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Godzilla: The Monarch Files [Completed]

Interlude VIII: Fifth Wave II
1996:

-After a month of relative peace following following the Resurgence, Iracundas emerges in South Africa and attacks a herd of elephants and the Nigerian city of Lagos.

-Tornaq moves away from its original position at the North Pole, advancing towards the nearby polar ice caps in Alaska. Tornaq advances through the Alaskan wilderness while forcing evacuations in nearby settlements. Tornaq then enters into a period of dormancy after reaching a large group of glaciers in the South. One foot of ice grows each month around it's body after it creates a den below the Matanuska glacier where it goes into its hibernation state.

-Biollante vines and flytrap-types begin appearing in the middle of Afghanistan and are believed to have been planted by a rogue faction in the nation*, The Biollante forests current growth increases by 25%. Talk of bringing foreign KDF troops out becomes common.

Credit for the forest expansion in the area later claimed by the Cult of G.

-Rodan reappears over Africa, later touching down and engaging Bunagi in combat at Gabon.

Both proceed to fight, with the battle going to an apparent draw. Bunagi returns to his local habitat, while Rodan flies away.

-In the ruins of G-Base 01, Taligon's egg is found and accidentally exposed to sunlight by a salvage team. It hatches, and the resulting creature escapes and is labeled Taligon II.

1997:

-Using prototype laser weaponry, a KDF platoon in Osaka manages to take down a massive radioactive rat later named Deutalios.

-Over the course of the following years, squads of professional Monster Kill Crews [MKC's] composed of veterans of the Resurgence conflict are used to fight packs of Shockirus and other mutated animals across the irradiated territories in Japan.

Thanks to the first large scale usage of Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria (previously held back due to fears of what would happen if it came into contact with Godzilla's highly malleable DNA), radiation levels begin to go down across quarantined areas. However, the most devastated regions like Tokyo remain quarantined.

-The body of a seemingly dead ancient kaiju later called Jyarumu* is found in permafrost by Russian scientists at the East Siberia Sea. To capitalize on the knowledge, a nuclear waste facility (i.e. convenient research station) is constructed around it's body by the government to study it in secret.

*The black, flying hound of a witch named Slattern in the tales of a few local folk communities.

-Titanosaurus reappears after chasing a shoal of frilled sharks into Okinawa, Japan. JSDF/KDF forces arrive just as he driven off by a King Caesar and DragonLotus in concert with one another.

DragonLotus heads into the ocean, presumably in pursuit of Titanosaurus or another threat. Due to her previous actions, no official military action is taken against the DragonLotus.

-Godzilla reappears at Birth Island. All attempts to follow except for aerial filming are firmly denied and refused. After reaching the center, Godzilla proceeds to dig out the skeletal remains of the juvenile specimen from 1995.

Godzilla carries the body back to sea.

Further pursuit by KDF forces denied for safety reasons.

1998:

-Varan is spotted in the waters around Monster Island, but otherwise does not attempt to come ashore. Miniature submarines and newly recruited Mer agents manage to keep track of him.

-DragonLotus is sighted on Infant Island in a meditative pose, apparently having been accepted by Islanders and by the Mothra siblings as a resident.

-Atlantic Scourge II appears off the coast of Newfoundland during a navy training exercise which simultaneously involves a pod of nearby whales suddenly beaching themselves. It sinks nearby ships before advancing ashore towards an unknown goal. USA bombing manages to crack and burn it's shell at several points, but it nevertheless keeps moving.

Monarch had been testing a prototype device for what would later be called Project: ORCA. The device was intended to be a way for communicating with kaiju, only for this first test to go awry. The device proves unable to be turned off despite repeated attempts thanks to electrical error.

Titanosaurus, Kiyohime, and a healed Kraken III are detected by sub sonar as coming in from the South, having answered the devices test call.

The device is successfully flown out by helicopter to the sea by a six man Monarch crew, where it is destroyed after being dropped in the ocean. The helicopter crashes in the Pacific but the crew manages to survive thanks to a pre-placed life raft.

The four kaiju briefly fight as the ORCA device sinks before it finally breaks due to either turbulence or water damage; Titanosaurus, Scourge, Kraken, and Kiyohime leave the area.

-Balkzardan makes its first appearance over the Pacific Ocean while flying over New Zealand, bringing a large thunderstorm alongside it. Balkzardan lands in Bhubaneswar, India and begins advancing forwards. Gandiva is deployed to fight it. Balkzardan's high speed and ability to shield itself from energy attacks give it an advantage. After bowling over Gandiva multiple times and and tearing out its ammo packs, Balkzardan takes flight over the city and lands at Meru Peak. Balkzardan proceeds to let out a massive roar analyzed by Monarch as an "Alpha challenge."

-On the same day that Balkzardan releases its call, Jyarumu turns out to be not quite dead before awakening and rapidly breaching containment. Jyarumu moves through Siberia on a path straight towards Balkzardan. During a skirmish with local military forces, Jyarumu displays the ability to glide through wings stored in its arms and the power to generate and control ice and snow on a scale similar to Balkzardan's own weather manipulations.

Analyses from Monarch's lore and biology sections indicates that the two creatures are not only members of two different rival species, but that these particular individuals may have fought in the past based off of recently recovered cave paintings and tablets from early history.

-By the end of June, both creatures have entered Mongolia after passing through the Himalayas and Russia. Balkzardan and Jyarumu begin combat with one another at the Altai Mountains.

After a full twenty four hours of combat, both kaiju collide with one another after generating their powers to critical levels. The resulting explosion creates a 100 meter wide crater and a new lake.

No sign of Balkzardan or Jyarumu has been found since.

-First appearance of Kelbeam (Also known as Cherubim due to its resemblance to a malefic figure from Selgian and Hotuan lore) in Malaysia. It attacks the capital of Kuala Lumpur and fires numerous fireballs at nearby islands and boats. It is later intercepted over the Philippines near Manila by Battra and DragonLotus.

After having several of the fingers on its left hand burned and broken and its own fireballs reflected at its head, Kelbeam attempts to retreat before being blasted out of the air by Battra. Kelbeam is last seen splashing down in the Phillipine Trench. Battra and DL return to Infant Island.

-Zilla hunts a small Megalodon pod, chasing it towards New York Harbor and into the Hudson River. Zilla briefly comes ashore on Liberty Island to eat a successful catch before returning to sea.

A now famous photo and video shows Zilla curiously inspecting the Statue of Liberty, and accidentally leaving a claw mark on its chest.

*Having only arrived near the city to hunt, Zilla had no reason to remain for a long period of time.

Additionally, due to his previous encounters with humanity, Zilla likely knew that staying nearby would likely result in an attack by military support.



1999:

-KDF reorganized into multiple different denominations worldwide instead of one major organization per continent. These new organizations include the CKR (Counter Kaiju Reactions), AKRP (Anti Kaiju Research Program), and MLR (Megafauna Location Report).

-Project MOGUERA begins with the goal to make new Asia based mecha to replace the lost MG2 and Red Ronin. But due to Japan's steep debt and the sheer cost of building a new mecha, it will be a while before the undertaking can begin.

-Return of Kelbeam.

Displaying the ability to control sonic waves with it's ear flaps, Kelbeam manages to wrest control of two sonic sensitive monsters: Titanosaurus and Sarcosteon. Kelbeam leads them towards an attack on Infant Island along with surviving meganulon drones from Megaguirus III's swarm. The trio manage to reach the shores and are confronted by Mothra, Battra, and DragonLotus. The Hotua hide underground alongside a stranded research team.

Upon seemingly realizing the source of Kelbeam's sonic waves, Mothra reflects a blast of Battra's Prism Beams at the back of Kelbeams head while it fights DL. Kelbeam's crests are destroyed and it loses control of Titanosaurus and Sarcosteon, whom proceed to instantly attack it.

With its new weapon painfully broken, Kelbeam is killed after being brutally mauled and decapitated by the two former minions. Titanosaurus retreats after Kelbeam's death, while Sarcosteon keeps fighting afterwards regardless. However, he finally leaves after being stabbed in the face with Kelbeams severed bone tail.


-Macrosaurus appears for the fifth time at South Korea on the shores of coastal city Sokcho. It reaches Hongcheon County by nightfall.

Godzilla also comes ashore in pursuit of Macrosaurus's trail. Godzilla catches up to Macrosaurus while it is attacking devouring local beef factories near the city of Chuncheon. In a battle recorded by local and international news agencies, Godzilla slices Macrosaurus's chest open, forcing the creature to bite through space and time to retreat. Despite its severe wound, previous accounts of kaiju durability make it unlikely that Macrosaurus is deceased.



Godzilla returns to sea, briefly pausing to lift up a pile of debris that several civilians and ranch cattle had been trapped under.

-The Official Timeline (2015 Edition)
 
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Monarch File 28



In the first few days of the 21st millennium, a new discovery changed the way we looked at the possible origins and history of kaiju.

In these early days of 2000, miners in the Philippines uncovered the 108 meter high skeleton of a deceased kaiju while digging for an apparent uranium pocket. The Monarch organization quickly managed to lay claim to the discovery, and the species was soon identified as that of an irradiated Godzillasaurus.

Monarch agents Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham quickly determined the bones to not be that of the current Godzilla. The bones themselves are currently stored at Monarch Outpost 100, where the skeleton has been roughly put back together and suspended in a B-Type cloned fluid to keep it preserved for as long as possible.

Dating techniques and observation determined the bones to be millions of years old. The discovery rocked the Megazoology community with the question of how a Godzilla could have existed so long ago before the nuclear tests that started the current Age of Monsters, along with what exactly could have killed it and left its body so deep underground.

The skeletal specimen has been labeled "Adam" by Monarch, and most current hypotheses implicate the KT Extinction as what could have released the sheer amount of radiation needed to mutate this ancient ancestor of Godzilla.


Before its death, "Adam" may very well have been the first kaiju in existence.



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A dramatization of the "Adam Expedition" from the historical drama "Monarch 2014". Agent Vivienne Graham (Played very close to life by actress Sally Hawkins) can be seen on the right.

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The following notes were taken by Doctor Graham and are being posted here with her permission:

03/22/00

"-skeletal structure is definetly that of a Godzillasaurus, specifically one from either the Lagosi or Bravos genus. The body is very much like Godzilla, except with two key differences. The spikes on the dorsal spines are less jagged and are shorter and smoother, but in contrast the dorsal spines themselves are individually bigger. There was an extra pair that lead up to the top of the head, almost like a lion's mane. Study of the hips and other identifying characteristics have confirmed that Adam is very much a male of the species.

The head, once we uncovered it, was boxier then the one we are familiar with. The skull was almost like that of a bird of prey combined with a bear
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The tail was slightly shorter but at the same time may have been thicker and more armored in life judging by the extra osteoderms we found.

The body in particular had burns across the outer surface areas of the bones, especially on the torso and dorsal areas. It appears that "Adam" met its end not long after undergoing its mutation and growing to its current size. Of course, many questions still remain.

Just how did a presumably normal Godzillasaurus end up this way? What kind of radiation was it exposed to? Does Adam have any relation to the four living Godzillasauruses known today?

And most importantly, just what was it that killed him?

05/30/00

The recent results from the Bioscience division came back. Now that they've roughly managed to put it back together and analyze the bones, I've asked them to come to me with a possible cause of death.

In response, they gave me a list with over seven pages of injuries and counting. I've heard that Ishiro has already been given a copy of his own.

Since then, he hasn't come out all day, even for coffee. I don't blame him after reading it myself.

Thermal burns. Electrical burns. Five types of burns I didn't even know existed until today. All of them across the body. No wonder some of the bones were so black back in the cave. At the time I thought it was just age, but now...

That wasn't all. Several ribs were shattered, one of them just gone. Not broken to pieces, simply gone in general.

There were multiple fractures and shattered areas across the top of the skull and on the limbs, as if Adam had either fallen from a great height or been struck with massive amounts of force. Perhaps both.

Adam had three major stab wounds across its body, one in the chest, another in the back, and one in the left thigh. The most severe burns were in those stabbed areas. Several dorsal spines are outright gone and had to be found several meters away from the back. Slash marks have been found all across the ribs and face.

The left hand was mangled and dislocated, as if Adam had damaged itself while punching something. I can only thing of a living creature on the level of Deathla or the Atlantic Scourge as being that physically durable.

Lastly and most signifgantly among the still counting injuries was the way the bones were spread out, along with an analysis of the mountain itself. The area the miners found was wide open but hidden under a natural geological formation that had apparently grown from an ancient eruption. As if something massive had been dropped in the area long ago, one hard enough to create a volcanic burst that made the resutling covering of the crater. This event may have also sped along the creation of the mountain itself.

The fall hypothesis, as if Adam had been physically dragged all the way up into the sky and dropped, is looking more and more believable by the minute. And with the skeleton still being analyzed, we still don't have a full story.

But, if the increasingly probably scenario of Adam dying in battle with another giant monster is true, yet another question has been formed.

No other skeletal remains besides Adam's have been found in that cave.



If Adam died in combat, what happened to his opponent?


 
Ages of Monsters
Monster Age Zero: Occurred 75,000 years ago during the time of Mu. First instance of kaiju being worshipped as Gods. This age ended with the sinking of Mu around the "Toba Super eruption".

First Age of Monsters:
Occurred from 2500 BC to 776 BC. First appearance of kaiju like Ouroboros, the first known Alpha of the kaiju in its era. Primarily occurred around Ancient Greece, Western Europe, and Eastern Asia. Much folklore has been inspired by this event. First appearance of liminal species derivative of humanity, and first instance of humanity discovering magic and Yggdrasil, the massive tree believed to be the source of magic.

Ended with most mages and liminal species going into the shadows following a decline in magic. Remaining non-nuclear kaiju species enter hibernation.

Second Age of Monsters:

1954-Today. Still ongoing. Most widespread instance of kaiju existing yet. Recent developments include the uncovering of the previous ages. First widespread instance of radioactive kaiju following the atomic era.
 
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Monarch File 29
Ever since the discovery of the sunken continent of Mu in the middle of the Pacific Ocean in 1972, the world has paid rapt attention to this discovery.

Mu itself dates back to at the very least 75,000 years ago. The implications of this "Lost Muan Age" are significant and in how much they could have rewritten much of what we thought we knew about human history. Ancient civilizations like Greece, Uruk, the first Eastern peoples may have been formed from Muan remnants after the currently unknown disaster that caused the end of Mu.*

Aside from the remains of advanced electrical and plasma-based technology, the world's firsts Anti-Kaiju mechas were directly derived from massive suits of armor dredged from sunken ruins, such as the Red Ronin and Chelonra mechas.

Type-I Psychic interfaces were also derived from Muan psychic research, indicating that the people of Mu were used to and well-educated on the subject of ESP. While Muan technology has been well-research and reverse engineered, with plasma energy and cures for various diseases being found out of it, little is known of the Muan's themselves in comparison to abandoned technology, found underwater and in air pockets of the underwater continent.

In fact, it was only last year that the first visual depiction of a Muan individual was found in an underground library beneath Cairo** in 2015. Said depiction consisted of two murals and three primitive photos.

The Muan's have a notable resemblance to normal humans with several exceptions and traits, with eyes resembling known feline species alongside scales resembling those on elapids (Cobra's) and monitor lizards in patches across the arms, legs, and sections of the torso and neck.

In all depictions, the Muan's depicted were not wearing shirts. It is unknown if this is normal behavior or a special occasion.

*The latest dated translation of an Ancient Muan document before the event believed to sink the continent mentions a comet with a "Great Life Heat" heading towards the planet.

**Believed to have been placed there as a "time capsule" by Mu in the event of the comet impacting.

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What details have been translated from other murals and documents, some of which are still being revised to this day, indicate that Muan society was militant yet also keen on the arts, with the creation and use of weapons being seen as a way to improve of ones creativity and technological skills. Little is known of any wars Mu fought with any other possible societies that existed back then, assuming that Mu was indeed the only human faction in the world at the time and if liminals had begun to exist at that point in time.*

However, the Cairo library has mention of an ongoing civil war with a splinter faction known as the "Cryog", but other then that brief mention little is known of these Cryog.

Most of the translated article was about why the war necessitated an increase in "Project Guardian", with Cryog only being mentioned once.

It is believed that this "Project Guardian" could relate to the recent discovery this year in the Atlantean Mu subzone, where explorers in a Goten-Class sub found a "graveyard" with the remains of four turtle shaped mechs similar to Chelonra. Of note was the discovery of mummified, frozen organic material inside several sections of the mecha. It is believed that Chelonra may in fact have been a planned predecessor to larger group of cyborg defenders before the fall of Mu.

This was not the only indication of Mu's engineering and biological prowess combined. Documents show that replacing lost limbs and organs, provided the patient was not too badly damaged, was a capability of Muan doctors, but the exact science eludes us and continued investigations.

More examples of this bioengineering were found with the discovery of a Muan "Zoo" under the sea near Costa Rica. The "zoo" was a site mostly in ruins but with intact date and scrolls listing feeding times and other dates on creatures kept there. While most of the ruins are severely decayed, a few fossils of large megafauna are found. Additional data on various anti-escape countermeasures and a list of deaths began translation. In a chamber below the main area, a frozen but still functioning device containing preserved containers was found.

The frozen containers hold DNA that is believed to belong to ancient megafauna and the specimens in the "Zoo." Operation Crichton began in 2015 and has remained ongoing in an effort to start translations and possible synthesis of the samples.

*Aside from their clear scientific prowess, it is unknown if Mu was aware of Yggdrasil, the massive tree that acts as a source of energy for modern day mage society following the "Masquerade Fall" in 2007. As for liminals, the first records of extraspecies once more come from around 2500 BC, the same year dating to the alleged discovery of magic by the first mages. Liminal species likely did not evolve into existence by then.

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It is possible the Mu's biological and technological knowledge may have been a necessity due to the fact that the Muan Era likely experienced an Age of Monsters of its own, in what has been called a "Monster Age Zero" by certain members of the Megafauna community.

Murals depicting and fossils of what are now known to be ancient members of the "Skullcrawler" species, with specimens as big as the ones on Mondo Island, have been found in underwater and underground Muan ruins, indicating that dealing with this species was a major issue for society. In fact, all four known modern day species of Skullcrawler descendants may very well be survivors of Mu's sinking.

Aside from having to deal with skullcrwalers, other species including what are believed to be surviving Radioassic lifeforms such as Godzillasaurs, Titanosaurus Mafune's, and Angilasaurs were likely threats to explorers at sea and underground from Mu. However, instances like the "Zoo" indicate that the people of Mu managed to occasionally succeed in defeating and capturing hostile megafauna similar to that of the Monster Islands usage today.

Most significant today is the evidence that, aside from the above-mentioned megafauna incursions, Muan society actually worshipped the larger megafauna on the level of daikaiju in their era as Gods. Repeated references to these deities is made in Muan documents and Murals, with preserved statues being common in sunken places of worship.

Adding to Mu's connection to the kaiju of the Muan Era is how certain specimens, most notably Gigan*, seem to be attracted to Muan ruins. Obviously, the presence of investigating kaiju causes no small matter of trouble for explorer teams.

*Considering Gigan's technorganic nature and the Muan's previously established scientific skill, a very close connection between the two is not unlikely.

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This brings us to the final section of this file: The Muan Pantheon. Many of the entities described here are believed to be the first instances of kaiju worshipped as deities with a few exceptions.

Statues and descriptions of these Gods are some of the most-well preserved of known Muan artifacts. Obviously, religion was very important to the people of Mu.

The following descriptions of the Gods of Mu are taken from collective knowledge gained by Monarch and UN expeditions.

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Manda*: A massive serpent with four limbs and a horned head, noted for its resemblance to Chinese Dragons. Manda is the most well known of Mu Gods, being referred to and visualized more then any other.

Manda is the God of the Sea and Water. Alternatively referred to as he/she, Manda also represents parenthood and the ability to struggle. Manda was prayed to in times of adversity, such as battle and childbirth.

In the last records of Mu's final days, after the "Toba Comet" was detected by Muan astrologers, a ritual to "Invoke Manda'' is said to be in progress amongst other "Impact Preparations".

*The 300 meter long skeleton of a serpentine kaiju was found underwater by the Gotengo during an expedition in 1974. It is believed that in life, this entity was the individual specimen known as "Manda" to the Muans.

The Winged Life-Goddess: An unnamed Goddess said to be responsible for overseeing all forms of life. No statues or other visual depictions have been found. The Goddess was said to be a subordinate to Manda and could live on both land, sea, and in the air. The Goddess was said to heal the ill and the wounded with a mere flap of its wings, and along side Manda it was known for assisting in battles with hostile megafauna like Skullcrawlers. Additionally, she was claimed to have the power to reincarnate from an egg if wounded.

While the Goddess did not have name, accounts of its nature and abilities have lead to speculations that she was an ancient Titanus Mosura, perhaps even a relative of the currently known living specimen on Infant Island.

Kilaak: A trickster God said to take on many forms, this God was one that represented intelligence, bravery, wit, cunning, charism, and acting. Among its many forms were said to be an eyeless snake with bright silver scales, a hairless androgynous human wearing a silver cloak, a cat made of white crystals, a bird with red eyes and silver feathers, and a group of silver leeches that could combine together in the form of young skullcrawler.

