| Old Midgarian Ruins |
| The Old Midgar Ruins, originally named �Midgar�, are just as its new name implies. Ruins. The history of Midgar is an interesting collection that astonishes the mind beyond the point of believing... Midgar was once a brilliant city that, at first, was surrounded by lush green plains. That was when it was first a collection of small towns. As the towns developed and the population became overcrowded, its founder, J. Shinra, told the people of the towns that he planned to turn the place into a metropolis. Many were excited about this, while others did not want to see the towns die. This caused problems. Until the city was complete, no one wanted to leave his or her homes. This problem gave birth to what, for the years to come became known as the city on a plate, a.k.a. �Midgar.� The construction took a good ten years for the main saucer to be built. While its eight sections and main center were under construction, a time-efficient, self-proclaimed President J. Shinra had additional workers come in to start construction of the main Shin-Ra building. |
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| Img1: The glory of Midgar from Tunara Mountain. Img2: The Shin-Ra HQ (Hold mouse over pic.) |
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| Unfortunately, as the bright, glowing and abundant green fluids flowed through the pipes and generated very cheap and profitable power, something else went wrong. The lush, green grass began to die. Flowers inside the area known as the Slums became extinct. In most places, very few plants were able to exist. Even the light of the sun gradually waned until Midgar seemed to be forever stuck under the shadow of a moon-less night. |
| People who wanted to live on the new Midgarian Plate were told that if they wanted a home, they had to build their own after buying a section of the saucer. They did so. Trouble was, these �living spaces� were so expensive that people had to purchase as groups, and build their own apartment buildings. This further encouraged the economy to grow for those who were poorer, could �rent� the left over spaces of these apartments not already occupied by those who made it. The first War with Wutai delayed production, and progress on Midgar�s construction was held back. Taxes became exceptionally high. People became unhappy and oppressed. The residents on the saucer could barely afford their electricity bills, let alone anything else. As a solution, Shin-Ra found a new energy source. �Mako.� This power source was far cheaper to extract and put to use. The denizens of Midgar happily accepted the change. Wires were replaced with pipes. The reactors were modified. The new green power source flowed through the new pipe system easily. |
| Img3: Midgar. |
| Then, after President Rufus Shinra took office and terrorism became rapidly abundant (though far less successful as they had been under the previous President's reign), the Planet was swept into chaos and terror by the emergence of mythical creatures known as �WEAPONs� and the abrupt appearance of a red, flaming mass known solely as �Meteor.� Shin-Ra became the world�s �official� defenders and combated both as best they could. Midgar was one of the two Shin-Ra cities that successfully destroyed a WEAPON. The Sister Ray was fired. Its Mako-infused burst literally tore through WEAPON on its course to the Northern Crater. The end result was devastating, though. Diamond WEAPON�s counter attack, however, pounded much of Midgar. The upper floors of the Shin-Ra building were internally incinerated after impact. It was believed that no one survived it until over a year later. Many people lost their lives. |
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| Img4: Diamond WEAPON (Image courtesy of Cait Sith) |
| (Another OOC note: The destruction of Final Fantasy VII�s Midgar gave the inspiration to Final Fantasy X�s �Zanarkand� tragedy. Sin was derived from Diamond Weapon. Interestin' facts, no?) |
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| In the final hours of Midgar, people evacuated down to the stench-driven, torn Slums. Meteor finally came, wrecking its havoc upon the city� Most of it was declared uninhabitable. Once Meteor was gone, people came back to the city to see two or more generations of work lost. |
| Img5: Meteor as seen from a Shinra helicopter over the Junon skyline. |
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| The ruins of Midgar have been left to wither, never again to be wandered beneath its seemingly eternal night sky. One would think it amazing to be a coincidence, but with Midgar abandonned, the sun finally shines down, however dimly, upon even the inner most streets of the Midgarian Plate. (OOC note: The ending of FF VII implies that humanity is all but gone 500 years after Meteor. So...what happened to them? Our RP, near its conclusion, will help hint to that.) |
| Img6: Midgar, 500 years later. (Nearly that many after our RP, and Advent Children. Added for OOC glimpse of what's to come). |