He doesn't swim naked, so he takes the summon anyway.
"I haven't checked all of their planets yet. And one of them wants eight days to set up quarantine procedures before they'll voluntarily talk to me. Unless you have any questions I can go look in on the rest of them now."
"I think my curiosity can wait until you're finished with the initial survey, but thank you for the update, I appreciate it."
...Does anything productive happen if he drops a speaker on a smallish riot and suggests that they calm down?
There are a few more of those - rioting, civil wars that don't look like they would benefit from intervention, planets destroyed by various means. He's getting toward the end of the list now.
The third-to-last planet seems to have reached some kind of functioning equilibrium. There are no riots currently going on, and when he arrives they send him a message using flashcode instead of attacking on sight. Granted, the message they send is "Filth! Leave us in peace!", but it's not accompanied by violence!
...Cam goes back to Cult Planet and asks if they have any diplomats/missionaries handy.
That planet he was just at! It's stable-looking but doesn't care to talk to him and he has alternatives now!
Sikyal, having become more informed since last he talked to them, explains that outreach is their planet's second priority after securing their own stability, and their planet will be communicating with the other planets and sending out more teams in a couple of days when things have settled down slightly.
Fair enough. He'll go back to Earth and pick up the evacuees if they'd like to go to Cult Planet.
How long until the eight days that one planet wanted are up?