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Godzilla: The Monarch Files [Completed]

Prologue/File 1
  • ScriptGenius12

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    Prologue:

    The Age of Monsters. The Era of Titans. The Never-ending War.* All of these titles have been applied to the years that followed when Godzilla first rose from the sea and lit Tokyo aflame. In the wake of his first attack, countless new monsters have risen up across the globe in the following years.*

    Very few of these creatures are alike. You have flying ones like Rodan, insectoid creatures like Kamacuras, extraterrestrials like the Taligon, and downright mystical ones like the Torrentula. And then there are those that defy known science more then the others, like Gigan or Hedorah.

    One could spend days talking about not only the beasts themselves, but the continent and world-changing events that they have had a heavy role in.

    The Mechagodzilla Crisis of 1975. The day when three kaiju attacks occurred over the globes at once, a day where human civilization truly learned that it was not alone in 1977. The G War of 1987. The birth of the Biollante Forest's across the Middle East two years later. The Fall of Tokyo in 1995 that left the city a volcanic quarantine zone. The Oil Breach of 2011. That's just off the top of my head.

    This collection could have easily been one huge timeline. It could have been a step by step description of every known attack.

    But that has already been done. You can find timelines filled with every last sighting and full scale attack by an individual kaiju. Books have been written on the first battle of the Mechagodzilla Crisis alone.

    That's why I've decided to write this after years of graphing footprint data and conducting interviews for Monarch, the North American K-Science division that has risen in prominence these last few years. To differentiate this book from other kaiju based media, I've decided to heavily line it with interviews from individual people. From military personnel to civilians, I've chosen to add a heavy human element, for lack of a better term. Brief timelines and event descriptions will be added as needed to shed light on mentioned material.

    So sit back, relax, and you may just learn a thing or too about the amazing world we live in.


    -S.G.R., Author and Monarch Agent

    *I personally dislike the implication that human species and kaiju are locked in a eternal war. Yes, kaiju attacks can be devastating, but in time our civilizations may be able to adapt to them.

    *Godzilla is not the very first kaiju in all of human history. Legends and historical evidence point to the existence of these titanic creatures long before Godzilla first attacked (Mothra, King Caesar, etc.) Nevertheless, Godzilla was the first to be seen and have his existence confirmed in the modern era, and he is also the one most races imagine when they think of kaiju.




    ---
    Monarch File #1

    "We were there in Tokyo on that day in 1954. We filmed away with our cameras from the top of Tokyo Tower as Gojira came out of the sea and walked through 300,000 volts of electricity. As he stomped his way through waves and waves of missile fire, we kept filming.

    When Gojira unleashed his first blast of atomic fire from his maw, we kept filming.

    As buildings collapsed and vehicles were flung through the air, we advised our listeners to evacuate.

    We stayed.

    As the city burned, we kept filming.

    As Gojira walked up to the tower and stared at us with his burning eyes, we kept filming.

    As he bit into the tower, close enough for us to feel his breath, we kept filming.

    As the tower collapsed with us inside, we bid farewell to everyone still listening.

    To this day, I don't know how we survived the fall, or why we didn't die of radiation poisoning.

    What I do know is that someone has to be out there to let the world know when another monster comes ashore.

    And as for Gojira himself, I can't help but pity him.

    He was not evil by choice. He and the other monsters are simply too large, too heavy, and too strong. That is their tragedy."


    Ishiro Honda, Director and Screenwriter in Toho Co., Ltd. Later Co-Founder of K-Watch. Excerpt from an interview in Osaka, 1963, in the aftermath of Godzilla's reappearance in and battle with the kaiju "Vishnu" in Osaka.
     
    File 2
  • Monarch File #2

    "After Gojira was thought to be dead after that day in Tokyo Bay, he returned to menace the world once again on June 26th, 1963. International panic and speculation ran through the roof. Was this another of his kind, or the original, healed from it's wounds? Most chose the first option. I do not blame them. The alternative, that the beast that set Tokyo aflame was able to regenerate his flesh from a skeleton in nine years, left terrifying implications.

    If the Oxygen Destroyer couldn't kill him, what could we do?

    Ultimately, DNA analysis and additional tests from the ESP Institute of Japan has proven without a doubt that the current Gojira is indeed the same individual from 1954.

    This explains why he goes out of his way to attack human vehicles and buildings, why he is so aggressive to all perceived threats, why he tears through obstacles that other large animals would try to navigate around.

    He remembers the sheer agony inflicted on him, and he knows that humans did this to him.

    I am not just talking about the Oxygen Destroyer.

    As for how he could have regenerated so quickly from his wounds, recent evidence may shed some light.

    This old photo, photographer unknown, shows what may have looked at the time to be a reef floating in an ocean.

    Take a close look. Does the shape of those "coral" spikes look familiar?

    Another photo. It's rather blurry, but you can see more of the shape out of the surface. White material under the spikes, black strips of material on it.

    Some may think it to the floating corpse of a dead whale at the time. But now? It's obvious who that is.

    Gojira was mobile after getting exposed to the device, but barely. Strips of his flesh had begun to grow over his skeleton, but even so he was in no position to attack. By the look of things, Gojira was basically drifting with the current at this point, barely able to move himself.

    My personal opinion? It should have taken far longer for Gojira to fully regenerate, perhaps into the early 80's at least.

    But here is another significant detail: These photos were taken, judging from the location named on the back, on the Sukhoy Nos, an island on the Russian Novaya Zemyla archipelago.

    The area was visited by some Monarch operatives who confirmed its similarities to the location in the photo.

    The island was the same location where the Tsar Bomba was detonated by the Russian government on October 30th, 1961. It was the most powerful nuke ever detonated, with a yield of 50 Megatons.

    To this day, there has been no bigger explosion in the modern era.

    Gojira is a creature who feeds on radiation. You do the math.

    The high amounts of energy given off the blast not only supercharged his healing, it may have been why his size increased by nearly 30 meters during his second raid.

    This raises yet another question: Did Gojira just so happen to be in the area when the explosion went down, or did he know what would happen?

    Some may point out the sheer unlikelihood of such a thing, but keep in mind that Gojira has shown an uncanny ability to hunt enemy kaiju across the world in the past, along with the fact that he always seems to show up where his presence would be most needed.

    In fact, that shall be the next subject of this speech. We will discuss Gojira's alleged "Sixth Sense"-"


    Marshall John McCain of the Kaiju Defense Force (KDF), at the UN summit in Kyoto, 2001.
     
    File 3
  • Monarch File #3

    "The Radioassic Age, of which we are just beginning to understand, is a geological era believed to have occured between the end of the Cretaceous period and the beginning of the Paleogene.

    While this era, and fossils from it are still being investigated, what we do know has sent shockwaves through the world of paleontology: essentially, the dinosaurs did not go extinct after the Cretaceous-Tertiary Extinction and the Chicxulub impact. Yes, there was great dying off and some species never recovered. But there were those that survived and adapted to this environment.

    Essentially, for a hundred thousand or maybe even a few thousands years but not reaching a million years, there was one last great reign of the dinosaurs after the KT Impact.

    Species across the world adapted to the new, likely highly radioactive and volcanic environment. Among these species were large pterosaurs, incorporating magma into their scales and even their flesh. Others, like the tyrannosaurs, survived and adapted to not only become highly resistant to radiation and other forms of energy, but to feed on it in some capacity. Both of these species are believed to be the have evolved over later generations into the Rodan and Godzillasurus races. Other notable new dinosaurs include the Angilasaur, an omnivorous variant of ankylosaur, one with a high resistance to the high and low temperatures that fluctuated around the globe during this time period. Another creature is the Titanosaurus Mafune species, which incorporated traits of both sauropods and spinosaurs to live a highly aquatic lifestyle, far beneath the sea. The amphibious Godzillasaurus, future evolution of the Tyrannosaurs Rex was also known to be part of this "Return to the Sea"-

    [REDACTED FOR BREVITY]

    -The first decades of the era were likely something out of an old stop motion movie, with the surviving dinosaurs battling each other in a blackened wasteland filled with ashen rain and rivers of lava. But as time went on, the dinosaurs adapted more and more to their environment, and they weren't alone in these changes. Another important change was in plant life.

    After years of the world looking like an inferno, the vegetation began to absorb radiation like a sponge, using it in the vein of sunlight. For the rest of the Radioassic, the world flourished once more under the radiation, a feat that will possibly take more then a few decades for us to understand.

    Great jungles and forests sprung up, providing food sources for the adapted herbivores, and by proxy the old and new carnivorous species of the era. If you were to take a time machine and go the middle of this era, you would think the meteor had not impacted at all.

    New species like the Shockirus louse, mistaken as a resurgent trilobite in 1954 by Kyohei Yamane, also came in to feed on the radiation resistant blood of semiaquatic creatures such as the Godzillasaurs.

    Of course, the dinosaurs still disappeared with a few massive exceptions, but far later than previously expected.

    So what happened?

    The Graham Hypothesis states that radiation levels began to recede in the last years of the era, resulting in a large majority of megafauna heading deep beneath the earth to feed on or live in the radiation they had become dependant on near the core. Some of today's modern kaiju may indeed be remnants of this time who stayed close enough to the surface to be reawakened by the turbulence of the modern era.

    Another school of thought believes that an extraterrestrial force caused the end of the Radioassic. It could have been something simple like an alien bacteria, or it could have been something far more dramatic, like a massive space faring predator or group of predators.

    While the idea may sound over the top, the discovery of Taligon and the incursions of 1975 and 1987 prove that megafauna with the capacity of intergalactic travel are a very real threat.

    Further adding to this alarmingly plausible theory is the recent investigation into the impact crater found in the North Pole, along with cave paintings of a prominent "Three armed Killer" from Muan and Infant Island theology-"


    -Paleontologist Douglas Henshall, in the opening excerpt from the book Welcome to the New Age of Beasts, published in 2007.
     
    File 4
  • Monarch File #4

    -It's good business, I'll tell you what. Yeah, the vines here in Syria are snappy and might spew a little teeth and vomit now and then in the jungles of the Middle East. You've got those things that look like venus fly traps with a dental problem, those wriggling things made of animal bone and weed that shamble to you like the spawn of George A. Romero and bloody Poison Ivy, and then there's the big snake like ones that you need HLS's (Heavy Laser Saw's) deal with, but it's all in good fun and profit.

    Hell, ever since that disaster in '89, everyone's been here to harvest the forest's. Turns out that once you give it a little DECOM treatment, this stuff is perfectly edible.

    You had the Soviets being bloody paid by Saradian government to come here when the spread got really bad in exchange for being allowed to harvest the plant material, you had the Yankee's as expected, you had the Sons of Varan* and Maoist* troops from the Chinese City-states getting into firefights over this stuff, the French and my countrymen, just name it. Food, research material, containment, everyone wanted it.

    Hell, plenty of people still want to harvest this stuff.

    As for my regiment? Well, we get paid, and that's that.

    But even if this entire monster forest disappeared, I have a feeling that me and my rifle won't be going anywhere.

    There will always be people interested in the Middle East, mark my words.


    -SAS Sergeant Chauncey Louis Boxer, from an interview with the KNN (Kaiju News Network) during the ongoing resurgence in growth of the Biollante Forest in Middle East. Interview conducted in Syria, 2003.

    **The Sons of Varan and Maoists were among many ruling groups formed in the years of turmoil that lead to the creation of the currently six Chinese City-States formed in the aftermath of the kaiju Varan's initial attack in 1957, which claimed the life of Chairman Mao Zedong and many other leading figures in China at the time.

    1989:

    February:


    In the country of Saradia, in the Middle East, Scientist Genshiro Shiragami and his daughter Erika finish work on a rose spliced with G-Cells for the Saradian government on the first day of February. The goal of this experiment is to make a hyper-adaptive plant that can grow and create lush forests and jungles in a short amount of time in the dry deserts of the region. Shiragami chose a rose as a test subject due to it being the favorite plant of his deceased wife.

    Rumors persist that he spliced some of her own DNA into his plant.

    During an experiment with some mutated plants on Valentine's Day, the mutated rose grows out of control, rapidly growing vines with fanged mouths at their ends before increasing in size. Seeking water and protein, the organism attacks and kills multiple humans at the facility as it is evacuated. The Shiragami's escape.

    The organism penetrates the outside of the facility with leaves and vines as it grows in size, but it does not leave. The Godzilla/Plant Hybrid begins drawing water from underground springs and containers to sustain itself. It then releases a massive wail, one detected by the ESP Institute of Japan psionically, with the call appearing on wavelengths identified by radio. The Institute sends a now 19 year old Instructor Miki Saegusa out as their chosen spokesperson to investigate, and perhaps attempt to communicate with the creature.

    Godzilla is spotted in the Indian Ocean, heading to the Middle East. Children in the institute collectively have a nightmare of Godzilla fighting a massive crocodilian creature with plant like features in tendrils, and the institute concludes that the psionic signal sent out by the plant must be attracting him.

    At the entrance of the Persian Gulf, Saegusa is deployed by KDF helicopter, in the first attempt to use psionics against Godzilla. She attempts to reach into the creatures mind and redirect his path, but she fails and nearly falls into a coma in the attempt.

    As Godzilla enters the Persian Gulf, the hybrid creature, now named Biollante after a mythical Saradian Queen, burrows underneath the building and reappears in Lake Al-Rafsa'h. Multiple Nations demand the creature to be destroyed, while the Saradian government claims ownership over it, wanting to study it's properties and possibly contain it for it's plans to fertilize the desert.

    Godzilla surfaces in the morning at Half Moon Bay, Saudi Arabia. Godzilla moves through the nearby city before advancing forwards to Saradia. Saudi Arabian and Saradian authorities focus on evacuating nearby villages and cities. KDF and local air forces fire on Godzilla from the skies in the hopes of luring him back to sea, but Godzilla ignores all military attacks and begins advancing to Lake Al Rafsa'h. Godzilla eventually reaches the lake at nightfall after advancing through Saradia itself. Biollante, after remaining under the lake, surfaces.

    Godzilla stands on the shore, and after a wail from Biollante, he charges into the lake.

    The two fight, with Biollante attacking with it's vines and tendrils. Godzilla retaliates with two blasts of atomic fire, quickly burning and severely reducing Biollantes mass.

    Biollante dissolves into a lightshow of golden spores and pollen, half of which lands around the shore and surrounding area, causing spontaneous flower growth around the area.

    Godzilla regards this phenomenon before turning to follow the golden spore cloud.

    The next day, Godzilla crosses over into Iraq as he continues following the sporecloud, which has gone underground. Dictator Saddam Hussein decides to engage Godzilla with his military forces, despite the UN urging him to avoid doing so.

    Godzilla ignores or stomps through any military forces in his way, advancing through several villages on the border in the days ahead.


    March:

    Godzilla attacks a nuclear plant in Iraq before heading in a straight line through the Mediterranean Sea, and Saegusa psionically senses Biollante heading the same way.

    Godzilla crosses into Syria, fortunately avoiding damage to any major population centers before he reaches the Mediterranean.

    At the edge of the shore, Biollante remerges, now 120 meters in height compared to it's previous 85 meters, and with a massive crocodilian jaw in place of it's earlier rose-like head

    They battle, far more even now, with Biollante displaying the ability to fire acidic flame from it's mouth and corrosive blasts of sap from it's tendrils.

    After twenty of minutes of fighting, Godzilla fires his atomic breath directly into Biollantes mouth, blasting out the back of it's head before he blasts the top of it's head off with a point blank blast.

    Biollante rapidly dissolves once more, sending a shower of spores over the nearby countries. Green plant life, including ferns, trees, and flowers, grow in large quantities in desert areas in Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the border of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Saradia over the night.

    Godzilla watches as the glowing remains of Biollante disperse across the sky, then he walks into the nearby Mediterranean, disappearing under the waves.

    KDF Europe goes into alert mode in the event of him coming ashore.

    As the Shiragami's watch this event from the shore, their security detail is attacked by terrorists from Bio-Major, a Red Bamboo Subdivision, only for the would be assassin's to be killed when a vine suddenly emerges from underground, sending the machine gun equipped truck they were attacking with off a cliff.

    The Shiragami's are sent into protective UN Custody for their safety.

    The excessive, and at times directly aggressive plant growth that follows remains an ecological issue in the Middle East to this day.

    [UNRELATED INCIDENTS IN 1989 HAVE BEEN REDACTED BY ME FOR BREVITY]


    April:

    In the Middle East, the rapidly growing "Biollante forests" begin expanding and utilizing fanged vines in self defense towards flamethrower troopers sent to combat the growth. In exchange for being allowed to analyze destroyed samples, the USSR assists ME forces in fighting the forests, with additional focus being on a way to harvest the vegetable material in an edible from.

    Genshiro Shiragami begins working on project ANEB, with the objective of genetically engineering a bacteria strain that feeds on radiation, intended to clean up nuclear spills, with hopes for an oil spill eating strain in the future. The KDF and other military forces hope to use it to combat both the growing Biollante forests and the kaiju, specifically nuclear ones like Godzilla.


    July:

    Work on Prototype Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria is successful in decreasing radioactivity of Biollante samples.

    August:

    Explosive deployed ANEB is deployed in the Middle East with UN consent. It proves effective in combating the forest, and lowers the Biollante forests radioactivity to the point of rendering blown of fragments edible. Trade agreements over cleansed vegetable matter proves vital to repairing the damage wreaked by Godzilla's battle with Biollante and against the still growing forest.

    December:

    Selling now edible radiation cleansed Biollante derived vegetables during the "Arab Spring" proves to be highly profitable to the Middle Eastern countries involved.

