First Breach Assault

Note here that Triton Tasmania was designed for this specific purpose and that Chrome Brutus, designed for cold, dark water, was the obvious choice to run point. 
== Timeline ==
>add stuff like "Two Voices", discovery of the Breach, etc. Is there an inquiry into this operation?< 
2019 November 28:  First attack on the Breach ends in failure; Triton Tasmania destroyed and pilots Parata and Davies killed; Chrome Brutus kills emerging Kaiju; Vulcan Specter patrols Guam
2019 December: Admiral David Rowland removed from command over the failure of the attack on the Breach and the loss of Triton Tasmania and her pilots.
==Scraps==
===Deployment===
(From "Chuckles is Wash")
The assault on the Breach is coming up and The Suits really, really /really want it to go right. /Triton's already been picked as the point Jaeger and /Striker as the backup. They're worried about putting a pair of rookies on their /first /deployment, no less, on such an important mission and giving them such an important responsibility. (/Vulcan's already been ruled out for the mission because its armor is unsuited to deep water operation [meaning it can't replace /Triton] and they're worried about what Jackson will do if something goes wrong [if /Vulcan's the backup]; he's unpredictable and often insubordinate when other Rangers are in trouble or hurt, which is so /not what they need in this situation. Logan's just ... Logan.)
"Logan's just... Logan" BAHAHA
Triton's original pair: Even if they didn't die in the Challenger Deep, their Jaeger certainly went out in a fashion befitting them!
I'm thinking the original Tritonettes were probably radiation casualties like Pentecost and Sevier. And, yes, yes /Triton did. In fact, my visualizations of /Triton's end come from reading about submarine disasters at depth. Maybe that's where the subconscious connection came from.
TRITONETTES!!!!
===Jaegers===
With three Australian Jaegers and one Canadian, the First Breach Assault comes out looking like a Commonwealth operation. 
Chrome is an intriguing choice ... another Mark III (like /Gipsy), pilots used to working in cold and dark ... hmm ...
Oooo! Making /Chrome the defender adds some personal color to Raleigh's 'We've hit the Breach before' comment to Stacker: He's /talked to someone who was down there and /saw the bomb go boink firsthand.
Then we put /Vulcan on the Breach side of Guam to protect the carriers in case the kaiju gets past /Triton and /Chrome and heads for them.
/Striker stays in Sydney on standby. So, when a still-fuming Jackson gets back to Sydney, Chuckles will be in position to protect Hermann. All we need to do to 'Collective (Un)Conscious' is take Chuckles out of his Drivesuit.
/Triton on point, /Chrome on defense, and /Vulcan guarding the getaway vehicles.
=== Guam ===
Guam's probably rocky. Vulcan slogs through Blue mud and powerlines, cursing all the while, and they're grumbling the /entire time. 'We better not have bits of car in the treads.' 'This debris is hell on the suspension'. 'I swear t' god we will walk this stretch so help me we are not crawling'.
Logan makes a sound of disgust, tries shaking the powerlines from Vulcan's foot. 
"Can we file a complaint?" asks Jackson. 
""Something tells me you will anyway,"" says Nguyen. 
Logan speaks up, "The bleeding Americans're doing a right average job with this place."
===Pietr===
Pietr's still in Anchorage being Lightcap's guinea pig after being punted out of /Striker. It's from his point of view, which means no audio cues and nobody's interpreting for him because they’re all too wrapped up in what’s going on, so he’s trying to guess what’s happening based on the main display and body language of the other watchers. 
Halfway through, there's less than an inch of space between Pietr and Chuck. Her hands are frozen in mid word, and he can see the muscles becoming edgier and edgier. 
