Given his experiences, it's understandable.

Peter Eng
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"I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal."

Well yeah. That, and it's an important part of making sure San is kept entertained and mentally active. Otherwise she gets bored. No one wants a repeat of Budapest.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

It's not always easy having a personal demon.

--G.
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"You and I remember Budapest very differently."

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

As I understand it, she doesn't have the EVA factor, and her machine is piloted differently.

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

No one on the XCOM/NERV side really knows. The Soviets weren't involved in the GEHIRN/SEELE/NERV complex and never participated in the Marduk program. As for Защитник, even when they were working closely together with NERV's people in Halifax, Dr. Kirishatov's team kept certain aspects of its inner workings close to the vest, including the control system. It's known to involve an R-grade military neural interface, like the MiG-31F and XCOM's advanced Raiden-DX and Firestorm-class interceptors (and the Archangelions), but they never revealed whether the particular psionic resonance peculiar to Evangelion pilots is required to operate it.

--G.
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If nothing else, we'll probably get something like, "You come to my neighborhood, start throwing down with a giant monster, and expect that I won't notice?"

Peter Eng
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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Oh, is that who that was? I was trying to puzzle out who this new person was/was based off and followed the wrong reference pointer. I thought maybe Penelope == Penny == Inspector Gadget? Which leaves Parker out of the equation, which is clearly incorrect.

In my defense while I liked Thunderbirds I only ever got to see, like, three episodes? Which were (as I recall very hazily) on during very strange timeslots back when black-and-white TVs were still around (that being what I had at the time).

--sofaspud
--I should really track down the full series now that the internet exists

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

I love Stingray, truly I do, but I do think one facet in particular has aged poorly: the fact that there's a paramilitary organization called WASP. The World Aquatic Sea Patrol would slot right into UF; WASP sounds like it'd slot right into a Proud Boys demonstration somewhere near a beach.

"How has this happened?"

"Who knows? Parthenogenesis, probably."

--G.
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"Well, it started with Doctor Vahlen..."

Peter Eng
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Insert humorous comment here.

Personally, I would think it would be the other way around; International Rescue is the publicly-acknowledged, "pretty" operation, while XCOM is built off IR's tech development and hidden within the IR budget. Basically, International Rescue goes in when disasters happen and fixes things up . . . XCOM does the same thing, but for disasters that require the root cause to stop living in order to be fixed.

"This is the Model 300WM Self-Installing Disaster Remediation Device. The device is certified for use in all Class X-Ray Disaster Events, and remediation begins within one second of activation."

"This is probably a stupid question, but . . ."

It does sort of strike one as a bit of kit that falls into the "we had to destroy the village in order to save it" category, doesn't it?