"Uploads might be different," Maitimo says. "If you can make something bit by bit the same as something that'd work - if we even would have the hardware to run one -"

"I can try making the hardware too - don't know how big it is but I can do a scale model and figure it out -"

"Worth a try. 'the hardware Moringotho's running uploads on' is sufficient?"

"Should be."

He makes a guess based on the size of Angband and then a scaled-down model to measure.

It'd fit in a warehouse. It doesn't use a power system he's seen before. 

"I can make a new section to hold this but it looks like it might need power conversion, I don't want to just replicate the plant in case it's inadequately shielded or something."

"Okay. It might not be the most reasonable priority. I take it you don't think it's likely to work."

"I think I can't make minds," Cam nods.

"Alright. Then we'll save trying to make a copy of the Enemy's torture farm for later. You can't, like, remotely slag the place and make it look like an accident."

"I'd consider throwing a meteor at it but I do not think this would look like an accident."

"And then meteors are in the game. Alright. If the answer is 'no parley, orc loopholes in progress, my brothers are keeping an eye on my father now that he's realized his father's being tortured, nothing to do for it but try to see if a simultaneous evacuation only gives him time to kill half this world's people' I should get back to enabling that evacuation. Let me know when you're next headed for Brithombar."

"It might be worth trying to guess whether there's a way to leverage the parley. I don't suppose the Enemy issues written memos about this sort of thing..."

"I can have five hundred thousand people sift through the complete written works of the Enemy, if you want. Or we could narrow to things he's written since we landed."

"- we sure he has no intel from Valinor?"

"I'm sure he does. Probably nothing parley-relevant, though."

"I did drop the entire library of Hell on Valinor."

"Including, what, weapon ideas? Things relevant to understanding you? Do you have publications in the library of Hell?"

"Including tech stuff and history and so on, I thought it'd be okay there - but no, nothing about me, nothing more personal than the odd violin composition or my engineering school projects."

"I'm not sure a complete psychological profile would get him anywhere anyway. Local demon mad about torture, happy about planet-making opportunities. The tech stuff maybe. What do you get if you summon the Enemy's recent communications?"

Cam does that.

Nothing.

"He apparently does not commit his communiqués to any recorded form."

"It's probably all osanwe. I did the same often enough in Valinor - would you have caught things if he had a secretary?"

"Probably but -" Including dictated/transcribed...?

Nope.

"So then he's not giving speeches to the orcs very often. Also means he didn't compose our parley offer. Who did?"