===Rational===
Until the mission starts going south; Jackson's incensed and then we've got Logan trying to be the voice of reason and not quite knowing how to do it beyond 'going down there = squish'. He's not used to being the reasonable one, so he's just flailing for something to say that will keep Jackson from dragging them to the bottom of the ocean except 'dude, if we go there we're gonna die." --think rational thoughts think rational thoughts think rational thoughts!!!--
There may be more to this one in the same/a different email ("Ficlet: Predictable")
===Kaiju===
Chrome finishes the Kaiju in Challenger Deep and the body pretty much has to stay there. Too much trouble to recover it so they leave the body down there, not in Guam. 
If it gets past /Chrome, /Vulcan's the next line of defense and K-Sci /might--just might--be able to recover some non-pulped pieces from the beautiful beaches of Guam.
===Collective (Un)Conscious===
"Brilliant idea, attacking the Breach head-on," snarls Ranger Jones.
Shaking in his shoes, Hermann steps out of the way and drops his eyes.
Ranger Jones grabs and slams him against the wall.
Hermann feels his left wing break.
"Maybe we need to beat the stupid out of you, genius. What do you think?"
Ranger Jones and four Triton Tasmania techs close in on Hermann. Your stomach sours as you wait for Hermann to brace himself to fight, but he sags, the punk's grip the only thing holding him up.
Why doesn't he fight back? He's a little guy—not as little as me, but—but he's freakin' strong. He could hurt this guy. Before the jerk breaks every other bone—oh.
"Oi! Let go of him!"
The crowd parts before an incensed Chuck Hansen.
"What the fuck are you doing here, Short Stack? This is shit for grown ups to deal with."
"Let. Him. Go."
Apart from the instigator, they all step back. Distantly, Hermann's aware that Chuck's pulled Ranger Jones away. He slumps to the floor, and Chuck decks Ranger Jones with an echoing haymaker.
Chuck's face swims into view. "You alright, Doctor?" he asks quietly.
What is it with Hermann and Jaeger pilots? Maybe he has some sort of pilot-charming pheromones.
Hermann manages a nod and hastily wipes away tears of pain and relief.
Chuck takes hold of his hand and helps him up. A few slow steps later, they're safe in Hermann's quarters. 
===Nose (Triton)===
How would Jackson vs. Nguyen work out? Jackson might get in one punch or shove before he winds up buried under all of LOCCENT or a pile of MPs. Then he probably spends a night in the brig before being court-martialed and tossed out of the PPDC on his ear.
Well it seems Jackson's downloaded a 'self-preservation' thingy into my video player as Marshal Nguyen keeps becoming Officer Nguyen. Jackson breaks /her nose but she gets a new one out of it--as much as she loves her dad, that does not extend to his nose. (I wrote this down, somewhere)
Jackson, in a black rage, [storms] into wherever, gets eyes on the Marshal, winds up--
"Hey, Dad--"
--throws a wicked punch right into Chantell's face. 
She blinks--the spark catches and flames fill her eyes and she smashes her tablet over Jackson head. 
He stumbles. 
Chantell gently touches her nose, winces. "Jesus, Jones!" Kicks his shin. "Mother/fucker that hurts." 
"You wanted something, Telly?" 
"This fucking /asshole--" Stomps--
Jackson wheezes.
"--fucking broke my nose!"
===Balmy===
(Originally uploaded as its own page 16:42, August 27, 2015)
"What's it like down there, near the Breach?" asks Yancy. 
"Positively balmy," reports Illisapie. 
"It's 'balmy' in depths so deep sunlight failed miles earlier."
"Yea," says Zeke. "There's no ice."
Edit: turns out the water temperature in the Mariana's trench is about 4oC (which also happens to be the temperature at which water is its most dense (water, like everything else expands as a gas, but, unlike every other substance, expands when it freezes)). 
===Surprise!===
I really like that idea of Triton's bomb absorbing Anteverse radiation. It'll be an fun surprise for that Kaiju. 
"What do you mean, alarm terminated?" 
"Well, uh, remember that bomb we dropped down there a few years back?" 
"It's still down there."
"Not anymore?"
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