Yeah, if they're this far out into the Wilde, expeditions from either side only would've done so much. If I turned up in the middle of what the surface looks like out here, I'd probably assume everything was dead or a Shade too.

[There's only so much that can be done without a huge risk of running into either infection or infected creatures, so he can understand how it took this long for the two sides to meet. Distance and circumstance, but at least there's an opportunity now.]

They are doing a lot to expand the outpost areas already, so that'll probably help turn more up. Seems like they've made a lot of progress on that since Mirrorbound started showing up.