V'reenda shook her head as she walked down the passage on USS Excalibur. "So you're saying that the crew didn't desert, they were ordered to jump ship by this Captain Mackie." "Yes." Joshua Kirk told her as they stepped into a turbolift. "Which put hundreds of Federation spies inside the Republic." The woman said with a smirk. "Well, it's not like it was a one way exchange. Some of the crew helped the Republic navy develope the weapons that are ending this war with the Empire." "What kind of weapons?" V'reenda aske curiously. "A faster than light fighter, and one hell of a kinetic torpedo." Glancing over to his cousin, Joshua shrugged. "For better or worse, the way you people fight wars is over. Planetary shields will not stand up to these torpedoes." "Which means that no world is safe. It would be suicide to start a war, because your worlds would be just as much at risk as your enemies." "Exactly." Kirk said. He then went on. "In order to win a war, one side would have to take out most, if not all, of the opposing forces ships. And I don't think that is possible." The lift's doors opened, and they stepped onto the brige. "Weapon's on the bridge!" Lt Daultry said loudly. "Lt Daultry, Thank you." Ami said, cutting him off before turning to her V'reenda. "Welcome aboard Excalibur, niece. What do you think of her?" "It's an amazing ship." She told her. "I especially found the food replicator to be interesting. That is until Joshua here ordered some Corellian food." "I don't see what you people here have against Corellian food!" Kirk said emphatically. "We love it!" "We?" V'reenda began eyeing her cousin. "Hell yeah!" Ami told her. "It's just like what we eat on Mars. Good old fashioned American food." "Ugh. You people are insane then." The Sith shook her head in disgust. "Either that, or you have no sense of taste." "They have no sense of taste." Daultry muttered under his breath. Commander Wu spun about in the captain's chair and faced her weapons control officer. "Lt Daultry! You are British, a people famed for their bad food." "True commander." The man smiled smugly. "And that's why we set out to conquer the world. We were looking for better food." "And now most of the restaurants in London sell either French or Indian food." Kirk said with a grin. "Indian food I can handle, but that French stuff is revolting." "There is nothing wrong with French food." Ami cut in. "You just don't like it because it can't be used to cut through hull plating." "What ever." Joshua said. "Is Captain Mitchell in his ready room?" "No, he's in engineering. But he should be on his way back, so you two can go in and wait for him." Five minutes later, Gavin Mitchell stepped into his ready room greeted V'reenda. "We have something for you." He told her. "It's why I asked Joshua to bring you up to Excalibur." "V'reenda." Joshua said as they stepped away from the windows where they'd been viewing Coruscant as it slowly spun under them. "They were able to recover some of the data on the computer core from King George V. And the last entry was made by your mother. It's a message to you."