Emperor Rael was deeply disturbed by NOVA's unwillingness to negotiate a peace deal with major concessions. He had expected that giving her something like fifty percent of all negatron yields would placate her enough for the war to end. Then, once Rui came back, they would have enough Martial capital to assert dominance once more.
However, NOVA had made it clear that her goals went beyond merely considering negatron matter. Whatever drove, she was clearly aware of secrets of the Panama Continent that the Emperor of Harmony had tried his damndest to hide from the true world.
The existence of Martial Transcendents and fourteen of them that were due to return, for example. Or the Panama Manifold, or the Kandrian Manifold, or even the speculation that Rui had shared with him that the esoteric matter of the Panama Continent was the source of the expansion of the planet in ways that they didn't understand.
