Monstrous (Kaiju Worldbuilding)

This is a thread for worldbuilding a kaiju setting - as always, feel free to offer suggestions.

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First! Some Slang Terms


+1: Good job, I agree. A positive declaration of a statement. Similar to “cool” or “nice one.”
0-Dark: Referencing the early morning.
1 JV: The sound-powered circuit between the bridge, lookouts, and main control.
13-Chan: Interior comms.
16-Chan: Hailing and distress channel for general use; international/planetary.
3/4 Mile Island:Enterprise-class carrier.
3M: Maintenance and Material Management.
50/50/90: A question that statistically has a 50/50 chance of being answered right but is actually answered incorrectly 90% of the time; usually used to refer to missile operators, who tend to overthink problems or assume a simple answer of “just shoot it.”
90-day Wonder: An officer class graduate. They have a 90 day academic instruction program but somehow magically know nothing about operating a shop or ship.
99 (niner niner): A suffix used after a unit callsign to mean transmissions intended for that unit.
Abaft the beam: Anything aft that is not in the wide overtaking sector of a ship.
Act of God: A really good event conclusion.
A-Gang: Auxiliary engineering division.
Air Boss: The air officer. His assistant is “Mini Boss.”
Ahead Frank Crap on Plate: When a submarine orders All Ahead Flank Cavitate, which is accelerating to full without rigging for high speed first.
All Balls: An instrument reading of all zeroes.
Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Adios,Mother >_>.
Alpha Vibe: In the zone, in total control of your machine.
Aluminum overcast: A space station or other flying fortress.
Amazed/Mazed: Killed with a MASER weapon.
Angles and Dangles: Placing the boat at extreme angles soon after leaving port to see if anything breaks loose.
Angles: To “get an angle” or“get angles” on an enemy is maneuvering for a flanking shot.Angle Zero is directly behind the enemy.
Ajac: Armored jet-attack helicopter.
APE: Auxiliary power unit.
Applejacked: Ridiculously drunk;also refers to a 21 day alcohol made of bug juice, sugar, and yeast.
Athwartship: A direction perpendicular to the bow-stern axis.
Auto: Short for autorotation,which is a maneuver performed by a helo pilot in the event of a complete power loss. Pilots have started to refer to one final jet push performed by a mecha just before slouch.
Aces Ops Check: An ejection. Aces is the biggest manufacturer of jet-assisted ejection for military mecha for WARD/the Coalition.
B-1RD: Whena pilot is showing someone around a tarmac and the visitor asks what kind of plane or mecha that is over there, and the pilot doesn't know, the pilot will say “it's a B-1RD.”
Baboon Ass: Nickname for corned beef.
Back Alley: A game of trump for 2 to 4 players.
Bags: Anti-weather gear.
Bag it Out: Give me a full tank.
Bag Nasty: A juice box or can of soda, a piece of fruit, and a cold sandwich.
Ball: An optical orientation device (a compass, essentially).
Balls Thirty: The 0030 security sweep.
Balls to Four: The watch from 0000 to 0400, though in practice, it's from 2345 to 0345.
Bandit: Positively identified enemy aircraft, event, or gigafauna.
Barney Clark: A slider topped with a fried egg.
Bat Decoder: The key to current comm codes.
Battle Group: A group of ships centered around a large carrier. This is referred to as an “Event Strike Group” or “Easy Grease” when targeting kaiju.
Battle Racks: When exhausted pilots are allowed to sleep through General Quarters drills.
Beam: The width of a vessel.
Beer Tickets: Foreign currency.
Bellyboarding: Flying or performing other dangerous maneuvers for the purpose of thrillseeking.
Berthing: Enlisted living quarters.
Bingo: Minimum fuel required to return to base.
Bingo Point: Alternative LZ for diversion during an operation.
Blue Eyes: A basic reentry pattern performed by a ship that's been damaged, or maneuvers that amount to a tell that your enemy's been damaged.
Blue Tile: The area of the main carrier of a SSG where the admiral and their staff works.
Boat: Anything that can be carried on a ship, unless in space or a sub, in which case, every vessel is a boat.
