I think we can assume that the team is relatively newly put together. 

Please nobody else post until I do. 

I'm going to post sort of retconning the fact that we hadn't launched during all of this. Obviously we weren't going to sit in the hanger and debate, but I guess nobody(but Rumi) wanted to make the decision to launch.

EDIT: Oh, and Rumi I kind of want to tone down the power of the ship like, a lot. To be perfectly honest, most of my plot won't work at all with a tool that powerful at the team's disposal. I'm talking it's scanning abilities in addition to defense.