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"You know, they, like, go around making sure everything is in compliance with international law and stuff."

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"...international alien law?"

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"Yeah, having them check Amentan law wouldn't help when the Amentan law is the problem."

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"Are people here supposed to abide by alien law?"

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"I don't know but I think the humans could impose sanctions? On the colony in their world, at least."

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Reds do not seem optimistic.

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Shrug. "Do you want anything while we're here?"

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They can think of some things and get steadily more ambitious as things are produced.

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Angels don't mind!

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Yay!

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And eventually - "we should go. You won't be in trouble? For talking with us?"

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"...we don't think so..."

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"Is there something we could do to fix that?"

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"Probably not unless you want to be our bodyguards or something."

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The angels have jobs and spouses and stuff.

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That's okay then.

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They go.

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The reds go home.

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No one has them murdered for talking to the angels.

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Not being murdered is nice.

Requests go in the form a bit faster.

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She makes things happen.

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After enough of that she can have rather trusting old-timey-Amentan reds.

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Then when the government wants to transition them lines of communication won't suck.

 

The government is not even thinking about that yet, they're sifting through prisoners to see who belongs in jail and redressing Oahkar seizures of property and doing their own seizures of property. The television has showy infrastructure magic and a parade of apologizing Oahkar blues.

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The ratings are great.

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Oahk and Calado will both be on the two-per-family model, because fuck Oahk and Calado. Everyone else'll do credit auctions, but they're being lenient about kids conceived before the conquest, permissions or no. There aren't yet universal population control treaties for this conduct to violate, but it's still worrying, and the propaganda videos are probably making the neighbors nervous even if they're not being believed, so they reach out to everyone to offer reassurances.

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