The methods of the First Order were rarely ever applicable among ALASTAIR. Hathaway is not any different in its spirit.

[He says it very pointedly, like he is aware of what Thrawn is trying to suggest to him. He hadn't served ALASTAIR for two years without it being beaten into him that he couldn't just blast his way through every problem that he came across.

Empress Youmi had already suggested what the First Order would have done, and she had yet to receive results.]