Monstrous (Kaiju Worldbuilding)

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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.