Trespasser, the first Kaiju to attack humanity, left several exclusion zones in its wake before it was finally killed.
Exclusion Zones[1][2] are a localized areas in a city where a Kaiju has been killed.
History[]
Exclusion zones are named on account of humanity's early methods of combating the Kaiju and the destruction caused by the Kaiju itself. While traditional militarized weaponry could do minimal damage to a Kaiju[3], the toxicity of a Kaiju's blood from its wounds, in combination with the destruction it caused, left many areas it attacked in unsafe conditions.[4][5]
When a Kaiju is eventually killed, its body will "self-destruct", decomposing in such a way that its blood becomes a mist that erodes much of the surrounding environment.[4][6][note 1]
Several early examples of exclusion zones from the Kaiju War come from the K-DAY attack in 2013. The cities of San Francisco, Sacramento, and Oakland were all destroyed during the military's attempt to stop Trespasser before it was finally killed with nuclear weapons.[3][5] Manila, Cabo San Lucas, and Sydney are other examples where exclusion zones were created during the early years of the war.[1]
HAZMAT teams are often required to enter an exclusion zone to clean up the remains of a Kaiju and its blood.[5][note 2] Due to the toxicity of Kaiju Blue, years or even centuries may pass before civilians can re-enter an exclusion zone and live there safely.[note 3]
With the creation of the Jaeger Program and the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, damage and loss of life to cities located on the Pacific Rim could be minimized by the Jaegers, as they were usually able to kill a Kaiju before it could even make landfall. Exclusion zones could also be restricted to the location of the Kaiju's eventual death. Kaiju organ harvesters such as Hannibal Chau's group eventually learned how to chemically neutralize the toxins of Kaiju Blue to the point that it could be safe for them to enter an exclusion zone without having to wear HAZMAT suits.[5]
Notes[]
- ↑ del Toro: "So they figure out that the base of fluid of the Kaiju is ammonia-based. So how do they neutralize it? But it takes a while because, first of all, it melts the pavement, melts the structures around it, makes a noxious gas. By the time they get to a Kaiju, the first few attacks, they can't even get samples or corpses or pieces to analyze it. The Kaijus are essentially triggered to self destroy if they fall. So it's a very smart weapon."
- ↑ A HAZMAT team cleaning a beach covered in Kaiju Blue
- ↑ The Boneslums of Hong Kong, China
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Travis Beacham: How many cities were nuked in total?
- ↑ Travis Beacham: Rebuilding the SF Bay Area
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pacific Rim: Tales From Year Zero
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Pacific Rim: Man, Machines & Monsters, page 145
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Pacific Rim
- ↑ The Pacific Rim Monsters Decomposing Bodies Melt Cities Says Guillermo del Toro
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