Did he forget that she also speaks Taldane or does he just not care. "Um."

"Are you claiming that's not true?"

"It's...more complicated than that."

Huh, as far as Blai knows nobody has outright refused to acknowledge the Andorani government on the principal grounds that it throws pirates and chaotic adventurers ("terrorist" can be formulated in Taldane, but only as a nonce word) but he's badly informed about lots of things so maybe somebody does. "It seems worth knowing both how you in particular as the immediately relevant Martian party in the situation, and also others I might one day encounter, are likely to come down on the topic of my classification, given that there is no obvious category to which I might belong instead."

"Assuming your story is true, you are an extrasolar intelligence and Mars would like to eventually establish diplomatic relations with your home planet if we're able to contact them. If you decide to run off and do some piracy I suppose we'd stop you the same as any other pirate, but I really don't think that's an operative concern unless you're in fact planning to go do some piracy. As far as what others will assume, you look like a human, specifically a human from Earth, and if you claim otherwise they'll most likely just think you're insane, at least until we can offer the world some verifiable proof otherwise."

"Uh, as far as those other regulations you were asking about—first of all, you're not MCRN personnel and aren't obligated to do anything; second, none of these things are actually known to exist, it's just types of thing we've theorized about. Things that—would more likely than not destroy humanity if left unchecked." Come to think of it, it's pretty arguable that the situation where this man, even if he is actually human, is given incomprehensible powers by his 'god', triggers some of these conditions. He seems fine, but 'don't fuck around with alien superintelligences' is not a rule you make exceptions to because things seem fine.

(He doesn't say this part out loud.)

"You're not legally a prisoner, but you are obliged to obey my orders while on board this ship and as a practical matter cannot very well leave it. I suppose if you have magic for doing so I wouldn't stop you."

"Understood. I do not. There are plenty of entities that go around killing people if left unchecked and throughout attempts at checking them, I spent twenty years at a border fort containing the demons that arrived on my planet via a portal to the Abyss, so that was the natural comparison."

Concerning but probably not the most concerning aspect of this situation. “At some point Mars will want a more detailed report on such entities and on your world in general, but at the moment I have a rather urgent report to make to my superiors. Did you have any other immediate questions?”

"Nothing else urgent, thank you."

Then he will head down to the captain’s office to compose a report to Fleet Command that will probably make them assume he’s completely insane, but he does have a lot of video evidence of most of the insane claims, so maybe not.

“So, uh, who are you and where did you come from?” the tall spindly woman asks Blai after Lopez is gone. “Sorry, I know you probably just got interrogated about that, but they haven’t told us anything.”

"Repeating myself is not a particular hardship. I'm Select Blai Artigas, Select means I'm a cleric of Iomedae the Lawful Good goddess of victory over evil and triage, and I'm from a planet called Golarion. I was attacked by an unfamiliar species of monster on my journey to a political convention I was expected at in my home country, and it transported me to the ship."

“Tell me more about Iomedae? We don’t have gods here, at least not ones that give people magic powers. Some people are religious but it’s usually based on stories from thousands of years ago, before we had video recording.”

A goddess of victory over evil is theoretically a good thing but she has some pretty serious reservations about the exact definition of ‘evil’ being used here, actually.

"Iomedae is an ascended mortal. In life She was a paladin - sort of like a cleric but more martially oriented and only ever Lawful Good, so only ever empowered by gods who are themselves Lawful Good, Neutral Good, or Lawful Neutral. Her patron was the Lawful Neutral Aroden, himself ascended to godhood after having in life been an archmage. Iomedae is slightly less than a thousand years old all told. We do not have video recording, but it is possible - though not to be undertaken casually - to get up to date answers on questions for gods, or to hear from lesser beings that dwell in the same planes as them."

Having experienced the magic herself, she is not actually inclined to be very skeptical that Iomedae exists, merely whether She and her followers are as Good (she can hear the capital letter; why??) as they claim. 'Ascended mortal' is good news there but hardly dispositive. This man, or more likely this man's entire culture, seems to have a very—formalized—way of thinking about morality that at first glance she doesn't exactly like.

"You said she was the goddess of defeating evil; what sort of things does She consider Evil?"

"Are you asking about Iomedae's particular anathemas or about Evil in general? She's not the arbiter of what things are good or evil, that's the province of Pharasma the Judge."

Wow, she likes this even less than she did six seconds* ago. "...both? I've never heard of Pharasma, how did she get to be the arbiter of good and evil and why should anyone listen to her?"

(*) Why does this language have a monosyllable for that?

"She created the universe. Her moral opinions about what things are good or evil mostly align with human common sense, it's Her sentencing behavior in the afterlife that Iomedae objects to, no one should go to the Evil afterlives."

“…we have the concept of afterlives, including afterlives of eternal punishment, but no credible evidence that they actually exist…does your world definitely have them?”

"Yes."

"What the fuck. Uh, is this the sort of thing where the ability to make very large explosions would help? Your tech level does look notably lower than ours, judging by your clothes and stuff."

"...I cannot rule out that very large explosions might usefully feature in a Heavenly campaign against Hell provided they are not fire explosions specifically, as devils are immune to fire."

She is probably not going to get useful information about how "fire" "immunity" actually works from this man in hand-spun clothing. "Whether our weapons count as 'fire' is probably kind of complicated. I don't personally command any military resources, but, uh, whatever their other faults, both Earth and Mars will want to do something about this when they hear about it, if they can be convinced it's real and not a trick by the other one to distract them. Do you have a way of getting in touch with Iomedae directly, or anyone else in Heaven?"

"Well, I can pray to Her at any time for free. So can you, if you'd like, though it's reasonable to expect I'd get more attention. It's Her replying that's expensive. With the appropriate spells I can summon a lantern archon out of Heaven for thirty seconds, or call one indefinitely but it will require compensation for its time and risk - possibly being put in touch with whoever can supply very large explosions will be sufficient, though. I am not powerful enough to Plane Shift anyone directly to Heaven, though."

She'll try praying...later, perhaps. "You should probably, at some point, talk to an actual government about that, not that I imagine you'll be given a choice not to." Vaguely apologetic expression. "It's going to be a long trip, do you mind if I read some of your books while I speak this language?"

"I don't mind. The dialect will differ."