[Aliens]"...solitary giant predator caterpillars. Civilization wasn't easy for us"

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

As I mentioned, humans say they're 10 yards long, but that's what they say. At this rate they would do better sending space marines, Orz-style, than piloting those silly fighters who die in one hit (unlike marines).

Ur-Quan do not pilot the fighters. There's only one Kzer-Za per dreadnaught. They use talking pets to fly their fighters. They couldn't care less about them.

[Kissamies]

Yes, there is just one Ur-Quan per Dreadnought, rest of the crew is slaves, including the fighter pilots. Of course, in SC3 they'd all have to be Ur-Quan, but SC3 is not canon for the most.

[vicky_molokh]

Originally Posted by Mark Skarr

Ur-Quan do not pilot the fighters. There's only one Kzer-Za per dreadnaught. They use talking pets to fly their fighters. They couldn't care less about them.

I heard the story that they use their Battle Thralls for pilots, but Dnyarri? Don't remember them being used for anything except translation. In fact, I don't think talking pets were any good for anything other than translation. (And wonder why there aren't any in SC3.)
Anyway, not only is there the somewhat disliked canon of SC3*, there's the issue that they had space flight long before the doctrinal wars. Do you really believe they were all one-man (err, one-Quan) ships?
The Dyarri idea certainly explains how they could exterminate the Sentient Milleu with one-Quan ships, though.

* == My campaign took some of the major ideas of SC3, so I'll have to at least give it a nod. In fact, I don't see the story told through SC3 to be all that bad - it's just that it's less interactive and the Syreen puppets are ugly. :)