They should probably decline to do restoration of fertility for anyone who was sterilized judicially, that's a whole can of worms. Maybe it's okay if their sentence was overturned. They should probably also be notifying eugenics boards of anything that would let someone pass a screen that their genes strictly speaking ought to fail, unless they're confident their improvements are hereditary. They can put up an auction page once that's ironed out though, and watch the bidding go up up up!

They can require everyone who needs deaging or fertility restoration to produce a police certificate of their country of nationality which says that they don't have any offenses charged with judicial sterilization.

Germline changes are way harder to do and they don't think they'll be able to figure out how do them in time. So it will just be somatic changes for now. And yes, they can report these once they receive what standards there are. What sorts of things disqualify one?

Hm...do Amentans have an XY sex-determination system? If so, then FtMs will have to provide a Y chromosome donor so that they can be fertile as males. MtFs do not need to do so since they can just duplicate the X chromosome. This is technically a germline change but since it affects whole chromosomes rather than individual genes, it's way easier.

Yes, please put up bidding! They want to make these services available to all Amentans, but they understand that they are within Tapai space. Therefore, they will reserve 5% of the water and wind magic services to be for Tapai customers only, but the rest is a free for all.

Hmm...they typically do generalized sealed-bid second price auctions, but if the typical auction is done differently on Amenta, they are willing to adopt a different auction form.

Different countries' eugenics boards (they assume they want to allow medical tourism from abroad, here? to drive up the price? yes. by the by here is the relevant tax regime, they're going to count this all as in-caste work considering but there is a very small income tax on gigantic transactions and a small export charge, really very tiny, though, they get their government funding from credit sales) have different priorities and they probably just want to let relevant eugenics boards know that the person has had work done and to what end and require that the patient allow this disclosure as a condition of the work.

Amentans have an XY sex-determination system, yes! Most interested parties will probably be able to produce their father or a brother or something to accomplish this, though not necessarily all, so if they came up with a way to trim an X into a Y that would be cool.

Many different auction forms have been invented on Amenta and that one will not be too confusing to savvy customers and the unsavvy customers usually don't have nearly as much money.

Yes, they do want medical tourism for abroad!

Also, yes, the tax is fine.

That's not possible because many genes on the Y chromosome are unique, so they have to find Some Guy. Theoretically, one could fashion a chromosome out of whole cloth but that would be very complicated and would probably take a season or longer to figure out how to do sustainably.

Great! Let the auctions begin!

(Nenad is very relieved that everything is proceeding. A lot of the other people really want to interact more with the Amentans and do Cultural Diplomacy. Nenad really does not want to have to deal with this and wants everyone to just wait and do their work until they get the giant crystal and contact home already...but he recognizes that he can only forbid them for so long unless he wants to get really heavy handed. And of course the Amentans will get suspicious if they suddenly want to greatly reduce contact. So he should get ahead of that.)

It will probably be a while for the bids to come in, and they want to take a break from all of the negotiation thus far. The Amentans seemed amenable to partying previously, so do they want to do that? They can share food and sing and dance and have sex!

Tomorrow, once they have gotten some bids and arranged for financing — does it seem like the services they are offering so far will cover the cost of the Very Large Crystal? Would there be extra? — they will make more formal statements and presentations that they would want the whole of Amenta to hear. But tonight, it can be very informal.

Not all of these Amentans want to have sex - some of them are monogamous, or too gynephilic to be into hermaphrodites-with-dicks, or whatever - but quite a few of them love the idea, and more of them want to try the food, and some of them want to dance and sing!

They can definitely afford their Very Large Crystal off what it seems like they will be able to sell, based on early bids which should be expected to go higher as more people check their finances and hear about the array of options.

That's alright, not all of the Asteralians do either, though proportionally there are more of them than the Amentans. And they want to have sex with Amentan women too, though a little less than they do for the men. Did they watch the educational porn videos? Actually they want to watch Amentan educational porn too so they know what they're getting into, even though it seems very similar to humanoid genitalia.