Kilaak was said to live in a cave system beneath the continent. Those hoping to gain great knowledge and to learn the secrets of the world would allegedly have to enter Kilaak's cave and pass a "Test" from it that would involve confronting each of its forms. Completing the tests would result in a "reward of knowledge."

Failure would result in death and consumption by Kilaak. Unfortunately, the exact nature of these "tests" has yet to be found. Searches for more info on this God continues.

Methuselah: A giant God of nature and longevity. Resembled a heavily armored quadruped with a massive forest growing on its back. Statues and descirptions indicate that several camps and buildings were crafter on its back whenever it was sleeping. Methuselah was said to wake up then go dormant after miles of walking every forty years. The creature is notable for sharing a name with a future biblical figure. Little is known of how it interacted with other kaiju in the era.

Massive hoofprints in the have been found in excavated areas believed to have contained forests, leading credence to the existence of a real kaiju that was indeed worshipped back then.

Baltan: A giant armored humanoid figure that represented hope and science, and was worshipped predominantly by engineers and scientists in Mu. Aside from a Mural showing it's vague shape surrounded by what appears to be exploding light, little is known about this God, or whether or not Baltan was based on a real organism.

Vana: A "Brother of dragons", Vana is said to be a rival of Manda, and the two were said to have fought after meeting at sea. Manda won and later was said to have created the people of Mu from the blood that had been spilled from Vana and itself (Later retellings from newer periods of Muan history claim that Manda simply brought the first settlers of Mu to the island on its back.

After its loss, Vana was said to submit to Manda as a lesser deity, and he could come to Manda's aid to help defend Mu in its early days from "Underkings and their armies".

Vana is the God of fire and friendship, and has been seen both as a statue and on cave drawings as a purple serpent with a hood like that of a cobra and a "beard" of bladed tendrils. Vana is also said to be the father of "Axor", but aside from this mention in the "Scroll of the Sinking", nothing about the latter is known.

Metphies: Notably not a kaiju or deity by Mu's standards, Metphies was according to lore a Muan scholar who managed to "Ascend to the plane of Deus" by "Calculating Infinity". No visual depictions of Metphies exist, but it is known that he was not worshipped as in an official capacity as the other Gods were.

Most of his worshippers appeared to have been fringe cults of mathematicians and disgraced scholars who would spend days and nights trying to recreate Methphies calculations in order to "Ascend" as he allegedly did.

The cult appears to have been seen as eccentric but harmless by larger Muan society, with occasional references to other scholars derisively calling them "Gematrons."

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Mu is a fascinating topic, and there is still much more to learn. As the Pantheon of Gods shows, both fact and fiction were as intertwined in Mu as they are today. If faith and science could find an equilibrium back then, perhaps we can do the same.

But at the same time, there are concerns. With our massive advances in technology and increased ability to deal with kaiju threats and other and natural disasters, modern humanity may very well be going the same way of Ancient Mu in terms of resemblance.

If the disaster that brought Mu down happened today, would we survive?
 
Monarch File 30
Monarch File 30

All actions have consequences. One single mistake can change history.

We've already seen it in the past. The decision to drop the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagisaki.

The failed attack on Birth Island that nearly lead to a world wide war.* The disastrous choices that lead to the birth of Biollante, Yiemniak, Orga, and more monsters by intelligent men and women who should have known better.

The fateful nuclear testing that changed everything in 1954.

As the Monarch Leak would show, there would indeed be consequences for the tests beyond the creation of Godzilla.

*According to expert Monarch analysts and Infant Island telepaths, if Godzilla had not stopped at Kyoto, he would have gone on to attack not just Japan but the rest of human civilization. Godzilla would continue on until he killed all humans or was destroyed himself.

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Liminal Index #0054

Extraspecies Name: Antine Faetinus

Family: Fae Sapius

Status: Extinct


Antine Faetinus was a Insect Chitinous-Type Fae subspecies that primarily lived around the Marshall Islands, with most members living on the Bikini Atoll. Omnivorous in nature, they mainly fed on insects and nectar. They were known for being playful but with the exceptions of close friends, they mainly lived solitary when not in social gatherings. Nocturnal, they mainly lived underground in the day while coming out at night.

These Fae were incorporated in local native lore, and were known for their mischievous nature, usually dropping small objects on heads and filling personal belongings with sand. Despite this, the islanders and the fae more or less managed to live in harmony with one another regardless, with the natives making habits of "pranking" particularly persistent Fae right back.

Fossil evidence and local native legends* indicate that Antine may have had a relationship with sporadically emerging Godzillasaurs resembling that of plover birds and crocodiles; The Fae would cling to the back of an individual and would then spear and eat young Shockirus lice from between the scutes and dorsal fins, with some braver individuals willingly eating out bits of meat from between a Godzillasaur's mouth.

It is believed that around the end of World War II and slightly earlier, one of the Antine's recurring "clients" may very well have been the individual that would go on to become Godzilla.

The events that lead to this Fae species extinction came would occur during a series of nuclear tests from 1946-1954, and would later be exposed publically in last years "Monarch Leak".

In preparation for the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Tests, all natives were moved away in 1946. Some showed concern for the Fae and would mention this to US Officials, whom would simply brush them off as fiction or myth.

The ensuing movements of troops and military equipment to Bikini Atoll in preparation for the nuclear tests likely intimidated most Fae into staying underground, but there are still multiple accounts (confirmed by aging personnel who have decided to come forward) of encounters at night and "pranks" being played on staff who would report these events to superiors, some even claiming to see the Fae.

They were simply dismissed as hallucinations by the overworked men, while other staff members simply decided that they were indeed hallucinating and simply ignored all evidence to the contrary. The Fae themselves were likely unaware of the nature of what was about to happen.

In 1946's Operation Crossroads, the bomb known as Gilda was dropped and exploded with 23 kilotons of power. With this explosion killing half the fae on one side of the island, further tests up to Castle Bravo likely killed the rest, as no new encounters were reported by any staff remaining.

The existence of this species wouldn't be officially known until a returning Monarch-lead expedition in the 1960's and 70s found the charred bones of hundreds of dead Antine while excavating contaminated soil. Realizing what they had done and that the Fae were real after all, an attempt to hastily rebury and cover the events up was put into place but would later be exposed during the leak.

The revelation about the extinction of this Pacific species would draw outrage from Liminal's and Liminal support groups, with court cases and anti-Monarch talk becoming common alongside a series of riots in Washington DC demanding answers for more Liminal species that humans have also possibly driven into extinction. A million dollar recompense offered towards known Fae species was made by the US government.

While they may be gone today, the tragic legacy of the Antine Faetinus remains as a rallying cry for nuclear disarmament across the world.

-From The New Liminal Species Index (2015 Edition) by Alma E. Delphinus.

*Similar legends can be found with tales of Odo Island's "Gojira" and the Pacific Island's "Raijin"

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Godzilla was not the only consequence of the testing, with the awakenings of other species like the Titanus Vishnu being attributed to the Castle Bravo bomb in particular.

However, in 2016, we would learn that the Antine were just the beginning.

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2016:

-Eight individuals of a new irradiated flying Serpentine Avian Hybrid-Type species of Class II kaiju attacked the third Interspecies Exchange Exhibition Convention in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The creatures retreated after four of their number were killed off by local G-Force and CKR agents through the use of heavy weaponry, including Index-Class Rail Rifle's, a Super-X that had been intended for use in a photo-shoot, a Red Ronin replica intended for the upcoming Mondo Grosso tournament, and an explosive-equipped J-Class heavy battle armor.

The night ended with at least a hundred human and non-human casualties and nearly a thousand injuries.


The species was named the "Servum" according to local KDF correspondent and psychic agent Charles Colter based on the brainwaves detected from dying specimens as they were shot down.

The Servum had metallic flesh that gave them high durability and the ability to emit an electromagnetic pulse on within five-ten meters of themselves.

Subjects seen in vid footage and from witness testimony displayed high coordination in battle.

DNA taken from dead Servum was highly radioactive and had key markers and blood energy patterns commonly found in magic-capable species.

-The Official Timeline (2016 Edition)

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The following information was discovered this August and will likely be included in next years official timeline, but since you've read this far I might as well put in some details from the recent report anyway.

Servum-Tracker File 8/19/16

-The following inscription was discovered on a large collection of stones near the island of Matoi during an investigation of sighting by CKR and our own crews. It appears to have been hastily clawed into the stones as if by a large, bladed appendage or tool. Here is our roughest translation so far:


YOU BURNED US


WE DID NOTHING TO YOU AND YOU BURNED US ALL


YOU BURNED OUR HOMES AND OUR TREES AND OUR LAND


YOU BURNED US BUT WE REFUSE TO DIE


OUR SKIN AND BODIES WERE NOT THE SAME ANYMORE BUT WE LIVED JUST LIKE HIM


WE COULD STILL CREATE LIFE WE MADE MORE OF US


WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO US


WE DONT FORGET LIKE YOU


WITH OUR HATE WE SHALL BURN YOUR HOMES AND YOUR TREES AND YOUR LAND


UNTIL YOU BECOME JUST LIKE US


WE ARE THE SERVUM

WE ARE THE LAST GENERATION

ALL WILL BURN



The implications are not very pleasant.

-Specialist S. Smith.
 
File 31
Monarch File 31

From economics to everyday civilian life, much about how we once lived has been changed by the Age of Monsters. Chief among those changes was the worlds political landscape.

A notable example is the six Chinese City States that control their own individual corners of China following Varan's killing of many government officials in 1957, of which are the Maoists, NeoXiangists, the Sons of Varan, the Mulanii, the Survival Party* and the Monarch* Council. Struggles and civil conflicts have caused most diplomats to walk on eggshells when deciding which faction would be best to join on which matter. Fortunately, at the very least the Maoists and Survival Party were able to worktogether alongside KDF staff from the United States and Germany during the construction of R.O.S.I.E.

More examples of these massive changes are with Germany having taken a central role in Anti-Kaiju efforts in Europe, with its strategic importance as the location of G-Base 02 and as a source of most of KDF-Europe's best engineering efforts, to the point that German officials tend to take a leading role in KDF efforts. Increased emphasis on Anti-Monster efforts following the massive battle between Godzilla and Cryx in 1977 resulted in a massive period of political and social turmoil that ended in the demolition of the Berlin Wall two years later and a reuniniting of both West and East Germany, with many future German employees of the KDF having been witnesses of the battle and Red Ronin's deployment alongside standard military forces. Following the finishing work on Project: Vogeladra and the harvesting of space crystals from Cryx's severed claw, Germany's economic importance has also increased, resulting in its informal label as one of the "Big Brother's" of the EU alongside France and the United Kingdom.

In a world without kaiju, Germany's massive return to global importance would be seen as nearly unthinkable, but it has happened and monster attacks go on regardless, despite Germany itself not experiencing a kaiju attack since the 1977 one. Nevertheless, the existence of populations like the subterranean Skullcrawlers alongside land and sea living Breachers means that preparations in the event of an attack are always being updated by the current administration.

While multiple countries and cities have rebuilt from attacks while managing to come back stronger then before wth Japan and Australia especially coming to mind, others that have suffered truly massive devastation unfortunately have not managed to recover, either breaking up or being abandoned entirely. Examples include North Korea, the Republic of Moldova, and Kabul, the former capital of Afghanistan.

One republic and transcontinental country remains in a state between these two extremes: the Russian Federation.

*The City State currently in control of China's only Anti-Kaiju Mecha, the R.O.S.I.E.

*Unrelated to the kaiju study and intelligence organization.


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"Nations large and small would find themselves facing the issue of the Giant Monster, and an no reflection of the past half-century could be complete without a look back on Russia's troubles with the beasts.

Having been attacked by the first Mechagodzilla mere days after the New York incursion when the extraterrestrial machine raided a plasma plant* in Chernobyl, a temporary alliance clause was established with the US in the event of future extraterrestrial invasion.

In 1987, following a failed attempt to destroy the entity known as Spacegodzilla with a hidden USSR satellite mounted nuclear warhead that may have empowered the creature even further, this alliance has yet to be mentioned again in any major capacity.

However, the biggest issue surrounding Russia's relation with the kaiju arises from the very first attack on Russian soil by one.

In 1962, Soviet Russia would have its first encounter when the massive mammoth-esque kaiju known as Brutusk emerged in Siberia. Quickly making its way South while freezing entire villages and towns with its sub-zero breath, Brutusk was the opposite of in terms of power but no less hellish then Godzilla himself. In the end, like Godzilla it would take excessive force to defeat it the first time.


As part of the Leningrad Strategy, Russia would end up being the first country to knowingly drop a nuclear device on a kaiju.

[CONTINUED]

-In 1991 Brutusk would dig itself out of the irradiated Tunguska crater that it had been entombed in following the deployment of the 22-Kiloton bomb known as Anna. The situation worsened severely as Brutusk's reemergence coincided with the sudden appearance of Macrosaurus in the North.

Both creatures made a beeline for one another in a decisive battle at the capital city of Moscow-

[CONTINUED]

-ended with Macrosaurus retreating and disappearing from radar as suddenly as it had reappeared while Brutusk went into hibernation underneath the frozen remains of the Kremlin. The capital of Russia was moved to Saint Petersburg, but the destruction was nigh-uncountable.

Almost all of Russia's military was crushed underfoot or literally frozen, and the ensuing economic and social devastation that came with the ravaging of a capital city and army lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union one month later in March. Russia's own anti-kaiju operatives would either join the KDF or go underground.

What remained of Russia either split into balkanized states or was retaken into the Russian Federation by current President Vladmir Putin, himself a veteran of Russia's own anti-kaiju efforts and a survivor of the Battle of Moscow.

Moscow itself is now a quarantine zone, with a wall being built around Brutusk's current resting place. However, retrieval missions focused on the securing of vital documents and artifacts are frequently done, either by professional agents or by groups of volunteers looking to get a cash reward, have occurred multiple times each year with little to no trouble.

Russia has slowly recovered, but is nowhere near the Cold War Juggernaut it once was.

In 1993, Russia would end up requiring the assistance of KDF following the emergence of two Vishnu Titanus and their main predator, Gudon. This would occur again in 1995, with Vogeladra being deployed to help combat the plasma-burned Salamandora in the heart of the country.

Attempts to regain such power would ironically involve the kaiju themselves, such as when Gigan crash-landed in the Tunguska River following its disappearance four years ago. In a heavily wounded state, Russia's newly recognized M-Force organized by Putin himself would lead a nearly weeklong assault on Gigan in the hopes of bringing the technorganic down, thus giving recognition to the Federation for a kaiju kill and a chance to access Gigan's technorganic biology.

This operation would fail, with Gigan fighting off the Russian military long enough for fellow technorganic Megalon to pull Gigan underground, "rescuing" the other monster.

Further incidents, like kaiju Jyarumu suddenly emerging from dormancy in Siberia before battling and mutually perishing on its own terms against rival monster Balkzardan has resulted in jokes and serious discussion about Russia being unable to handle further kaiju-related issues.

Nevertheless, today recent economic developments and tough, back and forth negotiations and deals by President Putin are slowly lifting the Federation onto its feet.

Russia may not have success beyond the pyrrhic design with giant monsters, but in familiar economic and political situations the country has begun to carve its niche-"

-Russia: A Reflection of the new Era from TIME Magazine. Dated 10/13/2002

*One that in current times is now abandoned and used as a historical attraction.
 
Interlude IX: Combat Record III
KDF-E Mecha#002

Vogeladra

Height: 80 Meters


The Vogeladra was based on designs and a dug up prototype Axis weapon that had been hastily abandoned in the closing days of the war. The initial prototype was found in 1969 in a hidden laboratory underneath the Black Forest. Work on restoring the prototype, itself a collection of dragon bones hastily strung together around a submarine reactor, began and was finished by 1980.

Built from the remains of a Class V ancient dragon skeleton, it was quickly upgraded through use of Nanotitanium fusion to create a bodily metal endoskeleton, and old rune carvings on the bones were enhanced/restored by runic magic from local Norwegian mages and a reactor derived from that of the original Mechagodzilla.

Aside from it's bladed tails and limbs, it can launch bladed bone like structure from it's wings and tail. The bone material typically has to be restocked with material from the designated area [Boneyard].

It can fire a Maser-Type energy cannon from it's mouth, and later upgrades included an energy costly weather shaping device that can summon highly flammable rain [last resort only due to collateral damage] and the ability to outright fly for brief periods of time with it's magically enhanced core.

Nevertheless, due to being a skeleton held together by metal, it is rather fragile by giant mecha standards and prolonged melee can and will prove determinal to it.


-KDF-E File's M-Division Manual (2016 Edition)

Born in 1961, Laura Bodewig was among the first major mecha pilots alongside the likes of Hikaru Sakimori and Chifuyu Orimura. Originally a deer hunter from West Germany, at the age of nineteen the young woman just so happened to have the psychic potential needed to pilot the completed Vogeladra during a paid round of testing for pilots. Acting both for the financial incentive and for the chance to challenge herself against "True Nature", Bodewig adapted quickly to KDF-E's training program, becoming a successful defender of Europe alongside radio-operated mecha Chelonra.

Among the highlights of her career were a rocky but ultimately successful first battle at Loch Ness that lead to the discovery of the Panthalassa Sea, a battle with Godzilla himself, her killcount in the Panthalassal Outbreak, a terrorist attack by the Cult of G that had her kill multiple terrorists in CQC while taking a bullet for a superior, and her legendary final battle with Class V-Alpha Threat Dagon during the War of the Seas in 2004 that unfortunately ended with her death.

Bodewig is survived by a sibling, several cousins, and a younger blood relative and CKR pilot with the same name whom is in the custody of Charlotte Dunois, an Engineer and close friend to Bodewig in life.


1981-
-Jirass. Loch Ness, Scotland. (Victory by a blast of C-Lightning down the opponents throat.)

-Varan. Edinburgh, Scotland. (Victory by retreat of kaiju. However, damage to the head unit left the Vogeladra temporarily berserk and caused a minor scuffle with Chelonra until the mecha was powered down.)

Panthalassal Sea Outbreak/1988-

Mediterranean Sea

-Mosasaurs (Six Killed)

-Neomegalodons (Eight Killed)

1989:

-Godzilla. Lisbon, Portugal. (Loss by result of atomic breath to midsection)

-Vlad II. Lisbon, Portugal. (Victory by decapitation of kaiju.)

1993:

Following the Solgell Island Incident, data taken from Genshiro Shiragami's weather shaping device was incorporated into Vogeladra's core system as an AKA (Anti Kaiju Armament). Due to the potential dangers of the design, the Vogeladra remains the only device in KDF-Europe's arsenal with the weapon installed.

-Dogora. Manchester, England. (Victory by death of opponent. First use of weather device.)

-Vishnu IV. Crackow, Poland. (Victory by decapitation.)

-Gudon. Warsaw, Poland. (Victory by decapitation)

-Urogora. Athens, Greece. Assisted in battle by Chelonra. (Victory by rending of opponent into an unconscious state. Unfortunately, Urogora awoke while being transported to MI and escaped)

1995:

-Cult of G attackers (10). G-Base 02, Germany. (Victory through use of a combat knife and a heated beverage. However, pilot Bodewig was injured and thus out of commission for the following battle)

Charlotte Dunois (Temp)

-Salamandora. Serov, Russia. (Victory by partial decapitation of kaiju.)

Laura Bodewig (Cont)

2002:

-Gudon II. Pripyat, Ukraine. (Battle ended with kaiju retreating underground and reappearing at Norway, where it engaged in combat with and was killed by Iracundas.)

2004:

-Dagon. Lisbon, Portugal. Assisted in battle by rival predator Godzilla. (Victory by generating and directing of intense heat and lightning based weather phenomena onto the opponent at point-blank range. However, success came at the cost of the pilots life. The remains of Vogeladra were brought back to shore by Godzilla.)

Laura Bodewig II (Currently in training at IS Academy)

2016:

-Megaguirus IV. Karlstad, Sweden. Assisted in battle by Rodan. (Victory by bisection of opponent. Rodan left peacefully after being allowed to consume and carry off the edible remains of its rival.)

Additional Information:

-In 2005, the "Boneyard", a massive underground crypt containing the fossilized remains of hundreds of deceased Class II-III Dragon-Type megafauna was found under Germany.

Using the bones to replace damaged parts of Vogeladra in lieu of Nanotitanium patching has seen an improvement in the Vogeladra's ranged weaponry, specifically its Crimson Lightning.
 
File 32
Monarch File 32

"Through exhaustive research involving fossil records, archaeological excavations, study of religious myths and legends from corresponding communities, DNA and behavior analysis of mentioned life forms, consulting of individuals from Monarch, the Liminal Embassy, and the Echidna Historical Society of Athens, this following profile of the potential origin of the Lamia Extraspecies was drafted and written by me.

Thousands of years ago, around 2500 BC, the 104 meter kaiju known as Ouroboros roamed very close to the lands of Ancient Greece, India, Vietnam, and Indonesia. It was seen from a distance, and written records and visual depictions of it exist in ancient caverns and in the traditions of some more wild lamia tribes in the modern day. It may have inspired the legends of creatures like the Hydra of Herculean myth and certain dragons.

It was unlikely that Ouroboros would feed on any humans; after all, would you try to eat an ant nest if you were hungry? So, with the exception of anyone unlucky enough to be standing directly in front of her when she was moving, chances of any witness surviving was quite high.

