"Oh yeah. I thought we was dead for sure. I went into that knowin' Peter an' the girl he took up with was dead set on doin' it an' if I didn't it was that or him dyin'."

For a lot of reasons. His crew wanted Peter dead. If he went alone, they'd definitely be dead. If he succeeded by some miracle and ended up with that stone, they'd all end up dead.

(He figured that Peter'd pull some kind of fast one but he was pleasantly surprised to discover he hadn't just sold it to the first buyer.)

"Unfortunately Ronan's ship makes it all the way down- tears through the Star Blasters an' you'll see a big ol' mess o' purple light but no recordin's." He gestures to the screen before settling back in a chair, kicking a leg up over the arm of it.