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| - Shield and Young are on the USS Admonitor's Senior Officer's Lounge. They are discussing a rather serious situation: both ships are almost out of supplies. Apparently, in order to consolidate his mutiny, the traitor jettisoned tons of supplies from the Enterprise-C. The Admonitor isn't doing much better since the Warp Pooling that took them into the Andromeda Galaxy used most of its energy from the S'srelli warp drive, wasting its power. Shield asks if they could just replicate more supplies, but Wellington explains that, in order to replicate anything (be it food, water, dilithium crystals, weapons or clothing), they need some dilithium in order to replicate any substance: in accordance to Granger's Law of Elemental Replication. Shield then asks what alternatives they have: Young says that they have enough dilithium to return to the Sol system from their current location, bugt says that this is nothing short of surrender, which she will never do. Shield then mentions Titan, where Lunar Colony 7, a human colony with processing centers for dilithium, is located. If they can go there, they might be able to get some supplies before the colonists learn about Order 865.
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