Cults devoted to Ouroboros were known to spring up in the aforementioned locations, watching as it moved across plains and mountains.

The cultists would commonly come in view of the territorial battles that Ouroboros would have with other kaiju, and they would apparently collect scales and blood spilled from Ouroboros during these fights.

As part of a yearly ritual, the cultists would drink the gathered liquid samples down in mass gatherings. 75% percent of those involved would die from the variety of health effects that would naturally come with drinking massive amounts of irradiated animal blood, but at least 25% must have survived for what happened next to occur.

The survivors were not outwardly changed, aside from gaining a massive resistance to venom based toxins. Another likely side effect was the binding of the liquid to their immune and reproductive systems.

The children of these survivors were described as being born with scaly skin, snake like eyes, and serpentine feet. Later generations would grow vestigial tails.

Obviously, they were seen as blessed by the cultists and treated well, but kept out of sight of non-members. Cultists they may be, they couldn't have gotten this far by being completely insane. They likely knew how "normal'' people would treat the issue.


Hint: Lots and lots of fire

Knowing that society as a whole would not accept their mutated children, the surviving cultists and first children banded together and made communities for their children to grow up in, all while teaching them how to blend in with and survive in nature.

The children, effectively "Proto-Lamia's" found ways to live their lives away in peace in various lairs like snakes.

Some would lead solitary lifestyles while others would form monarchist tribes, with the Fateburn Clan being one of the most prominent in the modern day.

Others would get into occasional conflict with normal humans, inspiring legends of snake demons like the original child eating Lamia of Greek myth.

Overtime, future generations would gain the snakelike lower half of the modern lamia species. However, they did appear enough while hunting for food or more mates to be known in legend and myth until 2007's Emergence Day. The exact series of events that have lead to a low amount of males for Lamia species, especially the ones in Greece, are unknown but are believed to be responsible for the now near-universally banned "Husband Hunt" practice-"


-A Speculative Evolution of the Extraspecies Volume 1. Published in 2013. Written by Professor William Randa Jr.

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Randa would go onto publish later volumes, where he would discuss a possible connection between Mothra and known Fae species, alongside discussion of hypothetical evolutionary convergence between Hedorah, Dogora, and the Slime Confederacies.

These volumes would be alongside a potential list of "origins" for Merfolk, ranging from the possibility that they were dervied from creatures like Mogilos and Manda, or claims that all Mer species were the end result of experiments to survive underwater by surviving Muan's following the sinking of Mu.

To make a long story short, his claims have been very controversial.

Just type the name or the volume into Google and enjoy the firestorm.
 
File 33
Monarch File 33

Amongst many forms of social change in the aftermath of the Age of Monsters, religious change was one of the most notable. Some religions have managed to figure out a way to incorporate these titans into their theology, while worship of the kaiju themselves has become commonplace since the early 1960's. The physical and observable nature of the kaiju has helped immensely in the growth of these groups.

While there are many benign religious groups, such as the People of Mothra, the Neoaztecs, New Muanists, and the Church of the Shiisa, fringe cults and groups devoted to a dangerous form of the worship of kaiju have been a small but notable threat like any other terrorist group.

From the Sons of Varan who venerate the beast that devastated Beijing as a "Savior"* to the Giganites and rogue Phantom Task* who believe that transition willing or not to a technorganic form is the next step in evolution, these groups tend to go for high amounts of exposure and damage if provoked.

One group has remained slightly more clandestine but is nevertheless among the most well known and feared kaiju cults in the world: The Cult of G.

*Fortunately they are willing to cooperate with the rest of China in the event of attack by other kaiju, it is only Varan who they venerate. It should be noted that the Sons of Varan were originally founded by survivors of purges by the now deceased Mao Zedong.

*A former UN group that previously worked on Project Vogeladra before going rogue.

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CKR Published Threat Data #045
First gaining prominence in 1995, the Cult of G is an underground terrorist group who worship radioactive kaiju with a lesser emphasis on kaiju in general, primarily Godzilla himself.

They primarily desire to spread the "Blessings" of kaiju DNA across the world regardless of anyone's wishes. Members of the group deliberately expose themselves to kaiju DNA and contaminated areas, and as a result it's common for members to be covered in various highly visible mutations. It is believed that through intense training or another method, members can protect themselves from the negative effects of K-Radiation.

The cult is wanted for engaging in the trade of Kaiju DNA and for attempting to inject G-Cell's into water supplies amongst other crimes.


Their ranks consist of mutated humans and non-human species. They are lead by a mysterious cloaked figure called the "Apex", who is rumored to have wings like that of a Harpy, and whom is only known from photos and apocryphal accounts.

-CKR Public Database (2016 Edition) More information like Cult methodology and funding is redacted for security reasons.

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1995:

-Cult of G makes its first attack in a public assault on KDF-Europe's French headquarters in an attack by armed members equipped with bladed weapons and suicide bombers. All members are killed in combat but irradiated DNA renders identification hard.

-Following the end of the "Persecution of the Masses", a video where a hooded cult member rants about the cults motivation to "Force Evolution" is anonymously sent to multiple TV stations across Asia.

1996:

-Members of the Cult attempt to poison water supplies in Kyoto but are foiled by psychic agents and KDF volunteers. All five cultists involve die in battle or by suicide following apprehension attempts.

-Biollante vines and flytrap-types begin appearing in the middle of Afghanistan and are believed to have been planted by a rogue faction in the nation*. The Biollante forests current rate of growth increases by 25%. Remaining KDF forces in the Middle East are left heavily strained, and talk of pulling foreign troops out becomes commonplace.

*Credit for the forests expansion in the area later claimed by the Cult of G.

2000:

-Members of the Cult of G release a group five captured Shockirus into the sewers of Manehatten, with two of the Shockirus being pregnant females. The groups plan is to lure the creatures to the surface once a sizable hoard has matured. Following an attack on an off duty-police man* by a Shockirus while he was investigating disappearances in the homeless population near a sewer entrance, the officer managed to successfully repel and kill the creature with his licensed revolver before bringing the corpse down to his station, which galvanized a greater investigation.

Following the deployment of the Hick's Doctrine, in which ammonia laced meat with hidden explosives placed nearby is used to lure in the lice alongside deployment of National Guard and local CKR teams in the sewers, the Shockirus population is quickly culled.

*Officer (Now Captain) Benjamin Parker.

2001:

-More tapes are released to TV stations worldwide, taking place inside an underground area showing several unmutated members exposing themselves to irradiated materials in order to "mutate" are leaked, with several videos having large cloaked figures watching the "Intiation"

One infamous video known as "The Bath of Blood" has been posted and taken off the internet multiple times.

-With the death of founder Osama Bin Laden a year ago by the claws of a Blade-type Biollante spawn and the breach of several nearby bases in Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda terrorist organization begins selling the irradiated flesh and seeds of dead spawn in an attempt to recuperate from their losses. A majority of the sold biomaterial is successfully purchased/stolen by covert members of the Cult of G.

2003:

-The Cult of G's main base is found to exist under the United Kingdom. A raid by the KDF (with secret assistance from foreign mercenary liminals and local professional mercenary mages) is conducted. In the course of the raid, the Cult detonates jars of flammable material within the first few minutes of the attack while the leadership is believed to have escaped.


Dozens of members are killed in battle, but massive self mutation amongst the killed cultists renders identification of the deceased difficult. On a lighter note, some preserved physical documents are found that list known sponsors and codes of the cult.

Of note was a small statue that was found during the raid, one that depicted a creature identical to the kaiju Dagon, who would make its first appearance and attack a year later.

It was believed now that the cult was aware of Dagon's existance beforehand.

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A small scale reproduction of the statue. Credit goes to SOTA Workshop.

2006:

-Rattler, a radioactive serpentine Class I kaiju with a resemblance to known Rattlesnake species appears in Louisiana and attacks the city of Shreveport. He collapses a bridge and knocks down numerous small buildings and vehicles. Rattler is eventually tricked into biting a transformer during a battle with the Louisiana State Guard, severely injuring it's head and causing it to retreat into the Red River. Rattler is later successfully destroyed after being lured out of the river, with a full clip of a Hudson-Type plasma infantry cannon blast to the mouth successfully bringing it down.




Cult of G suspected to be involved in creatures attack due to a tape promising "Vengeance for the dead Lord of Fertility" being sent to a station a week beforehand.

2012:

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A seven foot tall (Due to proximity to fellow cultists) robed figure with glowing white wings known only by the title of the "Apex" is spotted in multiple photos found in a desk from a recent raid on the Cult of G in Kansas. Apex is suspected to be the organizations leader. Suspected to a be a severe K-Mutated human or a harpy extra species.

2013:



-A five strong Ookondoru flock* attacks IS Academy in the middle of a shoreline training defense mission using Mecha Raptors against scrap Breacher's. A squadron of local students, including senior student Haruka Sakaki, manages to survive against the birds, killing one of them, long enough for a local Super X3 to be deployed. The remaining four birds are successfully destroyed.


*Cult of G involvement suspected. Testing ability to direct mutated specimens?

2016:

-The Cult of G attempts to raid Monarch Base 33 in Austria, one surrounding the hibernating kaiju known as Nosferatu/Vlad-Prime.

Fortunately, base defenders and assistance from visiting psychics Miki Saeguesa and Rika Furude manages to repel the attackers without Nosferatu awakening.

-The Official Timeline of Terrorism by Paul McGann. Published by Mindwood House alongside their Age of Monsters timelines.

[-]

While they may not be physically as massive a threat as say, Mechagodzilla or C'Thura amongst numerous other threats, the Cult of G remains an opponent to be wary of, with many facts about their structure and leadership still unknown.

At least with kaiju, you can hear one coming long before you see one.
 
File 34: Monster Island II
Monarch File 34

The Monster Islands have always been a major location of importance to those hoping to study the strange beasts contained there. Not only do they provide a chance to observe kaiju in as natural a habitat as it can get, the islands also let us see interactions between kaiju, violent and non-violent alongside how they behave in response to both the environment and how they deal with local secured human presence.

While some like Tamamo are ambivalent, others like Gaira and Clover have made multiple attempts to get into the barrier around local security stations like specimens used to human presence like Sanda and Luka have been known to play "Games" in front of observing humans and have even tried to shield them from harm when more hostile kaiju attacks.

Of note on the Islands are the different "friendships" and "rivalries" that have developed between individuals.

Aside from these observations of kaiju behavior, another vital point is its location as a place of secure K-Research, specifically in how workers, scientists, and security staff have learned to coexist, however tense, with the locals.

It is not as good as the coexistence seen between man and monsters Infant Island, Okinawa, or in the ancients records of "Titans" from the First Age of Monsters, but what has been recorded over the past five decades has proven promising.

Without further wait, below is a list of recent major events on the Monster Islands beyond those already covered earlier.*

*The ESP experiments in 1989 and the capture of the first round of "Guests" in the 1970's, 80's, and early 90's.

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1998:


-Varan is spotted in the waters around Monster Island, but otherwise does not attempt to come ashore. Miniature submarines and newly recruited Mer agents manage to keep track of him.

2000:

-During a Cat II Monsoon, Varan washes up near Monster Island in a critically wounded state; wounds consistent with those seen on the deceased Tyrantasaur and Ganimes V. Head technician Nicholas Tatopoulos makes the controversial decision to temporarily deactivate Gate III, allowing Varan in. Varan drifts to shore and is found by Baragon*.

Baragon drags Varan up towards his spot at Tamamo's cave in apparent concern. For the next three years, Varan recovers from its wounds and becomes the first flight capable kaiju living on the contained on islands.

2003:

-After some years on the Monster Islands, Varan makes a successful mid air escape during a minor typhoon.*

Varan manages to glide over a section of the barrier into the sea. Varan manages to escape further into the deep while avoiding pursuit.

2004:

-The Breakout: Dagon and its subordinates attack Monster Island as part of the War of the Seas event. Dagon itself personally disrupts and heavily damages the barrier, in the process causing a massive flood of seawater that alongside the barrier's breaching, results in a mass escape of megafauna.

Dagon is interrupted by a pursuing Godzilla and Battra, preventing a further assault on the island.

Gorosaurus, Saltora, Prospector Pete, Gaira, twelve Meganulon, and BullDozer escape into the ocean.

Sanda, Baragon, Tohru, Marsh, and Tamamo remain behind, hiding up in the highest mountain peaks of the island.

Cope disappears in the breakout and is presumed dead.

2005:

-Operation: Fugitive begins with the aim of hunting down the escaped organisms.

-Reports from contacts within Merfolk communities describe attacks on caravans and nomadic tribes by a creature quickly identified as Gaira, who has returned to his old hunting grounds.

-BullDozer reappears at French Polynesia, specifically around the Bora Bora islands. Despite coming ashore and uprooting scores of tree's, it fortunately loses interest quickly before going back to sea.

Gotengo tracks BullDozer to the Pacific, where it is successfully corralled towards Monster Island. After being sent forwards by a freezing blast, the weakened kaiju retreats inland and is hit by a heat ray from Baragon in an attempt to "Help." BullDozer recontained.

-Prospector Pete moves into the Strait of Gibraltar before a anti-kaiju minefield can be set up. Days later, she goes ashore at Crete and battles Gezora II, a giant squid able to lower its body temperature to low enough levels to avoid sonar and thermal detection. Prospector Pete manages to wound Gezora severely and make it bleed profusely with her claws, with Gezora managing to temporarily ward her away temporarily multiple times by spraying a low temperature ink into her eyes and mandibles several times.

Combat is interrupted by a patrolling Chelonra and local naval forces. Gezora retreats while Pete battles Chelonra. Despite managing to get multiple hits in with its claws, Pete is KIA after being blasted straight through the face with Chelonra's Scientific Aperture.

Notable survivors include students from Luna Nova Academy* on a field trip to the ancient "Minotaur Labyrinth" at Crete, with prominent members including senior students Chariot Du Nord and Croix Meridies.

-Gorosaurus battles Megaguirus IV to a draw on Siberut, Sumatra. Megaguirus IV retreats while Gorosaurus takes up residence on the island. Due to the potential collateral damage that could be inflicted on the nearby native peoples and Gorosaurus's relative distance from Urban centers, recapture missions are put on hold.

-After Gaira attacks multiple nomadic Mer tribes and human ships across the South Pacific Ocean, a plan to use a trail of cloned human blood and organs to lure Gaira back to Monster Island is put into place.

The plan quickly meets multiple snags when swarms of sharks and assorted carnivores are attracted by the smell. Gaira is spotted near the Project: Strigoi fleet multiple times but otherwise does not pursue, seemingly having figured out the connection between the blood and the battleships dumping it.

After multiple days without close range Gaira sightings, Barugaron makes a sudden emergence with its arm regenerated. Barugaron attacks the fleet, sinking multiple ships and greedily eating up much of the cloned bait. As the remaining ships dump their load and attempt a retreat, Barugaron sinks the lead USS McCain and follows it right over the barrier hiding the Pacific Mer Kingdom of the Lorelei dynasty.

The ship crashes in the west side of the city, and Barugaron begins to enter just before getting tackled by Gaira, who had taken advantage of Barugaron's single minded gluttony to sneak up on and attack the rival.

After scraping over the tops of multiple Mer buildings, Gaira and Barugaron fall outside the city limits, with Gaira managing to climb onto Barugaron's back and "ride" the kaiju as it thrashes around. Strategic underwater explosives and Mer sonic weapons manages to "guide" Barugaron down a path towards the Monster Islands, which Barugaron makes a beeline for after a large tub of vaporized blood is dropped by helicopter onto the island. After much struggling, Barugaron manages to knock Gaira off his back within a mile past the old barrier line.

Its opponent in reach, Barugaron quickly begins savagely attacking Gaira for half a minute before Sanda, Baragon, and BullDozer come to his aid. After being tackled by three kaiju at once, Barugaron attempts one last retaliation before being struck in the head multiple times by Tamamo, who uses her tail to fling boulders at it. After taking a gash across its face, Barugaron retreats.

Gaira recontained.

Mission declared a success. Work on the barrier resumes.

2006:

-Saltora resurfaces in La Serena, Chile. After leaping across multiple buildings and causing much panic, it settles down into the nearby rainforest.

She later engages in battle with new kaiju Mogilos for alpha status in South America at Machu Picchu. In battle, Saltora is picked up and carried away by Mogilos and blasted into the open Pacific Ocean.

-A severely decomposed back leg and frontal claw from Saltora wash up at El Matador Beach in Malibu, California. Saltora speculated to be KIA.

2007:


-Monster Island's Runic barrier is successfully repaired with Liminal assistance.

2008:

-In January, the "Cloverfield Monster" or Clover as it would be officially called emerges from the Hudson River and attacks Manhattan. Drilling and/or a recently fallen weather satellite are believed to be the cause for its emergence.

Hammerdown manages to reach the city by early morning and battles the creature, successfully managing to knock it unconscious with a blow from its electrically charged hammer. However, Hammerdown's battery back is slashed and torn in the battle, causing it to shut down before the pilots can finish off Clover. Nevertheless, Clover is successfully transported out of the city and kept in its current state with ULT gas tanks.

Clover is successfully transported to the Monster Islands.

-Godzilla appears right outside Monster Islands. After an hour of swimming around (and getting roared at by Tohru from a cliff, prompting him to stare her down for several moments), Godzilla turns back, much to the relief of humanoid staff.

2011:

-Varan reappears on the outskirts of the Monster Islands once more swimming nearby and occasionally sunbathing on protruding sandbanks.

2013:

-Tamamo self-impregnates with a biological process involving moonlight. Being the first captive instance of a pregnant Class IV kaiju, the event becomes a major phenomenon in the global kaiju community. Observation of the expecting mother becomes paramount. Changes to Tamamo's behavior are minor, aside from her sleeping in her cave area more often.

2014:

-Tamamo gives birth at the back of her inland cave. The event is captured on hidden surveillance cameras and broadcasted to various research institutes.

The white furred, one tailed ten meter pup is given the name Shiranui. For much of the year, she remains in the cavern with her mother.

2015:

-Kaiotaita awakens in Algeria after Katyusha inadvertently crawls into it while burrowing towards Africa (Believed to be heading to her old territory.). They fight above ground, and Kaiotaita uses its mythical "Eye of Ra" to destroy the device on Katyusha's back. Wounded, Katyusha retreats while Kaiotaita takes begins moving around the Northern wilderness in Africa.

Katyusha laters resurfaces at the shores of Madagascar, exhausted and having absorbed the remains of its cannon to heal.

Katyusha is then put into a state of torpor with ULT equipped planes and then airlifted towards Monster Island with a large Cable-Restraint Class Atragon carrier.

-An Ookondoru egg is found amongst several stillborn chicks in an incubator during a raid on a small Cult of G base in the ruins of Moldova. The egg is taken to Monster Island, where it hatches.

The resulting infant male Ookondoru, named Luka by local staff member Marcellus L. Hendrick, is fed using cloned beef made just for the occasion.

Luka is then raised inside a local facility for the first year of its life.

2016:

-Gorosaurus disappears from its territory at Sumatra and reappears at Faro Island in the South Pacific. Due to the islands relative distance and Gorosaurus's lack of hostility to nearby natives, the area is declared a wildlife preserve. Gorosaurus is taken off the Fugitive List.

-Kiyohime appears at Hokkaido and approaches the city of Sapporo, apparently intent on revisiting its old territory. At Sapporo, Kiyohime is confronted by Moguera. After a battle that costs the mecha an arm, it nevertheless manages to knock Kiyohime out of the city by firing all remaining weapons and damaging her fire breath with a close range EMP pulse.

Kiyohime is then put into Torpor by a newly arrived Gotengo and then successfully carried to the Monster Islands by a squadron of Grasper aircraft.

-Now three years old, Shiranui is able to feed on more solid materials instead of just moonlight or her mother's milk, with Tamamo notably trusting Sanda and Baragon enough to "babysit" the young kaiju while she attends to other activities.

-The Official Timeline (2016 Edition)

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-*Knowing previous interactions between the kaiju on the island, if anyone other then Baragon or Sanda had found him, Varan would have likely been finished off and eaten.

-*The minor error in the barrier is believed to be a been a predecessor to more catastrophic events of 2004.

-*One of the remaining three dedicated magical institutions in the western hemisphere following the decline in magic that began with the Second Age of Monsters after 1954.

-*Believed to have fallen victim to D-Prime.


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Monster Islands Headcount as of 2016:

Megafauna:


Tohru (Female unmutated Godzillasaurus)

Marsh (Male unmutated Godzillasaurus)

Luka (Male Ookondoru)

Kaiju:

Male

Sanda


Gaira


Baragon


Clover


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Female


Tamamo (Mother of Shiranui)


Shiranui (Daughter of Tamamo 3+ years old)


Kiyohime


Katyusha

-BullDozer

-From The Official Guide to the Monster Islands (2016 Edition) by MI Warden Nicholas I. Tatopoulos
 
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Kaiju: Gods or Monsters?

This is a common topic of discussion amongst religious and scientific communities. Are some of the more prominent kaiju species and individuals just giant animals or are they genuinely divine? With a great many known specimens having resemblance to and corresponding names towards old myths and legends, these correlations may be more possible then initially believed.

