#jaeger tech

[monsterblogging]

The thing about Pacific Rim is that it's an allegorical fairytale.

The Jaegers are an allegory for the things we can't do alone without burning ourselves out. Yeah, it's possible to pilot a Jaeger solo for awhile. But nobody can last the whole fight. If you try, you will collapse under the strain sooner or later. You will die.

The drift is about the necessity of making yourself vulnerable to someone, letting another person in, so you can lift this otherwise impossible burden together. Because if we isolate ourselves, if we don't face the mortifying ordeal of being known, we will change nothing, and we will die alone.

[foxglovecove]

Costume design for one of my Pacific Rim OCs, Tommy Harlow

Tommy is a jaeger tech specializing in electrical engineering. Say hello Tommy

Tommy: *sound of drill* hey

[shushmal]

okay pacrim au (it's gonna be steddie bear with me here)

nancy is the best jaeger pilot the world's ever seen, her and barb are an unstoppable force. but then barb dies, gets completely ripped from their mech. so they pair nancy with steve, a pilot known for being generally drift compatible with everyone to a degree. it's not perfect, but nancy who is full of fury needs someone that can roll with her punches, keep her going. and they do well. they aren't the best, but he's the only one that can handle nancy's force. steve's good at taking hits. they mange it for about two years. and steve had been doing such a good job hiding it, absorbing all of nancy's internal grief and fury so she could keep doing her job.

but he breaks. the two of them are force-retired, and nancy lashes out so intensely, steve goes into a depression, completely severs ties with the jager program and disappears.

then there's eddie, a street rat by birth, but a guy so inherently good with the jaeger technology, he's managed to build his own on scavenged scraps—part of it from the jaeger barbara holland died in. he's used his lil jaeger to defend his little forgotten part of the world best he could, mostly luring kaiju away towards the actual military and stealthily escaping before any government detects him. but it's hard to do alone.

and then he meets steve.

[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.

[theinternetisaweboflies]

[chibi-chaos]

Friendship shall cancel the Apocalypse

Let's make a Jaeger friend for our first Jaeger (made up mostly of foghorn, tiddies, escape pods and arms.)

Surely we can make a functional Jaeger guys and this time guest starring: sword-arm-couldn't-fit-on-the-last-poll redemption arc:

Once more if you have any special feature ideas please feel free to share, I just wanted to add a few highlights from the last poll into this one.

[pacificrimrefs]

Jaeger Battery

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[beautyisinkonpaper]

Finally got started on that reijean pacific rim au... and it's gonna be set in space?

Teaser quote: "There's only one person here you haven't tried to drift with, Kirschstein."

[rorykurago]

So I'm watching "Mech Cadets"

because I'm still a giant dork for Pacific Rim and this looked like good PR-esque content.

Friends...

it is PR fanon. Animated. Only mild AU.

Like... There's genre fiction, then there's this. Let's count:

Jaegers Ro-bos fRoM sPaCe that have to bond with a pilot so there are two (2) minds controlling the body? Check

main Jaeger Robo is blue and yellow with a glowy heart? Check

J-Tech Mech tech department? Check

Neon/steel/grimy urban aesthetic? check

Marshal and Old Guard Pilot are old buddies? check

Angry Ace Pilot who is child of a Marshal? Check

Angry Ace Pilot who tops the class but still doesn't get the recognition they think they deserve? Check

Angry Ace Pilot mad the wash-out gets to go around the system and still gets a Jaeger Robo? check

Kwoon? Check

Drivesuits? Check

Pilot duels in the kwoon with hanbos? check

everybody wearing Air Force-style dress blues or flight bags? check

Cadet Academy in the middle of a desert nowhere? Check (technically that's a 'Training Day' X-over, but I'm counting it)

Cadet Academy is a giant metal tower full of shiny lights in the middle of nowhere? check

enemy are bony insect critters from another dimension world? check

enemy critter bleed bright blue? Check

chief scientist is Newtlieb? check

chief scientist misappropriates resources to sell/militarise kaiju sky-ju biology? check

...which goes very badly? CHECK

Big Scary Skyju is a threat physically bigger than and with features unlike anything seen in decades of war? check

the threat is Coming From Inside The House? check

Mech-Tech maintenance crew rivalry? check

drivesuit pain feedback that disables the pilot? check

Jaeger with a busted arm? check

Pilot with a busted arm? Check

Girl Ace Pilot and Boy Ace Pilot sitting side by side on a gantry leaning on each other to look into the glowy heart of a Jaeger-Mech? CHECK

More to follow lmao

Don't get me wrong, this is great (occasionally terrible) content and I'm immensely enjoying revisiting Jaegerland. But, like, .... I'm on ep FOUR and there's already so much crossover. Nobody is going to convince me PacRim had nothing to do with this. The Mech Cadet comics were released from 2017. Come on. Come ON.

