"Revelation's been great exposure there but we can't send most people, it's not a good idea for summoning to become widely known here yet."

"Because of the scarcity of daeva?"

"Mostly. There's also some concern that if most people know it any alien visitors who are persistent enough will certainly learn it and it would be - destabilizing to say the least. We'll teach them eventually, but it's something we'd want to do from a position of more information."

"Yes, of course."

"So there are only a few dozen people here who know summoning, and the colonists to Revelation have to agree to screened letters home. - it's still a popular assignment. No scarcity, no restrictions on having children, and your children will be immortal..."

"I can imagine the allure, yes."

"We're going to have about a million people there. It's not enough to alleviate daeva scarcity in the first few generations but they'll grow very rapidly - many Amentans will want a baby every spring or nearly every spring if they have the resources to give them all good lives."

"Convenient under the circumstances. Why only a million starting population if it's so popular?"

"We have to route them through Milliways, which is complicated."

"It's not sustainably so?"

"It's slow and potentially creates some risks. Sending a million people through is going to take a very long time."

"I was mostly surprised to hear the goal expressed as a number instead of a rate."

"I suppose if we get lucky and there are no incidents they might be inclined to keep it up."

"What form would an incident take?"

"Someone decides to stay in Milliways or leave for yet another universe, or breaks Milliways rules in a way that causes them to object to our use of their bar as a colonization throughput."

"Is it actually very bad if someone stays in Milliways?"

"It could be harmless, but someone ill-intentioned with summoning and access to random universes is certainly an outcome we'd consider very dangerous."

"Milliways itself has no mechanisms to prevent that?"

"Milliways seems in general to only invite patrons who will use it wisely, but we are, uh, disrupting that mechanism by taking lots of people through. We do screen them as carefully as possible for the volume, but..."

"I see."

"It's gone smoothly so far, but I know it's a concert on the forefront of everyone's minds, especially since there was one incident of someone learning summoning while in Milliways and threatening people with it."

"I hadn't heard about that."

"It has been mostly resolved, but we're committed to more caution going forward."

Nod.

They reach Lina. There's a train stop two blocks from the capitol building. They walk.