One prominent example is Godzilla himself. While it is known that he is a radioactive mutation, Godzilla has been called a "God of Destruction" in some circles. One prominent example is the complicated, hard-built lore of the recently formed metabiology pseudo science, with members describing Godzilla as a literal embodiment of nuclear power in the vein of fictional characters like Lovecraft's "Azahoth." Adding that the same Godzillasaurus that would go on to be enlarged by Castle Bravo was worshiped as a God for at least a century or more, could it be that these recent beliefs are a "Resurgence" in attempted mental adaption to the power of kaiju like him? So many questions, so many possible answers.

Aside from speculation on Big G himself, other kaiju with more mystical origins pose questions of their own. There is King Caesar, who stands vigil within his cavern in Okinawa unless the islands are threatened by danger from another monster; he does not seem to respond to more mundane threats. X-Ray scanning's and witnessed battles show the King Caesar does not bleed like other organisms, and that his insides appear to consist of brick, salt, and a series of tube-like gems. The Kaiju is literally artificial. His eyes themselves, able to absorb and redirect energy as shown during its battle with Megalon, are made of super powerful diamonds. To date, nothing like the composition of his eyes has been found except for the minerals in KC himself. Other facts remain unexplained about him, like the feline fur growing across his body.

Is the Shiisa a genuine divinely built and empowered construction meant to assist the Azumi clan and the people of Okinawa, or is it simply a high tech security device with legs? Perhaps even a dug up solar powered guardian machine from the remains of Mu? Like much about this kaiju, none of these hypotheses have been confirmed or denied.

Another example is the serpentine, almost draconic Quetzalcoatl who suddenly appeared from beneath Mexico City before fighting Grimmgarl. Were its following travels across Mexico and ensuing discovery of old Aztec sites before it fled to the Antipodes a sorrowful reaction to the loss of the ancient civilization who worshipped it, or was the kaiju reacting to the centuries long changes in the environment it once lived in?

Then there is the infamous Titanus Mosura species and their symbiotic cousins, the Titanus Battra. While only two living specimens exist today, fossils and old legends including confirmed alliances* with humans by ancient Mosura's to deal with threats to the Earth show that the species was capable of living in contact with and even communicating with ancient humans. As has been discussed in an earlier profile, it is possible that the Mosura evolved naturally and that their more esoteric abilities may simply be products of their Radioassic heritage and current energy manipulating bioradioactive power.

But at the same time, the existence of the Shobojin, Mothra's witnessed ability to communicate with other giant monsters of different species and her ability to quickly since and intercept with extraterrestrial threats provided that they aren't already being dealt with by a force capable of destroying it independently (i.e. Godzilla) are used by members of both religious and scientific groups devoted to researching her species as evidence in favor of a mystical origin and towards the "Divine Moth'' hypothesis.

Another example of a possibly genuinely mystical kaiju is DragonLotus, a humanoid kaiju with an exoskeleton that bears an uncanny resemblance to human armor, with some informal reports describing her as looking like a "Sentai Character". Her ability to suddenly appear and disappear into the wilderness during kaiju battles primarily in Asia has lead to all manner of discussion, from believable "Biodetection" to slightly eyebrow raising talk of "Perception filters" as was most prominently advocated by British scientist Steven Moffat. Adding her extremely human-like behavior even among other intelligent kaiju as also lead to theories of her being a similar entity to Gaira and Sanda, albeit on a whole different and far more controlled level. One notable hypothesis gaining traction has pointed out similarities between her and obscure Muan deity "Baltan." A possible descendant or maybe even the same being?

Following the final hours of 2015's "Wagandean War", many more questions have been raised specifically regarding her ability to "Pass on". Strange even by kaiju standards with a suspected connection to the technorganic Gigan alongside her time on Infant Island, speculation on her exact nature continues on to this day.

Even the quickly killed Gabara and diminutive Baragon have local mythical counterparts* with similar described appearances and abilities.

Those hoping to study these mythical species will likely find the Monster Islands to be a goldmine off opportunity, specifically with two contained kaiju: Tamamo and Kiyohime.

Tamamo, a Class IV kaiju resembling a nine tailed jackal, displays the noted ability to feed on and even fire moonlight from her jaws like known flamebreathers. Aside from her initial incursion into Kyoto and fight with Zilla (likely a stressed out reaction to waking in an unfamiliar environment.), Tamamo has displayed a calm temperament except if provoked, often staying in the back of a cave during the day while usually coming out at night. The kaiju has regardless managed to make apparent close relationships with some of the other kaiju on the islands, most notably Baragon, Sanda, and Kiyohime.

Tamamo's possible relation to the legendary Tamamo No Mae is dubious at best; there is no indicate of her being able to shapeshift into a human form or anything personality wise that would point to her being able to take a romantic interest in any human if she could. Indeed, her ability to self-impregnate and give birth to a white-furred daughter seems to point to an otherwise asexual species.

Furthermore, its unlikely that such a large creature could be brought down by arrows or spears as in the ancient legend.

Tamamo is simply a large mammalian creature given the same name as the mythical entity for the sake of giving the giant monster with the appearance of a fox a fitting name, nothing more.

On the otherhand, the serpentine Kiyohime has some very coincidental resemblance to her namesake. Emerging from the Hidaka River where the legendary character was said to have fled to after killing a priest (complicated story), she has displayed the ability to breathe a blue flame and ignite her own blood, engulfing her body in fire in times of duress. Kiyohime rampaged around Hokkaido for what was initially believed to be a stressed out reaction to an unfamiliar world before she was driven off hours later.

However, recent damage and claw marks on the nearby ruins of an old church alongside confessions from nearby priests and archeologists who happened to be nearby alongside a preserved video record describes and shows a different story; Kiyohime seemed much calmer and even curious upon first emerging from the water, but only after sniffing and inspecting the ruins of graveyard and a large, broken bell behind the church did she suddenly fly into the rage she is now known for.

Two options can exist here: Her violent attitude was repressed guilt over the death of the priest that arose after she discovered what may have been the exact bell where he burned, or there could have been something in the composition of the bell and surrounding stone structures that irritated her inhumane senses.

Either option is equally possible.

After multiple battles with other giant monsters and encounters with underwater KDF vehicles like the Gotengo, Kiyohime was successfully captured and taken to Monster Island following an attack on Sapporo.

On the islands Kiyo has displayed highly aggressive attitudes, often lashing out at fellow kaiju even when they are simply walking nearby. When not getting into fights or trying to break through the barrier, she is known to lurk around and bathe in the mud pits and lagoons of the island.

Notably, the only fellow kaiju that she tolerates is Tamamo and her daughter Shiranui; several a times a month, Kiyohime and Tamamo can be found lazing about under the night sky near cliffs and grassy areas together under the night sky.

Perhaps the two individuals knew each other in the past? Instinctive symbiosis between two species? Once again, there is no proof or explicit disproof, just hypotheses as with most of the above kaiju.

Myths and legends may not be completely accurate, but they are not fully wrong at the same time; Think of them as the recorded attacks or even incursion timelines of the past. In the end, it matters not whether the kaiju are divine creatures or products of evolution and the Atomic Age.

What matters is that they are here right now and so are you.

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*EX: The Kelbeam Conflicts and the first battle with C'Thura.

*Baragon has been described as the name of an oni dog who lived beneath Hinamizawa and who ate fire and careless exlporers.

Gabara was said to be an oni and cowardly grandchild of Shuten
-dōji whom was bullied by the other members of his clan for his warts and voice. The legend says that he left Mt. Ooe to head to the "Home of the last lightmaker" to increase his own power, a process that would put him into a "long sleep." Thus, he survived due to not being present during Minamoto Raikou's legendary purge.

While no living Oni have been found since the 1000's unless one counts Baragon and assorted subspecies like Neronaga and Maguma, fossils of deceased horned entities have been discovered at Mt. Ooe near the dormant form of kaiju Ibaraki. These currently remain the only physical proof of the Clan beyond the legends.
 
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Amongst the many extinct races of the world, from mundane species like Dodo birds and Passenger Pigeons to the more fantastical like the ancient oni's of Kyoto, one species has attracted heavy fascination unlike any other: Dragons.

Mostly extinct with a few massive exceptions, this race of crocodilian fire-breathing reptiles has been an understandable source of fascination even though like most dinosaur species, the best we can get are long-dead fossils. The exact cause is unknown, with a possible plague that afflicted entire populations being one of the most popular theories judging by the amount of times that lots of dead dragons have been found underground in similar fossilized positions.

The best information we can get on their habitats and actions come from old myths and legends like the tale of St. George and such, and even so like most stories they are likely prone to exaggeration. Some "dragons" may in fact have been reawakened Radioassic wildlife and early kaiju mistaken for dragons.

We do know that dragons likely were likely more closely related to crocodilians then they were dinosaurs. We know they fed on quadrupedal species, specifically bovines and deer. We know they had a habit of hording precious minerals and shiny objects along with the skulls of prey in their lairs judging by recent findings of skeletons curled around such objects.

These fossils have been primarily found upon Western Europe and Eastern Asia.

However, whether they have been around since the time of the Dinosaurs or at the very least the first Age of Monsters is still being investigated. Other factors, like if known dragon species were as intelligent as humans or if they were primarily instinct driven.

If they had any interactions with kaiju, the dragons may very well have served as prey to larger species, with creatures like the airborne Rodan, the seaborne Titanosaurus, and the numerous land-dwelling species like Gorosaurus and Barugaron may have been their biggest predators. It is however possible that in large groups, fire-breathing dragons may have been able to take on and kill a Class I-II individual through repeated use of hit and run tactics. Once more, with the mostly solitary nature of dragons, even then this would be unlikely except in times of desperation.

However, as recently as 2015 the bones of a Godzillasaurus (One who had presumably awoken years before the current individuals) and European fire drake were found in a cavern below the Pacific island of Matoi, seemingly having died mutually, with burns, bite marks, and deep claw wounds on both fossils. As of today, this remains one of the few recorded cases of Dragon-on-Megafauna combat.

The bones of one massive specimen, codenamed "Fafnir" by the German government, were used as part of Project: Vogeladra. A massive collection of dragon bones, with specimens ranging from seven-twenty meters in height, have been found beneath Germany in what is now dubbed the "Boneyard". Similar boneyards have been found in Shanghai and under France. One notable find in the Himalayas in 2004 discovered a network of old tunnels the skeletons of at least seven different dragons where found in a cave each across the tunnels.

Aside from these graveyards and various fossilized discoveries since then, there a few living examples of a true draconic species.

There are two large kaiju*, one a male Class IV and the other a female Class V that are currently being studied by Monarch.

One is Nidhogg, a large cryokinetic kaiju slumbering underneath the Isle of Man in the UK. It is known that this creature appears to have generated a field of thick ice around itself, one that has made observation of its already obscured form rather difficult. Nevertheless, its spiny winged form has a noted resemblance to known fossils found in the Himalayas albeit with a much larger musculature. While Nidhogg is fortunately contained for now, chances are that if it awoke and wished to escape, it could likely do so easily. As Rodan and Mothra have shown, its wings will likely be capable of flight and with its cryokinetic abilities likely extending beyond what has already been seen, it will likely be a severe opponent if it ever awakens. As of now, observation remains the best way to study it.

The second draconic kaiju, Tiamat, is easily the largest living dragon on record. She escaped from her containment unit in Kuwait in 2015, brutally displaying her skill when she viciously tore apart kaiju Mukadender (who's attack on the bases plasma reactor ironically woke her in the first place) and flew around the desert, dropping organs and body parts from the destroyed opponent across all of Kuwait.

Heavily armored with dark scales and purple veins that glow when she uses her pitch black fire, Tiamat's face and body combine traits of Spinosaurs, Mesozoic crocodylmorphs, and the Himalyan Scalebeard (Of which only one fossil has been found). Since then, Tiamat swifly outpaced KDF surveillance and with her speed, she could be anywhere.

Due to the highly unstable and mutagenic properties of her CT-Blood Type, the exact nature of which is redacted only to high-ranking military and Monarch staff*, plans to hunt down and kill Tiamat have been drafted, with the simultaneous use of India's Gandiva alongside Japan's Mogeura and Gotengo being given special emphasis.

Over 110 meters in height, Tiamat would pose a signigcant threat to any who did challenge her. While she has yet to be seen again, predictions regarding her potential and lore analysis indicate that she may even be capable of battling Godzilla himself to a standstill.

Hopefully the operation will not be a repeat of the disastrous G-Crusher.

[CONTINUED]


-In the end, however, these two giant "Dragon" kaiju may look like and even act like dragon's, but compared to known species they likely are not "true" dragons, but are more or less likely a super ancestor or similar creature that is part of the same animal kingdom. With potentially thousands or even half a billion years between them, it is very likely that these two kaiju will not behave nor sound like their exinct descendants even if some may still live today.

Simply put, the Nidhogg and Tiamat likely have more in common with iguanas then they would with "Modern" dragons.

[CONTINUED]

Amongst the myths and legends surrounding these extinct but amazing creatures, the best preserved records of interactions between humans and dragons likely are at mage institutions and territories.

Unfortunately, with their typical tight-lippiness and careful preservation of secrets, mages that may very well have been alive in the time of the Dragons will be unlikely to tell much about it.

-From Myth and Legend: The Forgotten Titans (2015) by Alma E. Delphinus

*This was before the discovery of Khyranax in 2016.

*Indeed, whatever it is that Tiamat CT-Type Blood can do, only Monarch staff at level-4 and up are fully aware of it. Being at level-3 at the time of writing, even I don't have the full story. But, considering Tiamat's sheer age according to the formation where she was found plus some well-crafted theories built on what little has been revealed about her blood, she may very well be a literal "Mother of Dragons!'


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On a lighter note, in a way dragons still exist today, albeit as a whole separate species from the extinct megafauna.

One reptilian species claiming to descend from dragons can be found in the scaly liminal species with gliding capabilities known as the Dragonewts, or scientifically Dragonkin Sapiens. They claim descendance from certain dragons through contact between their ancestors and the blood of dragons (Possible) and through intercourse between dragons and ancient humans (Not as likely). They primarily live in the wilderness at China, Mongolia, and the Himalayan areas. With their appearances and draconic wings*, they do fit the appearance of a stereotypical draconic human as seen in many forms of fictional media. However, no individual in the modern day has been absorbed to expel flame despite records of dragonkin doing so in ancient times.

Alas, they could simply be a rare mutation as has been attributed to other liminal's, but as we have seen before, there are many possible interpretations for their exact origins.

And speaking of which, Delphinus may indeed be onto something. Having lived through much of the more supernatural side of Earth's hidden history and having contact with ancient kaiju, the mage societies of the world may indeed have more direct knowledge of the dragons then any other group on Earth.

So, why not conduct an interview with one?

I was immediately hit by multiple roadblocks upon suggesting this plan back in 2013: Mages not wanting to speak to Monarch agents, Monarch itself being tied up in red tape and not wanting to "waste the money and PR", some mages being just as uninformed as we were, etc.

Finally, by the early days of 2014 I managed to get into contact with a young mage and professor from one of the three major remaining magecraft institutions of the world*. Within a month, an interview on the subject of dragon's was arranged at one of Monarch's offices in England.

This meeting occurred one month before the Leak.

*Albeit ones not suited for flying as much as they are for short glides.

*With magic only being possible near leyline areas where Yggdrasil's branches have pierced in older times, three major magic academies remain in the world. Luna Nova Academy in the English interspace, the Clock Tower organization said to have multiple bases and training areas in Spain, London, and France, and finally the Atlas Temple alleged to be underneath Siberia.


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[Urusla Callistis is a first year teacher at Luna Nova Academy, or at least will be at the start of next year. With blue hair* in a side plait alongside red eyes*, the young woman in her early twenties comes to Monarch's Cardiff office dressed in a simple black scarf and the dark violet hooded dress worn by most LN staff. She is somewhat nervous coming in, but quickly manages to hide it under a composure after entering my office. My note book and recorder are on the table as usual.

It should be noted that Ms. Callistis has a bit of an interesting family history; from a dragon obsessed grandmother, a pair of aunt's and uncles known for their role in the philosophical "Human Order" debate that briefly put LN in conflict with the Clock Tower in the 70's, to a retired mother who served a long career in battling the Meganulon outbreaks of the 1980's.

Today on the fifth day of February, I am offering an Monarch-funded exchange for at least 300 British pounds in exchange for the interview once it concludes; time will tell what Ms. Callistis will do.

She takes seat across from my desk, and the interview begins.]


*Bright hair and eye colors are common on magic using species.

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Q: I'm glad that you could make it here Professor. As I've said in our correspondences, I simply want to inquire about any shared history between mages and dragons. Nothing more and nothing less.

A:
Thank you for this offer, but you needn't call me professor...yet. That's still a year away.

(Pause)

So...about those dragons! I do know that there are rumors of a trade of some sorts between the Arcturus based Primal Coven and the dragon known as Fafnir centuries ago, but that broke apart after Fafnir disappeared not long after making the deal. Some say he was killed by a powerful hero, others that he simply left.

Like you, most of what I know comes from old legends. I know some witches hunted smaller dragons for their scales, and there are some stuffed bodies of some dwarf species in prominent offices of mages and in the hunting lodges of some senior Wild Hunters...but other then that, I've never seen a dragon in the flesh myself.

I mean, I've seen kaiju. I'm sure you've heard about that giant fight in Crete five years back. I was there, I saw it all. It's...not an experience I'd like to go through again any time soon.

So, aside from the stories and the bones I've seen at displays, I don't have much to say about actual dragons but-

(Subject pauses) I may have...actually, there is something I might, know from when I was a kid, but it is rather, how should I put it, personal-

Q: Look if this is getting to close to home, we can take a break for an hour if you need it.

A:
(Subject pauses to compose herself)-Never mind. I'm ready.

It involves my grandmother.

Her name was Char. She was a prominent professor back at the same academy my mother went to. She was not only a teacher, but a magical researcher. Strict and not afraid to yell at her students whenever they made an error. But in the end, not single class of hers failed. It all payed. But that was before...(Pause) There was an accident during my mother's final year.

Grandmother was in a lab, one where she was studying flesh from Yggdrasil itself, trying to figure out how the magic generating ability would work in the right conditions. Something went wrong, a valve misplaced or potion swapped with something more reactive by mistake...but there was an explosion. The Yggdrasil flesh boiled down into plasma and splashed onto her face, some of it was ingested by her.

She survived, there were minor burns, but from then on she was never the same.

She suddenly gained an obsession with dragons. Species, range, old legends...you name it. She was an expert...and it consumed her utterly. She began "dragon-proofing" our family home with special metals on the roof walls that could resist (pauses) not heat oddly enough, but lightning.

Her room piled up with books, both on myths and on fossil records. Aside from defense, she turned to talk about killing dragons. "We die or they die" she would say to every inquiry on the matter. Swords, axes, even guns were buried in a locked chest for the time. Stranger still, at nights she would hide under a tarp and stare ahead into the night sky with a telescope, telling anyone who asked that she was "Keeping watch."

Whatever was in that lab accident, that liquified Yggdrasil material, whatever fused with it...had turned a professional with a record into an obsessed woman who barely resembled the esteemed professor she once was.

My mother, Helen, she had to take charge of the family at that point. Had to claw my family out of the humiliation and the shame.

From then on, while mages would still use the leylines, never again was an experiment on studying Yggdrasil itself done on such a wide scale. That's how major the incident was.

When I was born, Grandmother lived in the same house as us. Her obsession had calmed a bit, but even so she would still go on about her newfound hatred and fear of dragons whenever anyone asked.

Most called it insanity.

Char called it "Insight."

But, despite what I heard about her personality and how I saw her react towards visitors that refused to take her claims of impending doom seriously, she was always nice to me. Perhaps she saw potential in me, or maybe, just maybe there was one last ounce of sanity left that saw a reminder of her younger, saner self in me.

When mother was gone on her many duties as a mage, grandmother would read to me about various legends.

You can probably guess where these conversations went.

She'd show me how to hold a spear, tell me the best ways to stab with a sword. What kind of magic to know in the future, to fight or flee. The "Siegfried Special" she'd call it. How to hold my head to the side in case any blood splashed in my face should I stab a dragon. I was really young back then, it must have seemed like great fun to me, but looking back...

(Subject pauses for a good while)

Mother would have never let these lessons happen. Now knowing what I know, there were so many times I could have potentially gotten hurt-nevermind, I have to continue.

(Pause. Glasses of water are brought in for us both.)

One night in February, when I had just turned ten, I remember waking up and seeing her right outside the window under the moonlight, staring up ahead with that scope of hers at the night sky.

Mother was gone on a business trip for the week. It was just me and her until mother would return in the morning.

My curiosity was peaked. I went downstairs, walked out the door. I asked her what she was doing, having never seen her like this. It had been years since she had done an all night stargazing.

"Looking for dragons." she said. Being ten, I asked her what finally came to my mind. "Why?"

"Because we have to find the dragons before they find us." She said. I remember looking around, confused. "But grandmother, no dragons have ever come around here for years!" I think I may have reached a bit of a breaking point. "You've looked and looked and searched and searched but no dragons have ever appeared at the Academy or at home! Why, why are you so obsessed with them? The dragons, they are all dead like you read to me! They are just bones in the ground! Why can't you just rest-"

I'm not sure what else I said, but I remember being really out of breath. She paused then smiled.