[jaeger-tech]

Pacific Rim Dashboard Simulator

🙇‍♀️ alphamycherno Follow

i don't know about this "let's build a wall" thing like. where's the sexiness? the vibes? what's the point of war if we don't even have hot people in big fuckass robots anymore

🎴 coyote-t Follow

there are so many legitimate, important reasons to protest the wall of life, but whatever it takes i guess. sure. it's not fuckable enough

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🐉 exxxtraterrestrial Follow

happy kaiju blue monday!!

#happy kaiju blue monday

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🦅 ppdc-confessions

Anonymous asked:

I'm a janitor at the HK shatterdome and certain two german scientists should either fuck or finally kill each other at this point, I don't care. They're always in the lab no matter the time of day so I can't avoid them and so they try to get me (the janitor) to choose sides in their domestics!! I refuse to step in that lab again and involve myself in whatever the fuck they've got going on. They'll just have to clean that shit themselves

#this is the third confession about these scientists this week are you guys okay

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🍱 scissure

are we forgetting that PPDC is literally military like you people are not immune to propaganda

☠ buena-guy Follow

You are right. The kaiju are here to bring us to justice, there's no sense in fighting them. If you also feel like this, you can find out more on my blog ❤

🍱 scissure

SILENCE, CULTIST

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💃 shatterdo-me Follow

what if we kissed in the drift 🥺👉👈 and we were both girls 😳

#ok but for real what do you mean i have to go get into the MILITARY to become a JAEGER PILOT if i want to find my SOULMATE this is so fucked up #release the tech #for the gays

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[lunarmoves]

i’ve been sitting on this au idea for more than a year and i don’t think i’m gonna be writing it anytime soon so! might as well drop my ideas here! they may or may not make sense lol

ahem. dca pacific rim au where the jaegers are sentient and require a human handler that is drift compatible with them in order for them to unlock full access to their weapons/powers. the kaijus, at first, had just been staff-bot level in power. but there’s a new player in town: circus baby, who has the ability to emit emps to shut down most jaegers. she’s not the big bad, though—afton is, a kaiju who can “corrupt” jaegers (and also mind control humans) and guides baby to do his bidding while he lurks in the breach (though this is not revealed until later).

initially, the interstellar jaeger (sun and moon, same body) had vanessa as a human handler. they were dispatched to look into the disappearance of bonnie—another jaeger who went offline suddenly while out fighting some kaijus with his handler (michael, potentially). but something goes wrong. sun/moon go offline suddenly. and when they are retrieved days later, they are heavily damaged and vanessa is missing now too.

henry, who had designed and built most of the mk4 jaegers (sun/moon included), has been no contact for weeks. no one at the shatterdome knows what he is doing. thus, other engineers work to fix smoon, but they just… won’t come back online again. everything is tried. nothing works.

so then you are called in—one of the best jaeger repair techs out there.

you are guided to smoon by gregory (who is the handler of freddy, the bear jaeger or smth) and allowed to do whatever you can. just fix them. and it becomes clear to you that the issue concerns their software more than their hardware. you do your best, but you also become stuck on what to do.

until you try putting on the headset to drift with them, not expecting that you are compatible with both of them. usually, handlers are only compatible with one or the other, leading sun and moon to swap out occasionally depending on which handler is using them. vanessa, at the time, was compatible with moon. coincidence? i think not!

they come online. but… only sun greets you, albeit hesitantly. moon is silent. and it becomes all too apparent that moon is… not normal. he’s been corrupted, somehow. and drifting with a corrupted jaeger is Not fun.

enter a whole arc of you and smoon trying to work together to make them function properly again, while also dealing with moon’s corruption, and then building your way up to fighting kaijus. something something, the power of love prevails. cassie, who pilots roxy, is also around to help.

maybe there’s a moment where you and smoon go scouting and you encounter baby for the first official time. barely escaping with your life, btw. in any case, everything builds up to a final battle, when afton emerges from the breach and it’s revealed that he corrupted moon.

