Longer story: No, really. the guy was and continues to be big enough, that lore is bent to fit him, or more like the big RP footprint he made. Because otherwise, there wouldn't be a Kuex, just maybe an infocard flavor entry mentioning disgruntled frontline troops with more HONORABURU BAKA DESU GAIJIN than reason.
And as far as CR is concerned - what Roj said.
That's where the Zealot made the major error. We are repairing the nonsense which made the Exiles xenophobes. The truth is that Imperial Navy CANNOT go full gaijin, because of the current circumstances in which they are underpowered and the only force that can they match is Blood Dragons (in practice, even Xenos could massacre Exiles if they could). It makes little logic to be like that, surrounded by enemies that would crush them in one major strike (especially, the KNF, if they could - 2 BB, 0 BC, 10 DD vs 10 BB, 40? BC, 100 DD).
I will ask Char nonetheless. All I wanted to do was to show up that "normal" players, who pressumably were not interested into the Exile lore, cannot understand why he or she cannot fly Destroyer in 343 right away.