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Just backstory matters, Marcus killed a god and now other divine entities are pissed. Presumably it's like waking up hungover with a tattoo next to a dead hooker. Except with a gauntlet instead of a tattoo and a god rather than a hooker. Pythius is considering whether to nip the matter in the bud with the swift elimination of the possible threat to make an example of them, or just to sic Ghrislaine on them and use those murder privileges as an incentive to persuade her to be more cooperative.

That's actually the freighter that's going to bring us our new toys and carry our alien trinkets back to Hephaestus.
But you are right, this thing is supposed to accelerate to near-lightspeed. It should have a giant pair of engines. We don't want it to have any performance issues. We'll need those supplies if we want to penetrate deep into enemy space and erect a new world order.