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In _Final Fantasy VII_ when infiltrating Shinra H.Q there is a puzzle where
one has to complete a model of Midgar, when examining Sector 6 it says that
it's being rebuilt.

When Cloud's team eavesdrop on the meeting with President Shinra, Scarlet,
Heidegger and Reeves they mention that they are stopping reconstruction of
Sector 6 to focus on the Neo Midgar Plan (now that Aerith could lead them to
the Promised Land).

This has always confused me as I always thought that Midgar was a completed
city and that only the Sector 7 plate was destroyed in the early events of the
game. So what happened to the Sector 6 Plate?


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What happened to the Sector 6 Plate?


I don't know what the writers had in mind for this at the time that scene was
written in Final Fantasy VII when it came out in 1997, but the 2004 cell phone
game [Before Crisis -Final Fantasy
VII-](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Before_Crisis_-Final_Fantasy_VII-)
explains how Sector 6 was destroyed. This game was never released in English,
so I'm relying on the wikia for this information.

In that game, the player controls a member of the Turks during their conflict
with AVALANCHE six years before the start of Final Fantasy VII. AVALANCHE
takes in a girl called Felicia who was implanted with a materia by Hojo. The
materia was supposed to be able to summon a creature called
[Zirconiade](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Zirconiade), but summoning
Zirconiade required four support materia, which Hojo didn't know, so he
pronounced the experiment a failure and threw Felicia out. She was taken in by
AVALANCHE. Fuhito, a scientist for AVALANCHE, figures out that Zirconiade
needs the four support materia to be summoned, so the group starts tracking
them down in order to summon Zirconiade and destroy all life on the planet.

![Zirconiade](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ks6m0.jpg)

Zirconiade

At the end of the game, Fuhito manages to summon Zirconiade and the Turks
fight it as the final boss. Its destruction creates a massive shockwave which
[destroys the Sector 6
plate](http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Sector_6#Before_Crisis_-
Final_Fantasy_VII-). Six years later, during Final Fantasy VII, much of the
Sector 6 slums is still wrecked and full of monsters, but some parts,
including the Wall Market, are habitable. It isn't clear from the wikia
whether these parts escaped destruction or if they were rebuilt in the
intervening years.


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