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Perhaps it makes sense. Any “living” creature that could somehow survive in the atmosphere of a gas giant would have to be like that. If a single storm or pressure exchange on the planet could suck away and destroy, what, hundreds of thousands or millions in a single day... Yeah, they would have to live like that. It explains a lot. The Baalathi cannot possibly have individual minds in those kinds of evolutionary conditions. That's why they have a gas-exchange group mind.
Flying underneath the orbital platform made of Azurium, the presence of large magna-rings indicates what the purpose of those platforms are- huge energy generators. They are essentially a dyson ring, but for a gas giant. Somehow harvesting some of the rotational, temperature, magnetic, electrical, or other forms of energy and storing it for industrial purposes. The Baalathi don't need to use nuclear power sources, they just harvest a portion from the active gas giants they live on. This technology has such effective energy storage that it quickly became the standard for all batteries and fighter-size or smaller ships of the Hegemony once the capsule was captured... by Kimnan I.
Kimnan II, however, has his doubts about this. To clear the entire system of the Baalathi scourge would mean <span class="mu-s">destroying these orbital platforms</span>; the token defense force is nowhere near the kind of army the Baalathi could deploy- destroying these factory platforms would leave the gas giant defenseless and the captive Baalathi population floating in its clouds unable to do anything. Leaving without breaking it would mean just giving them time to prepare. You know firsthand how fast they could manufacture those drones- and potentially worse weapons.
However, your weapons are ineffective, and the frigate is far too large to get close to any structural weak points on the giant space platform. However, the frigate's small hangar, along with some general purpose fighter ships, has <span class="mu-i">exactly one prototype bomber</span> craft armed with Particle Bombs...
“Oh no you don't. Don't you fucking think about it for a second!!!”
