Is there ancient precedent for assembling the clans and trying a War Criminal? This conflict is too big not to have the trust of the others.
Besides that we can be judged guilty (which we are) and then get executed which makes that a bad idea, probably not, also we aren't a War Criminal. The Pangolin broke the taboo.
And how does being a "War Criminal" make us untrustworthy anyway? We had a deal with the Pangolin for money, ninjutsu and more contracts (Panashe is
extremly useful). Us breaking that deal makes us less trustworthy than the other way around. And we more or less knew what the Pangolin were going to do:
"Oh!" Pandā did a sudden little hop. "Oh, I almost forgot. I've got a message for you from Commissar Panteon. He says that now we're moving into the next stage of the offensive, against the Hyena Clan that secretly supported the condors from behind the scenes, we're going to need a lot more Pantokrator's Eyes from you."
Kei's mind conjured images of the subjugated condor population labouring with bound wings beneath the whips of their pangolin overseers.
And
@faflec's plan actually included that detail:
- Goal is to make a decision whether or not to supply the Pangolins with Skytowers (knowing their intended purpose).
- Keiko should be the one to make the ultimate decision, since they are her summons.
Jiraiya decided that the deal was worth it, getting us ninjutsu from the toads and a loan from another human clan was too much to ask for. : /
Saying sorry doesn't sound really helpful, we thought that we needed every advantage for the chunnin exams and the Naruto hunt. Considering that it turned out that Akatsuki was trying some crazy stuff means we weren't even wrong. Maybe someone could communicate this to the Condors and we shouldn't pretend that we were totally ignorant.
And that Conjura doesn't like Goketsu has nothing to do with this crisis, she is stuck with the Pangolin right now, either as a vassal or as an "ally". So why should she distrust the story? Does she fear that the Pangolin invade again? While they are part of their Empire and the Trade network? Doesn't sound very plausible.
As for the rest of the clans and the combat group:
- Slugs are pretty slow, so I doubt they are going to be able to join any attack group.
- Turtle are also slow, but maybe they have a sea turtle navy.
- We don't know if Orochimaru has been informed or what the Snake Clan thinks about this.
- The Pangolin-Leopard-Hyena Clan summoner isn't here so we don't know what Pantsa thinks and Cannai is going to be very happy if they want more access to his territory.
- The Toads are dicks and far away but know about the Dragons, according to Jiraiya's notes, so they might be able to convince others that this is real and serious, but Nobby isn't here.
- Enma probably trusts us enough because Asuma trust that this isn't some nonsense story.
- Porcupine's exist and should be happy that we found their scroll and added them to a trade network with close clans.
- Cannai has send most of his forces east but trusts us.
So what can we realistically expect? The Toads also mentioned a conflict with the Capybara, so they might not want to send anything when their northern border has their old enemy and now there are problems in the south.
My suggestion would be to help Kumokōgō finding more close allies while we try to get a few more from our side of the continent. As far as we know the Great Seal isn't going to break completely anytime soon.
There really is no reason why we only consider clans that we have a summoning scroll with, for example, Nekka could be bribed? The cats are assholes but the Boss told us we could have simply negotiated, even if she doesn't really care we have 8-10 (Leopard and Hyean? I am not counting the Snakes) clans who could pay without sending a single soldier from their country and still help building a closer combat group.
(And meanwhile we get information on lot's of new summoning scrolls).
Soon we will rule the West! All hail the Arachnid Emporer (Consort)!
Further suggestions like that:
Noburi could try to reach out to the Otters and Capybara (assuming that they aren't enemies already), if the Toads believe this is real than they could help that way without sending a large army.
Enma and the Kangaroos met each other, maybe he can give us something that the Arachnids could use to make friendlier conntact with them. Pretty sure that they would want to listen if a far-speaker shows up with support from the Dog clan and the Monkey clan. And then we can see if other clans would want to help (like the Squirrels).
Same with the Shark clan, if the Arachnid-Shark alliance isn't going anywhere right know.
Also Bear clan, nice guys.
And Enma could also ask Octenno? Maybe they want to help? Probably depends on the Arachnid-Shark alliance.
