The Pilots all chose to watch Nico's footage first since it was only three minutes long, but what they found shocked them to their core.
None of them could even keep up with the target data inputs. It was coming up, they could see it coming up, but before they could process that information and respond, Nico had already destroyed it and moved on to the next target.
That was only half of the issue, though. The other half was that she was moving through the course at an insane speed, barely dodging the asteroids as she spun and twirled the Mecha without concern for structural loading.
Clearly, it could hold up to that sort of abuse, but the thought of trying to shoot while piloting a Mecha through a tight obstacle course at those speeds was impossible for their minds to fully comprehend.
[Can we see Commander Keres' footage? Perhaps it would be more enlightening than this one is.] One of the Pilots asked.