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Welcome to the world of Pacific Rim, where humanity is threatened by colossal monsters, with the only hope being giant robots called Jaegers. Today, we learn about the start of the Kaiju War, and how the Jaeger program began. Heads up. This episode contains minor spoilers for the Pacific Rim movies.
Enjoy. So, I've been watching the show recently on Netflix. Catching up by me. Surely not, Jude.
Has time to watch a television show and sit still for five seconds? Most of the episodes are like half-hour tops, so that's fine. I can do it. You can fit it.
Listen, I look at your schedule on time train, it gives me anxiety. It's called Arcane. No, Arcane is not half-hour episodes. It is called Cobra Kai.
Oh, yeah. Oh my god, this show goes so fucking hard, man. Like, I was like, okay, Karate Kid spin-off, bringing back the old actors, that's just gonna be a bit sad. No, dude, this show is fucking awesome.
Like, there's six seasons, they're gonna end it after six seasons. Season five and six, there's definitely some quality drop from the first like four seasons, but like, not really. It just bangs, man, and the fight choreography is awesome. It's not afraid to be a bit tropey with its storytelling, but like, it's fine because it embraces that, and it gives you a fucking awesome fight sequence, you know?
But, watching season five, the big climax of it is like this big, spoiler. I'm not gonna like spoil the individual ends, but basically there's a really big fight between two people. And then it ends with one of the main people, like, getting this final big kick in to like, take down this big villain, and as they take him down, he says, Sayonara, Sensei. No!
He saw that line. He saw that line. Yep, yep. And it's just a big takedown moment, and they say, Sayonara, Sensei.
And I'm like, yo! And you're watching it with your partner, and she just didn't react? No, I'm watching it on my own, because he wouldn't be interested in Cobra Kai. I don't know.
I feel like it's either Hedgehog. I don't know if this is real or not. I feel like it should be if it's not. Yeah.
But Cobra Kai basically came around because of How You Met Your Mother, right? What? In How I Met My Mother, they bring back both the actors. Yeah, Zapra and Macho are both in How I Met Your Mother.
And there's an episode about how Bonnie's obsessed with it because he believes that the other guy covering the names was Johnny Lawrence. Johnny was like the real guy. Yeah, because it was an illegal kick that shouldn't have been allowed. Obviously, yeah, that is.
How did they not get that right, how did they fucking do that kick? He didn't break his leg. Okay, he was fine. He used wizardry, and that is illegal.
Mr. Miyagi is just a really nice old man. He shouldn't be able to use wizardry in a combat fight. He didn't use wizardry.
There's no wizardry. It's called a flail. It's got that little bendy chain for what I have with the leg. It's additional power.
Yeah, exactly. It's got momentum. Yeah, yeah. So it's a type of weapon, right?
Yeah. Well, you know what else is a type of weapon? Yeah, man. Me, I'm a fucking weapon.
Yeah, you are. Well, a type of weapon, I would say, is like robotics, right? Like a type of fighting robot. A type of...
Ah! Left turn, let's go! A type of fighting robot. Yeah.
Like karate fighting. You know what? What would you rather fight? A kid who knows karate?
Or a big fucking lizard? I mean, me personally? Probably. She's the kid.
I'm likely to die, but like... I thought you were talking about the fucking robot fighting movie. Um, Cold Steel, what the fuck's called? Real Steel.
Real Steel. Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman's real steel. Yeah.
But today we're not talking about real steel, exactly. We're talking about Pacific Rim, baby. Oh, yeah, Jesus. Okay.
We're too on point. We can't do anything. Yeah, it's called parody. It's called parody.
Yeah, there's two seconds that we can do. So, Pacific Rim. Have you seen Pacific Rim? Yeah.
Thank you. How many times have you seen Pacific Rim? That's going to be the best question. A lot.
Yeah. A lot. Guy? Um, yeah, I've seen it.
Have you? Like a bit of it? How much? 20%?
