The Cardassian Union expands their fleet once again on Day 16. As previously mentioned when they co-opted the Daedalus design from Stargate Command, plans were already in motion to create a vessel capable of housing the Starfury fleets constructed by Central Command, making the hangar bays on the Daedalus Class unnecessary; this was their solution. Having closely examined an inoperative Klingon Raider adapted from the Cylons, the Cardassians discovered a homing signal deep in the code of the Raider’s synthetic mind and traced it back to an abandoned Cyclon Basestar. Salvage and retrofitting operations began immediately in the Orias System, where construction took place for the fleet used in the ill-fated attack on the Founders many years ago. Once completed, the Cardassians possessed a Basestar Class vessel intended to unleash a swarm of Starfuries against Klingon forces while simultaneously using its technological connection to the Raiders as a way to confound the Klingon attack efforts.