This section of the walkthrough begins after you have left the city of Esthar. There are several areas to explore and an important item to pick up. You can find all these locations on the map by opening your mini-map view (pressing the button).

The locations you can visit include:

• Lunatic Pandora Laboratory
• Esthar Sorceress Memorial
• Lunar Gate
• Tear’s Point

The city itself occupies a substantial portion of the map. You can travel through the city on the platforms as you work your way around to each of the destinations. It isn’t until you follow the paths that lead to the large Presidential Palace in the center that you will actually enter Esthar city proper.

Your first destination is Tear’s Point. Use the mini-map to locate it, so you have a general idea of where you need to travel to. Generally speaking, you need to head east while going around a fairly large lake. It’s a long way to travel. Use the screenshots below to help you find it.

Tear’s Point

Once you arrive at Tear’s Point, there is only one direction to go, so follow the pathway all the way forward. You will come across two Draw Points—one which contains Life and the other which contains Reflect.

At the very end of the path, you will find the Solomon Ring. This item is the Ring that you can use to summon your new Guardian Force, Doomtrain. Check out the section below for more information:

Unfortunately, if you don’t have Malboro Tentacles or Steel Pipes in your possession, you will have to create Doomtrain later on. Once you have created it, though, it’s time to take the team over to the Lunar Gate to continue the story…

Lunar Gate

The Lunar Gate is a building located directly north of Tear’s Point. Walk into the building with your team and push through the dialogue options.

Choose to “… Trust Zell” when he offers to stay and protect Sorceress Edea (though it doesn’t really matter what you choose, Zell will be staying). Form a new party with Zell and make your way back to the city of Esthar.

Esthar and Lunatic Pandora

Travel back to the city of Esthar and enter it by locating the city’s center. It looks like the Presidential Palace on the world map. The next step of your journey involves finding Dr. Odine’s Laboratory.

You can return to the previous page for Esthar if you want to revisit the city map, but it’s pretty easy to find the Laboratory without it.

When you first enter Esthar, go up the stairs into the next screen and then head straight left twice. You can even use one of the floating platforms to ride straight over to it. Inform the Research Assistant standing out front that you are here to see the doctor.

Head up the stairs and speak with Dr. Odine. He will explain to Zell and Edea what the Lunatic Pandora is and what needs to be done. Dr. Odine will give the crew a long-winded explanation of the Lunatic Pandora’s path over Esthar, but like many of the explanations of missions provided in the game, they seem to make things far more complicated than they need to be.

The short version is that you just need to be in the right area when the Lunatic Pandora passes by. You only need to do this one time to hop on board, so assuming that you don’t miss it the first time, you don’t even need to bother remembering where its second and third contact points will be. It will pass over Area (13), Area (11), and Area (8) in that order, so we will proceed to Area (13).

The times that it will arrive at each of these locations are:

• Area (13): between 15:00 and 12:00 minutes
• Area (11): between 10:00 and 5:00 minutes
• Area (8): between 3:00 and 0:00 minutes

As soon as you exit the lab, the timer will start ticking. We need to reach Area (13) before the timer reaches 12:00 and after it reaches 15:00. This means that if you’re too fast, you will have to wait there.

Let’s head straight to Area (15). From the entrance/exit of Dr. Odine’s Laboratory, head out to Area (5), which is the screen containing the floating platform, and then go to the left to Area (4), and then go left again to Area (3).

Head straight to the top of the next screen, enter Area (2), take a right into Area (15), and speak with the Esthar Soldier there. Assuming you spoke to him once before, during your initial visit to Esthar, he will eventually give Zell the Combat King 004 book for free (just keep talking to him if he doesn’t fork it over).

Head right one more time after that into Area (13). You will now have to wait until the timer reaches 15:00 if you got there early. If you somehow miss this rendezvous point, just make your way either to Area (11) or Area (8).

Two Galbadia Soldiers will jump out of the Lunatic Pandora and fight you before you can go in, but they are extremely easy to defeat.

Lunatic Pandora

Make sure to grab the Meteor Draw Point at the entrance and then make your way up the stairs.

The items that are listed as being obtainable in this section of the guide will only be there if you followed all the required steps when you first visited Lunatic Pandora during the Laguna Dream Sequence during this part of the game:

The available items include:

• Ultima Draw Point (if you picked up the Old Key)
• Silence Draw Point (if you removed the lever on the middle panel)
• Phoenix Pinion (if you touched the lever on the left panel and pressed the red switch)
• Power Generator (if you touched the lever on the right panel and pressed the blue switch)
• LuvLuvG (if you found the Old Key for the second time)
• Combat King 005 (if you pressed the red and blue detonators)
• Spd-J Scroll (if you pushed the rock from the tunnel wall)

Start by taking Elevator #3 on the right side of the room. Head down the stairs located at the bottom right side of the screen (note: they can be difficult to see, don’t go down the corridor to the right of the elevator).

There is a Draw Point here for Confuse magic, and, if you walk into the tube and press —you will receive a LuvLuvG.

Go left from here twice, and then proceed to the trap doors, which are now standing upright. You should be able to access a Silence Draw Point, pick up a Phoenix Pinion, and pick up a Power Generator, in the three open crevasses.

Continue to the left, and you will find a copy of Combat King 005 magazine on the floor. Lastly, at the end of this tunnel, is an Ultima magic Draw Point.

Go back to the ladder and head back up. Take the elevator back down, and this time ride Elevator #1 up.

Grab the Holy Draw Point and check the crevasse on the left side of the screen to find a Spd-J Scroll. Continue north along the path past the Save Point, and your team will be thrown from the Lunatic Pandora.

That’s it for now. Time to check in on Squall and Rinoa up in the Lunar Base…