"Yeah, I'm. Really hopin' the new folks have some good ideas. Not just for fixing things up. But for everything." They haven't forgotten the whole... world eater thing. How could they? They're just pretty good at compartmentalizing, and since they are sure they have no good ideas here, they'll have to hope other people do.

They might be wrong, in the end, and have ideas that are actually useful, but Soldat is still working on that self-esteem, proper-role thing.