After the attack, Raleigh leaves the Jaeger
Program, and goes to find work wherever he can. Five years later, he finds work
along the Western coast of the United States as a construction worker, helping
build a giant wall in Sitka, Alaska that is meant to keep the Kaiju out. In the
5 years since Raleigh was with the Jaeger program, numerous countries have called
for the program to be terminated due to spiraling casualties of Jaeger pilots
in the increased Kaiju attacks and the enormous cost of keeping it funded. Many
World Leaders assume that building the walls will make them safe, but the head
of the program named Stacker Pentecost claims that the world's leaders are
making a terrible blunder. Raleigh is surprised when a helicopter lands near
his building area out of the blue one day, with Pentecost requesting he come
along, and Raleigh agrees. Raleigh is then flown to the Hong Kong Base (known
as 'The Shatterdome'), where he meets Mako Mori. Pentecost also introduces
Raleigh to two scientists under their command. One of them, Dr. Newton Geiszler
is an obsessive 'Kaiju Fanboy,' who studies the creatures through salvaged
organs and other parts. The other is Dr. Gottlieb, who is a more 'practical'
man, and is using his mathematical skills to try and pinpoint the frequency of
creatures coming through the ocean rift. Within the Shatterdome, the last
remaining Jaegers and their crews have been assembled: The 3-pilot Crimson
Typhoon (from China), Cherno Alpha (from Russia), Striker Eureka (fresh from
its stint in Australia), and (to Raleigh's surprise) Gypsy Danger. However,
since Gypsy’s encounter 5 years ago, she has been rebuilt and retrofitted for
more extreme combat. Pentecost explains that are formulating a plan to drop a
nuclear weapon into the channel between dimensions. If it works, the interdimensional
channel will be destroyed, stopping any further Kaiju from coming through.
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