He slowly draws away the tarp. "I suspected you're right - they just didn't expect the parting gifts, or had underestimated them." While the words sounds like they should be flippant, the quiet steel in the pirate's voice made it world-weary.

The object is certainly metal, and shaped - and Harlock recognized it from Donnie's repairing one of the Armors claimed in the raid that it's a piece of the armor... for the Armor. "Were they expecting to do some quick patch jobs before joining the Flotsam assault?"