Cain tilted his head to the side, a noncommittal motion. "While I agree it isn't the best situation, we just don't know what preparations they may have made well before the actual invasion last year," he said slowly. "Or how they acquired it." It was possible that the invasion force and the occupation force were working off the same intel acquired at a much-previous point in the past.

"That doesn't mean you're wrong," he added thoughtfully. "Just that we really don't know much about the original incident, do we? Or how far the cooperation really extended before they decided to desert. The Justicar was able to send a message here, presumably from her own base, before she arrived. So having a message sent from here isn't that far off, either."