#j-tech

[driftwithme]

According to the pacrim wiki, Coyote Tango was the first jaeger the program lost. By that time, Pentecost and Tamsin were not piloting anymore. It was June, 2016.

The order of pre-knifehead fallen jaegers is:

- Coyote Tango. Destroyed in combat against Itak. On its second set of pilots. June, 2016.

- Victory Alpha. Destroyed in combat against Raganarok. The pilots survived. July, 2016.

- Tacit Ronin. Abandoned because its pilots died of neural overload. July, 2016.

- Lucky Seven. Abandoned because one of its pilots was decommissioned. 2019.

Following this pic from the wiki:

We know that the first jaeger was launched in 2015 (Brawler Yukon) and the last in 2019 (Striker Eureka).

The golden age of the jeager program was from 2017 to 2019, three years of gaining more than they were losing. The peak was in 2019, with 20 active jaegers. The bottom was in 2025, with no jaegers left.

2024 was the year with more deaths, with 8 j-pilots going KIA. Then 2025, with 7 deaths between the Double Event that killed both Cherno and Crimson, and Operation Pitfall, who claimed Pentecost and Chuck.

Between 2019 and 2023 there were 9 KIAs.

Which means Yancy was the first jaeger pilot to die on combat. It makes sense, given the reaction of Penecost to hearing that they had lost Gipsy's signal (and Yancy was dead).

It marks:

- 2019-20: 1 lost jaeger, 1 pilot KIA.

The list of fallen jaegers Post-Knifehead:

- 2020-21: 2 lost jaeger, 1 pilot KIA.

- 2021-22: 3 lost jaegers, 2 pilots KIA.

- 2022-23: 2 lost jaegers, 3 pilots KIA.

- 2023-24: 8 lost jaegers, 2 pilots KIA.

- 2024-25: 0 lost jaegers, 8 pilots KIA.

- 2025: 4 lost jaegers, 7 pilots KIA.

Let's compare all this info with the following Kaiju War Timeline from the wiki:

A) 2013-2014: The Feral Burst. There were no jaegers yet to defend humanity against the 3 kaijus that invaded the world.

B) 2015-2019: The Long Game, Part I. There were 24 jargers up around this period, with a total of 13 kaijus making contact.

Special mention to the Beckets, who got an impressive mark of 5 kills during those years. It means they helped killed more than a 1/3 of those bastards during the golden era of the jaeger program. For what I see, Raleigh is the only pilot who had ever abandoned the jaeger program because he wanted to, not because he was hurt or kicked out.

C) 2020-2023: The Long Game, Part II. The amount of kaijus who invaded in those three years equals the amount of kaijus who made contact within the first 6 years of the war. It means the precursos sent as many kaijus in half the time. Humanity went into this phase with 19 jaegers. By the end they had 4.

2024 reports 13 kaiju attacks. It makes sense that they lost 8 jaegers and 10 pilots more or less in that year. With 12 jaegers active, it is more than a 1vs1 situation. Something tells me that most of Striker Eureka's kills were during this phase.

Special mention to the Hansen, btw. *During Chuck active years, he participated in almost third of the kaiju killings that happened then. I don't know Lucky Seven's score in this race, but *Herc's win amount to a 1/4 of the whole kaiju fights during his active time.

*The count stops at Mutavore. It does not include the Double Event or Pitfall.

If we include Post-Mutavore but not their participation/assistant at killing Leatherback:

- Chuck: 11 kills, 35 kaiju appereances during his active career (almost a 1/3).

- Herc: 12 kills, 44 kaiju appearances (not counting 2016 and adding at least 2 kills of the Lucky Seven era; around a 1/4).

Yet again, if by statistics alone, Mako is the most winning jaeger pilot of the movie. In her active years there had been 5 kaijus and she has helped kill 4. It's worth mentioning that her debut was on a double event followed by a triple event, with the only Category-5 ever saw. Impressive, to say the least.

On the other hand, Raleigh has helped kill or killed himself almost half of the kaijus that had appear on his active years.

Here: (ratio is 19-20 kaijus, 9 kills).

- 2025: 6 kaijus, 4 kills.

- 2015-2019: 13-14 kaijus, 5 kills.

The Hansens record is impressive just in the sheer size of their killing count, which is still not complete given I don't have the info on Lucky Seven. Meanwhile, Raleigh and Mako are impressive for the efficiency record.

Of the 51 kaijus that invaded the Earth, Gipsy and Striker combine to 20 kills. That means 2/5 of the total.

The last three j-pilots hold the best or most insane records of the program. Herc with the most wins, Mako with the best efficiency and Raleigh fucking Becket who had solo piloted twice and explode a jaeger in another world.

[foxglovecove]

When fandoms collide...

How about a Loki - Pacific Rim AU?

