Whether Moon City Bilca was the birthplace of Sky Island civilization could no longer be verified.
In theory, the moon's natural environment could not have given rise to advanced life on its own.
Sephiroth suspected that the ancestors of the Moon People might also have originated on the "blue planet." They were probably much like the various other Minks around today.
At some point, however, these winged people had found a way to reliably pass the Rumble-Rumble Fruit down within their tribe.
Then, with the Rumble-Rumble Fruit serving as a cheat, their technology had exploded, and they had advanced to the moon. Their purpose remained unclear.
This ancient civilization had also left the "blue planet" with legends of "angels" and "gods."
Over the long course of history, these had evolved into the origins of concepts such as churches and nuns on the Blue Sea.
Life on the moon had eventually run into trouble: its resources had run dry. (The reason given in the original.)
These people had then returned to the "blue planet," becoming today's Skypieans and Shandians.
The Rumble-Rumble Fruit might also have lost its reliable line of succession around that time.
Whatever the actual truth was,
the Birka people, who possessed some related ancestral knowledge, certainly had a stronger sense of "superiority" than the people of Angel Island or the Shandians.
If Sky Island had not been so difficult to reach, and if its armed forces had not been somewhat stronger than ordinary Blue Sea pirates,
that attitude of superiority would sooner or later have brought trouble they could not handle.
Since taking power, Sephiroth had made some changes. Summed up in one sentence: you lot, act normal for once.
-The City's Commercial District.
A Maglev Car pulled up beside a brick-and-tile warehouse with a garden terrace and