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Suuure ok so

The Cetra are a race of aliens who came to earth thousands of years ago as part of their journey to reach the promised land. While there, another alien, Jenova, (for unknown reasons) hit the planet with a meteor. The planet used its lifeforceenergy to start repairing itself, and created Weapon to stop Jenova. The Certa were I guess waiting for the planet to finish healing, but along the centuries began to die out. In the meanwhile, people learned to use the life energy to create mako which makes materia which can be used to make magic and I assume other things like electricity and whatever. Shrina becomes a dominant force in the world because of their Mako minining and Materia production. however, stripping the earth of its resources is killing the planet, so Shinra begins using the Cetra to look for the promised land, which they assume is full of Mako. The last remaining Certa were Aeris - who was killed by Sephiroth - and her mom, who was killed by Shinra.

Some time before FF7 begins, Shinra accidentally awakens Jenova while mining, mistaking her for a Cetra, uses her cells to make Sephiroth, a super warrior who can look for the promised land. Everything is hunky dory until a mission at Nibelheim reveals the truth to Sephiroth - that he is a clone of Jenova (who he believes to be Cetra) and that his race was wiped out by the natives of earth. He goes crazy and murder everyone in this town and resolves to get his revenge.

meanwhile, childhood neighbors Zack, Cloud, and Tifa grew up at Nibel. Cloud was a shy kid with a crush on Tifa, but never expressed it. After Tifas mom died, she got into an accident trying to climb a mountain, and Cloud is blamed. After this, cloud decides to join SOLDIER, isnt good enough, but does become part of Sephiroths entourage, along with Zack who is a SOLDIER (and was dating Aeris at some point).

after seeing Seph kill Tifa and Zack during his rampage, Cloud kills him. Sephiroth is thought dead, but is taken in by Shinra to make clones. Cloud and Zack are also taken in, and injected with Sephiroth cells to make pseudo-clones. Somehow, Z escapes with Cloud and they both leave to Midgar. Zack is killed, and Clouds confused self gets his identity and Zacks messed up, and takes on Zacks dream of becoming a mercenary at Midgar. when cloud gets to Midgar, he reunites with Tifa, and Aeris starts talking to him because she is reminded of Zack.

back in the present, a cone of Seph finds the PL, Summons a meteor, and awakens the real Sephiroth.