Through The Grapevine

"Why do we need a super weapon? We were at peace!", Dax said, incredulously.
"That seems to have changed," Bartog replied. "The planet, Dasuna-Pavlee, was annexed because of intelligence gathered from our spies.The Pavlee only accepted peace to further analyze us while we had our guard down. They were planning on creating a super weapon with Dasuna's resources to use against us. Some physiological warfare weapon. Our spy stole the plans and we are currently working on a modified version to use against them."
"How do you know all of this?"
"I know a guy who knows a guy."