[ OOC ] Red Devil // Canon Knowledge
This is what Turks do // P R I D E
{ Even if it means killing your own family, you'll continue to do your job. }
Over 2,000 Years Ago
[ μ ] - εуλ 1999
October
{ Even if it means killing your own family, you'll continue to do your job. }
Over 2,000 Years Ago
- The Cetra begin their long journey to heal the Planet.
- A being known as "Calamity from the Skies" crashes into the Planet's northern polar icecap on a meteor, gravely injuring the Planet. The Cetra gather at this location so that they may heal the Planet.
- The Calamity from the Skies emerges from the crater left by the meteor, bringing with it deceit and treachery as a great pestilence falls upon the Cetra and the Planet.
- The Planet creates six powerful weapons to combat the Calamity from the Skies: Jade Weapon, Sapphire Weapon, Diamond Weapon, Ultimate Weapon, Ruby Weapon, and Emerald Weapon.
- Having nearly wiped out the entire Cetra race, the Calamity of the Skies is finally defeated and sealed in a geological stratum. Due to this, the Weapons remain dormant as they have never had to act.
- The Cetra's numbers continue to dwindle as time goes on, eventually being swallowed up by the ever-growing human population. Over time, the Cetra assimilate into human civilization, but still maintain their ancient knowledge and powers.
- Bugenhagen is born.
- Cosmo Canyon is attacked by the Gi Tribe. Ultimately, Cosmo Canyon is victorious against the Gi Tribe.
- September 23 - Shinra Manufacturing Works discovers Mako energy.
- October 10 - Professor Gast Faremis unearths the Calamity from the Skies from the geological stratum. Gast gives the Calamity the name "Jenova" and misidentifies it as an Ancient (Cetra).
- July 2 - During its construction, Jenova is sealed inside of the new Mako Reactor Nibel Mountains.
- Shinra Manufacturing Works completes construction their first cost-effective Mako Reactor in the Nibel Mountains.
- Professor Gast Faremis becomes head of the Shinra Science Department.
- Shinra scientists Grimoire Valentine and Lucrecia Crescent, having done extensive research into an ancient legend surrounding two entities born of the Planet known as Chaos and Omega, make new progress in their research when they discover the Crystal Cave, the place where Chaos is said to awaken at the appointed time. After mistakenly awakening Chaos's malevolent spirit, Grimoire is killed while protecting Lucrecia from the attacking Chaos. Shortly after, the Shinra Science Department scraps the project.
- The Shinra Electric Power Company begins the construction of a Plate above the city of Midgar as a location to centralize the Company with a modernized headquarters at the heart of the Plate.
- The Shinra Science Department begins the Jenova Project, with the goal of further studying the unearthed being so that they may learn more about the Ancients and their powers as well as the possibility of implementing these powers into humans. The project his headed up by Professor Gast Faremis, with help from fellow Shinra scientists Professor Hojo, Dr. Hollander, and Lucrecia Crescent.
- As the Jenova Project advances in its stages, the scientists of the project decide to attempt to genetically engineering a human with cells from Jenova. However, Professor Hojo and Dr. Hollander have differing methods for how this process should be carried out. In the end, the two scientists establish two different projects for this under the Jenova Project: Hojo establishes Project S, which based in Nibelheim's Shinra Mansion, while Hollander establishes Project G, based in Banora Village.
- The Department of Administrative Research, also known as the "Turks," assigns Vincent Valentine to protect the Shinra scientists for Project S as they carry out their research in Nibelheim, much to the surprise of Lucrecia.
- Dr. Hollander uses Shinra Science Department Employee, Gillian Hewley as a test subject for Project G (which is named after Gillian herself), injecting Jenova cells into the woman's body.
- Using Gillian's DNA, now infused with the Jenova Cells, Dr. Hollander seeds the genome of a fetus with Jenova cells.
- As a part of Project G, Gillian becomes pregnant, her child inheriting the Jenova cells present in her body.
