29th Pilot of HEAVY SATURN, one of the first bipedal anti-Kaiju weapons, and very possibly its last, Calvin Crockett-Nagai and his giant machine are a keystone of the defense of the San Diego region.
- Age
- 22
- Date of Birth
- September 8, 21XX
- Gender
- Male
- Eyes
- Blue
- Hair
- Black
- Skin Tone/Pigmentation
- Toned
- Height
- 5 ft 8 in
- Weight
- 550 lbs (mostly augmentics)
The second child of Samuel Crockett and Akemi Nagai, Calvin grew up in the shadow of HEAVY SATURN, the prototype anti-Kaiju superweapon designed by the brilliant - but infamous - Professor Hideki Nagai (his maternal grandfather) during the early days of the Second Crisis. They, along with Calvin's older brother Ichiro, lived in the heavy concrete fortress walls of BASE 617, a repurposed CORE combat station built by the former US government to safeguard the southern coast of California - a duty the Crockett-Nagais took up quite seriously, defending the remains of San Diego from attack (though occasionally sortieing as far as Hawaii and the former state of Arizona in crises.)
Sam Crockett was HEAVY SATURN's 26th - and longest-lived - pilot, due to a combination of skill in combat and the gradual increase of Anti-DaiKaiju weapons and NuTypes on the global stage, and Calvin's only memories of the man were of heroic awe. His death at the hands of the Daikaiju "Thunder Devil" over the East Pacific led to an unravelling of Calvin's family. Ichiro, 14 at the time, became withdrawn and angry. His mother was dealt a tremendous blow and threw herself into obsessive research on how to destroy the monster that had killed her husband. And Calvin, 8, was too young to even really process what was happening all around him.
Akemi Crockett-Nagai would take up the mantle of HEAVY SATURN's 27th pilot, undergoing more than the requisite surgeries - in fact, undergoing near total-conversion in order to compensate for a life spent not piloting combat machines but in their maintenance - and beginning her sorties in advance of actual recovery. She would perish two years later in a seeming mutual kill of "Thunder Devil" and a nest of its young within the corpse-island of the truly colossal DaiKaijiu "LEVIATHAN". located miles off the west coast after the latter's death during the fifth crisis era. Her death, though heroic and in completion of her revenge, left her sons adrift and unable to hold onto the family's adopted 'home' - HEAVY SATURN was relocated out of BASE 617 into an abandoned industrial park in the California Badlands, and Ichiro - now 18 and driven beyond all reason - became its 28th pilot.
This became a catalyzing period in Calvin's life, as he and his brother became wards of their "Uncle" Jack Curtis. Despite his brother's distance, he found himself chasing Ichiro's shadow and idolizing the hero his brother was becoming - by 20, Ichiro had two daikaiju kills to his name, and over sixty Kaiju. Despite the turbulence of the era, HEAVY SATURN kept the people of San Diego safe, returning in victory even when other local forces didn't, and becoming something of a local icon for the first time since their father's era. Ichiro dated, married, and Calvin too, for once got to have something resembling a normal life, attending school and doing fairly well in sports and academics - despite it all continuing in the shadow of HEAVY SATURN. The brothers reconciled and grew close again in the wake of the trauma of the last decade, and Calvin secretly hero-worshipped his older brother, who had taken on the weight of the world and won.
However, four years ago, disaster struck once more. On a fairly routine sortie against Kaiju designate "Onparanparan", Ichiro Crockett-Nagai underwent cerebral haemorrhage and total organ failure in the middle of combat; when a rescue team finally managed to get divers down into the cockpit of HEAVY SATURN, it could not be determined if he had died of the SRS [System Rejection Strain] from his implants or if he had drowned as SATURN had toppled into the Pacific. His wife, Lizze, was rendered catatonic by the news, and remains in psychiatric care to this day.
Indeed, the failure to stop "Onparanparan" was also a major blow not only in lives and treasure to the city, but to the faith of the people of the San Diego Margin Zone, as the lizard-like Kaiju rampaged through the city, inflicting a terrible toll in lives and homes before finally being driven off by defensive CORES and responding NuTypes.
Gazing up at HEAVY SATURN after it was fished out of the surf, alone with the mountain of steel that had become his entire family's casket save for the sounds of an angry crowd outside, something broke within Calvin Crockett-Nagai, or perhaps it is more accurate to say something hardened into steel.
Four days before his 19th birthday and over the stringent objections of Jack Curtis, Ichiro pulled in every family favor he could think of and underwent NuType conversion surgery - not the heavy cyberneticization of his father or brother, but the "FMJ" near-total bionic implantation as his mother had before him. The surgery had a marked effect on Calvin's physiology, and, indeed, his psyche; already archaic by most standards, the FMJ conversion replaced roughly 80% of Calvin's body with mechanical components - but the only thing that mattered to the young man was that it would let him pilot HEAVY SATURN.
Calvin's life has, since the first steps off the operating table, been dedicated to meeting the standard set by his family before him. The subsequent three years in recovery and the actual piloting of HEAVY SATURN have been some of the most tumultuous in the machine's history - ultimately leading to the acceptance of the UCAA's offer to extend the machine's protection radius to their premier Pacifica urban renewal project in exchange for material support.
