Vulcan Specter

Para-Canon Jaeger
The Mark III Jaeger of Team Vulcan Specter, stationed at the Sydney Shatterdome.
==Quick Facts==
*Piloted by the Australian brothers Jackson (right hemisphere) and Logan (left hemisphere) Jones.
* Launched 10 January 2017; destroyed 25 September 2024 by Rachnid
* Originally stationed at the Hong Kong Shatterdome; moved to Sydney when that Shatterdome opened in May 2017
** The only Mark III Jaeger sponsored by a country other than China to be housed there, in fact
* Optimized for prolonged fights with high fuel efficiency and reinforced, lightweight armor
** Muscle engines feature a standby-and-quick-restart mode for fuel savings; a side effect of this allows muscles to be locked into place to provide a sustained hold on a Kaiju or other item with minimal effort from the pilots
* Design refined from the Mark I VA series, the exemplar of which is Victory Angel.
* Powered by an experimental non-nuclear core engine, a prototype for the type eventually used in the Mark IV and V series Jaegers
* Probably the slowest walking / running Mark III; arm motion only slightly slowed from average
* Lightweight armor prevents operation in deep water
* Main distance weapons: Railguns integrated with both forearms (only one of which may operate at a time).
* Main melee weapons: Heavily reinforced fists (forerunners of Striker Eureka's brass knuckles) and arm joints for sustained brawls
* Painted black with gold and red highlights
** Jackson wanted to coat her armour with Vantablack but his request was turned down because of the extremely high cost of doing so
* Like all Jaegers, Vulcan Specter is equipped with powerful spot- and floodlights; the Jones brothers, however, generally leave them off, insisting the puddles of light thrown are more distracting than useful during combat, preferring to rely on their night vision and instruments
* Left thumb locks up regularly, a problem with its roots in Logan's nervous tic of twitching his fingers; the motion shifts the armour plating in such a way as to trap excessive debris
== Personality & Brief Biography ==
Vee, as Vulcan Specter prefers to be called, is sweet, stubborn, and playful. Vee does not identify with any gender and respectfully requests others avoid using pronouns in place of Vee's name. Vee generally appears as a small silver light or silver-shifted data and will sometimes change color or brightness to indicate emotions. Vee speaks in a combination of Australian English and shared emotions and images.
Very protective of both Vee's Rangers, Vee has a special bond with Jackson, whom Vee calls Gold (a flash of color/texture/light, not the word), which is how his presence appears in their shared Drift. Logan is Black-green-blue. Jackson sometimes refers to Vee as 'Shōsa' (after Major Motoko Kusanagi) or 'Majel' (after actress Majel Barrett). Logan sticks with 'Vee.'
Vee becomes self-aware through the efforts of Coyote Tango to understand the conditions behind Jaeger awakening. When the older Jaeger believes he can reproduce the proper conditions, he tests his method on the Jones brothers and Vee's backup server.
The other Aussie Jaeger AIs take Vee under their wings and Vee also spends many cycles with AGNIS learning how to subtly manipulate systems and spawn daughter-Vees to better multitask.
Because Vee awakens more than a year after the end of the war, Vee has no memories of Kaiju, of fighting, or being a Jaeger. For Vee, those are things of data files and Vee's Rangers' memories.
Unlike most of the other sentient AIs, Vee feels no need for a humanoid physical body to interact with the world. Vee prefers to be in Vee's Rangers' mind-spaces and internet-connected devices, however is perfectly capable of operating robotic forms.
Vee is fully aware Vee is not human and, thanks to Jackson's love of science fiction, doesn't think this is a bad thing. Instead of trying to make Vee-self more human, Vee focuses on being the best Vee possible, which includes remembering that Vee and humans don't always view situations the same way and that Vee must not assume humans will agree with Vee's conclusions or interpretations. Consent from all directly involved parties before taking action is especially important to Vee and Vee will not act without receiving it.
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