"Good to know some things are constant across worlds. I guess the population being constant would help, sure."

"It's been millions of years. They've had time to make the place very nice."

"What happened, do you know?"

"I think their sun got tired and they tried to have daeva carry them away but it didn't work out, somehow."

"Huh."

"They were only ever in the one star system. Very vulnerable to trouble."

"On a scale of millions of years, yes."

"I don't know more."

"Thank you for what you've told me."

It swivels its head oddly. 

"You want something as a thanks-for-your-time?" Tyelcormo says. 

The angel names a model of computer.

Poof.

And bye, angel. 

Tyelcormo sighs. "Mandos has backup chips, so none of us really die anyway unless we've offended him."

"Backup chips?"

"These ones transmit to ones somewhere else - the location's obviously secret  - and if your chip's destroyed but he wants you back alive he can go fetch the backup."

"...Does mine transmit?"

"No idea. I doubt you could be brought back from your chip anyway, you're a daeva."

"If he could fork a mortal me from a backup of my chip I find this highly alarming."

"Yeah, I bet. Want to take it out and see if you can make a body around it - no, then if it worked we'd have a mortal you running around, that's no good -"

"Better a mortal me here than in the hands of Mandos," she says, "and if I can make a mortal fork it might be worth testing if I could separately demonify her. Having multiple demons who are all me is not the worst possible outcome."

"...okay, it's you, it's your lookout."

"I'm not actually sure yet, but I'm not categorically ruling it out. To be worth it confirming that I can fork would have to let me do something about the possibility of Mandos forking me."

"I haven't tried hunting down where he keeps the backups because that didn't seem useful. Also, he's not likely to do that, not his style."

"Good. Any way for me to set up something similar so you guys aren't all fucked?"

"...we were working on one. Didn't have it set yet."

"And I can't just naively copy Mandos' setup?"