The Mission is to break the stale mate & so allow the substantial security force of the
Glories of Faith an not insubstantial force given that the ships crew is 20,000 to regain control of the whole ship.
The Zenos who are apparently 4-5 feet tall semi erect furred tailed bipeds with sufficient intelligence to use captured weapons & to have improvised there own out of other captured gear. They appear to have very little concept of individual survival being happy to use numbers to over whelm defenders, but are cunning enough to both feign flight & to execute ambushes. Combat experience with them suggests that they have much better night vision than humans & they know enough to use this to their advantage.
Ginger