- Genesis Rhapsodos is born, yielding the results of Hollander's attempt of incorporating Gillian's DNA with a human fetus. When it is discovered that Genesis only has the ability to create clones but not to incorporate others into him, he is labeled a failure and given over to the landlord of Banora, so his family could raise him as their own.
- Angeal Hewley is born to Gillian Hewley as apart of Project G. Unlike Genesis before him, Angeal is labeled a success, having the ability to make clones of himself and incorporate others into himself. However, due to Shinra's lack of support, and ultimate abandonment of Project G, Angeal was left in the custody of his mother to be raised as a normal boy.
- Hojo and Lucrecia conceive a child. Hojo convinces Lucrecia to use their unborn child as a test subject for Project S by injecting Jenova cells into the fetus. Based on later events and reports made by Lucrecia, it's assumed Vincent and Lucrecia had developed romantic feelings, but they fell out.
- Sephiroth is born to Hojo and Lucrecia. He is taken away from Lucrecia immediately following his birth so that he may be studied. The presence of the Jenova cells is apparent in the boy's body from an early age, therefore labeling him a success.
- Lucrecia becomes ill from the experiments that are performed upon her, the Jenova cells now coursing through her own body as well. When an enraged Vincent confronts Hojo about this, the scientist shoots him. Hojo then performs experiments upon Vincent, which increases his body's durability, halts his body from aging, and gives him the power of metamorphosis. However, Vincent ultimately dies during the experiment.
- Lucrecia uses Vincent's body in an experiment to make him a vessel for Chaos. She is able resuscitate him by infusing pure mako into him, and successfully merges Chaos's spirit with Vincent's own essence, putting the Protomateria in his chest to keep Chaos under control. Shortly after this, Lucrecia leaves Nibelheim, her whereabouts unknown.
- Vincent awakens in the basement of Shinra Mansion, where he changes into the Galian Beast. Horrified by this, Vincent thinks this to be punishment for his failure to stop Lucrecia from allowing herself and her unborn child to be experimented upon. He finds a room full of coffins in a room in the basement of Shinra Mansion and shuts himself away inside one of them as punishment for his actions. Because of Hojo's experiments, Vincent is able to stay asleep inside of the coffin without aging or even having to sustain himself.
- Rude is born.
- Professor Gast leaves Shinra, setting out on a journey across the Planet in order to find answers to the many questions he has about Jenova, the Ancients, and the Planet in general.
- In Gast's absence, a power struggle occurs within the Shinra's Department of Scientific Research between Professor Hojo and Dr. Hollander over who the new department head will be. In the end, Hojo obtains the position, his achievements in Project S being more recognized by Shinra than Hollander's Project G.
- During his travels, Gast visits Cosmo Canyon, home to a group of people who know much about the Planet. During his time in Cosmo Canyon, Gast provides Bugenhagen with scientific equipment so that he may better monitor the Planet.
- Professor Gast meets a woman named Ifalna, one of the last Ancients on the Planet. Initially, he takes an interest in her, wanting to know more about her people and the Planet. However, they eventually fall in love and retire to Icicle Inn, on the Northern Continent.
- Reno is born.
- February 7 - Aerith Gainsborough is born to Gast and Ifalna in Icicle.
- February 27 - Hojo tracks Gast down to his home in Icicle. Professor Gast is shot to death by the troops accompanying Hojo, who then takes both Ifalna and Aerith into custody at the Shinra Building in Midgar.
- Midgar begins construction of the Plate - eight sectors built above the smaller settlements on the ground, which in turn gradually become nameless slum areas.
- The Wutai War begins between the forces of Wutai and Shinra when Wutai, the last major land free of their influence, denies Shinra permission to build a Mako Reactor on sacred Wutai grounds. Among the Shinra troops deployed to Wutai are Elmyra Gainsborough's husband and Sephiroth, now a SOLDIER 1st Class.
- Sephiroth's unparalleled strength and skill gains recognition during the Wutai War, quickly becoming a world-famous war hero.
