They in all probability can, plotwise, you don’t need your ‘good guys’ to seem incompetent in a battle. Additionally they wouldn’t be warping in in the event that they didn’t count on a sensible probability of profitable.
My prediction is that they’ll give the Dranglaex hell within the house battle, and the man absconds with the Starcaster, leaving a part of his fleet behind to delay the Federation. The Dranglaex strike me as your typical ‘lawful evil’ sort, who’d take into account this not solely a good commerce, however a noble sacrifice.
