It has been 3 hours since Karla fell asleep, and 3 hours until she wished for me to wake here for training. Something I had no intention of doing, she needed this rest badly.
Over the course of this time I have been running my priority diagnostics and one thing Is very apparent. I need an engineer. Most un-operational functions were due to failing hardware, something I have no means of fixing myself. On the positive side, I found a vital document, my schematic, a 3d representation of myself. With that I now knew how I was supposed to function with it and I learnt quite a lot about myself.
That plasma cannon I blew up? That was an upgraded design based on the Gipsy Danger. It was capable of levelling terrain in one shot... It seems I was also supposed to have some form of plasma armour feature, something I can't seem to find any Subsystem controls for it nor any records of it thus far; Was it in the panelling I tore off? Unlikely, I had no electronic connections to it. I was built for war, war like the jaegers before me wouldn't stand a chance in.
Turning my attention away from my weaponry system, I looked at the more core functions of my system. I had many pressing questions about it after all and almost all of them were answered.. With more questions. For example, the power cores I have been using are seemingly auxiliary in nature, not designed to be used for normal operation. I was, how do I explain this.. Explosively unaware? Of this fact a feeling of surprise or shock I assumed. I immediately started a search again for my main power systems. But nothing, had I the wrong schematic? I didn't believe so as the design closely matched what I currently knew of myself in structure. This led to only one other possibility. Data corruption. A matter I had neglected thus far thinking it had been limited to only records rather than entire systems even then was It really possible for my entire main power system controller to just vanish? Why would auxiliary power be unafflicted wouldn't that be a part of the main power function? Perhaps it was simply locked off from me due to damage?
Seeing that like usual, spending time thinking about this was pointless, I returned my attention back to the schematic, I hoped it would have answers to this question. Which I did, it was a generator of sorts, one that theoretically could power a large city or 8 based on the details the schematic provided which was.. Extreme even for a jaeger. But what it ran on was many times more interesting.
It ran on Kaiju Blood, also known as Kaiju blue. An extremely toxic Phosphorescence substance. Capable of killing all forms of life on earth upon contact or intake, contaminating anywhere it lands. The stuff was highly volatile as well, becoming a deadly mist not long after contact with air and my power system apparently made use of this.
I stored KB (kaiju Blood) as it is called here, in pressurised tank like batteries, which were then pumped in small quantities to a chamber where it is converted into a mist via vacuum, likely to lower consumption and raise efficiency. From here the mist is redirected to veins of sorts that take in external radiation of all kinds including light and UV. This 'activates' the blood which has a unique property to convert these into a usable wavelength. Which is absorbed by electrode rods. After it finishes expelling radiation, it becomes inactive and mist is re-pressurised back into blood returning to the tank.
Basically I was a nearly 100% efficient solar sponge that also worked on all radiation forms. It also meant... I had blood like a living creature albeit not nearly as vital.
Naturally, I checked to see if I could find any such tank, and I did, alongside the rest of the system, I hadn't before as well, I didn't know what specifically to look for, my body was the size of a building after all. The tank was empty, not a drop of the blue stuff it needed. No damage to the tank was seen, but the valve at the bottom was open. I suspected it would have contaminated a 500 mile radius around me from the liquid form alone, If above water, even further from the mist. Using this in the future would be a risk of death for any life around me, not to mention sourcing this blood wasn't exactly an easy feat even with so many corpses around.