Bosun's Punch: New sailors are sometimes told to find this mythical tool. They are then punched by the bosun.
Bounce Pattern: When several machines are practicing their touch and go landings.
Bravo Foxtrot: Someone who makes themselves look good at the expense of their shipmates.
Breakaway Music: Whatever they're playing when a ship is leaving port.
Brightworks: Decorative metal that must be shined. This is not fun duty.
Bubble: Trim orientation.
Bunny Tubes: Pneumatic tubes for sending documents and physical materials around the ship.
Burn One: Taking a smoke break.
Burns'n'Churns: What a ship does on reentry, the underside burns, and the decks develop vomit stains.
Bug Juice/Bug Juice Dispenser: Nutrition slurries that are served on most decks. They come in bright neon purple, red, and blue colors.
Callsign Buster: End your mission, return to base.
Cake Dryer: Imaginary piece of machinery used to dry out perfectly good cake.
Camper: A distant support mecha.
Cannon Whore: An artillery spammer.
Cetes: Orcas, dolphins, whales, and soon.
C-GU11: “Seagulls,”semi-aquatic flyers, similar to “bulkhead remover,” an inexpensive way to derive enjoyment from inexperienced sailors on watch.
Channel Fever: A “sickness”that strikes sailors when port is in sight and they start screwing up jobs.
Charlie Noble: The stovepipe from the mess deck.
Checking for Light Leaks: Taking a nap.
Cheeto Popper: Kaiju attacking civilians.
Chicken Suit: A yellow CBRN/encounter suit.
Chit: Request documents.
Chop, The: WARD's“pork chop” looking insignia meant to show the Pacific Ocean.
Cinderella Liberty: Expires at midnight.
Clinometer: Either an instrument for measuring angle of slop with respect to local gravity, or an instrument used to indicate the approximate amount of vomit being produced by the crew.
Coalies: Coalition troops.
COINS: Crimson Operations International Syndicate.
Cold Nose/My Nose is Cold:Operating without sensors.
Cold Shot: A dive straight off the deck, either into the water or an attempt to take off into a flight mode with a flight-capable system before generating sufficient lift.
Combat Dump: A bowel movement taken just before a flight. Also called “putting the marines ashore” and “drowning the O-4.”
Comshaw: Non-ethical procurement of materials.
Coner: A non-engineer crewman. Also known as “forward puke.”
Cooler: Cooled metabolic suppression canister. Cryogenic chambers. Also called “meat locker”and “bagged lunch,” and the contents are referred to as a“mansicle” or “cold cuts.”
Corps Candy: Sore throat lozenges and aspirin given to a sailor in lieu of medical treatment.
Crack Shack: A designated smoking area that is not a weather deck. Typically full of smoke.
Crafted: A pilot who seems to be in alpha vibe even outside of his mecha.
Crunch: A vehicle handling mishap.
Crunchie/Cheeto: A man on foo tor civilian. “Cheeto” refers specifically to civvies.
CUTEC: Coalition Undersea Test and Evaluation Center.
Dead Boy: Any kind of infantry deployed in an urban area during an event.
Death Puck: Hamburger patty.
Death Bed/Hearse: A flatbed truck used to haul a mecha.
Devil Doc: A marine field medic.
DFOB: Dumbest <_< on Board.
Ding!: Success!
Dinq: Delinquent in qualifications.
Dipper: Anti-sub flying piloted systems, mostly helos.
Ditching: To intentionally crash a system as gently as possible.
Ditty Bag: A bag issued to sailors that contains two of everything. Sewing kit, toiletries,paper, pens.
Divers: Workers underwater.
Dog: Either a soft serve ice cream machine or the act of closing a watertight hatch.
Dog Log: The “unofficial”ship's log, which contains all gossip, hilarity, and record of what has transpired on board and is often read aloud by shipmen who stay aboard when a boat pulls in to port.
Douche Kit: Shaving cream,deodorant, shave lotion, and shampoo.
Drifty: Lacking the ability to stay focused.
Drop a Chit: Fill out a chit form.
Dunker: A device used to train pilots how to evacuate a craft at sea.
Ed's Motels: Editorial, Motion Picture, and Television Department.
E-Nothin': Junior crewman.
Enswine: Ensign.
Event: A kaiju attack. Also used to refer to kaiju systems deployed by WARD.
Fart Suit: Dry suit worn when flying in the cold. Keeps water out. Everything else in.
Feddies: WARD troops.
