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Originally Posted by Triple_R
Ok, here might be the crux of our disagreement.
When Yakomaru and Kiroumaru both met with the humans an episode ago, my impression was that the humans were making it clear that they weren't taking sides in the obviously brewing Queerat War because they found Yakomaru's story vaguely possible. Basically, I thought that the humans were proclaiming neutrality on Yakomaru's group vs. Kiroumaru's group. Otherwise, why not get directly involved in the war, Satoru-style?
I do think that Yakomaru wants war with the humans, yes. Nonetheless, the humans had their chance to pick sides in Yakomaru vs. Kiroumaru, and they pretty much chose to stay out of it. Even when war began, Saki was just sitting dispassionately on the sidelines next to some other guy watching it unfold like it was today's SuperBowl.  |
Wait, wait, wait.
By default, humans don't meddle in colony affairs unless they feel they have to, otherwise they keep it to a minimum level. (Really, aside of using them for manual labor and such, they pretty much leave the bakenezumi alone. Sure, there is oppression in the form of having to obey humans who have power over them and can kill them if they see fit, but otherwise they're relatively autonomous.) As Saki said, even if the bakenezumi have to submit forms for surprise ambushes and the like, the humans won't tell the other side about it because it's not their concern. They keep tabs on bakenezumi in order to know how many of them are there, what they are up to, etc., this where Saki's and Inui's departments come into the picture.
In this particular case, the problem was an
unannounced attack on a colony belonging to Kiroumaru's colony cluster that is the main labor force provider for humans. This is why it was brought before the council. As Satoru said, this was a breach of rules, that points toward a disrespectful attitude toward humans and a potentially dangerous behavior, and it also affected humans more directly as an attack on their labor force. But since the situation wasn't entirely clear, Kiroumaru and Yakomaru were called in to testify. Since Yakomaru was so good at lying they had to adjourn the meeting without deciding who was at fault. Instead they decided to let the bakenezumi fight it out among themselves. Saki and Inui weren't there for sightseeing, they were there to observe the battle. (If you remember, Saki's boss also went to observe another battle.) And then the rest of the story happened.
After everything was done and Kiroumaru's forces were wiped out, it became obvious that 1) the whole conflict between the two small colonies was just a ruse 2) whose aim was to destroy Kiroumaru's forces, 3) and the one behind it was Yakomaru who deceived humans and lied into the council's face, 4) oh and he also has some sort of superweapon.
At this point, human intervention against Yakomaru's alliance was guaranteed. And there's no way in hell Yakomaru didn't know that this would happen.
So it's not that the bakenezumi were just minding their own business, warring among each other, and the humans unfairly decided to intervene and punish a colony for whatever reason, and the poor things are now fighting for their lives... Yakomaru basically provoked a war with humans while at the same time he dealt with a very powerful potential enemy (Kiroumaru).