Seen only in Final Fantasy VII Remake, the assembly plant comprise a series of laboratories on four different floors, linked to a hallway from the core at the bottom of mako storage. A door from the armory leads to the mako storage upper scaffolding. At the room's floor is an armory, which in Final Fantasy VII Remake contains three storage ports for mechs, with the Airbuster located in the middle port.
Atop the structure, a door to the elevator is located, along with a smaller round tower at the center that is climbed using ladders. The room is built around a large central structure, with a staircase connecting the top of the structure. This pipe can be slid down directly to the bottom floor of the room. It is an expansive room with brick walls and metallic pipes, one of which is located near the top-right of the room by a door leading in from the Lower Sector 4 Plate. The utility access is the first area the party visits after crawling in through the Sector 4 Lower Plate. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, the entrance laboratory also contains waste storage near the security lever, the door to which is opened by the same security mechanism. After opening the gate, a passageway leads out into Sector 5. The gate can only be operated by lever machinery, which will only work if those pulling the levers move them in sync with one another. Reached via elevator from the utility access, the entrance is a laboratory of rooms with a gate leading outside. In Final Fantasy VII Remake, the reactor interior appears much more blue, and though the layout is the same, a different route through the reactor is visited that goes through several armories. In Final Fantasy VII, Mako Reactor 5 differs from Mako Reactor 1 in that it has a blue and green tint while using otherwise identical screens. It is reached through the lower Sector 4 Plate, which leads directly to a chute that can be slid down to the floor of the utility access room. Mako Reactor 5 has an identical layout to the Mako Reactor 1, with a different entrance. Debris rain down on Sector 5 undercity, with the slums suffering-something which Shinra plays to their advantage through manipulation of the press and mass media.
However, Shinra detonates the reactor themselves after putting Avalanche live on TV as the culprits. Jessie reworks her explosives the night before the attack to minimize damage and casualties. Development of the new Airbuster is underway when Avalanche infiltrates the complex on their second bombing mission. Mako Reactor 5 doubles as Midgar's (and thus, Shinra's) largest weapons development plant. Given that Shinra had enough foreknowledge to set an ambush, it's possible the explosion was mitigated by them in some way. This is odd, given that Jessie said she would make her next bomb even more powerful than the one that destroyed the Sector 1 Reactor, but is supported by the visibly smaller explosion that results. The party destroy the Air Buster and as it explodes, Cloud Strife is caught in the blast and falls into the slums below like Zack had done seven years earlier.Īlthough the reactor explodes, it is later seen in use powering the Sister Ray cannon, indicating Shinra repaired the damage, unlike Mako Reactor 1, which was utterly destroyed and never repaired. The robot Air Buster is sent in to defeat the terrorists, while President Shinra leaves, certain of victory. On their way out, President Shinra greets the insurgents Shinra had known of the attack beforehand, and prepared the reactor as a trap for Avalanche.
Avalanche fights its way down to the main generator and plant the explosives. After climbing through the city's underground subway system they break into the reactor. Zack refuses to fight his old friend, but the ground beneath Zack breaks from Angeal's attack, and Zack falls into the slums below.įollowing their successful attack on the Sector 1 Reactor, the members of the eco-terrorist organization Avalanche hope to repeat their victory on the No. When Zack has Hollander cornered, Angeal arrives and shows Zack he is a monster by sprouting a white wing, then attacks.
Hollander and Genesis arrive, and while Sephiroth deals with his old friend, Zack chases after Hollander until they reach the bottom of the plate. The experiment was a failure and Genesis had begun to slowly degrade, and could make copies of himself on humans. They fight Sahagin-like monsters, but with a strange mutation: they have the face of their missing friend, Angeal Hewley.įurther investigation discovers both Angeal and Genesis were parts of Project G, an experiment performed by Hollander to make a modern Ancient. Zack Fair and his fellow SOLDIER First Class, Sephiroth, enter the reactor in search of the rogues, Genesis Rhapsodos and Dr Hollander.