A logical extension of their own thought, that. If whatever brought them here to begin with is still here, it could be what's bringing them back when this is a very poor feeding ground. But even if it's true, if they're right, what could it be? Soldat shakes their head a little, working up to some words. At least Maes has a lot to say in the meantime, which helps. "If we could figure out that. What brought them. If it keeps bringing them back. Could use that."

The goal here is to stop them, right? Whatever brings them might be used to lure them into a trap, or keep them going back to a different dead world and not still-living ones.

They can't broach that yet, but they have to prove they're right or wrong first. "Portal is a machine. Might have logs. Recordings of things that went either way. Might be something there they missed." Because there are people here now who might look for different things. Smaller things. A virus or a small spirit-creature, or something technological.