"Some daeva go in for weirder stuff."

"Oh?"

"Digitigrade legs with hooves are in."

"Ah. ...why? Is that useful in some way I'm not thinking of?"

"No, just stylish and they make clop noises when you walk."

"If it suits 'em." Consumer technology catalogues!!

Bar suggested plenty!

Eventually someone else comes over. They want to get a sense of how difficult it'll be to find demons for creating a planet from scratch.

"If you want them to just copy a planet, including one from the past, it's not a specialized skill except to put it in orbit and rotating correctly, which could be done with autopilot after some dev work. It does take a few weeks and paying a demon for a few weeks of sustained work would be an undertaking, but hardly impossible."

They're thinking of reserving a couple dozen babies this spring for demons who want to adopt one and terraform a planet.

"Funnily enough terraforming an existing rock is a specialized skill because you have to work with the underlying terrain and can't just copy. There's hobbyists and I'm sure there's at least one intersection between terraforming hobbyist and would-be adoptive parent. You might find some objections to adopting kids with living non-abusive parents or other relatives who want them who have only been confiscated for population reasons."

If making a planet from scratch is easier they'll have the adoptive parents do that and have hobbyists do the terraforming of extant planets. They could solve the thing where the baby has living parents if that's really important to the demons for some reason.

"...executing the parents solves the wrong problem. Do you have no actual naturally-occurring orphans?"

" - relatives adopt them. I was thinking of delaying execution of the parent for long enough for a C-section, actually."

"Presumably those also have relatives who want them."

"We can delay the execution only if relatives sign a waiver giving up custody."

"I am positive there are demons who won't give a fuck but the ones who give a fuck may continue to do so under those conditions."

"We'll find the ones who don't mind, then. I appreciate the - advice."

"Mm-hm."

Is Cam interested in teaching some people how to safely summon?

Well that's probably better than them guessing.

He gets a roomful of diligent yellows.

And they can have his summoning lectures, dug out of old notes and translated by Milliways.

At this point they'd like to return home to get started on implementing all of this, but they don't want to be frozen in time. Aitim passes the bar a note asking if she knows of ways for a world to keep moving in time while it has denizens in Milliways.

Holding the door open does it. There are various other things that have a time-syncing effect, such as multiply located persons.