Germany
From The NGE Fan-Geeks Project
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The Post-Second Impact world |
Germany was badly damaged, as was much of the rest of the world, by the events of Second Impact. Still, it seems to have survived in fairly descent shape (possibly aided by its distance from Antarctica and relatively small coastal area) and is apparently one of the more powerful post-Impact nations.
Nerv-03, Nerv's third branch base, is located in Germany. Asuka Langley Soryu was born in Germany, to her American father and her half-Japanese/half-German mother, Dr. Kyoko Zeppelin Soryu. Asuka grew up in Germany, training to be an Eva pilot. Evangelion Unit-02's basic parts were produced in Japan, but she was assembled in Germany. Asuka spent a good deal of time training with Eva-02 at Nerv-03. Misato Katsuragi and Ryoji Kaji also spent time working at Nerv-03.
There are two sets of Magi supercomputers (three in each set) in Germany: one Magi system in Berlin, the other in Hamburg. Nerv-03 is probably located in one of these cities.
Germany is one of the 7 countries that took part in the construction of the Mass Production model Evangelion series, constructing Eva Unit-05 and Eva Unit-06.
Germany is "represented" on the Human Instrumentality Committee by Chairman Keel Lorenz himself.
Notes
- Germany is the most frequently seen location outside of Japan within the series, due to Asuka's past, with several of her flashback scenes taking place there. Other than a few extremely brief shots of the United States of America (really just satellite images of Nerv-02 disappearing in Episode 17, and Eva-03's transport taking off in Episode 18) and flashbacks to Antarctica during Second Impact, Germany is really the only country outside of Japan that substantial scenes occur in during the series.
- In the next episode preview at the end of Episode 07, Misato's voiceover says that Eva-02 and her pilot have "left Wilhelmshaven, Germany, to come to Japan". Real-life Wilhelmshaven is the German Navy's main base on the North Sea.