    Multiple UN Nations sign the Kaiju-Human Gene Act of 1989, one made due to the kaiju related genetic incidents of the decade, amongst them the reveal of the Tian-Lung's origin as a genetic rogue creation of the Chinese government. This highly limits genetic research in kaiju or growth related areas, to prevent future monster outbreaks.

    The Middle East is allowed to continue harvesting K-Material from the B-Forest, but they can not deliberately increase the forest's growth genetically.

    Thus ends the massive "Genetic Renaissance" of the 1980's.


    -From the Official Timeline of the Age of Monsters, published by the KDF in 2004 and updated yearly since then.
     
    File 5
  • Monarch Letter #5: (Monster Islands Part 1)

    1966:
    Discovery of the island chain that would later serve as the Monster Island archipelago. Notable native species include a race of heavily armored dwarf Carnotaurs, Rhinoceros Snapping Turtles (With one particularly hardy specimen being called Kamoebas.), and quad-tusked Styracoboars.

    1975: Shortly after the massive Battle of Accra, the infamous year ends with the biggest expedition on the Monster Islands yet, with the Prototype Mecha Red Ronin as a bodyguard and escort. More megafauna, like the slitjawed Boar Mole and the Scorpion Snakefish are discovered. Ruins resembling those in Mu are discovered, hinting at past human colonization on the islands. The Monster Islands Research and Containment Facility is established on these islands.

    1976: Reports of Tyrannosaurs with amphibious features and prominent dorsal spines are reported on the Marshall Islands, with fishing boats being attacked and a cattle farm being raided.

    A G-Force investigation reveals the presence of two five meter (male) adolescents and one fifteen meter (female) adult dinosaur, identified by Kyohei Yamane as members of the Godzillasaurus species. It is believed that Godzilla was once a member of this species before he was mutated and enlarged by nuclear testing in the 1950's.

    The adolescents are successfully tricked into eating a shipment of tranquilizer laced whale meat. The larger female is battled by Red Ronin, and despite the size disparity between her and the 30 meter Mecha, she manages to pierce it's chest armor before being pacified by a rocket punch to the head.

    The three Godzillasaurs are taken to the Monster Islands Containment Facilities as the islands first successful lesser kaiju captures.

    They are placed on separate islands to prevent the female from attacking and killing what she would view as young rivals to her territory.

    The male adolescents are given the names Cope and Marsh, while the female is named Tohru in reference to the green coloration of her scales resembling that of an ancient dragon of legend.

    Excess Cattle, Goat, and Emu Herds are shipped from the USA and Australia to keep the creatures fed.

    It goes without saying that all three specimens are to be kept away from all sources of nuclear power.


    1990:

    Note: Much of this information was classified at the time. Information unclassified around 2007 shall be stated in italics.


    Monster Island has had no barriers for years, with the best hope being that the kaiju on the island would simply be uninterested in leaving. To better work on the islands defenses, the KDF secretly hires magicians and other magical specialists elite builders to assist in building better defenses. A blockade of Maser ships is placed around the island. A network of electric gates around the area is also worked on and completed by 1992. Said Gate involves the use of teleportation runes forcefield tech from Mu to draw lightning from the sky, creating what is essentially a wireless electric fence. The media is told that said fence is based on "experimental forcefield tech" to preserve the secret of magic until the official implantation of Scenario: Broken Masquerade years later. Meanwhile, a gas developed from venom glands found in the severed heads of Ouroboros are also used to develop a gas spraying security system around the shore, one meant to act as the first line of defense before the forcefield. Initial tests manage to ward off Saltora and Baragon.

    -From the Official Timeline of the Age of Monsters, (2005 Edition)

    Current Headcount as of 1995-2004:


    Monster Island Head Count:

    Three Megafauna

    -
    Marsh

    -Cope

    -Tohru

    Eight Kaiju:

    Male:

    -
    Saltora

    -Gaira

    -Sanda

    -Gorosaurus

    -Baragon

    Female:

    -Prospector Pete

    -Tamamo

    Unique:

    -BullDozer

    Headcount as of 2013-Now

    Two Megafuna:


    -Marsh

    -Tohru

    Seven Kaiju:

    Male:


    -Gaira

    -Sanda

    -Baragon

    -Clover

    Female:

    -Tamamo

    -Shiranui

    Unique:

    -BullDozer

    -From the 2015 Official Guide to Monster Island.
     
    File 6
  • Monarch File #6

    Date: 10/22/2012

    With his mustache, steely gaze, and stout, muscly form, Commander Douglas Gordon* of the KDF is very recognizable when I find him in the gym of KDF-NA headquarters in Orlando, Florida. I then proceeded to attempt to conduct a Monarch-approved interview with him.

    When I asked him for his thoughts on Godzilla, this was his one and only response.

    "The lizard pulls new powers out of his ass all the time. That doesn't mean we can't make him bleed."

    Following this statement, he went back to lifting weights and ignored all further questions.

    Promoted to the role of Captain of the Gotengo following the death of his predecessor, Commander Hachiro Jinguji* in 1987, Gordon served with distinction and was later promoted to the position of Commander in the KDF for his service in OPERATION: TBTS (Take Back The Sea) following the Panthalassa Sea Outbreak of 1988. He has been demoted and promoted since then for actions both on and off the battlefield.

    **Killed In Action.

    XXX

    1972: OPERATION FROSTBITE: Attempt by Kaiju Defense Force to neutralize Godzilla by luring him to the North Pole, where a massive missile launch is planned to cause an avalanche on top of him to force him into a state of dormancy.

    Gotengo played a major role in the operation with it's drill.

    Mission Failed

    First recording of Godzilla's nuclear pulse. Despite the damage incurred in battle, the heat generated by the Gotengo's weaponry saved the lives of personnel in the water. (Either pilots whose ships crashed, or crew whose battleships were destroyed in the battle.)

    XXX

    1984: OPERATION SEAGULL:

    A plan to lure Godzilla into the chosen Volcano of Mt. Mihara to kill(Unlikely due to Yiemniak incident, but it should be noted he was not completely submerged in magma at that point) or contain him inside the mountain.

    Outline: Godzilla will lured into the volcano by audio of the vocals of another of his species, created from spliced audio of his own roars and Tohru's. Godzilla will be lured to the top, where explosives will be detonated around the mouth of the volcano, dropping him inside of it.

    Godzilla is spotted approaching Tokai, lure used. Godzilla leaves the area and is lured to the top of Mihara. Explosives detonated.

    Mission Failed: Godzilla escaped within half an hour with atomic breath.

    First demonstration of Godzilla's ability to absorb thermal energy.

    Isu Oshima evacuated.

    Gotengo dispatched.

    Godzilla used stored thermal energy from the magma to nullify the effects of the Ice Cannon, as well as beat it in a "beam clash".

    Luckily, the fight with the Gotengo seemed to "sate" Godzilla, who returned to the bottom of the sea as usual. Red Ronin dispatched to bring the damaged Gotengo back to G-Base.

    XXX

    "Plenty of people want to destroy the kaiju. Others want to study these creatures. Everyday, more and more innovation goes into weapons and devices that can be used against the giants.

    But where everyone obsessives over the future of a world with monsters, I try to look to the past to understand them. Their lives before first contact with humanity, what kind of ancient ecosystems they once fit into. In the case of mutants, I want to understand just how and why they became the giants they are today.

    One monster certainly comes to mind: Godzilla.

    For those knew to the subject of Megazoology, Godzilla is known to be a mutated Godzillasaurus. Three of these ancient creatures are currently kept on Monster Island, and questions about how they survived from the end of the Radioassic Period to the Modern Age can be applied to Godzilla as well.

    One would logically assume that Godzilla was "Born" in the modern era in some deep trench, before the nuclear tests* believed to have created him occurred and transformed him from a Sea Reptile to a towering Titan. Observations of the Monster Island Godzillasaurs and fossil indicates that the creatures had a high resistance to radiation naturally, but presumably not to the extent of something on the level of a Nuclear Bomb. Yet, Godzilla's cells must have reacted with the bomb at just the right distance, for lack of a better term. To give an extended explanation of the hypothetical physics involved-

    [REDACTED]

    However, the hypothesis of Godzilla being born decades before the nuclear era has been met with heavy evidence to the contrary. Dating back to centuries are paintings from Odo Island and surrounding islands depicting an adult Godzillasaurus swimming around and sometimes coming onto land. Accounts exist of it attacking whales, schools of fish, and in one notable instance, a Mongol Raiding party can be found in myths and legends amongst native populations. Other accounts of it stretch to the Marshall Islands. The remains of a an old wooden ship of ancient Mongolian Build were recently found as a matter of fact near the waters of Odo Island. The Godzillasaurus in these legends is depicted as being dark in color, and having three prominent scars. One on the chest, one on the side, and one above it's left eye.

    The ESP's research projects that involved attempts to communicate with kaiju, like Rodan and Godzilla went as well as you'd expect, but they did result in the Psychic agents involved getting brief flashes of memories to the Radioassic Period, of which the famed Miki Saegusa claimed to have witnessed a first person battle between Godzilla and another large predator from his point of view for less then a minute. While that story is another can of worms, it confirms that the individual animal who would become Godzilla was alive for not just hundreds, but possibly millions of years.

    If this is true, the Godzilla himself barely aged since the time between the end of the Radioassic and his first encounters with humanity. One could justify this with excessively long hibernation times, but even so, such a creature would have died of energy loss if it hibernated so long. This trait has been mainly found in Kaiju and in more supernatural organisms.


    Yet Godzilla had such longevity based traits long before Castle Bravo, if we take this into account.


    The population on Monster Island does clearly age by contrast. Marsh and Cope went from Juveniles to full grown adults with a decade. Tohru has begun to show signs of old age typical amongst other large predators. Yet Godzilla was still in his prime for eons.

    Then there is the most infamous account of the Godzillasaurus, the Shindo and Spielberg reports. I shall activate the recording on the screen behind me. Please be silent for the duration.

    During a battle between American and Japanese forces in World War II on Lagos Island-


    [REDACTED]

    -seeing the soldiers as intruders to it's territory, the "Dinosaur" attacked. The old scars on it's body, in descriptions given by Yasuaki Shindo, Arnold Spielberg, and other enlisted troopers, along with it's estimated height match known lore surrounding Gojira on Odo Island-

    [REDACTED]

    "Shindo described it being unbothered by gunfire as it jumped across the mud to get at the soldiers-

    -"Our grenades just made it angrier-"

    "Knocked over our tank, seemed to realize that we were a threat very quickly, tore off the treads after knocking us over-

    -"Major Spielberg and his CO immediately started yelling for everyone to fire when it came out of the jungle-"

    -"After it got hit by those battleship shells, it fell. We thought it was dead. Suddenly it leapt up and seized Ramirez and Blasko in it's jaws. Sonofabitch was pretending to be dead"-

    "It actually knocked one of our rockets back with it's tail before escaping into the jungle-"

    -"Major Shindo and the rest of us found it resting in some grass, blood still on it. Shindo walked up to it and-"

    "As I finished saluting him, the look in the dinosaur's eyes was not that of some beast, but of an intelligent being just like me and my men. To this day, I regret leaving it-"

    [REDACTED]

    Here is my conclusion, after years of speculation and research.

    The original Godzillasaurus, before it's mutation, was long-lived far beyond any other known indiviudals of it's species. It was capable of feats of strength and durability exceeding other animals of that size.



    Godzilla was an abnormal specimen long before the nuclear tests that mutated him in 1954.



    -Professor Kenji Ando at G-Fest XX on June 19, 2013. Copies of the lecture exist online in multiple streaming and educational sites. Redundant parts have been redacted for brevity.

    *Specifically Castle Bravo.
     
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    Interlude 1
  • Interlude: The First Wave
    1954:
    Godzilla. Tokyo, Japan. First and only deployment of the Oxygen Destroyer.
    1956: Meganulon. Rio, Brazil.
    1956: Rodan. Albay, Philippines.
    1957: Varan. Beijing, China.
    First Kaiju attack to result in the death of a world leader, with Chairman Mao Zedong eaten by the creature during a last stand.
    1959: Sasori the Giant Scorpion and Pancho Villa, the giant Gila Monster. Texas, USA.
    First instance of a kaiju attack on North American soil, and first instance of a medium scale kaiju being brought down on foot.*
    *It should be noted that Villa was already injured by the slightly larger Sasori beforehand, with it's open wounds being key to it's eventual defeat by high explosives. Sasori itself later escaped underground and remained at large until the 1980's.
     
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    File 7
  • Monarch File #7

    Extraspecies, also known as Liminal's or Youkai across the world, were officially unveiled to the public after centuries of hiding away from human society, on March 19th, 2007.

    While known to human governments some time in the 1970's, they were relegated to myth and legend, just as the kaiju were before 1954. Ultimately, multiple kaiju attacks over the years threatened the secrecy and safety of both hidden Youkai cities and places where they secretly lived among humans, thus necessitating and eventual "Unmasquing.
    ---


    1977: Three separate Kaiju attacks on the same day:

    1: Cryx, a crystalline extraterrestrial kaiju, lands in Germany and heads for the local Simeum energy research facility constructed far inland. Godzilla arrives and battles Cryx, causing massive damage to both East and West Germany. A newly transferred Red Ronin, piloted by Hikaru Sakimori, is deployed into battle. Both manage to fight off Cryx, who manages to cut and get some of Godzilla's blood on it's core before it retreats, losing a limb in the process. Godzilla, after a brief staredown with Red Ronin, returns to the ocean.

    Cryx retreats to the moon and enters a state of dormancy.

    Both KDF and UN forces seize chipped off crystals and the arm of Cryx. Some crystals are sent off for use in Project: Vogeladra.

    2: Cryx II lands near Infant Island, and seemingly heads for Janjira, intending to walk across the island to do so. Cryx II is promptly met and fought by Battra and Mothra, who destroy it in battle by creating an energy field and launching the kaiju's own blasts back at it alongside their own, overloading it's core and blowing it to bits.

    3: Tamamo, a mammalian kaiju named for its resemblance to the nine tailed fox of ancient legend, bursts out from a underneath a shrine in Kyoto, Japan. It stomps into the city, where it is met by Zilla who has risen from the ocean. The two fight, with Tamamo displaying the ability to harness and fire moonlight in a manner similar to that of Godzilla's atomic breath.

    Masses flee from the battle.

    Multiple civilian and military witnesses report seeing ghostly and distorted shapes also running from the battle into the woods.

    In the end, Zilla manages to defeat the bigger female kaiju by burrowing underneath and collapsing half a mountain on her.

    Zilla returns to the sea to recover from his new burn wounds.

    Meanwhile, the Youkai and other inhuman creatures, like spirits who have been living hidden in Kyoto for centuries, secretly make contact with the Japanese government, requesting asylum after the devastation caused by Zilla and Tamamo. The Youkai leaders reluctantly acknowledge that other spiritual beings and creatures have also been hiding among human populations for a long time, but Kaiju attacks have heavily threatened the practicality and long term necessity of this "Masquerade". Kaiju attacks have also began to increasingly edge near Youkai territory ever since Godzilla's first attack.

    Contact is secretly established with the UN, and a plan to officially reveal these "Extra Species" existence to the public within three decades is established.

    Gotengo and JSDF cryotrooper crews relocate the unconscious Tamamo to Monster Island.

    Monster Island Headcount: Three Megafauna (Marsh, Cope, Tohru), two Kaiju (Prospector Pete, Tamamo)

    Sightings of Zilla around the Sea of Japan are reported.

    These sightings stop after Godzilla returns from Germany.

    -From the Official Timeline of the Age of Monsters (2007 Edition)

    On the day their existence was finally revealed to the public during the passing of the Interspecies Exchange Bill, the events and cultural exchange that followed were surprisingly peaceful. While there are still flareups and civil incidents now and then, tensions are not as bad experts and sociologists at the time would have believed.

    Perhaps it was the threat of giant monsters that kept us and the other races united.

    Alternatively, we as a species are simply not as bad as some of us think we are.

    Of course, most of the people reading this are probably thinking about the MON* squad, and other infamous groups that have sprung up since then in the KDF. Many of the questions asked when Liminals were first unveiled were if they had any relation to the kaiju, from simple stuff to "Were any of your cities attacked by a kaiju?" to one infamously relegated to a Dragonkin diplomat: "Was your kind the result of Godzilla doing the nasty with a human?"*

    Either way, the human race has learned that it is ultimately not alone for the second time.

    Whose to say there won't be a third time?

    -S.G.R.


    *Monster Ops: Neutralization.

    *The possible evolutionary history of Extraspecies is a subject for another book.

    Props to the Dragonkin for not punching the dudes head off.
     
    Interlude 2
  • The Second Wave:


    1961:
    Mothra. Infant Island, Pacific Ocean.*

    * First occurrence of a kaiju peacefully coexisting with a human population. Attack was provoked by heavily condemned nuclear tests. It should be noted that the kaiju's only destructive actions was the intercepting of nuke-carrying aircraft and striking down a small military fleet sent to subjugate the natives by the now inert organization known as "Rolisica."


    1961: Urogora. Thessaly, Greece.


    1962: Brutusk. Siberia, Russia. First kaiju attack on USSR soil.


    1963: Vishu, the giant centipede. Osaka, Japan.

    Second appearance of Godzilla. First instance of Godzilla fighting another kaiju.

    1964: Saltora and Kagiza. Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.


    1964: Godzilla. NATO G-Base 00, Pacific Ocean.


    1965: Oodako. London, UK.


    1966: Discovery of the island chain that would later serve as the Monster Island archipelago.


    1967: Godzilla and Rodan. Vietnam, Indochina.

    First instance of a kaiju surviving a battle with Godzilla.


    1967: Atlantic Scourge and Godzilla. Ookondoru. Oodako II. Letchi Island, South Pacific Ocean. Destruction of the Red Bamboo terrorist organization.


