Considering the kind of people the had on the ship, Marco was inclined to think he was speaking from experience. And even if the guy wasn't, assuming he was was still the safer option. Better to assume that someone had experience and was potentially dangerous, and find out that they weren't, then to assume they were harmless and find out otherwise instead.

"They like to talk a lot of big words here, about how everyone should just trust each other and be one big happy family, blah blah blah. But it's not going to happen. Not when there are people here who would screw over the rest of us to save their own asses, you can find that it's your own worst enemy that wakes up one podpop. And that's not even getting into the Daligig, our 'allies'."

Marco moved his rook, leaned back, and smirked. "Checkmate," he said.