I kind of got bored when they started talking. Honestly? It's kind of fair. The one thing about Pacific Rim, you can just skip forward.
Most of the parts are just humans on screen. Yeah. If there's not a robot on screen, you can literally skip it. You can get the context from the fighting.
But also, it's just kind of dour, and like a lot of like leadership, like... It's just like, hey, listen, I've got so giant robots. Where's the giant robots? Why am I getting into office politics?
You did see a lot of the good robot fighting, and then you missed the best robot fighting at the end, though, so you need to rewatch that. That's true. That's true. Anyway, Pacific Rim, for those who don't know, is a sci-fi, well, movie, universe now, universe that pits humanity against colossal monsters in a battle for survival.
The Pacific Rim franchise began in 2013 with the blockbuster film Pacific Rim. Oh! Yes. A movie that is 100% just there for the fighting, a big robot fighting, a big lizard, and no one is there for the humans talking and having relationships.
But humans talking and having relationships is still in the film. It is still in the film. I need a super cut. It is like the Godzilla movies.
No one's there for the humans. No one's there for the humans. It is a love letter to classic mecha anime and kaiju films. The franchise quickly expanded beyond the first films with novels, comics, and games.
There's also an animated series called Pacific Rim The Black, which debuted on Netflix in 2021. This show delves deeper into the aftermath of the kaiju war, which we'll talk about, focusing on survivors devastated Australia. You just said that we're not focused. We don't care about people.
Why are they making shit about the people? I want to see the engineering process. I want to see the robots. I want to see them training.
Well, we're not talking about that today. One interesting thing about the franchise is that many people have hallucinated the sequel called Pacific Rim Uprising, which is said to have hit screens in 2018, continuing the story of new characters, Jaegers, and kaiju. But they must have got some mixed up, because there's just no sequel. It's fine, man.
It's really not that bad. I know what you mean. There is no sequel. It doesn't exist.
It probably did. I always say bad sequel. See, a lot of the time, I agree with bad sequels. Pacific Rim Uprising is not that bad.
It's really bad. I would surprise you to know that I have watched all of that movie. If you have, I'm not. It just feels very on point for my character.
Your character on the podcast? We're all a character in this. All of life is a stage or something like that. Well, it'd be really funny when eventually, if the secret ever got out, there were actually complete plants, and we don't actually know each other in real life.
I just get to cut the end of the studio thing. It's like, so why are you guys doing into this? He's actually an American propulsive. When you say complete plants, I thought you were just actually like plants.
I'm a poplar, and you're like, it's the reason we're always cut from the waist up. From the waist down, it's roots. Perfect. Okay.
So, that's for the grim. You will get there as you get there, but the base of it is Big Robot by Big Monster. I get it. I understand.
And that's all we really need to know. And that's all for this episode. I know. Is there anything else you'd like questions you ask before we get into this?
I don't know what topic we're going to be covering, but am I remembering correctly? There's something about multiple pilots and stuff like that? Yes. So today we'll start at the very start of the intro.
So basically, we're going to go through, they have like a three minute cut to tell you the backstory of where they got to in the start of the film, because at the very end of the the start of the Kaju War today. We'll continue the Kaju War in the next episode, and if the format's right, I'll probably do a third episode on this, because there's so much to get into this. But today we'll just talk about the start of the Kaju War and how it kind of all kicked off. Delicious.
So, August 10th, 2013. We'll go down in history as the day the end of the world began. It is the day the breach opened. And I will send a quote to the chat.
Who would like to read this one? So you're just like a, this is the intro, you're kind of a hardened warrior who's seen a lot. Hard warrior? You're like, you're a protagonist.
You're a hard warrior. I'm a hard warrior who's hard? From the early 2010 protagonist action movie, sort of hard warrior. Sort of this kind of champion voice.
I guess. Where do you want me to go with this? Because I can head in any direction. A little bit more greedy.
I hit the greedy. Read the quote. Put the fries in the bag. When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely, I'd look up at the stars.
