Post by Tifa Lockhart on Dec 21, 2007 23:52:17 GMT -5
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Now listen close to what I have to say, this is a tale of heroes and villains, cruelty and justice. How lives were changed in a battle to save a planet, how lives where lost due to people's mistakes. How love and destiny were acted on. And how one person's delusions could bring so many together in many ways.
It started with a company.
Those that wanted to protect the people of Gaia and yet wanted to control them. Those at the ShinRa Company wanted only to give people what they wanted, but with everything there was a price.
Loyalty and commitment were the prices to pay for comfort.
Pain and suffering were the prices to pay for any that stood up against them.
On such group stood against the very corporation that offered anything and everything people wanted. SOLDIERS for wars, power for homes, medicine for the sick. The one group of eco terrorists, who didn't know it at the time, were destined for big things. They exposed the so called protectors; they dug up the crimes so craftily hidden that when it came to the attention of the man that owned the whole set up, he called a private war against them, one act of so called defense was to drop the Plate onto the Slums.
People lost loved ones.
Families were destroyed.
And a Nightmare returned to rid the plant of all life.
The planet used its own defenses to stop what was happening. The Weapons rose up, the eternal protectors created for the sole purpose to destroy any threat to the planet. Enemies could be found on all sides, ShinRa, AVALANCHE, Sephiroth, even the fears and doubts in the back of the heros' minds.
But while enemies where gained and lost, new friends came and went.
For awhile it looked like ShinRa had backed away, while its hold on Gaia was strong, no one would have seen what was yet to come until it was too late. They had made their own weapon, known as the Sister Ray--something meant to destroy the weapons. Like all things though, something went wrong, when they fired at the Diamond Weapon the creature returned in kind.
That’s when everything went to hell.
The ShinRa tower was destroyed, the young president caught in the blast, like all empires ShinRa fell in a blaze of fire and destruction bringing death to many more. Those that served him, the infamous Turks dragged Rufus ShinRa from the wreckage and then they just disappeared leaving the burning remains of one life behind so many more could be saved.
It is safe to say that the world never came to an end, otherwise who would be telling this story now? While we sit here reminiscing about what was, shouldn’t we be looking at what is to come? Well, I’ll let you work that one out. For you have seen the rise and fall of a company that tried to rule the world. Seen the mistakes of mans desire for power turned back on them.
-- unknown author
Note: ShinRa Inc takes place during the two years gap from the game and the movie Advent Children.
[/align]Now listen close to what I have to say, this is a tale of heroes and villains, cruelty and justice. How lives were changed in a battle to save a planet, how lives where lost due to people's mistakes. How love and destiny were acted on. And how one person's delusions could bring so many together in many ways.
It started with a company.
Those that wanted to protect the people of Gaia and yet wanted to control them. Those at the ShinRa Company wanted only to give people what they wanted, but with everything there was a price.
Loyalty and commitment were the prices to pay for comfort.
Pain and suffering were the prices to pay for any that stood up against them.
On such group stood against the very corporation that offered anything and everything people wanted. SOLDIERS for wars, power for homes, medicine for the sick. The one group of eco terrorists, who didn't know it at the time, were destined for big things. They exposed the so called protectors; they dug up the crimes so craftily hidden that when it came to the attention of the man that owned the whole set up, he called a private war against them, one act of so called defense was to drop the Plate onto the Slums.
People lost loved ones.
Families were destroyed.
And a Nightmare returned to rid the plant of all life.
The planet used its own defenses to stop what was happening. The Weapons rose up, the eternal protectors created for the sole purpose to destroy any threat to the planet. Enemies could be found on all sides, ShinRa, AVALANCHE, Sephiroth, even the fears and doubts in the back of the heros' minds.
But while enemies where gained and lost, new friends came and went.
For awhile it looked like ShinRa had backed away, while its hold on Gaia was strong, no one would have seen what was yet to come until it was too late. They had made their own weapon, known as the Sister Ray--something meant to destroy the weapons. Like all things though, something went wrong, when they fired at the Diamond Weapon the creature returned in kind.
That’s when everything went to hell.
The ShinRa tower was destroyed, the young president caught in the blast, like all empires ShinRa fell in a blaze of fire and destruction bringing death to many more. Those that served him, the infamous Turks dragged Rufus ShinRa from the wreckage and then they just disappeared leaving the burning remains of one life behind so many more could be saved.
It is safe to say that the world never came to an end, otherwise who would be telling this story now? While we sit here reminiscing about what was, shouldn’t we be looking at what is to come? Well, I’ll let you work that one out. For you have seen the rise and fall of a company that tried to rule the world. Seen the mistakes of mans desire for power turned back on them.
-- unknown author
Note: ShinRa Inc takes place during the two years gap from the game and the movie Advent Children.