How To Get The Ragnarok

December 1, 2012

Esthar's infinite shuttle. Based on an ancient Centra legend of the Dragon Ship. Esthar's finest scientific engineering science was used to build it. Esthar'southward flagship, until it was used to transport Adel's Tomb into space.

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The primary balloon of Concluding Fantasy Eight, the "Super-Loftier-Mobility-Flying-Ship" Ragnarok , is the fastest vehicle controllable by the party. Information technology is capable of autopilot flight, as the player can cull a location from the largest map view while on the world map and the ship will fly there.

The Ragnarok contains two save points and three describe points, and during the endgame, the Card Club group will be bachelor to claiming onboard if the actor completed the CC sidequest earlier.

Finding the Ragnarok in whatever version that supports achievements earns the achievement Ragnarok.

Story [ ]

The Sorceress War [ ]

1 of three known models of similar design, the Ragnarok was created by Esthar and used during the Sorceress War as its flagship. Seventeen years ago the ship, along with its ii counterparts, was deputed to move Adel's Tomb to outer space where Sorceress Adel could be watched over in stasis.

Information technology is unknown what happened betwixt then and its rediscovery in space, nor is it known what happened to its two counterparts, but when Squall Leonhart and Rinoa Heartilly happen upon it, it is infested by monsters known as Propagators. Information technology can be causeless the coiffure were killed, as in that location are notes left backside regarding these beasts, hinting at a history of "Propagator Infection".

Rediscovery [ ]

Floating in space, the Ragnarok'due south trajectory happens upon the entwined couple of Squall and Rinoa who had become stranded in space due to the Lunar Base's destruction. The teenagers board the arts and crafts through the peak airlock and notice the send overrun with Propagators. They must defeat the Propagators of matching colors (yellow, purple, green and red) to impale them—if they impale the wrong colored Propagator, the Propagators will re-spawn throughout the transport.

Squall and Rinoa clear the ship of the monsters and enter the command cabin. They establish communications with Esthar Airbase in lieu of the radio interference lifting, and, with the Airbase's assistance, pilot the send back to the planet.

The ship becomes the holding of Squall's group and is instrumental in Rinoa'southward rescue from the Sorceress Memorial and in penetrating Lunatic Pandora's defenses. The Ragnarok mysteriously survives time compression, appearing set up to fly in the Kashkabald Desert with the members of the Carte Club within if Squall challenged their ranks earlier. It is unknown what happens to the Ragnarok after the political party defeats Ultimecia and the time pinch spell breaks, reverting the timeline to normal, as the party returns to the Balamb Garden.

Spoilers end hither.

Layout [ ]

Cockpit

The cockpit is the airship'south command center located direct in a higher place the rider room. It contains 4 crew positions: the pilot, co-pilot, comms station and the navigation systems. Information technology is accessed via a lift from the rider room.

Passenger Room

Accessed from the top deck directly below the command cabin, the passenger room can seat 8 people and features a transparent canopy. The passenger room has a yellow Propagator. Squall and Rinoa tin can besides discover a note left by the ship'southward coiffure telling how to get rid of the Propagators.

Lift

The elevator to the cockpit has a green Propagator guarding information technology. Later on, the thespian can find CC Joker hither, who plays cards and operates a shop and a junk shop. He will be nowadays even if the player did not complete the CC quest.

Airlock Chamber

An access portal through the "roof" of the vehicle for infinite travel. Information technology is presumably accessed through a decompression chamber; 1 must wear a spacesuit before attempting to decompress and open the portal when in infinite. At that place is a yellow Propagator in the expanse and a save betoken where Squall and Rinoa kickoff board the Ragnarok. Quistis can later be challenged to a carte game here as a CC fellow member if she is in Squall'southward party.

Alley

The aisle spans the top deck leading between the elevator to the command cabin, over the hangar, and into the airlock chamber.

Hangar

The hangar is the largest room shown in the Ragnarok. It houses a platform fixed into the flooring that may be lowered for the cargo to be boarded. The acme deck aisle travels over the hangar deck to the airlock chamber near the rear of the ship. A imperial Propagator is fought at the bottom level of this room. The CC Diamond duo can exist challenged here later on.

Storage Room

The lesser level of the hangar leads to a room with a save indicate, a draw point and a green Propagator. CC Spade can be played hither afterward.

Describe points: Full-life (hidden, never refills)

Hangar Upper Level

The upper level of the hangar leads to the airlock bedroom and the door to the passenger room is initially closed from this side. There is a red Propagator in this expanse. CC Club tin can be played here later.

Draw points: Life (hidden)

Lower Level

The big door at the bottom of the hangar leads to an surface area with a red Propagator. There is a hidden draw point at the back of the room. CC Jack can be played here later.

Draw points: Cura (subconscious)

Boarding Ramp

The boarding ramp is the main access way for the ship'due south coiffure onto the vessel. Information technology has a regal Propagator. Xu tin exist challenged here later.

