A Life Ends, Another Begins

A Life Ends, Another Begins is one of the Vine Consensus quests in The Long Journey Home.

Description
The Vine Consensus Silverbark can be found anywhere in space. Once the player tries to communicate, it becomes clear, that the plant is dying. When the player ends the call (without annoying it before), the plant offers a Young Sapling. Accepting the Young Sapling starts the quest.

The sapling needs a new environment to grow. With every jump the sapling is withering. The Young Sapling dies during the third jump. On a suitable planet (in general with a biotope) a green round indicator on the minimap shows, where you can plant the Young Sapling. As a reward you increase the respect of the Vine Consensus.

Alternatively the Young Sapling can be exchanged on an Yggdrasil planet for a Grateful Sprout.

Talking to Silverbark twice makes him abort the conversation and decreases the respect of the Vine Consensus. Declining the Young Sapling has no negative consequences for the player (next to the Young Sapling dying somewhere in space, of course...). Letting Ash extract medicine from the Young Sapling yields some random medicine. The quest is aborted and the Vine Consensus respect decreases. Letting the Young Sapling die of withering during the third jump decreases the Vine Consensus respect.