Draklor Laboratory

Draklor Laboratory is an unrevisitable location in Final Fantasy XII. It is situated in Archades, the capital city of the Archadian Empire, and is among the tallest buildings there.
==Sage Knowledge==
==Locations==
*66th Floor: The player starts in an area boasting a large mural of two women. Once the Draklor lab access card is obtained from Cid's office, the player may visit the rooms on the floor.
*67th Floor: Houses Cid's office. Cid's lab access card is required to advance.
*68th Floor: Houses several rooms with treasure chests in the Zodiac versions.
*70th Floor: The 70th floor provides access to the roof, which houses the Energy Transitarium. There is also a small room with a bookshelf and machinery, room 7002 East. 7002 East is easy to miss if the player is concentrated on the battle. This room contains the Pheasant Netsuke chest.
==Treasures==
In the original PlayStation 2 version, the treasures in Draklor Laboratories appear in pairs, with one treasure with 100% spawn rate, and the other with 70% spawn rate. They most often contain different types of Motes, even with the Diamond Armlet equipped. In the room in the northeastern corner of the Floor 66 the 70% chance treasure can give a Power Vest, and the 100% chance treasure can give a gambit for a foe weak against Wind. In the Floor 67, in the southwestern corner of the area, the treasures can contain a Doom Mace (70% treasure) and gambit for a foe weak against the Dark (100%). In the 70th Floor there is a single treasure with 70% spawn rate that can contain the Pheasant Netsuke.
In the Zodiac versions, the treasures are different. Though none of the treasures can be returned for later, the treasure in the boss room can also only be looted during the boss battle itself.
===66th Floor - Room 6613 East===
;Zodiac
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
1 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
1 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Balance Mote 	Bio Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (A)
2 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
2 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Gravity Mote 	Aero Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (A)
3 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
3 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Aquara Mote 	Aeroga Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (B)
;Original
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure 	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
1 	70% 	0% 	Gil 	Item 1 	Item 2 	Gil 	Item 	
1 	70% 	0% 	N/A 	Balance Mote 	Power Vest 	N/A 	Hastega Mote 	
2 	100% 	0% 	Gil 	Item 1 	Item 2 	Gil 	Item 	
2 	100% 	0% 	N/A 	Balance Mote 	G-Foe: wind - vuln.	N/A 	Holy Mote 	
===67th Floor - Room 6711 West===
;Zodiac
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
4 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
4 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Balance Mote 	Aeroga Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (A)
5 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
5 	60% 	0% 	N/A	Cura Mote 	Bio Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (B)
6 	100% 	0% 	N/A	Claymore 	Claymore 	Claymore 	Claymore
;Original
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure 	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
3 	70% 	0% 	Gil 	Item 1 	Item 2 	Gil 	Item 	
3 	70% 	0% 	N/A 	Balance Mote 	Doom Mace 	N/A 	Hastega Mote 	
4 	100% 	0% 	Gil 	Item 1 	Item 2 	Gil 	Item 	
4 	100% 	0% 	N/A 	Balance Mote 	G-Foe: dark - vuln.	N/A 	Holy Mote 	
===68th Floor - Room 6801 West===
These chests only appear in the Zodiac versions.
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
7 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
7 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Balance Mote 	Bio Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (A)
8 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
8 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Aquara Mote 	Dispel Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (B)
9 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
9 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Cura Mote 	Aquara Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (A)
10 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
10 	55% 	0% 	N/A	Balance Mote 	Warp Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (A)
===70th Floor - Room 7002 East===
;Zodiac
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
11 	50% 	0% 	N/A	Item 1 	Item 2 	Common 	Rare
11 	50% 	0% 	N/A	Reverse Mote 	Aeroga Mote 	Knot of Rust 	Meteorite (A)
12 	100% 	0% 	N/A	Gil Toss 	Gil Toss 	Gil Toss 	Gil Toss
;Original
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure 	Normal Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
5 	70% 	0% 	Gil 	Item 1 	Item 2 	Gil 	Item 	
5 	70% 	0% 	N/A 	Pheasant Netsuke	Hastega Mote 	N/A 	Hastega Mote 	
===Energy Transitarium===
These chests only appear in the Zodiac versions. This is the room where Cid is fought. As such, the player must grab the chest during the battle as they can never return to the location after.