"No. Not the dragons here. Never the dragons, " She held a hand to the ground at her feet. "Here. I was never talking about the dragons on this world."

This was quite a surprise to me. In just a few sentenecs, my perspective of her changed.

I finally spoke up again as I sat down next to her. "If not here then...where? Where are the dragons that scare you so much?" She shook her head and handed the scope to me.

"I don't fear them. I hate them. Just like he does." Slowly, she lifted a bony finger. "Not the dragons from here."

She leaned on a nearby tree, her finger pointing at the night sky full of stars above us.


"From There" she whispered, her arm slowly lowering.


I grew confused, lifting up the scope and looking at the stars above. "Where Cha-grandmother, what do the stars have to do with dragons?"

I slowly turned to her still form, no response. Turning back, I looked up at the stars, trying to spot whatever it was that got her attention as if in a trance before I turned back to her. When no response came, I thought she had fallen asleep.

I shook her with no response.



It would take awhile for me to realize that she was dead.

Her heart had stopped mere seconds after her last words.



She had died right in front of me after finally managing to give vital clue about her dragons I didn't even know it for more then five minutes.


(Subject pauses, then drains her glass. She sets it down with audible force before speaking in a firmer tone then before.)

Perhaps my grandmother really was crazy. Maybe she genuinely did get insight into the ways of the universe from the tainted concoction that splashed into her face.

Whatever her personal dragons were-

(Subject pauses and stands up before heading over to the nearby window. Pausing, she looks through the window as if up at the sky from my position)


-They weren't from here, but somewhere farther away.


[Thus ends one of the most tense moments of my career. A story that stared off innocently enough ended in an intense manner. Ms. Callista gave me permission to publish this interview, and as a thanks I've changed the names of the mentioned relatives for the sake of discretion and respect towards real issues. I wish her luck and an untroubled teaching career in the days ahead.]

[Hopefully her tenure will be a peaceful one.]
 
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[Ley line Types]


Active: The type mostly commonly used by mages, these branch-like tunnels remain a source of transport and spells. The closer one is the ley line, the easier and more powerful spells that can be formed. These "healthy" ley lines are mainly located in forested areas and in dimensional spaces only accessible by the ley line itself; these spaces are believed to be a result of a long dormant form of energy generated by the branches when they first expanded, but have yet to be replicated.

Examples of mage societies formed around these branches: Luna Nova Academy and Clock Tower.

Damaged: Ley lines damaged and unable to generate as much energy for a variety of reasons. Some of this damage as studied by Monarch is believed to be related to megafauna in very recent terms; Tunneling by burrowing specimens like Gorosaurus and Urogora in Europe, alongside Titanus Baragon and related subspecies in Asia for decades and more is believed to have cut directly over and at times into these ley lines, but firm proof has yet to be found.

Due to this damage, damaged ley line branches have been described as "Faded" by those who travel them.

Examples: The Trifas ley lines and the Siberian inscape.

Dormant: Ley lines that have lost all power for one reason or another, but it believed that in time or if slowly "fed" mana over a period of time, they may one day "awaken".

Examples: The British Five Star Path and the East African Pool of Roots.

Dead: A ley line that has been "shattered" due to overuse of its magical energy or external damage. Magic is either impossible or very difficult to perform if near a this type, and traversing one is not possible or is extremely dangerous and leads to dead ends if anywhere at all, with "shards" of broken material resembling rotting wood floating freely in the darkened food of what remains.

Examples: The Fuyuki Charred Vein and the Italian Creek of Hell.


-The New World: (Chapter Two: Magic) by Minato Akemi. Published in 2011.

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"The massive tree known as Yggdrasil* is the source of all the worlds magic alongside the first seven olde mages who found it thousands of years ago as the old legends say. The former part is very much correct; only in areas above or near ley lines can magic be performed on any significant scale. However, ever since the end of the "Golden Age", magic in these areas has decreased significantly over time. Numerous possible causes have been blamed, some baseless paranoia and some possibly rooted in truth*. However, to truly understand magic one must go to the source; Yggdrasil itself.

The 300 meter (As of current estimates) tall form of Yggdrasil exists in a pocket dimensional space, one of six in the world and which have proven unable to be replicated due to the as of now complex physics involved. Only reachable by the ley lines, this space is surrounded by Fay-Type energy. Any being who falls in here into the energy will likely be corroded down to atoms due to the potent energy reactions with a biological form; brooms and other safe forms of locomotion are heavily recommended.

Records of first contact with Yggdrasil exist at approximately 2500 BC, but lab studies of the organism from samples and from its physical appearance compared to other long-living flora indicate that it may be millions of years old, perhaps even older.

Yggdrasil itself is located in this area, "anchored" by its 600 remaining branches into a platau of energy below it; the physical form of the massive pocket dimension it exists in. Over 20 "crown" branches emerge from the top of bright green tree, which emits a green glow at all times. This glow is the result of a form of unique Bioradiation around the tree, albeit one harmless to humanoids. Nevertheless, directly ingesting any edible material contaminated by the radiation or samples from Yggdrasil itself is not recommend; a mana overload that causes the death of the consumer is common. Other cases, such as heavy permanent mental instability and visions of variable nature are common, as seen with the infamous case of former professor Cyrille Du Nord.*

Analysis of the tree itself indicates that it may be to flora as the kaiju are to normal fauna: An apex specimen with unique traits.

Aside from its ability to freely generate mana from its branches into all twelve areas where large scale magic can still be performed, Yggdrasils other traits include the aforementioned bioradiation and some notable physical information.

The "bark" of Yggdrasil is notably a form of metallic flesh resembling tissue. This highly durable material is best extracted from old parts of the main body, due to the sheer difficulty that comes with trying to break the flesh off. "Sap" is liquid plasma rich in magical energy and high in explosive instability if not properly diffused.

The sap randomly leaks out several times a year and is carefully harvested for to be generated as a an energy source in the form of magic vapor. To prevent anything like the "Nord syndrome", careful protections and face coverings are used.

Various seeds or brown seed like objects, ranging in size from 1 inch to a foot long, randomly detach from Yggdrasil several times a year in one century; these seeds either drift around the space or are collected by various mage teams and taken to the vaults of their respective institutions.

Considering the massive energy potential, it may seem wasteful to leave such things lying around without actually using them.

But as the recent crisis has shown, such things are best used in times of danger; only then is the risk and reward of using these "Seeds of Yggdrasil'' worth it. As the incident at Arcturus showed, a single seed combined with the right material can create an outpouring of power; one that can raise the power of an already dangerous Class V kaiju to all new heights for a brief amount of time.

Indeed, a Class V kaiju, preferably one with high control over its energy reserves and regenerative ability, seems to be the only organism that can directly ingest and use Yggdrasil's power.

A lesser kaiju or one without as firm a grip over its energy would likely be burned down to the bone by the critical overload.

While the local Arcturus Forest and Wagandea Tree* are believed to be derived from it, the bizarre biological traits of Yggdrasil have lead me to a new conclusion.


Yggdrasil may very well not be a tree, but a new type of organism all together.






Moving on from this, it should be noted that intense activity resembling large amounts of ESP concentration and electrical energy overload have been found at the top branches of Yggdrasil, in a way resembling the massive amounts of intense mental activity one would expect from a sufficiently large organism.

While extremely old accounts of Yggdrasil apparently "communing" with the first mages and giving them its blessing and permission for them and their descendants to use its power exist in poorly translated records, all forms of modern communications, both scientific and magical, have failed in regards to Yggdrasil.

We just have the activity to look at.

However, my recent studies have lead to some highly alarming discovering, specifically regarding the ley lines. Increases in these "bursts" of energy at the top correlate with deaths or dormancy in at least sixty five minor and major ley lines as observed through records.

My own recent experiments, keeping track of the closest ley lines, have noted energy fluctuations with each burst.

Correlating with the pulse, the Maladra-3 Space station has detected a "Pulse" detected around the same time as my own observations, an invisible and seemingly harmless wave of power that briefly seems to "wash" around the world before dissipating in a period lasting five-ten seconds.

Adding to Yggdrasil's own psychic emanation's, I have come to yet another conclusion: It is drawing upon the power of its own branches to such a degree that it is essentially cannibalizing its own mana and ley lines to the point of shattering some of the latter.

The old records had a likely instance of this intense "Crown Burst" once a decade.

The ones I'm now detecting occur every few weeks.


How ironic. If I am right, it is Yggdrasil itself that may be directly responsible for the current decline of magic. Of course, the other factors exist, but this draining of its own branch tunnels is the most obvious likely explanation.


The last and biggest question is why Yggdrasil is draining and withering its ley lines and thus slowly killing magical society it helped make in order to create these massive bursts of power.


The pattern of the pulse suggests it is creating some sort of barrier or shield, one selectively permeable.


Is Yggdrasil trying to keep something in?


Or is it keeping something out?



Further research is required.


-Arcturus Field Report #017 (Submitted in 2016 to Monarch and other kaiju-based organizations as part of the Kyoto Accords) by CKR Engineer Croix Meridies.

She is currently acting as a liaison to Luna Nov Academy following the "Wagandean War" and the ensuing clean-up efforts.

The footnotes below were written by Agent Meridies, not me.


*Named after the world tree in Norse mythology, or perhaps the one who inspired the of the myth and name in the first place? Both are equally possible but must be researched further.

*Pollution, modernization, lack of faith in magic, environmental disaster, the current Age of the Kaiju, etc.

*Ancient magic using tribes before the Golden Age organization were known to have an appointed elder shaman inhale a concotion of fumes said to come from the "Fire of the brother tree" in order to experience visions of danger or to gain valuble knowledge; the validity of these claims is unceertain.

*ANEB deployment to contaminated areas is being negotiated.
 
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Monarch File 38

"Exactly what was Dagon? A reawakened superspecies? A mutation? A genuine deity?

Some may say that it was just a giant animal trying to make its own feeding and spawning grounds, but the sheer amount of sadism and other personality traits it displayed make me question that possibility.

As far as I'm concerned, its intelligence was on the level of a man, maybe even more. It knew exactly what is was doing, and it enjoyed every minute of it.

In fact, everything Dagon did, attacking large native populations, trying to change the environment suit its own needs, does anyone else see the pattern?

Colonization.

We as a species had every right to protect ourselves from Dagon, but keep in mind that what it did was not so different from what our ancestors have done."

-Professor (Later Monarch Agent) Emma Russell on the "Dagon War/War of the Seas" during a guest lecture at the Deverich Biological Institute in Florida dated May 16th of 2014.


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2002:


-Godzilla battles a massive eel named Moratitan off the coast of Fukushima. Moratitan escapes but is left with a claw wound across the face and left eye.

2003:

-Sightings of Godzilla are reported far away from his territory at the Pacific Ocean, with aerial and sea bound photos of him coming as far as the Gulf of Mexico. Gotengo is sent out to track him, with both the vessel and kaiju keeping a careful distance from one another.

-A gigantic mass of seaweed known for containing ancient shipwrecks in the Mid-Atlantic comes alive and fuses into a central mass with the ships acting as a primitive armor. New kaiju classified as Degijon. It engages in battle with the USA's first line of undersea battleships, scuttling half the fleet before sinking itself.

Blown off fragments of it are found to contain fluid with high amounts of Biollante DNA.

-The Cult of G's main base is found to exist under the United Kingdom. A raid by the KDF (with secret assistance from foreign mercenary liminals and local professional mercenary mages) is conducted. In the course of the raid, the Cult detonates jars of flammable material within the first few minutes of the attack while the leadership is believed to have escaped.

Dozens of members are killed in battle, but massive self mutation amongst the killed cultists renders identification of the deceased difficult. On a lighter note, some preserved physical documents are found that list known sponsors and codes of the cult.



-Across coastal areas of Western Europe, the Eastern seaboard, and in the Pacific, recurring dreams of floods and a massive sea creature with many varying accounts of its appearance become common especially among psychic individuals.

One name is most notably attached to the creature: Dagon.

-Moratitan and Degijon encounter one another near the dead Pacific Riptide Reef. Degijon vomits out an opaque object resembling an egg with the blackened form of an unknown cephalopod species at its center. Moratitan eats the egg object under the formers watch and then proceeds to display hitherto unseen telekinetic abilities which it uses to construct a bipedal suit of armor around itself from the nearby coral.

Moratitan and Degijon then escape into the Japan Trench, and are believed to be using hollow Earth spaces to move around from this point on.

2004:

-A Class V Hybrid Type Kaiju with the lower half of a cephalopod and the upper half of a heavily armored eel and annelid with four humanoid arms is spotted off the coast of Daemon Reef near Massachusetts.

It then starts a massive attack days later at the New England region, displaying what is believed to be an immense hydrokinetic power that is used to cause flooding in nearby coastal areas such as Bar Harbor in Maine, Boston in Massachusetts, Seacoast Region in New Hampshire, and Cape Cod in a personal assault.

Kaiju is named Dagon due to its resemblance to a similar fictional entity and from lore captured in last years Cult of G raid that indicates the extremist organization was aware of Dagon's existence.

Local aquatic liminal sources provide conflicting accounts about an ancient creature that may or may not be the current lifeform.

After a battle with the USA's remaining flying battleships, Dagon retreats while leaving nightmares in its wake; mutated sea life resembling Dagon's top half becomes a recurring threat to rescuers and those trapped in flooded areas.

The attack is believed to be the opening of what would later be labeled the "War of the Seas."

-War of the Seas begins following both Dagon's attack and and a simultaneous civil conflict for succession in the South Atlantic Mer Kingdom of New Atlantis.

Dagon, Moratitan, and Degijon are witnessed swimming together in a pack through the Pacific Ocean. Dagon is suspected to have a role in the creation of both kaiju.

Breakout Incident: After separating and evading surveillance, Dagon and Moratitan launch an attack on Monster Island, with Dagon proving to be highly resistant to the electric rune gate and other defense. Dagon manages to break open and damage the island wide forcefield. Degijon is noted to be absent.

After breaking the forcefield, the ensuing flooding causes a majority of captive megafauna to begin breaking out into the open ocean.

-Cope disappears in the breakout and is presumed dead.

Gorosaurus, Saltora, Prospector Pete, Gaira, twelve Meganulon, and BullDozer escape into the ocean.

Sanda, Baragon, Tohru, Marsh, and Tamamo remain behind, hiding up in the highest mountain peaks of the island.


-Moratitan begins moving inland while Dagon lurks outside and smashes a Seeker boat attempting to escape.

Degijon reappears minutes later a hundred meters behind Dagon, notably with much of its mass burned or torn out in a state of distress.

As Dagon turns to Degijon, Godzilla rapidly resurfaces from the same shore as Moratitan. Atomic Breath is discharged into Moratitan's back, stumbling it.

Battra appears nearby and begins assaulting Dagon from afar, whom responds by firing multiple waves of superheated water vapor at him.

After ten minutes of Kaiju combat, Dagon retreats underwater and creates a massive typhoon while shooting jets of water filled with oil secreted by Degijon at Battra before igniting the oil with heated water vapor and creating an explosion that knocks Battra out of the sky. On land, Godzilla and Moratitan's duel reaches the nearby mud pits.

Moratitan leaves its current coral armor and manages to use its "Riptide Force" to have the armor continue fighting Godzilla while Moratitan rapidly slithers back to sea during the turbulent storm. Once Moratitan is more then 500 meters away, the armor deanimates and collapses to pieces in the mud pit. Godzilla and Battra, despite their respective setbacks, quickly proceed to pursue the hostile "Ocean Trio".

-The Ocean Trio launches three separate attacks around the world. Dagon vomits up two eggs which are fed on by its minions, both of whom gain similar powers to it Albeit on a lesser scale.

Moratitan heads to Australia, Degijon heads to the waters around Western Europe, and Dagon enters the Indian Ocean.

All three have hundreds of Dagon Spawn following them.

First Strike:

Degijon is delayed in the water by Chelonra and UK submarines in the English Channel, but nevertheless it manages to reach the River Thames at the cost of most of its Spawn swarm, which die attacking Chelonra's fleet to clear a path for Degijon. The remaining twenty five spawn and Degijon emerge from the river into the city of London. European Mecha Vogeladra is deployed along with the Gotengo, which had been the closest additional nearby Class IV anti-kaiju weapon.

Degijon's lack of internal organs and seaweed consistency allow to absorb much damage at first, until its weakness to extreme heat is discovered. Vogeladra manages to kill the remaining Spawn.

The Gotengo drills straight through Degijon's soft torso while deploying its side missiles, splitting its upper body in half. Vogeladra fires it's black lightning while nearby Maser turrets mounted above flooded areas proceed to fire into its opened insides.

Degijon's body begins to burn. A blast from the Gotengo's LT cannon causes the burning area's to start freezing. The ensuing thermal shock shatters Degijon. Remaining frozen pieces of it's kelp flesh are taken to G-Base 002.

Second Strike:

Moratitan surfaces in Byron Bay at Australia. The nearby swarm attacks New Zealand and the accompanying islands around it, earning the attention of Quetzalcoatl and of Torrentula.

Quetzalcoatl attacks the swarm and manages to kill all fifty members of it over the course of twenty seven hours.

Torrentula heads after Moratitan.
Moratitan continues its advance into Australia, bringing floods and forcing the evacuation of the nearby city of Brisbane. The decision to reactivate Kinkuto is hastily made.

Despite it's dangerous MG derived programming, with the death of the core AI in 1995, Kinkuto immediately heads towards Moratitan, halting it's advance at Queensland.

Kinkuto battles the larger Moratitan to a standstill nearly by midnight. Torrentula arrives, rapidly swimming through the nearby flooded area. Kinkuto seems to regard Torrentula as an ally, and both begin to battle Moratitan. Torrentula latches onto Moratitan with all eight hydro limbs and begins overpowering it's hydrokinesis with her own, slowly breaking apart its coral body.

As Moratitan flails with its mace, Kinkuto leaps onto it and begins slicing into its neck with a mounted chainsaw. Within minutes, Kinkuto manages to decapitate the Moratitan. Moratitan's headless body begins flailing around for thirty more seconds before falling to the ground, the armor collapsing around it.

Moratitan's head continues to snap for several more minutes before Kinuto holds it in place with its right hand taser claw before destroying the head with six mounted shoulder missiles.

Third Strike:

Dagon attacks Sri Lanka and then emerges from the Bay of Bengal at Chennai, India. Godzilla emerges 100 miles away, having been pushed away from Dagon by its generated tsunamis. Battra remains above sea level and fires his beams at Dagon, who forms high pressure water shields around itself.

A freshly deployed Gandiva reaches the nearby area, coming into contact with Godzilla before Dagon. Gandiva's AI detects Godzilla as a threat in the current context, and a brief battle begins between the two before Dagon's advance takes the attention of both away. Godzilla and Gandiva then proceed to attack the more immediate threat of Dagon.

Battra reaches inland alongside a newly arrived Mothra.

Under attack by four giants at once, Dagon carries out a desperate move. Calling out all of its swarm to it, Dagon shields itself with water before engulfing its swarm with superheated vapor, causing them to experience a sudden explosive biological reaction. Dagon then flings its soon to blow offspring around it, triggering massive plasma explosions.

Godzilla falls into the water after having the ground become unstable below him, while Gandiva, Mothra, and Battra are knocked out of the sky. Battra in particular takes multiple wounds after using his body to shield Mothra from the exploding spawn.

Godzilla gets back up and pursues Dagon back into the Indian Ocean.

Gandiva stays near the flooded areas and stands guard for any future potential attacks on India.

Mothra escorts an injured Battra back towards Infant Island.

Final Strike:

Over the following week, Godzilla chases Dagon from the Indian to the Atlantic Ocean. Dagon vomits up more of its explosive spawn and create more typhoons to slow Godzilla down. Dagon's mere presence also creates notable tidal waves across the West coast of Africa, with Dagon being visible from shores and cliffs.

Dagon enters into Portugal in the city of Lisbon, causing instant chaos. Already on standby, Vogeladra and the Gotengo are sent out into combat.

Godzilla pursues Dagon into Lisbon* as Vogeladra and the Gotengo arrive.

The ensuing battle has Dagon summoning shields of water to intercept a blast from the Gotengo's AZ cannon, which it uses to reflect the low temperature blast back in the form of hundreds of large icicles.

Gotengo is ordered to retreat after Dagon detonates the icicles, causing plasma burns and open tears all across the hull. Commander Gordon ignores orders to retreat and flies directly into Dagon, wounding it across the torso and severing an arm.

Gotengo crashes down near Evora.

Dagon grows tentacles out of its wounds as Godzilla and Vogeladra tear into it together, the force of both attacking at once managing to break through Dagon's barriers.

Vogeladra uses its weather system to bring down a massive thunderbolt, an attack eased by the large storm already being generated by Dagon.

Dagon is hit directly in the mouth with the bolt before getting blasted through the face by Godzilla.

With half its head blown off, Dagon attempts to retreat while flinging explosive bursts of superheated water and waves filled with debris at Godzilla and Vogeladra.

Refusing to let Dagon escape and rebuild its forces, pilot Bodewig sets Vogealdra's jetpack into overdrive and tackles a retreating Dagon off a nearby cliff while supercharging the mechas weather generator. All communications advising retreat are ignored by Bodewig.

