This corner of her domain is much like the rest of it: damp, chill, and dark. No one's in the area and there's nothing being grown, so she indulges herself with a shower of the sort of piercing rain that drives straight through clothing to soak a person to their bones. No lightning, though. She doesn't approve of storms.
"Weird. Perinixu's the local god of healing. Her priests do writeups of whatever treatments they do, and if you get really sick, you go to one of her temples."
"That sounds effective but not really all that scalable or likely to lead to insights and progress. Hopefully I'm incorrect about that though."
"That's true you aren't on your own anymore. Given some time my superiors will start organizing a larger expedition and that team will be able to help construct a comprehensive plan for rolling out the technology the residents of your world want and the knowledge of how to use it responsibly."
"Usual time windows aren't too applicable here. Your magic is more comprehensive and harder to analyze than most systems we've seen so far. That's going to make my superiors a lot more cautious. Still I'd be surprised if the survey team wasn't here within a couple weeks, and the working group would follow a couple weeks behind that. The survey team will take a census of your world, and check for any nasty hidden surprises, assuming they don't find anything that would threaten a working group the working group will follow as soon as they get the all clear."
"Of course, the technology we have can drastically reshape a world, there are limits on how fast we'll roll out certain technologies but we won't force any world to accept our gifts."
"We mostly handle interworld affairs, in theory one of the old governments could do it but most of them don't have quite the political will."
"That'll probably make things easier. Arabek isn't exactly politically unified either."
"I wouldn't expect it to be yeah. Some of the other worlds we've contacted might eventually become politically unified powers that want to do interworld diplomacy, but most of them are still busy with their own technology rollouts."
"We have contact with about fourteen at the point, we're aware of a number of others but most of them are too far away for us to feasibly contact. Most explorers are sent to visit worlds where there is no intelligent life, or active magic."
"Time won't pass for the person travelling, but many of the places we have not yet chosen to visit are months or even years distant. It would be exceptionally difficult to make useful contact with that sort of lag-time to communication."
"Oh, I'm sorry for being unclear, we're prioritizing based on distance. It's just that most of the close worlds are without intelligent life that our magic recognizes. We have a tendency not to trust our magic though so we go out to look at those worlds anyway, besides, a lot of them are very pretty, or do have life just not life that is intelligent at the level of you or me."
"So, our magic learns based on examples, you can use certain artifacts to peer back into the history how what magic thinks is a book or a person or a boat. Really far back in time as far back as we can look, magic was taught to look for some specific microscopic incredibly dense beings and also humans as people. When we did the first uploading experiments those were not initially classified as people but eventually that problem got resolved, we're still not sure quite how magic made the jump. That makes us reluctant to rely on it for identifying non-human intelligence."
"We don't know. Magic might have learned to extend the definition of person itself from context or maybe someone else who understands magic better than we do extended the definition of person to include uploads. These sort of uncertainties are why my people try to avoid depending on magic."
"Oh sure, we've run a variety of tests with magic's ability to learn. We've also studied the definitions of terms defined a long time ago, like what counts as a boat or a book. Boats apparently counts submarines but not airplanes. Books seem to refuse to count computers."