- SOLDIER Unit 14: Lost Force specializes in extracting dead bodies from the battleground for unknown purposes.
- Ifalna and Aerith escape from the Shinra building, fleeing to the Sector 7 Slums by train. Upon arriving at the Sector 7 train station, Ifalna collapses, then dies. Elmyra, having been at the train station when this happened, takes Aerith into her home. The young girl adapts to her new home fairly quickly.
- Elmyra's husband is killed in action. Aerith is somehow able to sense his death and tells Elmyra, but she does not believe her. A few days later, Elmyra receives a notice saying that her husband has died.
- Determined to join SOLDIER, Zack Fair leaves Gongaga and heads off to Midgar.
- An anti-Shinra activist group lead by a man known as the "Death God of the Battlefield" meet with a weapons dealer to negotiate a deal with him. Unbeknownst to them, however, the weapons dealer betrays them and they are attacked by Shinra. Only the leader survives the attack.
- Tseng, a young rookie member of the Turks is sent Costa del Sol to investigate the kidnapping of a Shinra infantryman from one of Shinra's Mako Reactors. Finding him aboard an unmarked ship in the harbor, Tseng learns from the infantryman, who was being tortured for information about the reactor, that the people holding him are apart of an anti-Shinra militant group that has been stockpiling weapons aboard the ship from a black market weapon seller. Not wanting to leave the infantryman for death, Tseng abandons his mission and rescues him, instead of investigating the ship further like he was ordered.
- Several days after Tseng's mission in Costa del Sol, Veld, the commanding officer of the Turks, tells Tseng that he has failed in his duty as a Turk by choosing the life of the Infantryman over protecting company secrets. In order to correct this mistake, President Shinra orders the Turks to destroy all the weapons and data that the anti-Shinra group has and to locate the leak within the company that is providing the black market weapon seller with information. Tseng is included in this mission, much to his surprise.
- Tseng once again arrives in Costa del Sol, this time with Veld, as they infiltrate the ship. While Tseng deletes all the data on the ship's computers, Veld investigates the weapons that they have. Before Tseng can delete all of the data, anti-Shinra operatives manage to make off with a hard copy of the data. In the Cargo hold, Veld discovers an army of Proto Golems, a robotic weapon developed by Shinra. Tseng is forced to choose between helping his mentor or upholding his duty as a Turk and retrieving the data. Choosing to stick to the mission, Tseng tracks down the operatives and eliminates them, successfully recovering the data in the process. Tseng then goes onto help Veld fight off the Proto Golems, but after they are all defeated, an explosion goes off within the ship. Tseng finds himself trapped under some wreckage as he insists that Veld leave him and report back what they've found to Headquarters. Not wanting to abandon one of his men, Veld finds himself abandoning his duty as a Turk to save Tseng, and is able to make it out alive with him. During the escape, Veld sustains a scar on his face, which he will carry for the rest of his life.
- Tseng awakes days later in intensive care, where he is commended for uncovering stolen weapons plot. During this time, he learns from Veld that the Shinra leak originates from Kalm.
- Kalm is firebombed by Shinra to eliminate the company leak. This order is given by Veld, who was unhindered by the fact that Kalm was his hometown and that his wife and daughter, Felicia are there. During the destruction, Veld loses one of his arms.
- he survivors of Kalm's destruction, including Veld himself, are taken to the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. There, they are all used as experimental test subjects, which results in most of them dying. Veld is only given an experimental prosthetic arm with a Materia slot and is allowed to go free. He is told that both his wife and daughter, Felicia, died in the bombing, but in reality, Felicia was alive and being used as an experiment in which a unique Materia is grafted into the back of her hand.
- Veld assists Shinra in covering up the destruction of Kalm, not letting his personal feelings of losing his entire family get in the way of his duty as a Turk.