As both fall into the water, Vogeladra's wings temporarily manage to hold Dagon out of the sea as 20,00 tons of psionically charged rain and four massive thunderbolts fall onto Dagon and Vogeladra. Generator core detonates.

Surrounding cliffs are massively corroded and outright vaporized within a minute. The nearby flooding and storm stops.

Godzilla digs himself out of nearby mud and debris before jumping into the ocean.

As nearby KDF, military, and naval forces from Spain and France enter the area, Godzilla surfaces back into Lisbon with Vogeladra in his arms. After a brief standoff, Godzilla sets the mecha, now missing it's lower half and with severe charring across it's torso and head, onto the ground before heading back to sea.

Godzilla drags Dagon's remains, consisting of heavily corroded lower tentacles and a badly burned broken skeleton, out into the Atlantic.

Aerial coverage shows Dagon's tentacles twitching erratically moments before Godzilla fires a Spiral Ray directly into the center of the body. Dagon's remains are completely destroyed.

Vogeladra's cockpit is opened.

Pilot Laura Bodewig confirmed to be KIA.

Aftermath:

-Godzilla returns to the Sea of Japan. Godzilla is later seen travelling the oceans, killing Dagon Spawn and resurging Panthalassal wildlife who had gained new breeding grounds thanks to Dagon's attack.

-Funeral is held in Laura Bodewig's hometown of Alzenau.

-Remains of Degijon, Moratitan, and Dagon Spawn are put in cold storage in different bases across the world.

-Communications with Infant Island are increased to allow for cooperation in the event of future Class V threats.

-Type I Mecha Raptors are used to successfully destroy the remaining Dagon spawn near the USA.

-Vogeladra undergoes repairs; the "Boneyard", an underground crypt in Germany containing the bones of long dead draconic type kaiju is mined by local governments to get the needed material for this undertaking.

-Douglas Gordon is demoted to Captain.

-Arthur I of the Curry Dynasty becomes the new Ruler of the South Atlantic Mer Kingdom.

-The Official Timeline (2013 Edition)

*The site of a battle between Godzilla and Vogeladra in 1987.
 
State of the World I
So far here is the world's state.

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North America: First area to experience burrowing kaiju attacks, showing that simply staying away from the coast lines wasn't enough. Still alive with advanced sonar able to detect underground monsters, but at least coastal living is cheap, mainly for people with jobs there or the crazy ones.

Middle East: Experiencing increased rainfall and flora growth due to Biollante spores, but this comes with a danger of its own.

Panama City: Half of it gone due to a kaiju self destructing in 2009.

South America: Guatemala has an underground hole that leads to the Hollow Earth and Meganulon investaitons have been a problem until the last two decades, but otherwise SA is recovering and has managed to coexist with kaiju Mogilos.

Europe: Republic of Moldova is gone, and areas around water like the UK and Mediteranean Islands are especially at risk.
So far, Vogeladra and Chelonra have done a decent job guarding it.

New Mecha's built in the late 00's help further guard it.

Russia: Moscow quarantined but slowly recovering from its collapse.

Africa: Manages to coexist with kaiju Bunagi who lives in nearby jungle. Emergence place of Megagurius I.

Lacks a powerful AKM, but has managed to be the first continent to successfully use an ancient ritual against a kaiju.

Australia: Second largest recruiting ground for CKR and KDF forces following the Kamacuras outbreak. Doing better.

Atlantic Ocean: Home of many mermaid species, both those in underwater kingdoms and living nomadically. Often victim to attacks from wandering megafauna since the Age of Monsters began.



Apex Kaiju of this ocean was Atlantic Scourge till it was successfully selaed in a trench during an operation in concert with the KDF's Gotengo, but it will likely escape sooner then later.

Pacific Ocean: Apex Kaiju is Godzilla. Home to Monster Islands.

It is believed that Godzilla is personally responsible for culling the more aggressive and gluttonous megafauna in these areas.

Japan: Basically a miniature Catachan.
Half is jungles and rodents of unsual size, the other half is civilization. A second world country, but one with a massive reputation for monster fighting experience and toughness. A prime recruiting ground.

Adding the local presence of benevolent kaiju like King Caesar, Mothra and Battra from the northern Infant Island, and Godzilla himself who doesn't tolerate threats to the area around his home, and Japan itself is now surprisingly secure.

India: Most likely to experience attacks from swarms of smaller megafauna like Breachers and Dagon spawn, but Mystic/Mecha hybrid Gandiva is a big help in that regard.

China: Large and governed by various feuding controlling groups, one of which worships Varan, reactions to kaiju attacks are somewhat scattered, especially with only one AKM. At least they have a large military to compensate. Has experienced two large scale underground kaiju outbreaks since 1995 and has required assistance from a foreign Mecha for the second one.
 
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Monarch File 39

A Collection of news articles across the new millennium.
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The New York Times

Politics

Did the Spectrum Spider Scandal cost Bush the election?

By Audrey Timmonds. January 22nd, 2001


Two days ago after a grueling campaign, candidate Al Gore was sworn in as President of the United States of America following his victory in last years election. One could claim a variety of factors that went into his victory-personality, allies, the voters themselves-but in a way, could Gore owe his victory to a spider?

Of course, the recent attack by the massive arachnid known as "Kumonga" is likely still fresh in the minds of everyone involved in the election, from the voters to the new President himself.

These events occurred in October, when the Spectrum 7 oil company of which candidate Bush is the chairman tested a potent new oil drill in Texas, one said to be derived from those used on the battleships of the worldwide Kaiju Defense Forces. The test ended up piercing through the ground farther then expected.

As a highly unfortunate side effect, the hibernating Kumonga was awoken by the drilling (and its extremely low body temperature is believed to be what allowed it to avoid yearly sonar detection) and quickly climbed its way to the surface by following the drill back.

Attacking the nearby platform and several nearby settlements, Kumonga then held the city of Houston in the grip of terror, spraying a web across a quarter of the cities west side. Dozens were eaten while hundreds or thousands were injured both by the spider and by hasty accidents caused by those trying to escape.

By midnight, it would take five bunker buster bombs directly to its center mass to kill Kumonga and its reign.

By morning, thousands were injured and a great deal of resentment to the oil industry, particularly Spectrum 7, culminated in a riot in DC.

Aside from the obvious implications for future drilling plans due to the dangers of digging for new sources, the deaths of many men and women with families in a state like Texas also built up resentment towards Bush himself in nearby areas. The record lack of votes in his favor during the Elections themselves down in Texas were very likely a result of his companies role in awakening Kumonga, and may have had a role in his ultimate loss.

George Bush himself is unavailable for comment, having retreated to his families estate following his loss in the election. President Gore has buried himself in his work if reports are to be believed, so the personal thoughts of both on the matter are mysteriously quiet for now.

In the meantime, the first issues Gore are expected to tackle are likely to be environmental in nature, alongside better detection methods for use against hostile megafauna from land and from sea.

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World

'Kyoto Conference off to a soaring start'


By James Archer


Science correspondent, BBC News

Published April 31st, 2001.



Starting today, the Kyoto Conference to discuss the subject of the Giant Monsters, civilizations greatest enemies, officially began with diplomats and military officials from all over the world flying in, with the cities football stadium being repurposed into the main center of the convention. Thanks to reopened communications, Hotua agents from Infant Island are expected to join later this evening.

An event dedicated to analyzing this current era of giants, the past, present, and future of a world with these titans is being discussed seriously.

Indeed, the Monarch intelligence organization (represented by senior agents Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham) has come forward with murals, drawings, and tablets dating back as far as Ancient Greece and maybe even further being used as evidence of a previous "Age of Monsters." With many photos being taken every second, history itself is being rewritten as the sun sets.

Amongst the most memorable speeches and scientific presentations given were by American KDF Colonel William Overbeck on the designs for Hammerdown, a new robot meant to replace the long-fallen Steel Zeus, and a brief recounting of history of robotics and current future plans and features for new monster-battling machines by young robotics expert and professor Goro Ibuki that included blueprints for a "Drift System" and a new flight-based combat vehicle called Moguera.

More insight on the kaiju themselves, particularly the legendary Godzilla himself, were given in passionate speeches by the Monster Island-based Professor Koji Ando and John McCain, current Marshall of the Western KDF.

The failed plan of Operation: Titanomachy and the consequences of it are being discussed at length. Controversial plans focusing more on containment and long-term coexistence with the kaiju are being drafted and redrawn by multiple committees on stage, with debate areas being set up for this very purpose.

With the convention being a week long, more lively discussion and revelations are eagerly anticipated by everyone here on the scene.

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A mural of a Titanus Mosura found in an underground cave in China. Could it possibly be the same one living on Infant Island today?

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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY

Shin Godzilla to hit theaters in July

By James Rolfe | January 12, 2016 at 3:15 PM

Directed by the legendary Hideaki Anno, this latest installment in Toho's films about the creature is not a documentary or a historical dramatization, but instead an alternate history film that asks the question of "What would happen if the Age of Monsters began in 2016?"

Aside from showing how such a world without any monster attacks since 1954 would look like and how such a society would react to their first incursion, the movie also aims to have a" deeper message", mainly about criticism towards controversial government action (or inaction in this case) during environmental disasters.

With lifelike special effects and the use of real vehicles on loan from the Kaiju Defense Force and the Asian-based G-Force, alongside real life soldiers and officials from those organizations in technical roles and cameos, Shin Godzilla is aiming to be unlike anything that came before it.

You can wait to get it on DVD, but for now if you can see this film in theatres, do it.

This isn't an opportunity you'll ever want to pass up.

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"Terrifying Landing" The alternate Godzilla comes ashore in a shot from the upcoming movie.
 
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The existence of extra species and magic was officially disclosed in the year 2007 as was agreed upon in secret meetings with the UN and government officials.

While there are multiple reasons for this year being chosen-World politics "Cooling down", daikaiju attacks nearing liminal and mage civilization, the year in particular being a milestone in some societies, etc.- coincidentally an attack that outright caused the collapse of the poor Eastern European country, Moldova, occurred.

Perhaps this event, inland as it was, may have finally made the officials in charge of "Fallen Curtain" realize that the time for the reveal was now or never.

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2007:

-A massive amphibious kaiju emerges from the Black Sea in Eastern Europe, with recent excavations suggesting that it had been hibernating there since at least the late Miocene period. The creature had four arms and was heavily armored, with glowing yellow veins and a bladed protrusion on its head resembling an axe.


Named "Trespasser." by local authorities, the creature walks through Ukraine towards the border into Moldova.

Its path takes it to the capital of Chișinău, where it is confronted by Urogora who had been detected underground but not identified 30 minutes ago, and who burrows out of the ground after nearly twenty years of absence.

Urogora is noted to have slightly grown in size with multiple glowing red "patches" composed of volcanic material across her torso and back*.

The creatures battle, destroying the capital and multiple surrounding towns in the process thanks to Urogoras new ability to create pyroclastic flows by burrowing.


Response time for Chelonra, the most closest available mecha currently at the English Channel, is delayed due to the landlocked status of Moldova.


Urogora eventually manages to bleed Trespasser out over the course of five hours and partially decapitates it, but relents after one bite due to the creatures acidic blue blood.

Urogora retreats underground by the time Chelonra successfully arrives.

The dying Trespasser suddenly begins to stand up before being finished off by a quick artillery barrage from Chelonra.


Due to the destruction of the capital and surrounding towns, high casualties, and the heavily toxic effects of Trespassers widely spilled blood end up bringing an official end to Moldova, with rapid immigration by survivors becoming common.*



-The Official Timeline (2010 Edition)


-Comparable to Rodan's "Upgrade" in 1995.

-Similar fully destroyed areas can be found in Accra and North Korea.

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Restored photo found in a discarded camera in the ruins of Chișinău, one that appears to depict the "Tresspassers" initial incursion into the city.

Photgrapher identity unknown, presumed dead.
 
File 41
Monarch File 41

When the current era of kaiju attacks began, we thought nothing could surprise us anymore.

Then, like many other events in the last century, we found that we could still be surprised after all.

First Contact.

I am talking about the extraterrestrial megafauna, the ones who's mere existance have radically changed almost all theories and speculation on alien lifeforms.

The first notable ET-Megafauna was Taligon. Made of various minerals, this pyrokinetic individual had traits similar to that of birds and reptiles. "Hatching" from a meteor that had crashed into the desert in 1967, Taligon was the size of an American Alligator at birth before being exposed to sunlight. The creature then rapidly grew to 81 meters in size before escaping in an incident that was seen by hundreds of witnesses. Aliens were now known to exist, and they were giant. Fortunately, Taligon showed little interest in population centers before its death in a battle with Godzilla at 1974, where it laid an egg at Mt. Fuji before expiring.* As you all likely know, the egg later hatched into Taligon II, which has now established a territory for itself within Sudan. While it is unknown if its species needs to eat matter due to their ability to absorb light, Taligon has been seen feeding on material from invading Biollante-spawn.


But it didn't stop there. The next giant alien would be Kikiron, a massive entity with a bizarre similarity to known poultry species, but with very different behavior. Kikiron was originally believed to be a natural prehistoric species before an expedition to the underground crater in Barcelona where it emerged was found to contain extraterrestrial elements and minerals, with the angles in the crater making it look like Kikiron had fallen quite a distance some time ago. The chances of it being non-native are now widely believed, but many details about the kaiju remain unknown, like why it looks like a giant chicken for one thing.

A sketch of Kikiron by agent Matt Frank

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What is known is that Kikiron's body is heavily resistant to damage owing to its likely ability to traverse space, and it has proven capable of breaching through the stratosphere and beyond as shown by a battle with Gigan. Additionally, Kikiron does not go out of its way to cause destruction in human settlements with the exception of damage caused by its size, but has been noted to deliberately seek out and fight other monsters seemingly for pleasure instead of food or territory. Last seen having taken up residence at Krakatoa, Kikiron will likely not be leaving any time soon.


Third on Monarch's list is one of the most dreaded threats, one that changed the world not only in the implications of its very existence, but the technological upheaval afterwards. Some of the technology in this very room is derived from it.

I am of course talking about the first Mechagodzilla, a highly antagonistic war machine with a high resemblance to the first modern kaiju. Aside from being the first "monster" to truly challenge Godzilla, Mechagodzilla was different from the other alien kaiju. Instead of being a giant animal, it was here for conquest. Attacking both New York and Chernobyl, its "Alpha Signal" woke more dormant kaiju and caused a massive outbreak in Accra before it was taken down by dozens of kaiju lead by Godzilla himself. Even after its destruction and harvesting for parts by us, much about it is also unknown, such as the state of its masters, whether or not more of its kind still exist in the universe, and most worrying of all: Is all of its AI data gone following its "Berserk" resurgence two decades ago? How much of the original invader may still exist in a computer somewhere?

We can only hope for now. With all the fusion energy and nanotitanium advances made since then, where the drawbacks outweigh the advantages and vice versa are something you will all have to decide for yourselves.

Now, onto the next slide-


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Cryx is one of the most bizarre ET's, and that's saying something. Two of these 110 meter crystalline organisms, slow in movements yet covered in sharp edges, appeared at Germany and the Pacific Ocean respectively, both heading towards energy plants using prototype reactors derived from Mechagodzilla two years after it was destroyed. Both had crystalline outer shells but an organic core or one resembling organic parts at the very least. The second may have had its core overloaded by Mothra and Battra, while the second retreated after having one of its claws blasted off, retreating into space using a gravity shift ability. Notably, it got blood on its core and remaining claw during combat with Godzilla and Red Ronin, and after retreating to the moon it went into an inactive state.

Then, of course came 1987. Absorbing the blood into its core, Cryx's middle burst open while the entity later known as "SpaceGodzilla'' burst out. Half-formed, SG rapidly grew into its adult body after being hit by a USSR nuclear missile. Wiping out the power grid, it then came down to Japan during the major "G War".

Displaying an almost human-like intelligence and many new abilities, SpaceGodzilla was only stopped with much effort and nearly experienced an organic nuclear meltdown while trying to launch a blackhole attack, one that ended with it blasted into its own creation. Spacegodzilla's current status is unknown.

Once again, many mysteries are associated with these entities. Were they non-sentient organisms looking for energy, or were they intelligent beings whose ambitions to feed on the reactors part of some grander plan? Perhaps even a highly advanced form of war machine like Mechagodzilla. And then there was SpaceGodzilla. Was the transformation of its core into the creature planned by Cryx or was it the result of Godzilla's regenerative mutagenic DNA going out of control on Cryx's core? Were SpaceGodzilla's actions normal or was it possibly suffering a mental disorder that made it excessively violent?

Once again, all we have is samples and hypotheses.

Last up on known ET's is Dogora, a massive cell with a slight resemblance to jellyfish species.

Being the most likely non-sentient of the ET's, it fed on smoke and coal shale, attacking factories across the United Kingdom. Resistant to heat, the massive beast was only killed off when a weaponized weather generator brought down acid rain, which caused such a severe reaction in Dogora's alien biology that it essentially melted. Whether or not Dogora was an outlier or if there is a population of other creatures out there remains unknown.

Ladies and gentlemen, that is the current list of large scale alien lifeforms. Other organisms, like the technorganics Gigan and Megalon, alongside the pollution eating gestalt Hedorah have also been suspected of possibly being extraterrestrial in origin, but until definite proof can be found they are being kept off the official list.

With over five of these dangerous alien lifeforms out there, keep in mind how astronomical finding one was back in the day, much less all the ones running around today. We need to be ready if another of these creatures ever shows up. And as the files we've extracted from MechaGodzilla's CPU show, extraterrestrial species able to create advanced civilization and willing to wage war also very much a real potential threat*.

As a result, today I am humbly requesting you all to take a moment to think about how you can assist the launching of our new defense based station."


-Monarch Agent Houston Brooks in a speech meant to promote plans for the Maladra Space Station (MSS) to the US Senate in 2012.



*It is unknown if Taligon's lifecycle naturally had the parent die after laying the egg or if the adult takes care of the single hatchling.

Judging by how well both Taligon's have taken care of themselves, the former is more likely.

*Mechagodzilla's masters/creators have been labeled as "Simeons." The inhabitants of the city destroyed in File 10 have been named "Nebulans."
 
Interlude IX: Combat Record IV
A 100 meter successor to the 89 meter Steel Zeus, Hammerdown was made from space age metals due to a lack of nanotitanium following MG I's destruction.

Built with armor resembling that of a European Knight and a head shaped like the helmet of a Viking raider (alongside ceremonial ram-like horns on the side), Hammerdown trades ranged capability for heavy armor and melee power. On the left arm is a electronically powered Jinguji drill whose thrust can be controlled manually. On the right is massive electronic sledgehammer built into the limb.

Powered by a massive electric generator on its back, one with a lack of shielding in order to allow the power source to "breath" which requires that Hammerdown must always face its enemies. A half psionic system and base mounted remote control are combined to allow the pilots and base staff to work together in controlling the Mecha. A psionic prototype "Drift" system allows the four pilots (Including Steel Zeues Mark Zubaz) to psionically link their minds and thus massively increase battle reflexes.


2007:

-Gezora II. Atlantic City, New Jersey. (Victory by destruction of the opponent)

2008:

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Clover*. Manehatten, New York. (Victory by KO. Opponent transported to Monster Islands, but Hammerdown is damaged in battle.)

2011:

-Oil Breach. Fought on the Western coast, particularly at New Jersey and New York. (Over 10 Breachers personally killed in combat along the US Military)

2016:

-Deployed to Canada following Lycanoids emergence and Godzilla's sudden reappearance coming out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. All three converge at Montreal. Three-way interrupted by the emergence of a feathered subspecies of Skullcrawler.

(Lycanoid falls into a chasm mid-battle with two Skullcrawlers. Remaining six are killed by Godzilla and military forces.

Hammerdown's drill is damaged by a nuclear pulse after an attempt to stab Godzilla in the torso. Hammerdown attempts a hammer pulse, only to be grabbed by and judo thrown by G*. Three pilots are knocked out, rendering further movement inoperable. Godzilla returns to sea.)

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*Due to its erratic behavior and gangly constitution, it is suspected that Clover may be a Breacher that had awoken prematurely.

*No, we don't know where he learned to do that either.
 
Interlude XI: Sixth Wave
2000:

-In the first few days of the year, miners in the Philippines uncover the 108 meter high skeleton of a deceased kaiju. The Monarch organization quickly manages to lay claim to the discovery, and the species is soon identified as that of an irradiated Godzillasaurus. Monarch agents Ishiro Serizawa and Vivienne Graham quickly determine the bones to not be that of the current Godzilla.

The skeletal specimen is labeled "Adam" by Monarch, and most current hypotheses implicate the KT Extinction as what could have released the sheer amount of radiation needed to mutate this ancient ancestor of Godzilla.

-Taligon II engages in a "Dogfight" with Rodan over Saudia Arabia. Both survive with few injuries. Taligon later touches down in Sudan and establishes a territory in the mountains.

-During a Cat II Monsoon, Varan washes up near Monster Island in a critically wounded state; wounds consistent with those seen on the deceased Tyrantasaur and Atlantic Scourge I. Head technician Nicholas Tatopoulus makes the controversial decision to temporarily deactivate Gate III, allowing Varan in. Varan drifts to shore and is found by Baragon.

Baragon drags Varan up towards his spot at Tamamo's cave in apparent concern. For the next three years, Varan recovers from its wounds and becomes the first flight capable kaiju living on the contained islands.

