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People in the space utopia mostly do work, precisely because they do not like being useless, they just won't starve if they lose their jobs, or if they have to spend some time finding one that fits them. Maybe they will all want to apply for space utopia governance jobs like hers since, thanks to their background, they will have expertise in how to do it better.

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The polls wobble.

Why can't they talk to the people who already emigrated?

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" - Peka, think you can do an interview without making it obvious that we are treating their contamination rules like the ridiculous bullshit they are?"

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"...obvious to whom?"

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" - the relevant governments. If there's a way for the reds to guess, all the better."

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"I might be able to do that."

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"Awesome. Want me to take you back to Tapa for a bit?"

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"Okay."

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Pop pop pop!

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Peka visits her family. And she records a video.

Her baby has noticeably orange hair grown out to a fuzz now, and she holds her so the camera can see that. She chatters about shopping and how pretty everything is and that for some reason all the refugees who were already there are real excited about pictures of her kissing her boyfriend, whereas of course back on Amenta she would have had no way to become a celebrity even through public necking.

She sings a song which is ninety percent red-specific allusion and idiom. (It's also heavily Tapai, but there's no getting around that; that's what she knows.) The song is about being somebody's very very secret mistress but she has added a verse.

The governments think this is a little fishy but they can't point to anything specific.

The next poll comes in at 85%.

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"You," Macalaurë tells her, "are brilliant and perfect for this and they will adore you so much and I adore you so much -"

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She giggles and kisses him.

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And he asks Tapa how they want to handle a transition to robots. 

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How assured should they be that the robots will arrive able to do the jobs already, do they need to make the reds train them or anything?

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Servants are really smart and can take verbal instructions but if there's no one who'd know how to verbally instruct them then that should be handled before they leave. Maybe instead of making them they could pay them extra.

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Aren't they going to go to a space utopia where they will be paid to do nothing? They can train some robots before they go.

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"And what happens to them if they decline?"

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"They won't."

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"If they won't train the replacements we can't replace them."

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Sigh. He imports servants.

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The servants and the Elves who bring them are on the wrong end of a riot in one neighborhood.

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Elves are startled! The teleporter is already off making the next delivery and the servants can be bodyguards but it takes a little while for this to occur to anybody. 

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The reds are used to people who start trying to kill them as soon as they lay hands on anybody. They don't stop till that would be impossible.

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Well. Okay. 

 

Does the government mind if the Elves handle this.

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