The Serpent People had ample means to annihilate the people below, and no one doubted this.
However, in such circumstances, Ram talked about his intuition, and his intuition was that the Serpent People were scared.
Don't ask why, for the answer is simply unknown.
Yang Yi and Grewatov did not even ask Ram why he had such intuition, because intuition isn't something you can explain; asking is pointless.
The appearance of the Serpent People's new spaceship naturally caught everyone's attention, and since there was no escape now, watching Ram and Yang Yi idle away in chat naturally made some people restless.
Nate got out of his armored vehicle, straightened his clothes, and stood beside it.
Ram thought Nate would come over to join the chat, but he found he was wrong, and grossly so.
Nate stood there, upright and stiff, while his adjutant headed straight toward Ram and the others.