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[mathemagier]

With the understanding that this is a network of some type, I'm looking to get into contact with a Mr. Qubit. He assisted myself and my colleague on arrival, and circumstances at the time weren't conducive to exchanging contact information.

In addition, if there's any available information on technical or research institutions located around the occupied cities, any direction would be appreciated.

Finally, if any other members of the PPDC exist here, I'd request them to get in contact immediately.

Thank you.

-Dr. Gottlieb

Comments

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

aww i was hoping you'd have some weird gross medical stories!

[mathemagier]

My colleague isn't a medical doctor, but I know he certainly has plenty strange and disgusting experiences he likely wouldn't mind describing.

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

really?? y'think? tell him ripley wants to hear stories!

[mathemagier]

I'll certainly let him know. God knows he can't seem to stop telling me about them.

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

awesome!! thanks 8)

sooooo do you have /any/ cool stories? they don't hafta be gross or weird! they can be mathy and sciencey!

private basic encryption (because he's a little paranoid now)

[mathemagier]

[Hermann is not a babysitter. ..But he never minds talking about the Breach or Jaegers]

My colleague will tell you about large monsters that came through the dimensional rift in our world. I studied the properties of that very rift myself in an effort to close it, and also programmed the giant robots that fought those monsters.

private basic encryption (because he's a little paranoid now)

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

GIANT ROBOTS? PLEASE GO ON.

perma-encryption

[mathemagier]

[Of course, everyone loves the giant robots. But who is he to judge, when he admired them just as much? Throat clearing.]

We called them Jaegers, and they towered hundreds of feet above everything, such that they could stand on the ocean floor and fight the Kaiju when they surfaced. The tallest waves only came up to their knees.

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

that is so awesome! now see. jaeger is a good name!!!!

how do you use them?? is there like a giant headquarters where you've got switches and dials and stuff and it's like a giant remote control car but with punching?

[mathemagier]

Jaegers are piloted by two to three people at a time through complex mind-melding technology that allowed them to interface with and control the Jaeger in combat. They do this from within the head itself.

The 'switches and dials' run diagnostics in what's called the Shatterdome, the large base where we store and repair each Jaeger when they weren't in combat. There were a eight of them located around the world, guarding the Pacific coastlines, and each home to a number of different Jaegers.

[At the height of the program, anyway. That swiftly changed.]

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

so it's really a mecha!! gundam style kinda!

that sounds super dangerous though?? if video games have taught me anything its that the head is the weak spot

ps the shattedome is the best name for anything ever.

[mathemagier]

Yes, but fortunately the Kaiju weren't intelligent enough to sort that out for a long while.

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

buuuuut they did eventually?

[mathemagier]

Unfortunately. They took down two Jaegers with that knowledge.

[Nooot going to say where that info came from just in case someone decides to hack this]

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

oh no!! were the pilots okay??


uh. actually, only answer that if i'll like the answer!

[mathemagier]

[Yeaaah no, the pilots were not fine]

The Jaeger Gipsy Danger was then air-lifted into the bay and thanks to her excellent pilots, managed to take down both Kaiju.

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

good! yay! i'm glad

gypsy danger sounds like a very awesome and accurate name

[mathemagier]

She was. She was an older Jaeger, but wasn't subject to some of the fallibility of the newer models. In the end, she was the one to seal the Breach and prevent anymore Kaiju from coming through to our world.

[And that is probably the briefest summary of those 12 years he'll ever see, let alone give]

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

so it's over? YOU WON!!??!?!?!?!

[mathemagier]

Yes, after twelve long years, we've finally won.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Well, with Hermann's intro, I guess I can't leave a disappointed audience! [And he has no idea how to entertain a kid, ok.]

You want to know about dissecting Kaiju parts? Well, first off, you have to know that they have this AWESOME blue blood that stains everything--it's SUPER toxic and bleeds into the earth, into your skin, enters the air...super poisonous, very fatal. So before you do anything, you have to neutralize it. Or in the lab, you do. When you're in the field, you have to wear head to toe protective suits, like HAZMAT.

Then after that, you can get to the cutting. I remember one time, I was onsite when they cut into the Kaiju's stomach--and not like hacksaws or something. You need big tools because we're talking GIGANTIC monsters, and so they cut into it and you get all these slimy, gloppy hunks of viscera just spilling out everywhere, gooey blue junk like thick jello or I mean, it's like meat, but it's different because it's actually silicon-based--not that you care about that, but anyway--you've got all this blue gunk as the entire stomach empties out, bursting out and falling all over because it's suddenly free, and it's everywhere, and then this Volkswagon Beatle tumbles out, covered in the blue, almost glowing with it, mangled but recognizable. That was hilarious.

Honestly, I don't think any of it's all that gross. The eyes are amazing. These are beautiful creatures--deadly, destructive, nothing you want to meet in person, but awe-inspiring from a biological standpoint, and the gross stuff, really, is when I throw a strip of Kaiju parts onto Hermann's chalkboard and it makes this awesome sound as it hits and glops down the slate to the floor. It's so disgusting and he hates it. It's fun.

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

that's so disgusting! it sounds awesome!!!

blue blood! like lobsters!!

could you still drive the bug?? wait you probably didn't check right? cause of the goop blood? and you didnt have the keys i guess

and the silicon thing is actually really neat! that means they're not earthy at all right? and they don't need water to live? SO THEY'RE ALIENS!? ALIEN GIANT MONSTERS?

also why are they just called kaiju? that's so uncreative and really not super descriptive! godzilla's a kaiju but is he one of these things?? the answer is no cause he's just a giant radioactive carbon based red blooded lizard so your giant monsters need a better name

oh yeah and who's hermann?

[What? Noooo, Ripley doesn't write texts train-of-thought style]

[driftsintobuffetline]

Wow! Yes, like lobsters! Giant toxic lobsters! Giant ALIEN lobsters! I'm impressed you knew about the silicon thing!

And you know, they wouldn't let me even try driving the bug. I asked. They said no. Which is a shame, because it was definitely a vintage one and I'd have liked to keep it.

We call them all Kaiju as a species, I didn't name them. But each one gets his or her own name, too. I met Otachi and Otachi's baby firsthand.

Dr. Gottlieb is Hermann. He's the Math Doctor.

[fastballspeciaaaaal]

i know a lot about aliens. aliens are very important to me.

you woulda had to repaint it though cause i dont think alien blood blue is a very good colour or paint type for a bug. but you would get to drive a car covered in the blood of your enemies which is pretty cool!

ooooh okay! what's otachi and otachi jr. like??

...nope. now he's the Math Doctor forever. or doc gott.