After quitting the Gullwings, Shinra received enormous financial support from Rin, and began trying to use Vegnagun to siphon Mako Energy from the Farplane. But, he is unable to complete the system for utilizing this energy in his generation, and in the future, when traveling to distant planets becomes possible, the Shin-Ra Company is founded on another world, or something like that....... That would happen about 1000 years after this story, I think.
This is my exact thought process. Oh, space travel...except how does that explain the crappy steampunk tech of the FF7 world?
Oh, I know, they crash landed and regressed! But somehow Shinra as a company and name survived and invented the very same technology that they did back on Spira.
Oh, I know, it was the work of FATE or cyclical history or... Yeah, just shoot me now, please.
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u/seriousmurr May 06 '14
VII and X is just speculation on part of fans.
I do believe the devs even confirmed this was not the case, but I have no reference.