Fall of Australia

The **Fall of Australia** is a conflict that resulted in the continent of Australia falling under the control of the Kaiju.

## History

### Emergence of the Kaiju

The fall started when several Breaches opened across Australia with several Kaiju appearing out of the portals with many appearing in Australia including a Komodo, Odin, and HellBringer alongside several new Kaiju and even some remaining Kaiju-Jaeger Hybrids

### Meridian Showdown

In Meridian several breaches would open with Jaegers engaging several Kaiju in the city with the Jaegers Aurora Valiant and Horizon Savage falling in combat against the Kaiju. The surviving Jaegers would then retreat from the city as it became overrun with Kaiju.

### Last stand in Sydney

In Sydney Lacerator Tyrant engaged Komodo and fought the Kaiju with one of the pilots being ripped out of the helmet while the remaining pilot, Daniel Hunter, solo drifted in order to defeat the Kaiju. But the Kaiju topples over onto the Jaeger after dying, pinning Lacerator underneath it's corpse. Daniel then activates Operation Blackout before dying.

### Aftermath

Operation Blackout officially ended on November 15th, 2030. The casualty count for the PPDC was extremely high, with an estimated 67% of all PPDC forces in Australia having been lost. Civilian casualties were even worse, with 9.2 million confirmed dead, and another 3.8 million missing. Australia itself had been completely destroyed, with every major city virtually reduced to rubble. The massive amount of destruction led to many giving the vast interior wasteland the nickname "The Black".

For the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, the Fall of Australia was their most bitter failure and humiliating defeat since the Drone Attacks in October. While the PPDC had been able to prevent the Precursors from triggering a devastating extinction event after those attacks, they had just failed to stop a siege, which demonstrated their seeming ineffectiveness against large-scale attacks. The PPDC also faced heavy criticism over the approval and use of Operation Blackout, which many claimed was a heartless order that prioritized preserving PPDC forces over saving civilians. While Marshal Rask claimed that a concerted effort had been made to evacuate as many civilians as possible, internal PPDC sources claimed that Rask had denied requests to extend the evacuation time before the air strikes. The Pan Pacific Defense Corps would struggle to recover from the Fall of Australia, being forced to rebuild part of the Fleet.

For the Precursors, even though they had expended a great deal of resources, the Fall of Australia was considered a massive success. For the first time since the Uprising Wars had begun, they had struck a major blow against the Pan Pacific Defense Corps, forcing the humans to surrender an entire continent to them. However, the massive amount of energy used to sustain Breaches for two months had weakened their ability to create additional Breaches, meaning it would be some time before they could attack again.

## Jaegers involved

### Mark V

* Cardinal Avenger
* Striker Eureka
* Striker Berserker
* Nova Superstar
* Guardian Rush
* Steel Gryphon

### Mark VI

* Challenger Ultima
* Aurora Valiant
* Horizon Vanguard
* Phoenix Titanic
* Bomber Absolute

## Kaiju Involved

### Category I

* Gryogira
* Crygami

### Category III

* Venlak
* Kataclyrah
* Yamarashi

### Category IV

* HellBringer
* Threadtail
* Tranrax
* Amputator
* Scunner
* Raiju

### Category V

* Komodo
* Odin
* Hades
* Voidreaver