Prioritizing the people they already know is the logical response. [ Said evenly, neutrally, like he doesn't fault the crew for such a position. ] To take it further would be to get rid of the "Hatchlings" altogether...

[ To eliminate the potential threat of the newcomers, to eliminate the need to feed more people... yes, that would be the most coldly logical way of dealing with the Hatchlings, that is, only in the world where the crew was certain the cons outweighed the potential pros the Hatchlings had to offer. He agrees that its like a mixture of a lack of trust as well as the Hatchlings' relative ignorance to the state of the planet that's causing this unwillingness to take them on to certain tasks. Still. Illumi shrugs, seeming nonchalant over the matter. ]

But— if they were that kind of group, they would have done that already. Right after we hatched, if they were serious.