The young woman (whose entire family was wiped out by marauding Kaiju) is tasked with helping Becket find a new copilot once he arrives in Hong Kong. “I was still connected to my brother when he died.” “I can’t have anyone else in my head again,” he tells the marshal. But Becket’s not interested in going through the mind-melding process of learning to pilot his old Jaeger with a new partner. Stacker flies to Alaska to recruit Becket for one last tour of duty in his reconditioned Jaeger, now stationed in Hong Kong.

(the Gipsy Danger), the three others from China (the Crimson Typhoon), Russia (the Cherno Alpha) and Australia (the Striker Eureka). And he knows he’s got to have the best pilots to make the most of the meager resources left under his command: just four of the mighty mech warriors, one from the U.S. He knows the Jaegers are humanity’s last, best hope. Marshal Stacker Pentacost, a former Jaeger pilot himself and now head of the program, knows it won’t work. World leaders begin expressing second thoughts about the Jaeger strategy, then opt instead to build “Walls of Life” around cities to defend them. Suddenly the once-indomitable Jaegers begin falling to the Kaiju all across the Pacific Rim. When a Category 4 Kaiju takes down the Beckets’ Jaeger (named Gipsy Danger) and ends Yancy’s life, it’s the first casualty in the second phase of the war. But then something happened: The invading Kaiju got bigger.

“To fight monsters, we created monsters,” Becket tells us.Īt first, the humans had the upper hand. Each Jaeger-German for hunter-packs two neurally linked pilots into the head of a mechanized behemoth bristling with enough firepower to stop, well, one of those rampaging, city-destroying Kaiju. The Jaeger project represents humanity’s grand gambit to stop the rampaging, city-destroying scourge of the Kaiju. A portal between dimensions in the Pacific Ocean.”īecket, along with his brother, Yancy, is a Jaeger pilot. “We always thought alien life would come from the stars,” Raleigh Becket explains early in Pacific Rim. It’s 2020, several years into a civilization-razing conflagration with the 200-foot-tall dinosaur-like terrors known as Kaiju-Japanese for monster. The humans thought they were winning the war with the monsters.

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