"Our world has Quenya, Thindarin, Khuzdul, and a few human languages, our humans speak Taliska. My father was always sad there weren't more to learn. He'd be so delighted at the hopping worlds."

"Is he dead -?"

"Yes."

"I'm sorry."

"Thank you. Maybe there's magic somewhere that can change it."

"Maybe! Maybe it will wind up being a good thing I landed on an inhabited planet instead of a dumping ground for nothingness."

"Presuming dumping grounds can be found we are glad you landed on us. ...most worlds without life might be ones that cannot support it, I'd rather expect you to die in the attempt."

"My planet's in real bad shape. I gave all my money to the next most promising project and took off, not because I have a death wish but because this would've been a better way to die."

"Fair enough. How long do you think your world has -"

"Depends how long the ceasefire lasts and how accurate the projections are. Parts of the planet will probably still be habitable until it can't hold an atmosphere any more."

"The war started over the accidental city destruction?"

"Yep."

Sigh. 

"It was a nice place." Sigh.

"There's probably something for it somewhere. Once we can devote all our energy to the problem it might not even take a thousand years - and we'd be able to pick up a project to do something about human lifespan -"

"Ooh."

"There are lots of things we could get done if the war were over."

"At some point I'm going to want to like - evaluate the war."

"I bet. What do you need for that?"

"I don't know what you have. I assume warfare is very different here."

"It certainly sounds it. We have history books?"

"I can't read your language and it will take me a nontrivial amount of time to learn."

"I could translate but that introduces most of the problems there'd be with just asking me about the war. Hmmm. I can't recommend you go ask the other side for their version, no one leaves Angband intact and humans don't leave alive."

"Yeah, that's a complicating factor."

"We could bring you orcs but you'd need a translator and it would be necessary to kill them afterwards."