Omarion Nebula
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I think it went:
Federation got the cloaking device in exchange for giving info about the Gamma Quadrant to the...
Romulans. The Tal'Shiar then passed on that info to the...
Obisidian Order. Tain came out of retirement to head up the OO's part in it. The build up of ships and troops was seen in the episode Defiant leading to the The Die is Cast.
The Changeling that replaced the Colonel Lovok told Odo that the Founders learned of Tain's plan and subverted it. That implies they didn't give the information to Tain initially.
I doubt it was Garak. He would have told Tain as much, since he was hoping to get back in Tain's good graces. Besides, there's no reason to believe that he even knew about the Omarion Nebula until Tain found out.
That leaves the Romulans telling the Obsidian Order about it, or the Obsidian Order learning about it through espionage.
I doubt it was Garak. He would have told Tain as much, since he was hoping to get back in Tain's good graces. Besides, there's no reason to believe that he even knew about the Omarion Nebula until Tain found out.
That leaves the Romulans telling the Obsidian Order about it, or the Obsidian Order learning about it through espionage.
For the two secret services to be working jointly on this project, they would more or less have to have been working together on many other things previously. It's not as if either side truly needed the assistance of the other to pull it off (although the Cardassians were more in need than the Romulans); the cooperation must have come from already existing good rapport rather than merely the pressing needs of the moment.
We learn in "Dax" that Terok Nor featured some components of Romulan origin. Industrial espionage or a secret technological pact? I'd actually wager the latter, as Romulans would be playing the Cardassians against the Klingons in that timeframe, during the Betreka conflict. Tal'Shiar and the Obsidian Order might have begun working together at that time in order to do more damage to the Klingons (even though of course they'd also do their best at backstabbing each other), and thus the channels would exist for Tain to relatively directly contact the Romulans and ask for their cloaks.
(And really, Tain would know what Starfleet knows, more or less, as Starfleet was on his turf. Nothing aboard DS9 could be expected to remain secret from the OO for long. The place must have been teeming with agents other than Garak, such as Bajorans enrolled during the Occupation, and with surveillance devices even Gul Dukat knew nothing of.)
Timo Saloniemi
We learn in "Dax" that Terok Nor featured some components of Romulan origin. Industrial espionage or a secret technological pact? I'd actually wager the latter, as Romulans would be playing the Cardassians against the Klingons in that timeframe, during the Betreka conflict. Tal'Shiar and the Obsidian Order might have begun working together at that time in order to do more damage to the Klingons (even though of course they'd also do their best at backstabbing each other), and thus the channels would exist for Tain to relatively directly contact the Romulans and ask for their cloaks.
(And really, Tain would know what Starfleet knows, more or less, as Starfleet was on his turf. Nothing aboard DS9 could be expected to remain secret from the OO for long. The place must have been teeming with agents other than Garak, such as Bajorans enrolled during the Occupation, and with surveillance devices even Gul Dukat knew nothing of.)
Timo Saloniemi
