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The Jenova Project~A Timeline
By Maou

Final Fantasy VII is nearly legendary for the speculation and mystery
surrounding its complex plot. With one of the most massive backstories
of all time, Final Fantasy VII requires a bit of thinking to understand
completely. The purpose of this timeline is to present the events relating
to the characters who have key connections with Jenova, meaning
Sephiroth, Cloud, Zax, Tifa, Vincent, Hojo, Lucretsia, Gast, Ifalna, and
Aerith, and to therefor allow for more cognizant arguments with regard
to Final Fantasy VII’s story. (Note that the designers’ original names are
used.) Rather than with speculation, this timeline backs up the events
listed in each year with specific events and dialogue in the game. The
years are labeled with respect to the main Final Fantasy VII story,
equivalent to the year 0, the present. Obviously, there are countless
spoilers in this document, so please don’t read it unless you have played
through the game already!

*Pre -2000

-At some point, the human race is formed by those Ancients who settled
and did not wish to continue on the long journey to the Promised Land.

[Source: Kalm memory sequence]

*-2000

-Jenova, the «Calamity from the Skies,» crashes to earth and creates
what becomes known as the North Crater. Many Ancients gather there
to help the Planet heal its wound by letting it focus all its energy on
healing.

-This done, the Planet warns the Ancients to flee the area, but not in
time. A spectral figure, Jenova in disguise, approaches the Ancients in
the area, and infects them with a virus that transforms them into
monsters. Jenova continues his plan and infects Ancients worldwide.

-Jenova is stopped by a few surviving Ancients, who seal him away until
he is discovered by Shin-Ra aeons later. The Planet also created the
Weapons to destroy Jenova, but they were not needed because of the
surviving Ancients’ vigilance.

[Source: Icicle Inn records, Kalm memory sequence]

*-57

-Vincent Valentine is born.

[Source: Official age plus approximately 30 years of stasis sleep]

*-57~-50

-Lucretsia is born.

*-31

-Dr. Gast of Shin-Ra discovers Jenova, incorrectly identifying it as an
Ancient.

-Jenova is taken to Nibelheim.

[Source: Kalm memory sequence]

*-30

-Shin-Ra starts the Jenova Project, with the goal of producing humans
with the powers of the Ancients. Dr. Gast and his assistants, Hojo and
Lucretsia, are assigned to the project. Vincent, now a member of the
Turks, is assigned to protect the scientists. He has also fallen in love
with Lucretsia, although it is not known whether he knew her
beforehand.

-Vincent proposes to Lucretsia, but she leaves him for Hojo, either for
love or in the name of science.

-Vincent watches helplessly as Hojo and Lucretsia become involved and
have a child, finally infusing Lucretsia’s embryo Jenova’s cells. (He later
refers to this as his «crime.»)

-Vincent protests against Hojo’s use of human experimentation. When
Lucretsia’s child, Sephiroth, is born, her body is irreversibly damaged by
the Jenova cells, and she collapses. Finding her, Vincent pursues Hojo,
finally encountering him in Shin-Ra Mansion’s library. Hojo, no longer
willing to tolerate Vincent’s interference, shoots him, then alters his
body to make Vincent into something of a vampire, sealing him in the
mausoleum of Shin-Ra Mansion’s basement.

[Sources: Lucretsia’s waterfall-side cave memory sequence, Hojo’s note
in Shin-Ra mansion]

*-30~-29

-Sephiroth is taken away from his mother by Shin-Ra, and never realizes
that Lucretsia and Hojo are his parents.

[Source: Sephiroth describes Jenova as his mother and mentions nothing
of his father in Kalm memory sequence]

*-28~-25

-Gast travels to Cosmo Canyon and gives many scientific apparatus to
Buugenhaagen.

[Source: Vincent, aboard Highwind during the Key to the Ancients
sequence]

*-24

-Gast, apparently disgusted with Shin-Ra, moves to Icicle Inn. He has
met Ifalna, an Ancient, and learns the truth about Jenova and the
Calamity from the Skies.

[Source: Icicle Inn records]

*-22

-Aerith is born to Ifalna and Gast.

-20 days later, Hojo tracks down Gast after two years of searching, and
desires Ifalna and Aerith for his experiments. Gast resists and is shot,
while Ifalna and Aerith are taken to Midgard.

[Source: Icicle Inn records]

*-21

-Cloud Strife is born Nibelheim.

*-20

-Tifa Lockheart is born in Nibelheim.

*-17

-Ifalna and Aerith escape from the Shin-Ra aboard the train. Drained,
likely from Hojo’s experiments, Ifalna dies. Elmyra Gainsborough finds
them and adopts Aerith.

[Source: Elmyra Gainsborough’s memory sequence]

*-15~-8

-Sometime during this period, Sephiroth becomes a top-ranking
«Soldier» general and helps Shin-Ra crush Uutai in the war.

[Source: Yuffie to Godo in Uutai, Kalm memory sequence]

*-10

-Zax leaves his home in Gongaga and soon becomes a Soldier First
Class in Shin-Ra’s army.

