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From the Desk of Frank Womack

Kaiju File # 000

Giganuuk

First Seen: Moscow, Russia
Last Seen: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Primary Range: Global, but shows Preference for Cooler Climates

Dietary Preference: Magnetic Energy

Description: The first documented kaiju, the titanic ursine monstrosity looks like someone combined a polar bear with an armor plated tank. It's body is omnipedal in stature, able to switch between higher speeds and stability on four legs along with raw power and stature when reared up. The most noticeable aspect of its appearance are the two, smoothly curved spires running out from its shoulders, ending in hollowed barrels. These, along with the armor on its head, flanks, forelimbs and back, are made of a strange biomechanical alloy that is highly magnetic in nature. These metallic spots, when the beast is angered, glow with an ominous red light, and usually are a signal that it's magnetic powers are active.

As one might expect, Giganuuk is highly aggressive when confronted, able to inflict violence in urbanized areas few kaiju can claim to match. But this anger comes at a cost, for unlike most kaiju, Nuuk comes with a notable weakness. Its power comes with severe bouts of lethargy, likely an evolutionary relic of its ursine biology, and often after an intense fight it will collapse and enter a nigh indestructible torpor, unable to wake until its energy is restored. And good thing, too. If it was as active as most kaiju, I don't think the human race would still be standing.

Defense Protocols: Giganuuk, singlehandedly, burned one of the most powerful nations in the world to the ground. Should it appear, the best hope is to keep it out of urbanized areas or at the very least direct it away from neighborhoods with high amounts of relict, metallic buildings. Its skills have no effect on modern polymers, but it doesn't need to pull buildings down with its mind, its bulk more than does the job. As such, stick with modern implements, deploy mecha only as a last resort due to high chances of failure, and hope it's tired. Eventually it will wake up and move on.

Noteworthy Abilities:

-Magneto-Kinesis: An ability poorly understood, the giant bear creature is able to manipulate metallic substances with surprising dexterity and control. The range of applications can range from brute force, pulling buildings down on top of opponents from a distance and even creating localized snowstorms due to tweaking atmospheric conditions, to downright scalpel levels of precision. The most famous application, no doubt, is when it condenses metals into a tight sphere between its shoulder spires and fires the projectile like an organic railgun.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hello all, and thank you in advance for reading. My name is Frank Womack, as you might already know, and I have taken it upon myself to document exactly how we as a species lost our sole dominion over the earth and all it's friends. Not to say the tragedy was welcomed, but to be entirely honest, we kind of had this coming. The last 200 years have been... well we haven't exactly done everything with our own longevity in mind. We just never expected to be held accountable for it. But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.

The year was 2054. We were welcoming the second half of the first century of the new millennium, hopefully a better one than the one before. It felt like a low baseline to ascend. We'd been through a couple of ecological crises and survived a brief encounter with a robot apocalypse. But we'd cleaned up our act. We were building greener than ever, our resource consumption was down, and progress was our measure of success rather than riches. But it turns out the bell still had a toll.

It began on a calm March morning. Me and my roommate Allison, you may have heard of her, were discussing something about her work. She was having trouble figuring out the finer points of the genetic editing work she was doing when all of a sudden something unusual flashed on the newsfeeds. We thought it was a hoax at first. We all did.

After UNOS assassinated several of the most powerful world leaders in under an hour, Russia went off the UN grid and became an isolated nation. So most of us hadn't seen the Moscow skyline in years, if not their whole lives. So when we saw it in grainy drone footage, getting pulverized into dust, we didn't know how to react. Nor did we believe our eyes when something moved inside an enormous, turbulent cloud of ice and dust. Something big. Something alive. The footage was only about 90 seconds long, and it rapidly became one of the most watched videos of all time. Especially once analysts took an objective look and said they would normally stake their career on the fact that this footage wasn't doctored.

Then about a year passed. Tensions were high at first, refugees came flooding into Ukraine and China and the world had its eyes fixed on the Russian borders. But nothing happened, so gradually people stopped believing it was real after all.

