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Marcus isn’t dying, but they do decide to keep him in cyro until Abby feels more comfortable that he can survive surgeries to fix him.
The new planet has far better medical technology, but did not immediately trust Abby to let her use it. This is because the Eligius 3 don’t trust anyone that isn’t them, and don’t want to give their strengths away to a possible threat.
A couple characters go down first (who we saw in those stills), to see if there is life and civilization on the new planet. Only a few go down because if all 300-400 did, then that could be seen as a threat or an aggressive/intimidating behavior. Abby does not go down, in case the threat is serious since she is their best doctor + Diyoza is pregnant and may need some assistance since she’s been pregnant for so long.
Raven doesn’t go down because she’s been trying to rig up better medical equipment + ideally Abby and her would communicate about what occured in s5.
Eligius believes that the 400 of them must be put to work to earn their trust and improve their community. Abby aligns herself with the medical portion, since that is her strong suit, and she wants to show that she can be trusted to use their equipment.
On 6x11, Abby and co, have finally earned the trust where Abby is allowed to try to save Marcus, and feels comfortable with his survival chances.