The United Nations (abbreviated as UN) is an intergovernmental organization established on October 24, 1945 to promote international co-operation. A replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another conflict of the same scale.
At its founding, the UN had 51 member states. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, promoting human rights, fostering social and economic development, protecting the environment, and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disasters, and armed conflicts.
History[]
2013-2014[]
Following Scissure's attack in Sydney, UN representatives came together at a global conference held on September 15, 2014 in Seoul, South Korea.[1][2] When Jasper Schoenfeld presented his idea to build massive, human-controlled mechs called Jaegers to combat the Kaiju, the UN chose to set aside old rivalries for "the greater good" and collaborate to make the Jaeger Program possible.[2]
2015-2016[]
The Pan Pacific Defense Corps was established in late 2014. The United Nations served as the PPDC's primary benefactors and were involved in the approval of all the Jaeger manufacturing connected to the PPDC's leaders.[2] After the construction of the prototype Jaeger Brawler Yukon was complete, its first demonstration with USAF pilot Adam Casey failed.[2]
This failure instilled doubt on the wisdom of funding the Jaeger Program. The second demonstration with Sergio D'Onofrio appeared to confirm the fears of the PPDC's leaders until Caitlin Lightcap created a mental link between herself and D'Onofrio, saving his life and resulting in a successful demonstration of Brawler Yukon's abilities. This success led to the adoption of the two-pilot system and the mass production of Jaegers across the Pacific Rim.[2]
In 2016, the Defense Corps's Secretary General Dustin Kreiger promoted former Jaeger pilot Stacker Pentecost to the rank of Marshal[3] to oversee Shatterdome operations and teach at the newly-developed Jaeger Academy.[2]
2020-2025[]
After the Kaiju Knifehead critically damaged the Jaeger Gipsy Danger and managed to kill one of its pilots, the United Nations began to make alternative plans to the Jaeger Program and the Pan Pacific Defense Corps.[1] In April of 2020, a memo detailing the creation of a coastal wall that protected the outlying Pan Pacific cities from the Kaiju and cut the Pacific Rim off from the rest of the world was released to the public.[4]
The project itself was dubbed the "Wall of Life Program".[1] In the midst of increasing Jaeger losses against the Kaiju, the United Nations came to believe that the "Anti-Kaiju Wall" would benefit the world far more than the the Jaegers ever did.[1]
As the Kaiju War raged on, the Wall of Life Program progressed. In the span of five years, losses to the Jaeger Program seemingly confirmed the United Nation's belief that that the Jaegers were no longer a viable option to support financially. Seven Shatterdomes were closed gradually over the last three months of 2024.[5]The Jaeger Academy was also shut down and all remaining Jaegers were eventually relocated to the last Shatterdome in Hong Kong.[1]
In January of 2025, the United Nations officially announced to Marshal Stacker Pentecost that the UN was abandoning the Jaeger Program for the Anti-Kaiju Wall and would only support the PPDC for the next eight months. Afterwards, they would provide no further financial aid.
Shortly after this announcement, the wall was shown to be a complete failure when the Kaiju Mutavore easily breached it on approach to Sydney. When mass riots broke out in numerous cities across the Pacific Rim, with many questioning the UN's decision to abandon the Jaeger Program, American UN representive L. Taylor attempted to calm the public by announcing that the United Nations had already relocated millions of civilians and supplies to the safe zones located three hundred miles inland. However, when a reporter accused Taylor of only moving the "rich and powerful" to these safe zones and demanded to know what would happen to everybody else, Taylor refused to answer the question and continued to insist the Wall of Life was still their best option.[1]
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