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He's not allowed back into a Jaeger. Hasn't been since Tokyo. It would kill him.
The basis of the Drift is the neural-handshake.
Here's the thing: he can't let that stop him.
The basis of the neural-handshake is psycholinguistic identification.
He's not trying to get back into a Jager. He has more sense than that. When Tamsin blacked out next to him and Coyote Tango's systems switched over to him alone he knew from the start that he'd be lucky to get out alive. He knew when he stepped out of the Conn-Pod and looked down at the wreckage Onibaba had wrought that he wasn't getting back in there. It'll kill him if he does, and he's not going to do that. His nervous system's accomplished one impossible thing. It won't survive two.
The basis of this identification is common experience.
He's on metharocin. Coyote Tango's reactor wasn't kind when it spared him. He only has so much time; he's already burning and one day there won't be anything left to burn. If they haven't defeated the kaiju by then-
The basis of common experience is training.
He's recommended Hansen to take the reins when he falls. It'll happen. He doesn't know when; Coyote Tango's reactor didn't give him a calendar. The only clock he has to go by is the one in the Shatterdome that ticks off the time since the last kaiju attack. Hansen might succeed. Might not. He doesn't know.
The basis of training is an invariable set of exercises within a single discipline.
The only way he'll know is if he sees the things destroyed and the Breach closed by human hands in his own lifetime. He has to live long enough to see that. Willpower alone won't get him there. Willpower needs more to work with. It needs support, it needs health, it needs strength, it needs discipline.
This discipline is the study of the Jaeger.
They think that when he practices in the Kwoon training room it's because he's refining the techniques the pilots have to practice, the fifty-two forms of Jaeger Bushido they'll be using when they go out there and face the monsters. He lets them. That's part of it, too; but he has his own reasons.
The basis of the Drift is the neural-handshake.
Here's the thing: he can't let that stop him.
The basis of the neural-handshake is psycholinguistic identification.
He's not trying to get back into a Jager. He has more sense than that. When Tamsin blacked out next to him and Coyote Tango's systems switched over to him alone he knew from the start that he'd be lucky to get out alive. He knew when he stepped out of the Conn-Pod and looked down at the wreckage Onibaba had wrought that he wasn't getting back in there. It'll kill him if he does, and he's not going to do that. His nervous system's accomplished one impossible thing. It won't survive two.
The basis of this identification is common experience.
He's on metharocin. Coyote Tango's reactor wasn't kind when it spared him. He only has so much time; he's already burning and one day there won't be anything left to burn. If they haven't defeated the kaiju by then-
The basis of common experience is training.
He's recommended Hansen to take the reins when he falls. It'll happen. He doesn't know when; Coyote Tango's reactor didn't give him a calendar. The only clock he has to go by is the one in the Shatterdome that ticks off the time since the last kaiju attack. Hansen might succeed. Might not. He doesn't know.
The basis of training is an invariable set of exercises within a single discipline.
The only way he'll know is if he sees the things destroyed and the Breach closed by human hands in his own lifetime. He has to live long enough to see that. Willpower alone won't get him there. Willpower needs more to work with. It needs support, it needs health, it needs strength, it needs discipline.
This discipline is the study of the Jaeger.
They think that when he practices in the Kwoon training room it's because he's refining the techniques the pilots have to practice, the fifty-two forms of Jaeger Bushido they'll be using when they go out there and face the monsters. He lets them. That's part of it, too; but he has his own reasons.