American comics: Starting with Luke the Maker

Chapter 6: Young man, bah, Brother Shao, wanna team up? [This chapter is filled with background information]

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The cold wind was biting.

The world was desolate.

In fact, all walks of life were also in a state of desolation.

Since August 11, 2013, the future direction of this world had completely deviated from its course.

People's former fantasies had become reality.

This world had welcomed unknown [invaders].

However, the invaders were not the alien warships in people's imaginations, but the behemoths that crawled out of the suddenly appearing wormhole deep in the Pacific Ocean!

The first behemoth was later named Axehead.

Before it, people never thought that this kind of walking giant meat could withstand their technological weapons.

After it, people realized the weakness of their current technological weapons when facing these behemoths.

After Axehead landed in San Francisco, people poured endless ammunition on it for several hours, but still failed to stop its progress, and finally had to use three nuclear bombs to destroy it. However, at this moment, a prosperous city also became a ruin, becoming the tomb of this behemoth Axehead.

What frightened the world even more was that the attacks of the behemoths were not isolated cases. Six months later, the second attack came quietly when no one expected it, and then the third attack nearly four months later, and the fourth attack three months later.

In these three attacks, people once again used the ultimate weapon to turn the crisis into safety, and in addition to paying a lot of casualties and the destruction of cities again, they also repeatedly witnessed the weakness of their own technological weapons when facing these behemoths! The radiation of the ultimate weapon can be reduced to the minimum by various methods, but the toxicity of the monster's own blood, after being immersed in the soil and volatilized, will make the local area a barren dead land.

Under the pressure of this series of crises, the authorities of various countries in the world could no longer sit idly by, nor could they regard these giant beast attacks as accidental disasters like natural disasters, and completely abandoned their illusions and began to cooperate.

In 2014, the [Pan Pacific Defense Corps], also known as PPDC, was established. The headquarters was located in Xianggang.

At the first PPDC summit, many scientists put forward their own plans. Some scientists proposed to study more reliable targeted killing weapons, and some, under the instruction of the financial groups behind them, proposed to build high walls to block the monsters! Some scientists even proposed a giant mecha project to build [humanity's own monsters] to fight against the invading monsters: the Jaeger Program. However, among the various proposals at that time, this proposal was not a priority.

Because no one could estimate the time it would take for this plan to succeed.

However, the scientist who proposed this proposal, Jasper Schoenfeld, did not give up. He approached Stacker Pentecost, one of the heads of the PPDC who was very interested in his plan, hoping that he could invest the funds in his hands in this project. After obtaining investment and support, he also brought in his former student, and also his scandalous old flame, Katherine Lightcap, a famous scientist in the field of neurobiology.

In just three months, Jasper and Katherine's research team achieved incredible results, infinitely close to the success of the project. In less than two months, the prototype of the first Jaeger Program product, Gipsy Danger, had already begun testing. This rapid and divinely aided research speed also made the official authorities of various countries, who had previously questioned this plan, increase their investment.

However, things are always full of twists and turns.

The first human-machine connection test failed, resulting in the death of the test subject. The test proved that the neurons of one person alone could not bear the mental burden when connected to and operating the Jaeger Program product. The project, which had a bright future, was cast with a bit of shadow. Stacker Pentecost's enthusiasm also cooled down under the repeated blows. However, at this moment, the sunk costs he had invested in this project had left him with no way out. He could only grit his teeth and use various relationships and connections to re-solicit and provide funds for Jasper and Katherine.

And Jasper and Katherine were really like the chosen ones. In just eighteen days, Katherine developed the [Drift] system, which could synchronize the brain neurons of two pilots.

In another Kaiju attack two months later, Katherine and her partner, Sergio, personally piloted the first prototype mecha, Gipsy Danger, and completed the achievement of defeating the giant beast with the mecha for the first time. This greatly encouraged people's desperate emotions and made the popularity of mechas soar around the world!

As the first successful practical project invested by the PPDC, the countries behind it also took the opportunity to decide on the route.

One after another mecha maintenance bases sprang up, and military weapons and personnel from various countries moved in one after another. The world-famous Jaeger Academy also began to enroll students from all over the world.

Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction.

At this moment, nearly eleven years had passed since the first Kaiju appeared.

In eleven years, the changes in this world had gone beyond the imagination of everyone ten years ago. Almost all of the world's resources were smashed into the Jaeger project, this gold-devouring beast. If it weren't for the fact that this project involved too many branches, and there were many technological achievements that could be used in other aspects, the funds of various countries in the world would probably have been unable to bear the mecha Jaegers that were being produced like dumplings. Even so, the Jaeger Program put a heavy burden on the finances of various countries.

As we all know, when war investment is too large, the corresponding investment in society will be affected. Although various countries are not saying that demons are dancing wildly, most places are in chaos except for a few countries and cities. There are even incredible Kaiju worship groups rampant among them. They believe that Kaiju are a punishment given to mankind, and that humans should not resist, but should gladly and devoutly accept it.

Of course, after ten years of promotion and achievements, the worshipers of mechas are also quite a few. Even the fanatics among them, in opposition to the Kaiju worship groups that regard monsters as gods of destruction, regard mechas as guardian gods. And they call the seven famous pilots and manufacturing groups in the past ten years the Seven Mechanical Gods!

Katherine Lightcap, who created the human-machine mental Drift system and gave the mecha [consciousness].

Jasper Schoenfeld, the father of the mecha who promoted and created the first mecha.

Cai Tian Tong, the genius who knows the information and data of every monster like the back of his hand, including the power to classify and name the Kaiju.

The weirdo group Newton Geiszler and Hermann Gottlieb, who study the weaknesses of monsters and use their own mathematical models to study and predict the frequency, number, and appearance time of Kaiju attacks.

Stacker Pentecost, the marshal of the PPDC and the instructor of the Jaeger Academy, the only mecha pilot known to the world who, after his partner was severely injured and lost consciousness, independently controlled the first-generation mecha Tango Wolf to defeat the Kaiju.

And finally, Luke Field, who mysteriously appeared three years ago and single-handedly helped Shao Industries recover and become a giant in the world's mecha industry chain.

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Shao Zhiwen, the head of Shao Industries, looked at the desolate scenery outside the window and couldn't help but think of the scene when he first met Luke Field. The young man, surprisingly young, and the greeting of [Young man, bah, Brother Shao, wanna team up?] still remained fresh in his memory. Of course, what made his memory even more profound, and what made him immediately put aside all his worries and choose to team up with Luke Field, was a miniature mechanical monster more than two meters tall beside Luke Field at that time.

It was the first Kaiju Axehead that everyone could recognize at a glance!

It seemed to be piled up from a pile of scrap metal. It was not painted and looked a bit ugly, but it was extraordinarily agile and obedient!

PS: In the movie, the information about the first Kaiju was that it was bombed for six days, and two of the three nuclear bombs did not hit the vital point, and one hit the vital point to kill it. Here, I took the several hours in the comics. Six days, the defense and resistance of the first generation of Kaiju is too fierce.

PS2: The contract mailing was not smooth today, and several express deliveries did not send to Shanghai. Finally, I found Shun Lao Da, but he only accepted it. If it can be sent tomorrow, it will be sent. If it cannot be sent, it will be returned. A lot of twists and turns.