OK so I had a think about this. I LOVE the steam machine mech suits, really cool
but I don't think we care about random hostages.
So, I figured that when we are in our huge steam machines, all the hoards of pirates just seem like insects to us. So they come at us and we melt them and continue, melt, continue... until we get in range of their ships and we can congeal... and shockwave to shatter!
Crap I misunderstood the task restrictions.
Historically going for restrictions is better than not vote wise so I guess we're saving some hostages.