    1967: Taligon. * Mojave Desert, Nevada.

    *First extraterrestrial kaiju.


    1967: Gorosaurus. Paris, France.


    1968: Official Formation of the Kaiju Defense Force


    1968: Battra and Macrosaurus. Hokkaido, Japan.

    Battra aided in battle by Mothra.


    1969: Zilla and Godzilla. Honolulu, Hawaii.
     
    File 8
  • Monarch File #8
    The Antipodes Islands of New Zealand, also known as K-Containment Zone 006, are currently uninhabited by humans, and are considered inhospitable. Aside from seal hunting centuries ago and some memorable ship wreck locations, this island would just be another footnote in history except for two major inhabitants.
    One lives in the middle of the artificially made Phorcides Lagoon, one constructed by herself. Spending most of her time sleeping, she could be mistaken for a massive rock in the water at a distance.
    The other spends most of his time sleeping, coiled around various cliffs. Occasionally he moves around, sometimes observing air traffic. Other times the feathered serpent attempts what could be described as communication with the other inhabitant.
    While they make fascinating sights from the air, the area has been declared a No-Boating zone since 1988 out of safety concerns. Civilian traffic is also heavily restricted, with only KDF research teams being allowed to observe the two kaiju from atop an appropriately safe distance.
    Having seen them from atop a helicopter myself, I can easily say the view is worth it.
    ---

    1988: Grimmgarl, a massive alligator with a resemblance to a urban myth of the same name from the 1800's, rises from the Mexican gulf and comes ashore in Mexico. It attacks Mexico City, fighting the Mexican military. A group of worshippers from the Neo Aztec group perform an alleged "Summoning ritual", dying (Except for one whom was interrogated afterwards.) when Grimmgarl knocks over the ancient Aztec Temple they are at.
    Upon their deaths, a massive feathered serpent-type kaiju with four wings rapidly breaches the surface from the bottom of the of the ancient temple the worshippers were in.*
    It proceeds to attack Grimmgarl, and is quickly named Quetzalcoatl for its resemblance to the ancient Aztec God.
    Quetzalcoatl uses a wind based telekinetic power to beat back and force Grimmgarl to retreat back into the Gulf. Q then begins to fly around Mexico, retaliating against attacks by the Mexican Airforce but otherwise not causing any harm unless provoked.
    It begins flying to places of worship and old settlements of the Aztec Empire, and it begins to except signs of agitation common in large reptiles when doing so.
    It then proceeds to rapidly fly away from the Americas after more searching, managing to evade an attack by North American air forces.
    Q's current location is unknown for some time.
    *There was no sign of such a massive entity being underground beforehand. Additionally, Neo-Aztecism has seen a 28% rise worldwide after this event.

    1988: Macrosaurus suddenly re-appears in the Caribbean Sea out of a spatial anomaly. It attempts to treat the islands as it's personal buffett before being attacked by Torrentula, a massive Anomalocaris with the ability to manipulate water. Being smaller but swifter and seemingly more intelligent, she manages to hold her own with ease against the obese dinosaur. The fight ends in a draw with Torrentula going under the sea and Macrosaurus escaping into it's anomaly, but the fight nevertheless heavily damages human infrastructure on the islands.

    A month later, Quetzalcoatl appears roosting on the uninhabited Antipodes Islands of New Zealand, with Torrentula also living on the volcanic islands. Torrentula has made a Lagoon for itself, and both it and Quetzalcoatl seem to interact and coexist nonviolently. A KDF declared quarantine prevents any ships from coming towards the two kaju, who seem content to remain there.
    From the Official Timeline (2006 Edition)
     
    File 9
  • OOC: Before I continue, I'd like to thank Jet4281 and Tetradrachm on Spacebattles for inspiring the creation of this fic.

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    Monarch File #9

    100 Miles Outside the Tokyo Quarantine Zone

    January 6th, 2014


    In the cold January air, a woman in a long black jacket stepped off a train, cold hair puffing out with each breath. Tightening a scarf around her, she moved through the underground subway, through old, quiet streets, into the entrance to an area filled with surprisingly lush, green plant life, with a landscape dotted by stones.

    Hundreds of stones.

    A cemetery dedicated to those lost in a conflict that had been raging since 1954. When he first stomped out of the sea and changed the world forever.

    She walked through the graveyard, not alone. Men and women, some young and old, said prayers and stood over various gravestones.

    Finally, she reached her destination.

    Unwrapping her scarf from her head, Chifuyu Orimura took a moment to lean against a nearby tree, looking at the gravestone near a cliff in front of her.

    She knew there was no body in there. It was a similar scenario with other gravestones. After all, the Kaiju rarely left any remains behind.

    But that didn't stop the sight from stinging.

    Walking to the edge of a cliff, she sat down and pulled out a pair of Binoculars as she looked at the abandoned city across the ocean from the graveyard.

    What few buildings remained standing were covered in a thick layer of dust. Vehicles, some torn apart, lined the streets. Magma could still be seen occasionally bubbling out from cracks in the ground in short rivers. Smoke drifted like morning fog across the tops of the remaining buildings.


    Massive footprints could be seen on rubble and roads. More buildings, some nearly burned, some still slowly sinking into magma provided a more striking image.

    All of this was remnants of an old battle. One that split the Earth and unleashed Hellfire into an already devastated city.

    [Old Tokyo]

    The city after years of monster attacks and rebuilding, had finally caved.

    In the year 1995, one last monster battle finally finished the job that began in 1954.

    Chifuyu knew this quite well.

    After all, she was there when it happened, along with hundreds of men and women in the Kaiju Defense Force as they fought and gave many way too many of their lives to protect the innocent civilians evacuating.

    She could still remember the city like it was yesterday, gleaming with light and glowing with energy.

    She remembered Red Ronin, the machine she had piloted for years, suddenly ejecting her as the hull ruptured and buckled under a constant stream of fire.

    An attempt to make a giant mechanical monster of their own going horribly wrong.

    A giant screaming blob of steel and wiring writhing across the landscape.

    Dozens of steel fanged jaws ripping and tearing into buildings and absorbing more and more metal into it's mass.

    Blue and multicolored shafts of light colliding.

    World on Fire.

    Rising from a split in the Earth, fallen buildings like bowing subjects around him, a flood of magma falling off his body like a Reaper's cloak, orange eyes blazing with fury-


    Godzilla


    Shaking her head away from the memory, she went back to the grave.

    Sighing out a frosty breath, she went on her knees and pulled out a flask.

    "So." She held it to the ground and leaned back on the slowly whitening ground.

    "I guess I should start at the beginning."

    ''For me, one of the most important moments was when I sawhim for the first time."

    Taking a drink from the flask, Chifuyu poured some of the liquid into the ground.

    "I'd seen him before on plenty of documentaries, in archival footage. On the news late at night, I saw him breaking out of Mt. Mihara less than an hour after he fell into it in 1984. But the first time I saw Godzilla in person was a year later, in 1985. I was ten years old that night."

    ---

    When I approach Orimura, she already knows I'm here.

    "I guess I should start at the beginning." She says.

    KDF Admiral Chifuyu Orimura started years ago under the Jinguji Military Act of 1989. She is well known as the second pilot of the Mecha Red Ronin, starting with her taking down Baragon in 1989 after literally falling into the cockpit at the age of 14, then officially became the Pilot in 1991. A successful career followed in terms of Kaiju battled.

    This career ended with the destruction of Red Ronin during the Fall of Tokyo in 1995. Since then, she has risen through the ranks in the aftermath of the Fall and the events that occurred before and after it, such as the failed Operation: G-Crusher and the reorganization of the KDF that followed the massive loss in manpower and infrastructure during the destruction of G-Base 001 on Adonoa Island and the battles that followed.

    She currently works as both an Administrator, Drill Instructor, and battle Commander for the Mech Section of the KDF.

    This Interview was a rare chance, as Orimura rarely appears in public or agrees to such requests.

    She agreed to the following interview on one condition, one that I will not disclose here in respect of her privacy.

    The following section is deliberately done in a style different from the rest of these documents.

    This is to properly convey the events of 1985 from a unique perspective.

    ---
    1985

    Tokyo, Japan


    It was like 1954 all over again that night.

    The city burned. Four-toed footprints imprinted into the ground, and claw-marks and burns lined gouged-open buildings.

    Deeper into the city, faint roars could be hard alongside the sound of fighting.

    This relative silence was shattered by a screech, and then the swooping of what could be described as a cross between a dragon and wasp near Tokyo Tower in the distance.


    Megaguirus


    It spun to the side, narrowing avoiding a blast of blue fire from below.

    I saw all of this while running with my parents. We managed to get on a train that was heading out of the city. Of course, that didn't go well.

    With a screech of sparks, the train came to a stop. Blocking the way was a sparking, slash lined aircraft, one that had been brutally beaten.

    The Super X. It didn't do well in it's first battle. Losing an engine and blocking a civilian transport was probably the last thing on the pilots minds.

    For one brief second, everyone on board had avoided disaster.

    Then, from behind the train, a familiar sound.


    THUMP


    The sound of a foot smashing down onto the Earth below. Something the residents of Tokyo had come to know very well.

    Another stomp, and then another.

    On both sides of the train, at the end, two massive yellow, sickle toed feet touched down.

    A drooling purple jaw reflected itself in the windows, an aquatic, finned tail idly swishing around in the air.

    Tian-Lung.

    China's very own Godzilla. Three Kaiju attacking on one night.

    With Red Ronin battling the Meganulon swarm on the other side of the city, we were SOL.


    First there was utter silence, the people aboard transfixed by the horror standing right above the train.

    When two purple claws grabbed the end of the car, that's when the screaming started.

    Shaking the vehicle from the side to side, shattering windows, the dragon ripped off one car with a flourish and raised it to her mouth.

    Clutching the train car in both hands, she squeezed.

    There was a terrible crunch, and then a massive amount of red began to leak from the windows and cracks.


    Seeming to grin, the Tian-Lung held the train car at the end over her mouth as she greedily lapped up the red fluid leaking out.


    In a car near the front, a young girl with messy black hair buried herself into her mothers chest as absolute pandemonium erupted.

    That was me, back then. I was scared. Everyone on board was scared.

    And why wouldn't they be? It was demolishing the cars one by one, drinking down the remains of everyone inside like it was tomato soup.


    Grabbing another car, the Tian-Lung grinned again and crushed it once more.


    Again.


    Again.


    Finally, it reached the last few train cars.

    I could see it's shadow over us.


    Licking up some red stains outside it's mouth with a segmented tongue, the Tian-Lung began to reach down.



    Suddenly, the sound of heavy footsteps.


    Shattering glass.


    Shaking cars rattled with every step.


    The Tian-Lung turned it's head just in time for a scaly grey fist to come soaring towards it.



    55,000 metric tons of fury slammed right into the Tian-Lung's jaw and sent it flying through the air into the bay, fallen teeth impacting into the ground.


    Screams of panic turned into utter silence as a grey leviathan stomped forwards, fire in it's orange eyes. Purple blood coated four bone white digits on it's right claw.


    It walked right past the train car, shaking it with every step.


    The humans mattered nothing to him, only the intruder.


    Godzilla.



    The Tian-Lung rose from the ground, purple blood dripping from a wound on it's face.

    Setting a jaw missing a few teeth back into place with it's claw, it glared at the impassive form of Godzilla.

    The dragon let out a booming hiss, and was answered in turn by a roar that shook the Earth.

    Steam billowed from the Tian-Lung's mouth as it set itself like a racer about to dash.

    On the street, blue lights crackled up Godzilla's back, a light shining at the back of his throat.

    Then, they moved.

    Waves splashed into the air as the Tian-Lung charged.


    Windows exploded and cars flew through the air as Godzilla ran.


    Then they collided, and Hell followed with them.


    Watching the fight from the train car, seeing Godzilla in the flesh, I could only think of one thing.


    I know what I want to do when I grow up.


    ---

    1985:
    Sightings of large dragonflies and local disappearances culminate in an attack on a subway train in Tokyo, done by Meganulon drones.

    Evacuation of Tokyo begins.

    Megaguirus II appears in Tokyo later that night, leading the swarm. Red Ronin and the Super X are dispatched to the city.

    Both being built with fighting larger, lumbering kaiju in mind, Red Ronin and the pilots of the Super X find themselves pushed to their limits against the faster, skybound Megaguirus.

    A blackout ensues.

    Half an hour into battle, Godzilla and Tian-Lung emerge in Tokyo Bay, both bearing scars of a prolonged battle.

    The Second Kaiju Attack on Tokyo occurs that night.

    Notable photos taken by Steve Martin and protege Frank West, who were visiting on the anniversary of Godzilla's 1954 attack, portray sights such as Godzilla biting Megaguirus II's stinger off mid stab, Red Ronin pulling a damaged Super X from under a collapsed building while being covered in claw marks itself, Godzilla swinging a line of rail cars at Tian-Lung, along with Red Ronin, it's laser blade unsheathed, standing in front of Tian-Lung to let Tokyo's last crowd of civilians escape. Godzilla and Megaguirus II fight near the Tokyo Tower in the background.

    Other notable survivors include Miki Saegusa, Chifuyu Orimura, Elica and Casama Manbavaran, Goro Gondo, Ishiro Serizawa, and Shinichi Ozaki.

    In the end, Godzilla is victorious, igniting Megaguirus II and impaling it on the tip of Tokyo Tower, while Tian-Lung, partially blinded in battle with Red Ronin, is killed by a blast of atomic breath down her throat.

    The Super X is badly damaged in battle, and it's pilot's manage to eject just before the ship crashes and explodes on the Tian-Lung, which distracts and injures the creature enough to play a part in Godzilla's victory over the artificial kaiju.

    Red Ronin survives the battle, but pilot Hikaru Sakimori suffers a broken leg in the cockpit.

    Pilot Hikaru Sakimori retires after this event.

    The Meganulon swarm suffers massive casualties, either being burned, blasted, or stepped on in droves. However, it is unknown if all swarm individuals were killed.

    Godzilla returns to sea once more.

    -
    From the Official Timeline (2005 Edition)

    XXX


    Afterwards, not much conversation is had between me and Orimura. She stays at the grave in silence, and I walk away.

    I briefly turn and look at the name on the tombstone, dated from 1963-1995.

    Tabane Shinonono.
     
    Interlude 3: Combat Record
  • Interlude 3: Combat Record

    Before retiring due to a leg injury, legendary Pilot Hikaru Sakimori was the first pilot of Red Ronin, the first Japanese produced Anti-Kaiju Mecha. While Chifuyu Orimura took over as pilot half a decade after his retirement, his contributions in terms of history cannot be forgotten or overestimated.

    Battles Fought (7)


    1974:
    Kraken in New York (Won)

    1975: Multiple Kaiju* in Ghana during the 1975 M-Infestation (Mostly acted to distract them from any nearby civilian transport)

    1976: Thoru in the Marshall Islands (Won)

    1977: Crxy I in Germany (Drove it off alongside Godzilla)

    1978: Yiemniak at the Seychelles (Deactivated by Radioactive Pulse from Yiemniak)

    1984: Operation: Frostbite at Izu Oshima. (Pulled Gotengo to safety after it was damaged by Godzilla, but otherwise did not engage Godzilla.)

    1985: Triple battle between Godzilla, Tian-Lung, Megaguirus II in Tokyo. (Survived, with Godzilla killing the latter two. However, Sakimori broke his leg and retired afterwards.)

    A simple AI Routine was installed into Red Ronin two years later in an attempt to replace human based piloting.

    AI Battles fought (1)

    1987:
    During the "G War" crisis, at Fukuoka, Japan. (Godzilla broke it's leg joint and managed to partially decapitate RR with it's own fusion blade.)

    Due to the failure of the AI Pilot, focus was once again put onto human based Mecha piloting.

    *Most notably Tyrantasaur, Ouroboros, Zilla, and Megalon.
     
    File 10: (Mechagodzilla Part One)
  • Monarch File #10
    "We should have burned every last shard and bolt of it when we had the chance."

    - attributed to Captain Douglas Gordon in the aftermath of the Fall of Tokyo, 1995.






    "That is not dead which can eternal lie"

    -Howard Phillips Lovecraft, The Nameless City (1921)




    MechaGodzilla: Part 1



    The MechaGodzilla Crisis: 1974-1975


    1974:

    Godzilla is spotted multiple times near in the Atlantic Ocean, seemingly on a course towards New York City.

    Immediate evacuation and military mobilization begins.


    On December 24th, two Godzilla's emerge from the Hudson River in New York City. After a fight in the harbor, the first Godzilla blasts the other with atomic breath, burning it's flesh away and revealing the other Godzilla to be a mechanical war machine underneath. The "Mechagodzilla" and the true Godzilla briefly fight into the city, with the mech firing it's missiles into a nearby skyscraper, collapsing it on top of Godzilla. Mechagodzilla then proceeds to attack nearby military forces and civilian vehicles before Godzilla frees himself and tackles the mech into the bay. The two then proceed to fire their respective energy attacks at one another (Eye Beams, Atomic Breath), resulting in Godzilla being launched into the sea and Mechagodzilla being heavily damaged. The Mech retreats and flies away.


    International and political chaos ensues, with hundreds demanding an answer for who created the mech, and whether or not it had a pilot or was automated.


    Ultimately, none of the attending nations or operatives can confirm the mech's origins or current whereabouts.

    1975: New Years Eve. Kraken, the biggest Oodako on record. First deployment of Red Ronin mecha. Assisted in battle by a repaired Gotengo submarine. Red Ronin defeats the creature, slicing open it's head with it's blade before shoving it's laser cannon into the newly cut hole and firing away. First modern record of a human built Mecha defeating a kaiju.