Despite having only been active for three years, Calvin has seen more action than many NuTypes many times his age due to an almost constant sortie cycle - it could be rightly said he now 'lives' for the job, as there has to date been only one way the pilots of HEAVY SATURN have 'retired'.
Sam Crockett was HEAVY SATURN's 26th - and longest-lived - pilot, due to a combination of skill in combat and the gradual increase of Anti-DaiKaiju weapons and NuTypes on the global stage, and Calvin's only memories of the man were of heroic awe. His death at the hands of the Daikaiju "Thunder Devil" over the East Pacific led to an unravelling of Calvin's family. Ichiro, 14 at the time, became withdrawn and angry. His mother was dealt a tremendous blow and threw herself into obsessive research on how to destroy the monster that had killed her husband. And Calvin, 8, was too young to even really process what was happening all around him.
Akemi Crockett-Nagai would take up the mantle of HEAVY SATURN's 27th pilot, undergoing more than the requisite surgeries - in fact, undergoing near total-conversion in order to compensate for a life spent not piloting combat machines but in their maintenance - and beginning her sorties in advance of actual recovery. She would perish two years later in a seeming mutual kill of "Thunder Devil" and a nest of its young within the corpse-island of the truly colossal DaiKaijiu "LEVIATHAN". located miles off the west coast after the latter's death during the fifth crisis era. Her death, though heroic and in completion of her revenge, left her sons adrift and unable to hold onto the family's adopted 'home' - HEAVY SATURN was relocated out of BASE 617 into an abandoned industrial park in the California Badlands, and Ichiro - now 18 and driven beyond all reason - became its 28th pilot.
This became a catalyzing period in Calvin's life, as he and his brother became wards of their "Uncle" Jack Curtis. Despite his brother's distance, he found himself chasing Ichiro's shadow and idolizing the hero his brother was becoming - by 20, Ichiro had two daikaiju kills to his name, and over sixty Kaiju. Despite the turbulence of the era, HEAVY SATURN kept the people of San Diego safe, returning in victory even when other local forces didn't, and becoming something of a local icon for the first time since their father's era. Ichiro dated, married, and Calvin too, for once got to have something resembling a normal life, attending school and doing fairly well in sports and academics - despite it all continuing in the shadow of HEAVY SATURN. The brothers reconciled and grew close again in the wake of the trauma of the last decade, and Calvin secretly hero-worshipped his older brother, who had taken on the weight of the world and won.
However, four years ago, disaster struck once more. On a fairly routine sortie against Kaiju designate "Onparanparan", Ichiro Crockett-Nagai underwent cerebral haemorrhage and total organ failure in the middle of combat; when a rescue team finally managed to get divers down into the cockpit of HEAVY SATURN, it could not be determined if he had died of the SRS [System Rejection Strain] from his implants or if he had drowned as SATURN had toppled into the Pacific. His wife, Lizze, was rendered catatonic by the news, and remains in psychiatric care to this day.
Indeed, the failure to stop "Onparanparan" was also a major blow not only in lives and treasure to the city, but to the faith of the people of the San Diego Margin Zone, as the lizard-like Kaiju rampaged through the city, inflicting a terrible toll in lives and homes before finally being driven off by defensive CORES and responding NuTypes.
Gazing up at HEAVY SATURN after it was fished out of the surf, alone with the mountain of steel that had become his entire family's casket save for the sounds of an angry crowd outside, something broke within Calvin Crockett-Nagai, or perhaps it is more accurate to say something hardened into steel.
Four days before his 19th birthday and over the stringent objections of Jack Curtis, Ichiro pulled in every family favor he could think of and underwent NuType conversion surgery - not the heavy cyberneticization of his father or brother, but the "FMJ" near-total bionic implantation as his mother had before him. The surgery had a marked effect on Calvin's physiology, and, indeed, his psyche; already archaic by most standards, the FMJ conversion replaced roughly 80% of Calvin's body with mechanical components - but the only thing that mattered to the young man was that it would let him pilot HEAVY SATURN.
Calvin's life has, since the first steps off the operating table, been dedicated to meeting the standard set by his family before him. The subsequent three years in recovery and the actual piloting of HEAVY SATURN have been some of the most tumultuous in the machine's history - ultimately leading to the acceptance of the UCAA's offer to extend the machine's protection radius to their premier Pacifica urban renewal project in exchange for material support.
Despite having only been active for three years, Calvin has seen more action than many NuTypes many times his age due to an almost constant sortie cycle - it could be rightly said he now 'lives' for the job, as there has to date been only one way the pilots of HEAVY SATURN have 'retired'.
Appearance
Physical Description
Athletic, though mostly mechanical.
Body Features
All limbs and torso up to right below ribcage are mechanical, early-model NuType cybernetic augments.
Facial Features
Shonen eyebrows
Mentality
person.sexuality
Asexual
person.gender_identity
Male
Personality
The major events and journals in Calvin's history, from the beginning to today.
The list of amazing people following the adventures of Calvin.
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