"But why?" Raven asked. "Why do they even have us here? Is it just to keep us busy?" She shook her head. "You said on the broadcast they were roughing a guy up. So -- maybe they were causing more trouble than that Zim or whoever wanted. They probably wouldn't want any chance they could get loose on the spaceship, either."

Which was a decent argument for "stasis." Or, well. Outright killing them. But Raven wasn't about to say that out loud.

"Maybe -- maybe they just got . . . bumped. Sent to another, I don't know, level or something? Where they have pointless bad guys to fight and can't make so much of a mess in this one?"