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Test Drive Meme The Pan Pacific Defense Corps was usually offered any of a variety of local buildings to set up their testing centers. For reasons of access and availability, most testing clinics were set up in central areas for any given community. Those of the PPDC staff on hand vary in their personal intensity. Some of the men and women wearing Strike Group insignia seemed overly serious, to the point of frowning with intensity at some of the youngest checking in for this testing round. Those from the K-Science division are tight with nervous energy as they direct prospective cadets through various activities. Everything was meant to measure potential, looking for that spark that meant they had somebody who was Drift Compatible. The majority of people were turned away after the first series of seemingly random tests, officials looking in eyes, placing odd looking contraptions over heads, asking for people to play a series of short games, one even in a virtual reality set-up.

	( SCENARIO ONE ) If you are still here now, you've made it past the first cut. You'll be sat down in a room with the rest who have made it this far, then systematically led into smaller interview rooms as pairs. If you came with a partner, they're your first interview candidate. If you came on your own, all your interviews are random assignment. All who have been asked to stay are required to sit through and conduct a series of short peer to peer interviews. The questions are straightforward. What is your least favorite color? Which tool in a standard toolbox is most useful to you? What time of day do you accomplish the most? Do you have children? What do you believe the Drift is like? Peer to peer interviews last for half an hour to an hour, and each person is asked to participate in at least three peer-to-peer interviews. There is no punishment for going off script. There is a one-way mirror looking into each interview area, and one door leading into the room with a small panel of glass located on the door. There is a clock on the wall in each room. The time they report is odd, when examined. These are not digital clocks, but timers, counting up time since the last Kaiju attack.

	( SCENARIO TWO ) Congratulations! You have been judged Drift Compatible, and sent home to pack after giving a definite yes to the Pan Pacific Defense Corps. The next thing you face down is the flight into Santiago, Chile, and the subsequent drive in to Valparaíso's Shatterdome. You and the rest of the crowd of soon to be PPDC Ranger Cadets have been gathered together to wait for the old bus scheduled to take you to the Shatterdome. While waiting in the open air, those from any Northern Hemisphere countries may find the summer weather strange. Today's high is going to be in the upper 80's, and there's not a cloud to be seen that's not clinging to the distant mountains. Welcome to Chile. When the bus arrives, it's another hour ride out toward the coastline to get to the Shatterdome. Even better? The bus Air Conditioner is broken. Safe travels, Cadets!

Please set up your own scenarios as you like. The above two scenarios are suggestions. Anything goes!

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Andrea was finishing her round of stretches at the tail end of her morning routine. Her head turned toward the entrance of the Kwoon Combat Room. SHe couldn't say she recognized the woman she saw there by sight, but it wasn't entirely unusual. The staffing in any Shatterdome was about as monstrous in size as the Jaegers stationed there.

"Talking about the Cadets?" It was a shot in the dark, but a fairly appropriate one. Few in the Shatterdome could be completely unaware of who was due in today.

The sudden voice nearby brought her out of her thoughts, head shooting up in surprise as she looked with wide eyes at the person addressing her. While the staffing at any Shatterdome was bound to be sizable and unmemorable, there were a select few faces that just about any and every one would recognize.

One of them just happened to be in front of her. The surprise of being caugh wandering around, more than the surprise of exactly who had caught her, tripped up her tongue.

"Wu- Ah- yeah. Some of the other guys have been telling me about how young some of them are this time."

Andrea walked toward the unfamiliar woman, inclining her head forward in acknowledgment. "Sixteen is generally the youngest. Chuck Hansen blazed that trail for teenagers the world over, and some of that's spilling over on our doorstep."

She came to a stop nearby. "What division are you working in? Andy Martin." She held out her hand.

"I always thought he was a special case... like, he's always had some kind of talent for it. Or maybe that's what I'm used to hearing from my mother all the time."

She relaxed a little more at the conversation which was thankfully empty of commands and clear shows of rank, tilting up the rim of her cap once more so she could more clearly see the woman in front of her. It was a little different seeing a name and face on TV all the time than having it in front of you, but to be honest it wasn't really the pilots that had always caught Joo Mun's eye during the broadcasts. The Jaegers, now those beauties... wow...

Her hand moved automatically to shake the offered one, smiling as she did.

"I'm Ah- oh, Joo Mun Ahn. J-Tech division. It's good to meet you"

Andrea's smile warmed perceptibly. She wasn't half as good with the technical side of things as she wished, but everyone working in J-Tech had her respect for what they did. The rest of the Shatterdome as well, but there was something about the ones plotting and calculating and getting in elbow-deep in everything that made Hydra Corinthian tick that had her paying closer attention. K-Science was slightly more removed.

Her handshake was firm and warm, palms of her hands calloused. There was once a time, back in university, where her hands had been smooth and soft. That was a long, long time ago.

"It's always a pleasure to meet one of the minds behind the machinery. Did you transfer in recently, or have you been in the area since official opening time?"

She had to admit that it was kind of nice meeting the person inside the machine she'd devoted endless hours into working on. The edge of resentment that some of her fellow mechanics had toward rangers for banging up a Jaeger during combat was something Joo Mun never carried. A machine could always be best appreciated when in use, after all.

She also had to admit that shaking hands with someone whose hands matched her own in worn use was a pretty good feeling too.

"I just got here a few days ago. It always feels so big when you first get into a Shatterdome; I've only been around the places I need to be so far." She gave a little smile then, a hint of playfulness behind it.

"Not the places I'd like to see yet."

"It'll start feeling smaller after a few months. Have you staffed in a Shatterdome before?" She kept her body posture relaxed and open. Andy might be more of an observer by choice, but the old love she had for talking with people came through more often now than before.

Her head nodded slightly at the question, a fond expression passing briefly over her face as the memories were called back. Her time in the Shatterdome before this one had really been a couple of the best years of her life, by far, not only because of the sheer freedom from her old life, but also thanks to just how much she'd gotten to learn and work with the Jaegers.

"The one in Tokyo," she responded with a slight smile, weight shifting comfortably onto one leg as she spoke, "That's where I learned everything I know now."

"I hear good things coming out of Tokyo." It wasn't one of the Shatterdomes she'd been to, but Jaeger pilots weren't entirely inclined toward 'dome hopping without reassignments or reasons to be shipped in. When it came down to assisting on any given fight, the extras were flown and shipped in while the Kaiju were still swimming their way to whatever shore they were destroying next.

Thoughts better saved for a little later. "Find this room any different here than it was there?"

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