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man with his metal detector caught Raleigh as he started to fall and shouted something at the boy, who ran away down the beach.
    Raleigh stared up into the sky.
    There was blood in Raleigh’s eyes and a hole the shape of his brother in his soul.
    “Yancy?” he said. His drivesuit was shredded. It was cold. The blood in his eyes felt cold. He blacked out again.

17 APRIL 2020

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
UNITED NATIONS TO SUNSET JAEGER PROGRAM; PAN-PACIFIC DEFENSE PRIORITIES SHIFT TO COASTAL DEFENSE, RESETTLEMENT
    Effective immediately, the United Nations Subcommittee on Kaiju Defense and Security, Pan-Pacific Breach Working Group, is reassigning funding from the Jaeger program.
    The costs of the Jaeger program have proven unsustainable in view of the limited returns the program offers. In the last three years we have spent trillions on Jaegers. A number of those Jaegers have been destroyed and losses to life and property are devastating.
    It could be argued, and has ably been argued by Marshal Pentecost, that our situation would be much worse were it not for the Jaegers. Perhaps so. Yet this is a hypothetical argument, and we are faced with the real-world problem of bankrupting the economies of the developed nations to continue a program whose successes—however notable—no longer justify such an outlay.
    We will sunset the Jaeger program in a manner that continues to prioritize the safety and security of the people of the Pacific Rim nations. While we do this, we will redirect funding toward the following initiatives:
COASTAL BARRIERS
    No kaiju has attacked a currently standing Wall. The building of these fortifications is the simplest and most cost-effective tool humanity has to combat the kaiju threat.
EVACUATION AND RESETTLEMENT PROGRAMS
    Citizens of Pacific coastal cities will be receiving further information as new housing is constructed farther inland, prioritized according to progress on the Wall.
COMPLETION OF UNDERSEA BARRIERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
    The kaiju must be contained at all costs, and under no circumstances will they be allowed to break out of the Pacific and threaten Europe, India, or the East Coast of the Americas.
    The Working Group’s members wish to thank Marshal Pentecost, his Rangers, and the entire staff of the Jaeger program for their courageous service.

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    STACKER PENTECOST FELT BESIEGED ON ALL sides. He had just lost two promising Rangers, the incoming class of new Jaeger academy graduates was bringing with it a particular set of problems, and the Jaeger graveyard at Oblivion Bay near San Francisco was acquiring new occupants at an ominous rate. Yancy Becket was dead, his body lost at sea. Raleigh Becket had quit the Jaeger program, suffering from clear post-traumatic stress, compounded by his mercurial temperament and survivor’s guilt. Gipsy Danger was crippled and would have to be scrapped.
    On top of that, there was young Mako Mori to deal with. She was ready to stop being his student and start being a Ranger... or so she thought. Pentecost thought differently
    But that was a personal issue. Pentecost put it aside and set his mind to the difficult task before him.
    He stood in the Anchorage LOCCENT looking at a bank of monitors, each displaying the face of a different member of the United Nations Pan-Pacific Breach Working Group, a portion of the Subcommittee on Kaiju Defense and Security. From their expressions, he knew how the conversation would go, and he wasn’t going to like it. He’d seen the press release, and more importantly, he’d been part of the Group’s internal conversations for the past several months. Pentecost was dealing with frightened people, and frightened people always did one of two things: fight or flee. Since these frightened people were bureaucrats, they were just about guaranteed not to fight.
    But Stacker Pentecost was not a bureaucrat. If he was going to go down, he was going down fighting.
    “We are losing Jaegers faster than we can make them,” the