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| Topic Started: Dec 4 2008, 06:04 PM (213 Views) | |
| Ryuusei Seito | Dec 4 2008, 06:04 PM Post #1 |
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Roughly thirty-three years ago, the top Shinra researcher, Professor Gast, discovered Jenova, a destructive alien, buried in the Northern Crater. He mistakenly believed Jenova to be a Cetra, a member of a mystical ancient race that inhabited the Planet before present day humanity. Dr. Hollander, Hojo and another Shinra scientist named Lucrecia Crescent were assigned to work on the Jenova Project under Professor Gast, the ultimate goal of this project being to "create humans with the powers of the Ancients." It was believed that this goal may be realized by testing the effects of Jenova cells on an unborn child. Around this same time, Lucrecia was romantically involved with Vincent Valentine, then a member of the Turks. However, due to her guilt over causing the death of his father, she rejected him and entered into a relationship with Hojo. Lucrecia became pregnant, and she and Hojo chose to offer up their unborn child to the Jenova Project. Thus, Hojo injected Lucrecia with Jenova cells during the pregnancy. Vincent objected to these experiments because he felt that humans should not be experimented on. Vincent and Hojo quarreled over the situation of experimenting on Lucrecia's child, which ended up with Hojo shooting Vincent. He then performed experiments on Vincent's body, before leaving him sealed in a coffin in the basement of the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. The child that would come as a result of the Jenova Project was Sephiroth. At some undisclosed point in time, Gast abandoned his research due to a guilty conscience, and Hojo was placed in charge of Shinra's Science Research Division and all experiments involving Jenova. His increasingly immoral experiments, first at Nibelheim, and, later, at the Shinra Building, involved the use of more unwilling test subjects than just Vincent, including Cloud Strife, Zack Fair, and Red XIII. Much of this later research involved the effects of Jenova's cells, leading to the development of Sephiroth "Copies" (not to be confused with genetic duplicates; the term merely indicates that experiments were conducted on them similar to those conducted on Sephiroth). Shinra raised Sephiroth to be the ultimate soldier, Lucrecia never getting the chance to so much as hold him. He grew extremely powerful, both physically and magically, and became a hero in the war against Wutai. Sephiroth was told only that his mother was named "Jenova," and although he knew both Hojo and Gast, he was never told that Hojo was his father. Ironically, Sephiroth had a very low opinion of Hojo; he described Hojo as "inexperienced" and a "walking mass of complexes," whereas he referred to Gast as "a great scientist." Around the same time as Lucrecia's pregnancy, Shinra managed to find an actual Cetra, a woman named Ifalna. Although Shinra intended to use her for research and experimentation, hoping to use her to find the fabled Promised Land, Professor Gast fell in love with Ifalna, and learned from her that Jenova was not truly a Cetra. This is believed to be related to Gast's departure from the Jenova Project, and together with Ifalna, he deserted Shinra and fled to Icicle Inn on the northern continent. Here, Gast would, indeed, research Ifalna, but in a manner that was to her comfort and took consideration of her feelings as a human being. The two eventually had a daughter named "Aerith." This was actually exactly what Hojo had been waiting for. 20 days after Aerith's birth, he led a small team of Shinra operatives to their home. Hojo's entourage shot and killed Gast when he resisted, and Ifalna and Aeris were captured. The mother and daughter, the last two Cetra, would spend seven years in captivity in the Shinra HQ in Midgar before escaping to the slums. The whereabouts of the girl are unknown, but Ifalna's body was discovered at a train station. When Genesis Rhapsodos rebelled against Shinra, he attempted to kill Hojo on behalf of Dr. Hollander. However, Zack Fair and Angeal Hewley intervened. Hojo mocked Genesis, and told him that Hollander wouldn't be able to halt his deterioration, referring to him as a "second-rate hack, who couldn't even cure a cold." During the encounter, Hojo demonstrated an understanding of LOVELESS, remarking that the end of the story had never been found. Two months ago, Sephiroth led a Shinra team on a mission to investigate a malfunction of the Nibelheim Mako Reactor. The mission was a disaster, resulting in Sephiroth learning of the inhumane experiments tied to his birth, but not the full details of said experiments. The misleading research notes he discovered in the Shinra Mansion led him to believe that he was produced from Jenova's cellular material and that Jenova was an Ancient, and left no details of the truth. Sephiroth went insane with rage, believing himself to be the last Cetra, and that the ancestors of the common people had abandoned his own to die in the defense of the Planet. He slaughtered the village of Nibelheim and razed it to the ground. Sephiroth then attempted to steal the body of Jenova from its enclosure in the Mt. Nibel Mako Reactor. Battles with SOLDIER 1st Class