Basics, if you haven't watched Pacific Rim, some of this won't make sense. We are basing that movie as a 'starting point' for the general story line. There is one slight alteration though, in Pacific Rim, they say the precursors come from 'another universe' we're changing that to 'the other side of the universe.' I got a lot going in this game already, I don't need parallel dimensions making this even more complicated.
(Special thanks to Josh, who has been helping me out with a lot of this stuff, I straight up wouldn't have the time to set this up without him.)
So without further ado, here we go. It is in timeline style.
January 12th, 2025: Gipsy Danger Jaeger pilots, Raleigh Becket and Mako Mori, succeeded in sending and blowing up the nuclear reactor of their Jaeger, inside the Rift. There was much celebrating for many years after, they had cancelled the apocalypse……or so they thought.
(Click Here for a hilarious, 4 minute or so honest trailer of Pacific Rim.)
2035: The rift reopened, and humanity was unprepared for
what came next. 4 category 1 kaijus emerged from the rift. The world no longer
had any jaeger, and so the kaiju were fought with conventional weapons, ending
in the use of multiple nukes to take them down. (3 tactically placed high yield nukes off the U.S. Atlantic coast. The coast lines of the Carolinas, down to Florida are irradiated to this day.) The Second Kaiju War had begun.
After this event occurred, the world turned once again towards building
jaegers, the mark 6. They manage to hold off the increasing number of kaiju
emerging from the rift. Attempts to re-enter the rift the same way Raleigh and
Mako did ten years ago failed. The precursors have made it so there is only one
way the rift goes, from the precursor world to earth.
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| (Category 1 Kaiju.) |
2040: Humanity, worrying for the future of earth,
launches its first off world explorations, 4 ships, one heading to Mars, one to
Jupiter’s moon Europa, Saturn’s moon Titan, and one deep space ship that was on
a one hundred year mission to a different star system.
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| (Our early settlement vessels.) |
2041: Mars Colony is founded, and begins rudimentary terraforming
of the world.
2042: Europa Colony is founded, on top of the frozen
oceans of the moon, the colony is very well hidden, and once established it
grows much faster than the Mars colony.
2044: Earth is having trouble defending against the Kaiju
onslaught, our new Jaegers, the Mark 6’s and Mark 7’s, are losing ground
against the invaders.
2045: The colony on Titan is founded, though in the frozen
mountains of the moon we find ancient ruins, from an advanced alien race. In
the ruins, the colonists found the first Xenomorph eggs, and several colonist
get face hugged. As the Xenomorphs start to make their horrible nature known to
the humans, a friendly, alien energy based life form made its presence known,
and helped fight off the threat, and even used their powers to slow the
progression in the infected colonists. All but the most elite soldiers, and a
few new Spirinticusaran (Spirin) allies, stayed to study the ancient ruins
(which the Spirins say they did not build) and eliminate any remaining xenomorph
threats.
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| (What we found in the ruins...) |
2050: The infected colonists with their new Spirin allies
are isolated in a high security facility in the Andes mountains in South
America. We attempted to remove the
parasites from the infected, but we failed on every instance, even with the
Spirins help, and the ‘chest busters’ managed to escape. Unfortunately one of
the xenomorphs seemed to have been a queen. We tried to contain the xenomorph threat, but the creatures
are amazingly resilient, and able to spread faster than we originally
anticipated. Many small villages in the
Andes are taken over, and the xenomorphs burrow deep into the mountains, making
the nuclear strike that we used to exterminate the threat ineffective.
2052: the new Spirin allies make their knowledge more known to us, and with that, our Jaeger program grows rather
significantly at the time. We no longer needed drift compatible pilots, as the
Spirins took the place entirely of the two minds required, and increased the
power of our Jaegers. This let us beat
back the Kaiju that were getting sent through the rift. Humanity could then
start increasing the strength of our conventional weapons against the entrenched
xenomorph threat. We started to contain the two threats.
2056: the precursors send another type of weapon at us
that we’ve never encountered, comet encased Kaiju. The comet crashed down in
upstate New York, impacting with the force of a nuclear weapon. A horrifying Kaiju
was in the crater, that looked more like a dinosaur than a mutant sea creature, and once it crawled from the crater it made its way to
New York City. Our best Jaegers failed against the monster, as our Spirin
allies merged to form some massive monsters of their own to try and slow the
creature down, our seismographs went off in Antarctica. A new Kaiju emerged, an
ancient, dinosaur like creature that then made its way to New York as well. Our
Spirin allies only slowed the creature down; the decision was being made
whether to nuke the whole of New York, with both Kaiju present, when the new
Kaiju, whom has since become known as Godzilla, went to battle with the new
Comet Kaiju, and defeated it. He then ate the body of the Kaiju, and proceeded
to rampage through part of New York, smashing his way to the the Northport Power Station on Long Island. (Which had been modernized to a nuclear reactor during the initial Kaiju invasion to help generate power to defend New York City.) After eating a large amount of material, and seeming to absorb electrical power of the entire city and then some, the mighty beast returned to the sea, leaving the bulk of New York still intact.
