[The way Barabas is talking about it has Ren more confident that his initial guess was probably accurate, and he wanders off to one side, following where he has the strongest impression of the scent so they're not just all looking in the same place.]

It's rotten plants, right? Like a garden... [That raises a wide variety of questions, though, and once he actually finds one of the patches of decomposing plant matter, he bends down to look at it more closely.]

So how long is it that the crew here has been gone if a food source like this is so badly rotted...? [Or what exactly did whatever is on this ship do to it to put it in that condition?]