Gelnika

The Sunken Gelnika (ゲルニカ Gerunika) is an optional location in Final Fantasy VII. It lies underwater to the south of Costa del Sol. The plane can only be accessed after the player has acquired the submarine from the Junon Underwater Reactor. The Gelnika is a Shinra transport plane.

The Gelnika can be seen at the Junon airport throughout most of Final Fantasy VII. During Shinra's plan to ram the Huge Materia into Meteor, the Gelnika is used to transport the Huge Materia to Rocket Town as well as some weapons and genetically engineered monsters designed to kill Sephiroth. After delivering the Huge Materia to Rocket Town, the Gelnika is shot down on its return trip to Junon by a Weapon, and crashes into the ocean. Even after sinking to the ocean floor, the plane's interior is able to keep from flooding, allowing for one to enter the sunken aircraft from the ocean. With the genetically engineered monsters now on the loose, the Gelnika still proves dangerous. If Cloud and his group enter the Gelnika before they go to Midgar at the end of disc 2, they can meet and fight Reno and Rude of the Turks.

Gelnika holds some of the game's most difficult enemies, and also some of its best treasures.

Items Found

 * Heaven's Cloud
 * Megalixir
 * Conformer – Yuffie's ultimate weapon.
 * Double-Cut Materia
 * Megalixir
 * Spirit Lance
 * Outsider
 * Highwind – Cid Highwind's final Limit Break.
 * Hades Materia
 * Escort Guard

Northern Room

 * 1x Unknown
 * 1x Unknown 2
 * 1x Unknown 3

Connecting Corridor

 * 2x Poodler
 * 1x Poodler, 2x Bad Rap
 * 4x Bad Rap
 * Turks:Reno, Turks:Rude (Boss)

Cargo Bay

 * 1x Serpent
 * 1x Unknown
 * 1x Unknown 2
 * 1x Unknown 3

Trivia

 * Occasionally, Emerald Weapon will appear just in front of the plane, forcing players to go around it or surface if they want to avoid fighting it. It is possible to collide with the Weapon at such an angle that the submarine will fly right into the Gelnika, triggering the player's entrance to it rather than a battle with the Weapon.
 * It is possible to explore Gelnika's sunken wreckage before watching it take off at Junon.
 * Another plane of this type appears in Crisis Core, performing a bombing mission at the end of Chapter 3.
 * Almost every enemy in Gelnika can be morphed into stat plus items allowing the player to max out every stat.
 * The "Unknown" enemies may be a reference to the enemies found in the Great Sea Trench in Final Fantasy V, all of which were called Unknown and defied description.
 * It's likely this plane is named for the Basque town of Guernica, which suffered a devastating aerial attack in 1937. The famous painting by Pablo Picasso references this bombing.

Gelnika Гельника