[Source: Zax’s parents in Gongaga]

*-10~-7

-Zax meets and dates Aerith.

[Source: Playground conversation with Aerith, Gold Saucer date with
Aerith]

*-7

-Cloud meets Tifa at the Water Tower, and tells her of his plan to leave
Nibelheim and become a member of «Soldier.» Tifa asks him to promise
to come to her aid if she is ever it trouble. Soon after, Cloud departs
from Nibelheim.

[Source: Tifa’s memory sequence in 7th Heaven with Cloud]

-Zax writes his parents, and mentions his girlfriend, Aerith.

[Source: Zax’s parents in Gongaga]

*-7~-5

-Cloud meets Zax, though he fails to become a Solider First-Class.

[Source: Lifestream memory sequence]

*-5

-Shin-Ra deploys «Soldier» to deal with a number of monster that have
cropped up around the Nibelheim Makou Reactor. Leading the
expedition is General Sephiroth, accompanied by First-Class Soldier Zax
and two standard soldiers, one of whom is Cloud.

-Tifa waits for Cloud, but never sees him. Martial arts master Zangan,
Tifa’s teacher, is in town, suspicious of Shin-Ra.

-Tifa is assigned to be Sephiroth’s guide to the Makou Furnace. Along
the way up Mt. Nibel, the bridge collapses, and one soldier (not Cloud)
is lost. The group continues until they reach the reactor. Cloud, his
identity still masked from Tifa, watches her as Sephiroth and Zax repair
the valves inside.

-Sephiroth discovers records of the discovery of Jenova in Shin-Ra
Mansion’s library, and locks himself in the basement, reading. He
discovers records of his creation at the hands of Gast, but the report he
reads only informs him that Jenova is an Ancient, and gives no
information on Jenova’s true nature.

-Zax checks on Sephiroth, and finds the enraged soldier in the library.
Sephiroth, convinced he is an Ancient, plans to take back the Planet
with his «mother,» Jenova. He dashes past Zax, and sets fire to
Nibelheim, killing its residents. Cloud is left wounded outside, trying to
protect his mother. Zangan and Zax attempt to rescue survivors from
the flames. Tifa’s father pursues Sephiroth, who has continued on to the
Makou Furnace. Zax continues after them.

-Sephiroth kills Mr. Lockheart at the threshold of Jenova’s chamber.
Tifa follows after him, and attempts to kill Sephiroth with his discarded
Masamune sword. Sephiroth overpowers Tifa and gashes her with
Masamune before continuing into Jenova’s room. Zax pursues him, and
is also defeated. Both are left helpless as Sephiroth unlocks Jenova’s
cage.

-Cloud rises from the flames of Nibelheim and follows the others. Cloud
eases Tifa’s pain, then takes Zax’s Buster Sword into Jenova’s room and
runs it through Sephiroth. He exits, and tends to Tifa.

-Sephiroth, unable to take all of Jenova with him, severs its head, and
walks, wounded, past Cloud and the others. Cloud pursues him over the
bridge of the reactor, and Sephiroth gouges him with Masamune. Cloud
pulls the sword out, and flings Sephiroth (along with Jenova’s head) off
the bridge into the Makou stream below. Cloud collapses.

[Sources: Kalm/Lifestream Memory sequences, headless Jenova in Shin-
Ra Tower]

-Shin-Ra arrives, and Sephiroth is presumed dead. Hojo starts the
Sephiroth Copy Program, and gathers the bodies of Nibelheim for his
experiment. The remains of Jenova are transferred to Midgard.

-Tifa is saved from this fate by Zangan, who takes her away from
Nibelheim, and after unsuccessfully trying to heal her on his own,
continues on to a doctor in Midgard.

[Sources: Zangan’s secret note in Tifa’s piano]

*-5~Present

-Cloud and Zax’s bodies are taken to Shin-Ra Mansion’s basement to be
part of the Sephiroth Copy Program. They escape. Zax is mostly
unaffected, already showered with Makou as a Soldier First-Class, but
Cloud is nearly comatose. Zax helps Cloud escape, and they head
towards Midgard, where Zax plans on their being mercenaries. Zax
gives Cloud a First-Class uniform to wear. Shin-Ra soldiers ambush
them outside of Midgard, and Zax is shot as he defends himself and
Cloud. The soldiers assume Cloud is harmless in his catatonic state, and
leave him to die.

-Cloud takes Zax’s Buster Sword, and struggles until he reaches
Midgard Sector 7 and collapses. Tifa finds him, and Cloud regains
consciousness upon hearing her voice, but mixes his memories and
Zax’s, due in part to the First-Class uniform. Tifa gets Cloud a job with
Avalanche in order to keep an eye on him.

[Source: Tifa’s post-Reunion memory sequence, Shin-Ra Mansion
secret memory sequence, Shin-Ra Mansion’s library’s reports]

-Shin-Ra recreates Nibelheim to look as it did, and cover up details of
the Sephiroth incident.

