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Cloud: ......When the planet dies?
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. It may be tomorrow, or 100 years from now... But it's
not long off.
Cloud: How do you know this?
Bugenhagen: I hear the cries of the Planet.
Cloud: What's that?
Bugenhagen: The sound of the stars in the heavens. While this goes on, planets
are born, and die.
Cloud: What was that?
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. That was a scream from this planet. Didn't you hear it?
As if to say... I hurt, I suffer......
Red XIII: They have come here on a journey to save the planet. Why don't you
show them your apparatus?
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. To save the planet? Ho Ho Hoooo! But, then again, I
guess it wouldn't hurt to show him.
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Bugenhagen: Listen, Nanaki. Cloud says they are trying to save the planet.
Honestly, I don't think it can be done. For even if they stop every reactor on
the planet, it's only going to postpone the inevitable. Even if they stop
Sephiroth, everything will perish. But, Nanaki. I've been thinking lately. I've
been thinking if there was anything WE could do, as a part of the planet,
something to help a planet already in misery... No matter what happens, isn't it
important to try? Am I just wishing against fate?
One important aspect of the ending, then, is that the Planet, and by extension its Lifestream, survive.