Flight Line: The area on a station where vehicles are prepped for launch.
Field Day: All hands clean up day.
FIFI: >_> It, Fly It. I don't care what condition it's in, we've got to launch.
Flight Sense: The “gut”feelings a veteran pilot experiences when moving at high speeds or under heavy fire.
Gigafauna: A living kaiju. Official terminology.
Gizmo: Also thingamabob, hoo-ha,and doodad.
Glowboy: A mecha using an alien power source.
Go Juice: Fuel.
Goes Away: What happens when you blast something with a missile or plasma weapon.
Gomer: A positively identified adversary.
Goo: Bad weather.
Goober: Gross kaiju. Mutants sloughing flesh, boils that burst into acid, mutants made of fungus or mucous.
Goon Up: Screw up.
Goofy: Giant <_<ing spacegun. Sub-orbital weaponry.
Gouge: Information. Also poop and skinny.
Gunny: A foot soldier or infantryman.
K-Scale Mechanism: Nonliving kaiju.
K-Type System: Official terminology for the support systems, environments, and secondary issues that travel with a kaiju. Can refer to either the cost of upkeep on a cyborg or robotic K-Scale Mechanism, the entities in charge of it, as well as the parasites and symbiotes involved in any kaiju attack.
Kaiju: “Strange beast.” Non-official terminology still used for disaster-scale biological organisms.
Fastpants: Anti-G suit usually worn during piloting procedures.
FM: How alien technology works,how tuners get their information, and why kaiju don't die under the weight of their own mass. >_>ing Magic.
Hamburger Helper: A van operator and spotter support crew for an artillery mecha.
Headlock: A jack or port for a headlocker, someone with cybernetic implants for MMI work.
Hot Pickle: Armed weapons system.
Hop: A mission or sortie.
Hot Scramble: You've got five minutes to load up and roll out.
Hydrospanner: Engineer code for“I don't feel like telling you what tool this is.”
Judy: Your quarry is in sight and you are taking the intercept.
Knife Fight in a Phone Booth: A close, fast, dangerous fight.
Leroy: A pilot itching for a fight.
Little Monster: Man-sized mecha or power suits.
Lost the Bubble: Confused.
Matilda: A particularly large, clumsy kaiju.
Meat Bomb: What you do after riding the rails.
Mecha: Any legged tactical weapons platform.
Miracle Mile: The three-mile distance from an urban area at which the nuclear option is still viable.
MODAT: Mobile Database Terminal.
MMI: Mind-Machine Interface.
Ordy: An ordinance engineer.
Padlocked: Unable to take your eyes away for fear of losing what you're looking at.
Pit: A passenger or co-pilot seat.
Popeye: Working in the goo.
Power Puke: What every mecha pilot does their first time.
Prang: To hit, strike, or collide. Ramming maneuver.
Prangstick: Melee weaponry (also called Mr. Prang).
Ride the Rails: Ejection.
Rocketeer/Rocketman: Flying system pilot.
Roids: The little critters that sometimes accompany kaiju attacks.
ROMAD: Radio Operator Maintainer and Driver. Glorified air strike triangulator and LTAD operator.
Scalpy: Ex-United States military folks on WARD teams.
Scooter: Small, fast mecha with most of its armor stripped off.
Scope: The Radio Intercept Officer. Also “skip.”
Slouchy: Out of fuel, dead on the soil.
Sniffer: The IFF checker.
State: Your current fuel load,how long until you slouch; “State two plus two zero to slouch”means you've got two hours and twenty minutes of fuel left.
TA: Tactical armor.
TREAD: Trans-Earth Deployment Booster. Booster systems used to accelerate a vehicle into or even out of orbit.
Tuner: Humans that can build devices outside of conventional understanding of physics. They are called this because their ability to store and modify information in their brains occurs on a quantum level with an entangled duplicate of much larger size. Their brains are literally the size of continents. They and their creations are the key weapon in the ongoing war. Also“Prophet.”
Vulture Row: A line of camera monitors.
WARD: World Association of Research and Defense.
Walking Dead: Lost reactor containment on a mecha.
WSKRS: Wireless Seagoing Knowledge Retrieval System.
Zero Dark Thirty: Anything taking place after midnight before sunup.
Zipper-Suited Sun-God: Slang for pilots, typically used by not-pilots.
Zoomsuit: Skintight flight gear.

