They can try! Though Vira is pretty insistent about trying to talk to them after the third day! She would like to know Everything.

...she's going to have to be more specific.

What're they gonna do with the new planet?

"Us in particular? This trip is for just - looking at it, seeing that it's real, then we go tell everyone at home."

"What about when you go back?"

"Then I guess we need to... build houses...?"

"You're gonna be house builders?"

"- I think we will all be house builders at first, but after that I don't know."

"What'd you wanna do?"

"I don't know. I have no idea what - life is going to be like, there, what we'll need, what we'll do about it."

Vira can talk about things! She has ideas! They are mostly science ideas.

Lucien has more grounded logistical thoughts if they actually seem interested.

They would like logistical thoughts, yeah. They are kind of expecting that there will be pretty high mortality in the early years of the colony as they figure out local hazards and infrastructure.

...

Could they say more words about the expected causes of the high mortality?

...well, they're going to have to build all their own houses, and before that's done they'll be roughing it. They're going to have to grow their own food, after an initial deposit from Voa, and they have never done that before. They're going to need to manage their own medical care - they did this anyway, but they're going to do it with a different slew of medical conditions than ever before - and they won't be on the main electrical grid, and they won't have internet to look things up with right away...

"Do you have guess-es of how many labor hours it's gonna take to build the houses and grow the food at first? Am trying to figure out how many amaliens would be helpful."

"- I don't know, I wasn't picked for this based on my knowledge of housebuilding. I think in ancient times people would all get together and put up a simple cabin in a day but I don't know if that included cutting down the trees and so on or just putting it all together, or how many people that would be."

Vira has various guesses! Also she has thoughts on accounting for needing to get logs before building the houses.

Lucien does some math.

"Sounds like it'll be some-thing very roughly like a hundred thousand labor years to make basic houses for all the reds?"

"Maybe what could happen is most amaliens come early since we don't need houses or farms - and we help get thing set-up and then as there are more and more houses they can be filled with reds who help s'more?"

"Can you do construction work? You're so small?" asks a red dubiously.

"There's a bit of a difference in terms of how many amaliens are needed, but when I " went down a wiki hole "researched building before I got the impression that avoiding workplace injuries cuts into efficiency enough that amalien healing would offset a lot of the de-creased strength things."

"- does it? I guess I wouldn't know."

"What did you do back on Amenta?"

"Septic tanks."

Vira would like to hear more about how those work please!