For testing, maybe. To see if they could support life.

[ That would be his assumption. He'd been told that's what the fleet was looking for, after all. For Jace, that's not the priority. He doesn't want to settle anywhere new; he needs to get home. But if that's the mission, he can see what they were going for. ]

But it doesn't matter. Even if a mission is peaceful in theory, it doesn't mean it'll stay that way.

They don't have this level of tech in my world, either. Tech itself isn't new, though; I'm guessing it is, for you?