And he writes down a list of requests and goes downstairs.

Bar is.

Napkin asks if she would mind offering a napkin with book suggestions in place of actual books, and if not can he have books from worlds in his universe with FTL, describing their consumer technology over the last ten or twenty years, and also books about robotics describing robots that can replace all menial jobs.

She is happy to provide such a napkin. Also, would he like a drink?

"Sure, thank you."

Drink. It's blue.

It's delicious. He takes the recommendations napkin up to Cam.

And he has a stack of books.

Product recommendation periodicals! Robotics! The Breen have robots; they aren't popular elsewhere in a form that could navigate cities as reds must, tending more industrial and household-appliance.

Only takes one place that has what they need. He reads. He shakes his head. "We've been working to delay robots for so long -"

"Before the reds were suddenly redundant and lost their only protection?"

"They riot. Whenever a politician says they'll support a robotics program, or a researcher at a university gives an interview or makes a video demonstrating - universities that have a robotics department have it secretly, folded in with classical literature or something. They kill the researchers, the politicians mostly just try to scare 'em..."

"Of course they do."

"Uh huh. Don't usually survive the riots but - nothing to lose -"

"Yep."

"There was a snowstorm, like a month back. Bunch of them got stranded when the roads got too bad to drive - they couldn't stay home, see, reds get in a lot of trouble if they don't show up to work. Froze to death in the streets." He closes the book, miserably. "When you get resurrection -"

"Yeah. Of course."

And what consumer products does their universe have.

Little warp-capable shuttles, PADDs, weird clothing fashions, tricorders, transporters, energy weapons...

Stun weapons would be nice if those are a thing. 

They are!

Are they good enough that he can make the case beat cops don't really need to be carrying guns.

They exist in the form of phasers, where "stun" is a setting, but if they could be devised in such a way as to not have a "kill" setting, then yeah, sure.

He will kick that to the delighted and overwhelmed greens.

"Is there a way to do population control that'll stress out societies without it less - like, would it be better if we had everyone default-infertile, get a reversal agent with purchase of a credit..."

"Your child obsession is strange to me so I don't know if that would be more or less stressful," Cam says. "I think humans would mostly like that fine unless birth control were against their religion but humans are different."

"The thing that'll make our people happy is cheaper credits, enforcement is incidental - well, Tapa's sucks, but within the range of stuff we might do. I'm just trying to think whether there's an approach which, when we tell all these lovely species about it, will horrify them less."