Even earlier, when Tony inspected Brad's spaceship, he had noticed that its technology bore some resemblance to that of the Kree Empire. But only certain stylistic elements were similar; it was far from an exact match.
That led Tony to suspect that even if Bu Lai hadn't come from the Kree Empire like Mar-Vell, he must have had some connection to it.
But Mar-Vell had been away on business in space, so there had been no way to verify that yet.
Now that Mar-Vell had returned to Earth, naturally, Tony wanted him to help identify Bu Lai's origins.
Of course, Tony would never have guessed that the spaceship Brad had casually put together resembled Kree designs because Brad X had once invaded the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree Empire in another universe.
Strictly speaking, Brad's spaceship combined the styles of different civilizations from several different universes.
The Dark Elves' spaceship technology from Brad's Home Universe had come from data Number Four had devoured after performing transdimensional computation.
The Kree Empire's spaceship technology had come from the Supreme Intelligence of the Kree Civilization in Parallel Universe 97, which Brad X had devoured.
And when Primordial Brad had killed Thanos in another universe, he had "picked up" some of the motley assortment of spaceship technologies and designs used by space pirates, even though he hadn't deliberately read through them.
Tony's ability to recognize traces of Kree technology in the spaceship was already a testament to his keen eye.
Meanwhile, inside the Avengers' base, Captain Marvel, Mar-Vell, studied the scans of the battered spaceship and pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration.
"Honestly, I can't identify it either. But the Kree Civilization is the dominant power in the Large Magellanic Cloud, so it's perfectly normal for it to have plenty of weaker