Wonder if there was ever life up there. Wonder if I could kick its ass. Not the other quote. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction.
When alien life entered our world, it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions. The breach.
Sorry. This is League of Legends, the boycoded. Don't worry about it. Well, a massive fissure located off the coast of the Philippines, on the floor of the ocean, in the Mariana Trench.
The breach folds space-time to create a wormhole between dimensions. Right on the edge of the thing. It requires a large amount of energy to keep stable, so it uses the energy of the activity of the tectonic plates to stay stable. The breach constantly releases a vast amount of atomic energy, just ever flowing from this opening in dimensions.
Okay. Do we ever dive deeper into that topic, or discover who made it, or anything like that, or is it just an unexplained wormhole in the ocean? Wouldn't you like to know? Okay, perfect.
We'll get there. We'll get there. I was just going to start critiquing the physics of that, but nonetheless, we'll continue. It is unknown whether the breach needed a big tectonic plate slip to open, or the slip to be kind of created, but basically the tension between tectonic plates, the breach is perfectly on that.
Well, my point is, unless there's someone else interfering, a breach in dimensions can't be read as anything other than a wormhole. Wormhole's a black hole. That's going to eat the fucking planet. I don't care about your tectonic plates.
It's not a black hole. It's stabilized. Sure. It's stabilized when from the hull this guitar riff sounded.
Right on here, too. Yeah, so true, so true. With the breach, with the opening of the breach, also came, that day, a 7.1 scale earthquake, right in the San Francisco Bay. Just as they thought the worst was over, as people were recovering from this huge earthquake, something devastating came out of the water.
A massive, 302 foot tall beast, weighing 2,780 tons, a monster from the depths, the first kaiju. Oh my god. Godzilla is here. A little smaller.
Godzilla, in the Godzilla movies, especially the recent ones, keeps getting bigger. He keeps getting bigger every movie, like, sailing higher and higher. I believe he's probably about the size of the Godzilla in the first movie, or maybe Godzilla was originally, but, like, Godzilla just keeps getting fucking bigger and bigger. So it's King Kong.
I only had a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Japan last year. Okay, so it is a thing that can happen. It's not like an insane, like, it's not going to, like, destroy a continent. No, it's not insane.
It's also theorized that it was the kaiju on the floor of the bay. This kaiju, later named The Trespasser, would wreak havoc on San Francisco, Santa Monica, and Oakland over the next six days, leaving a 36 mile, or 58 kilometer, in non-freedom units, a path of devastation before it finally was taken down. Conventional weapons failed to even damage the creature, with its tough eye, tanking bullets and missiles alike. Finally, the military resorted to using three tactical nuclear missiles to take it down.
Yeah, effective. Yeah. Three nukes is enough. That's insane.
Yes. The exact number of deaths is unknown, but it's estimated to be in the tens of thousands of people dead. That's not a lot, really. Like, it's a lot of people, but, like, I don't know how many people live in that area, but I guess they're already evacuating.
Yeah, yeah. So you see it coming, yeah, the initial people are dead, but, like, six days, you kind of get a time to run, right? It only got 36 miles in six days, right? Yeah, I was thinking about that.
That's not that far. Well, I guess it was getting pasted by the military, so it was, like, attacking, getting distracted and stuff like that. No, 100%, but, like, yeah, it's just, I don't know. So, it's not that far.
My question as well, like, with the whole, wouldn't three tactical nukes detonated on the coast of America do a lot more damage than that? And on the side of the nuke, but yeah. Yeah, so the nukes, I think by this time, they had people evacuated far enough that they could be killing a lot of people, but they definitely mention, as this tactic is used, that it destroyed a lot. This is why it's such a destructive tactic, because it levels the area around.
Yeah, it kills the creature, but it levels the area. They can't just let it keep destroying the whole country, so they have to do something, but yeah. Again, yes, that's a... That's pretty big.
This is later dubbed K-Day. K-Day. Killed it. We got it.
