He grins at the granola fountain. "That's quite the conundrum. Seems like you have to choose between everyone effectively stuck in stasis and maybe a bunch of people dead. Well, good news and bad news, I suppose - I have some experience with, and resistance to, temporal shenanigans, and I can absorb energy if it's - hmmm, this is hard to translate - formatted correctly? but I doubt I could take a big bang to the face without disintegrating first. I'm happy to take a stab at the time loop problem, maybe there's something in the universe itself I can use..." He sits in silence for a while, alternating between granola and purple juice.

"I've got more options than usual since this cluster seems to allow any kind of physics or magic, that's rare, my own travel magic limits me to a given universe's own rules. Wait, are there energy sources in the time loop itself that could be exploited? If you don't mind losing some giant stars that will get looped back anyway, I might be able to jumpstart an absorption loop if I had an external source of power, maybe some tech or magic to work with. I need to know more about the universe in question to be sure, but there might be something there. We should compare notes - you might even be able to use some of my magic, even if I can't." 

"Stars are much smaller in this universe but we do have technology to channel a substantial portion of a supernova about one percent into a concentrated area and that could be adapted. As for the flexibility I think that more applies to this place than the cluster as a whole. We have control of how physics spreads from this place to the other universes in the cluster."

"Stars are smaller? I suppose I've seen stranger things. Maybe it'd be better to find supernovae elsewhere, but that sounds like the type of tech it would take to recharge me, scaled up. Now, controlling the spread of physics, that sounds like a remarkably handy trick. The tactical considerations alone..." He shakes his head. "Well, that's probably moot if you've got this cluster under wraps already. You might want to watch where you put me, if you're worried about spreading physics to the wrong places. I'm currently sitting on more than a hundred distinct universe-rulesets, to say nothing of slight variations on similar ones. We probably ought to run some tests to make sure I can't accidentally contaminate your worlds with soul eating, vampirism, underagony, elder corruption, or the Dark Side of the Force, like some kind of world-disease. I doubt it, but you really don't want underagony in your afterlife." 

"Stars being smaller is pretty weird yeah. Physics is deeply strange in that universe in general. And yes, if you're likely to alter local physics then that's something we would want to be careful about. Oddly enough the time loop in that world also resets changes in physics so that's likely where we would do tests. Nothing else we've found seems able to undo changes in physics."