It is discovered that he was trying to sow distrust among the Federation members , and the alien ship is identified as having been an Orion vessel , who do not want to see Coridan fall under Federation control , and jeopardize their dilithium smuggling operations .
It is discovered that he was trying to sow distrust among the Federation members and the alien ship is identified as having been an Orion vessel . 
 They obviously did n't want to see Coridan fall under Federation control and jeopardize their dilithium smuggling operations .