Kaiju Day. Oh, okay. The day the Kaiju attacked. Shortly after the military gathered the remains and placed the skull in a public location to, like, show it off to the public.
Hey, we killed it, we got it, you know? Kind of like a trophy. Yeah. It was deemed, with no evidence from past, from having this no evidence to say anything, no pattern here, they deemed it an anomaly.
The worst was over, this fucking thing, we fucking killed it, right? Yeah, makes sense, makes sense. And it's time to rebuild. Oh, how they were wrong.
For reference, Trespasser, I don't know if you look at the photo of Trespasser, we don't get a lot of view of Trespasser, we get him, like, killing the bridge, this is, like, an art view of him. Ooh, have a head. Yeah, so they look like, a lot of the Kaijus will look like animals in our world, just because I believe that's it. The inspiration was, like, old Japanese Kaijus in movies.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, Trespasser's interesting. I think we have more than most, but yeah. So they were wrong.
Okay. No, I think it was wrong. On the 5th of February, 2014, not six months later, another Kaiju would have birthed the bridge. This marked that it was not a single event, and something that would continue to happen.
This Kaiju, later dubbed Hondan, after the Chinese mythical being, I might pronounce that horribly, made land in Malaya, Malilla, sorry, Malilla, Philippines, and wreaked havoc during a tropical storm. Damn. It caused widespread death and destruction, but was later taken out similarly by a tactical nuke. Again, we don't have any, I think we got, like, one brief clip of it in the movie, of Hondan.
You don't really see it about that very well. This prompted some change. It's telling me to be done, these things are going to keep coming. We need to know when they're coming, right?
So similarly to a tsunami warning, a hurricane warning, they set up the Kaiju emergency alert. This second attack woke the world up to a new threat that now hadn't been a single occurrence. It could have any time, anywhere, in the Pacific. Something needs to be done.
On the 8th of February, 2014, so three days later, the Kaiju emergency alert was established. It sends out a message of a radio or TV signal where a Kaiju attack is taking place. This will monitor the breach and track the Kaiju for attacks. Citizens who live near the coast were drilled what to do and where to go for a Kaiju attack.
Soon, anti-Kaiju shelters were built. These were basically bomb shelters, and a lot of them were old bomb shelters, built to hold up a Kaiju's collateral damage, but wouldn't hold to have a full direct attack. But once they're hidden, the Kaiju doesn't usually get attacked. They want to attack a shelter.
That just keeps stomping, basically. Soon after, with no real course of action, the third attack came. On June 1st, the Kaiju, Kai-Sep, attacked Cambo San Lucas in Mexico. The following nuclear strike took out half the city and attempts to lure it away were failed.
And they blew it up. And the fourth attack. September 2nd, the Kaiju signal. They're getting closer and closer.
Yes. It's not as closer as I get closer and closer. on a pattern. Let's talk about there that seems to be a pattern but especially in the other days it's not very patternized.
Especially in the other ones they're the first coming out of the bridge. And then we'll talk about the patterns of the kaijus in the next episode. In September 2nd kaiju, Sizzle, came out of the bridge and started to approach Sydney, Australia. No!
Actually no, Sydney. Maybe we're okay with this. Yeah, we're in second place. We need a bump.
Oh yeah, we can see it hit Sydney before us. I like how I kind of skipped over Brisbane and hit Sydney. But then we miss Melbourne. It gets a bit more dense down towards the south here.
I mean, the kaijus are attracted to bigger cities. Yeah, I mean we've got three cities that are much closer than Brisbane which is kind of not super big and not very bright. I guess, yeah. For three days so then they knew the kaijus was coming.
It was approaching the city, right? So for three days the military engaged the kaijus eventually luring it to the Garigal National Park north of Sydney. So that's actually National Park north of Sydney. It's pretty close still.
Again, they had to resort to the last and their last dish it was a nuclear strike which took out a lot of North Sydney. Damn. Yes, so sad. What a shame.
