What he had seen in the original film had ultimately been nothing more than the narrowest, one-sided view captured by the camera. Having just arrived, Li Si was in no hurry to make any grand moves. Instead, he had Pandora invade the internet and satellites to gather intelligence on this world while he taught his little apprentice.
The Pacific Rim timeline should currently be at the beginning of the second film. The Pacific wormhole leading to the Precursors' world had already been destroyed by a nuclear bomb, and this world was recuperating. Even the Jaeger Program had been all but abandoned; only a few Shatterdomes remained, and private corporations like Shao Industries had poached quite a few of the pilots.
Shao Industries was a Chinese mega-corporation with deep cooperative ties to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. It would also be the main "boss" of the second film.
This world, which had once stood on the brink of destruction, never lacked people who hated and feared kaiju. Some had gradually forgotten their pain over the course of ten years, but others remembered the lessons of that time and understood what it meant to "be born of hardship and die of comfort."
Amara was one of them. Her parents had died in a kaiju attack, and even after the wormhole beneath the Pacific had been destroyed, she had continued to believe that the Precursors and kaiju would return. That was why she had devoted herself to building her own Jaeger.
Like Amara, Liwen Shao, the woman in control of Shao Industries, was equally passionate about preparing for another attack by the Precursors. Even after the war, she had continued researching Jaeger technology in depth. Taking a different approach, Shao Industries had developed remotely controlled unmanned Jaegers and was actively seeking to push