Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-33959963-20171214031144/@comment-26018514-20171230004310

I have a theory that the planet itself may be alive, and that it produces dust as a fat cell equivalent... but not enough information in the show leans that direction to really extrapolate more for that theory.

Regardless, I have a theory that dust itself may not be reactive, but that the planet itself has an "Aura" that actually makes dust reactive, which is why it stops working after leaving the planet.