I remember a time, when I was just a kid, where every time I thought about the possibility of alien life, I would always look up at the stars that littered the night sky. I spent my time thinking about how it would go, and what we could learn.

We had all spent so much time looking up, people telling us to expect alien life to come from the sky. I guess its too bad that the world never paid attention to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

It was the tenth of August, in the year 2123, when the very first Kaiju made landfall in the City of San Francisco in the United States following the event of a 7.1 earthquake. It took the forces of two combined militaries, multiple tanks, jets, three nuclear missiles, six days, and thirty-five miles moving inland before it was finally taken down.

In the process, three cities were destroyed, and tens of thousands of people had died. There was nothing we could do about it except memorialize the attack, mourn the dead, rebuild the cities, and move on from it.

Despite all this, the incident was deemed as an anomaly, and it was said that it would probably never happen again.That was debunked six months later when the second Kaiju hit Manila, the Capital city of the Philippines.

It was after this attack that 'Kaiju Blue' was discovered. It was a toxic phenomenon that happened when the blood of the Kaiju made contact with water, effectively polluting and poisoning waterways.

And four months later, a third attack devastated Cabo San Lucas, followed by a fourth in Sydney. After that, we all finally got it through our heads that these attacks were not going to stop.

We needed a way to fight back. Needed a way to take down the Kaiju faster while causing as little human casualties as possible.

The world came together in a rare moment of peace, each nation setting aside old wounds, wars, and scars for the sake of everyone else. Resources were pooled together, and it was in that time that the Jaeger Program was born.

But of course, like with anything, there were setbacks. The neural load to interface and connect with a giant machine proved to be too much for a single human mind to handle.

Eventually, a two pilot system was developed and implemented, and occasionally a three pilot system. One person controlled the left hemisphere, another controlled the right, and for triple pilots, the third person would be the runner-up, ready to take up the job should one of the pilots experience complications.

After that, we began to win. The Jaegers held fast, and stopped the Kaijus wherever they went.

Of course, the Jaegers were only as good as the people who piloted them. So the pilots became famous, some of Japan's most noteable being Toshinori Yagi, Nemuri Kayama, Yu Takeyama, and Shinji Nishiya.

The danger was turned into propaganda, entertainment, and even toys and clothing. Admittedly, we got pretty good at it, winning all the time.

And then, by some horrific change in fate, everything changed.