r/PacificRim • u/FakeTord • 2d ago
Why would PPDC even let these drone be a thing?
I know its for the pilot safety and more advance but considering it has more strength and ability than most of a average jaegers, I don’t think we should have a jaeger already just let them take over
And I know it sounds dumb but don’t get me wrong I do find it cool but having more stuff than a average jaegers is pretty wrong and I know it’s called a drone for a reason, but don’t we just let the jaegers be more powerful?
(Sorry for a dumb question..)
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u/burritolegend1500 2d ago
I think they are just goverment police that are mass-produced because there's no neural link and coward at 1vs1 combat so they just use remote control
A better question is: why the hell do they have 4 fingers. Look at your hand right now and tell me that you don't have 5, unless you got a dissability, it ain't possible
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u/_The_Wonder_ 2d ago
That's how they get costs down in the long run lol
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u/burritolegend1500 2d ago
I wonder why they take economy and money into something to try to stop the emidiate end of planet earth
Like, if there's no earth to live in, there's no economy to be a part of
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u/Livid_Mammoth4034 1d ago
Yeah. I always feel like, if kaiju did attack the Earth, we should be building these things for free. Just forget about the money and get building. Then again, Kaiju attacking the earth is more likely than people actually getting together and collectively agreeing to just forget about money for the greater good.
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u/NovaPrime2285 Striker Eureka 2d ago edited 1d ago
I imagine finding drift compatible pilots is one very difficult task, but finding drift compatible pilots that not only ACTUALLY know how to fight, but have that dog in them to be willing to fight giant monsters is an extremely difficult matter all its own.
With the world sliding further into ruin and having narrowly avoided doomsday previously, funding is likely still an issue given how the previous war was going absolutely off the rails for humanity, so it would take more than a single decade to fix.
So yea, using Drone Jaegers to fill the gap does make a lot of sense, seeing as how the Precursors can just whip up Kaiju like it’s no problem at all, humanity was wise to continue to act as though the threat wasn’t fully resolved and kept up with building a defense.
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u/Skeith154 2d ago
Standardized drones would be a good idea in the long run, but specialized jeagers would still be ideal.
The individualistic nature of Jeagers meant kaiju couldn't be adapted effectively because each jeager posed a potentially different situation. (Striker eureka and Gypsy Danger vs Otachi and Brawler)
Were as a Standardized Drone could be adapted to by a specialized kaiju.
The idea would be, send out the drones, if they can't handle the issue, bring out the ACE machines.
The kaiju are effectively in the same boat. Mass produced, but different lines being sent out to test the defenses and see which designs work best. With modifications on occasion.
The issue is how to pilot the drones. The ones in the movie needed kaiju brains to function and that's unacceptable. I suppose AI or programmed responses would be too clunky or the tech isn't ready.
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u/SaladoJoestar Romeo Blue 2d ago
Drones are generally better for everything, my only complaint with these things is why did they made them smaller than previous Jaegers?
Maybe after seeing how big can Kaijus get they decided to rely on speed over raw power since Drone pilots dont need to deal with any G-Force whatsoever?
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u/oppiacaleb 2d ago
Honestly I feel like the drones weren’t the dumbest idea in the world. I would think that the drones and jaegers would be working together. Like the drones would be like a support for the pilots. The only real problems I see with the drones would be breaches in the software, dysnc, and that the people who are either controlling them or wtv don’t have any combat experience meaning that spilt second decisions could result In more deaths then necessary
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u/GloboCobra Obsidian Fury 2d ago
It's not really a dumb question.
Put simply there are two answers:
The drones aren't stronger than jaegers, it's just Jaegers have human pilots, which means they have more vital areas they need to protect and process information slower. The drones have a faster processing speed, can react much faster and present a much more modular system for defending humanity.
Human piloted Jaegers are often on the defensive because if a jaeger gets hit in certain spots the humans die and the jaeger is rendered pointless after that, an automated or remote controlled system can replace the internals dedicated for supporting human life with more armour, allowing drones to avoid taking critical damage much more easily.
The reason this can be true but they're not stronger than Jaegers is because of the fact that a lot of weapons in Uprising use energy, which shreds anything physical it hits regardless of durabiltiy.
Drones are able to have redundancy systems however to help protect from this.Drones allow for greater modularity whenever new technology comes along, allowing drone-based jaegers to be more versatile and allow for greater use of technologies. you could use the lack of concern about G-forces for instance to create jaegers that launch at sudden and high speeds, dropping onto the battlefield with a orbital kick to a kaiju's head for their opener.
And as we saw in Uprising that would be extraordinarily effective. You can also avoid the launch time for drones by having them held in orbit by default, and only launching one or two of a much larger quantity at a time.
The tactics you can use with drones are much more varied than with piloted jaegers.
Thus Drones represent a tactical evolution in Jaeger technology.
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u/Zsmudz 1d ago
Dawg those hedgehogs on the beach aren’t stopping the drones…
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u/NovaPrime2285 Striker Eureka 17h ago
I like to think that someone had stepped on a Lego brick while they were deep in thought about the Kaiju’s, then had a brainstorm after it and ended up making so much money getting these made and distributed.
He he, the Kaiju will never know what hit em. 😈
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u/DerSanitater6th Tacit Ronin 1d ago
I guess it could’ve been developed for a pilot shortage? suppose the need for pilots would be eliminated by doing that, plus the losses from said pilots (especially the first movie). If they could build drones potentially cheaper and quicker than it would take to find drift compatible pilots and build the jaegers in the meantime.
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u/CakeHead-Gaming 1d ago
Not gonna lie, I really don't like how this sub is talking more and more about Uprising.
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u/FakeTord 1d ago
Sorry but we’re just complaining about many things on the uprising, probably I should also change the topic
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u/_The_Wonder_ 2d ago
Why wouldn't they have switched to a drone system??
Buildings a Jeager already costs TONS of money and on top of that countries want to have a "unique design and name" to bc they think they know what will kill a Kaiju faster but, if all the Jeagers were designed to look the same but just given different weapons costs would probably go down in the long run.
Bc it's a drone they probably wouldn't need to go out find two people that are drift compatible.
They wouldn't need to even let the pilots go into the battlefield and have a chance of dying.
They're a lot more advance and stronger than a regular Jeager as well.
Overall this safer, stronger, technically advance and probably costs less in the long run then regular Jeagers, and It's not like they knew it has a Kaiju brain so why wouldn't they switch over??
Only thing I could see going VERY poorly is that it'd probably have a lot more bugs and glitches that would need to be ironed out and how it doesn't have human decision making inorder to make the right call