However, the Emperor of Harmony also recognized that simply incentives were not enough. It was a simple fact of the matter that the Panamic Alliance had caused a lot of harm to the very nations that he was trying to woo, and that was something that they couldn't afford to look past.
It wasn't that the ruling class and the politicians of these nations were truly aggrieved by the lost submarines, mining and storage vessels, and other aquatic mining capital such that they couldn't find it in their heart to forgive the Emperor of Harmony.
No, the real reason they couldn't overlook this transgression was purely due to strategic reasons founded in game theory. If they simply agreed to this agreement without any reckoning of the transgression that their nation had endured, then they would essentially convey to the world that they were willing to tolerate any attack without retaliating as long as they got a sweet deal.
That was not a good message to send.
