So Puna wanders in the palace gardens until someone has something more interesting for her to do.

Her aura dances over the plants and flowers, fixing their problems and making them grow just a tiny bit better. She doesn't pick any flowers, because it's not her garden and that would be rude without the owner's permission, but she's tempted. Some of them are so pretty! They're all pretty! 

And eventually the Tapai delegation arrives.

Puna goes to meet them! 

Yes hello she is a magical alien goddess and would like to solve all their problems, especially the one where they are running out of planet, how do they make planets happen and does Tapa have any other problems gods might be able to help with?

There is an astronomer along who has a list of possible planets if they can be portaled and terraformed and a list of possible planets if they can be seasoned too! In the short term they are having a war but it is less important than planets.

Portals prooobably not although they're looking into it and there are other transport solutions too, terraforming definitely - and the gods themselves can just teleport to all the planets and terraform them - seasons probably doable but not enough information yet. Someone should at some point tell Puna everything that is known about why seasoning is a thing so she can figure out how to replicate it. 

Puna understands that they are very very excited about planets (and she is too!) but the war also sounds pretty important to her. "Who are you at war with, and why?"

Well there are planets and moons to be had in commuting distance if they can be terraformed. Seasoning is like so, at a glance. "We're dealing with some food insecurity because a neighbor contaminated the supply chain and we're resolving that."

"If the problem is that you don't have enough food, we can solve that," she mentions casually, opening up a line of communication to Kotinga. This is more likely to be her mother's specialty than her own.

"In a way that doesn't take food, or the means to produce it, away from anyone else. Not very many things stay zero-sum when you add magic!" 

"We don't have enough farmland in Tapa to achieve domestic food security; we were reliant on imports. More imports will help immensely and we'd be able to relax or eliminate the rationing, but after this people want us to be able to feed them on things grown at home."

"What if your farmland produced twice as much food, all the time?" 

Kotinga is pretty sure they can manage that, since these people have never had any gods helping them with their crops before. They're bound to be less efficient than a goddess of the harvest. 

"That would certainly do the trick if it weren't reliant on ongoing support."

"My mother says she can do that," Puna reports. 

"But she'll only do it if that means you'll end the war. Should I tell her yes?" 

"We'll need some time to withdraw delicately and verify the output, but given that, yes."

"Great!"

She acquires a map of Tapa with pre-war boundaries, and arranges for Kotinga to go and bless all the farmland within those limits at a time convenient to Tapa. 

Now that's sorted, back to planets! Are there enough planets on this list for every Amentan country to get one of its own?

Not in commuting distance.

The further ones can be reached with teleportation circles, but that'll be bottlenecked by the availability of mid-tier spellcasters. Amentans might not want to rely on Corth for access to their planets even assuming they'll have their own spellcasters eventually. 

Can they get the biggest countries a planet each, and then have the smaller ones share? 

Some of the smaller countries are willing to share. Everyone is very excited about teleportation circles, although slightly less excited if the caster has to be at the far end to place one.

Gods can teleport anywhere they like and are perfectly capable of making teleportation circles. They can also bring passengers, but not arbitrary numbers of them and they don't want to become shuttle services. Those will have to rely on mortal magic-users from Corth. 

It seems like the sensible thing to do is have a first wave where all the planets and moons in easy reach are parceled out in a way that is roughly proportional to current populations, and then a second wave of further-away planets that are only really reachable with teleportation circles, and will therefore need a mid-to-high-tier magic user for every trip. Those will all be terraformed and then they'll go to anyone capable of paying spellcasters to take them. 

Sounds good. Tapa will host a conference for forming planet-sharing coalitions among the smaller nations.

And Puna collects responses from the other gods she asked for help.

The dwarven goddess Shakhter, whose invitation and reply were passed through several intermediaries, agreed to help after a few rounds of back-and-forth. Apparently the key detail was that the expansion is motivated by the Amentans' desire for children. The mardik goddess Ashkharh agreed almost immediately, for the same reason. 

Shūcài, the green dragon god, has said he will help if Amenta gives him their equatorial rainforest. 

...all of it? What does he want with it?

"He's a dragon. They like having stuff!" Puna explains. 

"You weren't using it anyway, right? Because it doesn't have seasons?" 

"It has some uses but it's not suited for dense year-round habitation."

"Well, with four of us helping, we don't need Shūcài if you don't want to give him the rainforest," Puna says with a shrug. 

"There can be rainforests on the other planets, with all the same species, but Amenta's still special, right?"

"Why the rainforest? Perhaps he'd like an asteroid?"

"He's a nature god," she reminds them.

"I think he likes the biodiversity! Asteroids don't tend to have much nature."