Something just occurred to me. I'm gonna write it here because I'm not sure there's enough here to justify an editorial, but it just might. I wanna get some opinions first on the idea.
What if JENOVA arrived on Gaia riding Meteor? We know very little about her, except that she arrived sometime before 2000 years in the past, and whatever means of transportation she had made a really damned big hole in the Knowlspoll. What if Meteor itself isn't just the means of destruction, but also the fact that it carries a JENOVA creature to ensure complete annihilation of life.
According the planet's own rules, the Lifestream can heal the planet, and continue the cycle of life. Meteor could possibly smash through to the core, but it still sounds like a planet's lifestream could negate this, and indeed does. HOWEVER, we also know via EU material that JENOVA cells contaminate lifestream. It's what's allowed Sephiroth to return twice, and keeps other souls from being reintigrated into the lifestream. An infected soul like Hojo and Sephiroth can never return, ultimately weakening the power of the lifestream. So if a JENOVA is able to infect enough people, Meteor can do it's job unimpeded.
Perhaps the Black Materia has been a JENOVA device all. A culture gets a hold of it, and in their ignorance, use it to pull a world cleansing apocalypses, and believing it can still be stopped. Only with JENOVA, it intends to finish the job, converting the entire planet to match her own lifeforce wavelength. It becomes a breeding ground for her kind to populate, and then this reduced husk of a planet becomes the next Meteor, and a new Black Materia finds a home in another world.
What if JENOVA arrived on Gaia riding Meteor? We know very little about her, except that she arrived sometime before 2000 years in the past, and whatever means of transportation she had made a really damned big hole in the Knowlspoll. What if Meteor itself isn't just the means of destruction, but also the fact that it carries a JENOVA creature to ensure complete annihilation of life.
According the planet's own rules, the Lifestream can heal the planet, and continue the cycle of life. Meteor could possibly smash through to the core, but it still sounds like a planet's lifestream could negate this, and indeed does. HOWEVER, we also know via EU material that JENOVA cells contaminate lifestream. It's what's allowed Sephiroth to return twice, and keeps other souls from being reintigrated into the lifestream. An infected soul like Hojo and Sephiroth can never return, ultimately weakening the power of the lifestream. So if a JENOVA is able to infect enough people, Meteor can do it's job unimpeded.
Perhaps the Black Materia has been a JENOVA device all. A culture gets a hold of it, and in their ignorance, use it to pull a world cleansing apocalypses, and believing it can still be stopped. Only with JENOVA, it intends to finish the job, converting the entire planet to match her own lifeforce wavelength. It becomes a breeding ground for her kind to populate, and then this reduced husk of a planet becomes the next Meteor, and a new Black Materia finds a home in another world.
