"…….the data from the Vorlons holds many treasures that we can use immediately. The main problem we face now is the lack of ships, to send the Home Fleet to war would be to leave the Earth Empire open to attack yet the First Imperial Fleet contains only five ships, therefore, a full scale war with the Cylons and Vorlons necessitates more ships. With the Vorlon database we can now address that necessity. The ships of the graveyard are damaged beyond repair but the database give us another option, another way to strike back, it gives us the location of the Katana Fleet."

The reaction was mixed, eleven members of the Quorum were shocked into stunned silence, the other two, the representatives for Virgon and Gemmanon were to young to remember and had no idea why the others were so shocked, quickly the representative for Virgon stood up.

"Minister, I believe that some of us are at a loss as to the importance of this information. Could you please explain why it is relevant?"

"Certainly. After the execution of Baltar and Clarke a decision was taken to send out a fleet to delay the Cylons long enough that all of Earths civilian and military resources could be evacuated"

"obviously it didn't work"

"No. All twenty of Earth Force's Warlock class destroyers were recalled and grouped into a strike force known as the Katana Fleet but before they could jump out and engage the Cylons a cylon saboteur shut down life support and sent them into hyperspace on a completely random heading straight off the beacon. The Katana Fleet disappeared, never to return. The significance is that providing we purge their computers and spend about a month in space dock upgrading them we have twenty new Warlock class destroyers armed an ready for war."

The cheer was so loud that it startled drivers outside the Quorum building enough cause a pile up.

5 minuets later

"Don't tell me there's more minister?"

"Indeed there is honoured member. Powerful though we now are, even more so with the missile banks of our 25 Warlocks being replaced with main guns approaching Vorlon weaponry we cannot fight the Vorlons and the Cylons simultaneously."

"So we'll deal with the Cylons first"

"The independent will of the enemy dictates that the Cylons and Vorlons will unite and Crush us, the Cylons simply because they can't bear a single human surviving and the Vorlons because if they allow the Cylons to think that "God" can be defeated then they could rebel against them as they did to us."

"So how do we survive"

In the database is a mention of another race, a race we can use as allies"

"Will they be able to help us in any meaningful way? All races in this apart of the galaxy, even the Mimbari have been subjugated or in the case of the Drahk simply wiped out."

"This race is different, they are almost as old as the Vorlons and they have been to war with them before. They were only defeated because while they had no allies the Vorlons enlisted the help of the Mimbari who were the race that the Vorlons used to do their dirty work before the arrival of the Cylons. I propose that we contact this race and offer our help if they enter the war with the Vrolons. They will be evenly matched and then, when we have finished with the Cylons, we can enter the war on there side and tip the balance of power in there favour."

The Quorum was uneasy but knew that if the Earth Empire was to survive and destroy those responsible for the two holocausts then they had no choice, they approved the plan to send captain Richard Hurst and the Independence to the other races home world. In orbit the Independence jumped, its destination: Za'Ha'Dum.

The last thing to be shown to the Quorum from the Vorlon database was a list of all planets belonging to the Vorlons and Cylons and what they were used for, shipyards, munitions dumps, supply lines, cloning factories, centurion production plants it was all there. The Quorum greeted this information warmly but felt it of little real use as the names were those the Vorlons and Cylons had chosen so there was no way of knowing which star systems the map referred to. That was until the Quorum chamber darkened and a hologram took form, above the Quorum of Thirteen a map of the galaxy glowed and within it every Vorlon and Cylon star glittered like precious jewels.