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| (Fighting Xenomorphs always ends in close combat...) |
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| (What crawled out of the crater...) |
2063: The years after the Comet based Kaiju and the
emergence of Godzilla, our Jaeger program is once again on the ropes, even with
the Spirins help. They inform us that they have an abandoned colony that is
reachable through what they call a ‘Jump Ring’ which is in essence a
teleportation device that exists in the ort cloud around our solar system,
built most likely by the same ancient race that built the ruins on Titan. They
claim that the technology on this world will give us the edge needed to win
against the Kaiju. Humanity
builds its most advanced ship yet, and launches it into space. By this point,
we have completely lost contact with the first deep space mission that we sent
out.
2069: This year several very important things occur. Our first 3 colonies start to become genuinely self-sufficient, with Mars and Europa beginning construction of weaponry and deep space sensors to try and either destroy or deflect away comet based Kaiju. The base on Titan has not had a xenomorph siting in over a year as well, so greater exploration starts to happen there. The spirin-tech based ship also reaches the warp point deep in the ort cloud, and makes its way to the jump ring, an ancient, incredibly thin, large circular device, like a ring in space. Our sensors detect a breathable atmosphere on the ring, as well as plant life, ice, and even structures. The spirins inform them that without the proper code, you have to go down to the ring and activate it manually, they know the code however, and activate the warp point without issue. The warp point takes them to a completely different star system, hundreds of light years away. The world is completely lifeless, other than simple single cell bacterial life and very basic plant life. There are, however, many ruins of the spirins and their former civilization. In many ways, they are significantly more advanced than us.
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| (I wonder if there are Flood on there...) |
2073: Our space defense system comes online, based off the colonies on Mars, Europa, and a now battle converted International Space Station. Earth having suffered through 3 devastating comet kaiju assaults by this point, was very relieved to have the system online. (Each one causing Godzilla to show himself, and destroy in two cases the victorious Kaiju, and in the one case our jaeger was victorious, proceeded to destroy and eat the reactor of the most powerful Jaeger we had made by that point.)
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| (Comet Kaiju 2, nuclear pointlessness edition.) |
2078: we received reports from all of our planetary
colonies. Not only have rifts open up on their worlds, but Kaiju are arriving
via comet. The good news is that the kaiju emerging from the rift are very
rare, and incredibly weak, and not well adapted to the environments of those worlds. They are able to be damaged by conventional weaponry, missiles, energy weapons, etc. The bad
news, the kaiju arriving in comets are more common, a bit more so than on
earth. These comet kaiju in the strength range of Category 2 through Category
6, start to become more common, especially getting aimed at Mars and Europa. Mars
by this point has successfully built a defensive grid of more advanced weaponry
around its colony, and even built its own Jaeger. Europa is contending with Rift Kaiju, which
arrive much less frequently and aren’t as powerful, Europa’s defenses are
holding better than on Mars.
2084: Although we were able to place defense systems
against the comet kaiju on the two closer colonies, both the colonies on Saturn
and the Spirin world do not have the space defense grid set up, and it appears
the precursors have discovered the off world colony in the spirin world, and
they send a Comet Kaiju. Fortunately the
colony has reverse engineered a Jaeger from the scrounged gear parts found on
the planet, and this new Jaeger manages to take down a category 6 Comet Kaiju
with the assistance of the spirins. Earth agrees to send a ship with a good
deal of military weaponry to reinforce the deep space colony. The ship launches
late that year.
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| (Our off world gear, which was dubbed 'Alpha Gear.' Nothing on Earth has been as powerful.) |
2085: Our military ship, as it approaches the general
area of Saturn, is suddenly assaulted by an unknown alien vessel with advanced
weaponry. We have never seen an alien space ship by this point, and our ship,
which was our most advanced yet, is completely outclassed, and destroyed
completely. In what appeared to be an incredibly well coordinated attack,
several space ships appeared seemingly out of nowhere and destroyed the bulk of
earth’s satellites, all of our deep space sensors, and our space station. The ships were far more
advanced technologically than anything we had ever seen, and began landing in major
population centers around the world. They started a ground assault, and began taking
prisoners off to their ships. At the same time, Comet Kaiju were sent to
every colony humanity had, including Earth, except for the colony on Titan, which Covenant landing crews landed at, and began to siege. Europa, nestled
deep in Jupiter’s 66 moons, was able to deflect the Kaiju heading for it into
the planet itself, presumably destroyed by the intense
radiation/gravity/environment of the planet itself. Mars colony however, was
completely destroyed, and the deep space colony was forced to evacuate while
some spirins formed into giant monstrous forms to hold the Kaiju off. The
colonists manage to backup/send the entirety of their research before leaving
the planet thankfully, and even loaded up the bulk of 'Alpha-Gear' onto their ship and took off. They warped through the jump ring, and on the
other side, not far from the exit point, a ship not heard from for decades now
was detected in the ort cloud… with strange radio signals coming from
them. The spirins advised us to not
approach the ship… but the captain would not listen. They investigated the
ship… and then we lost all contact.
