"At least not in such a hurry. Would it kill you to say 'this means reds'?"

"No. We should probably have had it on the landing page in capital letters. It's unusual for people to literally believe the people they dislike are not people and even more unusual for them to expect that aliens will think the same thing, but it did become apparent very quickly and we should have rolled out public service announcements at that point."

"Why didn't you? Trillion other things demanding your attention?"

"No, we don't contact places at all if we can't give them the attention they deserve and guarantee the resources needed to be fair to them. The people managing contact were themselves on the teams in Tapa and Voa, both of which downplayed the extent of animosity towards reds, and the war deescalation was demanding of their attention and a much bigger problem, and they were concerned a very vocal emphatic public declaration that our law considered reds people would exacerbate fears of pollution. They were hoping it could wait until a way of cleaning them was developed, make the announcement 'reds are people with rights, and we can clean them'."

"Rivik's an outlier. But not alien."

"I'm glad Rivik is an outlier."

"I just bet you are."

"You have to agree that if they were people Rivik would be pretty upsetting."

"Even if they were people there are so few of them."

"Sixty five million. I've paid that much for things I wanted but it's not a small number."

"I mean in comparison to impoverished purples or whatever, and there aren't sixty five million in Rivik in particular."

"We've committed dramatically more resources to purple healthcare and education, for whatever that's worth. For better or for worse it makes fewer headlines. I think it's really good that you're taking refugees in," he adds to Soyok, "and if you need any support with that of course it's yours."

"Most of them aren't making it," Soyok says. "The ones that do, soon I'll have a planet to put them on and the food aid from when you first showed up means there aren't any short term problems."

"Are most people in contracts with no exit clause?"

"No, but those are the ones who can't just wait."

Nod. "We've been discouraging people from announcing their intent to resurrect people executed unjustly, lest that prompt lots of people into unwise risks, but if you recommend otherwise..."

"It'd cheer up the ones who didn't get their families all across."

"I can suggest they privately get in touch."

Nod. "I realize resurrections are expensive..."

"16.8 million ver everywhere that allows unrestricted purchases, varies widely in places that restrict to citizens, but they're never cheap. Injustices get a lot of attention, people crowdfund. We're working on expanding capacity, of course, one force keeping prices down is that people expect in ten years they'll be downright affordable. - people who are born on your colony planet will be in range of an afterlife, they won't need one, that should help Amenta out a lot."

"In range of an afterlife," repeats a grandson slowly.

"We can move it if there are objections but it's broadly considered a plus. Anyone who dies finds themselves there, sterile but in otherwise good health. There are people trying to do things about the infertility and there are robust surrogacy arrangements, subsidized, but I know it's far from ideal."

"People don't usually commit suicide when they turn twenty," Soyok says.

"I know. I think it's a good deal, I favored this location for that reason. - suicidal people are typically one of the groups vocal about their disappointment with the afterlife setup - we keep them in a coma -"

"Because they complain?" asks granddaughter-in-law.

"No, because they don't want to be alive," says her husband.