TIMEFRAME: [ μ ] – εуλ 1991 to [ μ ] – εуλ 1999
[ μ ] – εуλ 1991
· Shelke Rui is born.
11/20
· Yuffie Kisaragi is born in Wutai.
[ Starting approx. 8 years before CC - [ μ ] – εуλ 1992*(?)]
· The Wutai War begins. Active as a SOLDIER 1st Class, Sephiroth becomes famous as a decorated hero.[ μ ] – εуλ 1992
· Aerith escapes from the ShinRa building with her mother, but Ifalna dies at the Sector Seven train station. Elmyra takes her in and raises Aerith as her adopted daughter.
[ μ ] – εуλ 1995
· Grieving over her mother’s death, Tifa climbs Mt. Nibel. In the process, she fell from a suspension bridge along with Cloud, who had been running after her. Suffering severe injuries, she was in a coma for 7 days. Cloud miraculously suffers only minor injuries.
[ μ ] – εуλ 1997 **
· Determined to be a SOLDIER, Zack leaves Gongaga and heads off towards Midgar.
· Tseng, a young member of the Turks, makes a name for himself by uncovering a group of smugglers selling ShinRa weapons on the black market while working on the case of a kidnapped trooper.
[ μ ] – εуλ 1999
11/10
· The Legendary Turk is put under house arrest in Costa del Sol for abandoning his mission to rescue a kidnapped weapons trader.
* This date's a little iffy, since in OGC Elmyra (Aerith's foster mother) says she'd been waiting at the Sector 7 train station for her husband to come back on leave, ~15 years ago. 15 years ago from [ ν ] – εуλ 0007 (FFVII OGC start), is approximately [ μ ] – εуλ 1992 - which means the war should have started earlier (say, a year or two), for enlisted troops to have been away long enough to WARRANT leaves ....
In [ μ ] – εуλ 1992, Aerith's age 7, making her and her mother having been under Hojo's care for 7 years (they were taken 20 days after Aerith's birth).
** Zack was born [ μ ] – εуλ 1985, same year as Aerith. This means he's only TWELVE when he ran off to join the army. *facepalms* And they TOOK him. Shinra does like going the child-soldier and SOLDIER route.
Okay, I'm not feeling so guilty about deciding my Sephiroth hit the Wutai War at age 13. Because if you go by CANON dates, Sephiroth was born circa [ μ ] – εуλ 1980, and Wutai War starts circa [ μ ] – εуλ 1992 - making him TWELVE YEARS OLD when he's active as a 1st Class and became a 'decorated war hero.'
With my
Sephiroth being born in [ μ ] – εуλ 1977 and making the Wutai War start earlier in [ μ ] – εуλ 1990, I gave him two years of field combat experience before he hit 1st Class at age 15 and became Shinra's recruitment poster child.
IGNORE everything after this point - SOLDIER DAYS, if it ever gets that far, would most likely become AU to the canon FFVII Compilation Timeline. I just put it here for reference. XD