"Go-to for planet destruction is black hole."

"She is confident that'd kill every Maia on the planet; the Enemy might be able to react fast enough, if he were expecting it."

"Well, that won't do."

"It could perhaps be done so he didn't have sufficient warning. She's not sure. She hadn't previously considered black holes a finesse instrument."

"I can make 'em to spec."

"She considers the trapping every other Maia on the planet to be a downside."

"Yes, I do too."

"She also suggests that if a way of destroying the Enemy but not all who served him was found, some that are oath-bound to him would be released and might reveal where off-planet he keeps prisoners."

"That's the sort of thing I might be able to come by via information conjuration but not necessarily, so that would be an improvement."

"No suggestions on how to do that, though. Dwarven population is - we just asked them - ballpark of a hundred million. They are not telling a stranger where their cities are."

Of course not. "If destroying the planet with a black hole only might kill the Enemy what's all this business with rockets and machine guns, anyway?"

"We aren't sure. He started it. Sent orcs with rockets and machine guns at us, so we built our own. He could destroy the planet if he wanted to. He hasn't. We don't know why. In the meantime there's a war on our hands that's just at the edges of our capabilities so we're fighting it."

"...so, if I supply the opposition with better stuff, suppose he'll match it?"

"She thinks it's a possibility."

"Well that's real fucking neato," Cam says but doesn't translate. "Okay, are you having any supply problems in the not-weapons department which you would like me to fix, then?"

"Nope. We have Melian, we are well-supplied and well-defended."

"Keen field of keep-out, by the way."

"Keeps the orcs from running to their deaths at our defenses."

"Does it run on something I could copy for other people to have?"

"It runs on Melian."

"I will take that as a no. Anything else I should in fact distribute?"

"Advise people not to surrender to the Enemy."

"...noted."

"Eru guide you."

"...thanks. If you think of anything else to say to me, write it down and title it 'letter to Cam', I will conjure up correspondence about once a day."