Which explains why Queen Suzume is after Noriko. Right. Makes some sense.

I guess this escalates to the next option: How do we stop her. She has the edge on us in planning time and equipment, she will presumably stop at very little to achieve her ambitions given, I presume, her own universe is on the line, and we need at minimum a stopgap to slow her down until cooler heads prevail, and at maximum a way to overcome whatever biggest pieces she's going to throw on the board.

What's our victory condition, Sadame? Other than hoping the Norikos can figure something out.