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Note: I'm not specifically talking about Obi Wan and Anakin's pair. This could be any two Jedi.

How would the drift work in such a case? Would it simply exist to connect the two to the Jaeger, while they make decisions on their moves by communicating through the Force, like how pilots in PR do through the neural bridge? Would this be any faster and more effective than PR pilots, especially given the level-headed decisions that the Jedi make even in life or death scenarios?

Given that we have explored more of Mars (in pure area) than our own oceans, what can fully exploring our oceans and the seabed help in, especially in the field of science and research?

Historically, most major powers/nations have put tons of of effort into making their weapons (particularly things like tanks, warships, war-planes, etc.) as easy to mass produce as possible, the need for which was proven in WW2 when German armored vehicles like the Panzer IV, Panther, Tiger 1, although arguably better than allied tanks, were simply too complicated to mass produce while allied tanks like the M4 Sherman, T-34 etc. were the opposite. Ultimately, the numbers game prevailed as the Germans were simply unable to outproduce the allies.

More importantly than victory, in places like the Eastern Front, the ability to produce ridiculous numbers of tanks, guns, aircraft, artillery etc. saved the Soviet Union because in spite of their monumental losses in equipment at the earlier stage of the Nazi invasion, they could survive partly because they were able to simply replace their losses.

In the world of Pacific Rim, where the construction of Jaegers had been so much more crucial than any other arms race in history, why the world/PPDC build so many different and distinct types of Jaegers, driving up the costs of not development but also maintenance to the point where the Jaeger Program got cancelled and the world was left with only 4 Jaegers?

When the entire world had pooled in its resources to build these things, surely it was possible to make one or a couple of ultra-modular Jaegers that could be constantly, quickly, and cheaply modernized and upgraded such as tanks like the M4 Sherman or M1 Abrams, whose modularity still kept them in service decades after their development.

What advantages did making so many distinct Jaegers have over making mass-produceable, easy to upgrade ones like the drone Jaegers in Pacific Rim: Uprising (assume this movie exists and is canon)?

When Gipsy shot Knifehead for the first time, Tendo Choi says "Discharge reading sir, plasma cannon in the shallow shelves 7 miles off the coastal line!".

Shallow shelves refers to continental shelves, which according to Wikipedia is "a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea."

7 miles off the coast of Anchorage places the fight in the Upper Cook Inlet, a part of the Cook Inlet which is a narrow waterway that leads into Anchorage. The entire waterway is 180 miles (290 km) long and with width varying from 55 to 85 miles (90 to 140 km) wide at its entrance in the Gulf of Alaska, down to just 10 miles (16 km) wide at a natural constriction known as The Forelands.

The depth of Upper Cook Inlet varies from 50–165 ft (15–50 m). For reference, Gipsy Danger's height is 260 ft (79.25m) and Knifehead's height is 315 ft (96.01m). According to the NOAA and USGS, the topography of the seabed is a glacially sculpted, tidally energetic estuary with complex bathymetry characterized by rapidly changing depths, steep local slopes, channels, shoals, mud flats, and strong currents.

Furthermore, the Cook Inlet can produce waves that are hazardous for small boats (such as Saltchuck who Gipsy Danger rescues), and also contains icebergs like the ones seen in the movie.

What might've happened is that when Gipsy intercepted Knifehead, the Beckett brothers who were submerged climbed up a steep slope in a crouched position and emerged out of the water on a larger, flat piece of water whose depth was approximately 1/4th of the height of Gipsy. This also explains why we see Gispy's torso, and importantly, thighs contract/rise when the Jaeger emerges out of the water. Knifehead must've emerged in a similar fashion.

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I am not entirely good with Pacific Rim lore but from what I'm aware, for almost the entirety of the Kaiju War bar the very end which we see in the movie, each Kaiju had at the least 2 Jaegers deployed to fight it. This saw very few exceptions like when a damaged Tacit Ronin had to fight Ragnarok alone as there was no other Jaeger available to defend Tokyo.
Why then would the PPDC only deploy Gipsy to fight Knifehead, a Kaiju that Raleigh described to be the 'biggest one yet' when it was projected to be mere miles away away from Anchorage?

While it looks dope, it seems like a pointless weak spot on the conn-pod, which is already such a vital bit of a Jaeger for both its functionality and the survivability of its pilots.