Then the incident off the North Carolina coast occurred. The oil rig collapse, the strange tidal shifts, the coastal floods, and then finally big bad Umbara emerging in the Cape Fear Basin and wreaking absolute havoc as it moved inland. The details of that whole account are best saved for their own story, but we finally had proof. We were no longer top of the food chain. And when we thought it couldn't get worse, Ursa Major himself, Moscow's destroyer, emerged hot on Umbara's trail. Their battle in the Charlotte skyline was one for the ages. My friend Faris told us about how it had done much the same in Russia the year before, only they had a different name for him. Giganuuk.

And ever since we've had to keep an eye out for the great white bastard. He's not the worst thing we've ever encountered, but boy he's a contender. He destroys old style cities at a level we could barely process, and modern means of stopping him do very little besides tire him out to the point where he just drops and takes a long rest. He's been there for most of the big events, and things tend to end rather quickly once he gets involved.

I know this is presumptuous of me, but it almost feels like if this whole debacle was a series, he'd be a central character. There are plenty of side stories, plenty of other characters to follow, but this one seems crucial.

---------------------------------

Well hello all! Here's a familiar face!

So, for the longest time, I had a game plan for this series that I aimed to stick to, and one of those things was avoiding the stereotypical use of the 'main monster'. I had several of my past mains included, gave them separate roles, and tried to make it work. But then I actually started writing it, and I realized how aimless it all felt without a central figure to follow. So I began searching through my various concepts over the years and attempted many different angles for a flagship monster.

And surprise, surprise, I came to this.

Sernak was too powerful and too supernatural for my current angle to work, Grorn was too difficult to empathize with and worked better as an impartial arbiter, Monsterman showed potential but ultimately was too difficult to set up from the beginning with my current plans (keep an eye out for him though) and most of my newer roster wasn't made to fill that role at all. But then I remembered the one lead I've done the least with, the one whose kaijuverse died prematurely and ultimately I had no ideas for five years ago.

Yes folks, Giganuuk is back, with a fresh coat of paint and a new outlook on life! This is a sizable retcon for the universe, inserting him from the get go when I've come so far, but I've written him into this in a manner that allows me to work around him when needs arise. So yeah, I have a main kaiju again, and this time I feel it will stick! So enjoy the new look and I hope you all will stick around and eagerly await the new stuff and additional edits to come!

Description
From the Desk of Frank Womack

Kaiju File # 000

Giganuuk

First Seen: Moscow, Russia
Last Seen: Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Primary Range: Global, but shows Preference for Cooler Climates

Dietary Preference: Magnetic Energy

Description: The first documented kaiju, the titanic ursine monstrosity looks like someone combined a polar bear with an armor plated tank. It's body is omnipedal in stature, able to switch between higher speeds and stability on four legs along with raw power and stature when reared up. The most noticeable aspect of its appearance are the two, smoothly curved spires running out from its shoulders, ending in hollowed barrels. These, along with the armor on its head, flanks, forelimbs and back, are made of a strange biomechanical alloy that is highly magnetic in nature. These metallic spots, when the beast is angered, glow with an ominous red light, and usually are a signal that it's magnetic powers are active.

As one might expect, Giganuuk is highly aggressive when confronted, able to inflict violence in urbanized areas few kaiju can claim to match. But this anger comes at a cost, for unlike most kaiju, Nuuk comes with a notable weakness. Its power comes with severe bouts of lethargy, likely an evolutionary relic of its ursine biology, and often after an intense fight it will collapse and enter a nigh indestructible torpor, unable to wake until its energy is restored. And good thing, too. If it was as active as most kaiju, I don't think the human race would still be standing.

Defense Protocols: Giganuuk, singlehandedly, burned one of the most powerful nations in the world to the ground. Should it appear, the best hope is to keep it out of urbanized areas or at the very least direct it away from neighborhoods with high amounts of relict, metallic buildings. Its skills have no effect on modern polymers, but it doesn't need to pull buildings down with its mind, its bulk more than does the job. As such, stick with modern implements, deploy mecha only as a last resort due to high chances of failure, and hope it's tired. Eventually it will wake up and move on.

Noteworthy Abilities:

-Magneto-Kinesis: An ability poorly understood, the giant bear creature is able to manipulate metallic substances with surprising dexterity and control. The range of applications can range from brute force, pulling buildings down on top of opponents from a distance and even creating localized snowstorms due to tweaking atmospheric conditions, to downright scalpel levels of precision. The most famous application, no doubt, is when it condenses metals into a tight sphere between its shoulder spires and fires the projectile like an organic railgun.

