Quorum of 13 New Earth
The new Quorum building was a combination of styles, from the outside it looked like the old British houses of Parliament but with the sides of the clock tower inscribed with the names of all those killed in the two holocausts. Inside it had a distinctly colonial feel with the Quorum chamber simply a grander version of the one on Cloud Nine. The chief of the research staff was now about to brief the Quorum on the data collected from the Vorlon Cruiser.
President Laura Roslin, saved from the cancer by the more advanced medical technology of Earth had just briefed the Quorum on the destruction of the Vorlon cruiser. Laura was one of the few people holding high positions to survive the massacre at Earth. With the death of President Santiago of Earth she had been given the presidency of the Earth Alliance as well until the emergency was over. It would have cone to Vice-President Clarke if he hadn't been executed with Vice-President Baltar for treason shortly before the arrival of the Cylon fleet. With the new Quorum established Laura Roslin and Susanna Luchenko had one landslide victories in every election since. Se was now despairing and for a fleeting moment missing Thomas Zarak, he had died in the evacuation and he might have been a terrorist and a pain in the ass but he would have at least been able to calm the Quorum more quickly. After the calls for Peace with the Cylons, the extermination of the Cylons and the complete obliteration of the Vorlon Homeworld had been silenced the Minister of Science stepped up to brief the Quorum on the date extracted from the Vorlons computer core with the Cyber weapon deployed be the Vengeance.
"Honoured Quorum members. The data gathered from the Vorlons is invaluable, though much of the technology including the armour and weapons technology is beyond us we have been able to patch together a workable version of the Vorlons main weapon. This new "main gun" has a major flaw in that it drains all power except life support and artificial gravity leaving the ship disabled for 60 seconds. although the rest of the technology is unknown at this time it will eventually push are tech ahead by thousands of years. We should have enough insite to produce ships equal to the Vorlons within 5 years if we devote every facility's at are disposal to the reverse engineering of this technology. Will the Quorum support this?"
Stupid question thought Laura. Since when did the Quorum pass up an opportunity to become a race equal to the first ones in under 5 years? as she predicted the vote was unanimous in favour. Next the cabinet minister for Naval Intelligence stepped up to the podium
"As valuable as this knowledge is it pales to what else we have learned...