Stats [ ]

Ragnarok

Weight/Deportation	-two,850 tons (without propellant, charge, nor occupants) -3,314 tons (with one third propellant, full charge, and full occupancy) -3,450 tons (with full propellant, full accuse, and total occupancy)
Length	108 meters
Width	77 meters
Summit	-54 meters (at rest) -65 meters (when flight)
Max Speed	11.viii km/due south
Crew Size	iv, plus a navigator and a wireless operator.
Occupancy	Ten boosted occupants.
Main Armament	609mm Charged Particle Cannon (x1)
Secondary Armament	-152mm Multi-barreled Laser (x2) -Retractable mandible 'claws' (x2)
Main System	Reaction-model 12-step compression turbines (22,500 kg propulsion) x2
Auxiliary Engines	Reaction-model 6-footstep pinch turbines (2,480 kg propulsion) x4

To perform its agile maneuvers, the Ragnarok's fuselage is equipped with an assortment of jet propulsion nozzles. Sudden acceleration and turns are facilitated by eruptions in the large output machinery of the rear fuselage, while the finer adjustments of management and altitude control are moderated via the upper fuselage.

A full coiffure includes the four positions of send master, pilot, co-pilot (doubles equally radio operator), and gunner, though it is possible to ship upward to x additional personnel. Via coordination of data input with the Esthar Airbase, fully automatic navigation is possible.

The Ragnarok bears weapons, and Squall'south group uses them to penetrate Lunatic Pandora's shields.

Store [ ]

During the endgame, even if the player did non complete the Carte du jour Club side quest, CC Joker will be onboard the Ragnarok to sell items and offer weapon remodeling.

Item	Price
Potion	100
Hi-Potion	500
Phoenix Down	500
Antidote	100
Eye Drops	100
Soft	100
Echo Screen	100
Holy Water	100
Remedy	1000
Tent	1000
Fuel	3000
Normal Ammo	20
Shotgun Ammo	40
Thou-Potion	200
G-Hi-Potion	600
G-Returner	500

Quests [ ]

Propagators [ ]

When Squall and Rinoa showtime board the starship it is infested with Propagators. There is i in every area. They are visible on the screen and coming to contact with one initiates a fixed encounter. The player tin can run from the Propagators to avert a battle, but must defeat them to proceed in the story.

The Propagators must exist defeated in pairs; once the thespian has killed ane, they must kill another one of the same colour or the original i they killed will be revived.

A good guild to defeat the Propagators is such:

From where the thespian starts they should head downstairs, and defeat the purple Propagator at the lower level of the hangar. The thespian tin can then head upwards and through the big door, and evade the reddish Propagator by running through the door on the left. This area is the boarding ramp where the histrion finds the 2d purple Propagator, and defeating it volition defeat the purples for good.

The player tin so head back right and defeat the red Propagator they evaded the first time, then go back left and left in one case more, evade the dark-green Propagator past the elevator, and go southward to beat the second scarlet Propagator.

Later on dealing with the purples and the reds, the role player tin go support to the green Propagator they ignored and crush information technology, and then become s, downwardly the stairs, and through the small door on the upper right to observe the second green Propagator. This area also has a save point and a describe point.

With only the yellow ones left, the thespian tin observe the get-go one past exiting the screen and going upstairs and then going south to the airlock where Squall and Rinoa kickoff boarded the airship. The last one is constitute by going north twice and to the upper left, to the passengers' room.

Information technology is possible to subcontract high-level rock drops from the Propagators by avoiding defeating them in pairs. However, they will eventually stop spawning.

After the Propagators are defeated the actor can employ the lift in the centre, where a light-green Propagator used to stand up, to attain the cockpit.

Triple Triad [ ]

The thespian tin can win Squall'south card from Laguna when he is onboard the Ragnarok, if the player did not already win the card before. If the player challenges Laguna within the Ragnarok he will employ Esthar region's rules.

If the thespian salvages the ship from Kashkabald Desert during time compression and has completed the Carte Gild quest, the CC members will appear onboard the Ragnarok. They will hold every rare bill of fare the player doesn't currently have in their card inventory (apart from PuPu), in addition to the card levels they unremarkably play. The player can alter their rare cards for items and then win them back from the CC grouping.

CC Member	Ruleset	Card Lv	Location
CC Joker	Centra	1, ii, 3, four, 5, vi, 7	Lift room
CC Jack	Balamb	three, 4, 6	Lower level of Ragnarok, room upwards from hangar
CC Club	Dollet	3, v, six	Hangar upper level
CC Diamond	Trabia	3, 4, 5, 7	Hangar
CC Spade	Esthar	3, four, 6, vii	Storage room
CC Heart	Fishermans Horizon	3, v, six, seven	Boarding ramp
CC Rex	Lunar	1, two, 3, four, 5, half dozen, 7	Airlock^{[note 1]}

↑ Quistis must be in the political party

Finding the Ragnarok during time compression [ ]

During the endgame, the Ragnarok is found in Kashkabald Desert inside Centra. Using the central portal outside Ultimecia Castle, the histrion tin can return to the earth map and obtain a chocobo from the Forest of Solitude northward of the Centra Ruins, then ride information technology across the continent to Kashkabald Desert. The actor can also enter the upper portal, obtain a chocobo from the Chocobo Sanctuary in Grandidi Forest in the Esthar region, and ride it along the coast to Centra.

