Venerable Joshua had mixed feelings about his mission.
He did not have much sympathy for the aliens. The Tower of Babel crushed Lord Pearian Yorul-Tavik's pioneering fleet a few months ago, thereby depriving lots of innocent humans of their lives.
After that, the alien battleship immediately opened fire on Otrus Magrin's pioneering fleet.
Even if no one working for the notorious vulture were exactly innocent themselves, the aliens could have chosen to turn around and flee without facing much resistance.
Instead, the alien commanders in charge of the Tower of Babel chose to perpetuate the cycle of violence and almost wiped out the forces of Cenatus Prospecting entirely!
Whether the aliens of the battleship deserved mercy or not was no longer a question that Joshua was willing to consider.