Divergence point on this Earth actually occurs while the planet is still cooling, when it is scouted by interdimensional beings who pop in, fiddle around with life seeds, a“kaiju ecosystem” forms, and some of them leave while others form caverns in the Earth. They built great stone cities and their remains can still to be found. They died epochs before man came, but there are arts which can revive them.


●1926: Potential incident involving the crew of the schooner Emma who were assaulted by the crew of the Alert, took the ship, attempted to sail home on the new boat, and encountered a strange island. The rest of the account remains heavily classified.
●1953: BLACK FOGHORN-1953. A radioactive creature emerges in northern Maine at the sound of a foghorn before moving on to the Hudson River. It is quickly driven back by military response and the incident is covered up.
●November 3, 1954: Incident Zero. After a series of boating accidents in the Sea of Japan, Osaka is attacked by a still-unidentified monster; none of its victims survive long enough to give a description, and no cameras are able to capture its image. It is known to have been intensely radioactive,with even the lead in paint turning into uranium due to exposure to the monster. When the United States comes forward about BLACK FOGHORN, Yoshida Shigeru blames America for the attack.
●1954: RED SUGAR-1954 emerges in the Arizona desert before being killed by the combined efforts of the United States and Mexican military. Colonies of the kaiju are still found, though RED SUGAR has shrunk to one-tenth its size.
●December17, 1954: A global convention at the United Nations forms the“Global Defense Force,” a task force aimed at determining the source and causal agents for Incident Zero and to locate and destroy BLACK FOGHORN. Terminology for events is established at this point.
●1956: Mitsuteru Yokoyama creates and builds an advanced robot, operated by his son using a sophisticated radio control mechanism. He also coins the term “kaiju,” which is rapidly adopted by the mainstream,though military groups and the GDF continue to use established terminology. The world immediately puts the robot to the test, defending Hokkaido from a flying kaiju called BEIGE EAGLE-1956.
●1956: The Oklo region in Gabon is discovered to have rich deposits of uranium.
●1957: A collective of French scientists under the aegis of the GDF create and test a microwave weapon to be used against kaiju.
●1957: GREEN HELL-1957 emerges after an orbital capsule carrying an experimental wasp colony crashes in South Africa. The creatures are killed by artificially detonating a volcano.
●1958: Modern naming system introduced, previous incidents updated to new scheme. “Incident Zero” retains own name. GDF is updated under the “World Association of Research and Defense” header.
●1961: GOLDEN BUTTERFLY-1961 appears from Henders island in the Pacific,psychically communicates through a WARD Admiral that the island is off limits, and that it should not be used to trap kaiju.
●1963: The first multi-platform weapon system deployed by WARD. It isoutfitted to work with the current anti-kaiju weaponry and enjoys some success. A scandal erupts over the power supply, which was intentionally leaked by a still-unknown underground civilization.
●1965: The first true MASERs enter weapon circulation. Also, UMBER SIXTEEN-1965 and COMPELLING RAZOR-1965 emerge in the Alaskan coast and fight over territory before COMPELLING RAZOR is heavily injured and attempts to escape, where it is cut off by an assembled WARD flotilla.
●1966: The first humanoid kaiju. They earn nicknames from the public, and while one is studied peacefully, the other rampages about the countryside, until the publicly held MAUVE TITAN-1966 gets up from her confinement, tracks down the other, VERIDIAN TITAN-1966, and the two fight until they both drown in the waters of San Francisco Bay.
●1967: A fungal life form is returned from a routine atmospheric probe.While it is initially just a small spore, it grows at an exponential rate and while it picks up the name “Yanmagwi” among the southeast Asian community, it is dubbed OPAL DOOMSDAY-1967, and is eventually returned to its spore form.
●1972: Uranium from Oklo is revealed to be less rich than it should have been, and secondary studies indicate that it had been in a natural reactor created by local water and caverns. Studies on other samples seem to indicate that it is not the only “natural reactor” in the world.
●1996: GOLDEN BUTTERLY-1961 Operation Emergence incident; GOLDEN BUTTERFLY psychically links with three orphan children and utilizes them to dispense messages to WARD about a city lost in the Pacific whose weapon manufacturing plants are still operating. These weapons turnout to be kaiju.
●2002: The Advanced Preparation Network is put into complete practice. There are zero fatalities due to non-event-related natural disasters until the fall of 2013, when six college students from Da Nang die from a tsunami assumed to be striking an uninhabited island.
●2009: AQUA JACK-2009 appears in San Francisco and makes its debut by moving into a train yard at night and reversing all the trains on the track by hand and drawing what is now known as the “trollface” symbol in the gravel of the yard. Several more pranks follow, including blocking the entrance of several retail stores with tractor-trailers during Black Friday, and defecation on the San Francisco freeway just before morning rush hours. The internet dubs the beast “Trollosaurus Rex.”
●2014: ONYX STEVENS-2014 emerges from a “natural reactor” site and goes on a rampage before meeting up with what appears to be a male of its species before being taken down by a combined WARD task force composed of kaiju and mecha.

