No one expects to lose a war but that very sense of hubris leads to the eradication of species, empires and etc. The Altonavins will not be such fools. The High Command wants a warp ship, manned of course. Computer data can be hack, the brain can't. Not yet at least. Anyway, ARD made the North Star to search out distant planets and hopefully a new home in case Domain falls to the pirate hordes who make incursions into Altonavin space every day. The Recon department, subservient the the AMC, will be manning these ships and organizing the searches.