PACIFIC RIM | LORE in a Minute!

The Precursors have been plotting an invasion of Earth for millions of years, and now that humans have terraformed it to their liking, they're sending their super-stegosauruses (and hopefully more plot details about dino-kaijus) through the breach!

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Written by Ben Blumenthal

Animated by Zeurel:
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Voiced by Jake 'The Voice' Parr:
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Transcript:

On August 10th, 2013, the first Kaiju, Trespasser, obliterated San Francisco and the Bay Area. It took six days and three nukes to stop it, but that was just the beginning of the Kaiju War.

The Pan Pacific Defense Corps. was established to combat the Kaiju, but the catastrophic fallout from nuclear war begged for a more… environment-friendly weapon. Enter Dr. Jasper Schoenfeld.

Following the fourth Kaiju attack in Sydney, Dr. Schoenfeld watched his son do battle against toy monsters with his robot action figures, and probably thought "Why the hell not?".

With the help of an old student and romantic flame, Caitlin Lightcap, the two pitched the PPDC on a new method to fight the Kaiju: gigantic ROBOTS.

They weren't just any robots, though, these "Jaegers" were piloted by humans, jacked in via a neural interface called the PONS. But testing of the first prototype, the Mark-1 Brawler Yukon, was a disaster. The neural load induced a seizure in its pilot, so instead Lightcap created a neural bridge that would allow two minds to bear the load of one Jaeger through a process called drifting.

With the fate of the Jaeger program and the world on the line, Lightcap and Lieutenant Sergio D'Onofrio piloted Brawler Yukon and defeated the fifth Kaiju to make land, Karloff.

But as humans began to turn the tide of the war against what they thought were primal beasts, the Kaiju's shadowy masters began to evolve and adapt their monsters in response to the Jaegers. Known as the Precursors, they've patiently waited for humans to pollute the planet to desirable levels because their dry run with the stegosauruses about 65 million years ago was a flop. And with all that time spent waiting, they continued to iterate on their creations, upgrading carbon to silicon, allowing only the strongest mutations to survive.

Itching trade their dying world for another, the Precursors are sending their exterminators through the Breach... and all humanity's got is a wall.

Have fun!






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