Crimson Operations International Syndicate (COINS)

Transnational organized crime has never been a stranger to the Pacific ocean. Japan, China, Korea, the countless islands, Australia, and the west coast of the Americas have their share of drug and skin trade, run by cells with little contact to their ranking members and cutthroats striving to reach for the top in both duty and wealth. Many of these are the fragmented remnants of cultures consisting of strong family bonds and debts beyond death. It should come as no surprise that these rings also take part in the illicit kaiju parts trade, doing their best to cut up and secret away body parts before organizations such as WARD or OmegaCom get their hands on them. It also should come as no surprise that they have weapons of their own.

Decades ago, a minor functionary named Hayata Eiji came across in his smuggling operation a series of small objects labeled 'black magic amulets' coming in from the south Pacific. Intrigued by them, he asked permission to take a few from the box and studied them in his spare time. His superior thought the objects might fetch a higher price if their history was known, and allowed Eiji to follow up on them. Unfortunately, the island was struck by a kaiju attack from an anemone-like kaiju now referred to as ORCHID HEADWATERS-1966. One of the amulets was broken open during the event, and Eiji was put in contact with the alien entity inside, who explained to him that although he was a criminal, it respected his sense of honor and duty. Together they would face the monster destroying the coast.

Eiji's superiors immediately called him to Tokyo, where he explained his research – these were the last remnants of an alien world ravaged by an invading force, and served as the storage for the aliens traveling to the next world on the invader's list: Earth. They allowed a human to bind with an alien consciousness who becomes their constant companion. His superiors ordered the formation of an alliance with organized crime rings around the Pacific, using the lure and threat of the “Omega Devices” as collateral in their bid for power.

Now, the Crimson Operations International Syndicate uses the Omega Devices to battle kaiju,keeping the peace, opposing alien invaders, and making away with whatever kaiju corpses they can get their hands on, as well as strategically damaging seaways to allow their allies to sweep in with their black markets faster than the United Nations can conceivably respond. So far, they have chosen only those in their organization with a rather selfless streak – the aliens don't seem to want anyone else, and would prefer not to deal with the organization itself, though rumors inside the Syndicate persist that it is perfecting its own “Omega Device” by reverse engineering the alien technology, though what consciousness such a thing might contain is a mystery.

The humanoid forms of the aliens vary widely, though they are all typically hundreds or more feet in height. They stand toe-to-toe with most other kaiju, and their exposure to human hosts has tempered their appearance. They seem metallic, but with organic flutes and curves, and a wide array ofindicator lights on the back of the palm. As they grow in age andpower, more alien features become prominent. The only real limitation an Omega Device possesses is that it can only carry a specific amount of energy – typically enough to its use for three to five minutes,leading COINS to need to devise intricate entrance and escape plans, and use its Omega Force for only truly dire circumstances – there are rumors of Device users that can fuse forms or stay in forms for hours, but these are merely rumors.