The room grows still and Evandau evaluates the worth of all that Costigan has done against all that he has demanded. This information he seeks is delicate and could, in the wrong hands, upset the very system that Eshai build to save them. To toss it out there carelessly would be to doom them to extinction, for if Malicant heard it... No.

"You need bodies here," is what he chooses to offer. It clarifies what he has said before and to others, but does not risk much. "Our technology provides for that. We are not so advanced as to bring the whole of you, so we bring what we can. Rest assured that it is you that is brought. Trying to do less than that would have pitiful results."