Actually, they were not alone at all!
According to the scan report, in addition to the abundance of stellar debris and dust floating in space around his island, many life forms in hibernation were also detected.
As soon as Jake and his group had arrived, these creatures had come out of their stasis and started drifting towards them like a swarm of bees towards a field of flowers. The most shocking thing about this was that their numbers were on the rise.
And what kind of unfathomable extraterrestrial creature could adapt and multiply in the sidereal void of the Mirror Universe without any semblance of effort? Unfortunately, to Jake's knowledge, there was only one.
Digestors.