V'reenda watched as her mother, Keeda, played with a baby that floated in a large glass tube. The baby of course was herself. The woman would laugh and wave at the her. Soon though, the child's eyes closed and she slept. With a shaking hand, Keeda turned the stasis field on and the baby stopped moving. After staring at her daughter a few seconds longer, she turned to the camera. "I am Keeda Wu. Daughter of Aradda and Lorin, and wife of Mark Wu, of the line of General Annalee Tanaka. If you are viewing this my daughter, then that means you've been found. I'm sorry I couldn't take you with me, but when I leave here, I know that I will most likely die." V'reenda's chest tightened. "You see, the Rakata have been hunting us for ten months. They somehow knew that we, unlike the Hirohito and the Lincoln, had Family members on board. The bastards are damned sure patient. We've figured the other two ships came out of the wormhole about one hundred thirty thousand years ago. It was they who seeded this galaxy with it's Humans." "And more. We've seen that the Rakatans have been experimenting on their Human slaves, producing new breeds. Races like the Twi'leks and the Devaronians. There was a blue skinned group that they say escaped a few hundred years ago. They could be the Chiss. These Rakatans are an evil bunch! They are so infected with this energy field that envelopes this galaxy, the Force. But unfortunately, it's with the dark side." "I put you in this stasis tube because of something your father's cousin, Joshua, told us a few years ago. He said that even the best sensors cannot detect a stasis field. He said that's how they were able to get close enough to steal that damned Dominion battleship. So to hide you from the enemy, I've put you outside time." "I should have left when the three hundred Soldier class split away. They knew that it was they the monsters were after. They wanted to create a race of slave soldiers. I guess nobody told them that's how they came into being. And let's not forget what happened to their creators: dead at the hands of those they would make slaves." "Ah, but you are not a simple Soldier class cyborg, my girl. You are a General! And as such, I have booby trapped this tube. If a Rakatan enters this part of the ship, a bomb will explode. As much as I hate to do it, I can't let them get you. It will also detonate if the field collapses and there is nobody here to rescue you. I will not have you die in agony here, alone. And I could not bring myself to kill you like Mike and linda Dederich did to their twins. I will give you a chance. Something tells me that I must do this. Maybe it's the good side of this Force." "Well, I must go my daughter. Maybe we will meet again in the next world. Please forgive me. Forgive me Cynthia Lorin Wu." That was when the recording ended. "Why didn't she cry?" V'reenda asked Joshua, angrily. "She was leaving her baby, and she didn't cry!" "The Kouree, like the Klingons, can't cry." He told her. "It's not that she will not, but that she can not." "Oh." V'reenda said quietly before asking Kirk another question. "When she mentioned her husband's cousin Joshua, she was talking about you, wasn't she?" "Yes. I was the one who told her about the inability of sensors to detect a stasis field." "Then you helped my mother save my life." The Sith smiled slightly. "I owe you. Cousin."