As a vehicle [ ]

The Ragnarok becomes the party's airship after Squall and Rinoa have returned to the planet with it. Unlike the airships in many previous Final Fantasy games, the Ragnarok can land on mountaintops and on snow and forests. It can country on several locations directly: Fishermans Horizon, Esthar Urban center and Deep Sea Research Center.

The autopilot tin exist used in the largest map view while flying on the world map. The controls are the same equally for mobile Balamb Garden: to go forward, to go back, to land and to become within the cockpit. Directional buttons are used to steer and command altitude.

The Ragnarok is piloted by Selphie whenever she isn't in the player political party. If Selphie is unavailable, Ragnarok is piloted past Zell, and if both are in the role player party, Quistis takes the reins.

The player may run into a game-breaking issues where they lose admission to the Ragnarok past landing it as well close to a construction on the world map, tangling the airship with information technology and making information technology impossible to lath again. Considering the player needs the Ragnarok to invade Lunatic Pandora, they can go stranded if they lose their airship.

Musical themes [ ]

"Residents" plays when the Ragnarok is first boarded and must be cleared out. During the scene with Squall and Rinoa in the cockpit, "Optics on Me", the game's theme song, plays.

"Ride On", the airship theme for the Ragnarok, plays when flying across the world map and volition continue to play every bit the histrion explores its interior. Composed by Nobuo Uematsu, it is the second track on Disc iv of the original soundtrack.

Other appearances [ ]

Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy [ ]

A Ragnarok-themed light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation cannon appears every bit function of Laguna Loire's arms. His EX Burst, Ultimate Ragnarok Cannon, fires a laser nail from the cannon, using his other weapons as a focus to accuse up energy.

Laguna's best exclusive weapon is the Ragnarok Pistol, another allusion to the Ragnarok balloon.

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy Drape Call [ ]

The Ragnarok appears in the Balloon Field Music Sequence for the theme, "Ride On".

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade [ ]

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Last Fantasy Tape Keeper [ ]

The Ragnarok appears as both a regular Record and an event setting. Within the Classic Dungeons, the thespian must complete all series Records through Bang-up Common salt Lake (VIII).

Information technology is also the final regular setting for the Broken Chains Challenge Effect.

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Behind the scenes [ ]

At rest on the Esthar Airbase landing pad.

A background where Ragnarok is stationed in Esthar Air Station before the Lunar Weep (the sky is bluish) exists in the game information, but it tin never be seen in-game every bit the histrion tin access Ragnarok simply later Lunar Cry has already occurred, and the heaven is always tinted pink. By playing the downloadable version of the game for PSP or PS3, however, there is a glitch that may cause the background to appear, though the airship is non attainable.

There is a dummied piece of dialogue in the scene where Squall and Rinoa were onboard the Ragnarok where Rinoa tried to dissuade an assumed jealousy in Squall for her having dated Seifer in the past. When Squall did not catch on, Rinoa commented that Squall does not care about other people's pasts.^[1]

Result planner Hiroki Chiba made the event where Squall and Rinoa are inside the Ragnarok when "Eyes on Me" plays. Chiba had to adjust it frame past frame so that everything would be in sync with the song.^[2]

Merchandise [ ]

In the Japanese Guardian Forcefulness series of Final Fantasy VIII activity figures, a slice of the Ragnarok is included with each figure. When all eight are collected, a full model figure of the ship can exist assembled. In the English release the Ragnarok pieces were excluded. Currently the bonus parts control exorbitant prices as collector'southward items, with separate parts costing effectually approximately $80-$100 a piece and completed models around $grand on the secondhand market.

Gallery [ ]

Etymology [ ]

[view· edit· purge]Ragnarök is an event in Norse mythology that is similar to the Apocalypse. It is an event that is set off by the expiry of the god Balder, which was orchestrated by Loki. The Ragnarok was a final clash of all the major entities of Norse mythology. This caused all of the human spirits up in Valhalla to come up down for the final battle.

This bloody encounter ebbs with the destruction of the universe and Balder along with a piddling handful of entities that are put in the bodies of children and only contain memories of the world before Ragnarok. Those entities would go mortal, and would live again in a new world of plenty and but existence.

In Final Fantasy VIII, Ragnarok is a pun on Laguna Loire's name, as the get-go iii characters of his full name and that of the airship are the same in Japanese (ラ・グ・ナ, Ra-gu-na ?). The ship is called "Lagunamov" and "Lagunarock" in the Spanish and Italian versions respectively.

The link is referred to even in the English translation when Laguna says, "I always wanted to ride that thing. Plus the name sounds and so cool!" The name can even exist interpreted equally "Laguna half dozen", because roku means "six" in Japanese, suggesting at that place may take been at least five other "Laguna" ships. In the Italian version, he downright says "Plus information technology'southward got my name on it!" instead.

References [ ]

↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YFy1UDIwU
↑ Last Fantasy Masterminds Reminisce About Their Favorite Moments (Accessed: Dec 05, 2019) at Game Informer

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