"I would say that it's not entirely clear that it would be to my own benefit to have the Planet of Highly Competent, Extremely Lawful, Deranged Good Extremists brought in on this situation. But Cultural Adaptation is laughing at me inside my own head about how absurd it is to imagine {Governance} breaking any reasonable compact we made, struck on their behalf by one of their {Exception Handling medtechs}. Cultural Adaptation thinks that I don't need to work out a very careful compact because we could just handshake on doing a reasonable compact after they showed up, and they'd keep that deal too. I have to say this is not particularly {updating me in the direction} of dath ilan being a real place."
"...Cultural Adaptation also seems to think that one of Governance's priorities would be evaluating their ability to annihilate Asmodeus or force Him to submission. Cultural Adaptation doesn't think that an average dath ilani would consider it very dath-ilan-like for me to laugh in their face about that. Now I can't ask you why the fuck Governance would imagine they could take Him, because you don't know what Asmodeus is, and I do. But is Cultural Adaptation malfunctioning, or am I missing something fundamental about why a government of admittedly very Lawful mortals without magic would think they could take on a god? Bearing in mind that it is not heretical to kill Asmodeus and usurp His place if you actually can."
It is certainly heretical to imagine that one little planet's government could take down Asmodeus, but it is not load-bearing for that to be heretical, because it's just stupid.
(It still hasn't occurred to Esta to ask Cultural Adaptation whether an average individual dath ilani stranded on a distant planet with a suit of armor and a crate of medical supplies would start searching for paths through time that could take out Asmodeus. Why would he ask that? Why would anyone literally ever think that?)