Even if the fighting stopped, the planet was still dying.
He'd watched whole planets die, and yet this somehow was a hundred times more disturbing.
Is the entire planet dying, Khan could not help wondering, or just this particular region?
She is taking over Earth because her own planet is dying.
It was radioactive, either to begin with or eventually, and this grew worse till the planet died.
The Maker's own planet was dying and his fellow species were doing nothing about it.
If she did not act on the prescient warning, whole planets would die.
"To convince him she's right in wanting to let the planet die."
"So we play dead, while the planet beneath us dies?"
But to put on the suit meant that she had given up and was willing to watch another planet die.