    1975: A heavily damaged MechaGodzilla attacks the Chernobyl Plasma plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. It targets the plasma reactor and the corresponding facility, brutally draining and ripping apart the reactor and surrounding facility. Witnesses describe the mech seemingly absorbing both the plasma energy and surrounding metal onto its body, restoring all damage from it's battle with Godzilla. Ironically, if the reactor was nuclear, the mech would have unintentionally saved the town from decades of Fallout.


    MechaGodzilla is then confronted by USSR military forces. The machine proceeds to thoroughly annihilate said forces before walking into the ocean, revealing it to have aquatic capabilities.


    The First Secretary of the Soviet Union orders all nearby nuclear submarines to stand down, having heard of the machines ability to assimilate metal.


    MechaGodzilla once again vanishes from radar. The US President and the First Secretary sign the X Mutual Defense Agreement, a temporary truce in the event of both countries coming under attack by a powerful hostile nonhuman force.

    1975: The next month Mechagodzilla arrives in Accra, Ghana. After landing in the city, it broadcasts an unidentified but powerful electrical signal, one that is later classified as the "K-Attractor" signal by K-Scientists.


    The Accra Incursion begins for over half the month. Almost all known kaiju, attracted by the signal, travel to the city and attack each other in a territorial rage, causing extreme damage in the largest kaiju attack yet.

    First appearance of Megaguirus in the Congo, Bunagi in Morocco, Tyrantasaur in New Mexico, Ouroboros in Mexico (Causing and absorbing a nuclear meltdown.), and Sarcosteon in the Atlantic Ocean. All five head to Accra.


    The various anti-kaiju militaries (KDF, Anti Megalosaurus Force, Monarch) send their experimental weaponry and armor into the city, resulting in massive battle recorded by all major news agencies of the world.

    Red Ronin is deemed too valuable to send into battle with so many kaiju, and is instead used to assist in rescue efforts. Nevertheless, it does briefly engage various kaiju but is forced to retreat from the numerous kaiju larger then it.


    Mechagodzilla itself flies above the city in a circle, observing the conflict and continuing to broadcast its signal while attacking any kaiju or military vehicles that approach it.


    Mothra leaves and flies towards Accra, leaving Battra on Infant Island.


    1975: Vishnu II appears in Okinawa, Japan, and is eaten and killed by another new kaiju, Iracundus. Battra battles Iracundus and drives it off just as King Caesar appears. King Caesar escorts a wounded Battra back to Infant Island.


    1975: Mothra battles MechaGodzilla in the skies over Accra as the kaiju outbreak below continues.


    Godzilla appears in Accra, healed from his first fight with MechaG. Godzilla has a quick fight with Tyrantasaur, who retreats after getting winged by atomic breath.


    Godzilla reaches the city and briefly fights the KDF before unleashing his biggest atomic ray at the time, knocking MechagGdzilla out of the sky. The mech sustains damage to its cranium, and it proceeds to go berserk and attack everything in sight while twitching and firing sporadically in random directions at times.


    Godzilla briefly attacks Mothra before she appears to take a wild blast from Mechagodzilla that was coming at him. She then appears to attempt communication with Godzilla, who charges at MechaG.


    All the gathered kaiju attack the MechaGodzilla. After a brutal battle that levels the rest of Accra, MechaGodzilla falls into a hole created by Gorosaurus and Zilla, where all surviving and able Kaiju proceed to blast and beat the still fighting Mecha, with the fighting only ending when Godzilla decapitates MechaG and tosses the head outside city limits. Godzilla then rips the mecha apart and tosses it's remains around the city.


    The surviving kaiju briefly fight amongst each other before they rapidly retreat, exhausted, underground or into the sea.


    Some, like Bunagi, establish territories within the African Wilderness.


    Godzilla notably ignores a column of KDF and AMF troopers before heading back to sea.

    Godzilla briefly stops to help Mothra into the air.


    The head, reactor, and remains of Mechagodzilla are collected and taken to the newly formed G-Force base on Adonoa Island for dissection and analysis.


    1975: MechaGodzilla's head and body are extensively studied.



    1976: Analysis of Mechagodzilla continues and nears completion. Inside of the machine, inscriptions in a currently untranslated sequence of symbols are scrawled throughout. The machines metal covering is newly identified as "Nanotitanium", a type of metal that can self replicate with similar materials and minerals. It's powerful reactor/power source called a Simeum reactor in reference to the few translated words inscribed on it, though damaged, is partially replicated. Mechagodzilla's remains are scavenged for as much of this Nanotitaium as possible.


    The first line Nanotitanium armored jetfighters go into production in Japan.


    Nanotitanium itself is found to have it's spreading and absorbing properties disabled when away from the wreck of Mechagodzilla itself. The rest of the wreck is dismantled throughout the year, towed away and taken to G-Base to be stored in separate areas.


    While Nanotitanium can reproduce itself except in extreme high or low temperatures, Mechagodzilla's reactor is the only one of its kind. Half the reactor is kept in G-Base on Adonoa Island. The other half is used to create a new reactor for the Gotengo. Energy output is 200% more efficient then it's previous reactor. The Gotengo then becomes the first submersible capable of flight. First tests prove successful for future battleships.


    The Mecha's optics and cranial unit are taken to the island for additional study in laser technology and AI processing. Mechagodzilla's AI casing and head are held in storage for future analysis.


    The Mech's Signal generator, located in it's back and neck, is studied to for possible reverse use as a "Kaiju Repeller."


    The rest of the remains put into storage, with current focus being on translating the words inscribed into its body, along with replicating the Simeum energy in it's reactor.




    1979: Data from Mechagodzilla's head is pulled and translated on an advanced 10 foot computer.


    Translation:


    OBJECTIVES:


    -ESTIMATE STRENGTH OF NATIVE FORCES [COMPLETE]


    -ESTIMATE VIABILITY OF NATIVE POWER SOURCES [COMPLETE]


    -CAUSE AND OBSERVE LARGE SCALE CONFLICT [COMPLETE]


    -SUFFICIENTLY CULL NATIVE POPULATION TO ENSURE EASE OF CONQUEST [INCOMPLETE]


    -SIGNAL FLEET IN [SOLAR SYSTEM REDACTED] [PREVIOUS OBJECTIVE MUST BE COMPLETED FIRST]



    USA and USSR extend alliance clause.


    MechaGodzilla's head is melted down in Adonoa Island's magma pools.


    AI Core placed in cold storage.






    1992:

    -MechaGodzilla AI core is pulled out of storage, and KDF Specialist Tabane Shinonono is put to work alongside several other professionals in attempt to analyze it's alien data once more. This time, four video files are pulled from it's head onto a screen, videos shown to only 20 individuals at the time.


    File 1:


    [Appears to be in a hangar-like area. Video file is in a first person perspective, from that of MechaGodzilla or an identical machine. Video is an hour long.


    It's vision is tinted red, and various untranslated symbols and what appear to be numbers surround the corner of it's vision.


    The area is a square like room made of gleaming metal, with various walkways strewn around it. The entity believed to be MechaGodzilla is seen reflected on the walls. It is standing motionless in hunched position. The Mecha's body is slightly different from MechaGodzilla.


    It's snout is flattened and push back, and no tail is visible. It's mechanical arms are wider in width.


    As a result, this Mecha/Early form of MechaGodzilla has been informally called a "Robot Kong" or "Terminator Gorilla" by those who have seen it.


    Around the walkways and on several platforms close to the mech, dozens of humanoids with a close resemblance to modern Gorilla species can be seen working on the mecha with a variety of tools or walking around it.


    These extraterrestrials are believed to be the creators of MechaGodzilla, or at least of the same race that made it.


    For the next hour of the file and to the end, the hominids perform maintenance on the Mecha, screwing various bolts and metal sheets onto its surface.]



    File 2:


    [The next video is over three hours long and appears to depict an attack on an alien city.


    MechaGodzilla is seen in a desert like-environment surrounded by crystalline formations. A silver colored city can be seen in the distance. As MechaGodzilla approaches the city, it is attacked by triangular aircraft. The aircraft contains multiple energy weapons on it's side.


    Instead of using it's finger missiles, MechaGodzilla wields two rifle-like weapons in each hands, ones that fire what appear to be stream of plasma automatically, with a five second delay after 10 shots for each gun.


    It battles the aircraft while continuing it's advance. At the five minute mark, MechaGodzilla is assisted by three other Mecha's.


    M2 has a notable resemblance to Taligon, a known Kaiju. It wields the same rifles as MechaGodzilla.


    M3 appears to combine traits of both crustaceans and annelids in it's design, and it attacks the aircraft using what is hypothesized to be a gravity based mechanism to drag aircraft into its mouth.


    M4 is identical to MechaGodzilla, and it wields a chaingun on the side of it's left arm that it uses to fire missiles at the aircraft.


    For the rest of the hour, the machines continue their advance and destroy hundreds of aircraft in the process. The defending aircraft increases in size and function, with cryonetic cannons and mine droppers being added to their forces in the last half hour.


    The machines suffer no casualties.


    The next two hours suddenly skip ahead, and depict MechaGodzilla inside the aforementioned city.


    Large crowds are seen attempting to flee it.


    The crowds consist of what are believed to be the native species of the unknown planet. These extraterrestrials have a white, mollusk like carapace around their bodies. They are quadrupedal and have three long limbs. Further details have yet to be made out due to MG's size compared to them.


    MG is assisted by six quadrupedal bus sized mecha's with one eye and jaws similar to that of Earth canines. These entities have been named "Mechanical Hounds" by observing staff.


    While MG focuses on destroying nearby buildings and other infrastructure, the hounds proceed to attack and consume all the organic extraterrestrial entities in sight.

    More extraterrestrial military forces appear to engage MG and it's hounds, with the aircraft being joined by drones with a resemblance to Earth arthropods that attack from the ground and on top of buildings in the alien city.


    The battle in the city continues for the next two hours, with MG being assisted in the last hour by MG4.


    The video ends with MG cornering a massive crowd of extraterrestrials at the center of the city and raising a rifle in their direction.]



    File 3:


    [File is five hours long. It depicts MechaGodzilla wandering a barren landscape. The rocky landscape is surrounded by ash piles and cracks in the floor, and at times MechaGodzilla's vision randomly fills with static. Cracks line the corner of it's vision. Lightning storms occur sporadically in the sky every 14 minutes.


    After one hour of wandering, MG passes by a sandy area that appears to have been blasted into glass.


    MG's reflection can be seen for twelves seconds as it passes by the glass.


    The Mecha has been heavily damaged; it is missing it's left arm and lower jaw. Gouges line it's body, exposing sparking wires in openings across its body.


    The Mech then resumes it's trek, eventually reaching a destroyed city. The few buildings that have not been destroyed are covered in a thick layer of dust, and are circular in shape.


    The Mecha wanders the city for the next two hours, occasionally pausing for minutes at a time.


    Through the city, the bodies of dead hominids identical to the species in File 1 can be seen strewn about the area by the hundreds. The bodies are both out in the open and inside destroyed buildings.


    The Mecha passes the remains of two other Mecha's, one facedown on the ground, and the other in a kneeling position. These Mecha's appear to have been decapitated and have undergone severe burn damage on their armor, with their inner skeletons being visible at points. Both have holes torn into their chests, and upon closer inspection both Mecha's have had their reactors torn out.


    MechaGodzilla once again passes the area and wanders through the barren landscape for the remainder of the video, while the lightning storms increase in duration and intensity.


    In the last five minutes, it approaches another downed Mecha, one that appears to have had it's legs torn off. The Mecha's chest panel has been removed, and it's reactor is visible. It's head and arms twitch for the next four minutes as MG closes the distance between them.


    MG proceeds to rip out the reactor core of the downed Mecha. The legless Mecha seizes all movement.


    It then turns around, still holding the reactor core.


    Another Mecha identical in form to MG, but black in the coloration of it's metal, can be seen approaching it in the distance. As it becomes closer, it is noted that this Mecha has no signs of damage on it's armor.


    The Video ends with with the "Black Mecha" continuing it's approach, with MG beginning to walk towards it in turn.]



    File 4:


    [The Video begins with MechaGodzilla in a rocky location surrounded by stars in the distance. This location has been unofficially named "Meteor X" by those aware of it.


    The file is thirty minutes long. It consists of MG standing in place, before a line of symbols flashes in it's vision.


    Current Translation as of 2012:



    [APEX PREDATOR FORM CHOSEN. UNDERGOING UPGRADE]


    Twenty minutes later, the video ends with MG raising it's fists, now stocked with it's signature finger missiles, in front of its face.]


    Conclusion: MechaGodzilla is not the only one of it's kind in the known universe, and it had the ability to change its form into one resembling a predator of choice. (I.e., Godzillasaurus)


    To prevent public panic, this information is redacted until 2014.

    -From the Official Timeline (2005 Edition) and Monarch Leak (2014)


    ---

    @t-dugong have fun looking for all the continuity nods.
     
    File 11
  • Monarch File #11
    "Depending on who you ask, the beginning of the death of the Petroleum Age began in 2011 during the Oil Breach, or it began in India in 1986 when they discovered the remains of the statue.

    The one they would later call Gandiva."

    -
    A quote attributed to certified renewable energy specialist Mason Ghale in the 2014 novel Energy.

    ---


    1986:
    An artifact in the form of a damaged blue humanoid statue is found in India, one that automatically generates near-limitless energy from a jewel in its forehead when exposed to certain stimuli. The Indian Ministry of Defense seizes the device for possible use in defense of the Indian subcontinent and nearby areas.

    The artifacts resemblance to certain figures in Indian Mythology gives the Indian government a claim to the object, and with assistance from KDF volunteers work is put into restoring it. Nanotitanium copied from Mechagodzilla for this process ends up having a reaction to the object once applied to damaged sections, causing it to form Mechagodzilla esque weaponry in place of damaged or missing limbs. The Mystic energy emitted by the now cybernetic statue results in secret magical specialists being brought onto the project, among them alchemists from Luna Nova and a sect of jewel wielding Magi from Japan.

    Project: Gandiva begins.


    1987: After losing a territorial battle with Bunagi, Tyrantasaur leaves the African continent and resurfaces in Bombay, India. The herbivorous kaiju walks through the city on its way to the jungle, causing tons of property damage due to its sheer size and strength. Gandiva is activated ahead of the date of it's public unveiling, and is sent into battle with a newly installed AI to fight Tyrantasaur.

    In the battle that follows, Gandiva's AI proves to be far faster then expected in movement and reaction times as one would expect, with some attributing this to it's incredible energy supply. This proves invaluable against the far bigger Tyrantasaur in a battle in the jungle where it is mid vegetation feast. In the battle, despite losing some chunks of itself, Gandiva makes Tyrantasaur bleed badly by shooting off one of it's horns, and the kaiju retreats back to the sea in Gandiva's first victory.



    A week later, Tyrantasaur washes up dead on Yalong Bay in the Hainan Province, China.




    Part of it's corpse has been stripped to the bone, while other parts of it bear massive bite and claw wounds resembling those inflicted by crustaceans, especially around its neck area.

    It is assumed by some members of the kaiju community that the wounded kaiju was killed by Atlantic Scourge, but others speculate that a new kaiju may have been behind the kill.

    ---
    In the decades that have followed, the use of similar newly excavated objects have made India a major player in renewable, clean energy sources. The currently limited numbers of resuable jewels-seventeen at the time of writing-is the only reason why Gandiva-Type Tech hasn't completely replaced most current energy sources, such as Plasma and Simeum energy reactors.
     
    File 12
  • Monarch File #12

    "In hindsight, the experiment likely wasn't a good idea. At the very least, it could have been done with more restraint."'

    -Professor Koji Ando on what we're (hopefully you too) all thinking at the Kyoto Conference of 2001.


    "I got married, so it wasn't all that bad."

    -Attributed to Casama Manbavaran, Filipino alchemist in the aftermath of the incident.

    Mr. Manbavaran has yet to confirm or deny said quote.







    1978: In the final radioactive test of the century, African, American, and French scientists release a variety of captive animals onto various evacuated islands in the Seychelles archipelago.

    Under careful watch from the KDF with Red Ronin and the Gotengo on standby, the islands are bombarded with Gamma rays to explore the creation of megafauna and kaiju. Many creatures die, but the other half grows in size and gain features typical of kaiju.


    Several notable new kaiju include Komodithrax, a massive Komodo Dragon, BullDozer, a giant chameleon and caterpillar symbiote, and Jirass, a massive frilled lizard with bioelectric abilities.


    After a few weeks of observation, the gamma radiation has an unexpected effect on several potatoes unknowingly planted there years ago, causing them to develop predatory traits and grow to enormous size and fuse together into Yiemniak, the first vegetable kaiju and one over 118 meters in size.

    The Yiemniak begins attacking and killing the other new kaiju. Panicked, some smaller kaiju like a group of overgrown termites flee and attack the nearby facility and naval blockade.


    Notable survivors include Professor Elica Bauer (Later Manbavaran,) who beats a termite larva attacking Alchemy Consultant Casama Manbavaran to death with a sledgehammer, and Private Douglas Gordon, who decapitates a napalm breathing cobra with a machete.



    At the prospect of this new threat, Red Ronin and the Gotengo are unleashed to fight the Yiemniak. It proceeds to render Red Ronin and the Gotengo inactive with a pulse of radioactive power.


    Said pulse knocks out nearby electronics, and causes symptoms of advanced radiation sickness to appear on all military forces within 100 meters of the Yiemniak. Those inside metal containers, like pilot Hikaru and the crew of the Gotengo, survive the pulse.


