"Well - yes but - if all my atoms stopped existing for a second - my hair color isn't polluted."

"Oh."

"I mean, I'm not a theologian and also if I just tried to go out through the decontam exit nobody would, like, believe me, but."

This has Implications.

"What do we need to do to get people to recognize you and other transporter-ed reds as clean?"

"- teleport some of them and explain about turning them into energy and then ask theologians about it I guess?"

"We can teleport you again, I'll talk to Capitan Sierra and the crew about talking to theologians about it quickly."

"If this works, cleaning all the reds is going to be the Amalien's top priority I expect."

"It'd make a lot of things more convenient probably!"

Moira contacts her crewmates. 

Vira doesn't really understand how poll-ution works but she under-stands how Transporters work - they are a little bit warp related in some parts but she can explain the basic physics bits about changing things to en-ergy and  re-making them without men-tioning subspace. She messages Katme about it - they became friends when they worked on terraforming Katme together (giggle).

Katme says that sounds really cool and he hopes that Amenta can catch up to these inventions soon.

Does Katme think it could clean reds?

- Katme is not a theologian.

That said, he... cannot really imagine that it wouldn't? You can clean anything, the usual problem with the concept of cleaning reds is that they would be dead afterwards so there's no point. But if you just, uh, convert them into energy and back again - that seems to him like it should do it?

Okeydokes!

Vira asks Lucien for emails for some theologians and writes an email to them.

- which Sierra rewrites, including the numerous technical details and tangents as an attachment, and sending it herself.

The theologians are intrigued! One of them advances the opinion that the corruption is in the epigenetics and would remain but the others agree with Katme.

Lucien does some research and coordinates a whole team of Amalien operations officers and scientists to propose a complicated biological thing Amentans haven't discovered yet that could look like it's epigenetics but actually would be fixable with transporters and a bunch of graphs showing how it's definitely this. He has most of the operations and science officers on Keetim cont-ribute so it's very thorough.

Sierra emails a few blues, forwarding them what the theologians said and also her team's research into the epi-genetics bit since that seemed important to check.

Oh and also did the blues know that the first domes are ready and also the Amaliens have finished figuring out how the Amentans can affordably make tech to double the output of their farms within four Amentan years?

That's so awesome! say the blues. Cleaned reds will be much easier to pension off somewhere without any riots.

Sierra thinks the Unnamed Charter City that's getting set-up on Katme would probably accept them, which should be even easier then pensioning them off?

It's covered under a population control agreement, right? So that should be all right, though they should watch out, reds have a really high crime rate compared to everyone else.

Amaliens aren't actually running the city themselves, just helping, but she's been told they are cov-ered under Oahk's allot-ment. 

Sierra also thinks that people who were some-times criminals often stop doing crimes when things are more rel-axed and easier for them. 

(She doesn't tell the Amentans that even if reds were innately criminals they'd still be helping them.)

Well, it's their lookout either way, though they should be aware that it will be really hard to offload reds on other Amentans once they've been replaced even if the charter city discovers it's bitten off more than it can chew.

Sierra is sure that won't be an issue! Other Amentans don't need to worry, the charter city sounds like it is off to a really good start already.

And Vira gets to figuring out how to build GIANT and fast transporters for moving reds from one place to another place right next door. It's really fun!

And Lucien notices an issue. 

"Captain Sierra, I'm a bit con-fused 'bout what the Treaty says bout this sort of thing with trans-porters?"