"Shiiiiit. You don't ask much, do you?" Reno considered. And then shrugged. "That long ago, Midgar was still pretty new. Under construction, yoto. ShinRa had their money like always, an' they had their Turks. Somewhere in there, I was born."

That was the important part.

"Grew up under the plate, so I missed a shitload of whatever was happenin' outside of the slums. ShinRa had a war goin' on with Wutai for who-the-hell-cares how long, mako became the staple power source around the planet, an' with that came people who were convinced that it was killin' everything."

Snerk.

"Whaddaya know, they were right?"