Maybe! Perhaps they operate a combination of biological systems alongside their electro mechanical ones. Their ship may be locally intelligent everywhere, wit

Maybe! Perhaps they operate a combination of biological systems alongside their electro mechanical ones. Their ship may be locally intelligent everywhere, with that all rolling up to an i9 ish main control system. Purpose optimized hardware communicating along standardized interconnects could mean lot of hard tasks done in silicon or shared with biological systems too. They may have decades, centuries old solutions to many hard problems boiled down to heuristics able to run in real time today. Maybe some of these took ages to run initially.