Probably because you as the captain generate a lot more offence, and the AI is setup to target the guy that is capable of doing the most damage to them.
The issue I'm having beyond the traps being difficult is that for some reason, the combination of the colour scheme and everything is making me physically sick. I literally had to step away from the computer to recover a few times during the mission. This is getting really annoying.
My results: Tracing route to patchserver.crypticstudios.com [208.95.185.41] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms CISCO12854 [192.168.1.1] 2 * * * Request timed out. 3 9 ms 12 ms 10 ms 135.0.161.1 4 14 ms 9 ms 9 ms 135.0.160.1 5 22 ms 22 ms 11 ms ge4-5.core1.yvr1.he.net [216.218.209.121] 6 13 ms 23 ms 22 ms…