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Meteor in space.
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Ha ha ha.... Black Materia. Ha ha ha.... Call Meteor.
Cloud Strife
Meteor is the most powerful offensive spell in the world of Final Fantasy VII. Referred to as "The Ultimate Destructive Magic", this incarnation of Meteor is probably the most powerful seen in the series. While in other games the spell brings either micrometeorites to the planet, or else lifts the target into space to collide with a passing meteor storm, in Final Fantasy VII Meteor summons a celestial body to harm the Planet itself. It is unknown if, like Omega and Holy, Meteor has an actual purpose set by the Planet.
Story
Summoning Meteor
The Cetra were given the power of Meteor in the ancient times, but because they valued life they shunned it and locked its source away in a cryptic puzzle. Sephiroth learns of Meteor while traveling the Lifestream and hopes to utilize it to injure the Planet so it would gather its Lifestream and he could absorb the Planet's life force and become a "god". He uses Cloud Strife and his party to take the Black Materia out of the Temple of the Ancients, and an avatar of Sephiroth, Jenova, shape-shifts into his form and takes it from Cloud afterward.
Pursuing Sephiroth and Jenova to the North Crater, Cloud and his allies kill Jenova∙DEATH and reclaim the Black Materia. Sephiroth takes control of Cloud's mind and forces him to deliver the Materia to him and immediately uses it giving the Planet roughly two weeks to prepare for the impact. The Planet summons its guardians, the Weapons, and the world flies into a panic.
Shinra Electric Power Company and the party both attempt to find a way to stop Meteor. Shinra loads Huge Materia into the abandoned Shinra No. 26 rocket at Rocket Town and launches it at Meteor, and although the explosion fragments Meteor's surface, it is not destroyed. The party discovers that Aeris Gainsborough had cast Holy, the Ultimate White Magic which could stop Meteor, but Sephiroth is blocking it. The party's goals thus turn to defeating Sephiroth and freeing Holy.
The Chosen Day
And then, it came -- the chosen day. In the end, the planet itself had to make the battles stop for good. The planet used the Lifestream as a weapon, and when it burst out of the earth ... all the fighting, all the grief and sadness ... everything was washed away.
The Lifestream emerges from Gaia to destroy Meteor.
Cloud and his party descend into the Northern Cave and kill Sephiroth, freeing Holy. However, it is too late, and Meteor is already impacting over Midgar. Holy fights off Meteor, but due to the gravity near it, it is too unfocused to destroy it. The Lifestream erupts from the ground, controlled by Aeris, and pushes Meteor back, allowing Holy to destroy it and save the Planet and what's left of Midgar.
The opening of Dirge of Cerberus expands on the events during Meteorfall. Yuffie Kisaragi oversaw Midgar's evacuation along with Vincent Valentine who climbed to the Sister Ray controls to investigate Professor Hojo's spirit, and was saved by Yuffie as the tower collapsed. Rufus Shinra, initially presumed for dead in the ruins of the Shinra Headquarters, was also being loaded into a helicopter.
In the novella On the Way to a Smile it is revealed that Reeve Tuesti ordered the Midgar citizens to move under the plate to avoid casualties but that the Lifestream's emergence to fight Meteor caused as much damage to Midgar as the Meteor itself.
Rebuilding
Edge's Meteor Monument artwork.
In the aftermath of Meteor's destruction, the world struggles to rebuild. Mako Reactors are shut down as people feel indebted to the Lifestream for saving them and refuse to use Mako. Fossil fuels are used, with limited success, as alternatives.
The Midgar survivors move north and build a new city, Edge, on the outskirts of the Midgar ruins. Over time Edge expands as more people move from Midgar to the new city, including Denzel. A monument in the city center is donated by Rufus, depicting Meteor's impact over Midgar.
The Lifestream that emerged to fight Meteor was partially contaminated with Sephiroth's influence, more specifically, Jenova's cells. Those who came in contact with the tainted Lifestream contracted Geostigma, an incurable and fatal disease. The epidemic culminates two years later in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children where, due in part to Geostigma, Sephiroth is revived.
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