Levi wants to know if they might allow some people to stay in Ellipsa even if "the situation becomes better", as Olwen had stated in his welcoming message. He won't be wordy about it but he'll state that there are those who have nothing to go back to because they're dead back home, and point out that it's shitty poor motivation to provide help for this world if their reward is to be sent off to die (again).

(It's a bluff, really, because they're going to help anyway, a whole world is more important than a few lives etc etc, but why not use a little threat/blackmail to encourage the desired answer?)

Any timing similarities with the arrival of his dear deceased friend are purely coincidental.