diaboli

No human worlds could defeat the Diaboli if there were other humans fighting on the Diaboli's side.

Altmayer obtains secret documents that show that the Diaboli have been terraforming some human-habitable planets to make them suitable for Diaboli.

The Diaboli would deny the accusations, and several human worlds would find it in their immediate interest to side with the Diaboli.

Since then, all of Earth's diplomatic efforts have been toward making it so that when the war with the Diaboli came, no human world would join the Diaboli.

He tells Altmayer that Earth has been at war with the Diaboli for the last six months.

There were more human planets than diaboli planets, but they were one united race, and were expanding faster than humans.

The Diaboli were taking advantage of the fact that humanity was not unified, negotiating separate deals with different human planets.

No other world will attack Earth if they believe Earth and the Diaboli are cooperating, and they will stay neutral if there is then a future war between Earth and the Diaboli.

He thinks a war with the Diaboli would actually help accomplish that, as humanity would unite to fight the common enemy).

Stock says he is not--but after they are broadcast, Earth is going to join the Diaboli in saying they are lies.

Bit of an advocatus diaboli, but… Crimes are crimes because they hurt people.

The Diaboli main fleet has been defeated, at almost no casualties to Earth.

Advocatus diaboli: WHY is it not an "appropriate" question for NH, and who decides what is appropriate?

The devil's advocate ("advocatus diaboli") is the person who is in charge of arguing _against_ making someone a Saint of the Catholic Church.

Though, to play advocatus diaboli, could it be "can not" in the sense of "must not"?

Advocatus Diaboli: then Buddhism is obviously not a "real religion".

He was on the first diplomatic mission from Earth to the one race of intelligent aliens known, the Diaboli.

In the Roman Catholic Church there was once an official position known as the Advocatus Diaboli, or Devil’s Advocate.

Stock tells him that the government doesn't support the Diaboli-led plan for galactic union, but can't support exposing the documents.