DC Evangelion
Chapter 3: Changes
The arrival of Kal-El heralded a great change in the history of the world.
In many, he would go on to become Earth's Greatest Champion. In one however … he did not. In fact his space craft would land not in the Heartland of America but rather in the small island chain of Japan.
And the delay proved fatal.
The craft and its deceased occupant would be found by the Japanese Self Defense Forces who would recruit Professor Kozo Fuyutsuki to head a new organization to study Kal-El's physiology. This organization was the Japanese Scientific Analysis and Advisory Board. The JSA.
Among the various scientists recruited to form the think tank of the JSA included a young but undeniably brilliant scientist Yui Ikari. Due to the intense study and work of unlocking the secrets of Kryptonian DNA, she turned down an offer by the organization known as SEELE to work with the GEHIRN group that would later form the nucleus of NERV.
Without her intellect, GEHIRN would not achieve the scientific breakthroughs it would require to form NERV.
Yui's husband Gendo Rokubungi would however ally himself with SEELE despite, or perhaps because of her connections to the JSA which to Lorenz Keele's frustration, proved relatively impenetrable to his designs and firmly under the control of the JSDF. Gendo however proved able to acquire little in the way of his wife's scientific work due to the stringent security procedures demanded by the JSDF. Security procedures which would have been far more lax under GEHRIN.
The JSA also recruited several scientists to study the technology of the Kryptonian space craft and one of them, Naoko Akagi created the first quantum computer, a thinking artificial intelligence computer system that she dubbed BRAINIAC.
Then came Second Impact.
Most of Antarctica was destroyed. The Katsuragi Expedition was lost save for Misato Katsuragi. Among the casualties was Gendo Ikari leaving Yui a widow. The discovery that an alien life form was responsible for Second Impact spurred the Japanese Self Defense Forces to accelerate the JSA's studies and the United Nations to begin to develop their own defense programs.
The JSA's attempts to clone Kryptonian DNA proved to a failure as some portion of the DNA resisted attempts by cloning techniques. In the end, the JSA developed a hybrid. Yui Ikari used her own DNA to create a clone of herself with a mixture of Kryptonian genetic material creating a young girl whom she named Rei Ayanami.
Yui also gave birth to a son, Shinji Ikari. However the demands of her work forced her to relinquish the task of raising her son to others, she still kept in contact regularly with him through letters and the occasional visit. Although lonely and shy, Shinji was much more outgoing than he would have been.
GEHIRN attempted to use Adam's DNA to create the Evangelion. However without Yui, their work was slow and more than a few doubted their ability to actually manipulate the genetic structure of the alien life form. This lack of confidence proved critical as the United Nations spurred the uncertainty for the proven success of the JSA's work. Thus NERV was never formed.
Under the direction of the United Nations, work began on converting the Geo Front into Fortress 1. Simultaneously, construction began to develop other Fortresses in other countries including Germany and the United States.
The JSA created an artificial android, a massive construct which was the Enhancing Xenological Organism Frame using Kryptonian DNA. The EXO Frame Prototype 00. However the Kryptonian DNA proved elusively resistant to gene manipulation that would enable them to grow it to such enormous sizes, forcing the JSA to increase the amount of terrestrial DNA to almost 90 percent in order to force it to the changes they needed.
What they learned in their experiments in the Prototype enabled them to develop an almost 80 percentage of Kryptonian DNA in EXO Frame Model 01. The EXO Frame 01 never absorbed Yui Ikari ... although it stubbornly resisted attempts to activate it.
Fortress 2 in Germany came on-line and began culturing their own EXO Frame 02.
Several months later Fortress 3 in the Nevada section of the United States was completed and they began EXO Frame 03.
Successive construction began on new Fortresses in Brazil, Egypt, and Australia.
Lorenz Keele and SEELE still existed. However their influence, which would have increased and grown explosively with the formation of NERV did not. They were still a powerful quiet influence and while they could shape and manipulate events, they were not the invasive dominant power they would have been. The JSA along with the United Nations were far much more independent much to the disgust and frustration of SEELE.
Fifteen years after Second Impact, the Angels known only as invading aliens to the rest of humanity returned and ended the fragile peace on the planet …