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The Mark 1 Jaegers were an impressive accomplishment but they were never going to be enough. By the time the Mark 3 series was in production it was increasingly obvious that Kaijus were only going to become even more powerful as time goes on and eventually no conventional Jaeger would be able to keep up.

In 2017 the Pan Pacific Defence Corps took the best and brightest minds and set them to work on a new series of Jaeger that would be built in secret and tested well away from the front lines on the shores of the pacific. Development temporarily ground to a halt in 2020 as the Jaeger program funding was cut dramatically to allow for construction of the Wall of Life. However with some clever financial management the program was able to resume.

By 2023 the program was finished. The new Jaeger was built and the designers were confident that it would be able to provide rapid and effective response to any Kaiju threat at any time. The Jaeger itself was called Baymax, it had a wide array of weaponry and abilities. Building on the Mark 5 Striker Eureka the Baymax team was able to dramatically improve the speed of the Jaeger as well as its response capability by making systems which allow it to take flight without external assistance. Baymax was also equipped with dual rocket-propelled fists that were capable of acting both as plasma-casters and reusable blunt-force missiles. In addition, the forearms were equipped with railguns for engaging Kaiju from a distance.

All of this was kept a secret until it was needed in order to prevent the Kaiju from learning about it and developing a counter to it.

However, Every Jaeger is only as good as the pilots. The PPDC had been searching the entire planet for a suitable team with a strong enough connection to be able to use the various weapons that Baymax is equipped with to the best possible ability. Eventually they were able to find such a pair. Two sisters from Norway who share a remarkably strong connection after being forced apart for almost 13 years before the war started.

12 years before the breach opened a family feud started in a small town which eventually saw two sisters, one just five years old, the other eight forced apart as a family tore itself apart. It was only when the war started that they were able to muster the courage to escape from their family, meet up and leave Norway. However before they could leave they were intercepted by local authorities who then forwarded them to the PPDC where they were trained as Jaeger pilots to be on standby should another team not be ready to go into action for any reason.

The director of the Baymax project had noticed how they worked together in the simulator and how close they remained out of it. A decision was made to transfer them to the project which quickly paid off as they notched up more simulator kills than any other jaeger team to date. All of this was kept top secret which proved to be useful as PPDC researcher Newton Geiszler discovered that the Kaiju operate with a hive-mind. As far as the Kaiju were concerned, Striker Eureka was the most advanced Jaeger they would face.

On January 8, 2025 that all changed when two Category IV Kaiju emerged from the breach.