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| (Begun the covenant wars have.) |
2086: The covenant forces start to make very strong
headway against our ground forces, and the xenomorphs in South America begin to
spread with our forced retreat from the area. We then begin an experimental
super soldier program. We derived a serum from Kaiju and Xenomorph DNA, and the
first few trials seem very successful.
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| (We can neither confirm nor deny the existence of insane super soldiers.) |
2090: Earth starts to turn the tide against both the
Xenomorphs and the covenant. The
super soldiers are incredibly effective, and our most advanced Jaegers yet seem
to be holding out ok against the Kaiju threat. The aliens then send what
appears to be their own super soldiers, whom we have called ‘Predatons’ to hunt
our soldiers down… and they are incredibly good at it.
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| (Predatons, the elite assassins of the invasion forces.) |
2092: This year, humanity learns about
another horrible foe, we call them the Overseers, and they have weapons and
ship technology in some ways better than the Covenant. In addition, they have advanced
telepathic abilities, being able to mind control humans, xenomorphs, and some
of the lesser Covenant. They also have the power to actually harm, even kill our
Spirin allies with their mental blasts. It becomes obvious rather quickly that they are in charge.
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| (Small, psychic, and deadly.) |
2094: This year, our oldest super soldiers start to
completely lose their minds… and end up taking over the few, up to this point,
weaker alien cults. We attempt to do a rework of the serum, but it doesn't
work… so we move our focus into power armor and more advanced weapons.
2096: Europa detects an incoming ship… it is the deep space
vessel, the one from the spirin world. We only receive mixed radio messages
from the ship, and the order is given to not shoot the ship down. The ship then
crash lands in Africa… and a horrifying, terrible threat to us emerged… code
named, necromorphs. These creatures are absolutely insane, and absorb any
carbon based life it seems… Africa
begins to turn into an alien hellhole.
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| (I guess it rains down in Africa.) |
2100, Out of Africa, an absolutely monstrous Necromorph
appears… and it appears to have ‘taken over’ the ancient, powerful gear tech
that was being brought back from the spirin world. At this point, we had built
10 of our most powerful Jaegers, the Mark 100’s. The creature didn’t register
as a ‘category’ as we’d never seen anything like it. Though it was larger than
a category 5. At first we sent 3 Jaegers to take the thing down, thinking it
would be feasibly enough. Then we had to send 5 more… holding 2 back just in
case something else decided to take advantage of the moment… The ‘Necromorph Gear’ as we dubbed it, was
defeating our Jaegers, all 5 of them. At this point, the overseers seemed to
want to take advantage of it, and warped in 3 Kaiju through a rift base… all of
them Category 5’s. It then became a 3
way battle between the ‘Necromorph Gear’ and all remaining Jaegers and Kaiju…
it wasn’t going well, the ‘Necro Gear’ was defeating all 8 opponents, we
ordered a retreat, though as we were attempting to leave, one of the Kaiju
leapt upon the last 2 remaining Jaegers, and killed them both. Thankfully,
Godzilla then showed up… and began fighting the last few creatures. Godzilla
took extensive damage, we’re not sure if the mighty creature would have beaten
the necro gear without our Jaegers and the Kaiju fighting it beforehand.
Godzilla tore the 'Necro Gear' apart, piece by piece, eating only a small amount before hurling the pieces all over the Atlantic and west Africa. All 8 Jaegers we sent were destroyed, the pilots killed…
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| (Godzilla himself almost died to the Necro-Gear.) |
2101, You are a new soldier for the X-Com Planetary Defense
Council, we are rebuilding our Jaeger program, and starting to integrate the
alien tech we’ve been finding in a much more real way. Godzilla has retreated
to its lair off of Japan, seeming to recuperate. The Xenomorphs are making
advances into South America, Africa is in shambles, and the continents of North
America, Europe, and Asia are dealing with all manner of Predaton, Covenant,
and Overseer threats… not to mention the alien cults… Now that we are facing so many different threats, our new generation of soldier is being trained to handle any situation, from Kaiju sized to Xenomorph sized.
And that covers our background. I'm going to post the gear and traits and stuff next so we can finish making characters. Guess I need to make a character sheet too now. I will in the future make more detailed posts about each enemy faction, with what we know about the nitty gritty of them. A major part of this is that the alien factions don't like each other, and don't work well, if at all together. I don't cover much of that here, but in a nutshell, all of them hate Xenomorphs and Necromorphs. Predatons and Covenant seem somewhat more morally complex, we have instances where those two factions prevent harm to civilian populations from things like Xenomorphs. The overseers however are totally ruthless, and we don't believe they have anything resembling remorse in their being. Xenomorphs and necromorphs actively try to infect the alien races, so far we don't think we've seen an results of that, but who knows what's out there....
