Aitim makes sure that conversations are headed in productive directions and goes upstairs to find alts.

"They have a totally different set of aliens but do have an Earth."

"Huh. A Federation or just an Earth - or is it too early -"

"Too early."

"That's all the more reason to not let the Oahk Empire keep existing, they're all right enough with genocide when the victims look just like them, aliens wouldn't even register. - think we can pull off an Amentan occupying force with human and Elf observers?"

"Pull off politically or after that?"

"Politically is easy, I just say that our new allies all want to help but they're kind of soft I maneuvered them into just tagging along I trust our soldiers to do their jobs first and stay alive second and represent us well third."

"Are you imagining daeva along? You have the tech advantage and intel advantage either way, but still."

"Still the difference between a couple weeks of fighting and having it over at once, probably. It's a shame none of the Revelation daeva kids are old enough, but it's still worth it."

"I mean, that depends how long you wanna wait."

"True! We might end up waiting a long time, though, the death rate over there is awfully low even among the grays."

"Do greys usually have a high mortality rate even apart from war and stuff?"

"Yeah. Lots of the risky jobs, lots of accidental deaths, highest violent crime rate. Gray criminal's supposed to be a very unpleasant place to work, all these kids throwing their lives away over a couple minutes of being stupid."

Nod.

"But not in Revelation! I suppose there's no hurry."

"Sort of depends on whether Avalor needs to be any particular age for greatest efficacy and how the internal dilation works out."

"She needs to be living with Amentans by four and she probably can't handle Voan independence before that. I don't think it'd matter whether she's four or six - I suppose she might want the same husband or something -"

"What would happen if she wasn't living with Amentans? Permanent fetish for brunettes?"

"- spring with someone who wasn't springing just sounds miserably awkward and straight people often seem to prefer that they could actually have kids with their partner, even if they're not going to."

"So more of a short term issue, all right."

"Yes, no long term harm. Let's sit on the place for a while - maybe research the aliens and see if there's anywhere else with a compelling case for intervention -"

Nod, nod. "The Earth is timed such that there would be a Cam but there isn't. T'Mir comes later."

"Huh. I suppose we've got no way to check if this world had one of her a hundred years earlier or something - I wonder if we're always born at the same time in Amenta's history -"

"I mean, there could be still another variety of Earth Bell, or for that matter non-Earth Bell, on their own schedule, somewhere in the world, waiting to be recognized for derring-do alone since we can't find them in any sensible manner."

"There is that. No Vulcans in this universe?"