Crystal Report based on Universe and RAS SDK missing functionality

Hi,
In Crystal Report Designer Application i can select Universe as a data source for the Crystal Report and on the query panel construct the actual query using Universe objects and conditions.
Now, my question is how can i do the same PROGRAMMATICALLY. I.e. i want to make a new or take an existing crystal report, check if it's based on universe, then access the actual universe query structure and construct/modify the query by operating with the actual Universe objects and conditions.
I tried to use RAS SDK for this, but i could only access Tables that dont even show on which universe they are based on.
Should i use some other SDK to do this?
Thanks,
Roman.

Thanks for your response. Ok, if it's so complicated, then i'm not concerned about universe query creation. I have more specific questions now:
1) You've said that CrystalReport stores Universe SI_CUID values that it connects to. Let's say i have 3 tables based on universes in the report. What is the best way to determing which universe correspond to which table using RAS SDK?
I looked at ConnectionInfo for each table, it sais that it's based on universe, but it DOES NOT have universe CUID property.
Using Enterprise SDK i can access SI_UNIVERSE_INFO of ProcessingInfo for report InfoObject and see the list of universes used, but they are not matched to the actual tables, so i cannot really find out which universe belongs to which table.
2) If EXISTING CrystalReport is based on Universe, is it possible to retrieve the actual universe objects and conditions used in this report? I can see that field names correspond to object names, BUT i also need a parent class name, becuase object is NOT identified by it's name only withing the universe.

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