Useless Bob
Timeline of all FF backstory!
Over 2000 years ago - The Cetra (Ancients) arrive on the planet.
2000 years ago - JENOVA arrives on the planet and infects the Cetra with "Star Scar Syndrome" A.K.A "Geostigma". JENOVA's landing creates a wound in the planet. This is the crater and the North Cave. 5 mechanical monsters are created by the planet. Sapphire WEAPON, Diamond WEAPON, Ultimate WEAPON, Emerald WEAPON, and Ruby WEAPON. Before these weapons are finished, the few remaining Cetra seal JENOVA in rock. The weapons hibernate.
Over the next 2000 years - The Cetra cross breed with humans. The technology evolves and Midgar is created. The government is unstable and ShinRa takes over.
57 years ago - Location Unknown - Vincent Valintine is born.
48 years ago - Cosmo Canyon - Nanaki is born. At some point, Cosmo Canyon is attacked by the GI. Nanaki's mother is killed and Seto defeats the GI, at the cost of his life; he is turned to stone.
33 years ago - North Corel - Barret is born.
32 years ago - Location Unknown - Cid born.
31 years ago - Mt. Neibel - Professor Gast digs up JENOVA sealed in stone.
Neibelheim Mansion - He studies her and thinks that he is an ancient (WRONG!). ShinRa funds this project.
30 years ago - Neibelheim Mansion - Hojo and Lucrecia are sent to assist Gast in the creation of humans with Cetra powers using JENOVA. A turk named Vincent is sent to overlook this project. Vincent falls in love with Lucrecia, but she loves Hojo and refuses his proposal. Lucrecia becomes pregnant and Hojo injects her and her child with JEVOVA cells. Lucrecia is altered permenantly, but Sephiroth lives. By this time, Gast has been gone for a long time. Vincent confronts Hojo. Hojo shoots him and turns him into a morphing monster. Vincent locks himself away in a coffin, unable to feel happiness anymore, and is not seen for many years. JENOVA is sealed in the Mt. Neibel reactor.
Over the next 6 years - Gast travels. He meets Bugenhagen. As he travels more, he comes across Ifalna. They fall in love and go to Icicle Inn.
22 years ago - Icicle Inn - Aeris is born. Hojo finds them and kills Gast. He captures Aeris and Ifalna.
21 years ago - Neibelheim - Cloud is born.
20 years ago - Neibelheim - Tifa is born.
16 years ago - Wutai - ShinRa and Wutai war. Yuffie is born to the town leader, Godo, who turns the town into a tourist attraction just to be able to keep it well.
Midgar - Ifalna and Aeris escape ShinRa and reach Sector 5. Ifalna heals Aeris and then dies. She gives Aeris to Elmyra Gainsborough. Sephiroth is growing and very talented. By request of President Shinra, he is drafted into SOLDIER.
ShinRa no. 26 (Rocket Town) - ShinRa develops the Space Project. Cid Highwind is chosen to pilot the rocket. However, to save Shera, who was repairing an oxygen tank, he aborts the flight.
Wutai - The war ends and ShinRa Weapons and Techology Company becomes ShinRa Electric Power Corporation.
12 years ago - Neibelheim - Tifa's mother dies. Tifa thinks that she left for Mt. Neibel and goes to find her. Cloud follows to keep her safe. However, Tifa is hurt and Cloud takes the blame. Cloud decides to become a SOLDIER and be like Sephiroth and Tifa becomes a martial artist under Zangan.
9 years ago - Gongaga - Zack leaves to join SOLDIER and becomes a high ranking officer.
7 years ago - Cloud leaves for SOLDIER. He promises Tifa that if she ever needs him, he will rescue her. He fails to get in. Cloud has a mako shower, as all MPs, but this shower is also the first part of him becoming a Sephiroth Clone. He becomes an MP and, too ashamed to show his failure, isolates himself from his home town. At this time, Zack, a ladies man, Meets Aeris.
5 years ago - Neibelheim - Zack and Sephiroth go to Neibelheim to investigate monster sightings, accompanied by 3 MPs. Cloud is one of them, but he hides face and his failure. Tifa comes as a tour guide. Two MPs fall and are assumed dead. In the reactor, they find Hojos failed experiments; the monsters. They also see JENOVA's chamber. Sephiroth goes to the ShinRa mansion and finds all of the JENOVA project research. He goes insane and goes to JENOVA. He burns the village and slaughters the villagers. Cloud tends to his dying mother before joining Zack as he marches to the reactor to fight Sephiroth. Tifa finds her dead father with Sephiroth's sword in his back. Se picks up his sword and attacks him, but he grabs his sword and attacks her back. Zack also attacks but is knocked away. Cloud fulfills his promise and comforts Tifa. The last thing Zack said before losing consciousness was "Cloud... Kill Sephiroth..." So, Cloud picks up Zack's Buster Sword and goes into the JENOVA chamber. He attacks and wounds Sephiroth, who can only take JENOVA's head and he ran past Cloud to the bridge above the flowing Mako. Sephiroth stabs him and Cloud uses the sword as a lever to flip Sephiroth down to the lifestream below. Sephiroth is presumed dead and it is decided to clone him. Cloud and Zack are taken to The ShinRa Mansion where they are to be injected with the DNA samples from Sephiroth. They escape. They rode in the back of a truck, Cloud wearing an extra pair of Zack's clothes. Zack was trying to keep Cloud sane. They reached the Midgar hills where ShinRa found thim.
Escapee Report No. 1
X Month X Day
The two escapees were located near Midgar.
Escapee Report No. 2
Description of the time of capture.
A - Former member of SOLDIER/Number ( )
No effect could be detected from either Mako Radiation Therapy or Jenova on him.
B - Regular/Number ( )
Reaction to Jenova detected.
Escapee Report No. 3
Concerning their disposal.
A - Shot for resisting.
B - Escaped during A's resistance.
Escapee Report No. 4
Other
B's whereabouts are currently unknown.
But, we submit there is no need to pursue him, due to his diminishing conciousness. Awaiting further instructions.
The MPs decided that Cloud could do no harm so they said he escaped. He reached Midgar and wandered.
Midgar - Tifa and Zangan go to the slums beneath Sector 7. Tifa opens a bar called 7th Heaven. It serves as the base of operations for AVALANCHE.
? - Sephiroth floats down the lifestream and reaches the destination of all lifestream, the rift in the planet: the North Cave. There, he is sealed in a mako gem and JENOVA regenerates, calling all of the clones for a "Reunion"
4 years ago - Corel - ShinRa builds a reactor in Corel. Dyne, a friend of Barret, opposes it, but Barret talks some sense into him. One day, they are walking home to find the town burning. There were explosions in the reactor and the villagers were blamed. They are attacked by MPs and Dyne falls from a cliff. Barret catches him, his right hand holding Dyne's left. They are both shot, rendering their arm useless. Both get a gun arm. Their wives are dead and Barret takes Dyne's daughter, Marlene, as his own child. Dyne stays in Corel and the it is covered in desert. The town becomes a prison and the Gold Saucer. The survivors rebuild Corel north of the old town and hate Barret, blaming him for not being there. Dyne becomes the head of the prison and Barret and Marlene go to Midgar. There, Barret expresses his hate for ShinRa and fulfills his promise made at Cosmo Canyon to save the planet from the life-sucking reactors by forming a rebel terrorist group called AVALANCHE (Yes they ARE terrorists). Cloud finds Tifa and comes out of his delirium. He begins to regain his memory, however, his memories are mixed with Zack's. He always had trouble being himself. So, AVALANCHE go to their first reactor bombing...
That should answer a few questions, although unessicarrily long.
