Imperial Palace The Imperial Palace is located in the city of Vector , and it is where Gestahl reigns over the Empire in " Final Fantasy VI " . The player first sees Vector in a flashback at the beginning of the game . The player can enter the Imperial Palace ' s outer region during their first visit to Vector after Setzer Gabbiani joins the party and provides his airship , but they are attacked by the Guardian and are forced to flee when they are unable to defeat it . The palace itself lacks the finery and grandeur of what is expected from an Imperial abode and is instead highly industrialized and more akin to a factory ; rooms divided by pipes and venting ; dark metal walkways with safety railings ; patchy cobbled together walls of scrap metal . The only remotely opulent aspect of the palace is the regal red carpets that partially obscure the dank hallway . The choice of design style is reminiscent of the real - world post industrial revolution where coal burning and iron forging became the norm and hailed the decline of the rural agricultural era . Story . Kefka placed a Slave Crown on Terra in the palace ' s highest chamber . Later , Gestahl gave a speech to his troops on the top floor . After the Returners open the Sealed Gate , the espers emerging from within raze the imperial capital . The Returners enter the palace to discuss the current state of affairs over a banquet . Gestahl appears to have surrendered and asks the Returners ' help in negotiating peace with the espers , and supplies a Magitek Armor Transport Ship . Terra and Locke heads on a goodwill mission to Crescent Island under the command of General General Leo to find them . Kefka Palazzo is locked within a dungeon in the palace at this time . After Leo and the others find the espers Gestahl frees Kefka and sends him to obtain more magicite from dead esper remains , while he himself abandons the palace to venture to the Esper World and find the Warring Triad . After the end of the world , the palace , along with the rest of Vector , is integrated into Kefka ' s Tower . Various chambers in the tower still boast imperial banners from the palace . The palace ' s prison remains intact and contains the boss Ultima Buster . Quests . The banquet . When the Returners are invited to dine with Emperor Gestahl , they are given two challenges : the first is to speak to as many soldiers in the palace as they can within four minutes , and the second is to correctly answer Gestahl ' s questions during the dinner . Depending on how well they accomplish these tasks , the player earns an unseen number of points towards receiving one to five rewards after the banquet . There are twenty - four soldiers to speak to . The two Elite Soldiers in Gestahl ' s throne room and Kefka in his prison cell do not count . Four of the soldiers attack the player and must be defeated in battle . Speaking to a soldier earns one point , defeating a soldier who attacks earns five points . The locations of the soldiers is as follows : During the dinner with Gestahl , he asks various questions , and the player ' s answers reward them with additional points . The amount of points earned for each response is noted in brackets after the answer . At this time , Cid offers a break . Should the player accept , they can speak to the soldiers at the table to battle them as three Imperial Elite . Defeating them within the time limit earns + 5 points . Returning to the center chair at the bottom of the table will begin the dinner again . Gestahl asks the player to accompany the Empire to search for the espers . Answering yes the first time he asks earns + 3 points . The player must answer yes to proceed with the game , but refusing the first time they are asked will not earn them any points when they accept . Assuming the player speaks to all the soldiers and answers of all Gestahl ' s questions properly , they can earn up to 93 points . After the banquet , they are rewarded based on how many points they earned :