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?

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

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.

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

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.

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?