Mmhmm. And they had good reason to clash about it quite recently. Said father has spent the better part of his life and career making ready preparations to save the inhabitants of the star from certain doom — or at least, the ones willing to cooperate with Sharlayan. The ones who wouldn't cause trouble. The ones who could be persuaded to accept what the Forum saw as the only choice.

[But, he thinks — this doesn't sound so different, really, from what Reno himself described, a maniac flying about the universe, landing on planets, bringing them to ruin. It's not the same, not by a longshot, but it's an eerie analogy nevertheless.]

Imagine a "planetkiller" like your Sephiroth wanted to become. The Forum knew something like that was coming for us, and that it was only a matter of time until it reached us. So they made preparations, and with the help of some rather unusual allies, constructed a vessel that could spirit most all of the life on the star away from it before the planetkiller reached us. In effect, we would turn tail and run. Lifeboat as much as we could away, and leave the rest to oblivion.

[He goes quiet a minute. It's a different sort of quiet than his pauses before.]

...Ryne would've — she would've been among the latter. The oblivion.