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transported to a holding cell in the military sector. Those are some of the basic tenets that I would ask you to flesh out. A code of conduct for both civilian and military personnel."
    "Barana will be the provider of fact in such cases since she can provide full and indisputable evidence. The mere attempt to commit a crime is sufficient for eviction. This is an issue where we have to be pretty resolute. You will essentially be establishing a court system and determining what exceptions are acceptable. There will be a single court system for anyone living on station that is involved in a criminal act and that includes both civilian and military personnel. Strictly military issues will be dealt with via Captains Mast or Court Marshal. This will include such things as AWOL, desertion, dereliction of duty, conduct unbecoming, disobedience of a lawful order, striking a superior, and things of that nature. We will not protect troops for their misdeeds just because they are military. Also note that colonization is a potential option. Conditions will need to be established for that option."
    "Now, that brings us back to where we started, the new group of Glarin. We have these questions that we started with and need to figure how we can get answers to them. Anyone have any thoughts on how we might proceed."
    Fador rose and calmly stated, "Yes, I have a suggestion, let's go ask them." This startled almost everyone there except Hank, Josh and Bill. Fador continued, "You Americans have a saying that seems to fit this situation, something about going straight to the horse's mouth. I cannot perceive how we might resolve your questions short of a face-to-face confrontation. I think it is reasonable to go straight to the horse's mouth and ask. Our shields will prevent any opportunity for contamination or damage from them. We have the ability to kick them out of FTL where they are then vulnerable to the stations weapons. If they talk to us, we may get the answers we seek. If they fire upon us, that is an answer of sorts and you can respond in kind. In the meantime our AI's will be close enough to conduct a more thorough scan than we have had in the past. That alone is worth pursuing. That might give us our answers involuntarily or confirm or refute what they tell us. I would suggest we meet them with four - Type 2's and one Type 1. Use the Type 2's to bump them out of FTL. I understand that it should take them about 2 weeks to re-charge their capacitors sufficiently to let them again enter FTL and another 2 weeks to get back to top speed. That should get their attention. Their ships are considerably smaller than ours, about 10 miles long, as I understand it. While their capacitors are down, they will likely not have shielding capability. So unless they are suicidal, they should be willing to respond to a hail particularly when four vessels more than 9 times their size suddenly un-cloak before them and hail their fleet. The Type 1 would remain cloaked unless needed."
    One of the Antoran advisors added, "I must agree, I am Ter-Amin and my specialty is scanning systems and analysis of data from those scans. The scans we have of the Glarin ships are old and were conducted from a distance of about 2 light years. This means that while we have a pretty good understanding of the ship and its contents, the fine detail is lacking. This suggestion would give us a basis for comparison to see where the differences lie. Honored Barana would you please display the scan of the Glarin vessel we have and show markers to provide scale. The review of this original scan convinced us that the maximum speed was 6xSL. I won't bore you with the details but these items are the capacitors and are an integral part of a number of systems but primarily drive and shielding. Their atmosphere and its controls appear to be on a separate system. Most interesting however are these areas highlighted in red. They contain stasis units for about 700,000 persons. It would appear