No, I mean they've got way more than half a brain, but they're not afraid to join in the scuffle when the cannons start firing. Ya see, we don't really have people back home who can just destroy battle-class ships like that. [It was a half truth, but the entirety was a can of worms that he didn't want to open at that point.] So, they're a pretty legit threat.

[He shrugged.] When you're dealing with something that has both space-time displacement shields and creation cannons, you've gotta think a little.