D'oh!  So it is!
 My bad, I misunderstood that rule 

.  For some reason I just read that I was not allowed to actually storm his capital, and I've kinda been playing on autopilot since I was killed.
 What can be done here?  I'm really sorry I haven't been paying close attention for some time.  Do we know what the machine will do if I just go AI?
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 Well, I could just send him a bunch of gems and stuff and then call it even?  Would that satisfy everyone?
 Although I'm still not sure what we'd do if I went CPU and the CPU marches back onto his cap.