Maes, having been furiously recording everything in his notes, pauses and looks over at Soldat. "True. And even the worlds that are different in detail have similar enough inhabitants." He looks at the room where, even with the giant figures of Rosinante and Daylight, they are all mostly human. Even when he'd be in service to Astoria's Circle the bulk of the people, while living vastly different lives, had mostly been from Earth or Earth-like worlds.

Soldat's questions are curious enough though. He flips through a few pages, thinking aloud as he hits on some of the important bits. "That's not a bad theory actually. We know from the information gathered in the dreams that the doctor knows something saw her and left the portal partially open. If it's something small enough then maybe you're right and something did get through that acted as a sort of...herald for all of this."

He taps his pen against his pages of notes, not really making eye contact, but still addressing Soldat, "Do we know how intelligent these creatures are anyway? Because that IS how most invasions work, you send in a scout party to set up networks and base camps and then bring in the rest of the army. These World Eaters are also apparently persistent. There's plenty of other worlds out there with probably way more light to consume...so why stick with this one in particular? It's dead here or mostly dead, so why not go on to better meals?"

Not that he wants to think about these things preying on more innocent worlds still alive, but it's a question that needs to be answered. Why are the world eaters coming back here? To finish a job undone? If they're just beasts that feed, that doesn't make sense. Coming back implies that they have more intelligence or something more to gain from completely wiping this place out. "Robin told me that the Lighthouse glows red because red is a light that is harder for them to see or track. Maybe there's something to that and what draws them?"