[Source: Nibelheim Copy Report on Tifa’s desk]

-Sephiroth washes through Lifestream and ends up in the North Cave.
While in Lifestream, he learns the truth about himself and Jenova. He
soon discovers that he can psychically manipulate the Sephiroth Copies
by controlling their Jenova cells.

[Source: Sephiroth Copy #1 in the Temple of the Ancients]

*Present

-While on an Avalanche mission, Cloud meets Aerith, who has the
White Materia of her mother.

-While Cloud and Avalanche raid the Shin-Ra Tower, «Sephiroth»
appears (actually Sephiroth’s psychic shade, Sephiroth Copy #1). He
liberates Jenova and reattaches its head, then kills President Shin-Ra and
continues onward in search of the Black Materia.

[Source: Jenova is no longer headless when Cloud and the others battle
it]

-The Sephiroth Copies start making their way to the North Cave, as
predicted by Hojo.

[Source: Hojo at Costa del Sol, Nibelheim Copy report on Tifa’s table]

-Cloud and the party pass through «Nibelheim» while persuing
Sephiroth. They awaken Vincent in Shin-Ra Mansion’s mausoleum.
Vincent joins them in hopes of confronting Hojo and atoning for his sins
of the past.

-Sephiroth invades the Temple of the Ancients in search of the Black
Materia, used to summon Meteor. With this ultimate destructive power
he intends to create a huge wound in the Planet, and then to capture its
healing energy for himself, becoming a god.

-With the help of Aerith and Cait Sith, Cloud obtains the Black Materia,
but Sephiroth controls him as a Sephiroth Copy and makes him
relinquish it. Aerith pursues Sephiroth past the Sleeping Forest.

-Cloud and the party catch up to Aerith in the Forgotten City of the
Ancients. Aerith prays to the Planet to summon the Holy magic to stop
Meteor, but Sephiroth mortally wounds her with Masamune, and the
White Materia is lost.

-Cloud and the party pursue Sephiroth to the North Cave, where he
reveals that he has merely been controlling the Copy they pursued.
Sephiroth creates a mirage around Cloud and Tifa, and attempts to
undermine Cloud’s sense of self by showing pieces of the true past.
Cloud loses confidence and control, and gives the Black Materia to the
true Sephiroth, encased in crystal in the center of the North Cave. A
massive earthquake takes place as the Weapons are freed and Sephiroth
summons Meteor while creating a barrier around the North Cave.

-Tifa finds Cloud washed up with severe Makou poisoning in Mideel.
She tends to him while the others prevent Shin-Ra’s attempts to use
Huge Materia to destroy Meteor.

-Mideel is destroyed by Ultima Weapon, and Tifa and Cloud fall into
Lifestream. There, they both piece together the truth about what
happened five years ago.

-The White Materia is found, and with Buugenhaagen’s help, the party
determines that Holy has already been summoned, and that the Planet
itself may be the judge of what follows.

-Vincent encounters Lucretsia beneath a secluded waterfall. He recounts
events of his past, and finds Lucretsia crippled and hopeless because of
the Jenova cells within her. She dreams of Sephiroth, and Vincent tells
her that her son has perished. Lucretsia vanishes.

-Shin-Ra uses Sister Ray to destroy barriers set around the North Cave,
but Diamond Weapon attacks the Shin-Ra Tower and kills President
Rufus, marking the collapse of Shin-Ra. Hojo attempts to channel
massive energy to his son to see the colossal results. Cloud and Vincent
kill him, and the party prepares to attack the North Cave.

-The party raids the North Cave, slaying Jenova once and for all, and
plummets to the center of the Planet. Sephiroth has already begun his
assent to divine status, and becomes Reverse Sephiroth. The party
defeats him, and the cries of the Planet are heard as Sephiroth reaches
his ultimate form as the One-Winged Angel, and battles the party in the
sky. Cloud and his friends destroy Sephiroth at last.

-Before leaving the North Cave, Cloud confronts the «Sephiroth» in his
mind, eliminating the Jenova in him and freeing his psyche. He and Tifa
escape together and rejoin the others.

-Holy proves unsuccessful in stopping the mighty Meteor. Meteor hits
Midgard in particular, destroying Shin-Ra’s upper structures. At the last
moment, Lifestream appears to save the Planet, eliminating Meteor. The
others have a mental realization of Aerith’s role as part of Lifestream in
protecting the Planet.

*500 Years Later

-Midgard ceases to exist as a populated structure, and all threat from
Jenova and Meteor are gone. Red XIII, having found a mate and with
cubs, overlooks the spectacle of the Planet’s triumph over the harmful
Midgard, now overgrown with plants.

Author’s Comments

-Special thanks goes out to Fuujin (vincent@almasy.org) for the help
with Vincent-related items. Timeline inspiration and pinpointing was
also made easier by the translations of Japanese timelines by Kouryuu of
the famous but now no-more Sephiroth no oukoku.

Jenova, Final Fantasy VII, and all related characters are the property of
Square Co. Ltd. and Squaresoft. This work and its contents copyright
2000 by Maou. This work may only be redistributed if it remains entirely
unaltered with full credit given to the author.