Just as a casual observer, I’m wondering what Yamatai’s response will be and am excited to see it. Objectively, the terrorists have no legitimate demands that can be addressed because being part of the Yamatai Star Empire can entail participation as minimal as Senate representation and allowing their people to voluntarily join the Star Army. So now they’ve sort of cornered themselves into getting hunted down mercilessly. You can’t really ask to be a nominal suzerainty (beyond already being a defacto one) after blowing up a brand new dreadnought.