see, baby and afton are basically the only kaiju left. and afton is more than aware that they are outnumbered. bonnie had disappeared since baby damaged him and took him into the breach so they could use him. but since he was so heavily damaged, they needed a human to fix him, so afton had mind controlled vanessa when she and smoon encountered baby later on and corrupted moon. but what afton hadn’t accounted for was sun, who was able to let them escape—albeit very damaged—and forced him and moon into a shutdown.

anyways so, final battle is essentially baby, afton, and mind-controlled vanessa piloting corrupted bonnie vs you/smoon, gregory/freddy, and cassie/roxy. and it does not go well. roxy goes down, freddy loses an arm. and you are trying your best to pilot smoon while also ensuring moon’s corruption doesn’t act up. it all seems like a lost cause.

and then another kaiju shows up.

you think it’s #over, but this kaiju… fights against afton? and helps you all win?!

that kaiju is eclipse. guess what henry was doing all this time? yep, he was working on the kaiju project with a completely different, scientist!reader, who ended up being drift compatible with eclipse. this would be explored in a completely different fic btw, and since eclipse is a nasty kaiju, at first he is Most unpleasant to drift with. but he warms up to you eventually!

aaaand yeah that’s what i’ve been stewing on for the last year. lots of epic fights with giant laserbeams and swords. and a dca jaeger who’s like, 15 stories tall. swoon worthy. you will romance them i promise

[monsterblogging]

Pacific Rim Lore Writeups + Random Generator Tables

For anybody interested in Pacific Rim's lore (the movie only shows you the tip of the iceberg!), I've written up several documents on pretty much everything I could find. They cover topics like kaiju biology, Jaeger tech, ranger training, and the overall history and state of the world. You can read/download these documents over here.

I've also got a set of random generator tables, which you can use to inspire original Jaegers, kaiju, human characters, and plots. You can read/download them over here.

[foxglovecove]

More Pacific Rim OCs!

Benny Harlow (né Kaye) (he/him)- baker extraordinaire, making the finest bagels this side of the Ring of Fire (unbiased opinion from one Tendo Choi). Originally from the Sydney Shatterdome, moved to Hong Kong when the program was shutting down.

Tommy Harlow (they/them/any pronouns really) - jaeger mechanic/technician, ADHD’er-extraordinaire with seemingly preternatural abilities around all things mech (their words). Originally from Anchorage Shatterdome, also moved to HK when the program was shutting down

These two were pen pals (I HC that the PPDC encouraged and assigned people pen pals across the shatterdomes, for those who wanted to participate, to encourage camaraderie across the program) before then advancing to texting every day to twice a week multiple hours-long video chats to begging to be reassigned together at HK to meeting in person and instantly knowing they were meant for each other to getting hitched because “hey it’s the end of the world, why not?”

[twynte]

mumscarian for the soul mayhaps?

absolutely!

I am weary with contending! by Anonymous [M, 338k]

Grian and Mumbo are assigned to kill Scar, a rich and powerful figure living in isolation. It’s a lot harder than either of them expected it to be.

I'm sure all mumscarian truthers have indulged in this one, but it's so so so good the rec list wouldn't be complete w/o it

It Isn't Over, It's Just Begun by Hypno_Cat [M, 38k]

It begins, as it will end, and as it will begin again, with Grian having an idea bigger than he can manage alone. Or, Before, During, and After.

Watching Each Other's Backs by GoldenPaca [T, 9k]

It's the end of the world and Mumbo, Grian and Scar soon find that they can't stay in one place for long. With no other choice but to roam the desolate wasteland that used to be their hometown, they have to rely on each other to keep themselves safe and sane. Along the way, they might just discover firsthand that comfort and love do go hand in hand with each other.

it's not belief. it's faith. by Anonymous [M, 11k]

"We've got a new friend!" Mumbo gapes at him disbelievingly. “He could easily murder you in your sleep, Scar!” Otherwise known as when Scar takes in yet another stray in the form of a traumatized, recently ex-cultist Grian, and Mumbo doesn’t exactly approve...at first. Somehow, though, the prickly avian manages to worm his way into both of their hearts.

Hands in Fate (Our Fates are in Our Hands) by Atherixx [33k]

Scar had given up on finding his soulmate.

the best things come in threes by HitheePrithee [T, 13k]

Mumbo Jumbo isn't in the Jaeger when Grian and Scar fight, however much he wishes he could be. Which means he has to watch them fall apart without him. He thinks of how things were, how Grian and Scar used to be, and wishes there was something, anything, he could do.

