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There are a lot of Amentan countries. Vanda Nossëo representatives are dispatched to all of them. These Elves (two with black hair, one with silver) take a shuttle down from the lightleaper to a country called Calado, and radio ahead to request permission to land at a elegant modern spaceport.
okay by comparison Voa and Tapa look like thriving modern democracies
"Prison social workers tend to ask about plans for release, try to help people spend their time productively if they want to do that, get them mental health services if necessary, help complete court-ordered steps like restitution or classes on ethical conduct. Anyone who wanted to visit you would have to somehow reach the nearest dimensional transit facility. There are no facilities set up in Calado because it has been judged too hazardous to operate in Calado but there are some in progress in some neighboring countries."
"It could have been transliterated poorly enough to be unintelligible or ambiguous. Tapa is going to have a dimensional transit facility with hourly service to Elendil. Elendil has shuttles here... also hourly."
"There'd be a transfer if you engaged in activity that justified an elevated security prison - getting into fights with other inmates, having guests smuggle in weapons or poison or something, breaking laws online while in prison, threatening witnesses or trying to bribe judges or something - and pregnant people get transferred to a prison that can accommodate them, as do people with unusual health conditions the clinic here can't handle."
"I'm going to send you an email with instructions about logging in to a confidential case file where I can keep you updated on what evidence has been entered and what motions have been filed. You'll have to create a password and have the options to add additional levels of security. Anyone asking you for permission to look at your case file, or trying to look over your shoulder at it, or insinuating that it'd be to your advantage to show it to them, will spend the next decade in jail, report them immediately, confidentiality is taken very seriously."
"I assume my Amentan email accounts are not present on this computer, how will I receive your email?"
She opens up her email account and figures out the interface and goes to see if alien drama is more interesting now she can understand the language.
In an alien legal drama aliens fight to make their government pay reparations to the recently-resurrected people it massacred a hundred years earlier. Alien police procedural is still on; the alien cops agonize over whether to burn through one of their scarce forensics requests to nail down a murderer who seems to be murdering dying people knowing their insurance will pay their resurrections if they die by murder.
The greys similarly find themselves arrested and given a hearing.
Their prison has a basketball court in a courtyard. The planet has rings; they're visible in the sky. The prison staffperson is pink-skinned and brown-haired but could otherwise pass for Amentan.