Empire? ...They ain't got no empire. Not no more. [That makes Yondu furrow his brow up again, sitting back again, elbow on the table and a little sideways. That didn't make much sense.] I was a Kree battle slave for twenty odd years, somethin' like that. [With the dispassionate detachment of a man who wouldn't relate the emotional toll that kind of thing takes on most anyone. Instead, still thinking of the Skrulls, back to when they did have an Empire.] Kree went real hard on 'em. I reckon you did know Kree that went easier than what I did. [Or a version of the Skrulls that went harder.]

[There's a lot of words he doesn't recognize there, but that doesn't surprise him at this point. Phoenix Force. He did know something happened on Terra that made the Kree back off of it, about a decade after he'd brushed by there.]

Well, either way, if you know what the Supreme Intelligence is, you can guess why I haven't exactly been all that personable. [Besides his natural demeanor. But hell, maybe he should have been. If someone else here would catch on to what the hell he was talking about; after all, the SI put on a big ol' smiling face to the Kree and they could holler into the night about the magnitude of its helpfulness. That makes him all the more suspicious about the AI here.]