"Wait so you’re saying we don’t have long to live, and the only way to extend our lifespan is to host life on our surface. Did I get all of that right?”


    Seth’s mood wasn’t at its best and could be heard through his frustrated tone.


    ‘Yes, you’ve pretty much summed it all up. Our purpose as a living planet is to host life.


    As long as we have living organisms on us, we won’t have to worry about going dormant or worse dying.’


    Plascious spoke in a serious tone as it explained the situation they we in, to Seth.


    Seth on the other hand just listened and tried to understand everything he was told as best as he could.


    This all happened in their consciousness and Seth was in his human form, while Plascious was a miniature version of a planet about the size of a soccer ball.


    Seth lifted his arms as he held his head while almost pulling out his hair.


    Not like it really mattered if he did, he wouldn’t feel any pain anyway.


    His form was just an imaginary construct he formed after getting the hang of how their shared conscious worked.


    “So, how long do we currently have to live?” Seth asked as he hovered over to Plascious.


    He grabbed the mini-planet with both his hands and brought it up to his face.


    Plascious didn’t mind being grabbed and just vibrated a little before it replied.


    ‘Well we currently only have around three-hundred and eighty rotations to live.


    Using the memory’s of where you come from, that should be around a year and a half.


    Every rotation I make is roughly close to the standard for a life sustainable planet.’


    Seth listened and nodded, he knew that a day in the immortal world was twenty-four hours.


    Though he got caught out on Plascious’ last sentence. So he asked, “What’s the standard for time then?”


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    Plascious shot out of Seth’s hands while a bit of pride emitted from it. ‘It’s around thirty hours, see we’re an excellent planet.’


    Seth just nodded before realization dawned on him, “We are; but you seem to have forgotten that we have no light provided by a star.


    We’re pretty much useless. What life could possibly live on us in this sort of situation… wait you said the we need to consume void energy right.


    How does that work?” A gleam shone in Seth’s eyes as he seemed to have remembered something about the immortal realm.


    Plascious stopped flying around their consciousness when it heard the first part of Seth’s conversation as realization had also dawned on it.


    It really didn’t think about such and obvious fact. Plascious felt rather dejected, but when it heard what Seth said later, it could feel his hope, it also started to feel good again.


    ‘Seth! That’s right we still have void energy.’ It flew around in strange flight paths as if to convey its excitement.


    “Come on Plascious, quick we aren’t getting any younger.” Seth excitedly flew over to the sphere and grabbed it.


    Plascious paused for a moment while it thought, before it projected the planets core in their consciousness.


    ‘You see that, that’s our core the heart and brain of the whole planet, this is where our consciousness resides.


    Do you see how dim it is? This is because we don’t have that much energy remaining, this is what our life is tied to.


    Once it runs out of energy and solidifies we are pretty much done for, thankfully we make up for this by absorbing void energy.


    That’s not the only factor that’s in play, we also don’t have much life energy and that can only be gained by absorbing it from living organisms.


    Plascious paused for a moment to let Seth take in all of what it had just told him.


    …


    Seeing Seth nod in understanding, then it continued with its explanation.


    ‘You see we need to draw in void energy form the Void itself, we then process what we need from it and expel the unneeded or waist energy onto our surface.


    Depend on how we process the void energy, we could strike a precise balance between the organisms that live on us that reuse our waist energy and us ourselves.’


    Seth nodded while he was deep in thought before he suddenly decided to speak.


    “So what we need to do is absorb and process void energy in a way that it benefits us and the organisms on us.


    Though we still have a big problem, and that is we don’t have enough light to sustain most types of organisms.


    Hay Plascious find out if there are any planets like us who don’t have a star, and are able to sustain life?”


    Seth asked before he let go of Plascious.


    Plascious flew around Seth before it came up with an answer.


    ‘Yes there are, they have extreme environmental conditions on them.


    They have high volcanic activity on their surface, while there is ice right next to their volcanoes.


    Some are frozen over with worm oceans underneath the ice, wormed up by under water volcanoes.


    The only problem is that they use extreme amounts of void energy with very little waste energy to spare for the life that lives on them.


    The only benefit ocean planets have, is that they can have lots of diverse life on them which in turn gives the a substantial amount of life energy.


    But we aren’t an ocean planet, the most we can host are micro organisms, that’s barley enough to make a living off of.


    What are we going to do Seth?’ Plascious flew around in a panicked state.


    Seth on the other hand held his chin before he smiled and spoke.


    “I think I have a solution.”