-In Texas, the Spectrum 7 oil company uses Gotengo style drills in order to increase the profits from new drilling contracts. While digging deep, the company accidentally awakens a massive spider named Kumonga. Kumonga escapes the breached cave system it had been sleeping in before attacking several nearby settlements.

Kumonga makes its final attack on the city of Houston, eating dozens of humans and causings thousands of injuries through its sheer size and by accidental crashes and tramplings indirectly. Kumonga begins constructing a massive web across the city before it is killed by five bunker buster bombs.

In the aftermath, a Senate hearing on the viability of petroleum is held. DNA from Kumonga is taken to the AKRP's New York labs.

The political fallout of the attack on Houston is believed to be a factor in Spectrum 7 chairman George Bush's loss against fellow candidate Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election.

2001:

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In Kyoto, the multinational Kyoto Conference is held. Containing military, political, and scientific delegates from all over the world, the event analyzes the current Age of Monsters. The past, present, and future of life in a world with active kaiju is discussed. Evidence of a previous Age of Monsters dating back towards the era of Ancient Greece and further back is publicly disclosed by Monarch, with copied murals, drawings, and tablets being shown.

Advances in robotics are discussed, including an advanced type J-CQC AI. In secret, liminal delegates meet with aware human representatives to discuss a future "Masquerade Break." Plans for Hammerdown, a new North American mecha meant to replace the departed Steel Zeus are announced by General William Overbeck of the KDF.

Numerous presentations and speeches are given by veterans and experts in many fields.

Communications are successfully and officially reopened between the KDF and Infant Island, with delegates from the latter arriving to the conference as part of the deal.

The failed plan of Operation: Titanomachy and the consequences of it are discussed at length. Alternative plans focusing more on containment and long-term coexistence are drafted and redrawn multiple times.

-Megaguirus IV debuts in an attack on the Midway Atoll, raiding a US airbase and hotel on Wake Island during her assault.

-The first Gotengo returns to active duty. Captain Douglas Gordon is put back into command.

The Gotengo manages to destroy Maguma, an aquatic sub species of Baragon that had been sinking ships between Korea and China in the Yellow Sea.

The battleship also has a tense standoff with Kiyohime at the Sea of Japan that fortunately ends with the latter retreating before combat can begin.

-With the death of founder Osama Bin Laden a year ago by the claws of a Blade-type Biollante spawn and the breach of several nearby bases in Afghanistan, the Al Qaeda terrorist organization begins selling the irradiated flesh and seeds of dead spawn in an attempt to recuperate from their losses. A majority of the sold biomaterial is successfully purchased/stolen by covert members of the Cult of G.

-The Japanese Macaque is taken from Endangered to Threatened on the WWF list.

-The remaining Class 2 radioactive megafauna in Japan are officially killed off. Packs of shockirus and man sized rats still remain a threat.

-Megaguirus IV raids more islands in the Pacific before leading an assault towards Infant Island with a replenished Meganulon swarm.

Gigan arrives on the outskirts of Infant Island and is intercepted by DragonLotus. Gigan notably avoids initiating combat at first, standing back and seemingly attempting to make a deliberating motion with its left hook right before the swarm arrives at the Island.

Mothra, Battra, and DragonLotus battle the invaders. Gigan seizes up before leaping forwards, parrying a diving stab from Megaguirus at DL. The four kaiju proceed to exterminate most of the swarm and force Megaguirus IV into retreat. Megaguirus is pursued by Battra and Gigan, but she escapes at the cost of the rest of her swarm.

Gigan parts from the Island, but not before a period of communication using soundwaves with the Mothra twins. KDF decoders are still working on the exact translation to this day.

Following this, Gigan flies out of radar range.

-On the ninth day of November, Monarch analysts discover an impact crater in Antarctica with trace amounts of fossilized organic material, extraterrestrial minerals, and frozen bioelectric energy deposits on top of it.

On the same day, Tornaq awakens from her slumber and heads South down through the Atlantic into the Antarctic Ocean. She comes ashore late in December before entering hibernation once 1,000 miles from the crater. Proposals for a dedicated research center are drafted.

2002:

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Brutusk reawakens from hibernation near Moscow. He moves North through Siberia before heading into the Arctic Ocean. Months later, Brutusk comes ashore in Antarctica within 500 miles from Tornaq. The two proceed to brutally fight before retreating with mutually bleeding wounds on their chests and heads.

Both proceed to enter hibernation 500 miles away from one another and 900 miles from the A-Crater. As a result, the proximity of two Class IV kaiju to the crater makes construction of a research base impractical.

-KDF-Europe makes headway on Project: Cybersaur, with the goal to make an equivalent to the Asia deployed Mecha Raptors.

-Godzilla battles a massive eel named Moratitan off the coast of Fukushima. Moratitan escapes but is left with a claw wound across the face and left eye.

-Iracundas makes its third attack at Morocco, crossing over to Egypt and then into Norway. Iracundas is met in battle by Chelonra while Vogeladra was dealing with an attack by Gudon II in Ukraine.

Gudon is believed to have sensed Iracundas as either a rival or prey source. Gudon knocks Vogeladra to the ground and begins rapidly burrowing away by spinning its whips in place.

The larger Iracundas badly mauls Chelonra and tears off its right arm. At that moment, Gudon emerges from underground a mile away, where it attacks Iracundas. Gudon manages to tackle Iracundas off the Preikestolen cliff into the Lyseford, but it ends up losing the fight, getting its throat torn out by the former. Iracundas drags Gudon's body out of the water to eat it just as Vogeladra and the nearby air force arrive on the scene. Iracundas uses Gudon's corpse as a shield before escaping into Gudon's initial emergence hole.

2003:

-Project: Rhedosaurus
under Doctor Yoshiwara, a survivor of the 1995 attacks, aims to make an anti regeneration toxin for use against kaiju. Initial tests at a lab in quarantined Shikoku against G-Cells manages to heavily corrode the regenerating cells, but the resulting mixture proves to be heavily toxic and poisonous to all organic material, with several lab technicians being poisoned severely when the toxic blood eats through their clothes and protective gear. During a containment cleanup, the toxic blood cells multiply out of control and cause an outbreak at the facility. Ten surviving scientists out of the +120 staff manages to escape before a self-destruct firebomb sterilizes the facility.

-After some years on the Monster Islands, Varan makes a successful mid air escape during a minor typhoon.*

Varan manages to glide over a section of the barrier into the sea. Varan manages to escape further into the deep while avoiding pursuit.

*The minor error in the barrier is believed to be a been a predecessor to more catastrophic events of 2004.

-Sightings of Godzilla are reported far away from his territory at the Pacific Ocean, with aerial and seabound photos of him coming as far as the Gulf of Mexico. Gotengo is sent out to track him, with both the vessel and kaiju keeping a careful distance from one another.

-A gigantic mass of seaweed known for containing ancient shipwrecks in the Mid-Atlantic comes alive and fuses into a central mass with the ships acting as a primitive armor. New kaiju classified as Degijon. It engages in battle with the USA's first line of undersea battleships, scuttling half the fleet before sinking itself.

Blown off fragments of it are found to contain fluid with high amounts of Biollante DNA.

-The Cult of G's main base is found to exist under the United Kingdom. A raid by the KDF (with secret assistance from foreign mercenary liminals and local professional mercenary mages) is conducted. In the course of the raid, the Cult detonates jars of flammable material within the first few minutes of the attack while the leadership is believed to have escaped.

Dozens of members are killed in battle, but massive self mutation amongst the killed cultists renders identification of the deceased difficult. On a lighter note, some preserved physical documents are found that list known sponsors and codes of the cult.

-Across coastal areas of Western Europe, the Eastern seaboard, and in the Pacfic, recurring dreams of floods and a massive sea creature with many varying accounts of its appearance become common especially among psychic individuals.

One name is most notably attached to the creature: Dagon.

-Moratitan and Degijon encounter one another near the dead Pacific Riptide Reef. Degijon vomits out an opaque object resembling an egg with the blackened form of an unknown cephalopod species at its center. Moratitan eats the egg object under the formers watch and then proceeds to display hitherto unseen telekinetic abilities which it uses to construct a bipedal suit of armor around itself from the nearby coral.

Moratitan and Degijon then escape into the Japan Trench, and are believed to be using hollow Earth spaces to move around from this point on.

2004:

-Independent Professor Thaddeus Venture creates functional cloning technology, allowing for the quick replenishment of lost numbers from recent monster attacks and for the replacement of wounded or damaged limbs and organs. Nevertheless, the legal and ethical ramifications of such applications results in the topic being a major source of debate. Numerous rules and regulations are passed as a result.

-Dagon makes it first appearance at Daemon Reef before starting a massive attack days later at the New England region, displaying what is believed to be an immense hydrokinetic power that is used to cause flooding in nearby coastal areas such as Bar Harbor in Maine, Boston in Massachusetts, Seacoast Region in New Hampshire, and Cape Cod in a personal assault.

Kaiju is named Dagon due to its resemblance to a similar fictional entity and from lore captured in last years Cult of G raid that indicates the organization was aware of Dagon's existance.

Local aquatic liminal sources provide conflicting accounts about an ancient creature that may or may not be the current lifeform.

After a battle with the USA's remaining flying battleships, Dagon retreats while leaving nightmares in its wake; mutated sea life resembling Dagon's top half becomes a recurring threat to rescuers and those trapped in flooded areas.

The attack is believed to be the opening of what would later be labeled the "War of the Seas."

-War of the Seas begins following both Dagon's attack and and a simultaneous civil conflict for succession between the South Atlantic Mer Kingdom of New Atlantis.

Dagon, Moratitan, and Degijon are witnessed swimming together in a pack through the Pacific Ocean. Dagon is suspected to have a role in the creation of both kaiju.

-Monster Island Breakout: Caused by Dagon. Multiple captive kaiju escape into the open ocean.

-Godzilla and Battra appear soon after, pursuing the trio responsible.

-The Ocean Trio launches three separate attacks around the world. Dagon vomits up two eggs which are fed on by its minions, both of whom gain similar powers to it [Albeit on a lesser scale]

Moratitan heads to Australia, Degijon heads to the waters around Western Europe, and Dagon enters the Indian Ocean. All three have hundreds of Dagon Spawn following them.

First Strike: Degijon is delayed in the water by Chelonra and UK submarines in the English Channel, but nevertheless it manages to reach the River Thames at the cost of most of its Spawn swarm, which die attacking Chelonra's fleet to clear a path for Degijon. The remaining twenty five spawn and Degijon emerge from the river into the city of London. European Mecha Vogeladra is deployed along with the Gotengo, which had been the closest additional nearby Class IV anti-kaiju weapon.

Degijon's lack of internal organs and seaweed consistency allow to absorb much damage at first, until its weakness to extreme heat is discovered. Vogeladra manages to kill the remaining Spawn.

The Gotengo drills straight through Degijon's soft torso while deploying its side missiles, splitting its upper body in half. Vogeladra fires it's black lightning while nearby Maser turrets mounted above flooded areas proceed to fire into its opened insides.

Degijon's body begins to burn. A blast from the Gotengo's LT cannon causes the burning area's to start freezing. The ensuing thermal shock shatters Degijon. Remaining frozen pieces of it's kelp flesh are taken to G-Base 002.

Second Strike: Moratitan surfaces in Byron Bay at Australia. The nearby swarm attacks New Zealand and the accompanying islands around it, earning the attention of Quetzalcoatl and of Torrentula. Quezalcoatal attacks the swarm and manages to kill all fifty members of it over the course of three days. Torrentula heads after Moratitan.

Moratitan continues its advance into Australia, bringing floods and forcing the evacuation of the nearby city of Brisbane. The decision to reactivate Kinkuto is hastily made.

Despite it's dangerous MG derived programming, with the death of the core AI in 1995, Kinkuto immediately heads towards Moratitan, halting it's advance at Queensland.

Kinkuto battles the larger Moratitan to a standstill nearly by midnight. Torrentula arrives, rapidly swimming through the nearby flooded area. Kinkuto seems to regard Torrentula as an ally, and both begin to battle Moratitan. Torrentula latches onto Moratitan with all four and begins overpowering it's hydrokinesis with her own, slowly breaking apart its coral body.

As Moratitan flails with its mace, Kinkuto leaps onto it and begins slicing into its neck with a mounted chainsaw. Within minutes, Kinkuto manages to decapitate the Moratitan. Moratitan's headless body begins flailing around for thirty more seconds before falling to the ground, the armor collapsing around it.

Moratitan's head continues to snap for several more minutes before Kinuto holds it in place with its right hand taser claw before destroying the head with six mounted shoulder missiles.

Strike Three: Dagon attacks Sri Lanka and then emerges from the Bay of Bengal at Chennai, India. Godzilla emerges 100 miles away, having been pushed pushed away from Dagon by its generated tsunamis. Battra remains above sea level and fires his beams at Dagon, who forms high pressure water shields around itself.

A freshly deployed Gandiva reaches the nearby area, coming into contact with Godzilla before Dagon. Gandiva's AI detects Godzilla as a threat in the current context, and a brief battle begins between the two before Dagon's advance takes the attention of both away. Godzilla and Gandiva then proceed to attack the more immediate threat of Dagon.

Battra reaches inland alongside a newly arrived Mothra.

Under attack by four giants at once, Dagon carries out a desperate move. Calling out all of its swarm to it, Dagon shields itself with water before engulfing its swarm with superheated vapor, causing them to experience a sudden explosive biological reaction. Dagon then flings its soon to blow offspring around it, triggering massive plasma explosions.

Godzilla falls into the water after having the ground become unstable below him, while Gandiva, Mothra, and Battra, are knocked out of the sky. Battra in particular takes multiple wounds after using his body to shield Mothra from the exploding spawn.

Godzilla gets back up and pursues Dagon back into the Indian Ocean. Gandiva stays near the flooded areas and stands guard for any future potential attacks on India. Mothra escorts an injured Battra back towards Infant Island.

Final Strike:

-Godzilla pursues Dagon to Portugal. Gotengo, Godzilla, and Vogeladra fight it together. Gotengo crashes after heavily wounding Dagon.

Vogeladra successfully destroys Dagon at the cost of the pilots life. Godzilla destroys Dagon's body and carries the remains of Vogeladra back to shore.

Aftermath:

-Godzilla returns to the Sea of Japan.

-Funeral is held in Laura Bodewig's hometown of Alzenau.

-Remains of Degijon, Moratitan, and Dagon Spawn are put in cold storage in different bases across the world.

-Communications with Infant Island are increased to allow for cooperation in the event of future Class V threats.

-Douglas Gordon is demoted to Captain.

-Arthur I of the Curry Dynasty becomes the new Ruler of the South Atlantic Mer Kingdom.

-Komodithrax and Zilla reappear and claim territory at an uninhabited Alaskan island.

Area declared Omega Roost and no-fly zone is established.

Komodithrax and Zilla are observed as mating multiple times each month, but no offspring have yet to produced by these encounters, likely due to the genetic differences of both species.

Despite requests to bombard the island by certain members of the US military, the relative isolation of the area and the past failure of G-Crusher results in a veto by the local KDF council.

-C-Rex II reappears in the Arctic Ocean, attacking an oil rig before coming ashore at the Omega Roost. It is promptly set upon by both inhabitants. Within an hour, C-Rex is successfully killed and eaten by Zilla and Komodithrax.

2005:

-Type I Mecha Raptors are used to successfully destroy the remaining Dagon spawn near the USA.

-Rogue members of the defunct European Psi Studies Taskforce (PST), now going under the name of "Phantom Task", began a secret cloning project in France with the goal of using Professor Venture's cloning tech and the DNA known Mecha pilots and elite soldiers as part of a highly illegal underground supersoldier program.

-Vogeladra undergoes repairs; the "Boneyard", an underground crypt in Germany containing the bones of long dead draconic type kaiju is mined by local governments to get the needed material for this undertaking.

-BullDozer reappears at French Polynesia, specifically around the Bora Bora islands. Despite coming ashore and uprooting scores of tree's, it fortunately loses interest quickly before going back to sea.

-Gotengo tracks BullDozer to the Pacific, where it is successfully corralled towards Monster Island. After being sent forwards by a freezing blast, the weakened kaiju retreats inland and is hit by a heat ray from Baragon in an attempt to "Help." BullDozer recontained.

-Prospector Pete moves into the Strait of Gibraltar before a anti-kaiju minefield can be set up. Days later, she goes ashore at Crete and battles Gezora II, a giant squid able to lower its body temperature to low enough levels to avoid sonar and thermal detection. Prospector Pete manages to wound Gezora severely and make it bleed profusely with her claws, with Gezora managing to temporarily ward her away temporarily multiple times by spraying a low temperature ink into her eyes and mandibles several times.

Combat is interrupted by a patrolling Chelonra and local naval forces. Gezora retreats while Pete battles Chelonra. Despite managing to get multiple hits in with its claws, Pete is KIA after being blasted straight through the face with Chelonra's Scientific Aperture.

Notable survivors include students from Luna Nova Academy* on a field trip to the ancient "Minotaur Labyrinth" at Crete, with prominent members including senior students Chariot Du Nord and Croix Meridies.

*One of the remaining three dedicated magical institutions in the western hemisphere following the decline in magic that followed the Second Age of Monsters after 1954.

-Sightings of large serpents in the Pacific and Indian Oceans are believed to be those of surviving Dagon Spawn.

-Gorosaurus battles Megaguirus IV to a draw on Siberut, Sumatra. Megaguirus IV retreats while Gorosaurus takes up residence on the island. Due to the potential collateral damage that could be inflicted on the nearby native peoples and Gorosaurus's relative distance from Urban centers, recapture missions are put on hold.

-Godzilla is seen travelling the oceans, killing Dagon Spawn and resurging Panthalassal wildlife who had gained new breeding grounds thanks to Dagon's attack last year.

-After Gaira attacks multiple nomadic Mer tribes and human ships across the South Pacific Ocean, a plan to use a trail of cloned human blood and organs to lure Gaira back to Monster Island is put into place.

Operation Strigoi: After the lure attracts the attention of Barugaron, it and Gaira fight, with the battle leading through the Lorelei Mer Kingdom to the shores of Monster Island. With the assistance of Sanda, BullDozer, Baragon, and Tamamo, Barugaron is successfully driven off.

Gaira recontained.

2006:

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Kikron is spotted at Sumatra, engaging in a brief intimidation display with Gorosaurus that fortunately does not become violent in a rare instance of kaiju on kaiju encounters. Kikiron laters takes up residence on Krakatoa.

-Rattler, a radioactive serpentine Class I kaiju with a resemblance to known Rattlesnake species appears in Louisiana and attacks the city of Shreveport. He collapses a bridge and knocks down numerous small buildings and vehicles. Rattler is eventually tricked into biting a transformer during a battle with the Louisiana State Guard, severely injuring it's head and causing it to retreat into the Red River. Rattler is later successfully destroyed after being lured out of the river. A full clip Hudson-Type plasma infantry cannon blast to the mouth successfully brings it down.

Cult of G suspected to be involved in creatures attack.

-Mecha Raptor units are retrofitted to be capable of piloting by one human pilot following recent concerns about mass AI use.

-Saltora resurfaces in La Serena, Chile. After leaping across multiple buildings and causing much panic, it settles down into the nearby rainforest.

-Kagiza reappears at the Aconcagua mountains in Chile. It begins to advance towards Peru, with Saltora doing the same.

In Peru, a Monarch base studying a dormant kaiju named Mogilos finds themselves in the direct path of the two South American monsters, both of which are presumed to be hunting Mogilos. Out of desperation, Monarch Command gives the order to use a Cadmium EMP in an attempt to kill Mogilos in her slumber. Instead, Mogilos ends up waking up mid-attempt. After badly damaging the facility, Mogilos flies towards the nearby mountains.

-Half a week later, Mogilos, Saltora, and Kagiza converge at Machu Picchu in what is believed to be a battle for Alpha status on the continent. In the ensuing three way fight witnessed by both news coverage and local citizens, Mogilos carries Saltora in her talons and blasts the giant frog into the open Pacific Ocean, badly injuring her.

Returning to the mountainous area, she continues combat with Kagiza. Mogilos attempts to strafe Kagiza off the mountain, only for him to grab her back mid dive. Kagiza slices at Mogilos, who manages to shake off and drop it thousands of feet down. Mogilos then blasts a nearby mountain and causes a landslide the buries Kagiza in rock before he retreats underground once more.

Mogilos then takes up residence directly on top of Machu Picchu.

-Due to her lack of hostility towards humans (And a notable tourism increase in areas where she flies), local governments and KDF units more or less leave Mogilos by herself, albeit under heavy surveillance.

An increase in tree growth and in the numbers of known endangered species is noted in areas where Mogilos frequents.

Studies in K-Bioradiation from non-nuclear kaiju and human/kaiju coexistence gain a 100K funding increase for multiple organizations.

-An expedition to one of multiple large holes dug by Kagiza uncovers a possible connection to a Hollow Earth space. The expedition is later attacked by two ten meter Skull Crawler specimens, both of whom are destroyed by Mogilos after coming to the surface and attacking a nearby village.

To prevent future attacks, known kaiju burrows are frozen with Freis-Type ULT turrets in a campaign that takes months and requires deployment of the Gotengo, the latter of which gets into a brief fight with Mogilos.

