cloud: an ex-member of SOLDIER, but what was SOLDIER really?

SOLDIER was the army used by the ShinRa. It consisted of several ranks (not sure how many, all we were given in FFVII was 1st Class) that the members worked their way through as they proved themselves worthy and a good fighter.
As far as I'm aware, SOLDIER didn't actually stand for anything, and just like AVALANCHE, there is no real reason why the entire name is capitalised, but perhaps that was just commonplace in Gaia.
They were used by the ShinRa to take care of problems that arose that needed military attention (the problem with the Nibelheim Reactor being on of them) and dealt with the situation accordingly.
Though technically, Cloud never was a member of SOLDIER. :monster:
 
They were Shinras elite special forces. like a Small private army, the 1st class Soldiers - like Sephiroth and Zack - would be in charge of the lower ranked ones.

Of course, we'll learn far more about SOLDIER in Crises core, but thats my understanding of what SOLDIER is at the moment.
 
More or so the personal army of ShinRa. Cloud never was a soldier, just a low guard of ShinRa. Just like he says it in the game, and in AC it was all in his head.
 
Very true. SOLDIER was really only used for emergency purposes and highly dangerous missions that the normal army couldn't do.
 
SOLDIER are Shinra's elite warriors. They're infused with Mako so that they're extra tough.
 
SOLDIER had three ranks 1st 2nd and 3rd.... if you use the little select button menu in a fight with someone from SOLDIER it will tell you what class (3rd was in the ShinRa HQ, 2nd in Junon after the first crater incident....1st?????don't remember but you do fight them somewhere) The 1st class are extremely strong somewhere around level 60 I think.....All of Hojo's expirements (jenova clones) were from soldier, except for cloud he was a soldier but not IN SOLDIER understandd??? He just happened to be around in niblehem conveinently.
 
No, I think you guys are mistaken. SOLDIER was defined by the ShinRa army, not an elite class of them. I am positive that Cloud was in SOLDIER. He just wasn't SOLDIER 1st Class, as he boasted early on.


The SOLDIERs who you fight throughout the game are generally 3rd class. Judging by Cloud's actual role in the events with Zack and Sephiroth, acting as guard and company for them, I'm guessing Cloud was a SOLDIER 3rd Class.

Oh, and he wasn't just "convinently around Nibelheim". He accompanied Zack and Sephiroth on their trip, because he was a member of SOLDIER.
 
I read something like this on FF Wiki-


Born from the experiments that produced Sephiroth members of SOLDIER were created by taking promising candidates, showering them in Mako energy and injecting them with Jenova cells. This gave them powers beyond those of a normal combatant, though they were still eclipsed by Sephiroth's strength.
The Sephiroth 'clones' were not so in the genetic sense of the word. Professor Hojo dosed them with Mako and Jenova cells, hoping the former would destroy their wills allowing the Jenova cells to control them, in attempt to prove the Reunion Theory. Those of weak wills, such as Cloud and the Nibelheim survivors proved successful experiments, but Zack (already going through the SOLDIER process) found himself untouched by these experiments.
 
SOLDIERs are people of strong body and mind who are showered in mako and injected with jenova cells. Depending on how strong they abecome they are assigned a rank, either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd class, and if you improve yourself you can move up in rank.

Cloud was not in SOLDIER. Cloud was a ShinRa MP, he had no enhancements whatsoever while in ShinRa's employ. Cloud did recieve the SOLDIER treatment after Nibelheim though. Hojo took all the survivors of Nibelheim and injected them with jenova cells to test his reunion theory and then showered them in mako to make them comatose(mako poisoning is a collapse of the mind) so that the call of Jenova was all they could hear. Weak minded individuals cannot resist mako poisoning and the pull of jenova's reunion. Hojo called these tests the Sephiroth copy project, and other than Cloud they all became mindless Sephiroth puppets(they are then men in black capes).

So Cloud was not in SOLDIER, but he did get the same enhancements as a SOLDIER, because of Hojo's experimentation.
 
I think SOLDIERs, especially the First Class, are ShinRa's personal army and they're the ones who gonna be in-charge on missions that can't be handled by the ordinary ones (i.e. Nibelheim incident). It is revealed in CC that he was a ShinRa MP and not a SOLDIER. But he can become one, right? I mean, if the Nibelheim incident didn't happen.
 
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It is revealed in CC that he was a ShinRa MP and not a SOLDIER. But he can become one, right? I mean, if the Nibelheim incident didn't happen.
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It was revealed in FFVII that he was an MP. And no, he could not hve become a SOLDIER if Nibelheim didn't happen. His mind wasn't strong enough to handle mako and Jenova cells, which is why he falls into a coma when Hojo showers him in mako and why Sephiroth can so easily manipulate him through the Jenova cells in FFVII. Because ShinRa doesn't want vegetables in SOLDIER they wouldn't let Cloud become a SOLDIER, his mind simply isn' strong enough.
 
an elite fighting force of the shinra. like the sas. every army has an elite force, even in our world
 
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