Oh yeah, that's nowhere near far enough away. I mean it's as far as you can get but also like And it took three days to wear it there enough, you know what I mean? So it's very tough to even like attempt to move one of these out of the way. Better than going off in the middle of CBD I guess.
Yeah. So what do you do when humanity is threatened by giant monsters from the deep? After the attack on Sydney Jasper Schoenfeld was watching his son play with his toy robot and monsters and came up with an idea so crazy it might just work. To fight monsters humanity would need to create monsters of their own.
Jasper invented the Jaeger. Yeah. Enormous skyscraping robots built to fight giant monsters. These enormous robots would either save humanity or as the movie puts it the world is coming to an end.
Where would you rather die? Here or in a Jaeger? Jesus Christ. Fuck yeah.
I'm wrong. It's a good point. I'm convinced. Put me in the boat.
On September 15th 2014 so about nearly two weeks after the attack on Sydney a UN conference was held in Seoul, South Korea. Many ideas were presented among those Jasper Schoenfeld's idea of the Jaegers. Maybe they were all drunk. Maybe they were all anime fans.
But somehow the Jaeger idea was approved and then something even more surprising than giant monsters attacking the city hand. For the first time in human history the world put aside its differences and actually worked together. Maybe we need kaijus to happen in our timeline right now honestly. Go on.
Pulled its resources for one united goal to build giant robots to punch big lizards. Fucking sick. If you haven't come together with any idea it's that. Yeah America Hang on.
I'm going to get my reference wrong. The words I'm going to say are America got pretty close in the 60s, 50s. I don't remember in Fallout time. Don't worry about it.
In Fallout the villain of the big robot? Yeah. That's true. Did they ever get that big robot built?
Yeah. 100%. That's good. That's good.
That's a reference. That's good. So later that year the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps was founded by the UN. They'll be tasked with creating, maintaining and using the Jaegers.
The program started with building six Jaegers. Thus the Jaeger program was born. Fuck yeah. So it's time we went into the depths of what the fuck the Jaeger is.
Yay. I'm going to give. By the way Jaeger in German means hunter. Yeah.
Yeah. That's where it comes from. So this is a quote. Is Jaegermeister Mr.
Hunter? Hunter Master. Hunter Man. Hunter Master.
Hunter Man. Hunter Master. What do you want to hear? This is the same heroic guy.
This is the same dialogue from the start. There are things you can't fight. Acts of God. You see a hurricane coming.
You have to get out of the way. But when you're in a Jaeger suddenly you can fight the hurricane. You can win. So good.
The lack of... The way Matt sent it to us there's no dot or full stop or explanation mark question mark on the end of that last line so I like the idea of receiving this as a text from a guy who's just gotten in his first Jaeger and he's like my God I can fight hurricanes. I can mean this. Nice one John.
Sounds like a cool opportunity. I guess the packet doesn't as good as your last job though so you shouldn't want to take it? Yeah. I mean the benefits are great because I know that no one's ever going to use them.
So the idea of a Jaeger. A special type of mobile weapon giant robot built as the first and last defense of kaijus. They were designed to replace the use of nuclear bombs which are causing a lot of collateral damage. Yeah.
I mean the titans feel... You've got to be strategic about where you're keeping these guys. Can they move? Funky?
Can they fly? Can they fly? They cannot fly. To transport them they use like really big helicopters and they attach like four together.
How big is this fucking... Okay. They attach four together. No that makes sense.
Now you've got four of them attached together now. I'm seeing the... They carry the big fucking rollers and they drop them to the harbor. That's pretty sick.
Yeah. You can see it coming. And then it takes up like a pose. Oh yeah.
It's so good. Are you planning? Yeah. It just goes...
That's even better actually. So they were designed to generate as much kinetic energy as possible to disable the kaiju. They punched them in the face. Yeah.
They basically found that the piercing don't really work on these kaiju. It was very defensive heights but enough kinetic blast managed to disable them. Interesting. Which is a very convenient way to say if I punch it, it dies.