The food is definitely not the best the Asteral Accord has to offer, all of it being MREs. They did have fresh food but it wasn't in the shielded rooms and was rendered inedible or unappetizing in the crash. There will be a lot of mushrooms — mushrooms seem popular in their food. Their has less sour tastes and fewer things that are fermented or pickled or otherwise aged in some way (or flavored as though they are). Also the portion sizes are enough for one to feed two Amentans.

They have weighted dancing styles and zero-g dancing styles, if they want to go into the shielded rooms for it. Doing pair dancing given the size difference seems like it will require a lot of creativity, though.

Lovely! They are pleased that they will probably have the money for it.

Amentans do not have an educational porn genre in the exact way. They do sex ed before a kid springs for the first time and the content for that isn't titillating because there's nothing there to titillate. But they can come up with a selection of Amentan porn that will be informative!

Amentans sometimes eat mushrooms but they are not anywhere near this popular. They split MREs thoughtfully and show off the best of what Amentan meals survive the trip in a helicopter through the desert best.

They are informed! It's popular among Asteralians to do sex roleplay but they're going to refrain from attempting this for now because they might inadvertently offend. The non-psions will want to do a lot more communication beforehand and get lists of useful words and establish a safeword beforehand to minimize the risk of incidents — the psions also do the latter but since they can just communicate during, they don't prioritize it.

Alien food!!! They hope that they will be able to share the best of what their cuisine has to offer in the future.

The linguist on hand, Fianha Sekuseku, is SO excited to REALLY fuck an alien in real life eeeeeeeeeee.

An alien is going to approach her! He's holding a tablet with one hand and is holding out another to shake her hand. He has short black hair and white skin. He's wearing the same coveralls as all the other people.

"Hello!" he says in Tapap.

"Hello!" she beams back in Asteralian. Shake!

Shake! Big smile!

"My name is Satya Noon. All of the sounds of my name are in Tapap. That is good!" he says in Tapap, checking his tablet as he goes. His speech is halting and the accent is weird but he does pronounce all the phonemes correctly.

"Satya Noon!" she repeats back. "My name is Fianha Sekuseku."

He repeats her name.

"Do you want to have sex? There are rooms in the ship for it."

Nod nod bounce bounce! "I'm a little nervous but I do want to!"

"I am the same! Let us go." He will lead her up through the airlock — they have already placed a makeshift staircase for easier travel — and through a few corridors before going into a small room. The doors are sliding ones and he opens them manually. There's an Asteralian-sized bed and a shelf with various supplies: bottles, packages, other things that aren't obvious at first glance, but also things that are obvious at first glance, like dildos.

He closes the door behind him.

"We like to have a word to say if we want to stop what is happening. What word do you want to say, if either one of us wants to stop what is happening?"

"Um, how about just 'stop'?"

He checks his tablet again.

"'Stop' is when...you want to stop this, just this, maybe. But this special word is...stop everything, stop the whole thing, talk about what happened. Does that make sense? The word can be Tapap or Asteralian."

"You can teach me the Asteralian word for it!"

Okay, sure, this can work for now. He gives it.

He's going to take off his coveralls now. It has special flaps and zippers for easy access but it seems more convenient to just take it all off right now, as well as his boots and socks. He doesn't have any body hair to speak of! What he does have are rather large male genitalia. Blessings of Teiatat.

Fianha was told to show up in something suitable for a) work and b) walking in the desert for a bit, and wound up in a beige jumpsuit thing she found in the back of her closet and a light hooded poncho thing to keep the sun off. They are not hard to remove. She attempts a sexy pose and then curls up in self-conscious giggles.

He seems into it! The Asteralians have been advised to go very slowly and to check in often and not just jump into it. So he's going to do that. Amentan facial expressions seem like the map surprisingly well to Asteralian ones, so what does she feel about him getting closer and running his hand across her arm?

Actually the height difference might be awkward so he's going to try turning so that he's sitting on the bed and she's standing up.

She seems to approve of arm-stroking! She is really fascinated by his hair and is going to see if it's soft.

It is! If she looks closely there's an ombre to it — the tips seem a little lighter than the roots, but the effect is both subtle enough and with a gradual enough gradient that it doesn't seem like a dye job. Not a simple dye job, anyway.

Satya is going to continue touching, now moving onto her chest.