It's All in the Details

Novel-verse descriptions of various things from the Pacific Rim universe. No graphics of any sort are mine unless stated. Side blog; can not follow back.

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       Pentecost turned his back to her, looking out over the Jaeger bays, where the future of the human race stood catching the first rays of the sun. Mako knew that move. She had seen it more times than she cared to remember. When Stacker Pentecost turned his back, that was all there was to say.        For the moment, thought Mako.

                                           - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 112                                                      Alex Irvine

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LOCCENT Mission Control (or Local Command Center)»

Is the communication center in the Shatterdome. LOCCENT is responsible for the deployment of the Jaegers.

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       "Hey!" He shouted. "You dented my ride, you mealy-mouthed mother--"        Chuck fired before Herc could get in his whole line.        Damn that boy, Herc thought in a flash. Always jumping the gun.        Then he fired too, a spit second after Chuck, and the two enormous flares burrowed into one Leatherback's eyes...        Herc looked at Chuck. He couldn't decide whether to be proud of Chuck's bravery, irritated that Chuck had jumped ahead of him, or disappointed the way all fathers were when their sons were too much like they had been at the same age.

                                          - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 241                                                     Alex Irvine

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      "Striker Eureka, stay in the back and guard the coastline. We cannot lose you, so only engage as a final option."        This made Tendo nervous. Well, more nervous than he usually was before a kaiju battle. He'd seen four-dozen kaiju go down, just about, and he still go the jitters before every fight... Because he'd also seen seventeen Jaegers go down.

                                      - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 211-12                                                     Alex Irvine

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      Newt had a flash of insight. Had any city on Earth been targeted twice before? He didn’t think so.       One, the kaiju knew what they were doing. They were seeking out new population centers and avoiding places they’d already hit to maximize the shock value of appearing somewhere the first time. And two, if they were hitting Hong Kong a second time, it wasn’t random. Especially not coming after twenty-four hours after Newt drifted with a kaiju brain. It was a mission to recover or kill or kidnap or extract one Newton Geiszler.       Hannibal Chau was right about that. Now Newt was irritated that he hadn’t seen it first.

                                        - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 218                                                     Alex Irvine

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      The Wei triplets moved like they were one person. All Ranger pairs moved in unison while they were Drifting, but the quality of the Wei’s handshake was different. Raleigh wondered what it was like. He’d had plenty of drifts with his brother, but he and Yancy weren’t identical. Seemed to Raleigh that the Weis must lose track of who was who... but maybe that was because he didn’t know what their drift was like.

                                          - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 213                                                     Alex Irvine

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      He fell back into that moment, remembering the driving snow on the beach, the blood in his eyes, the shocked look on the face of the old man with the metal detector. The last thing he’d seen before passing out was the young boy at the beachcomber’s side, eyes wide. There had been snowflakes on the boy’s eyelashes.       The last thing Raleigh had felt, as he slumped to the frozen sand, was the empty space in his mind where Yancy had once been.

                                          - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 91                                                     Alex Irvine

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       "Rangers, this is Marshal Stacker Pentecost," came their commander's voice. He was formal as ever at this moment. No shortcuts for Pentecost.

                                           - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 18                                                      Alex Irvine

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       At her father's side, the glow of the fire lighting his face: Tatara satetsu and patience. Break the kera, find the Three Steels, hochotetsu, tamahagane, nabegane. Hochotetsu is the core, the others are the skin. Fold the steel, Mako. When you have folded it sixteen times and forge-welded it sixteen times it is ready to become a blade...        What an earthquake I never felt an earthquake before!        You are my only daughter whatever anyone tells you never believe I loved you any less than I would have a son        Never believe that        Fold the steel        Forge-weld it again you can be the steel but first you must be forged. We have forged steel for twenty generations Mako and it has forged us as well.

                                           - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 145                                                      Alex Irvine

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       "It's called Oblivion Bay, and it's were combat-damaged Jaegers are permanently retired. Graveyard of our robot warriors, if you'll pardon the expression. This was where the first kaiju, Trespasser, was hit with the first of the tactical nuclear weapons that eventually killed it. Now it's kind of a memorial. You've got Coyote Tango over there. Brawler Yukon, Tacit Ronin... most of the early-generation Jaegers, the Mark Is and the Mark IIs, are here. Diablo Intercept, Matador Fury. Just about every one of them took a kaiju with them.         Quite a sight folks, quite a sight. They started bringing Jaegers here about four years ago and I've been watching them come ever since. Kind of gives you a sense of what the kaiju can do.         The barge coming in right now is carrying Vulcan Specter, looks like. God bless her pilots. I'm sure the people of Sydney do. Further up the bay-- you can't see this probably-- is the other Jaeger that just fell in Sydney, Echo Saber.        One more little note. The only Jaeger ever taken to Oblivion Bay and then removed again is an old Mark III by the name of Gipsy Danger, made right here in the US."

                                           - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 132                                                      Alex Irvine

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       In the aftermath, Pentecost took a moment just to breathe. He wasn't feeling up to this. Truth was, he wasn't feeling up to much of anything. But the kaiju weren't interested in how he was feeling. The human race wasn't interested in how he was feeling. He had a job to do, a sworn duty to preform. He would rest when they nailed his coffin lid shut, and not a moment before.

                                           - Pacific Rim: The Official Novelization pg 165                                                      Alex Irvine