Chest	Spawns	Holds Gil%	Gil	Normal Treasure	Normal Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure	Diamond Armlet Treasure
13 	100% 	0% 	N/A	Holy Mote 	Holy Mote 	Holy Mote 	Holy Mote
14 	100% 	0% 	N/A	Hastega Mote 	Hastega Mote 	Hastega Mote 	Hastega Mote
==Story==
The head researcher at Draklor is Dr. Cid, who has become obsessed with nethicite and spends all of his time researching its properties and how to integrate it into weapons for the empire. He conspires with Vayne Carudas Solidor to conquer all of Ivalice, and thus Vayne orchestrates for Archadia to invade the smaller nations on the Empire's border to obtain their shards of deifacted nethicite, heirlooms of Dynast King Raithwall so Cid can study their properties at the Draklor Laboratory. After meeting the rogue Occuria Venat at Giruvegan the two team up and Venat teaches Cid how to manufacture manmade nethicite. Behind Emperor Gramis Gana Solidor's back, Vayne enters a deal with Halim Ondore IV of Bhujerba for the local Lhusu Mines to provide the Draklor Laboratories with magicite for study.
Ashe, after obtaining the Sword of Kings, plans to use it to destroy the Empire's nethicite in the laboratory and infiltrates the Draklor Laboratory with the help of Balthier's "friend", Jules. Once inside, the party discovers someone else has also infiltrated the building. The intruder shows himself when the party reaches the upper floors leading to Dr. Cid's room, and is revealed to be the sky pirate Reddas. Reddas assists the party when they confront Dr. Cid but Cid escapes with the nethicite, saying he is heading to Giruvegan. Reddas helps the others escape on his airship and takes them to the Balfonheim Port.
==Enemies==
When the party first arrives, there are no enemies. It is not until after the party arrives and obtains the map that an alarm is triggered, calling various enemy soldiers and the occasional mastiff to defend the lab. The party reaches the top floor by using switches to remotely open and close different doors, where they fight Cid. Once Dr. Cid is defeated, the party can no longer return.
*Lab Rat
*Hecteyes
*Blood Gigas
*Imperial Swordsman
*Imperial Hoplite
*Mastiff
*Judge
*Imperial Pilot
*Rook
*Doctor Cid (Boss)
==Map==
The map is received automatically on floor 67 in Dr. Cid's office. There is no 69th Floor.
==Other appearances==
===Final Fantasy Record Keeper===
==Gallery==
Draklor-Laboratory-Concept-Artwork-FFXII.jpg|Concept art.
Vayne and Larsa (artwork).jpg|Artwork of Vayne and Larsa with Draklor Laboratory behind them.
Archadescity.jpg
DraklorOutside.jpg|Exterior.
Draklor-Laboratory-Dead-Soldiers-FFXII-TZA.jpg
Cid's-office.png|Cid's office.
Cids-Office-FFXII-TZA.png|Cid's office.
Bulkhead-controls.jpg|Bulkhead controls.
Draklor-Laboratory-Elevator.jpg|Elevator.
==Etymology==
The word Draklor may come from two words: "dark" with changed letter order and "lore" which is other word for "wisdom". This makes the Laboratory's full name "Laboratory of Dark Wisdom" which would fit as Dr. Cid is researching various weapons of war, and the information about the research done there is not public.
Alternatively, the original Japanese name of the character Alphonse Delacroix is ドラクロワ ('dorakurowa'), which is very close to ドラクロア ('dorakuroa'). In the original English release of Final Fantasy Tactics, his name was more closely transliterated as "Draclau", which is close to "Draklor". Delacroix, just like Cid, made a pact with supernatural beings and received knowledge of magickal stones (auracite in Delacroix's case; magicite and nethicite in Cid's case), and was involved in a conspiracy to rule over the world.
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