"Seek their grievances. See if they are being fomented from within or by agitators from without. Make your decisions then, when you know more."

He looks beyond her, for a moment, watching the flickering of a holo from one display of statuary to a light-sculpture shimmering in violent and blue.

"It is what I have done before, at any rate. Though I imagine you will find a great distaste for non-humans from out-system in amongst them. They've also taken pains to purge any contribution to style and form from schools of thought that did not originate among human cultures."