Could be one of the various timelines! The kaiju are actually beasts from a mysterious place (probably Kang doing shenanigans in this timeline). They’re being sent to take over Midgard and the other 9 realms. Loki is sent, along with Thor, as ambassadors to Midgard to help since Asgard has technology that can help. Eventually, with Loki’s help, there are some jaegers developed that run on magic (thank you @voxmyriad for that bit of inspiration! ) and the pilots of those need to have a non-magic co-pilot for hand-wavy reasons. Loki had one, lost one, then, through a series of convenient events, they discovered a J-tech named Mobius might potentially be drift compatible with Loki Loki, of course, scoffs at the idea and a beautiful partnership is born

I imagine Sylvie and Verity (Hunter-B15) another jaeger pilot pair

OB and Casey as a J-Techs for Loki/Mobius and Sylvie/Verity respectively

Of course Hermann and Newton are there still as the K-science team cuz I can't not have them, along with our favorite characters from Pacific Rim and Loki

[thisfuckofagun]

pacific rim fans,

[kaijuposting]

Thinking about j-techs and drifting...

I can only imagine how often the j-techs who work in the conn-pod, and particularly those who repair the pons system, are reminded of how incredibly important it is to make sure these things are working right - faulty connections could mean the pilots can't control the jaeger, or even suffer brain injuries.

I also have to wonder how many times j-techs tested the pons system on themselves. I wonder how many j-techs could name a few people they know they could pilot a jaeger with - probably no small number.

Were there ever any pilots who began as j-techs and did this sort of thing, I wonder?

[pacificrimrefs]

Crimson Typhoon Jaeger Pilot Drivesuit

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[feelingofuse]

袋に入って来ました。裏は無地です。

ちなみに袋を入れる小さな袋も付いてます。

表とショルダーストラップ。

上側（裏）の防水ジッパーと下側（表）の通常ジッパーの2部屋に別れています。持ち手やフックリングが通常ジッパーのすぐそばにあるため通常ジッパーが開け閉めしづらいです。

裏。中央にキャリーバッグのハンドルが通せるバンドがあります。バンド幅はこの状態で20cmです。

リュック状態です。前の写真と上下逆に写しています。写真左上の開いているジッパーはポケットですが、手提げ状態では下向きになるためリュック状態でしか使えません。見えづらいですがそのすぐ上にある防水ジッパーは防水ジッパー室にアクセス出来ますが、手が入るくらいの隙間しかありません。

ポケットのサイズ。

防水ジッパー室です。クッションが厚く変形しづらいのであまり物が詰められるスペースではありません。ノートパソコンやタブレットPCを固定出来るバンドの片方はベルクロで位置を調整出来ます。右上のポケットはペットボトルが入るサイズですが、防水ジッパー室内ですからACアダプタ等を入れるのかもしれません。ただ実測で7cm程度のマチしかありませんので入れる物によってはタブレット等に圧力がかかるかもしれません。

通常ジッパー室です。メッシュが見えやすいように袋を入れています。写真の通りメッシュまではほとんどマチが無いので、このバッグのまともな収納スペースはメッシュ側だけです。ちなみにメッシュ側は「拡張」と表現されていますが薄くたためるわけではなく、何も入れなくてもぶかぶかの状態で使用します。

何とかスーツぐらいは入るサイズです。

J-TECH BUSINESS TRIPPER-2 (中型) 1-DAY CARRY BAG

[casioaty]

cam I was loyal to throughout middle school & high school (:-3)

[petermorwood]

More on pre-electricity lighting.

Interesting to see this one pop up again after nearly two years - courtesy of @dduane, too! :->

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After experiencing a couple more storm-related power cuts since my original post, as well as a couple of after-dark garden BBQs, I've come to the conclusion that C.J. Cherryh puts far too much emphasis on "how dark things were pre-electric light".

For one thing eyes adjust, dilating in dim light to gather whatever illumination is available. Okay, if there's none, there's none - but if there's some, human eyes can make use of it, some better or just faster than others. They're the ones with "good night vision".

Think, for instance, of how little you can see of your unlit bedroom just after you've turned off the lights, and how much more of it you can see if you wake up a couple of hours later.

There's also that business of feeling your way around, risking breaking your neck etc. People get used to their surroundings and, after a while, can feel their way around a familiar location even in total darkness with a fair amount of confidence.

Problems arise when Things Aren't Where They Should Be (or when New Things Arrive) and is when most trips, stumbles, hacked shins and stubbed toes happen, but usually - Lego bricks and upturned UK plugs aside - non-light domestic navigation is incident-free.

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Here are a couple of pics from one of those BBQs: one candle and a firepit early on, then the candle, firepit and an oil lamp much later, all much more obvious than DD's iPad screen.

Though I remain surprised at how well my phonecam was handling this low light, my own unassisted eyes were doing far better. For instance, that area between the table and the firepit wasn't such an impenetrable pool of darkness as it appears in the photo.

I see (hah!) no reason why those same Accustomed Eyes would have any more difficulty with candles or oil lamps as interior lighting, even without the mirrors or reflectors in my previous post.

With those, and with white interior walls, things would be even brighter. There's a reason why so many reconstructed period buildings in Folk Museums etc. are (authentically) whitewashed not just outside but inside as well. It was cheap, had disinfectant qualities, and was a reflective surface. Win, win and win.