Yeah. Built to match the size of the kaijus with minimal collateral damage. Spoilers. They make a lot of collateral damage.
Yeah. Less than a new coach. Less than a new. That's true.
Yeah. I mean, if kaiju... No kaiju. If Jaeger, building gone.
If bomb, building gone and you can't go there. Well, all building gone. All building gone. Yeah.
One building gone versus all building gone and sick. So one building gone better. Yeah. Due to the toxic nature of kaijus, the Jaegers were required to rely on hand-to-hand combat with fists, swords and other close-up weapons.
I don't really know how that works but that's apparently... The Jaegers are very... The kaijus are very toxic and radiated as well. Yeah.
Oh my god, here comes the British Jaeger. What weapons are they going to have? Oh, yeah. A ship.
The samurai swords from the Japanese while the Australians are kind of like a bat or something. It's a boomerang. Oh. Mech boomerang.
Oh. Yeah, the British guy's got a little ship. Kaiju. Bloody.
No. Okay, yeah. Okay. This isn't the end of the British mockery today.
It's happening. It's going to happen in my episode. It's going to have to be cute up. Oh, lovely.
The weapons were designed to cauterize wounds from the kaijus as their blood is toxic and corrosive. They don't want the blood all over the jaegers because it's really bad. So their blades will burn and cauterize wounds and their plasma cannons will also do the same thing. Oh, okay.
So it's kind of a negative but it's a positively long run because the plasma cannons? We'll see. We'll get there. Because it's just me that he said that whole point was to apply kinetic force because the high Yeah, he just said.
And now he's like they have a sword and a plasma cannon. Plasma sword? They decide to upgrade these things. So we're starting off with Fistikuffs McGee and then we end up with Knight with Gun.
Yeah. Sick. Nice. For some reason they like to use last minute The idea is to keep the so-called miracle mile where they will hold the kaiju off from the city.
It's very, very difficult to keep the kaijus from a mile out because they are all amphibious and can swim and the jaeger is very slow in the water. They're basically fighting at a disadvantage. Once they don't land they're actually much better at it. They would be carried in and dropped into the ocean by big helicopters as we talked about and that is the plan.
That's the initial plan, right? Again, details of the jaegers will expand in the next episode when we get to more details of the different jaegers but this is the basic plan. The program begins. On the 9th of November the jaeger program would officially begin.
Initially, there would be some problems with the jaegers. The idea is to make them the best fighters possible. This would require extremely good fighters and to sink their minds with machines so their reactions would be instant. However, this caused a lot of overload.
So, on January 30th the first jaeger, Brawler Yukon, was launched. However, this would cause a problem. The first person put into the mind of it a system called the POM system which would combine you into the machines and sink you with the radiation killed the pilot. Oh, mad.
Adam Casey's mind was overwhelmed and obliterated basically. Okay, that's pretty fucked. However, the partner of our Mr. Jasper, Jasper Sötenfeld came up with an idea.
Dr. Caitlin Lightcap would devise a system that would allow two people if in sync enough to get a pilot jaeger together. Okay. This would be called drifting.
This uses the POM system POMs, I believe in bridge in Latin to split the neural load and mental strain of the pilot jaeger between two people. It would meld their minds sharing their memories, instincts, emotions together. They would act as one consciousness controlling a jaeger through their simultaneous interest. One pilot would act as the right hemisphere and one would act as the left.
They're both required but some said that the right is like the dominant and it's the dominant pilot. The pilot... The pilots that properly drift have to have clear thoughts of mind not be distracted by anything else. One thing dubbed is the Random Access Brain Impulse Triggers or R-A-B-I-T dubbed rabbit.
Nice. Okay. This is a term used when a pilot latches onto a memory of theirs or their partners and basically gets folded into it because you go basically all deep into your memory. You experience all your memories and all at once and you experience all your partner's memories all at once and it can be a very emotional thing especially when you have trauma and you can get very trapped in that if you really live those memories.
