Shepard can respect that, although she does raise an eyebrow at it all the same. She'd welcome extrapolation if he's willing to give it, after all.

"An independent captain-owner?" She doesn't know what that means, exactly, but she shakes her head. "Alliance Navy." And then, because she hasn't yet run into someone who doesn't know her and yet know what that is, Shepard continues. "Earth-based galactic military branch."