"I like the architecture."

"Thank you! We're proud of our city planning, commutes are so important for quality of life."

"Earth failed at that for a long time. Vulcan was better at transit in principle but never had this density."

"It's a very hard thing to get right, you need good budgeting and good coordination and the right incentives in both government and private industry."

"Congratulations."

"Thank you." Capitol has grey guards and people, mostly blue and yellow, going in and out.

"The color coding is really interesting."

"Even the colonies that are experimenting with casteless societies keep that, they just encourage changing it as suits you. It's an important bit of cultural communication, we'd miss it if we tried to do without entirely."

"Starfleet has color coded uniforms but they don't correspond."

"It would be really quite a coincidence. What do their colors stand for -"

"Red for command, yellow for operations, blue for medical and sciences."

He maybe makes a tiny bit of a face but not much. "Amenta used to have a red caste but lately experimented with letting them reassign into a different caste."

"I heard."

"It's gone well, for the most part."

"For the most part?"

"Anitam has committed a lot of resources to integrating reds as their new castes. Some places were reluctant to do it and devoted fewer resources, unfortunately."

"To what effect?"

"The reds have had a harder time integrating and finding jobs, dealt with a higher rate of violence from unfriendly neighbors, in some cases had to emigrate."

"Well, fortunately now there are places to which they can emigrate."

"Very much so, yes. There's an island with a red president and it's doing quite well, and many of the colonies have welcomed them."

"I'm so glad FTL has been so usefully received even if it wasn't me this time."

"It made a tremendous difference. It's hard to overstate the costs to quality of life from population controls." And there are people! Blue! He makes introductions. "...and Intal Neli, chair of the ruling council of Anitam."

      "A pleasure to meet you."

"Likewise. Thank you very much for the invitation."

"Of course. We're honored to support a project like this. Anitami public opinion is overwhelmingly in favor of giving people warp who need it."

"Me too!" she laughs.