    Godzilla, undetected in the chaos, rapidly ascends from the nearby sea, causing a miniature tsunami. Godzilla briefly battles several mutant animals before engaging the Yiemniak itself. Godzilla's own radioactive power protects him from the Yiemniaks withering pulse.


    Godzilla and Yiemniak battle, setting the islands around them on fire. The KDF engage any megafauna trying to escape the blockade, but Komodithrax, BullDozer, and Jirass escape out into the open ocean.*


    Godzilla and Yiemniak's battle takes them near the newly discovered Mt. Kaidra.


    Godzilla blasts the volcano with his atomic breath, causing an eruption of lava that engulfs the island they are fighting on.


    As the Yiemniak burns, the more heat-resistant Godzilla repeatedly blasts Yiemniak down to 95% of its body mass and returns to sea.


    The few remaining blackened chunks of Yiemniak are taken to G-Base 01 on Adonoa Island.

    ---


    *A rare instance of non-supernatural kaiju working in concert.


    -From the Official Timeline (2007 Edition)
     
    Interlude 4: The Third Wave
  • Interlude 4: The Third Wave



    "If there's anything that could be said about the nineteen seventies, it was that it was a decade of discovery. A new Renaissance, if you will.

    We have discovered more about the history of civilization itself. Advances in energy soared. New monsters and species were discovered worldwide. Living dinosaurs were found. The first Mecha's were developed. The planet as we knew it was far larger then ever before.

    Of course, there were downsides.

    Kaiju attacks became more and more common, and we learned that, on Earth and beyond, mankind was definitely not alone in the universe, for better or worse."


    -author Tomoyuki Tanaka in a preface from The MechaGodzilla Crisis, published in 1994.


    1970:
    Kikiron. Barcelona, Spain.


    1970: Breakthrough in renewable energy results in development of a plasma reactor in Janjira, Japan.


    1971: Hedorah. Shanghai, China.


    1971: Hedorah and Godzilla fight in Janjira, Japan. Battle resulted in the destruction of the plasma power plant during the battle between Godzilla and Hedorah.

    Holds the record for the third longest kaiju battle of the century.


    1972: The ruins of the newly named sunken continent of Mu, previously thought to be mythical, are discovered with the use of the highly advanced prototype underwater battleship Gotengo, developed in the 1960's. Teams sent down to investigate the sunken islands find evidence of an ancient civilization dating back to 70,000 years ago.

    Excavation reveals ancient technologies and weaponry far more advanced than anything else at the time.


    1972: Massive UN-funded mission to investigate old Muan tech begins.

    The skeleton of a deceased serpentine kaiju is found curled around a massive dilapidated Muan tower.

    Advancements in plasma technology begin. Old reactors studied as potential energy sources. Old Muan designs and the discovery of a massive suit of thermal powered armor discovered. Work on the first Mecha begins.


    1972: A mummified cybernetic Kaiju corpse is found in an underground cavern in the Australian outback. Upon being exposed to sunlight after removal from the cave, the kaiju rapidly reawakens and flies away.

    Kaiju classified as Gigan.


    1972: King Caesar and Megalon. Okinawa, Japan. First instance of a kaiju willingly defending humans from another kaiju.


    1972: OPERATION FROSTBITE: Attempt by Kaiju Defense Force to neutralize Godzilla by luring him to Antarctica, where a massive missile launch would cause an avalanche on top of him to force him into a state of dormancy.

    Gotengo played a major role in the operation with it's drill.


    Mission Failed.


    First recording of Godzilla's nuclear pulse. Despite the damage incurred in battle, the heat generated by the Gotengo's weaponry saved the lives of personnel in the water. (Either pilots whose ships crashed, or crew whose battleships were destroyed in the battle.)



    1973: Godzilla and Gigan. Sydney, Australia.

    1973: Rodan. Brazil, South America.


    1974: Godzilla battles Taligon near Yokohoma, only for an earthquake to occur. Godzilla falls underground, while an injured Taligon retreats to Mt. Fuji.

    Godzilla later emerges from underground near Nagoya, with Taligon returning to re-engage Godzilla.

    Godzilla kills Taligon in combat before returning to sea. Taligon's mineral rich remains are taken to Adonoa Island for study.

    1974: Construction/Restoration of Prototype Mecha Red Ronin 50% complete.


    Mechagodzilla Crisis 1974-1975


    -First deployment of Red Ronin

    -Destruction of MechaGodzilla I


    -First appearance of Bunagi, Tyrantasaur, Megaguirus, Ouroboros, Iracundus, and Sarcosteon.

    -Death of Vishnu II

    -First instance of Godzilla working with other monsters.




    1975: Mechagodzilla's head and body are extensively studied.


    1975: The infamous year ends with the biggest expedition on the Monster Islands yet, with the Red Ronin mecha as a bodyguard and escort. More megafauna, like the slitjawed boar mole and the Scorpion Snakefish are discovered. Ruins resembling those in Mu are discovered, hinting at past human colonization on the islands. The Monster Island Research and Containment Facility is established on these islands.


    1976: Capture and transporation of three living Godzillasauruses to Monster Island: Tohru (Female) Cope and Marsh (Male)

    1976: Analysis of Mechagodzilla continues and nears completion. Inside of the machine, inscriptions in a currently untranslated sequence of symbols are scrawled throughout. The machines metal covering is newly identified as "Nanotitanium", a type of metal that can self replicate with similar materials and minerals. It's powerful reactor/power source called a Simeum reactor in reference to the few translated words inscribed on it, though damaged, is partially replicated. Mechagodzilla's remains are scavenged for as much of this nanotitantum as possible.


    The first line Nanotitanium armored jetfighers go into production in Japan.


    Nanotitanium itself is found to have it's spreading and absorbing properties disabled when away from the wreck of Mechagodzilla itself. The rest of the wreck is dismantled throughout the year, towed away and taken to G-Base to be stored in seperate areas.


    While nanotitanium can reproduce itself except in extreme high or low temperatures, Mechagodzilla's reactor is the only one of its kind. Half the reactor is kept in G-Base onAdonoa Island. The other half is used to create a new reactor for the Gotengo. Energy output is 200% more efficient then it's previous reactor. The Gotengo then becomes the first submersible capable of flight. First tests prove successful for future battleships.


    The Mecha's optics and cranial unit are taken to the island for additional study in laser technology and AI processing. Mechagodzilla's AI casing and head are held in storage for future analysis.


    The Mech's Signal generator, located in it's back and neck, is studied to for possible reverse use as a "Kaiju Repeller."


    The rest of the remains put into storage, with current focus being on translating the words inscribed into its body, along with replicating the Simeum energy in it's reactor.


    1976: A slug species from the Marshall Islands, one known for safely eating irradiated material, is brought into a G-Force laboratory on the Monster Islands, where Doctor's Genshiro Shiragami and Tina I. Ka test the slugs ability to eat various energy contaminated foods, like plasma and Simeum. After consuming enough large amounts of radioactive food, one slug grows to massive size and breaks out of the facility, eating the other slugs and several personnel in the process.

    New kaiju classified as Bogma.


    Bogma later appears on Odo Island, attacking a hidden cache of Uranium before being killed and eaten by Godzilla in his second appearance on the island since 1954.


    1976: Prospector Pete. Ocean City, Maryland. First Instance of the now flight capable Gotengo defeating a Kaiju. First successful use of the Gotengo's Icicle Canon. Prospecter Pete corralled to Monster Island.


    1976: Rodan battles Megaguirus over the skies across the South American continent. Rodan decapitates and eats Megaguirus. However, some of her surviving Meganulon drones carry an egg to safety underwater, one which later hatches into Megaguirus II. Due to the damage the meganulon and their queen caused, Rodan is seen as somewhat of a folk hero by later generations.


    1976: Using Muan tech, the British begin construction on the steam powered mecha Chelonra.


    1977: Three separate Kaiju attacks on the same day:

    -Official plans for first contact are drafted between the human and liminal governments of the world.


    1: Cryx, a crystalline extraterrestrial kaiju, lands in Germany and heads for the local Simuem research facility constructed far inland. Godzilla arrives and battles Cryx, causing massive damage to both East and West Germany. Red Ronin, piloted by Hikaru Sakimori, is deployed into battle. Both manage to fight off Cryx, who manages to cut and get some of Godzilla's blood on it's core before it retreats, losing a limb in the process. Godzilla, after a brief staredown with Red Ronin, returns to the ocean.


    Cryx retreats to the moon and enters a state of dormancy.


    Both KDF and UN forces seize chipped off crystals and the arm of Cryx. Some crystals are sent off for use in Project: Vogeladra.


    2: Cryx II lands near Infant Island, and seemingly heads for Janjira, intending to walk across the island to do so. Cryx II is promptly met and fought by Battra and Mothra, who destroy it in battle by creating an energy field and launching the kaiju's own blasts back at it alongside their own, overloading it's core and blowing it to bits.


    3: Tamamo, a mammalian kaiju named for its resemblance to the nine tailed fox of ancient legend, bursts out from a underneath a shrine in Kyoto, Japan. It stomps into the city, where it is met by Zilla who has risen from the ocean. The two fight, with Tamamo displaying the ability to harness and fire moonlight in a manner similar to that of Godzilla's atomic breath.


    Masses flee from the battle.


    Multiple civilian and military witnesses report seeing ghostly and distorted shapes also running from the battle into the woods.


    In the end, Zilla actually manages to defeat the bigger female kaiju by burrowing underneath and collapsing half a mountain on her.


    Zilla returns to the sea to recover from his new burn wounds.


    Meanwhile, the Youkai and other inhuman creatures, like spirits who have been living hidden in Kyoto for centuries, secretly make contact with the Japanese government, requesting asylum after the devastation caused by Zilla and Tamamo. The Youkai leaders reluctantly acknowledge that other spiritual beings and creatures have also been hiding among human populations for a long time, but Kaiju attacks have heavily threatened the practicality and long term necessity of this "Masquerade". Kaiju attacks have also began to increasingly edge near Youkai territory ever since Godzilla's first attack.


    Contact is secretly established with the UN, and a plan to officially reveal these "Extra Species" existence to the public within three decades is established.


    Gotengo and JSDF cryotrooper crews relocate the unconscious Tamamo to Monster Island.





    The USA, UN, and USSR sign an official alliance treaty now that extraterrestrial invasion may be a very real possibility.


    Sightings of Zilla around the Sea of Japan are reported.


    These sightings stop after Godzilla returns from Germany.


    1978: Seychelles/Yiemniak Incident

    -Creation of Komodithrax, BullDozer, and Jirass.



    1978: With the assistance of the Priests and Priestesses of Okinawa, the KDF gets permission from Mothra to send a chosen few explorers and scientists to Infant Island for a month. The explorers witness and documents the traditions of the local Hotua tribe, the native fauna, including the dog sized "Fairy Mothra's", and the ancient writings and legends of the Island's people, including references to a three armed "Killer of the Living".


    1979: Data from MechaGodzilla's head is pulled and translated on an advanced 10 foot computer.



    OBJECTIVES:


    -ESTIMATE STRENGTH OF NATIVE FORCES [COMPLETE]


    -ESTIMATE VIABILITY OF NATIVE POWER SOURCES [COMPLETE]


    -CAUSE AND OBSERVE LARGE SCALE CONFLICT [COMPLETE]


    -SUFFICIENTLY CULL NATIVE POPULATION TO ENSURE EASE OF CONQUEST [INCOMPLETE]


    -SIGNAL FLEET IN [SOLAR SYSTEM REDACTED] [PREVIOUS OBJECTIVE MUST BE COMPLETED FIRST]



    USA and USSR extend alliance clause.


    MechaGodzilla's head is melted down in Adonoa Island's magma pools.


    AI Core placed in cold storage.

    -from the Official Timeline (2010 Edition)
     
    File 13
  • Monarch File #13

    "The "European G-Crisis" or "Godzilla's Mediterranean Adventure" if you want to be clever about it, those two months following his battle with Biollante were something to remember, and a Hell of a time to be alive. Every country bordering the Mediterranean was paranoid about whether Godzilla would surface on their shores, and in this paranoia a number of decisions both intelligent and utterly idiotic were made.

    You want my opinion? I'm just content that none of my defense plans needed to be used that year. The lizard never came laid a claw on our shores.

    -
    Jean-Pierre Chevènement, former French Minister of Defense. Quote from an interview in 2012.

    ---

    1989 (Continued)

    From April-May, Godzilla is spotted multiple times in the Mediterranean Sea following his final battle with Biollante in Syria. KDF tracker plans begin when he resurfaces near Italy. In the coming days, the Super X2 is equipped with the Fire Mirror, with the plan being to use it to sufficiently wound Godzilla by repeatedly reflecting his own atomic breath back at him.


    Godzilla battles and kills Louvre*, the largest Mosasaur on record at Sicily, with Louvre's half eaten corpse later washing up on the shores of France.


    In Spain, a rash of disappearances occurs around the wilderness.


    Godzilla is finally seen surfacing once more at the Strait of Gibraltar, and the Super X2 is deployed. After firing cadmium missiles and medium yield lasers to provoke him, Godzilla fires his atomic breath. Fire Mirror is used to hit Godzilla with energy from his own blast.


    Contrary to previous instances of kaiju intelligence, Godzilla does not continue to fire his atomic breath after the first time his ray is reflected at him. Godzilla dives underwater, disappearing from radar. HQ believes Godzilla has retreated.



    120 seconds later, Godzilla rapidly breaches the surface directly under the Super X2. Atomic Breath fired directly at engine and thrusters. Super X2 crashes onto land, where an additional blast from Godzilla fully disables it.


    A nearby tank and laser craft platoon (Meant to attack Godzilla if the Super X2 was successful in injuring him) opens fire after the commander in charge panics when Godzilla turns towards them.

    Godzilla proceeds to advance after the platoon into Spain, attacking and destroying many of the units.

    Godzilla then advances further into Spain.*


    Days later, after walking past several towns and through the wilderness, and while walking through a forest, he is attacked by the Vlad (I-III), a new species of three bat derived kaiju with ape-like traits who had been lurking in the woods, and who were later speculated to be responsible for the recent disappearances. Godzilla defeats and incinerates two of the Vlad's before heading west to the Atlantic Ocean, a path that happens to take him to Portugal. (Vlad's insides later found to contain human remains.)

    The third one, later identified as a female, escapes.

    As Godzilla's path is estimated to take him through Lisbon, Portugal. UN negotiations finally allow the use of a Mecha in the form of Vogeladra, still piloted by pilot Laura Bodewig*.


    Vogeladra battles Godzilla, a fight that escalates into the city limits despite the efforts of all involved. While Vogeladra is one of the most advanced mechs in the KDF arsenal, equipped with some magic ores as part of it's recent upgrades, Godzilla nevertheless puts up a fight even as it's bladed feathers manage to make him bleed on multiple occasions, with his right eye being damaged and later healing.

    In the end, Godzilla manages to incapacitate the mecha when it's back is turned to hold up a collapsing building that several civilian and military vehicles where about to be crushed by.

    Godzilla begins to leave as the surviving Vlad appears and tries to pounce on Vogeladra, it's pilot now exposed due to Godzilla's attack rupturing the cockpit. KDF trooper Goro Gondo manages to fire an experimental plasma rocket directly into the last Vlad's mouth, distracting her long enough for the pilot to regain control the mecha. She uses the last of its strength to decapitate the monster.

    Godzilla and the Mecha stare each other down before G goes back to sea.


    Pilot Bodewig is taken in for radiation decontamination. The Vlad's bodies are brought to the biohazard containment island known as the "K Graveyard."


    Both Bodewig and Gondo receive Medals of Honor from the UN.


    Samples of Godzilla's blood and flesh from the Battle of Lisbon are taken to both G-Bases.


    -From the Official Timeline (2004 Edition)

    ---


    *A survivor of the Panthalassa Sea Outbreak a year ago.

    *A deer hunter from Germany, one chosen as the pilot due to having the rare psychic potential to pilot a Mu-Tech Mecha. We'll get into her more later on.

    *(To this day, some figures like Miki Saegusa criticized the plan to attack Godzilla at the Strait, with the hypothesis being that he would have simply exited the Mediterranean and left into the open ocean if he hadn't been provoked.)
     
    File 14
  • Monarch File #14

    Most known kaiju are classified by Monarch and other organizations by the fact that 1: there is usually one individual of a species at the time, and that 2: said specimens rarely stay at one place for along time, being on the move near-constantly.[Ex: Godzilla in the sea, Rodan and Megaguirus in the sky, Zilla underground, etc].

    However, rarely [and on more recent occasions], a breeding population of multiple kaiju species can be found living together in a location, usually in an exaggeretad predator-prey relationship. Some of these areas are in relative harmony and effectively contain themselves [Ex: Infant Island and the Antipodes] Some locations, by contrast, are heavily dangerous, with megafauna in said areas being highly agrresive once disturbed. In several incidents, unintentionally disturbing these habitats have resulted in native fauna escaping into the outside world. Free from their natural predators, these massive invasive predators cause chaos if allowed to breed successfully [Ex, the Panthalassa Sea and the BP Breach Trench], often requiring extensive military campaigns to destroy escaping organisms, and often with massive ecoloogical damages so far.

    Fortunately, damage has been limited by how said creatures tend to ironically be preyed on by larger megafauna once they escape out into the open. Burns and wounds attributed to Godzilla have been found on dead mosasaurs, and video footage exists of Komodithrax, Zilla, and other aquatic kaiju eating Panthalassal Megalodons in the wild. In a way, the single specimen kaiju act as a sort of non-human defense system.

    Indeed, noted scientific heads like Vivienne Graham and Ishiro Serizawa suspect that by feeding on invasive megafauna, the larger known kaiju may be sated enough to not need to hunt for food in civilized areas.

