"I thought when we gave you the place we were done bribing people with kids to prop up things people don't want to live with. You're just doing it more internationally."

"If we back off on the cameras, and then one of those bad eggs murders an innocent person while on the job and says the unarmed blind guy looked like he had a gun, and then we try to prosecute them like the murderer they are, are we going to have another strike? If we prohibit something popular, like beating reds to death unprovoked to let off steam, are we going to have another strike? If it's this particular hot button, all right, I can go apologize to every cop in prison and make the citizens at particular risk of mysterious deaths wear 'em instead and hope that settles it. But if we can't set criminal justice policy or prosecute crimes by police at all without prompting a strike then we've got to figure out a way to maintain public safety during strikes."

"Stop bribing people with kids and stop terrorizing cops for wanting respect for their work. If I wanted your job I coulda had it, details are yours."

"Thank you for stopping by."

The general heads out.

Their investigators are concerned that in the aftermath of the recent appalling murders of police officers the officers cannot afford to be stretched thin on the streets. For that reason they're going to make the cameras optional, with a slightly outrageous salary bonus for officers who give it a try, and increase the police force substantially so officers can have backup in a wider variety of circumstances and be at less risk.

That's a pretty outrageous salary bonus. Some of the officers pick up cameras. Some of them don't. The strikes end.

Yeah, fine. If any of them want a well-funded field trip to visit Endorë and meet orc and Dwarf cops (well, Dwarf private security people), all of whom use cameras and were in fact appalled that any society which had invented them might not, the government can spring for a few well-funded field trips.

Sure, some of them will go on a field trip.

Calado wishes them the best.  

And after ten Valian days at their magic Valian pace, the blues get an email asking about a launch date in six days.

That sounds good to them.

And six days later anyone who wants to be in Alqualondë can board a lightleaper!

Many blues do! Some of them are sitting back to see what happens or don't miss Calado as much.

The lightleaper leaps. The lightleaper arrives.

They land in Calado's neighbor and friend Oahk where some of them have distant relatives or friends or vacation homes and some of them go elsewhere from there. Have their houses been stolen?

If they were involved in embezzlement, yes. Otherwise no.

What if their relatives were and those relatives could claim the houses in complicated ways?

If a person whose name is on the title was engaged in embezzlement (or tax evasion) the house is gone. Relatives whose names are not on the title are fine.

The Noldor have stolen some of their houses, probably because the Noldor are evil or something, but they still have enough places between them to put everybody. Hopefully blue vacation homes are tolerably pretty to the Teleri. The nonstolen houses have been having their staff salaries paid out of the owners' accounts so most of the staff are accessible, although some of them have been skipping out on work with their bosses off planet and those get a talking-to. The blues set about contacting friends in the Oahk government but probably they are mostly asleep, there will be a wait.

Elves wander around looking at the strange plants and singing.

Some blues contact friends in other time zones. Under what conditions will the Teleri share spaceship information?

Uh, they think that if Amentans just come back to Alqualondë people will just teach them.

Cool! What's the transit there-and-back-later situation like currently?

They are sure the Noldor won't impede people going back and forth from Valinor. It might get expensive.