A long time later: 

:I suppose I had better go back soon. I sent Mhalir to go pick up his Aroden and the older Ma'ar they met - once they are here we will all meet and discuss. And...maybe have a plan, at the end of that: 

Nod. :I assume this is all very secret until you decide what to do?:

:Yes. And - maybe for some time afterward, if we decide to wait and make preparations: 

Nod. :I will think about it. It's - a lot to take in, honestly. I ...hope you find a good solution.:

:It is so much to take in! ...Abadar is mostly just excited about the spaceships, of course: 

:I too want to be mostly excited about the spaceships! The spaceships are really exciting! I think if it were up to me I'd ask Abadar and Asmodeus to come up with a no-use agreement for the superweapons and then use the spaceships to trade with everybody in the universe! It'd be great! I ...understand why you want to leverage this for more than that. But...: He frowns at the ceiling, pensive.

:- But what?: Leareth shakes his head a little. :I want to hear it. Carissa - my Carissa, sorry - said at one point that - if we start a war with the forces of Evil everywhere, in every world, then at some point we will lose. And perhaps lose everything. I - would be glad to find an alternative to that path: 

:I guess that's a way of putting it. I would have said - there are so many improvements to be made that aren't battles at all - and I think choosing war makes it harder to take all of the uncomplicatedly positive-sum opportunities when you see them - 

...on the other hand, maybe Asmodeus being - defeated, bound to a treaty that limits him, actually makes it less likely we're in trouble in the grand scheme of things, because there are fewer allies He could find among the stars - it seems important to know why He didn't already, maybe ask Aroden that...

I want to run this by Hemaka.:

:You can talk to Hemaka; I trust his discretion, here. And, you make a very good point - I will ask Aroden that question. ...I mean, Aroden also did not find any allies among the stars, on his initial travels, or if he did he did not bring them back to Golarion with him:

:Yes, it's one of the famous things about him, that he spent more than a thousand years looking. I'm - really curious what those thousand years turned up. Presumably not other Golarions.: 

:Presumably not, I think he would have said!: Leareth shifts against Khemet. :- I wonder how much of those thousand years he even remembers. He - might not have kept human-legible records of it, since he - was not expecting to die and need a way to relearn those memories...: 

:...yeah. Well, if there are lots of Golarions, maybe there's one from before He died.:

:Maybe: 

Leareth yawns. He really should get himself back, but - it's so tempting to just fall asleep right here, in Aktun, in Khemet's arms, and some confused desperate part of him feels like maybe, when he wakes up, the world will make more sense again. 

"You should be very careful not to push yourself too hard, here."

"- Mmm? Push myself too hard in what way?" 

"If you want to rest, rest, if you want to mope, mope.  If you want to stay, stay. This is - very, very big - it's worth giving yourself all the space you possibly can to think about it from as many angles as you possibly can -"

"- I want it to not have happened. The destruction of Hell in the other Golarion. But - that is a very pointless thing to want, and - I am not sure what else I want, here, that is still taking up too much space..." 

"Among the many many things I need to think about here ....

....I'm much less sad that the other Hell was destroyed if we manage to find a way to not destroy ours? Because - those people are all still here, living their lives... I don't know if that makes any sense.... it feels much more important that I exist than that I exist - twice, or really, an unknown large number of times -"

"Mmm. That - seems not wrong? I think it will feel less sad to me, and - less like a tragic pointless waste - if we find another route here. But... Hmm. Maybe it feels important, for me personally, to - grieve for the worst case scenario up front? So that I will be able to look at the tradeoffs, if and when it is time to make hard decisions, and...see them unflinchingly..." 

He shivers. "- And the world keeps being even worse than I realized. Gods. I did not even get as far as explaining Melkor." 

"Oh?"

"Different evil god. Local to the world that Urtho and Ma'ar and I found on the way to chasing down Mhalir and Carissa. I have substantial uncertainty still, here, I did not have time to properly investigate, but - it seems likely He is worse than Asmodeus, more like Zon-Kuthon - except that the locals, including the other non-Evil gods, seem incredibly naive and helpless to counter Him..." 

And he briefly describes what they heard about the war. 

"...wow. I -" Sigh. "That does sound like something we need to deal with. Have we done a - survey of lots of worlds, to see how representative the ones we've run into are..."

"I have a list of all the ones I checked briefly when I was searching for Carissa three years ago? And Urtho has kept notes since then - I think he found many worlds that did not have significant signs of civilization on them at all. I can ask Aroden if he remembers what percentage of the worlds he searched had any interesting problems." 

"Seems like we'll want to know that. That's another reason to be excited by the spaceships, right, that scales in a way that gods don't, you can probably do that everywhere, while we can't give Abadar a foothold everywhere..."

"Yes, it is very promising! And we have our Void-ship, but Mhalir's ship is far more mass-producible, his civilization already has the resources to make more of them... Oh, on a related topic - Iomedae asked me for help finding a way to speak directly with Her counterpart in the other Golarion, it seemed worth asking if you had any ideas on how to set that up...?"