Dynamo Joe - Pacific Rim mash-up concept

logandarklighter

So - after Pacific Rim I was playing around in the costume creator and came up with a good approximation of Gipsy Danger.

I'm currently unsubscribed, but I felt the desire to at least see this creation in the game world. I had some spare character slots so I made a Silver AT Behemoth and applied the costume file to it.

But I didn't want to just name the character Gipsy Danger. That's just... too easy. Besides there were issues with scale etc.

So I wracked my brain for a good name and I remembered a great old comic from the 80s. And I thought - oh hey! Perfect name for a Jaeger!

Dynamo Joe

So I applied the name and have been kicking around with it. Behemoth AT's not too bad for just leveling up. Seems the right kind of durability etc. Though I have heard it's a little deficient the higher up you go. It's not quite as survivable a tank as a freeform Might-based toon would be.

Anyway - decided I was having enough fun to keep the character. And I dislike having my bio field empty if I'm going to keep the character.

Recognizing I had basically a Mash-up of two giant robot concepts going I decided to just go with it and make the background a mash-up as well.

You probably already know anything you want to know about Pacific Rim (and if you haven't seen that movie yet - WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WAITING FOR?) but if you want to get the basic gist of where the Dynamo Joe elements come from, here's your reference link.


So here's the character with the mash-up bio. Plus screenshots of Dynamo Joe and his pilots. Hope it entertains/amuses you. ^_^ :

DYNAMO JOE

After the Kaiju Wars, humanity united and colonized the solar system. Civilizations rose and fell for hundreds of years until the discovery of hyperdrive and the second great Diaspora began.

Two other advanced spacefaring civilizations were discovered in the local star cluster: the peaceful, cat-like Tavitans and the Imperium.

Then the masters of the Kaiju returned, the Mellanares.

Faced with a nearly unstoppable foe, the Terrans fell back on an old technique for combating them, Mecha soldiers to match the enemy strength for strength. The Dynamo Class Jaegers were crewed by 2 pilots once again in a symbiotic link with their machines.

One such Jaeger crew - Dynamo Joe - piloted by Alan Garana of the Imperium and Domru of the Tavitan, found themselves in combat with a Mellanare Space Kaiju near a subspace anomaly. They defeated their opponent but were drawn into the rift.

They found themselves stranded on an Earth on a different time and space axis from their own. Not only does this world seem to be thousands of years in the past of their own, but it also seems to be on a different timeline as well.

And the physics of the universe are even different! The universal scale of themselves and their Jaeger seem not to match the local physical environment. They are at least 50 times smaller than they should be. Microman has worked with them to develop an excursion belt that can expand one of the pilots at a time to normal human scale.

Still - they are heroes. Together with Dynamo Joe they can help where they can until they find a way home.

cascadence

Such a good concept and costume, gotta love it to bits. Great job!!

logandarklighter

Thanks!

Just made level 25, and that "Space Kaiju" they were fighting in the back story? Well he's not quite dead yet!