All of them have trauma. Again, I haven't seen the movies. None of these guys don't have trauma. They're piloting giant mechs.
But they have to get past their trauma. If there's one thing I know about mech pilots from my years of anime is that all of them are traumatised. That's true. This can be very dangerous as they can get trapped in the memory and lose control.
Advice... Because imagine someone losing control and they're controlling a giant fucking robot. Advice to new pilots to clear their mind and not chase the rabbit. That's the...
I see. So don't chase the rabbit. Down the rabbit hole, you know? Being just compatible depends on personal connection and ability to work together.
This is a potential to exist between two people and it's not pre-determined by their relationship. I mean, it probably helps if they're friends or partners or whatever. It doesn't need to be. Yeah, none of us are going to sink.
None of these are going to work. There's no combination here. Too much trauma here, you know? No, I think trauma would help.
I think it's just... We're just different types of people. There is one that we know of that are like brothers that are like a triplet pair. Most people are like two people.
I think there are three. That's what you are. That's cool. That is.
You're going to clone yourself? I don't think we're looking by the law. We three of us do combine. We balance each other out.
I understand. A common reason two people can't be if compatible is a modesty reflex or a judgment of the other's mind. This often comes from embarrassment from sexual memories that leads to two trainees not being able to sink. You see everything.
There's a partnership between a dad and a son which means he saw himself being conceived and being born. No, dude. Yeah. I do not until the sale of my conception.
It's beautiful. The big factor in this though is trust. So trusting a person without trust the new handshake cannot function. You have to be able to be like I trust him with all my secrets, everything.
I think that would be the hardest part. That total opening up yourself to someone completely. With the first time pilots it's often hard for pilots to totally be in sync with each other and communicate as they're just getting used to all these new things. Emotions, clearing heads, all this new stuff hitting them at once.
They're trained to call out their movements to focus their thoughts to teach each other. So basically like punch, left, punch, now! Nice. They do that.
More experienced pilots call out their moves out of habit and because it's fucking sick. That sounds cool. Sounds cool. Plasma cannon!
Let's bless this fucker with a plasma cannon. There's also a phenomenon that will eventually exist called ghost drifting where two pilots will slowly adopt the habits of the co-pilot and have an uncanny ability to be able to predict each other's thoughts and manage to communicate almost without speaking. Fucking brains get put in a blender for like a good couple hours in a time. Yeah, obviously.
It'd be a good bot lane combo in League. What do you want to get? Yeah, that would be. Well, we see some of the different pilots playing basketball.
Do you want to drift? We'll be something better at bot. You'll see some things you don't want to see. Likewise.
All right, next. Living by the law. HRL milestone. If you can get us to a billion dollars.
We're not going to drift your fucking brains together. Well, we know this because we see them playing the last ball together. Oh, okay. Wait, two Jaeger pilots versus two Jaeger pilots?
No, we just see them dunking on each other. We see the three other triples playing the last ball and they're really good. To pilot Jaeger it requires you wearing a special suit that connects you up to it. This has a spinal clamp that connects your spine of the two pilots to the system.
Basically, your nervous system knows exactly what your movements are while at the same time you know them. So if you right punch, the big robot will right punch at the same time. They also fill the helmets with a thing called relay gel which relays the electrical impulses of the pilots to each other. You get to fill it with gel which is obviously not pleasant.
I'm delightful, I'm sure. So, that's drifting. A question about drifting? So much, but it's not really answerable.
Why is it called drifting? I don't know. Because it just makes me think of fucking car drifting. It's not Tokyo drifting into my co-pilot's brain.
Here I come. I don't know. It's just drifting. It's also called bridging at one point as well.
But it's drifting. You're drift compatible. You're in the drift together. You're drifting minds together.
I mean... What? What kind? It's a reference to Fast and Furious 3?
Tokyo Drift? Is it 3? I might be wrong with the number of it. The Tokyo Drift one where they talk about being in the drift state where you're in the middle of a drift and it just feels right.