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All right, there were no switches to turn on a light. But there was no need for what C.J. describes as stumbling about to reach the fire, because there were tinderboxes and, for many centuries before them, flint and steel. Since "firesteels" have been heraldic charges since the 1100s, the actual tool must have been in use for even longer.

Tinderboxes were fire-starter sets with flint, steel and "tinder" all packed into (surprise!) a box. The tinder was easily lit ignition material, often "charcloth", fabric baked in an airtight jar or tin which would now start to glow just from a spark.

They're mentioned in both "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings". Oddly enough, "Hobbit" mentions matches in a couple of places, but I suspect that's a carry-over from when it was just a children's story, not part of the main Legendarium.

Tinderboxes could be simple, just a basic flint-and-steel kit with some tinder for the sparks to fall on...

...or elaborate like this one, with a fancy striker, charcloth, kindling material and even wooden "spills" (long splinters) to transfer flame to a candle or the kindling...

This tinderbox even doubles as a candlestick, complete with a snuffer which would have been inside along with everything else.

Here's a close-up of the striker box with its inner and outer lids open:

What looks like a short pencil with an eraser is actually the striker. A bit of tinder or charcloth would have been pulled through that small hole in the outer lid, which was then closed.

There was a rough steel surface on the lid, and the striker was scraped along it, like so:

This was done for a TV show or film, so the tinder was probably made more flammable with, possibly, lighter fuel. That would be thoroughly appropriate, since a Zippo or similar lighter works on exactly the same principle.

A real-life version of any tinderbox would usually just produce glowing embers needing blown on to make a flame, which is shown sometimes in movies - especially as a will-it-light-or-won't-it? tension build - but is usually a bit slow and non-visual for screen work.

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There were even flintlock tinderboxes which worked with the same mechanism as those on firearms. Here's a pocket version:

Here are a couple of bedside versions, once again complete with a candlestick:

And here are three (for home defence?) with a spotlight candle lantern on one side and a double-trigger pistol on the other.

Pull one trigger to light the candle, pull the other trigger to fire the gun.

What could possibly go wrong? :-P

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Those pistol lanterns, magnified by lenses, weren't just to let their owner see what they were shooting at: they would also have dazzled whatever miscreant was sneaking around in the dark, irises dilated to make best use of available glimmer.

Swordsmen both good and bad knew this trick too, and various fight manuals taught how to manage a thumb-shuttered lamp encountered suddenly in a dark alley.

There's a sword-and-lantern combat in the 1973 "Three Musketeers" between Michael York (D'Artagnan) and Christopher Lee (Rochefort), which was a great idea.

Unfortunately it failed in execution because the "Hollywood Darkness" which let viewers see the action, wasn't dark enough to emphasise the hazards / advantages of snapping the lamps open and shut.

This TV screencap (can't get a better one, the DVD won't run in a computer drive) shows what I mean.

In fact, like the photos of the BBQ, this image - and entire fight - looks even brighter through "real eyes" than with the phonecam. Just as there can be too much dark in a night scene, there can also be too much light.

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One last thing I found when assembling pics for the post were Folding Candle-lanterns.

They were used from about the mid-1700s to the later 20th century (Swiss Army ca. 1978) as travel accessories and emergency equipment, and IMO - I've Made A Note - they'd fit right into a fantasy world whose tech level was able to make them.

The first and last are reproductions: this one is real, from about 1830.

The clear part was mica - a transparent mineral which can be split into thin flexible sheets - while others use horn / parchment, though both of these are translucent rather than transparent. Regardless, all were far less likely to break than glass.

One or two inner surfaces were usually tin, giving the lantern its own built-in reflector, and tech-level-wise, tin as a shiny or decorative finish has been used since Roman times.

I'm pretty sure that top-of-the-line models could also have been finished with their own matching, maybe even built-in, tinderboxes.

And if real ones didn't, fictional ones certainly could. :->

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Yet more period lighting stuff here, including flintlock alarm clocks (!)

[chibi-chaos]

Today we’ll be cancelling the Apocalypse

If you see this please do reblog so we get a nice data pool, thank you~

[rosy2k]

TU-KA 2000

[driftwithme]

For what I see the Conn-Pod techs on the G. Danger team used the typical patches of the PPDC (left) and the J-Tech Division (right) on the shoulders, the nametag on the left side of the chest and the right side of the chest was reserved for 1) The USA flag, 2) A patch to identify where they worked previosly.

Most of them must had been militars, so it makes sense that they wanted to keep some patch of their previous workplaces.

I so at least two different patches of those. One of a white skull on a black patch and one with yellow wing motive on a black patch.

[sentientsky]

"The Slaughterhouse," by Yves Olade

oh my god the exposure got fucked up. eh, whatever

[f1shart]

feeling better. i am now going to bombard you with strangetown/lft/veronaville shitposts

[kaijuposting]

Shoutout to all the butch lesbians in j-tech, without whom the jaegers would never throw a single punch

[pacificrimrefs]

Jaeger Conn Pod Technician Costume 002

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[fuzzy-set]

That scene in act 3 still lives in my head rent-free.