"Ultimately they are a democracy. Turnover won't be instant but the majority gets what it wants."

"And that's the Prime Directive?"

"Most people don't think about it very much right now. It's only a commonly used guideline for Starfleet."

"Maybe if my person doing demon PR does a really good job I will talk them into immigrating and turning the Federation against strict interpretations of the Prime Directive."

"That would be fun."

"I'm sure they'd want your advice on navigation."

"My zero public relations experience and I would be happy to help them."

The blue Aitim designated to try to get Revelation to stop gagging demons hires a charismatic yellow to run a streaming video show about the species of Warp, aided by a demon who generates models and recordings and eggs that hatch into cool alien animals. They pick the demon carefully. She's shy and serious and gets ridiculously excited about aliens, so excited she sometimes loses her train of thought and just sits there pressing her hands to her face, awed.

They take viewer questions!

What are they doing with the hatchlings? They shouldn't let her do that, what if sapients hatched from eggs. (Do they? That would be so bad.)

Demon leans over to read the questions. "I'm going to take them back with me, we've got a whole star system out in the middle of nowhere full of segmented habitats for all the species with needs we could accommodate. People got really excited and set it up as soon as we learned about it. ...there're a couple Warp sapients who hatch from eggs, yeah. None of these species here, I don't want to be a mom!"

Why are they letting the demon answer the questions?

"Why are they letting the demon answer the questions," the demon reads off the screen. "Oh, was I not supposed to answer questions - sorry -"

         "No, it's fine, we're co-hosting - also I didn't know that there were sapients who hatched from eggs, so I couldn't've answered that -"

"Oh, okay. I'm a xenobiologist so that's why I'm qualified to answer xenobiology questions."

...how is a demon a xenobiologist?

"...uh, 'bout a hundred years ago I read a really good book - I think it was 'Miracle Cells' by Xenafad, a demon I know who specializes in abiogenesis, it's about why life didn't occur anywhere else in this universe and conditions for some experiments under which life could arise, and anyway it was amazing so I emailed her about it and she said she'd be running a 'lil seminar so I joined, watched some human video lectures and read some of your papers, and then I kept an eye on some of the experiments for her and wrote some papers of my own..."

So she's not like a real xenobiologist.

"Uh, what do you mean by a real xenobiologist?"

She doesn't have a degree or anything. She's an amateur.

"- do they say that to all of you?" demon asks yellow. 

        "To Amentans? Well, I don't have a degree, I did broadcast journalism, that's vocational school -"

" - I mean, if an Amentan went through the Amentan course of study and wrote and published widely-cited papers, would they say 'well, you didn't go to a human university so it doesn't count -"

        "Uh. I haven't heard of anyone saying that. It'd sound kind of racist."

"I think demon universities count."

        "...I mean, no argument here."

She didn't say she went to a university though.

"There are some demon universities that are a lot like human universities but lots of demon study is more 'go through this batch of material at your own pace and then come to these lectures and then run some experiments and I'll help you write them up and then you're certified. It's not structured the same but it has all the same parts."

A questioner says that they imagined demons just sort of ran around cackling setting things on fire all the time they were not on summon.

"Uh. No? Do humans just run around cackling and setting things on fire all the time when they're not summoning?"

...obviously not.

"Yeah, because that'd be weird, it'd get old really fast and everything would be on fire. You knew it was a demon research team that invented the chiplocked computer, right?"

Lots of people did not know that.