On September 25, 2162, General Valk showed the Federation representative Admiral Jonathan Archer a recording of a seeming Suliban attack on Kemsar Colony in the Grentra's drab grey conference room. Archer and his aide, Lieutenant Travis Mayweather, convinced Valk that their ship, the Columbia-class starship USS Endeavour, would be able to track the raiders who had kidnapped the children from the colony to sell them into slavery. Valk accepted Archer's offer to stay aboard Endeavour.