It's just you and the car connected. You're drifting. It's the exact same. And if the best thing I have for it is a Fast and Furious reference.
If someone told me that the Fast and Furious are sitting on the same universe I'd believe them. I mean they are. They're on Earth. That's so true.
You forget they all take place on Earth? Eventually the first prototype as we talked about Brawlyuken was entirely completed. The initial cost was the PP from the PP DC to the Pan-Pacific Defense Corps. They hesitate.
They're like holy shit this thing was fucking expensive. But the new pond systems proved its effectiveness and convinced it to greenlight the first six Jaegers. Damn. They set up for the new Jaegers the PP DC sets up proving grounds on Kodiak Island off the coast of Alaska.
They needed the best they can to pilot these Jaegers into battle. So they needed to find them fast. On February 18th the first rift was successful and the Jaeger was finally piloted. This was by Caitlin Lightcap and the scientists who invented this technology and another pilot Sergio Dino Frego.
Sure. They would quickly train as hard as they could over the next three months and thank God they did because on April 23rd the next Kaiju would come through the brief. about bombs, they've got time, they're fine. We're not going to run out of bombs anytime soon.
I mean, it's fucking humanity, seriously. I'm sure they wouldn't just send Broly Yukin straight in, like, immediately, right? They would have forced on training before they've even done the Yeagers, before they've done the testing. So anyway, when did they send the Yeagers?
Mm-hmm. So Kaiju, uh, Karloff, attacked Vancouver, Canada. The Mark 1 Yeagers were weeks away from the official deployment and official announcement. Uh, they did not have, they had one prototype.
Broly Yukin was deployed. Hell yeah. The first time ever a Yeager would fight a Kaiju. Hell yeah.
Ooh, that's a nasty looking beast too. That's a, what the fuck? Why are these guys so fucked up? Pretty nasty, aren't they?
They're nasty little boys. Big ass head. Mm-hmm. You can cut off, uh, Karloff's path as it was advancing to the city, quickly overpowering it, the surprise Kaiju, forcing it away with a combination of the Yeager and supporting missiles.
After a long fight, eventually, Karloff was felled by a big punch to the face. Nice. Hell yeah. Nice solution.
This was it. A Kaiju, finally killed by something other than a nuke. Not only was he killed by, not only was he killed by Yeager, proving three things. Mm-hmm.
Trash of Sokenfield's crazy idea might just work. Mm-hmm. Humanity might have a chance. And three, the most awesome moment in human history has just taken place.
Nice. Yep. Nice. Most awesome moment in human history so far.
So, this obviously shows off the Yeagers to the world. And the early announcement is official. This fills the world with hope, seeing a Kaiju can be slain without resorting to destructive nukes. And by July 24th, 2025, 2015, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps officially starts to recruit pilots for their Yeagers.
November 25th, 2015, the first Shatterdome is built over Hong Kong. Shatterdomes are the primary headquarters of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps and factories for the construction, repair, maintenance, and launch of Yeagers. They're just fucking huge warehouses. They can build these shits.
Nice. So, they're all built for these Yeagers. What have they been using up to this point? Probably as a warehouse they had.
Building it outside? Probably on Kodak Island, Alaska, where they had their first place. True. Um, all operations, ranger training, experiments, regarding the Kaijus, would be carried out here in the Shatterdome Basis.
Over the next month, the other five Mark I Yeagers would be complete. In the order of position from first to last, we have a Japanese Yeager named Takik Ronan. We have an American Yeager called Romeo Blue. We have a Chinese Yeager called Horizon Brave.
We have another Japanese Yeager called Kiyoti Tango. And we have a Russian Yeager called Shono Alpha. Watch Pankers 2, we get none. We didn't fucking, we didn't bother.
Well, probably we didn't help enough, maybe. Well, I mean, they already kind of defended us. They did nuke Sydney. I think that's most of us done.