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

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What if a living thing dies in outer space? (MAJOR DIRGE OF CERBERUS SPOILER!!!)

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?
 
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Or maybe the planet had some kind of tractor beam to draw in spirit energy. That's my guess anyways.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
cooky560 said:
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?
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Yeah, that's basically what I think. The main issue here is that we just don't know a whole lot about what spirit energy really is. For example, let's say you were to fly to another planet capable of sustaining life. Would the spirit energy there be any different from the spirit energy found on Gaia/Planet? Is it the same wherever you go? If it's the former, then I think spirit energy would be drawn to the planet where it originated from. If it's the latter, then spirit energy probably just looks for the nearest planet and assimilates with the Lifestream there.
 
well, i think that maybe the energy was part of the planet, so it would be able to find the planet again. it would always stay a part of the planet, regardless of where it was in the universe.
 
yeah but that doesn't mean you can find yourself, if I lost a finger somewhere :-)() it wouldn't know where I was
 
Well, if this topic is about Dirge of Cerberus then it should be moved to the DoC section.

*Moved*
 
cooky560 said:
yeah but that doesn't mean you can find yourself, if I lost a finger somewhere :-)() it wouldn't know where I was
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In all fairness to the Lifestream, you and your finger aren't made entirely of spiritual energy. Magnets can attract and repel one another, who's to say the Planet's Lifestream isn't the same? Now that I think about it, the Lifestream would have to be a pretty powerful "magnet" considering its size alone. If something dies in outer space, it probably wouldn't be that much of a stretch to assume that the creature's spirit energy would find its way back to the Planet. I mean, in the world of FFVII, a tiny black rock can pull a huge meteor into the planet. Who's to say the planet itself can't do the same with pieces of the Lifestream stranded in space?
 
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