yellows and two original greys, their spouses, some relatives who could drop everything and run away to space on no notice), two of whom have a child each (one aged three, one age one) and would ideally like a room per couple, three-year-old could probably use her own room.

"Across the street, 1134-quesse through 1134-thule" he says almost instantly. "That's an apartment for everybody, extra bedroom for Camyi. Your substitute chips will let you in and let you alter the lock to have a passcode or let a set list of people in or whatever you find convenient. I think I'll have meals delivered for a few weeks while you get acclimated - our expense, we shall call it the science budget -"

        "How's that the science budget?" asks a guide.

"Why, they are aliens, and aliens are the proper purview of science."

        "Yes but you're not doing science to them."

"The science budget can be as inexhaustible as we as a people are wealthy, no one ever complains 'we spend too much on the pursuit of knowledge!'. The restaurant budget is not inexhaustible. Therefore the provision for and acclimation of aliens shall be science, until we've formal relations with Calado and then it will be diplomacy. Everyone's very excited to have you," he says to the aliens, "but you needn't feel obliged to entertain all their questions, they can go to Calado themselves if they're about to keel over from curiosity."

"How do we operate the bracelets -"

Demonstration! They light up with a distinctly Elven interface. This icon will let them look at their financials and this one does messages and this one does emergency services and this one does state alerts - "and people download all kinds of add-ons, of course."

"Why do you even have these if you do it all with your chips?"

"Someone came up with prototypes years and years ago for the Dwarves on Endorë, who dislike chips, and when they dropped out of leap and said they'd brought some chipless immigrants I had them looked through and the nicest ones made up for you."

"Thank you."

"Of course! So I am terribly curious about Calado, but if you want to all get settled first it can certainly wait."

One of the yellows (the one who bumped into the blue) says she will stay and chat while her husband gets set up for them both if he likes.

"That sounds lovely!"

And guides can take people who are being set up across the street to be set up.

Adyoni, as volunteered, stays behind.

"Please sit down!

The memos from our adventurers on the subject of Calado range from 'they are smart and many and miserable but maybe the ships will help' to 'we were menaced and threatened with weapons and fared I suppose better than the locals, who have no recourse' to ' 'would you like to just run the place I'm not sure they'd mind'. But there's much that can be overlooked in a days' visit."

"I'm not sure where you'd like me to start."

"What was your life there like?"

"Uh, I have two sisters, my father recommended me for a page job in his boss's son's office when one opened up, I got married when I was six and my husband was seven, I'm nine now, I did hobby pottery and played a lot of task management games in my spare time..."

"Why did you want to come here?"

"Even if I eventually earned a child permission I wasn't going to get four and my husband wasn't either, not photographing weddings."

"Is that the overriding concern of pretty much your entire species -"

"Some people don't want kids, or only want one or two, but the average of how many people had after birth control but before population control is five."

"Population controls were implemented because you were running out of space?"

"Because we were going to, if we didn't stop."

"And they'll be lifted once you have lightleapers?"

"If there's a steady supply of places to go, yeah. If there's just a few planets we can't keep growing forever. Orcs have this problem too, right, what are they going to do - how have they not already overrun their planet it sounded like they had even more per person -"

"There are five billion of them at present. Growing fast, yes. They've filled their territory very thoroughly but none of them have gone to war over space with the much-less-densely-populated Elven parts, or with each other - maybe some of their Maiar were going to help them - I don't think they had laws about it but maybe some of them do - and now we've lightleapers. Planets don't seem to be scarce. So all the things that stressed our ambassadors - we find you a few planets and they'll evaporate?"

"That's the going theory, I don't know, maybe not. It's not like the place was perfect before we hit a population crisis point."