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Jaeger Piloting 101: How Rangers Get Into The Thing & Other Basic Stuff

Hello Pacific Rim fans, today I am doing a post on the topic of how rangers get into the conn-pod, and take control of the Jaeger, plus do a quick look at conn-pod interiors in general! I'll be using pictures sourced from movie-screencaps.com to illustrate the process.

Before I proceed, I'd like to remind folks that Lady Danger's canonical name contains a racial slur. It will be depicted here in screenshots, but I encourage fans to use the name "Lady Danger" in casual conversation, fanfiction etc. It doesn't matter if the name was referencing an old engine, it doesn't matter if no harm was intended by it; a slur's a slur.

Before the rangers enter the conn-pod, they must first suit up. This isn't something they can do on their own - they have a dedicated team of assistant techs to help them into their drivesuits. As we can see here, Raleigh and Yancy Becket's team have the name of their jaeger printed on the backs of their jumpsuits:

If you read my earlier post on jaegers, you know that drivesuits come in two layers. Here's Raleigh and Yancy already wearing the first layer, while one of their technicians assists:

Next, the technicians help them into the drivesuit's second, armored layer. On the right side of the first image is the area where the drivesuits are kept when not in use:

And then we have this thing that's pulled out of a special storage box and put over the spinal area, connecting the back of the armor together:

We also see Yancy and Raleigh pull on their helmets, and this strange liquid drains out. (It makes me think of the orange juice Raleigh was drinking earlier.) It's not clear how common this feature is, but we know it's not universal - the refurbished Lady Danger doesn't have this, and Cherno Alpha's helmets don't look it would even be possible.

Next up, the pilots enter the conn-pod. Note those two light gray things on the floor in the first picture; that's part of the Pilot Motion Rig. Also note the dark gray things hanging from the ceiling in the second picture; that's also part of it.

Once the pilots step into the bottom part of Pilot Motion Rig, metal clamps lock their feet into place. On the right, Raleigh is already locked in; on the left, Yancy is not yet locked in:

Meanwhile, more technicians help pilots get into the upper part of the Pilot Motion Rig.

At this point, something magical and wonderful absolutely terrifying else happens: the floor pulls away, leaving the pilots standing like:

If you look down once the floor's pulled back, it's uh. Quite the view.

In the case of Lady Danger, a nuclear-powered Mark-3, this is where technicians drop the head to connect it to the body. (The head is stored separately to reduce radiation exposure that might damage the delicate circuits.)

At this point, the Beckets are looking at this in front of them:

As the head connects, the pilot-to-pilot protocol is engaged, the computer system fires up, and the Beckets see a LOADING screen:

In the Anchorage Shatterdome, Lady Danger was wheeled out through a door on a rolling platform. At this point, the neural handshake was activated with a countdown of fifteen seconds.

The neural link is established, and you got two people in control of a Jaeger!

From here, stuff often depends on the specific jaeger, as control systems can be pretty different. For example, we see Raleigh and Yancy holding these round things in the arms they're controlling at the beginning of the film, but the refurbished Lady Danger doesn't seem to use them, and neither do the other jaegers.

I'd also like to contrast Cherno Alpha's drivesuits with Lady Danger's drivesuits for a moment, just to emphasize how different designs can be. As you can see, each pilot's drivesuit has cables connected to the arm they're controlling:

Also as I was looking at pictures of jaeger interiors, I noticed something curious about Lady Danger vs. Striker Eureka.

The original Lady Danger has a high console like this:

The refurbished Lady Danger has one positioned lower:

Striker Eureka has both a high and low console:

So make of that what you will, lol.

And that's the basics of boarding and controlling a jaeger! If you haven't seen it already I also recommend checking out my other post on jaeger lore, where I compiled everything I could find out about them from various Pacific Rim medias. And you might also read Drifting, as conceptualized by Travis Beacham if you're interested in knowing more about the drifting aspect, and maybe Drift Hangover Lore if the possibility of sentient jaegers appeals to you.

Happy monster punching, or whatever it is you people do out there. *Slinks back into the bog*

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Average Pacific Rim Headcanons

A local ice cream place offers kaiju blue milkshakes for sale (berry flavored with lime). A sign says that percentage of the profits are donated to kaiju blue poisoning treatment research.

If you were in school and lived in a coastal Pacific city during the kaiju war, you had kaiju escape drills.

You had PPDC officials come to your school looking for drift compatible students.

You know a girl who claims that she can channel the kaiju. She has a small online following who hang on to her every word.

Construction projects are delayed or halted in your city as iron is redirected to the jaeger program.

Anytime you and your friends say something at the same time, you joke about being drift compatible. Part of you hopes you really are.

If you were in college, you considered changing your major to biology or engineering, if it wasn't that already.

You follow several scientists researching kaiju or the breach on social media. Some work for the PPDC, some work for private labs or university labs. Some would host AME sessions. You watch as the scientists working for the PPDC all eventually announce that they've been let go and are going to work elsewhere now.

You follow several rangers on social media. One by one, they stop posting. Their deaths are announced on the news.

People joke about sending the citizens of Philadelphia to fight kaiju. They're so good at crushing invasive spotted lantern flies, they should be good at destroying kaiju.

Scientists announce the discovery of a bacteria that eats kaiju blue. Several more are eventually found all over the world.

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my favorite techno designs look like this

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DREAM SMP CHARACTERS | TECHNOBLADE

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friend, shroud, and steve but plush plus FIC by @ademonwithinternet

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How I imagine them

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Sekiro fanart by Stu_dts

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Sa susunod na takipsilim

ko muling mabanaag ang mukha mo, sinta

Played around with IbisPaint again and decided to do a proper piece this time. I had to get this idea out of my system. I have an art itinerary but Dominic persistently demands to be drawn so here we are.

Why did no one tell me this app had a playback feature? The entire process for making this piece is encapsulated in 7 minutes and I weep. WIP? WIP. Yokong magpatuloy, good night.

Translation:

[ In the next dusk

would I behold your face again, my love ]

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Art by Ishdaj on Twitter

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The story so far.

I have five TRESE books, the two SALAMANGKA books, and SANDALI, which is trying to disappear into my sheets. I will have the SIXTY-SIX DUOLOGY, UNDERPASS, and (non-comic book) MGA KAIBIGAN NI MAMA SUSAN in the next few days. I think Bob Ong will scare me the most. My brain is a frightening place.

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hello alexandra and kambal simps…….today, i FINALLY offer you my finished animation– 

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Baby Crispin and Basilio

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So I was wondering why Patroclus' arm is covered in bandages and then I realised

MY HEART I CAN'T-

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This 1 sec scene is the most precious thing in the whole series.

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moms, dads, and gyatso 

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moms, dads, and gyatso