And it's still possible we're goin' t' find out that they're regular warships here for a legitimate purpose, too.
If they'd been in a regular warship, Esmay would have lobbed a missile into that bay, and blown the shuttle first off.
The survey satellites were standard issue and rarely used, since regular warships seldom pulled survey duty.
We couldn't fool a regular warship for very long if it was suspicious, but these people expect to see a merchie.
But what I do have suggests he's the sort who'd see the chance to capture a regular warship as a way to add to his 'navy.'
And the only regular warships he knows we have are the ones he himself managed to 'lose' in our favor, like Lydia.
At that range, even a brief change in heading would be glaringly obvious to any regular warship's tactical crew.
A pinnace has a far weaker wedge than any regular warship or merchantman.
We don't much have shielding to protect us like a regular warship.
"If that Leaguer message came from a regular warship, we may have to get out of here on an instant's notice."