    On the megafauna habitats, Monarch has recently started officially referring to them as K-Habitats, or K-Containment zones synonymously depending on the level of surveillance needed.

    One of the more infamous zones, aside from the legendary Monster Islands, is Mondo Island. First known as an uninhabited island with a large population of monitor lizards, the discovery of a massive hole leading underground soon resulted in an expedition, one claimed by the KDF in cooperation with Monarch after multiple massive fossilized footprints were found around the area.

    The rest is history.

    -S.G.R.


    A distress signal from the Underground Megafauna Habitat Expedition is discovered by KDF-Asia, from survivor William Randa Jr.

    A rescue mission is launched at K-Habitat 007, with Red Ronin being on standby in case of Megafauna attack due to the nature of the transmission.

    [The Expedition was launched in 1990 after the discovery of a massive hole on a small uninhabited island (Mondo Island) west of Indonesia in 1988, one leading deep underground, one believed by the Monarch organization to be a hollow space in the Earth filled with large fauna like that found on the Monster Islands and the Panthalassa Sea. It is also believed that some modern kaiju came from it and other hollow spaces. After a few weeks, contact was lost with the expedition, and all personnel involved were believed dead until 1993.]

    A heavily armed rescue party is launched, one that manages to find an exhausted, delirious, and malnourished Randa at the opening of the habitat. Randa is found to be clutching a film camera and makeshift tomahawk upon rescue, mumbling about "bad moons" before falling unconscious. As the squad takes Randa back to an Evac zone, a Sub-Sonar device detects a powerful signature from below. Red Ronin is immediately activated as a massive serpentine kaiju with two limbs appears at the entrance of the hole in the middle of the island.


    Individual classified as Hades. Kaiju species later given the informal name of "Skull Crawlers".



    Hades begins rapidly advancing in the direction of the human group and Monarch fleet. Red Ronin manages to intercept and then kill Hades after a brief battle.

    Debriefing:

    William Randa Jr. slips into a coma for four days, but footage from his camera from the man himself sheds light on what happened for the four years he and his now deceased team were down there.


    -1990: Footage shows Randa and co (thirteen research personnel, twenty six armed guards) encountering various fauna from a safe distance, ranging from large insects to reptiles with Mesozoic traits.

    On the day dated to loss of contact, the group is ambushed and attacked by a Skull crawler for the first time, one later identified by the distinct pattern on it's back and by Randa himself as a younger Hades. Multiple personnel are killed. The survivors are separated from their communications array and are forced to avoid Hades by travelling down a smooth, slide-esque rock formation that Hades cannot fit through. The survivors are then trapped underground. They survive by hunting insects and small reptiles. Footage from the remainder of this year showcases more fauna being discovered, various glowing stones on the the various caverns and ceilings underground that provide effects similar to that of sunlight, and a notable battle in a river between two juvenile Skull Crawlers.


    -1991: The group has lost two more members. There are only two videos from this year: One that shows Randa filming a massive trail of shedded snake skin and then kaiju Ouroboros in the distance. It swallows a young Skull Crawler before falling asleep on top of a geothermal vent. Randa can be heard talking about how Ouroboros has been spotted by the group multiple times. Randa then speculates that Ouroboros must be keeping the megafauna populations underground in check, and he mentions having researched old legends indicating that the kaiju has been around since the Golden Age of Greece. In the video, all of Ouroboros heads have regenerated after two were decapitated in 1986 by Gigan and Megalon.

    The second video is far more dramatic, and depicts a battle between Godzilla and Ouroboros in an underground forest. Randa occasionally turns to flee before going back to filming the battle, while the expedition, down to twelve individuals at the time, can be seen running away alongside him.

    Randa describes how Godzilla randomly appeared one morning in the underground, and he says that while he's not sure how Godzilla entered the hollow space, he doesn't believe that Godzilla's encounter with Ouroboros was an accident, claiming that one or both of them had been deliberately seeking each other out.

    In the recorded battle, Godzilla and Ouroboros are both equally matched due to the radioactive nature of both creatures. As Godzilla begins to visibly slow and become disoriented under the effects of Ouroboros venom, he manages to turn the tables, breaking off the head of her Mamba head mid lunge with his tail before slashing into the humps on her hood containing nuclear energy. Godzilla rapidly absorbs her energy stores before unleashing a nuclear pulse, flinging her to a nearby cliff. Godzilla then fires his atomic breath directly at her head, causing Ouroboros to fall off the cliff into the darkness below. As Godzilla walks away, Randa calls this victory a "Dominance display" before turning off the camera. According to Randa, he and his team did not see Godzilla again after this fight, but they did find footprints matching Godzilla's for a month afterwards.

    1992:

    -The group, now down to ten members, finds sanctuary in a cave next to a river and an area with edible vegetation and fruit. Randa's next video showcases the group cooking various small animals and making meals, with several members making "testaments" on camera in the event that the camera is the only remnant of the expedition should things go wrong.

    1993:

    -An attack by a large amphibian with crocodilian traits, one which is torn apart by a gang of Skull Crawlers shortly afterwards, forces the group to abandon their cave home. This evacuation is recorded by Randa.

    A break for the surface is made by all ten survivors. They discover an old set of ruins, ones with a currently untranslated language written at several points across the structures. The group camps for the night.

    The next time the camera is turned on, Randa is alone and covered in mud and blood. Turning the camera to himself, he describes how the rest of the group died on the way, listing exactly how they died along with their names. He then turns the camera around, revealing the old communications array. He states that he's going to turn the array on and make a statement before dashing to the surface. He mentions that he will have to do this quick, stating his belief that radio signals may have been what attracted the Skull Crawler to his group in the first place. Randa then films himself finding a ladder placed at the start of the expedition. Randa then prepares to enact his plan, and a loud roar can be heard as the video file ends.

    After Randa awoke, he was able to give a more thorough account. The island itself is currently surrounded by a blockade and has been declared a No-Fly Zone.

    No further expeditions to the center of Mondo Island have been attempted.

    -the Monarch Leak [2014]

    Further details of the incident, including the rest of Randa's testimony, are limited to Monarch Personnel with Level 4 Access.


    xxx



    *K-Containment Zone's: Monster Islands (1), Infant Island (2), Panthalassa Sea (3), BP Breach Trench (4), Omega Roost (5), and the Antipodes (6).
     
    File 15
  • Monarch File 15
    "Psychics, or Espers as they are somtimes referred to, first came into prominence in the late 1980's.
    When the first ESP Institute was set up in Japan, it was treated with slight skepticism and relied on private donations to stay afloat. The students (and in a way, the main subject of the Institute) numbered only in the dozens, and the only readily identifiable succesful experiments revolved around hearing the thoughts of others and mentally lifting small objects. Even then, these feats were often not paid attention to, either being seen as scams or being buried under the turbulence of the decade.
    It ended up taking big event for psychic powers to be taken far more seriously, similar to what was required for when the world first learned of the existence of kaiju and liminal species in 1954 and 2007.
    This impetus was the "Crystal storm" that occurred during the final hours of the G War of 1987, one that resulted in many latent psychics "awakening" their abilities to defend themselves from debris and other dangers in the areas struck by the crystals, mainly in Japan and nearby Asian countries and nations.
    Then there was a then nineteen year old Miki Saegusa's attempt to mentally drive back Godzilla when he entered the Persian Gulf during the Biollante Incident of 1989. It ended in failure, but nevertheless this was the first moment were psychic powers were ever used against a kaiju. It should also be noted that shortly before Biollante's battle with Godzilla, multiple children at the Institute had dreams of Godzilla battling her final form weeks before it happened.
    Despite the failed attempt to redirect Godzilla, Saegusa was able to sense Biollante's movement underground, allowing KDF and Monarch teams to track her, and Godzilla's path by proxy. This was before Sonar technology became as advanced as it was today, and even now psychic testing has been half correct in predicting the current positions of known kaiju and megafauna species.
    After this event, psychics became more common overall, with most hypotheses pointing towards either a type of radiation released by the crystal storm, or some other factor. The Institute near Kyoto has heavily expanded since then. Aside from teaching psychic individuals how to control their abilities, there have been attempts to make contact experiments in order to see the memories or the current locations of Megafauna, with successful mental contact experiments including ones done on the Monster Islands, one done with a hibernating Rodan, and ones done with more mundane animals like whales and known sea birds.
    Of course, this use of ESP has not always been successful. Kaiju like Sarcosteon and Titanosaurus have been known to be very sensitive to psychic power, which has resulted in multiple incidents were large scale ESP research has been attributed to drawing a kaiju toward a civilized area. As a result, said large scale experiments are typically done once a year or gradually over time to prevent attraction. On the opposite side, creatures like the Atlantic Scourge are outright "blank" to psychics-

    [REDACTED FOR BREVITY]
    Psychic research has also been a major assist in Mecha use, specifically in the first line of Mecha's.* At first it was believed that only those with a very high willpower or type of brainwave could pilot Mecha's, with those that did not fit that criteria being unable to simply move the machine half of the time.
    The other half would have their minds literally "Burnt out" by the strain.
    Later tests however would prove that in fact, one would need a certain amount of psionic potential in order to pilot Mu-Dervied Anti Kaiju Mecha's.
    Since then, more reliable means of detecting such potential have bee found and used, with notable pilots found afterwards with this method. Examples include professional wrestler Miguel Zubaz and current KDF Mecha Division commander Chifuyu Orimura.
    However, it should be noted that psychic individuals have not just seen use in anti-kaiju operations. After an incident in 1994, where several members of the Japanese Institute ended up foiling a plot by members of a doomsday cult from releasing sarin gas into the city of Matsumoto, after several of the individuals involved heard the thoughts of the passing cultists***, world leaders became to see psychics as something more then curiosities or living Kaiju alarms.
    While weaponization in "Standard warfare" is currently forbidden by the UN, the idea of a literal "Thought police." is likely tempting to any dictator or sufficiently paranoid politician. The fact that psychic individuals are still relatively rare has migrated this slightly.
    Nevertheless, rare incidents where psychic individuals using their powers to commit crimes independently have been documented, usually requiring other psychic individuals to help take them down-"
    -American ESP Institue student Tristan Mowry in a high school essay called "The topic of ESP" written in 2011. Excerpts were taken and paraphrased with his permission.
    *
    Massive armored suits brought up from Muan ruins and reverse engineered, or those made based off of old Muan schematics.
    **This indicates that ancient Muan society was aware of and used psionic abilities in at least one aspect of their technology.
    ***The cultists belonged to the now defunct Aum Shinrikyo cult, one that ended with the mass arrest of many members following a raid after the Matsumoto incident. Discovery of plans for a subway attack dated for 1995, alongside confessions from multiple cultists rendering them complicit in multiple murders and other illegal activates resulted in massive sentences for leader Shoko Asahara and his inner circle.
    Next time: An Interview at the Kyoto Institute.
     
    File 16
  • Monarch File 16
    My trip to Kyoto in 2015 was paid for by Monarch. The city became Japan's capital once more after the fall of Tokyo in 1995, with a 1.54 million population after the reconstruction efforts that followed. Today the city is quite prosperous, and has been home to multiple conferences involving the subject of both kaiju and extra species, including the famous Kyoto conference in 2001. Kyoto was also the place where liminal's were first publicly revealed to the world, and in correlation to this, Kyoto also boasts one of the highest city dwelling Youkai populations. A great majority of these tend to be mammalian species like kitsunes and forked cats.
    Today, the purpose of my travels is to visit the ESP Institute outside the city limits. I will be visiting Furude Rika, a former student and current senior Professor of the Institute. She is an accomplished psychic and one of the current leading experts on the rare "Projection" art of ESP.

    Rika was born in the village of Hinamizawa, which was devastated during Baragon's* first attack in 1989. A then sixteen year old Rika witnessed and survived this incursion, during which she activated her latent psychic powers to save herself and some friends from an out of control truck. Rika was then taken under noted professor Miki Saegusa's wing afterwards at the Institute. In her time there over the decades, she was the first to develop the art of psychic projection, and she witnessed several incidents like the Controversial K-Contact experiments of the 1990's alongside multiple other kaiju attacks. Nowadays, Rika remains as a teacher to new students and psychics while also acting as a consultant for solid based abilities.

    After some travel time and sightseeing, I reach her office for the interview. The office has multiple models of various mecha and kaiju on some shelves in the back, alongside a varied collection of books relating to psychics, ancient myths and legends from the Gifu Prefecture, a few volumes on subterranean wildlife, and a Totenkopf novel**. Newspaper clippings line the walls, depicting photos of events such as Red Ronin standing over a defeated Baragon and other kaiju, members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult being arrested, and the official signing of the Interspecies Exchange Bill.

    Dressed in a typical white lab coat like many of her colleagues, the middle-aged Professor Rika is waiting in her office. Greetings are exchanged between us, and the interview begins.
    XXX

    Q1: What is the experience of being an esper like?
    A:
    "It's not easy to describe to those without it. It is like describing color to the blind or sound to the deaf. But I'd say that at it's simplest, ESP is like a seventh sense. It's something new, and something that one who unlocks it will have to get used to. Yes, there are times when one can use psychic powers immediately as in a life or death situation, but those first times are basically like injections of adrenaline in that they are temporary and draining afterwards. Sometimes it can be frightening. But if you have enough discipline, if you take the time to really learn your abilities, then...it's like a whole other world opening up, one that you can touch if you focus enough. Once that happens, the feeling is both one of wonder, relief, fear...and responsibility. That part is very important, and I feel that everyone in this building should acknowledge this. If you want another explanation, feel free to ask the other professors. Next?"
    Q2: What are your thoughts on the contact experiments?
    A:
    "Both failures and successes. While trying to influence another humanoid's mind is expressly forbidden by law depending on where you are, the experiments a few decades ago that involved reaching into the minds of wild animals has proved to be a worthwhile venture. Psychic volunteers have been able to see through the eye's of a Beluga in the Bering Sea and a pride of Lion's in Africa. The scientific potential is and has proved to be highly useful and informative. Of course, there have been hiccups. Mentally encountering a kaiju by accident or not rarely ends well. The ESP volunteers that accidentally summoned Sarcosteon towards the testing site near Fuyuki City in 1991 come to mind, even if disaster was narrowly averted. The few times kaiju contact experiments haven't ended in disaster involved captive kaiju such as the ones on Monster Island. Other instances that went well involved Rodan when it was hibernating in Mexico, and even so it went relatively well because the kaiju was in suspended animation essentially.

    On the results of the actual experiments, very few have had any success in influencing a kaiju. The best that could be done was seeing the world from a kaiju's eyes for a few moments or seeing it's dreams, such as what happened with Rodan and the kaiju of the MI. That information alone has plenty of value to people from multiple fields. However, when a contact experiment goes wrong, it goes wrong.
    The best result is simply being forced out of the kaiju's mind when it notices you are there, such as like what happened when Tamamo pushed out the volunteers on the Island or when Godzilla knocked Miki Saegusa unconscious when she tried to drive him away from the Persian Gulf. At worst, said kaiju will home in on the psychic minds that touched it's own like a beacon. Once nearly happened to me when I volunteered for an experiment. It's a good thing a nearby security team was there when that Meganulon drone stared breaking through it's cage to get at me.

    Anyway, to put it simply, successfully looking into a kaiju's mind involves a multitude of factors, such as current environment, physical and mental state of the organism involved, and it's comfort level beforehand. This is key to the only successful contact experiment with Godzilla in 1995. That only worked due to a variety of factors involving both Godzilla himself and the people involved. That was before...Tokyo. Before it all went wrong.
    Never mind, I didn't have much involvement in these experiments after the bug nearly tried to eat my face off. Still, I hope my answers are satisfying so far.

    Personally, I feel that these experiments are very dangerous.

    But trying is better then doing nothing at all."
    Q3: How does it feel to be the creator of the first psychic projection?
    A:
    "Oh, that? It was mostly sheer luck. I wasn't even trying to summon her when I did it, I was just trying to lift some stones. I was as surprised as everyone else when it happened, really. Overtime, I simply repeated what I felt had happened, and in this time I felt I've done quite well with my projection. She's almost like family now, that's how good I am at wielding her- Oh, you wish to know how I feel for founding that style of ESP? Personally, I just feel I learned something new like anyone else starting out as a psychic. Potentially any student could crate their own projection given enough training. At least that's how I feel, and for those who wish to learn my office is usually open. As for the projection itself, in a way I did have previous-"

    A loud, drum like alarm interrupts us both.

    After a brief jump, the look in Rika's eyes echoes my own thoughts.

    "Kaiju." She calmly says, and with nary a nod we are both out the door, me grabbing my notes and Rika several of her books.

    Outside, it is pandemonium as expected as students and teachers dash out of various classes, testing rooms, and restrooms. Some try to move together with discipline, while others run forward as fast as they can. Shouts are heard all around us as the alarm continues.

    More then a few head in the opposite direction from us.

    The KDF designed bunker lays a few floors below us, with the nearby stairs being slightly longer but ultimately safer to use in this situation compared to the elevators.

    Alongside a good deal of students and few professors, we reach the entrance to the Kaiju Raid Bunker. The circular vault entrance is under a red light, with the continuing alarm doing little to calm anyone. As Rika approaches the vault entrance alongside a younger, scruffy looking teacher, I hear some useful tidbits from
    some students with their phones out among the crowd's panic.

    "It's near the 10 mile mark at the bay-"

    "I hear their calling this one Gesura-"

    "Like the squid?"

    "No, it looks more like a shark-"

    At the entrance, the young teacher frantically starts running a hand through his messy hair. "It's not opening! The switch, I think there's some sort of error with it-"
    Before Pandemonium can erupt even further, Rika politely interrupts him. "Stand back." The man turns around, then opens and closes his mouth when he realizes who is talking. He does as she says, stepping back. Rika walks up to the vault door.

