This issue is relatively easy to resolve.
The Flame Nebula is almost entirely Hydrogen, and naturally, Constant Star Lu Chen would not want to miss out on it.
After all, the situation is no longer what it used to be. In the past, they might have bypassed resources that were too far afield in their hurry to travel, thinking that there would be plenty ahead anyway.
But now that the Universe has suddenly ceased expanding, all civilizations have simultaneously entered a period of frantic plundering amidst this grave crisis, leading to a sharp decrease in interstellar material in the Universe. The fact that the Wandering Star System has traveled for so long with hardly any increase in mass is testament to this. Therefore, the Wandering Alliance can no longer adopt the previous strategy of ignoring some resources on the periphery but must strive to secure as much as possible.