[X] Onmur.
What I say below hinges on the number of grief seeds Sendai actually has, the number has to be large due to Akiko's hiring practices and the ruinous rates they charge for Rin's healing. If Akiko was burning seeds like crazy to sate meguca godzilla or something and doesn't have a big stockpile then it can be disregarded. But considering her mantra I'd eat my hat if she wasn't hoarding like mad.
Why are we seriously suggesting reparations of some sort? That sounds like a great way to torpedo any settlement long term before it even begins. The true issue is how they share the city together. Anything else is just appeasing one of the groups. That is counterproductive, and our solution should not be punitive
Because significant portions of their stockpile came from UG. I'm not saying hand everything over, but paying back a decent portion like 30-40% of their surplus should be on the table.
UG: we have 3 seeds
Sendai: we have 200 seeds
Not changing this dynamic is a dumb move, give UG some seeds back so it stabilises their situation but not enough to fulfil their revenge fantasies. Take from Sendai a decent amount so it feels like a punishment, but not enough to endanger them and still leaving them with a stockpile most meguca would dream of. Not like they can't make more seeds hand over fist if they somehow manage to keep Rin.
It will FEEL like a punitive measure. That's the whole issue. It doesn't matter how "fair" the measures we are imposing actually are, if one side feels that they are getting unfairly targeted, then all we are doing is waving our giant grief stick in their faces daring them to make a move against us while we kick them in the shins and spit in their face.
They will remember that no laws govern this conflict, we're fully entitled to shatter their gems and take everything, no government is going to stop us. Hell, we could just take all their seeds tell them to gtfo of our city and hand the area over to UG as our vassals. The only reason we are not is due to our morals and the negative effects on our friends, reputation, long-term plans etc. If they keep two thirds of their grief seed stockpile then they'll be counting themselves lucky, not moaning "we only have 140 grief seeds left". The only one who'll complain is Akiko who is quite frankly beyond reasoning with at present time.
This is not a post-WW1 scenario where Germany was forced to pay for a the war that ended before reaching their borders. This is a post-WW2 scenario where Germany was burnt to the ground then forced to pay 40 years of reparations. We have decisively beaten them, they'll be grateful to be alive and keeping most of what they have.
Now, I'm not suggesting anything extreme like hand all their seeds over to UG or make them pay a tax like they forced on their victims. This is just taking some of their surplus and giving it back to the people they took it from. Its not even going to be full repayment, just partial compensation like the last 4 months worth of "taxes" UG had to pay.
I know why it seems that demanding punitive repayments seems appealing, especially in light of what they've done, but all it will do is breed resentment.
Not doing that will make Sabrina look like a complete idiot, they violated her truce and attacked during negotiations without a single warning. If you don't extract
any form of punitive measures for breaking a mutually agreed ceasefire without warning then you're encouraging that behaviour. What I described above could be presented as a fine for this kind of behaviour. All the Sendai girls are complicit in this. I don't care about the ancient history like Sendai taking the city from UG two years ago and making them pay seeds to stay, I care that they pissed on Sabrina's word that there would be no fighting during negotiations. SWL's proposal sounds good, but I'd only support it if it happened in addition to paying a decent lump sum of seeds from their huge stockpile. There needs to be some kind of hard slap on the wrist for doing this. Not what appears to be a reward.
Now, on the grief box issue I don't really have much of a strong opinion on it. Though I could be slightly leaning towards carrying the bodies around on a platform because leaving them unattended sounds like an unwise move. What if one of the more vengeful UG girls comes back and tries to crush a Sendai rival's body to paste during SAR? Kinda hard for even Rin to restore a red smear and I can see one of the UG girls doing it if a Sendai girl was a particularly harsh tax collector that directly led to a death of the friend. On the platform we could keep an eye on them. Though I understand the concerns for not having it.