AUTHOR'S NOTES: Hello all, and thank you in advance for reading. My name is Frank Womack, as you might already know, and I have taken it upon myself to document exactly how we as a species lost our sole dominion over the earth and all it's friends. Not to say the tragedy was welcomed, but to be entirely honest, we kind of had this coming. The last 200 years have been... well we haven't exactly done everything with our own longevity in mind. We just never expected to be held accountable for it. But perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's start at the beginning.

The year was 2054. We were welcoming the second half of the first century of the new millennium, hopefully a better one than the one before. It felt like a low baseline to ascend. We'd been through a couple of ecological crises and survived a brief encounter with a robot apocalypse. But we'd cleaned up our act. We were building greener than ever, our resource consumption was down, and progress was our measure of success rather than riches. But it turns out the bell still had a toll.

It began on a calm March morning. Me and my roommate Allison, you may have heard of her, were discussing something about her work. She was having trouble figuring out the finer points of the genetic editing work she was doing when all of a sudden something unusual flashed on the newsfeeds. We thought it was a hoax at first. We all did.

After UNOS assassinated several of the most powerful world leaders in under an hour, Russia went off the UN grid and became an isolated nation. So most of us hadn't seen the Moscow skyline in years, if not their whole lives. So when we saw it in grainy drone footage, getting pulverized into dust, we didn't know how to react. Nor did we believe our eyes when something moved inside an enormous, turbulent cloud of ice and dust. Something big. Something alive. The footage was only about 90 seconds long, and it rapidly became one of the most watched videos of all time. Especially once analysts took an objective look and said they would normally stake their career on the fact that this footage wasn't doctored.

Then about a year passed. Tensions were high at first, refugees came flooding into Ukraine and China and the world had its eyes fixed on the Russian borders. But nothing happened, so gradually people stopped believing it was real after all.

Then the incident off the North Carolina coast occurred. The oil rig collapse, the strange tidal shifts, the coastal floods, and then finally big bad Umbara emerging in the Cape Fear Basin and wreaking absolute havoc as it moved inland. The details of that whole account are best saved for their own story, but we finally had proof. We were no longer top of the food chain. And when we thought it couldn't get worse, Ursa Major himself, Moscow's destroyer, emerged hot on Umbara's trail. Their battle in the Charlotte skyline was one for the ages. My friend Faris told us about how it had done much the same in Russia the year before, only they had a different name for him. Giganuuk.

And ever since we've had to keep an eye out for the great white bastard. He's not the worst thing we've ever encountered, but boy he's a contender. He destroys old style cities at a level we could barely process, and modern means of stopping him do very little besides tire him out to the point where he just drops and takes a long rest. He's been there for most of the big events, and things tend to end rather quickly once he gets involved.

I know this is presumptuous of me, but it almost feels like if this whole debacle was a series, he'd be a central character. There are plenty of side stories, plenty of other characters to follow, but this one seems crucial.

---------------------------------

Well hello all! Here's a familiar face!

So, for the longest time, I had a game plan for this series that I aimed to stick to, and one of those things was avoiding the stereotypical use of the 'main monster'. I had several of my past mains included, gave them separate roles, and tried to make it work. But then I actually started writing it, and I realized how aimless it all felt without a central figure to follow. So I began searching through my various concepts over the years and attempted many different angles for a flagship monster.

And surprise, surprise, I came to this.

Sernak was too powerful and too supernatural for my current angle to work, Grorn was too difficult to empathize with and worked better as an impartial arbiter, Monsterman showed potential but ultimately was too difficult to set up from the beginning with my current plans (keep an eye out for him though) and most of my newer roster wasn't made to fill that role at all. But then I remembered the one lead I've done the least with, the one whose kaijuverse died prematurely and ultimately I had no ideas for five years ago.

Yes folks, Giganuuk is back, with a fresh coat of paint and a new outlook on life! This is a sizable retcon for the universe, inserting him from the get go when I've come so far, but I've written him into this in a manner that allows me to work around him when needs arise. So yeah, I have a main kaiju again, and this time I feel it will stick! So enjoy the new look and I hope you all will stick around and eagerly await the new stuff and additional edits to come!