HIMUNC IV BACKGROUND GUIDE 欢迎. BIENVENUE. ДОБРО .ﺑﻚ أﻫﺎل .WELCOME. BIENVENIDOS ​ ​ ПОЖАЛОВАТЬ ​Pan-Pacific Defense Corps PPDC Dear Delegates, Welcome to the 4th annual Henrico Model United Nations Conference (HIMUNC IV). We would like to personally thank you for attending this conference this year. We understand that this year is unlike any before, and we are in very uncertain times right now, but we can assure you that with your cooperation and patience, this conference should be memorable. We as chairs strive to put our all into this committee and be as supportive and understanding as possible. Pacific Rim is a sci-fi action movie that takes place in 2020-2025. With the number of crises this year alone, from a global pandemic to murder hornets to the potential start of World War 3, these days nothing seems to surprise us as we become more and more desensitized to catastrophies. The only logical next step from here is giant monsters invading our planet from a crack in the ocean floor which is why a committee about that and taking place in the same year is so entertaining. The two topics in this committee will be: Protecting the planet from Kaiju attacks and the environmental implications of Kaiju remains. We hope you are just as interested in these topics as we are and look forward to your creative problem-solving abilities as we face near certain extinction. This committee will give all of you the ability to determine your own futures and the solutions to these problems freely. Our future rests in your hands and we know that all of you will do what is in the best interest of the people and will find a way to save as many lives as possible. If there are any questions about the background guide or the topics, feel free to contact us and we will reply as fast and as effectively as possible. We look forward to your attendance and hope that this committee exceeds your expectations and provides a fun environment to gain worthwhile experience for future conferences. We are so excited to meet you and hope that we can find a way to defend the planet from aliens. Good luck delegates! Regards, The PPDC Dias Sammy Aridi | Undersecretary-General of Crisis Simulations | [email protected] ​ Akshay Kirandumkara | Co-Chair | [email protected] ​ Sahithi Sarva | Co-Chair | [email protected] ​ Aahil Pallath | Vice Chair | [email protected] ​ Introduction: Topic 1: Protecting the planet In 2013, a fissure opened up at the from Kaiju attacks bottom of the Pacific Ocean. A group of Humanity and the Kaiju unknown creatures crawled from the depths In 2013, a portal formed at the 1 to wreak havoc on the planet. These bottom of the Pacific Ocean in the form of a monsters are known as Kaiju and they have massive fissure. From the depths of the continued to destroy the planet in hopes of ocean, emerged giant alien beasts, named their eventual conquest. Governments all Kaiju, destroying pacific coastal cities and over the world pooled their resources to stop ruining the livelihood of humans across the the Kaiju and developed the Jaeger program world. The first Kaiju that made land on to fend off these beasts, but maintaining the August 10th, 2013, in San Francisco.2 program deemed too expensive and Scientists initially believed that a 7.1 inefficient so humanity aimed to fend off the earthquake was affecting the city; however, Kaiju through other means. However, the the citizens of San Francisco were met by a Kaiju continued to ruin our livelihoods. In giant alien creature (codename recent years, the rates of Kaiju related “Trespasser”) who emerged from the San attacks have increased and scientists believe Francisco Bay and attacked the Golden Gate that the Kaiju race are planning on sending Bridge. It took six days to kill the Kaiju an army to overrun the world. The current using high-grade military weaponry and crisis at hand will focus on the prevention of three tactical nuclear missiles, but in the these attacks with the least amount of end, three cities along the Pacific Coast were fatalities. destroyed including San Francisco, Sacramento, and Oakland. Hundreds of thousands of people lost their lives in what will later be known as K-Day and we realized that we were no longer the strongest race on earth. Researchers and government officials all believed that this was an isolated 1 "Pacific Rim Wiki." Pacific Rim Wiki | Fandom. ​ Accessed July 20, 2020. https://pacificrim.fandom.com/wiki/Pacific_Rim_Wi 2 "Kaiju." Pacific Rim Wiki. Accessed August 25, ​ ki. 2020. https://pacificrim.fandom.com/wiki/Kaiju. ​ event and may never happen again but half a pilots to control the movement of the Jaeger year later, another Kaiju emerged from The and is traditionally used to sanction one Breach and attacked the Filipino capital of hemisphere of the robot to each pilot. In Manila. As more and more Kaiju wreaked order to successfully link via the Drift, pilots havoc on the Pacific