We didn't get a real good look at the mangled corpse in that escape pod, but the crashed ship those drones were attacking was clearly from that enemy of theirs. The question of course is, are they really such horrible bad guys? Would they wipe out all life on Earth just to get the Raps, or punish us because they think we're their allies? The captured Rap had every incentive to say so whether it's true or not.
We know, despite being machines, that they're highly emotional and aggressive beings. Destroying Dallas wiped out millions of potential laborers. It wasn't a rational act, and if they were trying to send a message they would've made sure people in other colonies knew about it (which hardly anyone does). No. Their response was a bit like a guy finding out his wife has been cheating, then grabbing a steak knife and stabbing her fifty seven times. It was lashing out in rage over the deaths of two of their own. And the fact that the captured Rap was making nice shows it was desperately trying to talk its way out of the mess it was in. So on top of anger we know they're also afraid to die just like us. That's something you can use - I seriously doubt beating it with a lead pipe or burning it with molten metal would "hurt", you'd have to find other ways to make them talk.
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