"Jealous?"

"Only a little in this weird intratemplate fashion that is very much like pride."

"She did great."

Nod nod nod.

And he drops by to ask T'Mir about strategy. "We want the Federation to keep sending their doctors to planets who get warp, basically?"

"The doctors aren't the only thing but they're one of the more important ones."

"You might have a better sense than we of how to accomplish that."

"Fortunately the doctors aren't all Starfleet and it's more a question of not stopping them than of sending them."

"So they'd have to pass a law stating that doctors aren't allowed to go to planets which were given warp by other societies..."

"Which would be pretty unpopular, yes. Not necessarily impossible if they feel that their directive is threatened."

"So how do we avoid seeming threatening. While giving planets warp."

"You could probably make a more sympathetic case for planets that have already had contact with other species - that happens if there are two in the same system, or if another postwarp civilization has visited - and for planets that are in imminent danger of collapse for whatever reason. I don't know if that's the answer you had in mind."

"Might work - there are only so many doctors anyway, right, how close would be 'all of those' to the best we can do..."

"Depends on how good you are at finding the places. Lightleapers, if you let the Federation have them, plus demons, could mean that you could fill up their capacity with those, yes."

"There are mixed opinions on giving the Federation lightleapers - they don't seem inclined to adventurism per se, but..."

"Adventurism?"

"Not going to pick fights, not going to use the superior capabilities to make unwise demands, not going to go out and do destabilizing things..."

"They could shift in that direction but no, it's not among their current failings."

"Then it's mostly a concern of how likely they are to let it leak to people who would do that."

"Intentionally, very unlikely, but there are occasional factions within the Federation that have philosophies unlike mine but similar execution. And if another polity captured a ship they might conceivably reverse engineer it."

"And in some hands it'd genuinely be disastrous." He frowns.

"Yes."

"I guess we can discuss those concerns more or less openly with the Federation."

Nod.

"Anything else to think about while we're discussing things with them?"