02-27-2025, 10:41 PM
Thorn had been listening intently and now nodded and said to herself, but loud enough for those close to her to hear, "It's the dilithium. The Cardassians aren't going to care how refined it is, because they can refine it themselves. In fact, they may already be working with the less developed groups, because they are going to be more eager to work with anyone who might help them balance the scales a bit. They probably are doing so quietly, maybe even using the black market to get their foot in the door. Cardassian involvement could certainly complicate things."
Silently, she was trying to think of how they would be covering their tracks. A warp trail would be too easy to detect, so if they were smart, they would be keeping their warp signatures outside the system. Any impulse trails would want to stick to common routes, so they would blend in. With the Agila coming, they would likely not even have a cloaked ship in orbit. They would be keeping their heads down and waiting for Star Fleet to leave town. She didn't know that for sure, because diplomacy wasn't her thing. She only knew that if they were operating like typical criminals, she knew what they might do to keep from being noticed until they wanted to come out into the light of day.
Silently, she was trying to think of how they would be covering their tracks. A warp trail would be too easy to detect, so if they were smart, they would be keeping their warp signatures outside the system. Any impulse trails would want to stick to common routes, so they would blend in. With the Agila coming, they would likely not even have a cloaked ship in orbit. They would be keeping their heads down and waiting for Star Fleet to leave town. She didn't know that for sure, because diplomacy wasn't her thing. She only knew that if they were operating like typical criminals, she knew what they might do to keep from being noticed until they wanted to come out into the light of day.