The first Australian Jaeger ever built, Tango Tasmania was a Mark-1 Piloted by Miguel Blanco and Maria Lopez, Argentinian Navy pilots. They were friends before enlisting in the Earth Remnant Defence Corps, and got into the habit of dancing for fun - and were discovered to be drift compatible.

Tango Tasmania was officially launched in May of 2015, alongside the other Mark-1s: Cherno Alpha, Romeo Blue, Lucky Seven, Horizon Brave, Tacit Ronin, Coyote Tango, Marina Starlight, Jawbreaker, Jolly Combat, Gipsy Spectre, Victory Omega, and Susanoo. Brawler Yukon, the Prototype, was already active.

The Jaeger's first Deployment was in mid February of 2016, where it went up against a Category-2 Kaiju, Digonek, in the Bering Sea. The Mark-1 took the beast out in a matter of hours, with the Russian Cherno Alpha on standby.

After the Kaiju was killed, Miguel proposed to Maria, and the pair later got married.

Sadly, things took a turn for the worst, as in February 2017, just a few months after being married, Tango Tasmania was deployed once again against a Category-2 Kaiju, In February 2017, two months after Class 2016-B had graduated, the Breach spat out the next Kaiju, a Category II designated Vaulimi.

Tango Tasmania had been deployed close enough to Guayaquil that they were able to intercept the Kaiju before it could do too much damage to the city, but that was where the good luck stopped. The Mark-1 was able to inflict some serious injuries to Vaulimi, but the eight-legged, arachnid-like Kaiju proved to be a formidable opponent, and the Jaeger's nuclear reactor was breached by its raking claws before the pilots could deliver a killing blow, causing a catastrophic meltdown.

When the battle ended, Vaulimi was badly wounded, with only three of its eight limbs remaining, but Talon Tasmania had been destroyed, and Miguel and Maria Blanco were dead. The Mark-2 Peruvian Jaeger, Solar Prophet, killed Vaulimi with its huge spear, avenging the Jaeger and its Pilots. Godzilla also made landfall a few minutes later.

The King Of The Monsters waded ashore and made a beeline for the stricken Kaiju. Since this one was already heavily wounded, he didn't even bother actually fighting it; he just walked up to his outmatched opponent, slammed a clawed foot down on one of its three remaining limbs to keep it still, and blasted it at point-blank range with a jet of his blue Atomic Breath. Vaulimi shrieked in agony as the blast hit home, but it took less than ten seconds for it to stop thrashing as the fire burned through flesh and bone, and its signal promptly vanished from the LOCCENT's monitoring screens.

To everyone's surprise, however, Godzilla didn't immediately return to the sea after he'd made his kill. He appeared to be sniffing the air as he turned in a slow circle, until his eyes came to rest on the smoldering hulk of Talon Tasmania. Leaving the burned-out Kaiju carcass behind, he began walking slowly towards the fallen Jaeger, not displaying any of the aggression that he had against Vaulimi but something more akin to curiosity.

Fortunately, apart from letting out a low, rumbling growl when he glanced in Solar Prophet's direction, the saurian Titan didn't pay much attention to the standing Jaeger. He loomed over the fallen body of Talon where it lay half-submerged in a river, crouched down beside it, and dug the claws of one hand into a seam in the Jaeger's chest armor. With a wrenching yank, he tore away the outer layers of armor, exposing Talon's breached nuclear reactor with a burst of flames and smoke.

Godzilla actually shoved his jaws into the ragged hole in the Jaeger's torso, like a predatory animal scavenging a carcass. The rows of jagged bony plates on the Titan's back lit up again, glowing with rhythmic pulses of blue light, and with the way his jaws were moving, it almost looked like he was eating something, as if he were ripping out pieces of the reactor and swallowing them.

Godzilla continued that bizarre feeding behavior until the radiation from Talon's reactor leak had dropped all the way to normal background levels. Then he pulled his head back out of the broken Jaeger's torso, rose to his full height, and let out a low rumble as he shook himself in an oddly doglike movement. With a final snort and an imperious glance in Solar Prophet's direction, he turned away and began lumbering off down the river, ultimately wading into the ocean and heading back out to sea.

On the one hand, the fact that Godzilla had somehow neutralized the fallout from Talon's reactor breach was definitely a good thing. In fact, the giant reptile had probably saved hundreds or thousands of lives by absorbing all that radiation. But it didn't change the fact that Talon's pilots, along with hundreds of civilians who'd been caught up in Vaulimi's initial rampage, were dead.

Tango Tasmania was later taken to Oblivion Bay, and became the first Jaeger to ever fall in the War.

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Tango Tasmania's Foghorn.

Status: Destroyed.
Kaiju Kills: Digonek.