Leo thought deeply about Su Yang's offer, as unlike Veyr, he was not fixated solely on the surface-level facts being presented, but instead on the deeper implications behind those words and how committing to such a war might alter the Cult's future in ways that could not be undone.
If the Su Clan were already preparing to abandon seventy-four of the seventy-eight planets under their dominion, then relinquishing two of them was hardly a meaningful concession, for the Cult could simply seize them once the clan's withdrawal was complete, whether they handed them over willingly or not.
The true worth of this proposal did not lie in territory, but in the possibility, however fragile, of forging an alignment between the Su Clan and the Cult, for together they could muster a resistance against the Universal Government far greater than what either side could achieve in isolation.
