A giant energy manufacturing company known as Shin-ra Inc. is harvesting the sheer life energy of the Planet as a simple fossil fuel. Processed and made into products known as Mako and Materia, these materials can work miracles. However, this substance, like all other fuels, is finite in supply, and the Planet's life-force is being malevolently drained by the constant exploitation of Mako by Shin-ra. Though aware of the harmful effects, they function without remorse. However, the real battle lies not with a corporation, but a force much more competent from the distant past. A long-thought dead warrior bent on becoming more and more powerful, coupled with the Planet's drained energy, threatens the very existence of everything sacred. Now a small rebel group must quell the various dangers toward the innocent, and one mercenary for hire must look amidst the lies and deception and find the man he is within.