Or, a Pacific Rim AU in which Mumbo is a Jaeger Tech, Grian and Scar are Jaeger Pilots, and there really actually is a simple solution to their problems, if only everyone would talk to each other.

[taintedmind6669]

I like to think that all the jaeger pilots are verified on Twitter, bc y’know they’re like international superstars, but the scientists/techs aren’t bc not many people know what they do so to the public these big celebrities are casually tweeting with random people all the time

[sundew199]

Random Attack on Titan character head canons

a/n: these are just things that pop into my mind occasionally that I wrote down.

Characters included: Eren Jaeger, Mikasa Ackermann, Armin Arlert, Jean Kirschstein, Sasha Braus, Connie Springer, Bertholdt Hoover, Annie Leonhart, Reiner Braun, Historia Reiss, Ymir (freckles), Pieck Finger, Porco Galliard

tags: no set universe, though some are Modern AU, SFW, most of these are just silly

Eren: will procrastinate on just about everything and then beg Mikasa and Armin to help him before it's due. Though he may procrastinate, Eren is stupidly smart. Acing every single test or report that's put in front of him and half the time he doesn't have to study as hard as everyone else.

Mikasa: can out argue anyone she comes across but never loses composure, goes for the silent kill. Mikasa is also artistically inclined, but only focuses on landscapes, flowers or anything that has to do with nature. She'll sit outside with her sketchbook for hours just to get the newly bloomed flower just right. Sometimes she leaves it as a sketch or she'll paint over it.

Armin: keyboard warrior. Will argue with someone over just about anything if he feels like whatever they're talking about it wrong. (Will absolutely tag team with Mikasa when he’s arguing with someone in person and not online). Armin is technologically inclined and can bury his head in a computer if given enough time. He likes he details and complex nature of technology as well as making them work again after a minor fix. He's a lil tech nerd

Jean: has ADHD so bad and takes meds for it but forgets sometimes, and will let everyone know abt it too. Has the most interesting hyper fixations. He also has the BIGGEST soft spot for animals. Don't take him to the shelter or he'll be talking with one of the employees about if it's possible to adopt every animal in here, and believe me he'd do it if he could.

Sasha: has a "spam" account on just about every social media app where she rants or talks about random things under her photo dumps for the month. Loves to travel too and will plan road trips with her friends whenever she can. Will absolutely come back with souvenirs for everyone and put them in cute goodie bags when she gives them to them, she loves making people feel special.

Connie: horrible drunk, but is the one encouraging others to do something stupid or kinda dangerous, life of the party any where he goes. Also a huge superhero nerd, one of the few things that stuck with him through childhood. He especially likes collecting comics of his favorite heroes and having them on display.

Bertholdt: Avid collector. Whatever Bert is into at the moment will be the thing he collects. New show? Gotta get all the character figurines, posters and assorted merch. Reiner and Annie will sometimes go with him if he asks to go buy a certain thing related to whatever he's obsessed with at the moment.

Reiner: horrible drunk as well, has a high tolerance to begin with but does not know when to stop, has done many things that he does not remember the next day. (Put him and Conny together and you’re asking for shit to burn down). Reiner also loves to read and he's not shy or ashamed about it either, he loves talking about the new book he finished with his friends and always looking for recommendations once he finishes a book and doesn't have another one lined up.

Annie: Musically inclined. Annie could figure out how to play any instrument you give her. She grew up taking piano lessons and started exploring other instruments from there. Her favorite would be either guitar for Flute.

Ymir: is actually the "mom" friend, in her own unique way. She's always on top of things in group settings with friends. The one who's shoving water down Conny or Reiner's throat because they actually drank way too much and she won't be convinced to drive them to the ER.

Historia: Super crafty. Most of Historia's time is spent on a craft of some sort and she livessssss at the craft store, the employees know her by name. She's really good at it too, she has a certain artist touch to her craft and always tries to give crafted gifts to her friends for their birthdays and gift-giving holidays

Pieck: is an absolute angel until you piss her off, will come up with insults that have never been said before and will later pray upon your downfall, all with a smile. But Pieck loves kids and will always jump at an opportunity to babysit when someone asks her and is always volunteering for kid related activities in the community.

Porco: has terrible road rage, yells at whatever idiot cut him off like they can hear him, but that's as far as he'll go, all bark no bite. That being said, Porco will defend anyone that is close with him or that he considers family, the only time he is all bark, all bite.