They will go elsewhere and try it!

They get elementals!!!! And so there are more human-type elementals and some of them are willing to explain things to wayward Amenta-type ones.

Which is good because Amentans are starting to regard elementals as eccentric pests. 

And terraformers.

And that. It's common now for people to be super friendly to intruding elementals and then try to explain to them how there'll be more wilderness once the terraforming gets going.

Sometimes that helps!

And sometimes the elementals will participate in MyStream prank videos and that's nearly as good.

They will! Those are fun!

"When are you thinking you'll let people settle the moon?"

"You still think experimental no-reds casteless society?"

"Depends what the end goal is but experimental no-reds casteless society beats most other social experiment sorts of things."

"Goal is to pay back people who've helped me, if there's no way I can make progress on the reds problem."

"You could give it to us or to Cene, for that, but I think we'll be patient for planets now that there's material progress underway."

"Will the experiment work with people from multiple countries of origin?"

"It'd be harder but not impossible."

"It'll need Airs for a while longer to have a comfortable amount everywhere. I don't want to look more than strategically favoritist."

"Then I'd give it to Cene, we've got the arcology on a candidate planet and helping Cene is more obviously tit-for-tat while helping us could be read as 'we have a monopoly on your time and attention'."

"Cene it is."

Cene gets a moon. It is currently sort of like being really really high altitude everywhere on it but it is indefinitely survivable.

Cene is thrilled! Other people keep asking if Maurabel wants things.

Someone is pretty sure her late-spring baby is. Uh. Doing magic.

...Maurabel can come check.

Baby is four months old and her mobile is glowing. "It's more obvious if you turn off the light," says her father, and does. "They're not glow-in-the-dark toys."

"Well. Guess I'd better found a magic school or something."

"She is magic?"

"Yeah. Congratulations."

"What will she be able to do -"

"Might she hurt herself -"