The problem wasn't whether the stars could help kill the beasts.
That part was simple enough. If things got close to either star, the heat and gravity would do some of the work for them, making the fight easier in a direct sense. That wasn't what Aurelian was worried about.
The real problem was what came after.
If the battle happened too close to either star, and a large number of the pack died there, then most of what they left behind would be lost.
Valuable materials, biological matter, fragments that could be studied or reused, all of it could end up burned away, dragged off by gravity, or scattered so far out that recovery would become a slow and frustrating process.
There was no point in winning cleanly if the result made salvage harder for no real reason.
So he chose open space instead.
They moved between the two stars and kept searching until they found the right place, not rushing the decision, taking their time until the conditions were exactly what they needed.