-With both Tornaq and Brutusk in hibernation, plans for an expedition to the crater in Antarctica are drafted further by Monarch.

-A severely decomposed back leg and frontal claw from Saltora wash up at El Matador Beach in Malibu, California.

2007:

-With heavy assistance from NASA, Project: HAMMERDOWN is completed, resulting in the creation of a mecha with the same name. Built with space age metals to make up for a worldwide lack of Nanotitanium following the destruction of MechaGodzilla and its production system, Hammerdown was constructed in the shape of a European Knight, and has a massive electromagnetic hammer built into its right arm and a Jinguji style drill in the left. Powered by a massive electric generator on its back, a lack of shielding in order to allow the power source to "breath" requires that Hammerdown must always face its enemies. A half psionic system and base mounted remote control are combined to allow the pilots and base staff to work together in controlling the Mecha. A psionic prototype "Drift" system allows the four pilots (Including a returning Mark Zubaz) to psionically link their minds and thus massively increase battle reflexes.

After some awkward trips and falls, by the start of Spring, Hammerdown's crew manages to move competently and battle a Scrap copy of Varan.

-Project: MOGUERA is completed in Japan. Built from the remains of Super X aircraft and previous mecha's, Moguera is built with both flight and subterranean capabilities ind mind, and a highly expensive Simeon derived generator gives it cross continental capabilities.

Built with a non psionic seven pilot system which notably includes former Vogeladra technician Charlotte Dunois as part of the crew, Mogeura is planned to be used in not only defending Japan, but nearby nations in times of Class IV-V kaiju incursions.

-Godzilla, Kiyohime, Rodan, and Titanosaurus come ashore and fight at Chichijima island, with Godzilla notably avoiding the use of atomic breath in the presumed territorial dispute.

Godzilla wins.

-On the same day, Mogeura faces combat for the first time against Burtannus, a male subterranean monster that first appeared in Hokkaido.

Burtannus is successfully defeated after getting simultaneously hit by two spiral grenade missiles and Mogeuera's chest mounted plasma cannon.

-C-Rex III is spotted fighting and eating an Oodako in the Arctic Ocean.

-Gezora II emerges from the Atlantic Ocean at New Jersey, coming ashore in Atlantic City. Hammerdown is quickly deployed from its base at the border of New York. Hammerdown reaches Gezora by morning and successfully kills it with a hammer through the brain.

-Fall of Moldova

Death of Trespasser. First appearance of "Fire Urogora."

-In June, governments of the world officially reveal the existence of Youkai and Liminals in conferences held in capital cities and similar public locations worldwide. After a surprisingly brief period of discontent, trade and other forms of interspecies contact begin in earnest.

The Interspecies Exchange Bill is passed.

-Monster Island's Runic barrier is successfully repaired with Liminal assistance.

2008:

-In January, the "Cloverfield Monster" or Clover as it would be officially called emerges from the Hudson River and attacks Manhattan. Drilling and/or a recently fallen weather satellite are believed to be the cause for its emergence.

Hammerdown manages to reach the city by early morning and battles the creature, successfully managing to knock it unconscious with a blow from its electrically charged hammer. However, Hammerdown's battery back is slashed and torn in the battle, causing it to shut down before the pilots can finish off Clover. Nevertheless, Clover is successfully transported out of the city and kept in its current state with ULT gas tanks.

Clover is successfully transported to the Monster Islands.

-Godzilla appears right outside Monster Islands. After an hour of swimming around (and getting roared at by Tohru from a cliff, prompting him to stare her down for several moments), Godzilla turns back, much to the relief of humanoid staff.

-Gigan is spotted flying around the Arctic Ocean.

-China is attacked by three subterranean kaiju: Lighting Vishu/Vshnu V, Mukadender, and Ouroboros in the aftermath of a recent civil war between the states.

Second Chinese Megafauna Outbreak.

Ouroboros first emerges above ground at Shaanxi, and with Mukadender and Vishnu making sporadic attacks on farms in the Henan province.

Ouroboros and Mukadender make contact and begin fighting as R.O.S.I.E. manages to reach the nearby area. After being hit by multiple missile barrages and drones, Ouroboros seemingly recognizes the sight of a charging weapon (The mech's railgun) and grabs Mukadender with all five of her mouths, using it as a shield from the blast.

Mukadender is hit with the massive railgun shot, decapitating it. Ouroboros tosses the body into R.O.S.I.E., knocking it backwards. Ouroboros then rapidly burrows underneath the mech, further trapping it before spitting five varieties of atomic venom and fire onto it, severely corroding the mecha. Tearing off the KKW, Ouroboros then rampages through the nearby province.

Mukadenders torn off head proves to be capable of surviving away from the main body; it is last seen waking, attacking a nearby recovery crew, and then burrowing away to presumably regenerate.

Chemical weapon deployment against Ouroboros fails to have any effect.

Moguera is successfully negotiated for use in an agreement between Japan and the Neomaoist and Xiangerist city states. Moguera first deploys at the Sichuan province, where it fights Vishnu V. EMP armor proves resistant to Vishnu's electric spray, and the attacking kaiju is put down with a full weapons barrage.

Moguera recharges at a nearby power plant before battling Ouroboros on the outskirts of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi. Ouroboros manages to temporarily bring Moguera out of the sky with a radiation wave from her central hood.

A large signature from underground (initially assumed to be Mukadender) turns out to be a resurgent Megalon. Megalon reacts to its surroundings with apparent confusion before spotting Ouroboros and attacking her. Megalon notably uses its drills as shields from bites and venom sprays, having improved greatly compared to its last encounter with her.

Moguera attacks Ouroboros alongside Megalon, with both managing to injured her hood and heads. Ouroboros retreats with Megalon in pursuit, chasing her down into her closest burrow. Sub-Sonar tracking signals stop after both creatures reach 1000 meters below ground.

M-Crew reactivates their jets and head back to Japan.

-First Mondo Grosso tournament is held in Italy. Miniaturized versions of Mecha's like Steel Zeus and Red Ronin are used. Notable attendants and competitors include Commander Chifuyu Orimura, Former NA President Al Gore, and French CEO Edgar Dunois.

2009:

-The International Alcott Mining company (IAM) and discovers a possible entrance to a Hollow Earth space in Panama, albeit one with a very notable lack of hibernating kaiju. Additionally, the discovery of a nonrenewable energy source in the form of a sludge like material found in the caverns. Said material ignites upon exposure to sunlight and has to be contained in special cases.

An analysis reveals this material to actually be the larval form of an unknown species. However, the material is deemed too valuable to be unharvested by higher authorities.

During an attempted harvest of the entire crop, an 80 meter armored long elderly specimen called Ghol-Dom awakens and rolled its way to the surface by curling up in its shell. Upon reaching the surface, the open atmosphere proves to be hazardous to her, causing her skin and blood to begin undergoing a highly explosive reaction.

The resulting explosion seals the tunnel to the HE. Ghol-Dom survives albeit in a wounded state. Lashing out in pain, she rolls across Panama and finally succumbs at Panama City, exploding one last time.

The city is heavily damaged and sanctions and reparation requests are delivered against IAM.

-Kaiotaita, a kaiju resembling an ancient guardian spirit, is found hibernating in Algeria. An observation station is set up by Monarch.

-Burtannus II attacks the village of San Javier in Peru. Local CKR teams find her main burrow, along with two Tyrannosaur sized hatchlings. Burtannus quickly returns and attacks the scouting team, who manage to retreat. Burtannus then floods her own cavern in order to flush out a military convoy and Atragon-Type tank that was drilling into the nest before fleeing out to sea with her hatchlings.

-Hofo Pepe engages in battle with the Gotengo during an expedition to the Challenger Deep meant to test the battleships new pressure defense armor.
 
Organizations
A list of official organizations that deal with Kaiju. Religious or terrorist groups like the Cult of G do not count.

-Anti-Megalosaurus Force (AMF): First started by Japan after the Age of Monsters began in 1954, this section of the JSDF was later folded into the KDF following a battle between Godzilla and Rodan in Vietnam that caused devastation during the already violent war.

-G-Force: Originally founded to deal with Godzilla following his return in 1963 and later destruction of the first G-Base not long afterwards. Despite being founded to come up with different ways to contain or terminate Godzilla, this UN-based group has assisted in other megafauna attacks. Following the events of 1995 and the destruction of much of their infrastructure, they still remain albeit in more of an Intelligence-gathering role and are more concerned with evacuation or redirection of monsters, but nevertheless armed agents can be found in the field alongside other ground based infantry during major attacks.



-Monarch: Started by the US government and later turned into a UN organization following the nuclear tests of 1954 and the first sightings of Godzilla before his infamous first raid. Monarch's main function is to study kaiju, usually by analyzing biological samples, observing behavior, gathering intel, and digging up and hunting for fossils of ancient species related to known kaiju to learn possible weaknesses. Having gained a vast increase in power since their founding, they also have authorization on how to deal with sightings of new individual kaiju and are responsible for containing multiple sites around dormant or captured megafauna amongst other responsibilities.

-Monster Islands: A group of ancient islands. Aside from containing relics from an old civilization and dwarf species of intermediate organisms with prehistoric and modern traits, the MI also act as a massive containment facility, one devoted to studying active kaiju that have been lured or directly taken to the island. Aside from acting as a prison, it also is used as a way to observe kaiju in a natural habitat while causing as little stress as possible to the animals lest they attempt a breach.

Current Head Warden is one Doctor Niko Tatopolous.

-K-Watch: A group of Toho-funded weather and animal behavior experts devoted to tracking kaiju before and after they come ashore, studying their movements patterns in an attempt to learn where they will go next while getting footage of them from as safe a distance as possible. Generally.

Essentially the kaiju specialized equivalent of tornado hunters.

-Kaiju Defense Force (KDF)-Founded in 1967, this worldwide organization has a base or bases in almost every major nation. With a growing armada of vehicles, infantry, an air force, and small navy of its own, the KDF can also negotiate with native military forces in exchange for troops or vehicles in times of a major attack. In charge of the world's mecha forces with the general exception of Hammerdown, which it shares partial custody of with the USA, and the China-controlled R.O.S.I.E.

Due to major losses in 1995, the organization has downsized slightly. At least some bases have outright split into three different organizations.

Aside from focuses on combat, they are also devoted to biological research of kaiju.

-CKR (Counter Kaiju Reactions): Formed following the KDF schism of 1995, the CKR groups generally recruit primarily from which ever nation they establish themselves in unlike the multinational KDF, and could be called a local militia on a high scale. Primarily devoted to fighting the giant monsters, they will easily work with other defense forces for this goal.

-AKRP (Anti Kaiju Research Program)- Primarily based in the East, this group is devoted to studying kaiju, whether to find a way to destroy, coexist with, or contain them. The goal of the individual laboratory depends on the history of nearby kaiju attacks and on whomever is in charge.

-MLR (Megafauna Location Report)- Primarily Western. Devoted to publically displaying the locations of all known megafauna. They also post on whether a certain species is extinct, how many individuals exist in a certain kaiju population, whether an individual giant monster is dead, dormant, contained, or free-roaming, etc.

Essentially a kaiju census group.
 
File 42
Monarch File 42

Built on a reclaimed Adonona Island specifically around the remains of G-Base 01, the Interworld Stratosphere Academy, or IS Academy for short, is the current main training center for future AKM pilots and for those in specialized KDF positions like engineers and heavy weapons brigadiers. Recruiting from all over the world, a majority of the main population comes from Japan, China, and Australia, all closest and most hard hit areas near the Academy.

The Academy typically has 500 students or more a year at least, with pre-mecha tests being an important part of the application process. Aside from the various dorms and other areas you'd see on a campus, the island itself could be compared to a fortress; due to the use of attractive plasma and fusion energy reactors for the various mechas and power systems, a low-yield full metal missile defense grid has been placed around the island's shores in the event of hostile megafauna appearing. Additionally, the staff themselves generally consist of KDF, JSDF, and CKR veterans of various events like the Resurgence, the Dagon War, and other wide scale conflicts involving kaiju, and are licensed to use any weapons or mecha armors if specialized in the latter for the defense of the school during intruding attacks.

The main attractions are the various dueling arenas. The first is in the style of old Roman colesseum, were students in miniature Type-J exoskeleton mechs battle in a controlled setting where combat ends when a layer of battery power goes down low enough in a mech that has been battered down. The other arena is called the K-Combat Simulator, or "Crumble Zone" informally. Taking place in an area looking like a small town (with many buildings broken or knocked over from previous tests), the area is meant to simulate combat against a kaiju. This is usually done with a "Scrap" monster made of cheap metals and programming, with Scrap Allosaurs, Ceraptopsians, Saber Cats, Mammoths, and even pterosaurs mechs being deployed as enemies around a height of 5-10 meters and above.

Most mecha's authorized for these training programs include a Type-B bladed unit, the aforementioned type-J variable weapons system, the Type-E ranged mecha unit, and the heavy armored Cybersaur. All are at 9 meters and below as per safety standards passed by the 2001 Kyoto Accords.


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2010:


-The Interworld Stratosphere Academy is officially opened as training base for future mecha pilots and other new KDF recruits. Smaller copies of existing mecha's and Mecha Raptors are used as test dummies, alongside a series of battle suits adapted from the deceased Tabane Shinono's old research.

By the end of year, over 500 applicants who have survived the training program are among the schools student body.

A squadron of half a dozen mecha raptors and a system of defense turrets prepare the island for possible megafauna attacks due to the various high energy sources used to power the academy possibly acting as bait.

2011:

First Breacher Outbreak:


The IS Academy comes under attack by five Class I Breacher's. Staff in Class I and II mecha's alongside an automatic missile defense grid successfully repels the attackers.

2012:

-Younger relatives of famed pilots Laura Bodewig and Charlotte Dunois begin training at the island. Ichiki Orimura, younger relative of General Orimura, begins training. The Heiress of AIM is sent to the island by her surviving relatives to get her out the way of fire following the Ghol-Dom incident, one that also caused the deaths of her parents.

Her exact identity is redacted for her safety.

2013:

-A five strong Ookondoru flock attacks IS Academy in the middle of a shoreline training defense mission using Mecha Raptors against scrap Breacher's. A squadron of local students, including senior student Haruka Sakaki, manages to survive against the birds, killing one of them, long enough for a local Super X3 to be deployed. The remaining four birds are successfully destroyed.

2016:

-Kraken III and Titanosaurus battle right outside IS Academy, with Titanosaurus managing to kill the armored octopus by crushing its brain. After eating multiple parts of its body, Titanosaurus rips of several tentacles and leaves the area. Footage of the incident goes viral and becomes common in future seminars on kaiju behavior at the Institute and beyond.

-The Official Timeline (2016 Edition)

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After finishing my local tour of the islands enjoying an exciting battle between student turned instructor Haruka Saeki with a scrap Megalosaurus in the Crumble Zone, I enjoy the IS Academies existence as a testament to human triumph and advancement. With kaiju-related skills in high demand, these students are likely to find quick employment barring misdemeanors.

However, it is when taking a walk in the local bush fields, ones restored by ANEB treatment. I find a black object sticking out of some earth, and being an intelligent, cautious operative of Monarch, of course I pick it up barehanded.


It takes me a moment to realize that I am looking at a charred human skull.


The clean up may have gotten most debris and bodies out after 1995, but they couldn't get every last part and piece.

God have mercy on anyone else going for a walk.
 
File 43
Monarch File 43

[Two encounters in one!]


"Yep, this is my job." is what MLR agent Rick Stanton says as I meet him at the Omega Roost near Alaska in 2011 on one of my first remote assignments for Monarch.

I carefully look down at the monitor, at the noises on it and the images as the tree's shake on screen.

You can read all about it but nothing prepares you for when you see it in person.

Stanton lifts a cup of scotch and grins before downing it. "The CKR are firing artillery, the KDF are dropping bombs, and Monarch is literally digging into Earth's history. What do I get?" Stanton shakes his head and looks at the screen.

"I get to watch a couple of monsters act like college students on Spring Break. God bless America!"


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Ever since Zilla and Komodithrax have claimed the island as there own years after they first met in 1994, the two kaiju have been effectively self containing like the Antipodes. Both of them feed off a local population of Tuna and a group of Panthalassal deep sea snakes with the ability to spit out a blast of bionitrogen in self-defense. Fortunately, both kaiju have been more or less successful at keeping down the numbers of this invasive species.

If the Monster Islands act as an opportunity to see kaiju behavior in a natural setting, the Roost's observation station provides an opportunity to study kaiju mating patterns.

Indeed, Zilla and Komodithrax have been noted to mate multiple times each month, sometimes more then once a week. Exactly what drives two different species to do this is unknown, but it has been quite the experience for those studying kaiju psychology.

No offspring have been produced by these trysts yet, which is actually quite logical.

Essentially, Zilla and Komodithrax actually producing a child would be like a Velociraptor trying to impregnate a Komodo Dragon; it just wouldn't work, and it is unlikely it ever will.

Not that it stops them.

After multiple dangerous events involving species like Megaguirus and Kamacuras successfully reproducing, humanity can count themselves lucky.

On the Brightside, footage taken of the two on the island from the outpost here has proven to be very popular with kaiju enthusiasts.

Of course Monarch always censors and cuts out the ''Intimate Parts", we aren't that crazy.

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"-The Three-armed killer of ancient Muan lore may very well be one of if not the first malefic entities in human mythology, similar to that of Christianity's Lucifer or Zoroastrian's Angra Mainyu. The few existing records of it come from tablets and carving from the old, tribalistic shaman lead days of Ancient Mu, long before the time of the highly advanced nation as we know it best.

Little physical description of the entity exists aside from its prominent three arms. Translation of various runes from the writings of the ancient shamans describe its arms as variably striking out across great distances like whips or serpents, with the exact description seemingly depending on the exact translation.

What has been described of its personality has the Three-armed killer known for an alleged hostility to all forms of life.

Aside from this, little else about its exact motivations and exactly who it killed, along with its current status during the rest of the Muan Age is unknown, whether it be dead, dormant, or free-roaming elsewhere.

The best-preserved record comes from a bronze Shaman created tablet, one that calls it an"Ender of Ages, First to Last." and that describes the entity as summing down "Fire from the world above" every time it moved, indicating a pyrokinetic or eletrockinetic power depending on how one interprets "Fire from above".

The Three-armed killer was very likely seen as a destroyer entity similar to Shiva of Hinduism. A majority of sightings of it came from the shaman's who had drank the "Blood of the Beast Tree"*, and who would undergo intense visions during these periods of "Insight"* that would be transcribed by other watching shaman's. One particularly well-preserved vision recounts a shaman witnessing the death of a "First Ancient One" by the arms of the entity in a post-insight dream.

In light of this, it is possible that the Three-armed killer may not be a true entity, but simply an explanation for various natural disasters, like lightning storms and hurricanes. Back in such ancient times, it would not be surprising if early tribes would see these phenomenon's as real monsters, or for all accounts of the entity as merely drug-induced hallucinations.

But in the current era of monsters freely roaming the Earth, one can never be too sure. Unless solid proof of the Three-armed killers existance is finally found, the debate shall continue.

Ancient Devils: Fact or Fiction?
(2015) by Mion Mafune

*Potential early contact with Yggdrasil or a relative species?

*The first instances of Nord Syndrome or something else?
 
Interlude XII: Combat Record V
"You have to know your teammates when you get inside, keep communication constant at all times so no one messes up. Sure, that prototype mind system helps with aiming and such, but its the people inside that do the real work with Moguera.

And that's not getting into the fuel costs per week much less a year. The sheer amount of training you have to go through is the kind that makes navy seals sweat and cramp.

But if you succeed, if you can read all the engineering manuals and understand how the gun works, piloting a mecha can be an experience unlike any other.

I know, I've done it myself. Bloody Hell, I'm proud to be a part of the M-Crew.

Don't tell Harrison* that, he'll never let me hear the end of it.


-Claire Plangman, one of the seven pilots of and main operator of Moguera's Plasma Cannon. Statement made during a private interview at G-Base 03 at Hiroshima in April 3rd of 2016.

*Louis Harrison, fellow M-Crew pilot and secondary controller of Moguera's underground movement system.

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2007:


-Burtannus. Hokkaido, Japan. (Victory by use of spiral grenade missiles and plasma cannon. Opponent terminated.)

2008:

-Chinese Kaiju Outbreak

-Vishnu V. Sichunan Province, China. (Victory by use of full weapon barrage. First successful use of EMP resistant armor. Opponent terminated.)

-Ouroboros. Xi'an, Shaanxi. (Victory by retreat of opponent with "Assistance" from rival kaiju Megalon)

2011:

-First Breacher Outbreak.


-Breachers (13+). Kansai and Chūbu region. (Victory by termination of all opponents.)

2012:

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Oodako X. Wajima, Japan. (Victory by intimidation and redirection of opponent back towards deeper waters.)

2015:

-Geshura. Kyoto, Japan. (Lured from city by Garuda drone, then destroyed in the bay.)

2016:

-Kiyohime. Sapporo, Hokkaido. (Victory by KO of opponent with full weapons barrage and assistance from Gotengo. Left Moguera arm lost in combat. First use of EMP weapon by M-Unit. Kiyohime transported to MI.)
 
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