Vlaahk wants more than anything to save the Autonites. This vote isn't so much about our reputation with Vlaahk in the long-term (maybe in the short-term), but more like "Are we willing to risk the ground team's safety by not having Vlaahk's support to calm down Marjak?" which is objectively an outcome Vlaahk really wants.
While I agree DP is being unreasonable in his hate of Vlahak, I think the equivalencing of refusing to cut contact with him being the same as killing Marjak is somewhat fair. If we can't get him to negotiate we have practically no means of solving the problem before he gets purged.
The opportunity to cure him of the Logic Plague, thus gaining access to a high powered AI with access to the Archive's network infrastructure that could potentially facilitate a Star Trek style hail mary of cleansing the facility and shutting down the purge.
That's wholly untrue. He made his displeasure with our lack of aid clear on basically every Autonite interaction.
To be fair, being in communication with Vlahak does little to nothing to disincentivize Marjak from trying to gank us right now, and not talking to the guy who murdered his charges would be a reasonable show of good faith.
We have that:
He said multiple times "hey, I don't trust you guys since you said you would help and have made basically no moves to do so" and our polity reports have always said "the Autonites are getting impatient, maybe don't ignore this issue" which we promptly ignored.
To be fair most of the other factions in the galaxy would do far worse for far less..
Except we're trying to be better. "The others are worse" isn't a valid argument for us.
The vote's already over, it was a 20 minute lightning round.
