The gnomes were explaining 'Essential Element 447' which detailed how to select the perfect piece of dunnage, or scrap wood, to prevent small shifts in cargo during the loading process (having already covered the first 446) when Yahs interrupted. The question leaves them flabbergasted.
"You mean you are not familiar with Spelljammer Academy Training: Cadet Requirements Supplement Volume I?" asked the shocked Kip.
"and II?" prodded the equally stunned Pik.
"Cadet Field Manual: Watchstanding Procedures...not ringing a bell?" Kip continued.
"Ding-dong? OPSEC?" Pik asked without waiting for an answer.
"Don't skip the appendixes." they both added with another extra finger wag for emphasis...before burying the plasmoid under a tidal wave of books they were keeping in an extradimensional fanny pack.
"There's only one thing to do if you want to avoid an Astral emergen-Sea..." they actually started singing now, this was not improvised.
"When your cannons decide to nap instead of boom..." obviously well-rehearsed, Kip had a great tremolo.
"If you find yourself sailing in circles, playing a never-ending game of 'Officer, where's my ship?'..." The Hammerhead's sonar system just went in the corner and shot itself.
"When the crew starts eyeing each other like plump little walking drumsticks..." only a few lifejackets left.
"Easy, matey! Remember Fleet procedures!" high fiving themselves and Yahs simultaneously.
At Chaeek's question, they look at each other and shake their heads with an audible tsk-tsk-tsk. "That would be a violation of custom charges!" Pik answers, throwing a fat book of law at the hadozee.
"Straight to the brig for that scallywag!" adds Kip, nodding his head and adjusting his posture as justice is served.
Lou attempts to change the subject, and the Whistleslap twins are happy to explain every detail of their lives. Long story short, their vessel the Gnomad was marooned for 47 years in Gizmospace...and with the kaleidoscope of chaos their ship management had been up that point, it was either get disciplined or die tryin'.