"Certainly. I can definitely imagine some bumps in the track."

"Let me get your adapter's shell printing now though, we can talk about that later. I'll just need to duck into my study for a second - you're welcome to come."

She smiles and follows. "Ooh, a magic-user's workshop of sorts."

"Yes, that's the printer over there on the left, mind it it's delicate, over here we have some runic circles I've been working on for better compression algorithms, and there's of course the whole bookcase on thaumaturgy and networking."

She gestures around as she speaks, taking in a sleek black machine, a drafting desk covered in precise geometric designs, and a bookcase of well-thumbed-looking manuals. C and Python are apparently her languages of choice. 

"...Oh, of course," she says, looking at the books. "C. How nostalgic. It was ancient when I was born, but some really old legacy systems still used a close derivative."

"Ha! It's great to be on the other end of the technological divide for once. Can't wait to see what new paradigms you've built in your extra time."

"I'm not really a programmer, sadly." She shrugs. "I could give you names but not tell you anything about them on that level."

"Guess I'll have to find out with everyone else, huh?" She taps at a series of buttons on the face of the printer, consults a reference manual for information about the current internet standard, presses more buttons. "That should work, now. It'll take some time to fab though, hence the hour."

Smile. "Happy to answer what I can. I'm sure I could tell you something about programming, but my custom 'stack work is actually really minimal. I had friends do it. With backups of me ready to fire, of course. Something like politics or culture I would be more able to tell you about."

"What is the politics like? Is it just Earth, I think you mentioned something about other planets?"

"No, there's a lot of polities. There's a pan-solar system federation that has mostly standards regulatory and disaster relief powers. They maintain communications relays, traffic databases, that sort of thing. The major inhabited bodies are Venus, Earth, Luna, El-Four and El-Five, Mars, and most of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons. There's still over a hundred Earthly governments, though many of them are in economic alliances with each other. There's three Lunar states, ten major Martian ones, four Jovian, two Saturnian, Venus is itself, Mercury is nobody's in particular. And there are little belter stations all over the place, it's the modern version of the boonies, with the odd band of crazy survivalists on an icy rock out past Neptune."

"Sounds vibrant. I'd love to go someday." 

"Avoid the state of Ilkum, on Mars." She scowls. "I may or may not have a bit of a grudge against them but my suggestion stands."

"Why, what did they do?"

"Gave me an official clearance that my body did not constitute civilian ownership of military equipment, which they forbid, then decided it did after all and tried to confiscate it when I actually visited."

"They tried to confiscate your body? That sounds like a clusterfuck, alright."

"Technically, they tried to draft me. I turned it into a media circus. They eventually let me go." Scowl. "It's kind of a fucked up place, really."

"Any other places you'd recommend against?"

"Nowhere near as strongly. Little places out in the asteroid belt. Parts of Earth are known for chaos, especially the Middle East. The Mare Tranquility Republic has deplorable infrastructure safety standards but if you have a hardy body you'd probably be fine."

"Sounds better than a lot of places we find. It's not too uncommon to find tyrannical empires and so on."

"There's corruption galore and probably some terrible secrets hiding in the shadows, but on the whole, the governments of my world bend towards justice, I think."

"I'm glad to hear it. No slaves anywhere?"

"...Maybe some de facto slavery somewhere on a dust speck, those survivalist asteroids I mentioned, or out in the oort cloud. 'Do as I say or I turn off the oxygen'. Some conscription, in a few places. But no legal, de jure slavery, even debt bondage."

"That's good, the OTC takes a very hard line against that sort of thing. Tore up Cthonia something fierce when it was discovered. All in a good cause, of course, but..."

"I have no doubts that war is bad. I wish more people realized it. Feels like conflict is in our nature. Wargames and combat are fun."