Some bright spark decided that a PR coup was needed, so ALOHA and the rest started looking for a legal lineal descendent of King Kamehameha I, the Ali'i ("king") who'd united the islands initially, turning a bunch of squabbling islands into a single nation. Surprise, surprise, they found one. (Well, sure they did: Look for something hard enough and you're going to find it ... whether it actually exists or not.) Seems that one Danforth Ho—a twenty-four-year-old management consultant on the island of Maui, who happened to be one-quarter Polynesian by blood—was actually the direct lineal descendent of King Kam I ... and hence the True and Rightful King of the Islands. Now that ALOHA and crew were able to produce—or at least talk about—a "rightful king in exile," more and more of the islanders started to swing over to their cause. (The fact that the Civil Defense Force wasn't exactly discriminating in which heads it broke couldn't have hurt.)