"I brought one with me, that's what this is! It will take someone with considerable programming expertise, which Epic tells me you have, to get it working with whatever the local computing system is, but once you have it up and running we can schedule visits in advance instead of rudely dropping in on you. Which I apologize for. Nice to meet you, I'm Maitimo."

"Cipher Nine. A pleasure. How does one, ah, interface with the orb?"

Here is a crystal-ball-to-Space-hardware interface, here is a standard crystal ball user interface, here are notes on how crystal balls have been persuaded to talk with various other dimensions'' computer systems. 

"Hmm. I can probably hack something together with this."

"Epic says you're good at people, is that why you came?"

"Yeah, it sounds like he left an absurd amount of work on your shoulders and I am sure he will be as responsible at caretaking his planets as a child version of my father can but I thought I'd better at least check if you happened to want any help and if so what form you would like it to take."

"Honestly? I'm only doing this because there is no one else here who could or would. Running the galaxy was never high on my list of ambitions, it's a lot of work and I don't think I'm actually very good at it in an absolute sense. Help would be enormously appreciated."

"Thank you for stepping up. What do we need here most - people to keep an eye on all these computer systems? How long would it take you to train them? People to manage supply of demon-made goods to Epic's little planetary consortium?"

"People to manage and distribute demon-goods, yes. I do not think you want me to train anyone on these particular computers, given that they represent unrestricted backdoor access to just about every electronic device and data server in the galaxy. Which capability I have been leaning on heavily. So people equipped to do politics and related matters without that crutch would also be useful."

"Demons kind of let you do that anyway, I have people I trust with practically-arbitrary power - though we don't usually give it to seven-year-olds, if you were wondering - and, yes, we can definitely set up a governing framework that represents Epic's planets without spying and handles demon-goods distribution, I'll start setting that up right now."

"Do you already have notes on what their current government looks like?"

"We've been conjuring for it but I expect a curated summary would be tremendously useful. Do you at least have anyone who can look at the machines long enough you can take a vacation -"

"The last group of people to run this station kind of mined my support network out from under me before I managed to oust them. I've automated the basic monitoring setup and the filtering is pretty good, but the only person I've had to trust the high-level decisions to is me."

"Well, if you'd like to train someone up enough you could take a break I can recommend some trustworthy people. ...and if you have no reason at all to trust my people we really aren't insisting, I would like very much to be a resource and not an additional complication to navigate. You can also use the crystal ball to let Epic and Matirin know when you want them to resurrect your friend."

"If I cannot trust you, given your powers, I am in any case doomed. I may as well attempt to offload this responsibility. If you want to have your people learn to use the Black Codex, I will teach them."

"I prefer having more than one person knowing how to do most dangerously essential things. When would be a good time to send them over?"

"Probably after I get the crystal ball interfaced. I suppose I can get send you a message after I've done that."

"Thank you! Anything else while I'm here?"

"Do you know how Epic is doing? He was pretty shook up by the Dread Masters."

"As far as I know he is staying close to home - for a version of my father with a teleport - and getting lots of cuddles and being reassured that he did good and everyone is proud of him. ...if you want I can drop by Wish and have someone wish you a interdimensional teleport power?"

"I would appreciate that."

"Cool! You'll have to come with, the most fantastic of our fantastic cosmic powers all have adjacency limits - let me check with Gem when she's free -" - crystal ball message in a language she won't recognize - 

- Gem, I'd like our contact in Force to have a dimensional teleport but possibly not the Loki one until we have better catalogued all the scary local magic, I've got some people in Space who've been vetted and are interested in just wishing something prosocial when needed, can we drop by you and wish her a teleport that's resilient to scary local magic?

Sure, if your prosocials register high enough.

I will find people who were very invested in Epic's adventures. When's a good time?

If that's all you need done I can squeeze you in anytime in the next hour.

Thank you! 

And - "yep, she can have us right now, want to head over?"