Theatre, governments must lapse into silence as they keep their across the globe set aside their differences minds stable and clear any and pooled their resources together to create impulsive/aggressive thoughts. beasts of their own known as Jaegers. These Occasionally, pilots will latch onto a Jaegers were giant mechanical robots specific, painful memory during the linking powered by nuclear energy and were period which influences the actions on their designed to thwart further destruction from hemisphere. This occurrence is known as the Kaiju. During initial testing, scientists Random Access Brain Impulse Triggers attempted to put only one pilot inside a (R.A.B.I.T.). Compatibility is essential to Jaeger but soon discovered that the mental any pair of pilots. In order to be considered strain caused by piloting a Jaeger alone was as “Drift Compatible” pilots test their Drift far too much for any human to handle. In compatibility through sparring areas. While order to make up for the intense mental high Drift compatibility is commonly found strain, Jaegers were suited to be piloted by amongst siblings or relatives, it is also found 2-3 pilots utilizing a mental linking process amongst people who are unrelated because known as “Drifting.”3 Drifting is the main Drift compatibility is not predetermined by a process that Jaeger pilots use in order to relationship. make up for the mental stress accompanied As more and more Kaiju waged war with piloting a Jaeger. Multiple pilots are on our planet, they were met with fierce connected to a neural networking system resistance from the Pan Pacific Defense that essentially melds the minds of pilots. Corps (PPDC) along with the Jaegers who This includes memories, emotions, fighting succeeded in fending off the Kaiju for seven styles, and instincts. Drifting allows the years until 2020 when brothers Yancy and Raleigh Becket were assigned to fight a 3 Jaeger Program." Pacific Rim Wiki. Accessed July Category-III Kaiju in Anchorage. During the ​ 23, 2020. https://pacificrim.fandom.com/wiki/Jaeger_Program. fight, Yancy was killed and Raleigh was Anti-Kaiju Wall initiative was deemed forced to pilot the remains of their Jaeger ineffective. known as Gipsy Danger alone.4 After Gipsy Scientists Newton Geiszler and Dr. Danger was decommissioned, the Jaeger Hermann Gottlieb speculated that the program was shut down due to its expense in increasing appearance of Kaiju suggests that favor of a coastal wall-building program. the appearance of Kaiju will increase in This program was called the Anti-Kaiju frequency until a Kaiju should appear from Wall initiative and proposed to isolate the The Breach every hour, leading to many world from the Pacific Rim in the hopes to Kaiju appearing on the Earth’s surface at the prevent the Kaiju from running rampant same time. This was known as a “Double across the globe. Event”.Unfortunately, Hermann Gottlieb’s Once funding to the Jaeger program suspicions were proven to have come true was ceased in 2020, Jaeger program and seem to be leading to a potential director, Marshall Pentecost, transported the catastrophic event that will eradicate all life last remaining Jaegers to the Shatterdome; on Earth. As the day of reckoning the last remaining Jaeger base located off approaches, the PPDC will have to make a the coast of Hong Kong.5 In 2025, the Wall choice that is detrimental to humanity.6 of Life, a massive wall built to protect Questions to consider: Australia under the Anti-Kaiju Wall 1. How do you think the PPDC should initiative, was infiltrated by a Kaiju named defend against the constant influx of Mutavore and rampaged through the city of Kaiju? Sydney, Australia. All hope seemed lost 2. How can you resolve this problem until one of the last remaining Jaegers, with the least amount of fatalities? known as Striker Eureka, fought and killed 3. Is the Jaeger program really as the beast. After the Wall of Life incident, the efficient as it seems? 4 "Jaeger Program." Pacific Rim Wiki. Accessed July ​ 23, 2020. https://pacificrim.fandom.com/wiki/Jaeger_Program. ​ 5 "Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018)." IMDb. Last ​ modified March 21, 2018. 6 "Pacific Rim." SOAP2DAY. Accessed July 20, ​ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2557478/. 2020. https://soap2day.to/movie_aTozNTE1Ow.html. Namani, a young teenager who is passionate about Jaegers. After Jake left the Jaeger Topic 2: Environmental Implications program, he started making a living by due to Kaiju Remains selling Jaeger parts on the black market in Ten years after the first breach Los Angeles. Jake decided to find Amara opened and our world was filled with because she had a Jaeger part; however, Kaijus, many issues arose in our society and once he found her, both of them were our environment was damaged severely due arrested; after all, they possessed an illegal to these monsters that were created.