-[X] Try to sell our continued control of Medinaat al Salaam to the Ivory Kingdoms as Humanitarian duties and to restore order in the town offer exceptions to tariffs if need be to smooth it over.
-[x] We tell the representatives from the Senpet, the Ivory Kingdoms, and the Pelmyrians that we really did come out here just to end the threat of the Shadow Dragon (you know - the one who converted many of the inhabitants to Glass Golems) and that we might have considered just going home, except that the Yodotai are an existential threat to basically everyone, and they are absolutely going to eventually try to conquer the city by force and then probably come after us after that, and we're not okay with that. For the first time in basically forever, we want allies, and we want to set things up so that we're all working together against this threat.
-[x] Also, the city is devastated, and it could use some help getting back on its feet - preferably help from multiple directions. It certainly doesn't have anything like the level of military protection that it will need... and recent events have demonstrated that the level of military protection it *had* was woefully inadequate. Something should be done about that.
-[x] As such, we intend to meet with the Sultan, and negotiate returning the city to him, but that we intend to carve out small-to-moderate sections of the city for each of the non-Yodotai empires represented here, as part of the city charter... places where that empire's rule held (and not subject to the taxes of the city). In return, each of the empires would be responsible for providing a garrison of a certain minimum size, which would come to the defense of the city in the event that it is attacked, and making clear what the rules *were*, so that those who lived in the city could decide for themselves which quarters to visit and which to avoid. This would also serve as a center for cooperation between these great empires in response to major outside threats (like, say, the Yodotai) and other diplomatic efforts.
-[x] To our own people we declare that land outside the Empire is *not* the sacred land of Rokugan, but that doesn't mean that it's necessarily utterly useless.
--[x] to the Mantis, Unicorn, Crab, and Scorpion, we point out that this still lets us use Medinaat al Salaam for what it's actually *good* for - the benefits of diplomacy and trade - and lets us do it in a more controlled environment, where the gaijin will have to come to us, and conform to our rules and customs. It lets us do that without the level of bloodshed that woudl have been necessary to try to hold the entire thing.
--[x] to the Crane and Lion, we reassure them that this scrap of ground doesn't really matter in the same way Rokugan does, but that holding it gives us a way to establish diplomatic interaction with other empires in a setting that is both controlled and not in Rokugan proper. That, in turn, will help us stave off other future threats before they get to Sacred Rokugan itself. We can just have this little appendix over here that you don't have to worry about, and that can make the rest of the problems go away. Anyway, it's a whole lot better than trying to hold the entire city, right?
-[x] We explain Paneki's situation to the representative from the Ivory Kingdom, and invite them to offer assistance, if they'd like to help those poor refugees get back home safely and non-starved.
