Everything Started from the Second Impact




What is Second Impact?
In the last year of the 20th century, massive meteorite from outer space fell in the Antartic Continent. It made the Polar Ice Cap melt very quickly and the Earth axis changed, therefore, the water level rose and destroyed all the coastal cities. After that, abnormal weather, economic collapse, racial conflicts and civil war occurred. Half of the whole human race were killed.


However, the explanation above is from history books...



The truth is that, the United Nations(UN) research team in Antartica found the first humanoid creature called Angels (or "Shito") in Antartica. For unknown reason, it exploded, and caused the Antartica Polar Ice Cap to melt, and hence the Second Impact.





Angels ("Shito")
They're enemies of mankind which can be appeared in various forms. Nothing about them is known, even for whether they're living things or not. They possesses "Absolute Terror Field" (or AT Field in short) which can "neutralize" attacks by normal weapons. Even if the Angels are partially damaged by extremely powerful weapons, it has the ability to recover any damage. Thus, the only way to destroy them is to attack after "neutralized" its AT Field.





Mankind acts against Angels
Being seriously hurt in the Second Impact, mankind started to recover after that treagedy. At the same time, to avoid another Second Impact, a special secret agency was set up directly under United Nations(UN) called NERV. It's responsible for the study and annihilation of Angels. They built their secret headquarters at Geofront, which is the underground of the fortress city Tokyo-3. After 15 years of work, a humanoid fighting "machine" called Evangelion was developed which can fight against Angels. However, the pilots of them must be heavily trained. So far only two pilots are trained. Also, lots of facts inside Evangelion is still unknown...



Just after the third suitable pilot, Ikari Shinji came to Geofront, Tokyo-3 was attacked by an Angel, and he, without any training, is the only pilot available to fight. The mysteries of Evangelion was then started...


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