Dalamud is not an asteroid, whose with me?

[Alerith]

Odin. 678910

[MartaDemireux]

Actually Dalamud was originally an untouched synthesis orb that floated around Menphina, before Nael van Darnus started messing with it. Then it turned into a red orb. Gaius yelled at Nael to try and fix it, so he did but since he tried to goof around with it again on a red orb, it went unstable. Now the thing just wants to be so chaotic.

And hence Darnus picked up the nickname "Darnit Darnus", since he seems to make everything worse where he goes.

Erm.. no haha. Let's not get fanfic mixed up in real lore, please ^^! I took the OP as a serious question and thus gave information that is found within the game.

The scene you're talking about is a disagreement over whether or not it is a good idea to use Dalamud and cast Meteor since the spell is very unreliable and they don't know exactly what will happen. It is fact that it is an Allegan-made colossal structure, "Artificial Moon," that is involved in summoning Meteor.