[ μ ] - εуλ 1999
- November 10
- Tseng meets the Legendary Turk, who turns out a former anti-Shinra activist, Death God of the Battlefield, whom Tseng had previously crossed paths with. Tseng is to oversee the Legendary Turk's mission to Wutai.
- The Legendary Turk arrives at a secret Shinra military base in Wutai where he must rescue a Shinra weapons trader and eliminate the anti-Shinra operatives occupying the base before any information about the secret base can be leaked. After planting bombs all over the installation, as part of his mission, the Legendary Turk goes to rescue the dealer where he finds that he's being guarded by a former comrade from his anti-Shinra days. The Legendary Turk defeats his former comrade, and as he dies, he tells him that the one responsible for betraying him at the Mako Reactor back in 1997 was the weapons dealer. The Legendary Turk then recognizes weapons dealer that he is supposed to rescue as that same weapons dealer that had betrayed him. The Legendary Turk demands that the dealer admit that he was the one that sold him out, but he refuses to do so. Because of the weapon dealer's unwillingness to admit his betrayal, the Legendary Turk leaves him inside of the building as the bombs go off.
- The Legendary Turk is put under house arrest in Costa del Sol for abandoning his mission to rescue the kidnapped weapons dealer. He is able to avoid a more serious sentence due to the fact that he still carried out his mission to protect the company's secrets.
- Shinra discovers the existence of Shelke Rui, a young orphan with an extremely rare gift known as Synaptic Net Diving (SND), who had displayed great ability as a child with the technique which allowed her to interact with different planes of existence such as digital currents and the subconscious thoughts and memories of others.
- Shelke Rui is kidnapped from her sister Shalua by the Turks to be taken to Shinra Headquarters to be inducted as a SOLDIER so that they may develop and harvest the ability for a new generation of warfare.
- Thinking that Shelke's abilities would be of better use to Deepground, President Shinra orders a top secret mission to be executed by the Restrictors to take Shelke to Deepground.
- While Shelke is being was being transferred to Midgar by the Turks, the convoy of Shinra soldiers accompanying her are attacked and annihilated by Deepground SOLDIERs led by a member of Lost Force. As far as the Turks know, Shelke was kidnapped and not to be recovered.
- Sephiroth, Genesis, and Angeal, now comrades and friends (all three 1st Class), go into the SOLDIER training room for some sparring. During the training session, things get out of hand when Genesis challenges Sephiroth to a one-on-one battle, forcing Angeal to intervene. As a result, Genesis sustains serious injuries, while the training room sustains major damage.
- During his treatment by Dr. Hollander, Genesis is told the truth about his birth and the secrets of his body. He also learns that the cells in his body are beginning to degrade, and he does not have much longer to live. Upon hearing this, Genesis agrees to ally himself with Hollander, so that he may find a cure for his degradation
- Hollander contacts the Director of SOLDIER, Lazard, and informs him of Genesis's origins, proposing they use the SOLDIER's abilities for an uprising against Shinra. Holding a great deal of enmity towards Shinra, Lazard agrees to help the scientist, secretly providing him with the necessary funds to put this plan into motion.
October
- Mass SOLDIER Desertion Incident - Genesis is dispatched to Wutai, as the country's war with Shinra rages on. Upon arriving in Wutai, Genesis puts Hollander's plan into motion, leaving Shinra in the line of duty and taking a multitude of 2nd and 3 Class SOLDIERs with him.
- Hollander steals classified documents from the Department of Scientific Research and disappears.
- SOLDIER, 1st Class Angeal Hewley and his protégé, SOLDIER, 2nd Class Zack Fair, are dispatched to Wutai to carry out what was supposed to be Genesis's mission: capture Fort Tamblin.
- Angeal and Zack succeed in capturing Fort Tamblin. During the raid of the fort, a third party gets involved: Genesis Copies, the missing SOLDIER members, now turned into mindless puppets. In the ensuing fight between Zack and the Genesis Copies, Sephiroth shows up on the battlefield. After eliminating all of the Copies, Zack and Sephiroth realize that Angeal has disappeared.