Posting this for now (thank you, @FaintlySorcerous for the help), likely to edit later with greater detail.
[x] Action Plan: Answering Asuma
[x] Action Plan: Answering Asuma
- Include Kei. Her input is invaluable, and we trust her to prioritise the safety of the world over her own feelings if necessary.
- If permitted, also include Akane and/or Mari.
- Suggestions, in no particular order:
- Create a "superior" alternative to EM and release it in hopes it quickly out-competes normal EM.
- Either a hacked version, or a seal(s).
- Enter into some sort of exclusivity agreement with Isan.
- Won't stop them from discovering the nuke themselves, but it will contain the threat (unless EM is stolen, but it's unlikely a priority for theft).
- Use Isan's reverence (fear?) of Thinkers to put pressure on them not to spread EM.
- Would need a good cover story for why using it is undesirable that prevents them from looking into EM more closely.
- "It causes micro-shifts in the global chakra network that cause a build-up of bad luck concentrated around areas of use — you'll endanger the entire world if this jutsu spreads"?
- Find a way to vassalise Isan.
- "Create a looming threat and offer to make them a protectorate state"?
- Inform Isan of the nuke, use our position of "game-theoretic-garunteed destruction if they defect but good faith of choosing to approach them instead of instantly alpha-striking" to get them to agree to a Thinker-designed set of treaties that will bind Leaf and Isan extremely tightly together and incentivise both parties to never defect.
- Create a "superior" alternative to EM and release it in hopes it quickly out-competes normal EM.
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