in fact , for at least a few hours of the trip , daniel had actually slept in his quarters , somehow relatively at ease even in the face of the upcoming repercussions of his failure to heed president stadlers order to fire the omega cannon in the creelar system , an order , it must be noted , which would have resulted in the obliteration of the entire system and all its inhabitants before they had even advanced to the point of interstellar travel , the point at which they would have been officially contacted by the confederation .