What if a living thing dies in outer space? (Major Dirge of Cerberus spoiler!)

November 19, 2007, 10:53 PM

I was wondering. You see I've been asking myself this chin-rubbing, head-scratching question ever since I first reached Rocket City, but it soon escaped my mind. However, it hit me again when Chaos destroyed Omega at the end of Dirge of Cerberus.

What if a living thing dies in space?

Now, in the FFVII universe, when a living thing dies, its spirit energy returns to the Planet, right? Well, what if the space exploration program turned out to be a success, and astronauts were sent far out into space and one of them died on board a space station? What if Chaos destroyed Omega in some far-away region in space? Where would the spirit energy head to?

November 23, 2007, 5:55 PM

good question, the nearest planet, or nowhere would be my guess

November 23, 2007, 5:59 PM

Or maybe the planet had some kind of tractor beam to draw in spirit energy. That's my guess anyways.

November 23, 2007, 6:16 PM

Ok lets take a look at this from a diffrent standpoint. Space does sustain life such stars, for stars more in paticular thier energy. Since a being does die and they become spirit energy, when on the planet thier energy will return to the planet. So in essence when a being dies in space thier energy would go into staining the energy in space. That is to say keeping the stars and other astral bodies alive.

November 23, 2007, 6:18 PM

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Originally Posted by cooky560

good question, the nearest planet, or nowhere would be my guess

In Physics, you learn that energy cannot be created or destroyed - so it's not just going to "go nowhere."

Intruiging question, though. Wish I had a plausable answer

November 23, 2007, 6:26 PM

I can easily see the planet giving birth to everything from her own lifeforce (that ultimately being the "lifestream"), and as such takes it back after the vessel has faded. Should it die so far away - possibly on another planet... I'd have thought the planet would effectively 'summon' the part of itself which was missing, thus creating a homing effect, as FFGuy suggested.

November 23, 2007, 6:43 PM

when I say go nowhere, I meant it would stay on the space station, not die, I know the basics of physics

November 24, 2007, 8:13 PM

This is a difficult question to answer mainly because we don't know the properties of spirit energy or how powerful the Planet's "internal tractor beam" is. My best guess is that the energy would simply wander aimlessly through space until it finally does find a planet to join with. Though, for all we know, it might naturally gravitate toward its point of origin, slowly but surely making its way back to the Planet. It really is a good question, I'll have to look more deeply into this later.

November 24, 2007, 8:14 PM

an interesting theory, you are suggesting that the energy would somehow find the planet on which the dead creature it was formed from was born?

November 24, 2007, 8:16 PM

Well, what about Chaos? It died in outer space and Vincent says at the end of ff7DOC that Chaos has 'returned to the planet' surely that implies that all life energy that originated from the planet will always return to the planet.