Upper Sector 7

Upper Sector 7 is a town in Final Fantasy VII Remake. It is located on the top plate of Sector 7 above the Sector 7 slums, and is a place of residence for Shinra Electric Power Company employees. Rowan Rasberry, the father of Jessie Rasberry, resides here. The plate is also home to a large Shinra warehouse at the Sector 7-6 Annex.
Prior to Final Fantasy VII Remake, only the Sector 7 undercity could be explored.
==History==
=== Before Final Fantasy VII ===
The Sector 7 plate was completed around 1976, and presumably began opening for new arrivals sometime after Midgar finished construction in 1976.
Jessie, Rowan, and her mother resided in the Shinra Employee Housing Area, as Jessie's father worked for Shinra. Jessie aspired to become an actress performing at the Gold Saucer's theaters, though when she landed a role, her father was left in a coma after a mako accident. Her father remained in their house on life support, and Jessie left, with Rowan believing she was still pursuing an acting career, unaware of her involvement with Avalanche. Denzel also resided on the upper Sector 7 plate with his family.
After receiving complaints at how corporate employees were given cozy homes while Shinra troopers were comparatively housed in old and cramped units, Shinra instituted a program allowing any trooper, even a private straight out of basic training, to become eligible to apply for company housing. The odds of landing it were extremely low, making the announcement mostly lip service, though one trooper, Silvina Kelly, was granted housing after applying. Lonny, her romantic partner, lived with her.
Jack Klein, a pilot from Shinra and one of the people Lonny tracked down in his search through his past, also resided in company housing in Sector 7.
=== Final Fantasy VII Remake ===
In "Mad Dash", Jessie returned to the plate with Cloud Strife, whom she had hired to help rob a Shinra ID card from her family home. Biggs and Wedge also came along, concerned for her safety. After traveling by motorcycle through the Corkscrew Tunnel, Cloud stole the ID while Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie distracted Rowan.
After securing the ID, Jessie asked Cloud, Biggs, and Wedge to cause a distraction in the Sector 7-6 Annex warehouse so she could infiltrate it to gather information about the Mako Reactor 1 bombing. Cloud, Biggs, and Wedge fought several Shinra forces at the warehouse, before Roche, who had previously fought them at the Corkscrew Tunnel, returned for a rematch with Cloud and disrupted Shinra's forces. Wedge was also severely injured in battle after a guard dog bit his rear. After other Avalanche cells attacked the warehouse, and Jessie found what she needed, Cloud, Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie left the plate and returned to the undercity using a parachute.
Later, Shinra, learning from Don Corneo that Barret Wallace's Avalanche cell was located in the Sector 7 Undercity, sent the Turks to drop the Sector 7 plate. In "Fight for Survival", Shinra successfully dropped the plate, after Avalanche were unable to fight them off, apparently killing the residents on Upper Sector 7. In "The Day Midgar Stood Still", Cloud, Barret, and Tifa Lockhart traveled atop the ruins of the plate using grappling hooks provided by Leslie Kyle on their way to the Shinra Building. The group saw the extent of the damage, and fought Shinra forces along the way, including the Valkyrie weapon, before reaching the building.
==Geography==
===Overview===
Upper Sector 7's main known points of interest are the Employee Housing Area, a residential area that houses Shinra employees, and the S7-6 Annex, an immense warehouse located just south of its residential area. Upper Sector 7 is notably a lot cleaner than its undercity counterpart, with larger, concrete houses that do not appear to be as cramped, and cleaner streets.
Upper Sector 7 is joined to a depot beneath it connected to the Corkscrew Tunnel, a winding overhead tunnel with a road leading into the Employee Housing Area, and a passageway to the Plate Partition connecting Sector 7 to Sector 6.
===S7 Depot===
Located beneath the Employee Housing Area, the S7 Depot connects the sector with the Corkscrew Tunnel at an emergency passageway. This simply comprises a staircase up into an overhead tunnel, within which is a long, winding road leading to the Employee Housing Area.
===Employee Housing Area===
Shinra's Employee Housing Area is a suburban residential area comprising perfectly planned suburbs where Shinra corporate employees are located. It is a town comprised of stone and wooden houses and larger apartment buildings along its roads. The town is located behind walls and beneath large bridges that connect to pipes leading towards the Shinra Building, which can be seen clearly from the town. Several cats reside in the town.