Zack and a regular Shinra private, Cloud Strife—both of whom had been dispatched to serve as Sephiroth's escort—ensued, and Sephiroth was presumed to have been killed by Cloud, a feat that was considered unimaginable for a regular human being. This caught the interest of Hojo. In continuation of his research into Jenova, Hojo began a project to create what he called "Sephiroth Clones", so named because of the similarities between the experiments that he conducted on his new subjects and those that were conducted on Sephiroth. The "specimens" for this experiment were the survivors of Sephiroth's massacre in Nibelheim, and Cloud and Zack were among these new subjects. Despite the title he gave to his newest subjects, Hojo did not intend to create a new breed of super soldiers with these individuals. His intention was, rather, to test the validity of his Jenova Reunion Theory, which stated that if Jenova's cells were divided, they would instinctively seek to become whole again. To test this, he injected Jenova cells into his Sephiroth clones and infused them with mako. The mako was intended to lower the self-awareness of the subjects to the point that the instinctual drive of the Jenova cells to reunite would take over their minds and cause them all to gather in one place, an event that would be called "the Reunion." His experiments are only beginning. |
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| Ryuusei Seito | Dec 4 2008, 06:07 PM Post #2 |
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Sephiroth Clones The Sephiroth Clones are a group of test subjects used in the Project S portion of the Jenova Project. They were injected with Jenova Cells by Professor Hojo to test Jenova's ability to recall her scattered cells into a "Reunion", in what he called the "Jenova Reunion Theory". There are at least fourteen known test subjects, but Hojo rejected many as "failures", leading the exact number of unfortunate people who were mutilated by this subject to be unknown. "Clone" is in fact a misnomer. Sephiroth Clones are not genetic copies of Sephiroth, rather those who carry genetic material that allow them to be his puppets. |
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| Ryuusei Seito | Dec 4 2008, 06:19 PM Post #3 |
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Cloud Strife Cloud was born in the sleepy mountain village of Nibelheim, and was neighbors with Tifa Lockhart. He grew up isolated from the rest of the village children, feeling himself somehow better than them, though it is implied that he longed for the friendship of the others. He developed a crush on Tifa, but hated her friends. When Cloud was nine, Tifa's mother died, but Tifa insisted that her mother had only gone up Mt. Nibel. Cloud followed, and when Tifa was injured, the townsfolk believed the whole expedition up the mountain to be Cloud's fault. Cloud's feelings of isolation and loneliness increased, and it was at this time he heard about Sephiroth. Resolving to become a hero like him, Cloud decided to set out and join SOLDIER. He called Tifa out the night before he left to tell her about his departure, silently hoping to impress her. Upon her request, he agreed to come save her if she ever found herself in trouble. Despite his bravado, Cloud is unable to make it into SOLDIER and becomes an ordinary Shinra guard. In this role he meets a first-class SOLDIER named Zack Fair in Modeoheim, and the two become friends after learning they are both "backwater experts". Cloud later returns to Nibelheim, along with Zack and Sephiroth to investigate a damaged reactor in Mt. Nibel, and Tifa is to act as their guide. Ashamed of his failure to join SOLDIER, Cloud hides his identity from the townspeople. When they reach the reactor, Sephiroth discovers Professor Hojo's failed experiments with Mako soldiers and what he mistakenly assumed to be his mother, Jenova. Falling into madness, Sephiroth immerses himself in the writings of Professor Gast and discovers his own dark past. He comes out from the basement of the Shinra Mansion and set about destroying the village. Cloud witnessed his mother's death in the ensuing fire and rushed to the reactor to confront Sephiroth. There he found both Tifa and Zack unconscious - both had tried to fight Sephiroth, but to no avail. A grief-stricken Cloud picked up Zack's Buster Sword, catching Sephiroth off guard in the reactor core, and impaling him. Wounded, Sephiroth was left as Cloud went to tend to Tifa. Sephiroth emerged from the reactor core, and when Cloud attacked again, Sephiroth stabbed him with the Masamune. Cloud summoned unknown strength, and used the katana as a lever to hurl Sephiroth into the Mako below. He collapsed afterward. Cloud and Zack are currently undergoing experimentation by Professor Hojo. |
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| Ryuusei Seito | Dec 4 2008, 06:23 PM Post #4 |
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Deepground Deepground SOLDIER members Weiss and Nero arrive in Banora Village to carry a nearly unconscious Genesis back into Midgar's Reactor 0. Their unknown experiments were performed to create a new top secret fighting force. They seemingly disappear after this, as there are only a select few who even know of their existence. |
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