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.
"Thank you. Do you have ideas on how we can make sure everyone else knows what's going on -"
"We have websites - I can try to figure out which ones people here use. But, uh, don't plaster stuff all over them or they'll be like, aaah, we're being watched, just pick one and that one can be the one on which they're being watched?"
"We would if it would actually improve anything for someone else to be the robot source."
"Yeah. Guess so. You ever watch, like science fiction? It's - they don't want to put red characters on screen, they have all kinds of ways to avoid it, and in science fiction what they do is robots, they don't say 'so we killed them all X years ago' there just - aren't any -"
"It's really nice that you're trying. Science fiction aliens never ask what people did before robots."
"If we ran across Amentans who objected to handling their dead and had robots to do it I do not think 'maybe there used to be a whole class of people who did that job and then they murdered them all' would come to mind. They don't seem like the kind of people who'd casually murder their own for convenience - well, some of them do. Calado's blues did, and we found it really upsetting and dumped them all in Valinor."
Sigh. "If we try to explain on the website why we're doing robots that'll just make it worse, right? Should we try to talk around it?"
"Maybe you could like... explain that there are these companies in Endorë, and they don't get it? And that you - I don't know you kind of burned a lot of credibility with that one fuckup, but maybe they'd buy that it was just a fuckup and that you don't actually want to kill us all not even if there are robots you just want to put us someplace."
"Burned a lot of credibility with the not saving the rioters or with the saying if people wanted we could chip you?"
"Both. Like - it kind of made it seem like maybe you were being nice so we'd go along quietly when you told us oh don't worry you'll only be dead for a minute but if we actually do anything you don't like yep that's still a death sentence -"
"We've been leaning really hard on the police but 'don't shoot at the people who are currently actively killing people and showing no signs they'll stop that until someone stops them' is a harder sell than 'expect a meticulous investigation if a red 'lunged at you'."
"Oh good. - oh also my brother says that you solved something we couldn't with hundreds of hours of staff time and should be on the payroll as a consultant or something - consulting on your caste's interests is now in-caste income for every caste - so probably you'll get some notifications about that once it's set up."
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