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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DreadPirateMurphy" data-source="post: 6156796" data-attributes="member: 20715">As I understood it...Once they engaged with the kaiju, they lost any tactical advantage and might as well have tried to save the boat. The idea behind that was pretty vague, but there was some dialog about using the sparring to see how similar the thought processes were of the candidates -- presumably, that indicated compatibility. They did that repeatedly with a number of different weapons.  What was implied was that the individual kaiju adapt, so the jaegers hold their weapons in reserve until they get a good opportunity to use it.  Yes, this doesn't make a lot of sense.  Of course, jaegers are pretty much impossible tech for early 21st century anyway...Handwave it.  If anybody has shielded backup generators, it would be the guys selling kaiju parts on the black market.  They were probably further away from the blast than the jaegar dome, so the shielding was more effective. They're a hive mind, right?  Maybe they could still sense him, and thought he might be able to do the same?  Maybe they were worried that he could drift again and gain more info...which is actually what happened. You don't just radio a military base and get handed the CO on the line.  They might not have even had any way to authenticate who they were over the radio, since those guys were never expected to do fieldwork.  The base staff would recognize them and see their ID's in person, but they wouldn't necessarily know the sound of their voice over the radio and know they were legit.  Actually...it killed one kaiju and heavily injured the second...who was the first class 5 ever seen.  Scary to think that it could even survive a close-range nuclear attack.  Gypsy Danger was further away than the kaiju, and is presumably fully shielded and built tough enough to get repeatedly pounded on by a giant monster.If there are limits to the number you can send through from one dimension to another, then starting to make them pregnant is a way to cheat the limit.  Not every jaeger uses the same design.  Also, they may have had them -- but the Chinese and Russian jaegers never had the opportunity to use them.  The Chinese died almost instantly, and the Russians did as well when their reactor exploded.The continental shelf might go out that far, especially along the Aleutian islands?  Otherwise, just rule of cool. "Lost" kaiju were either underwater or surrounded by skyscrapers, both of which would play havoc with sensors.  Radar wouldn't be very useful underwater.  That's why they use sonar on submarines.I got the impression that the walls did work at first, but the kaiju adapted.  Jaegers are expensive, and world trade was destroyed by the war -- the governments probably couldn't afford to keep building them, so they just evacuated the wealthy inland in desperation. They did use them against the first kaiju, and it took them days and cost them three cities.  The kaiju only got tougher from there.  If you assume that GIANT ROBOTS make any sense, then go ahead and assume they're much more effective...for some reason. Australian characters played by an American and British actor.</blockquote>

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