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Barrier City

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The New York Barrier City

The Barrier Cities are the result of Dr. Sid's invention in the movie Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. The Barriers powered by bio-etheric ovo-pacs protect the remaining settlements of the humans on Earth against the Phantoms.

[edit] History

Barrier Cities began as military troop facilities which were built seventeen years after the Leonid Meteor which carried the Phantoms fell on Earth. A total of 130 facilities were built across the world as a base operation for the troops of the United States Military Forces (USMF) in their combat against the Phantom threat. However, due to the development of the Zeus Cannon in 2055, some of the Barrier Cities weren't completed until two years later.

During that time, human population began moving into the Barrier Cities, due to the death of plant species which depleted the world's oxygen. Oxygen generators were built within the Barrier Cities, and life outside these settlements became almost impossible.

[edit] List

Another shot of the New York Barrier City

The only known Barrier Cities are:

  • New York Barrier City, which is the base operations of the New York USMF as well as the headquarters of the Council.
  • Houston Barrier City, where the Council evacuated themselves after the Phantom attack on New York Barrier City.
  • San Francisco Barrier City, which was attacked by Phantoms and where General Hein lost his wife and daughter.
  • Chicago Barrier City, Gray Edward's hometown.

[edit] Trivia

  • The twin towers of the World Trade Center do not appear in any of the New York City shots (except in the concept drawings on the DVD). Two months after the film was released, the towers were destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when terrorists hijacked two commercial passenger aircraft and crashed them into both towers, which later collapsed, resulting in a total of 2,749 fatalities (excluding the 10 hijackers on the two planes, five on each plane), including 343 firefighters.
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