Found out some....odd information.
It turns out that yes, Final Fantasy 7 is in the same universe as Final Fantasy 10.
They are separate planets, Gaia and Spira.
The ShinRa family are descendents of ShinRa from Final Fantasy 10, a thousand years ago.
A thousand years ago, ShinRa failed to master the Mako extraction process on pyraflies, but his family eventually mastered it.
Something happened, causing the ShinRa family to leave Spira once they had space capable transportation and they found Gaia.
-Quote-
****Translations concerning the plot-related connection between FFVII and
FFX/X-2**** (005)
As some fans of Final Fantasy VII, X and X-2 may or may not know, the worlds
of the two games share a plot-related connection. The connection's existence
was established during an interview with Yoshinori Kitase (lead developer of
the Final Fantasy series) and Kazushige Nojima (the scenario writer of Final
Fantasy VII, Before Crisis, Advent Children, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy
X, Final Fantasy X-2 and the Kingdom Hearts series) in 2002, as featured in
the Final Fantasy X Ultimania Omega guidebook, an official Square-Enix
publication.
Nojima went on to say that Shinra's attempts to use Vegnagun's remains failed
and that he was unable to complete the concept of mako-extraction, just as
Shinra had predicted. However, some 1000 years later, once space travel became
possible, Shinra's descendants would go on a voyage to the world of Final
Fantasy VII. There, at some point in the future, they would be successful in
utilizing the concept, and would provide electricity from the Planet for a
price; these descendants would found the Shin-Ra Company of Final Fantasy VII.
-End Quote-
There, they created the ShinRa corporation, making guns for the War at the time.
Then they made the Mako Extraction process with lifestream instead of pyraflies.
They eventually became a super corporation, and bought out the government to the point where elected officials are sock puppets, with absolutely no power.
I am going to do even more in depth research, I may re-write this chapter if the direction shifts.
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Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar
It turns out that yes, Final Fantasy 7 is in the same universe as Final Fantasy 10.
They are separate planets, Gaia and Spira.
The ShinRa family are descendents of ShinRa from Final Fantasy 10, a thousand years ago.
A thousand years ago, ShinRa failed to master the Mako extraction process on pyraflies, but his family eventually mastered it.
Something happened, causing the ShinRa family to leave Spira once they had space capable transportation and they found Gaia.
-Quote-
****Translations concerning the plot-related connection between FFVII and
FFX/X-2**** (005)
As some fans of Final Fantasy VII, X and X-2 may or may not know, the worlds
of the two games share a plot-related connection. The connection's existence
was established during an interview with Yoshinori Kitase (lead developer of
the Final Fantasy series) and Kazushige Nojima (the scenario writer of Final
Fantasy VII, Before Crisis, Advent Children, Final Fantasy VIII, Final Fantasy
X, Final Fantasy X-2 and the Kingdom Hearts series) in 2002, as featured in
the Final Fantasy X Ultimania Omega guidebook, an official Square-Enix
publication.
Nojima went on to say that Shinra's attempts to use Vegnagun's remains failed
and that he was unable to complete the concept of mako-extraction, just as
Shinra had predicted. However, some 1000 years later, once space travel became
possible, Shinra's descendants would go on a voyage to the world of Final
Fantasy VII. There, at some point in the future, they would be successful in
utilizing the concept, and would provide electricity from the Planet for a
price; these descendants would found the Shin-Ra Company of Final Fantasy VII.
-End Quote-
There, they created the ShinRa corporation, making guns for the War at the time.
Then they made the Mako Extraction process with lifestream instead of pyraflies.
They eventually became a super corporation, and bought out the government to the point where elected officials are sock puppets, with absolutely no power.
I am going to do even more in depth research, I may re-write this chapter if the direction shifts.
_____________
Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered
Quote from Julius Caesar