If you were there when the servers went down last November, they immediately linked to the final CS afterward so we could all go watch.
So my lil 1.0 character was a grunt foot soldier in a shiny new grand company uniform, trying to provide support to the big boys who were tanking and braving the Garlian army... but we were overwhelmed, and I remained KO'd on the battlefield, unable to get up, unwilling to return to Ul'Dah, just staring at that friggin giant *** fake moon.
Then everything went dark.
(And I watched the movie and I wept for my poor char who would be in limbo for another year.)