Soldat considers that a moment. "I'm not sure if it really matters. You're still working as a team. Leading people on good missions to keep them safe. If you're only doing it out of guilt, you're still doing it. Good things still come out of it. And the more you do it, the easier it gets to add more people to the ones you keep safe."

They still clearly remember the moment they realized they had multiple friends, and hadn't even realized it. So that one they know pretty intimately. And now on the train, they'd done it again, gotten themselves more people they love, made their own circle bigger.

They're positive Yondu can do the same, probably already has. Maybe also without realizing it.