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These are very popular. Humans think they are cute.

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And after a little while blues and yellows and purples will descend on human governments to ask how they'd like to handle immigration in both directions and population controls if Amentans do not daevafy.

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So the Solar system guidelines for immigration are as so and there's no preexisting aliens and they can make all the planets they want and go super far, right, even if they all have fifteen children it would take kind of a long time to become a problem. The only possible issue would be if they outreproduce humans to such a degree that in the event of eventual attempts at more integrated and unified governments (humans have been trending that way, c.f. the EU and AU as the clearest examples) a democratic system can't represent human values effectively; they'd like some protections against that baked in.

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Amentans are cool with a democracy with votes weighted so both species would be represented equally, if that seems like a thing to eventually have. Running out of space shouldn't be a problem for an unthinkably long time but running out of daeva would be; Amentans, being less used to daeva, are okay with only having them for planet-making and doing everything else the old-fashioned way.

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They don't have to use zero daeva, but maybe if they can't turn into them they should use them sparingly and be ready to scale back if the wait time jumps.

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Seems reasonable. Humans are also welcome to immigrate to the Amentan planet (and pick a caste) but Amentans have some concerns about this; their government, accustomed to intense scarcity, is a lot harsher than human ones and it'd be a shame if interspecies relations were damaged if a human got executed or something.

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Yeah humans mostly do not execute people. They can make it an own-risk thing as long as they don't execute kids.

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Of course not, that'd be horrible. Amentans are adults at four.

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Four Amentan years is like sixteen Earth years, which is still a little young but not that bad. Can they maybe turn humans over to human governments if it comes up and the human wants?

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...considering how dead humans become daeva they think they can easily defend that to the families of the victims, yeah.

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Not all dead humans seem to become daeva. They have found a few who seem to have done, although apparently at least some daeva were covering this up for some reason.

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It'd be the summoners, but the rest of them still get some kind of afterlife - at least, that's what the Amentans have heard. And now that people know that they'll probably all be summoners. Do they know why daeva were covering it up, that's interesting.

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They're still looking into that.

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Huh. 

 

Amentans arrange themselves a subscription to the Ganymede Circle Police.

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Now they are subscribed to the Ganymede Circle Police, which will be happy to serve them, would they like a human liaison or would they like to send an intern to be trained up?

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They'll send an intern! Intern has sky-blue hair and is pregnant and so so cheery.

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Intern can follow existing liaisons around and be introduced to the structure of the GCP.

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Intern is attentive and polite and either really impressed with the GCP or really good at pretending. She suggests maybe Amentans could be prison-summoners for people who they want to hold for a while, because they live longer and will be less fazed by the 'if something goes wrong we shoot you' thing - "and also we don't have souls, so we wouldn't be risking them -"

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"You don't? How did you find that?"

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"Well, we didn't know about that concern here in the first place, so we didn't gag any demons, and they wanted media recommendations, sex, theatre tickets, local animals, all kinds of things, it was a long time with lots of demons before one even asked about a soul, and the summoner had no idea what they were talking about and said so, and the demon was like, 'oh, that's not a thing here? Humans think we can take their souls' and the summoner was like 'can you' and the demon said 'no'. I suppose he was lying - but the point is, he settled for a pet cat and a promise to summon his girlfriend who wanted the language. I haven't interacted with any but I've read all the records and there's not the slightest sign we have something they want."

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"...a cat? All the daeva realms have cats now."

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"Ours are a different species entirely but 'cat' is the closest word I know -" she pulls up a picture. It is indeed not a cat but more like a cat than like any other Earth mammal.

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"Oh, it's cute."

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"Yeah! We're about at the end of the point where we can give demons animals but it was nice while it lasted. Anyway I think they're less of a threat to us, one reason or another."

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"Well, we're certainly open to hiring Amentan summoners, we can phase out the existing ones."

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