It's amazing...

[creator_man]

Characters: Flynn and anyone who wants/needs to have a talk with him
Location: Park outside the Jedi temple
Planet: Coruscant
When: Post-event, which would make it... Week 21
What: Meditating in the park. Conversations. Catching up. What have you.
Rating: Should be G. Ish.

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[creator_man]

"Pretty much, yeah." Flynn shrugged. "Most non-plant life doesn't have a choice. Humans didn't, either, to begin with. There are no direct sources of energy that animal life can process other than through digestion. Herbivorous animals eat plants. Predators eat them, as well as other, smaller predators. Or bigger, if they can catch and kill them. That's how evolution worked. In the end, one animal developed superior intelligence. It learned to not only gather and eat plants, but to grow and cultivate them, so its kind had enough food to last through the seasons when food was scarce. It developed weapons to hunt other animals with, other than sheer muscle; and traps. And it domesticated some animals, collecting wool for clothing, milk and eggs for food, and then slaughtering the animals for food. Riding some. It... took a very, very long time. Thousands of years."

He spread his arms. "In the end, we could build cities. Space ships. Computers. But in the base of it all, the only way to convert energy in a way to sustain our bodies is through food. And go far enough... that goes back to plants. Who, as far as we know, aren't sentient, by the ways, but your question is valid. It's only a choice - between the plants' lives and our own."

He paused, then added quietly, "nobody and nothing that has been born survives life. As far as I know, it might be different for programs - with proper maintenance, you might live forever. Living things... don't."