The town is notably cleaner than most explored areas of Midgar, particularly the lower Sector 7 slums, with cleaner air and little scrap or graffiti left behind. By the residential buildings, a few cars are parked along the street, and a car park is visible but is not too heavily packed. As well as houses, a basketball court is seen near Jessie's house, along with recycle bins, bus stops, phone boxes, and an aqueduct running through the town. Posters advertise recruitment for Shinra's military.
Jessie's family home, in the mid-level employee housing district, is located a few blocks south of the overhead tunnel. It is a red brick house with a car parked just by the front door, and following the wall the house around leads to a back entrance. One of the bedrooms houses Jessie's father, where he is bedridden with a life support due to a mako accident. His room also houses his maintenance supervisor uniform hung up, as well as many photos of his family.
To the south of the streets are a ramp leading up to the Sector 7-6 Annex, close by the residential area. The area lies close to the boundary with Sector 6. 
===Sector 7-6 Annex===
The Sector 7-6 Annex is an immense warehouse located just south of the mid-level employee housing in the Employee Housing Area. The warehouse stores industrial materials including mako reactor parts, artillery, and ammunition. A ramp leads up to the annex itself with a vehicle checkpoint gate outside to screen vehicles.
Trucks are parked near the entrance to the facility, and many smaller warehouses and power tanks are located just east of the main facility. Just right of the hallway leading to the facility's main entrance is a staircase to an underground training center.
The facility itself is an immense, heavily armored warehouse with large walls around its grounds in the center. The grounds are heavily armored with several turrets defending them, and several soldiers on standby. An armory also stores sweeper units.
===Plate partition===
The Plate partition is the gap between the Sector 7 and Sector 6 plates. It is accessed through a narrow passageway between stone walls, on the west end of the streets in the Employee Housing Area. Several catwalks run between the plates which can be traversed to move between the warehouses located around the partition, and large metal pipes connect the plates.
=== Business District ===
Following the collapse of Sector 7, Cloud, Barrett and Tifa go through the ruins of the Sector 7 Plate to reach the Shinra Building. They go through a Business District filled with the ruins of several high rises, with civilians trying to search for survivors. Several members of Shinra Security wander the ruins doing damage control and looking for Avalanche, including SOLDIER operatives, Helitroopers, and the Valkyrie. 
Other areas of the collapsed plate include a refinery, chemical industries building, and collapsed sections of the Midgar Expressway.
==Society==
As with other topside sectors of Midgar, Sector 7 is a residential district for the middle and upper classes. It has a high standard of living, and a carefully managed population with balanced age demographics (in contrast to the overcrowded slums below). Sector 7 stands out in particular as it is a designated area for Shinra employees, where employees appear to be assigned houses, and military members can sign up for a house in the sector through a lottery system.
==Gameplay==
Upper Sector 7 is explored in chapter 4, "Mad Dash", as Cloud Strife escorts Jessie to her family home alongside Biggs and Wedge. It is reached after the quest "Motor Chase" as the group travel through the Corkscrew Tunnel in a bike minigame segment. After this, Cloud explores the streets to visit Jessie's home, before traveling with Biggs and Wedge to a warehouse where many Shinra soldiers are fought.
In chapter 15, "The Day Midgar Stood Still", the collapsed Sector 7 plate is explored by a party of Cloud, Tifa Lockhart, and Barret Wallace as they explore the rubble left from the plate after the events of "Fight for Survival" in order to reach the Shinra Building. Along the way, the group fight Shinra soldiers as well as a weapon, The Valkyrie.
==Behind the scenes==
One minigame that didn't make the cut to the Final Fantasy VII Remake was a basketball minigame based on the minigame from Wonder Square in the original, which was to be played on a court topside of Sector 7 near where Jessie's family lives. The ball is still there, and the player can interact with it so it rolls, but Co-Director Naoki Hamaguchi decided it would not be fitting to have the sounds of a basketball echoing through the quiet hours of the night while the team were moving covertly.Juba 2020Boxer 2020
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