    She calmly speaks.


    "Hanyu."
    There is no flash of light, and no dramatic gesture from Rika.

    The projection is simply there when she says it's name.

    While I can't see the front of the entity, from the back I can see two curved black horns on a head of long-light purple hair. The projection is dressed in what I later
    identify as a red hakama and white haori. Standing in front of the heavily armored entrance, the projection grabs the side of the door and pulls to the left.

    After half a minute of audible straining and groaning (From the door), it is fully pulled open. "Hanyu" then vanishes as suddenly as it arrived.

    Slightly scratching her scalp, Rika is the first to enter the darkened, spacious shelter. "Agent," she begins as lights begin to turn on inside the circular arena, "I apologize for the interruption. It looks like we will have to talk again sometime later."

    As the rest of us file into the shelter without (mostly) running over each other, I can only hope that there is a toilet available.


    [REDACTED FOR BREVITY AND FOR THE SAKE OF MULTIPLE INDVIIDUALS DIGNITY]

    -All in all, upon exiting the city on one of the remaining transports, it was an overall informative learning opportunity.
    XXX
    *Baragon is the name of a one horned Oni from obscure Hinamzawan lore, one said to eat fire and live beneath the Earth. Said name was appropriately enough chosen by the KDF as the designation for the burrowing kaiju.

    **A Series of horror novels set in the Edo Period of Japan's history by Hojo Satoko, a fellow survivor of Baragon's first attac
     
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    File 17
  • Monarch File 17

    "Keep in mind, it wasn't just people who were getting eaten by those bugs. Many animals lost their lives to the swarm. The fact that both us and the animals have managed to recover since then shows that giving up is never the answer! Earth is home to all of us, and that is something we all must remember!"

    -Conservationist and Megazoolologist Steve Irwin on the First Kamacuras Outbreak. Statement dated 2005.

    "I'll be honest. Among all the explosions and the shooting and the roaring, it was probably love at first bite for those two."

    -Film production designer and K-Watch tracker Patrick Tatopoulos on the aftermath of the Outbreak. Statement dated 1998.

    "Listen here kids, this is it. Either we destroy every last one of these flying dills, or they eat us all. We are all that's left after that screwup at Darwin, and out shiny new robot is sitting around like a drongo. So I want every last man and woman capable of carrying a bomb and a flamer out there, because if these things reach adulthood and start popping out eggs faster then we can shoot em, we've already lost. But that ain't happening. Because today, we are going to kill all of those ankle biters and their tucker swallowing mom! I have seen you all fight, and if you've lasted this long, you clearly know the your doing.

    When we fly and charge out tomorrow, let it be known that today was our loudest hour! We! WILL! NOT! GO! QUIETLY!

    Remember boys and girls, we aren't here to fuck spiders!"


    -KDF-Austrailia General Kano Goddard shortly before the Battle of Queensland in 1994.

    1993:


    -Kamacuras I. Brisbane, Australia. After attacking multiple civilians, it escapes over the open sea's just as the military arrives.

    KDF-Australia established. Construction on Kinkuto, a Mecha visually based off the extinct Thylacine, begins. KDF-Asia Head Engineer Shinonono is sent to help in construction with Project: Kinkuto.

    -Kinkuto is completed in Australia. Made from nanotitanium and with built in programming resembling that of the UK's Chelonra, it proves to be a very complex machine.


    1994:

    -In late June, Kamacuras I manages to sneak into Australia through a previously unseen camouflage ability. Pregnant, it lays its eggs in the Australian Outback before attacking numerous settlements and wild animal populations. Kinkuto is deployed, but the human pilot proves to be unable to keep up with Kamacuras speed and the complicated maneuvering of the machine itself in a battle at Darwin, one which ends with the human pilot having to retreat.

    Kamacuras egg sack is found by the Australian army weeks later, only for it to hatch during an attempt to destroy it, releasing nearly a hundred horse sized praying mantises into the wild.

    The First Kamacuras Outbreak begins.

    Multiple attacks across Australia by Kamacuras I and her brood increase in frequency. Martial Law is declared.

    In July, A bombing attack on the main "nest" of the swarm reveals it to be a decoy.

    Per Shinonono's recommendation, Kinkuto is activated with only it's restricted AI upgraded with combat data taken from MehcaGodzilla's controls. It's battle damaged reactor is has multiple space crystal shards from the aftermath of the G War inserted into it's damaged reactor.

    It autonomously breaks out of it's storage area and begins moving towards the Outback, ignoring all commands from it's human controllers back at K-Base A. It nevertheless battles any Kamacuras adolescents it can find.

    In August, Komodithrax emerges from Shark Bay into Australia while Zilla rises from the Gulf of Carpentaria at the same time. Both begin heading towards the Outback, attacking and eating several young Kamacuras in the process. It is believed that they are looking for new territory.

    Super-X attack planes are requisitioned by the KDF. Situation elevated to Code-Red G.

    Kinkuto pauses in place at Barrow Creek and ignores further commands. It's current "Behavior" is blamed on the crystal fragments.

    Zilla and Komodithrax make first contact at Lake Mackay, where they proceed to begin fighting.

    A weather manipulation device is deployed in the hopes of defeating the insects, with the current logic being that what awoke the original Kamacuras could be used to drive them away or kill them.

    A large gathering of the creatures is lured to a makeshift station at Queensland where the device is detonated, only for it to further mutate the creatures. The adolescents begin to grow to near adult size while Kamacuras I grows two extra claws resembling that of a crustaceans.

    Zilla and Komodithrax are then attacked by the surviving mutated members of the swarm, and the KDF orders it's three new attack planes to bombard the area with cadmium shells as the Australian air force is deployed alongside it.

    Zilla and Komodithrax quickly stop fighting each other and begin focusing their attacks on the swarm and the KDF forces.

    At the same time, Kinkuto reactivates and rapidly begins approaching the site of the incursion.

    In the ensuing fight, Kinkuto kills Kamacuras I with it's chainsaw before deactivating itself, while the swarm is destroyed by the remaining combatants.

    Zilla and Komodithrax escape the remaining military forces, both of them working in unison to take out a Super-X aircraft before escaping into the Coral Sea.

    Kinkuto is put into storage until it's glitches can get worked out.

    Australia suffers major collateral damage, but manages to pay off much of it's debt by selling the mutated insect carcasses around the world.

    In the decades after the outbreak, the sovereign country proves to be the second biggest recruiting ground for the KDF, directly after Japan itself.


    -From the Official Timeline (2004 Edition)
     
    File 18
  • Monarch File 18

    One of the first K-Files I made back around 2013, done in standard Monarch style. Enjoy.

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    Species: Crustaceous Rex

    Type: Aquatic Hybrid

    Known Specimens: Three (Two Deceased, One Alive at time of writing)

    Height: (58 Meters) I and II/(60 Meters) III

    Origin: Hollow Earth (Current Hypothesis)

    Mass: 35,000 tons

    Note: As more information is learned, some written assumptions about the creature's biology and origin may change overtime in the future.

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    Characteristics:

    -First appearing in Alaska around 1981, the Crustaceous Rex species has been noted as a sort of "Darkhorse" amongst kaiju fans for it's bizarre appearance and diet. Most incursions have taken place either at sea, with sightings of it on land being comparatively rare. The creature has highly varied diet, which includes liquid petroleum, petroleum products, fish, and cephalopods.

    It's appearance has lead to it being labeled a Hybrid Type due to it containing traits of multiples animal species. It has forelimbs resembling that of a crustacean and crocodilian. Other traits include an jaw resembling that of an arachnid, along with four tentacles on it's chest that can regenerate over time. Another crustacean trait is it's hard greenish shell, one similar to the armor of other aquatic kaiju.

    It's origin is somewhat of a mystery to current Monarch analysts, as a notable lack of K-Radiation had made it hard to determine whether or not it is a K-Mutation or a resurfaced Superspecies.

    However, recent sightings around the Bering Sea's second entrance to the Panthalassa has lead to speculation of it being another escaped species from the Hollow Earth ecosystem. Until new expeditions can be sent into the Panthalassa Sea, more definite proof has yet to be found.

    Behaviors:

    -C-Rex is very aggressive when hunting, and has been known to attack oil tankers and drilling stations for petroleum to eat. It will consume organic sea life when the opportunity arises, but otherwise the kaiju has been known to vastly prefer petroleum. The second C-Rex also devoured a tar road in Jamaica in it's initial attack, slurping it up within seconds when hungry.

    In battle, C-Rex tends to fair poorly against creatures far bigger then it, and when wounded severely enough it will try to retreat. Against an opponent of a similar weight class, it fairs decently for long periods of time, using it's claws and four tentacles in a manner similar to that of a monitor lizard and a large octopus. It also displays the ability to vomit recently eaten tar at enemies in a steady stream for short amount of time.

    C-Rex displays moderate regenerative abilities, with C-Rex II having regrown all four tentacles between 1989 and 2004.

    Specimen Incursions:

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    C-Rex I [DECEASED]


    -The first Crustaceous Rex appeared off the coast of Alaska in January 1981, where it attacked several oil tankers before coming onto land. The kaiju attacked the Trans-Alaska Pipeline and destroyed three pumping stations, consuming tons of oil in the process.

    Godzilla* quickly came out of the nearby sea just as the local KDF forces reached C-Rex. Both kaiju proceeded to fight, starting a forest fire in the process.

    C-Rex was quickly dispatched by the larger Godzilla, who then took it's body out to sea. Beforehand, quick use of a Maser Cannon by KDF Captain Ota Murakami managed to provoke Godzilla into causing an avalanche, dousing the flames in the process.

    The corpse of C-Rex was last seen being eaten by Godzilla in the Bering Sea.


    *Third instance of Godzilla appearing on American soil.

    C-Rex II [DECEASED]

    -The second C-Rex appeared in the Caribbean Sea in the summer of 1989. It was seen attacking fishing boats and sea life. In June it came on land at Montego Bay in Jamaica, where it ate multiple roads and civilians before returning to sea. It battled an intruding Zilla for territory later that month. The fight quickly escalated from the sea onto the nearby Spanish Town. After having it's tentacles burned off before being tossed of a cliff, C-Rex retreated from the Caribbean.

    C-Rex II remerged with it's wounds healed in the Bering Sea in 2004, where it attacked a drilling platform before coming onto land at the island dubbed the "Omega Roost." which had been declared a no fly/boat zone by the KDF. C-Rex II was soon attacked by a territorial Komodithrax, whom was quickly aided by her partner, Zilla.

    Against two kaiju at once, C-Rex II was overwhelmed and killed in twenty four minutes. It's corpse was then partially eaten. A later expedition managed to get some fragments of it's DNA while Zilla and Komodithrax were away from that section of the island.

    C-Rex III [ACTIVE]

    -
    Has been sighted sporadically in the Arctic Ocean and Southern Ocean. C-Rex III is noted for it's thick coat of white fur around it's shell, a trait absent in previous specimens. It was first seen attacking an Oodako in 2007.

    It has also been seen eating aquatic megafauna and Panthalassal organisms, but is rather skittish compared to it's predecessors; C-Rex III prefers to avoid combat with other kaiju and will often flee when another large creatures is nearby.

    It's last major appearance was in 2010 during the BP Oil Breach in the Gulf of Mexico, where it fed on the spilled petroleum before retreating following an attack by a large group of Breacher Type Kaiju.

    Since then it has remained in it's usual habitats, but starting in 2011, sightings have been far more far more common near Antarctica.

    Misc:

    -Despite their similar appearances, the C-Rex's and the "Clover" Kaiju that attacked New York in 2008 are not believed to be related to one another.



    -The Ganimes Crab's found in the Panthalassa Sea are hypothesized to be a possible sub-species of C-Rex. More research into the subject is required.




     
    Interlude V: Combat Record II
  • As the second and last pilot of the Red Ronin, Chifuyu Orimura's contributions to the world of piloting and mech fighting are taught in academies and classes all over the world, with archival footage often being used. Despite the disastrous events of 1995, she still serves to this day as an instructor and major general in the KDF.

    Battles Fought (12)

    1989:
    Baragon. Fuyuki City (Victory by KO)

    1991: Kamacuras III. Yokohama. (Victory by forcing enemy to retreat)

    -Sarcosteon. Fuyuki City. (Victory by forcing enemy to retreat)

    1992: Gabara. Hiroshima. (Victory by decapitation)

    - Kamacuras I, III, IV, and V. Okinawa. (Victory through death's of III, IV, V, and retreat of I. Red Ronin assisted in battle by King Caesar.)

    -Kiyohime. Nemuro, Hokkaido. (Victory through forcing opponent into retreat*)

    *K fell off a cliff after getting stabbed in the side, so technically it was less of a retreat and more falling out of harm's way

    1993: Hades. Mondo Island. (Victory by decapitation)

    1994: Gezora and Kiyohime. Tokai. (Victory by retreat/death. Kiyohime had been hunting Gezora. Once Orimura realized this, she tossed it towards the serpent kaiju. Kiyohime returned to sea without further incident and was last seen feeding on a deceased Gezora.)

    -Megaguirus III. Vietnam. (Victory by dismemberment and burning of enemy.)

    1995:

    -
    Vagnosaurus. Toba. (Victory by destruction of target's head. Venom glands in tail taken for military use afterwards.)

    -Kraken III. Ise. (Kaiju retreated after losing multiple limbs and an eye.)

    -Godzilla and M-Berserker. Tokyo.

    (Mission Failed: Red Ronin severely damaged. RR autonomously ejects pilot Orimura to safety despite being rendered inoperable minutes earlier. RR last seen buried under debris and lava. Mecha declared lost.

    G and M-B continue to battle. City declared lost and labeled a quarantine zone hours later.)

    1995 was a shit year. Not since Ghana or the oil breach in the new tens has their been such an extensive kaiju related disaster.
     
    File 19 (The G War)
  • Monarch File #19

    The Gargantua brothers are a case of "Nurture vs Nature" in a classical sense. One was raised in his youth by humans, the other lived most of his life in the water. One avoids violence unless pushed to the full limit, the other lashes out at the slightest provocation. Despite this, both have formed close bonds even after multiple fights and disagreements when they reunited in adulthood.

    Sitting in Outpost cabin #66, I have a briefcase of photos in front of me while I write. Several of them are of Sanda the brown Gargantua in his youth. Very much resembling a young great ape, the child sized baby kaiju can be seen apprehensively petting a German Shepard (guard dog) in one picture while the latter's tail wags. In another, Sanda is eating some banana's while being walked down a hallway by his current caretaker, Akemi Togawa. A third photo shows him swinging from bars and ladders in an exercise room. Another one is a surveillance video of a subadult Sanda eating coconuts in the wild, bathing in a river, and battling a dwarf carnotaur.

    Another group of photos are those of the Green Gargantua, Gaira. Having lived his live in the wild, few pictures of Gaira in his youth exist aside from blurry stills taken by cryptozoologists at sea. In my current case, these pics were taken after Gaira was acquired and transported to the Monster Islands. One shows Gaira irratly throwing a rock at Tamamo. The next shows him running down a hill as the irate mammalian kaiju fires her tail beams at him. The third depicts Gaira underwater while he eats helicopter deposited flesh ration. Other phots depict Gaira getting into fights and wrestling other kaiju in what is understood to be non-serious (usually) play (sometimes) fighting, chief among them Baragon, Gorosaurus, and his own brother (one that ends with both Gargantua's tumbling into a mud pit.) Overall, both are different yet similar at times. And both kaiju have photos of them in this habitat that Megazoologists would kill for.

    However, when it comes to fame, these two specimens are most famous for a series of events that took place over a very eventful week in the year 1987, one that would go down in infamy for a multitude of reasons.

    The G War.


    ---


    1985:
    During the ensuing clean up and movement of refugees from Tokyo following the second kaiju battle in the city, two infant hominid kaiju later named Gaira and Sanda are found in the ruins near a hospital. They are taken to Monster Island for study, but on the ship Gaira manages to escape from personnel, injuring several guards before jumping into the sea, where it is assumed dead for months.




    At this point, Gaira's aquatic properties had not been discovered.


    Sanda is taken to Monster Island, where it proves to surprisingly be far gentler then it's brother. The young kaiju, called a "Baby Bigfoot" by some more informal staff members, is raised in the facility, where it develops a close bond with staff members like KDF Engineer Tabane, Doctor Steve Martin, and Doctor Akemi Togawa. Later on, it grows quickly in size over the year, from the size of a small child to 10 meters in 1986. It later escapes it's home in the research facility and into the wilderness of Monster Island. Doctor's Togawa and Martin convince KDF leadership that letting Sanda live in the wilderness will be safer then keeping it in a place that it would likely outgrow.


    Sanda is then seen through surveillance to wander the island, eating plants, catching fish, and sometimes engaging in minor battles with native animal life, along with a notable territorial battle with Cope and Marsh. Sanda notably avoids Tohru and outright runs when faced with the four adult true kaiju on the island.


    Despite his roaming, Sanda notably keeps a close proximity to the base he spent his youth in.


    Elsewhere, around the Sea of Japan, reports of a green "Aquatic Sasquatch" are given by divers and small fishing boat captains, along with a string of disappearances and shipwrecks at sea.


    Origins of the Gargantua Brothers: [CONTEXT CLASSIFIED. ONLY PERSONNEL OF LEVEL 4 AND ABOVE MAY ACCESS THIS FILE]

    Note from the Author: If you are reading this part, you are probably on a Monarch watchlist. My apologies in advance.

