Tell me more about your Midgar Sector headcanons!!! :O
Before the Plate was formed and town histories erased, Shinra Manufacturing Works moved into Midgar. A region that was separated into 8 townships that relied on each other to form a wider collective.
Includes the area where the Shinra Tower was built (Sector Zero) - selected because of its rich mako deposits. There were whole sequences of materia caves that reached deep underground, including interior lakes, some of which had dried up to form intricate crystalline formations.
This is where a basic prototype reactor was installed, that was the same as the one made in Nibelheim. Both needed to be in a place of very high mako density for them to be even to generate a small amount of electricity, but it was enough to start the reliance from the small towns, and fuel the large scale manufacturing of Midgar the City that started in 1976.
Was not a predominant residential town as there were too many beasts attracted to the surface via the caves.
An important town within the Midgar boundaries, one that was predominantly agricultural due to the wide variety of plants that could be found there.
Several new species of plants were discovered by the fledgling scientific department in Shinra, including those that were researched and synthesised into potions and remedies (as well as several psychotropics and stimulants).
The Arnafell Church was a community centre as much as a place of worship. People met there to eat/drink/share stories and dances were held there. It is also the place that Shinra first commandeered in order to hold their first official Board Meetings - because nothing says power like taking over a place of worship in order to usher in the new era of Mako and capitalism.
A large plateau with natural boundary lines that was formed by an eruption. This was the sector that Shinra first moved most of their employees into. It quickly became too crowded, and the residents resented the influx of people, causing some conflicts. (Enforced) relocations spilled over to Brenning predominantly but also Laxard and Hafur.
A well balanced township, that accommodated the influx of people much better than Burfell and Hafur. A bit of a melting pot, with a good atmosphere. It did however get stretched to its absolute limits eventually, leading to a significant decline in housing stock. (In a case of history being perversely ironic, to bren means to burn or to set ablaze).
Was a quiet township, with very few residents. This soon changed in the spillover from Burfell. Was the first Sector to have development infrastructure tested above it, resulting in a freakishly high mortality rate (per % residents).
A township that ran on trading fundamentally. The Mydair Markets attracted people from all the surrounding towns and beyond (such as Junon fisherman) either as vendors and suppliers, or as customers. The place to be on Saturday and Wednesday.
Actually encompassed a fast-flowing section of river that was being used in hydroelectrics. The hydroelectric dam got destroyed in what was probably one of the Dept of Administrative Research missions, and river diverted further upstream back towards the sea, or drained in large sections. Then it became predominantly a residential area.
Rich in mineral ores and metal veins. It was a predominantly mining and industrial town. Residents in this township welcomed Shinra in with open arms, and many became employees in their own right. Particularly in engineering disciplines for both weapons manufacture and city planning.
His Father had been a junior architect who had come up with the idea of a plate to reduce the issues regarding over population in the towns.
However Reinhardt’s vision was 8 individual garden / habitation plates above each town, interlinked in a honeycomb lattice section with mono-rails joining them together. It was not sustainable nor cheap.
Reinhardt was forced into retirement on the basis of medical grounds the year before Reeve was born.
Construction of the city started in 1976, when Reeve was 4yo
However he was remarkably precocious and stole a ride into Midgar via Veld when he was but four and a half years old.
There he briefly met Vincent Valentine and stopped a reconnaissance plot where someone was using an automaton doll in the shape of a bird to get into the levels of the tower that had already been built.
He was still a child when he started researching Mako Energy that had been put into place several years before he was born.
Shinra really had no qualms about exploiting children.
This is another reason why Reeve feels so strongly when Denzel approaches him to join the W.R.O.
He takes an internship with Shinra whilst he studied, submitting the designs to the Mako Reactors and full plate construction circa 1990 when he was 17/8yo.
The Reactors were then built in places like Corel, Gongaga, Fort Condor.
During the events of Crisis Core and the Wutai War certain sectors are shown to still be under construction.
Sector 4 is the last sector scheduled for construction.
Most of Midgar is completed by the events of OGC/Remake. However Sector 6 is destroyed during the summoning of Zirconaide in Before Crisis.
Mako Reactors 1 and 5 are destroyed, then Sector 7 plate is dropped and Meteorfall finishes the job completely
