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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
"I know we integrate literal actual slaveowners but the more sense you get of what they did to these people -"
"They'll be okay. Maybe in ten years a bunch of them will work for us and be really good at it because they can empathize better."
"Buncha the Elves have been horribly tortured."
"I think it's different. They never thought everybody in the entire universe would commend Melkor for having so effectively kept them out of the general population."
No worries, ma'am. Thanks for your time!
"So," says the team in Orvara, "I know there's still debate ongoing about resurrections but there's something else we wanted to run by you."
"There's a technology that stores someone's body in a pocket dimension, assembles a new one from completely random atoms from a vast near-infinite plane of them, and lets them remotely pilot the new body. New body is clean, right?"
"Of course. The engineers who invented it might be willing to come over and talk if you can't be confident from the papers."
"I know you want your work to be insulated as much as possible from political concerns, but, ah, we're putting a lot of effort at this point into preventing well-intentioned parties from coming to Amenta to rescue the reds. A consensus on an acceptable method would do a lot to reduce the inclination of some parties to force our hand."
"Surely you can contain them somewhere dispensable in the interim? You've said you have ways to replace their labor."
"If it were definitely an interim while a process was approved, that'd be one thing, but if it was potentially indefinite if everything got rejected...and some people think that the reds might cooperate more with emigration if they can see that the other reds who've emigrated have been given clean bodies and citizenship and rights. If they just know they're getting shuffled off into quarantine somewhere, they're going to wonder why we'd ever bother getting them out, and then they'll probably resist deportation."
"We can't move them all simultaneously when some of them are out at work, and it sounds like being rounded up is the sort of thing that has historically provoked riots. There's also not much political will for forcible deportation of innocents, and it's not even clear it'd be legal."
"I understand completely why you'd want the theological question insulated as much as possible from the politics."
"Oh good."
They leave it at that.
The Anitami team emails the reds' provided work order emails to invite them to make suggestions about how the aliens can help them.
Maybe no one actually reads the reds' emails even though it seems like the kind of thing an evil repressive government would do.
"They might just dislike them too much to think about how optimally to oppress them."
"...yay?"
"I mean, I'll take it."
The two Rivikni murder cases go to trial. Since the victims weren't especially interested in testifying and the fact they're up and about could cause pollution hysteria it is not widely advertised.
The green wants a lawyer who does not have bizarre alien morality, as she feels unable to trust people with bizarre alien morality and the lawyer is supposed to be trusted to be on her side.