They seem to have about as much technology as I'm used to. Just not weapons. I'm guessing that gets shut down a lot.

[He's no one to complain about weird camera effects, considering now he's using both hands to chop up root vegetables while his tail handles the communicator rather unsteadily, but he's pretty sure there's something odd going on where she is.]

The ship doesn't work. Or, well, it doesn't fly. It does some other things. I don't know anything about space, really, and I've been once.