Underneath the LOCCENT's blaze of fingers stabbing at keyboards with precise, prejudiced motions were a sea of chaos swirling. Men swarming like insects in the cavernous shared hangar space, carrying tasks and packages of equal paramount. Bizarre, absolute flux to everyone except the maintenance crew intent on getting Bushido Dawn ready for combat at the speed of God, as if this was their last task on Earth.<br/><br/>God forbid they faff about. Tokyo Shatterdome's location was a set of reclaimed land outside of Tokyo Bay. One could draw a straight line on a map between Tokyo and the Breach, and the base would be right on said line. It was surprisingly rather far from the namesake city which it was meant to defend, but the location was chosen for good reason. Any Kaiju in a beeline towards the free-fer-all buffet that Onibaba feasted on two years ago would hit Tokyo Shatterdome first.<br/><br/>Where Bushido Dawn currently rested IS the ten mile defense line. If the crew were serious about protecting Tokyo, they would have to protect themselves first.<br/><br/><hr/><em>LOCCENT Command Center.</em><br/><br/>In contrast, right above in the command center were two very calm personnel directing other personnel who are only calm because they have evacuation notices to send out, launch directions to give and airspace to control. So that helicopter A who's going to monitor code-name "Terapede" doesn't accidentally fly into Immaculate Shogun's armpit. Well, no. It would be a lie to say that Jun was calm on the inside. He had kept a lazy eye on the briefs of Kaiju appearance patterns and nothing had suggested that a "double event" of two whole monsters would spawn. And both of them are heading in the same general direction towards Japan.<br/><br/>Either way, a line had opened from Grave Digger's convoy. It took a moment before the switch-over to his own headset was completed, and Jun took a brief gander at the barbaric Jaeger's data again. He raised his eye at the name of the machine's chief babysitter; It was a name he had recently came across before. Deciding that he had kept the Jaeger pilot on the other line long enough, the chief LOCCENT officer took a deep breath before talking, subconsciously leaning forward. He could swear Marshall Oobayashi is purposely flunking his English lessons so he could have him handle all communications with foreign Jaegers. Well, he's sure that the gentleman he's talking to is a trained pilot who's very in sync with his partner. The pair of Rangers' service record weren't long by the least, but every mission they have participated in didn't turn into a clusterfuck.<br/><br/>Sometimes it's the only assurance that he gets in this line of work.<br/><br/>"<strong>Mr. Cines? I'm Saotome from the Tokyo LOCCENT. Welcome to Japan. I look forward to.. Forget it, we have two Kaiju inbound towards Japan at this moment. Would you have any issues with deploying Gravedigger without stopping by the Shatterdome?</strong>"<br/><br/>The amount of issues that the proposition unlocked is staggering. First, without a physical trunk line there is no way for LOCCENT to maintain and finalize checks on the drifting process. If even one pilot falls into a memory trap, there would be no way to abort the connection or shut down the Jaeger. Second, no military vehicle is transported while loaded for obvious reasons regarding accidental case explosions. It is then that Mr. Saotome refreshed himself on the American Jaeger's dossier and was relieved of one thing. Grave Digger's unconventional and experimental weaponry doesn't rely on ammunition. A strange arsenal, but one that will work under any circumstance.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">ooc</div><div class="spoiler_body">EDIT - Added location name.</div></div>