"The Earth has less than six billion—was she not from an Earth, or was she really far in the future?" asks Hero.

"Really far in the future. But you have hundreds and hundreds of species of aliens and they count too."

"Just hundreds and hundreds? I'm kinda surprised, I'd think we'd have an infinite number—probably an infinite number of humans, too, unless the Standard Model—sorry," Hero interrupts himself, "focus, right. Okay. What kind of future tech do you have? ...that is a valid question, right, it's about how he can help us."

He likes Hero. "The total written works of all the species in this universe in all of history fits on a server - I conjured it -" he says, "so not infinite, couple hundred yottabytes? Mind, there might be lots that haven't invented writing. There are infinite universes but none with infinite populations that we've found so far. We have FTL, we have much better medicine, we have really fast transit, we have really good space stations, I can give you a lot of physics and engineering textbooks, you might need to be more specific -"

"Oh the textbooks would be super—" Hero starts.

"FTL and good space stations don't have any obvious applications," Guerra continues. "Unless you can do FTL on the planet's surface in a way that scales, or that 'really fast transit' part, too, getting heroes to crises on time is one of our biggest current bottlenecks."

"Perhaps we should come up with a list of actual problems we need solved," muses Legend.

"I can do really fast surface transit. During Space's war they tried surface-takeoff FTL, doesn't go. What kind of crises are there other than Behemoth?"

"Sleeper, various warlords, the growing number of villains around the world in proportion to the heroes..." Legend lists.

"Diseases! Hunger! Basic needs!" suggests Hero.

"I can do more about the second kind, we're used to fixing the second kind -" he conjures another piece of paper - "though I could maybe terraform a planet really nice and put villains there? What's Sleeper?"

"A place to put dangerous villains where they can't hurt other people would be of great use," Legend enthuses.

"Sleeper is a parahuman who doesn't really do anything as long as there's no one near him," Hero explains. "If there is, though..." He shudders.

"Glaistig Uaine is still at large and still a danger," Eidolon puts in, "however quiet she's been." Then, for Epic's sake, "Glaistig Uaine kills parahumans and can keep their powers with her. She can become—as powerful as I am."

"There's that one group," Guerra muses, rubbing his chin, "calling themselves the Slaughterhouse Nine. I don't think they've had nine members since their old leader died, though."

"Unless I put them all on different planets I don't know how to stop them from hurting each other, and putting them on different planets is against the guidelines for treatment of human prisoners. ....I can track down anyone really easily, I just make a scale model of them and their surroundings."

"What's the state of the art on prisons where you're from?"

"There was the political prison we broke T'Mir out of? Elven societies don't imprison people, Elves die if imprisoned and with Elves there are better ways of making sure someone isn't dangerous anyway. If it becomes a real problem what we'd probably do is wish up a planet where it was impossible to harm people without their consent."

"'Wish up'?" asks Guerra.

"One of the non-transmissible kinds of magic I can't use. It only works in the dimensions adjacent to Wish. You can do pretty much arbitrary stuff with it - I wished myself into a demon because demons have the coolest magic system, they wished their Enemy dead, all of the protectorates of Wish are post-scarcity and have no involuntary death and are in the process of all the dead people ever getting to come back to life. If you were adjacent to Wish then the Empresses would come in and fix you right up."

Guerra purses his lips at that.

Hero just looks enthralled.

"But not being there limits our options somewhat," says Legend. He turns to Guerra. "Has Epic shown you enough evidence you're willing to entertain the idea for long enough for us to actually start planning what to do with his resources?"

"Perhaps..." the Deputy Chief Director says.

"In that case I don't think there's much more for us to discuss here—we are none of us best suited for figuring out how to best deploy powers like Epic's and even if we were, this is not something to be done in the middle of the night on a Saturday."