The order of pre-knifehead fallen jaegers is:

- Coyote Tango. Destroyed in combat against Itak. On its second set of pilots. June, 2016.

- Victory Alpha. Destroyed in combat against Raganarok. The pilots survived. July, 2016.

- Tacit Ronin. Abandoned because its pilots died of neural overload. July, 2016.

- Lucky Seven. Abandoned because one of its pilots was decommissioned. 2019.

Following this pic from the wiki:

We know that the first jaeger was launched in 2015 (Brawler Yukon) and the last in 2019 (Striker Eureka).

The golden age of the jeager program was from 2017 to 2019, three years of gaining more than they were losing. The peak was in 2019, with 20 active jaegers. The bottom was in 2025, with no jaegers left.

2024 was the year with more deaths, with 8 j-pilots going KIA. Then 2025, with 7 deaths between the Double Event that killed both Cherno and Crimson, and Operation Pitfall, who claimed Pentecost and Chuck.

Between 2019 and 2023 there were 9 KIAs.

Which means Yancy was the first jaeger pilot to die on combat. It makes sense, given the reaction of Penecost to hearing that they had lost Gipsy's signal (and Yancy was dead).

It marks:

- 2019-20: 1 lost jaeger, 1 pilot KIA.

The list of fallen jaegers Post-Knifehead:

- 2020-21: 2 lost jaeger, 1 pilot KIA.

- 2021-22: 3 lost jaegers, 2 pilots KIA.

- 2022-23: 2 lost jaegers, 3 pilots KIA.

- 2023-24: 8 lost jaegers, 2 pilots KIA.

- 2024-25: 0 lost jaegers, 8 pilots KIA.

- 2025: 4 lost jaegers, 7 pilots KIA.

Let's compare all this info with the following Kaiju War Timeline from the wiki:

A) 2013-2014: The Feral Burst. There were no jaegers yet to defend humanity against the 3 kaijus that invaded the world.

B) 2015-2019: The Long Game, Part I. There were 24 jargers up around this period, with a total of 13 kaijus making contact.

Special mention to the Beckets, who got an impressive mark of 5 kills during those years. It means they helped killed more than a 1/3 of those bastards during the golden era of the jaeger program. For what I see, Raleigh is the only pilot who had ever abandoned the jaeger program because he wanted to, not because he was hurt or kicked out.

C) 2020-2023: The Long Game, Part II. The amount of kaijus who invaded in those three years equals the amount of kaijus who made contact within the first 6 years of the war. It means the precursos sent as many kaijus in half the time. Humanity went into this phase with 19 jaegers. By the end they had 4.

2024 reports 13 kaiju attacks. It makes sense that they lost 8 jaegers and 10 pilots more or less in that year. With 12 jaegers active, it is more than a 1vs1 situation. Something tells me that most of Striker Eureka's kills were during this phase.

Special mention to the Hansen, btw. *During Chuck active years, he participated in almost third of the kaiju killings that happened then. I don't know Lucky Seven's score in this race, but *Herc's win amount to a 1/4 of the whole kaiju fights during his active time.

*The count stops at Mutavore. It does not include the Double Event or Pitfall.

If we include Post-Mutavore but not their participation/assistant at killing Leatherback:

- Chuck: 11 kills, 35 kaiju appereances during his active career (almost a 1/3).

- Herc: 12 kills, 44 kaiju appearances (not counting 2016 and adding at least 2 kills of the Lucky Seven era; around a 1/4).

Yet again, if by statistics alone, Mako is the most winning jaeger pilot of the movie. In her active years there had been 5 kaijus and she has helped kill 4. It's worth mentioning that her debut was on a double event followed by a triple event, with the only Category-5 ever saw. Impressive, to say the least.

On the other hand, Raleigh has helped kill or killed himself almost half of the kaijus that had appear on his active years.

Here: (ratio is 19-20 kaijus, 9 kills).

- 2025: 6 kaijus, 4 kills.

- 2015-2019: 13-14 kaijus, 5 kills.

The Hansens record is impressive just in the sheer size of their killing count, which is still not complete given I don't have the info on Lucky Seven. Meanwhile, Raleigh and Mako are impressive for the efficiency record.

Of the 51 kaijus that invaded the Earth, Gipsy and Striker combine to 20 kills. That means 2/5 of the total.

To me, you're dead weight. You slow me down, I'm gonna drop you like a sack of kaiju shit.

Finale of my Generation K series: After Operation Pitfall, our heroes face a world who wants answers along with their own demons, and try to figure out what happens after canceling the apocalypse.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/13578582/chapters/44777947

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12824625/21/Character-Fitness

Epilogue:  War and Remembrance:   The surviving Rangers reunite with the pair who started it all - Caitlin Lightcap and Sergio D'onofrio, and decide it's time to break their silence and tell the whole story of the Jaeger Program.

Closing Note:  And thus, my sprawling, 5-year, 4-month mammoth Generation K series is finally complete, nearly 600,000 words, and a love, labor, and frustration unmatched in anything I’ve ever done.  Thank you to all my beloved readers for your reviews, support, criticism, and discussion on this long journey, and please let me know your thoughts now that this series is finally finished!

Here are the links to my blog entries about the headcanons that make up my  Generation K fanfic series:

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Mark-4 Jaegers.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Mark-3 Jaegers.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Mark-2 Jaegers.

Fanon/Side-Story:  Yankee Star, America’s Mark-2 Jaeger.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  Talon “Tango” Tasmania.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Shatterdome Commanding Officers

Generation K: Original Character Master List.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2013-2015.

Pacific Rim Headcanon: The Early Years Timeline, 2016-2017.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2018.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2019.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2020.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2021.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2022.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2023.

Pacific Rim Headcanon:  The Early Years Timeline, 2024.

No spoiler warning here because if you haven't seen Pacific Rim by now... I don't know what to tell you.

Anyways I was rewatching the first film and I noticed a key piece of dialogue that resonates deeper now that we know there's a sequel focusing on the previously unknown son of Marshal Stacker Pentecost.

Right before Stacker and Chuck Hansen march off to close the breach, Chuck asks how he's gonna match up with Stacker, who promptly gives an analysis of his character. But he ends it by saying, "you're your father's son, so we'll drift just fine."

Now at surface level, it seems like because the two are good co-workers, comrades and possibly even former co-pilots, that drifting with the son wouldn't be an issue. But there's a weight to the look that he gives Chuck as he tells him he's his father's son.

Furthermore, after Chuck and Herc say their goodbyes, Herc emphasizes to Stacker that he's taking his son, and it's obvious that part of his emotion is knowing that his only legacy is marching off to a suicide mission, but part of it rings as if Herc is appealing to the part of Stacker that knows somewhere out there, is a son who ran away from duty, probably because Stacker pushed him too hard or because his terminal condition pushed him away.

I mean, what if he was harder on Mako, BECAUSE Jake bailed on the program? What if Jake bailed because of a failed drift with Mako? She already knows by the time of the first movie that she's at least compatible with the tech for the program, maybe it's that moment with Jake that sends all three members of the family on separate paths?

And then at the end, when Stacker tells Mako that she'll always find him in the drift, what if that's not just a nod to her own memories, but the ones she shared with Jake? I mean yes, she seems brand new at the Jaeger tech in the first movie, but what if it's because she's learned to follow the lead of a veteran from her Sensei? What if she knows more than she lets on?