Lunar Base The Lunar Base is a location in " Final Fantasy VIII " . It is a , Esthar ian space station created to observe the moon . Full - time crews take turns spending half a year at the base , and even the president of Esthar sometimes comes over . The Lunar Base is entered in special capsules , whereupon a person is placed in a state of forced sleep , and launched off into the air from the Lunar Gate , a launch pad in Esthar . Giant green nets at the base receive the capsules , which are then taken to the boarding room . Story . Not long before Sorceress Adel ' s capture , the Lunar Base was constructed to observe the moon . It would eventually serve the purpose of keeping Adel sealed in a location where she could never escape . Merely killing Adel would not have been enough , after all , she would have only passed on her powers to someone else . With Dr . Odine ' s technology capable of sealing a sorceress ' s powers , Adel was secured inside a suspension seal and launched off to space by three " Ragnarok " spaceships . Due to the powerful sealing technology , what became known as " Adel ' s Tomb " began to interfere with the radio waves back on earth . Squall Leonhart and his friends arrive at the base to find Ellone , a girl with mysterious powers who has said to have come aboard the base . Squall hopes that Ellone could help cure Rinoa Heartilly , who has fallen comatose for unknown reasons . They meet up with the base ' s leader , Piet , who explains Adel ' s suspension seal . They find Ellone , and Squall tries to use her gift to go back into Rinoa ' s past to find out what happened to her . In the middle of the talk Rinoa wakes up , although she does not act like herself . She puts on a space suit and goes out into space to break Adel ' s seal . Back on earth , the G - Forces , led by Squall ' s rival Seifer , start the Lunar Cry by placing the salvaged Lunatic Pandora on the Tears ' Point . The Lunar Cry brings monsters from the moon down to earth , Adel ' s tomb becoming entangled in the stream of monsters and being swept along with them . Rinoa is left for dead after Ultimecia , a sorceress from the future who had possessed her , leaves Rinoa ' s body in space in favor of Adel ' s . As the Lunar Base is drawn near the moon , Squall , Ellone , Piet and the rest of the crew escape the station ' s destruction via an escape pod . The Lunar Base is destroyed by the stream of monsters , and while aboard the escape pod , Squall begs Ellone to send him into Rinoa ' s past . The truth about Ultimecia ' s possession of Rinoa is revealed , but Squall is unable to do anything to prevent it . Squall begs Ellone to help him , and she telepathically connects him to Rinoa ' s mind as she floats in space , and Squall communicates to her to activate the emergency oxygen supply of her space suit . After coming to , Squall abandons the pod and enters out into space to rescue Rinoa . He catches up with her , and they stumble upon a derelict " Ragnarok " floating nearby , which takes them back to the planet . The escape pod falls to the plains of Esthar , from where G - Forces capture Ellone and take her to the Lunatic Pandora where Adel is recuperating , ready to become Ultimecia ' s next host . The control room is the station ' s central hub . It controls all actions and mechanics and has supervision over all areas . Adel ' s seal has two locks : one in the control room , and one on the tomb itself . The docking bay is used to dock pods launched from Esthar and to leave the Lunar Base back to the planet or out to Adel . One must wear a spacesuit , as the bay opens to space . The prep room is a small antechamber used to suit up into a spacesuit to leave the base . A room in the recesses of the station where Ellone stays . Albeit small , it is comfortable . It is the only living quarters shown , although there are most likely others . A smaller docking area ; the boarding room is where boardees from the single - man pods fired from the Lunar Gate emerge after their pods have docked . The med lab is an on - board medical facility where Rinoa is kept until she awakens . The escape pods are small chambers used in times of emergency . They can fit up to four people , and are jettisoned from the Lunar Base back toward the planet . They pass through the atmosphere mostly undamaged . The screen before the escape pods has a hidden draw point . Related locations . Adel ' s Tomb . The structure that houses Adel ' s " dead " form floats in space near the moon , frozen . Adel has stayed in the tomb petrified since the end of the Sorceress War . Its presence on the orbit causes a radio interference back on the planet , which led to the technology being largely abandoned . The tomb is shaped similarly to Esthar City ' s presidential palace , perhaps a final nod of unwilling respect to Esthar ' s once - tyrannical ruler . The shape also resembles wings , something associated with other sorceresses : Rinoa and Ultimecia . Escape Pod Crash Site . The escape pod falls to the peninsula south of Tears ' Point and becomes a hidden location . The location is not marked on the world map , but the player can access it by stepping on the correct spot on while on foot . If the player visits the site they will find Piet , but if visited on disc 4 , the player can find the Queen of Cards on the site . Quests . Triple Triad . Lunar Base is a notoriously difficult Triple Triad area , as it uses all the rules except Open . The player should seek to spread Open in the area to make the game easier . Ellone holds the Laguna card . If the player misses playing her , they will lose the chance to get the card unless they challenge the Card Club on disc 4 . Piet holds the Alexander card . If the player misses it , they can find the crashed escape pod on the world map and challenge him there . Optional FMV . There is an FMV that shows a Lunar Base ' s camera drone destroyed by a monster during the beginning stages of the Lunar Cry . To view it , the player must follow Ellone into the lift room that leads to the escape pods , and then return to the Lunar Base control room , go to the control panel and press . Musical themes . When first boarding the satellite the track " Dance with the Balamb Fish " plays and continues on as Squall explores the station . When Rinoa awakens , the event is accompanied by the " A Sacrifice " theme until the Lunar Cry occurs and the soundtrack is replaced by the theme " Movin " .