"...yeah. Okay, uh, once you've done that let me know and I can tell Chua."

She goes back to Milliways, draws up hundreds of beautifully detailed Quenya circles, sets them down outside somewhere unobtrusive. She makes the trip back.

And James takes it to Chua and Chua okays an announcement that they are turning over jurisdiction to the Elven governments, insert canned well-wishes, and the circles on Ganymede come down.

Saniah appreciates this and is annoyed Aitim hasn't currently the political capital to pay her back.

Cam notices and is a bit cheered up.

Cricket goes and finds Larya and grants her one and a half minutes of purring lapcat.

Larya pets him. "I wouldn't have thought to do it or known how, really, the details were all the crazy blue people."

"Should I purr on them too?"

"I don't know if blue people like cats. Probably, they like babies and you are much softer and fluffier than a baby." Pet pet.

Purrrrrr.

"Cam's a good person."

"Yes. He is an Iobel."

"And Mitros is a Prince Nelyafinwë, yes. It doesn't seem like there are extras of me."

"Or me. That is very sad for Cam and any more Iobels, but I will share me around."

Giggle. 

The representative of the Rivikni ex-reds suggests to Telkam that people came to his country to escape persecution and population controls and restrictive castes, not to get involved in geopolitics, and perhaps he could separate the two things by turning over Anrik to an elected official.

The problem is that they might be stupid and immediately re-implement all of those things, since that is a pronounced tendency of elected officials.

She is pretty sure she can win an election.

And is she gonna re-implement those things because it's what some other country says to do if they don't want to get bullied.

She might resign or something if they were very threatening but she is not going to persecute people or change the hair dye rule and as long as there are planets to go to doesn't see a need for population controls.

Sure, fine, they can hold an election, but if the winners of the election start pulling bullshit then they will be deported for being blue, ex-red or no.

Anyone else running?

A few people, but while he has lots of citizens from lots of places none of them can sway a bloc the size of the Rivikni ex-red population.

And is there going to be trouble about having an ex-red president or whatever.

There's some grumbling. Some people make plans to leave for colony planets belonging to other countries which are accepting immigrants since those are a thing now. Mostly everyone who moved to an island full of ex-reds in the first place is okay with one being president.

Telkam waits for her to become suddenly terrible.