    The brothers were human infants mutated in the womb during the 1985 Battle of Tokyo, as a result of exposure to G-Radiation. Their mother died giving birth to them months later, and once the unusual properties of the two were noted (along with Gaira biting off the fingers of an attendant), the KDF were called in to relocate the young kaiju.

    This was the first instance of a kaiju being literally of human origin.

    It is speculated that instead of suffering the normal effects of radiation exposure, the "Gargantua" may have had a rare gene that instead caused them to mutate into their current forms instead of dying in the womb.

    It is currently believed that other "Seed genes" may be dormant in other organisms, meaning that certain stimuli and exposure gives potentially any organism the ability to become a kaiju.

    To prevent mass panic, this information is to be censored, and the cover story for the discovery of the Gargantuas is to keep on as usual.


    XXX

    1987: The G War

    At Monster Island, a massive monsoon storm damages nearby facilities and agitates the animals and kaiju there, with Tamamo breaching her area and swimming out to sea, where she attacks a massive eel. The Gotengo is deployed to help corral her back, but in the chaos Sanda escapes into the open ocean, seemingly to find his brother.


    Tamamo kills the eel and peacefully returns to the island to feed on it's corpse in a cave. A a tattoo of a red bamboo is seen on the eel's skin. The eel is later identified as a surviving specimen from the gamma experiments at the end of 1970's.


    At the same time, an Oodako appears and attacks a cruise ship, only for Gaira, now fully grown to 25 meters to attack it, driving it off. It soon becomes clear that Gaira was after the cruise ship itself. Gaira then eats handfuls of passengers before sinking the ship and disappearing under the waves.


    The survivors wash up near the city of Fukuoka, Japan, where they report their story, confirming the rumors of Gaira's existence.


    In the week that follows, Cryx I begins to glow brightly in it's dormant state on the moon, and it's core begins moving around inside it. USA and USSR prepare joint missile launch if Cryx reawakens.


    Gaira later appears under the cover of another convenient typhoon, where it attacks the city of Fukuoka on the same night, before the JSDF finally tracks him down to a forest. Maser weaponry, upgraded with MechaG laser tech, proves sufficient enough to actually hurt the kaiju, even burning him at some points. Suddenly, Sanda appears and defends his brother, knocking the masers and tanks over with rocks. Notably, Sanda takes care to avoid any lethal injuries among the JSDF. He helps his injured brother up and both flee into the woods.


    Both 25 meter kaiju manage to surprisingly hide themselves in the wood as the now pilotless Red Ronin is outfitted with a new AI to replace it's pilot system for the time being, and Radiation shielding for the battle to come.


    While in the woods, the next morning is when Sanda see's the bloodied remains of human clothing from a nearby village and realizes that his brother has been eating people. Enraged, he attacks Gaira and the battle spills over a valley and back into Fukuoka. As Red Ronin is deployed along with the JSDF, it is suddenly rerouted when a JSDF submarine detect a massive biological signature heading for Fukuoka.


    Entity is confirmed to be Godzilla.


    Red Ronin is sent to engage Godzilla, as reinforcements are immediately called for from the UN.


    The Gargantua brothers continue fighting as Godzilla rises from Hakata Bay.

    Godzilla is engaged by Red Ronin. Despite it's upgrades, the AI is not able to improvise as well as human pilots and attacks in a very aggressive fashion compared to how a skilled pilot would fight. Godzilla's experience and skill is shown when he allows himself to be stabbed in the palm with Red Ronin's fusion blade, using this opportunity to dig his claws into Red Ronin's sword arm joints, resulting in him ripping the arm off. He then slices part of the head off with it's own blade before kicking out a leg joint, toppling the mecha.

    Tossing the blade onto a warehouse, he enters the city.


    On the moon, Cryx I's core rapidly grows in size, gaining limbs as it bursts through Cryx's outer shell, as it begins to grow in size, it levitates off the moon.


    The USSR fires a nuclear missile at the new Kaiju born from Cryx's shell.


    Instead of dying, the new kaiju rapidly assimilates the released energy.


    Back in Fukuoka, Gaira and Sanda continue fighting in the now evacuated city as the JSDF fire upon them, with Sanda notably still trying his best to avoid harming the humans despite them attacking him.


    At one point, Sanda tips over a tank that shot him point blank, only for Gaira to smash it. An enraged Sanda prepares to attack once again, only for both to be interrupted by Godzilla stomping towards them.


    Godzilla notably appears to be confused by the presence of the Gargantuas, looking up at the sky for a few moments before roaring at them.


    Gaira sees this as a hostile action and attacks. Godzilla easily tosses him back and seemingly prepares to finish him off before Sanda suddenly attacks Godzilla. Once more distracted, Godzilla kicks Sanda back down a street only for Gaira, seemingly recognizing his brother's attempt to help him to bite Godzilla, with Gaira's teeth actually making Godzilla bleed.


    Godzilla once more tosses Gaira over a building, before knocking Sanda away with his tail.

    What follows is a combination of both a kaiju battle and a cat and mouse chase, with the 25 meter Gargantua's teaming up against the 100 meter Godzilla across the city. Once they start working together, they prove to be a crafty duo, jumping and climbing across buildings like apes to avoid Godzilla's atomic breath while tossing vehicles and other debris at Godzilla to attract or distract him as needed.

    As the fight continues on, the crystalline entity in space sends a shower of crystalline meteors at a USSR targeting satellite and nuclear missile silo that fired on it before heading down to Japan.

    Entity begins to grow in size and takes on reptilian attributes.



    It makes a beeline for Japan and appears over Fukuoka, sending down a storm of crystal shards into the city that destroy many vehicles and buildings, with one large crystal impaling itself into the middle of the city, and the resulting shock wave knocks over Godzilla and the Gargantuas.



    All three stop fighting as the new Kaiju levitates down to the ground.

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    Still from the historical drama "G X G: War for Fukuoka (1994)". Credit goes to Toho Co., Ltd.

    The creature, quickly named "SpaceGodzilla," summons clusters of crystals from the ground around it, causing a tremor over a 300 meter area around it.


    Godzilla fires upon SpaceGodzilla, who draws energy from the crystal around it into the form of a reflecting shield. SpaceGodzilla then drains nearby buildings and it's own crystal formations for power as Godzilla prepares another blast. Both attacks collide, causing an explosion that flings Godzilla out of the city into the sea and brings SG to his knees despite him bringing up another crystal shield. Gaira, taking advantage of SpaceGodzilla's quick distraction, cuts into its chest with his claws.


    SpaceGodzilla telekinetically flings Gaira into a building, sending it tumbling down on top of him. Sanda digs his brother out as SpaceGodzilla begins summoning more crystal clusters from underground into the buildings around the city, using them as energy sources. The brothers quickly retreat to the countryside as SpaceGodzilla continues constructing his "palace", and soon he begins sending crystal missiles into the air around Japan to spread and create more crystal formations.


    A sonic boom emits from Infant Island as Mothra and Battra rapidly fly towards the surrounding area around Fukuoka. They attack and destroy all crystals in flight while destroying any landing clusters as they grow and spread into nearby buildings.


    National emergency announced. At the current rate of crystal growth, Japan will be covered by the next four months.


    Some crystal shards begin heading across the world, with some impacting in the Americas despite repeated attempts to shoot them down.


    ICBM's launched with UN and PM's permission at SpaceGodzilla. SpaceGodzilla begins telekinetically flinging or destroying said missiles as they appear in his view, while Mothra and Battra continue trying to destroy his spreading crystals.


    King Caesar reappears in Okinawa and destroys a new crystal tower there, notably absorbing a defensive beam from the tower and firing it back with his eyes.

    Dragon Lotus makes her second appearance, this time in Osaka as she too attacks crystal formations as they try to spread, using her ability to create tornadoes to fling crystal shards away.


    Godzilla rises from the bay and begins heading back towards SpaceGodzilla. Lurking around SG's fortress and behind buildings, he fires rays and tosses debris at SG intermittently, which SG blocks or tosses aside. Meanwhile, military forces are deployed at Fukuoka, with Gaira and Sanda being declared low priority. SG engages the military, while an upgraded Gotengo burrows under the Fukuoka Tower, the main building turned into his crystalized power source, partially collapsing it. Godzilla takes advantage of SG's ensuing outrage to charge and engage it in close combat. In physical battle, Godzilla outmatches and begins to beat SG, mainly focusing his attacks on it's chest wound.

    An enraged SG finally knocks Godzilla back with an energy beam.


    He drops multiple buildings and crystal shards on Godzilla psionically, all while continuing to engage the military.


    Sanda and Gaira return, noticing SG distracted in dealing with both Godzilla and the military. The brothers tackle SG, critically distracting it. The Gotengo rises and fires upon SG as Godzilla also attacks it.

    After some minutes of battle, an enraged SpaceGodzilla flings all it's attackers away in a burst of telekinetic power, sending Godzilla rolling across the city, Sanda into the bay, and Gaira, who had dug one of his eyes out, to the ground. After impaling the Gotengo with his long tail and flinging it away, the enraged titan begins flinging Gaira onto the ground, shocking him with its energy attacks all the while.

    Utterly Berserk, SpaceGodzilla begins sending out massive blasts of energy from it's crystal formations that can be seen for miles. At this point, Mothra and Battra appear over the city and try their best to blast and knock away the chaotic blasts of energy from SpaceGodzilla, but they find containing all blasts and shards to be difficult.

    SG then raises a thin, glass like crystal shard over Gaira, held telekinetically against a crystal formation. SG raises it's blade, intending to impale Gaira through the eye.

    At this point, Sanda discovers Red Ronin's discarded fusion sword and runs towards SG, whose back is turned.

    Sanda tosses the blade like a spear, the momentum impaling it through SG's skull and out of it's wounded eye.

    In agony, SG's intense concentration drops, stopping it's hail of shards and frees Gaira.

    As Godzilla rises from a cover of debris, the badly damaged Gotengo, with it's crew evacuated, is piloted once more by its designer and current captain, Admiral Hachiro Jinguji, who activates it's Simeon generator, now ironically powered by a crystal impaled through it.

    As Spacegodzilla blasts Gaira and Sanda away, the Gotengo flies directly into its shoulder crystal, destroying it and tossing SG into the air. An injured SG fires a weakened Corona Beam directly onto the Gotengo's bridge.


    The Gotengo crashes. Admiral Jinguji does not survive.


    Godzilla picks up a large crystal and runs at SG, impaling it. Hefting his foe up, Godzilla blasts his other shoulder crystal.

    The destruction of his two power sources severely weakens SG and causes all crystal formations in the city to start receding and shattering. Battra flies into the Fukuoka Tower SG used as it's main power source, toppling it.

    Now badly injured and low on power, SpaceGodzilla goes ballistic with rage. Wounded, he flies into the air. Using the crystal impaled in him as a new power source, he goes
    critical in a form resembling that of a nuclear meltdown.


    "Burning Spacegodzilla's" meltdown begins to warp the atmosphere above it, creating a spatial anomaly resembling a black hole.


    As Military forces retreat, with Mothra and Battra using their Prism beams and Pollen to try to limit the anomalies rapid growth, Godzilla begins absorbing energy from all the remaining crystals and shards like he would with a nuclear reactor.


    The crystals explode as Godzilla absorbs their remaining energy into himself, lighting up his spines with red light.


    What follows is the first use of Godzilla's Spiral Ray.


    SpaceGodzilla is blasted into his black hole, with the explosion sealing it.


    All crystals in Japan dissolve into light particles.


    Godzilla pulls a trapped Sanda out of the rubble of the Fukuoka tower before tiredly walking away.


    Godzilla stumbles into the bay after this, where he falls unconscious. Mothra and Battra carry Godzilla out to sea, where he awakens and seemingly acknowledges their assistance before disappearing into the Sea of Japan.


    Pollen from Mothra's wings ends up have a healing effect on those caught up and injured during the crystal storm.

    The Church of the Shiisa and religious worship of Mothra increases in membership in the aftermath.


    Sanda stays with an injured, barely conscious Gaira in the ruins of the city.


    Both brothers are successfully relocated by KDF teams to the Monster Islands.

    Notable survivors include ESP student Miki Saegusa, who activates her latent psychic abilities, saving her fellow students and professor from a falling piece of debris during the battle.


    Cleanup efforts retrieve some remaining crystal shards that still contain energy. Samples taken to G-Base for study.


    1987: Following the Battle of Fukuoka, the controversial Jinguji Military Act is written, which will allow volunteers over the age of 14 to join the KDF and other Kaiju focused defense agencies in a combat role after two years of training at the age of 16. However, the act has yet to be officially passed.*

    *It would be passed by 1989.

    -The Official Timeline (2014 Edition)

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    Speak of the devil.

    Just as I finish typing my main report, I hear a tree falling down outside the window of the armored cabin. I take a peek out, and what else do I find?

    Sanda strides forwards, munching on a palm tree's like he's eating a carrot. Gaira is behind him, growling and stamping his feet. He's pissed about something, I don't know what. Sanda just grabs his brother by the shoulder and pulls him along. Baragon I can see on top of a nearby hill, waving a front paw like an old neighbor.

    Tamamo I can hear growling from beyond the trees as if to tell Gaira to shut up. Gaira himself doesn't resist, more or less looking like he's pouting as his brother drags him along.

    That image really does not belong on the Green Demon of the Trench.


    As Sanda and Gaira enter their usual sleeping cave near the center, I can appreciate their bond.

    Despite vastly desperate backgrounds and violent, rocky first meetings, they get along better then most of us do with our own siblings. Perhaps that's the lesson we can take away from this.
     
    File 20
  • "Ever since the discovery of Ancient Mu and the resulting technology boom three decades ago, as you all may know the biggest advancement to come was quite literally the first mecha projects. The first mecha, Red Ronin, was already pre-made in the form of a 50 meter suit of armor that was dredged up from the ocean depths. Using translated Muan manuals, we were able to slowly restore it. The same went for mecha's Chelonra, made by the UK from the remains of another reverse engineered Muan design) and the Vogeladra, which was taken from the fallen Axis following the second world war and augmented with the bones of an extinct drake species and bonded to a Muan metal in a process developed by the now defunct Phanton Task group. Another example was Steel Zeus, one who was based on the fighting style of its pilot, retired wrestler Mark Zubaz.

    All four of these "First Mecha's" required massive amounts of energy to function, and the same could be said for all current mech's. Nanotitanium plating does at least give a moderate solar charge. However, using Muan reverse-engineered psionic interfaces for these mecha's came with its own problem: Only those with an extremely high psionic potential could move them. Even if dozens of trained, fit soldiers were put in the pilots seat, they wouldn't be able to move it if they did not have that rare potential. As a result, individuals with possible psionic abilities were and still are highly valued. At the same time, before methods of detecting psychic phenomena became more common in the late 1980's, these psionic pilots could only be found by trial and error. In fact, the ESP Institute was originally founded as a way to discover potential pilots for future mechs.

    Another drawback is that a pilot without the proper potential could end up killing themselves through the sheer strain of trying to move mecha. Multiple safeguards almost always had to be put into place for this very reason. Even the infamous Tabane Shinonono was not exempt from these rules. After all, she was given half a week in solitary confinement after hastily pushing cadet and future General Chifuyu Orimura into the pilot seat of Red Ronin during Operation: Groundhog.

    The next type of mecha's during the first mecha era includes simple AI-controlled mecha's. After the first MechaGodzilla's attack, paranoia about an AI going rogue was understandable, so Mecha AI was made to be easily controlled. Examples include Chelonra, controlled by radio signals and later by a physical remote. Similar words can be said about the Australian Kinkuto, controlled by a pilot at first before its failure at Darwin. Afterwards, Kinkuto was given an MG derived AI. It did respond to commands and did successfully kill Kamacuras, but its erratic and later violent behavior afterwards resulted in its decommissioning. However, the latter could be blamed on the use of space crystals to replace its damaged body parts.

    Gandiva, the Indian Mecha still in service, is one of the few where an has worked well, with the machine obeying its controllers quite well. Currently, it is believed that the ancient energy generating material in the stone half of the mecha may be why the AI hasn't malfunctioned or gone against its masters. Due to a lack of further stone material and India's decision to hold a monopoly on similar "Mystic Gems", further research is required.

    Other AI's include the Shinonono developed Mecha Raptor's, Tyrannosaur sized creations meant for dealing with infestations of lesser kaiju. So far, success in irradiated areas of Japan have been all around reported. Self destruct in case of an emergency has worked with scrap copies.

    The true second generation of mecha's began with the ill-fated human built Mechagodzilla II, the first human mecha to not be derived fully from Muan tech or with a psionic interface. Instead, it was built with pieces of the original MG and through mineral converted nanotitanium. To make up for lack of a psionic interface, the machine instead had five pilots working and operating a control system from inside. To make it easier, the controls were deliberately designed like that of a tank. This meant that while the mecha was not as maneuverable as its earlier counterparts, it was able to fire multiple weapons at once and multiple characters inside to keep attention on all systems at once.

    Unfortunately, with the second MG's destruction in the last days of 1995 following its first battle, we may never truly get to see just what it could have accomplished.

    In light of these past events and creations, my colleagues and I would like to offer a possibility if you would let us. We have been working on a design to replace the psionic interface without sacrificing speed or pilot reflexes. This system we are working on can possibly link the minds of multiple pilots in one machine together, with the combined thoughts and memories essentially substituting for one psionic mind. This "drift" is only hypothetical, but we plan to begin tests next year. As for new mecha designs, my colleagues are currently pulling up a presentation as we speak.

    In cooperation with the United States of America, I'd would like to present Projects MOGUERA and HAMMERDOWN-"


    -Professor Goro Ibuki at the 2001 Kyoto Conference, in a multinational presentation on the past of anti-kaiju mecha designs and upcoming projects in the field.
     
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