She's more... elaborate. She doesn't touch the principal of the endowment (she emailed Kantil) but she draws on the interest to pay a staff and would like access to summoning either for herself or a designee so they can have a demon for conjuration and maybe another daeva for patching machine translation, this being a very multilingual island.

"I think there's some chance Anitam'll flip out if I'm teaching more people, and it'd be easy for them to notice. I can see about finding you people who are okay with being here on a long-term summons?"

"That would work fine as long as we can have them summoned for all the relevant languages first."

"That seems like kind of exactly the thing that'd make Anitam flip out, lots of new people suddenly summoning."

"Is it necessary to know a lot of mechanical details beforehand?"

"To do it independently you need to know a lot. With someone else doing setup you could technically just flip a switch - we can do circles in light, Anitam can't conjure for those."

"That would work fine for a translator."

He gets a demon to set up a summoning projector arrangement and then he'll teach her everything she might need to know.

And they can find a translation angel and a supply demon.

She points out that the rule about the law treating everybody the same and the rule about ex-red blues and the rule about not letting blues in and the rule about one's caste being whatever color one's hair is are kind of in tension, is he going to interfere if she just says blues are okay but no special privileges?

"I don't want blues in this country. I don't really want ex-red ones either but you had nowhere to go. I'd rather be unprincipled occasionally to be decent to people than perfectly consistent but sometimes wrong. But if we have to resolve the inconsistency I strongly prefer we resolve it by not allowing any blues at all."

"Er, how exactly is keeping blues out a matter of being decent to people?"

"You don't get rid of a ruling class by saying 'but no special privileges'. Most special privileges aren't the kind you can make laws against. You get rid of a ruling class by not having one, at least not for five years until people get out of the habit of deference. Having an aristocracy is a terrible idea and by far the most straightforward, least liberty-restricting way to make sure you don't have one is to not import the people who will immediately have strong incentives to throw all their considerable talent into assembling one."

"If anyone who feels like it can dye their hair blue I think that's different."

"I would be fine with 'no one who has ever been blue in a different polity is welcome to immigrate but it's fine for people here to dye their hair blue if they want'."

"That seems fine for now."

"Good."

Some people dye their hair blue.

He tolerates this as long as they don't immediately start arguing to import more blues or give blues special privileges.

Nope. They look for court jobs and save to buy land.

What bizarre people.

Telkam starts asking his demon friends to look for nearby pre-warp worlds.

They can't really filter for pre-warp but they can find things with some post-conjuration investigation.

Do any of them sound like nice places.

Oh, they all have various things wrong with them. This one is suffering the aftereffects of a bioengineered plague. That one doesn't have any writing to put through machine learning but looks intensely tribalistic and at constant war. This one criminalizes sex after childbearing age, even casual social association between laborers and certain privileged persons, boats, radio, and knitting. That one literally eats babies. This one has three sexes, one of which is rare and for reproductive security kept as approximate sex slaves. That one is in contact with another in-system also-prewarp neighbor; they are friends, and merrily cooperating on figuring out how to effectively brainwash children into being good citizens.

Gosh. ...what exactly happens under Federation rules if they all get warp?

Then the Federation is allowed to talk to them, but none of them would qualify for membership without some changes.