-Pan Pacific Defense Corps- by IAMCHEESE22 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Music to go with this render: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x28lRm… "Pentecost Recruits"

(Pacific Rim)
Following the first four Kaiju attacks in San Fransisco, Manila, Cabo and Sydney, a conference was called in Seoul, South Korea, on September 15, 2014. The meeting granted Dr. Jasper Schoenfeld an opportunity to present his idea for the Jaegers, prompting the United Nations to set aside their differences and work together.

The Pan Pacific Defense Corps was founded sometime in late 2014. The organization would act as the primary beneficiary of the United Nations, who would fund Schoenfeld and Dr. Caitlin Lightcap's efforts to create the first six Jaegers with the Jaeger Program.

Though they would encounter problems properly implementing the Pons Systems and calculating the required manpower to pilot a Jaeger, they would eventually succeed, urging the Defense Corps to offer their continued support of the program. Once construction of the Jaegers were authorized, each Jaeger mark is built on an annual basis. Their explicit purpose was the defense of various countries and cities bordering the coastlines of the Pacific Ocean from Kaiju attack.

The following year, on November 25, 2015, the first of over eight Shatterdomes and headquarters of the Pan Pacific Defense Corps was established in Hong Kong, China. Within the Shatterdome, Strike Groups are assigned to defend their given city or country's coastline with three or more Jaeger teams.

Though not explicitly a Pacific-adjacent nation, the UK was involved with the Defense Corps by virtue of commonwealth ties with Australia and Canada. They operated a critical oceanic monitoring hub and extensive K-Science research facility on the British-controlled Pitcairn Islands.

(Pacific Rim Uprising)

Following the end of the Kaiju Wars, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps was restructured into a military organization with the aid of Mako Mori, who was promoted to the position of Secretary-General. The mass production of Jaegers resumed in 2033 with the construction of Saber Athena, an experimental Mark-7 Jaeger. The proceeding years would see the production of Mark-6 Jaegers, promoted as the next stage of PPDC technology.

The PPDC no longer defended just the Pacific Rim, but the world itself. Neither Jaeger, or the individuals who participate in aiding the PPDC were recognized by their alignment to any country in a move to appear more unified in their goals.

In addition to global defense, the Pan Pacific Defense Corps also became involved in domestic policing. As militarized police, PPDC use Jaegers to patrol coastline of cities formerly targeted by the Kaiju, as well apprehending individuals involved in the construction of Rogue Jaegers and black market dealing.

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Yeah, not 100% accurate to how the PPDC is portrayed in both films, but I wanted something that was close enough, such as having space for military operations, Jaegers to patrol, be deployed or brought into the hangar bays, training in a controlled environment outside of doing training simulations for Cadets to become comfortable with actual Jaegers.

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Guardian Bravo, Saber Athena, and Bracer Phoenix models fixed up and ported by
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