Skull Island
Skull Island
is a tropical, geologically active island located in the Indian Ocean. Surrounded by a perpetual hypercane storm system which has prevented sailors across history from reaching its shores, however that hasn't stopped tales from forming around its mysterious nature. Skull Island was officially discovered in 2021 after its location was given to the Global Defense Force by the Moth Priestesses of Infant Island. The Kaiju Response Squad known as Titan Team was deployed to the island alongside the Mecha Unit Mazinger Z which was kept on the Aircraft Carrier GDFS Venture, their mission was to determine the significance of the island to ongoing research in Kaijuology.
First Expedition:
Upon reaching the shore of Skull Island, KRS Helicopters were ordered to clear a landing zone on the Island's interior, which explosive charges were dropped and detonated. The process however drew the attention of Skull Island's alpha hyperfauna, Megaprimatus kong aka Kong. Kong proceeded to attack and destroy several helicopters. Discovering that some sort of electromagnetic field was blocking communications beyond the island, the team attempted to reach the highlands of the island hoping to send a distress signal. Skull Island proved to be extremely dangerous in terms of both geology and biology, with massive chasms cracked along the islands surface and a plethora of predatory fauna which would claim many more lives. However Titan Team would discover the islands native human population, known as the Iwi, or The People of The Wall. Living with the Iwi was a man named Quint, who claimed to be the only surviving Atlantian. Quint was unknowingly responsible for the interference with communications through a device he installed on the island to effectively hide it from all forms of detection, once turned off Titan Team made contact with the GDFS Venture which swiftly deployed Mazinger Z to their location. Just as Mazinger Z arrived on the scene a fight broke out between Kong and two other kaiju, Cranium reptant (Skull Crawler) Codename: Skull Devil and Mosura diaboli (Battra). The details of this fight are highly classified however Kong, with the help of Mazinger Z, was victorious. After the First Expedition, a more specialized KRS was permanently stationed around the island to study it and its inhabitants.
Findings of KRS Thanatos:
Skull Island research headed by KRS Thanatos has found evidence that Skull Island was once or still is connected to a vast, theoretical tunnel system known as the Hollow Earth, however an entrance has yet to be located. Skull Island's ecology is strange, with a heavy bias towards predatory fauna. The Island is home to many species' found nowhere else on the planet and many lineages thought to be extinct. Non-avian dinosaurs, animals with advance symbiosis with plants, and a whole new class of animal; Hypervores are all found here. Skull Island's tropical climate supports three main biomes; Rainforest, Tropical Grassland, and Swamp. The rainforest of Skull Island is made up of several different species of flora with relatives found in Asia, Oceania and Africa. This rainforest also melds with a bamboo forest located on the East side of the Island. Skull Island's Northern region is covered in large mountains and hill lands as well as several larger chasms that connect to the Great Rift and many smaller pits, all of which are scars from the earthquakes that sank most of the island. The Grasslands are unusually suitable for agriculture for a tropical island, evidence found shows Skull Island supported many grassland areas in its lowlands before the earthquakes flooded them, these grasslands were the foundation of the Iwi's great civilization in its heyday, many farming tool artifacts were uncovered during excavations of Skull Island's flooded lowlands, these farming lands were used to support the ever-growing population of the Iwi comfortably. The Swamps of Skull Islands are arguably the most dangerous areas on the Island, full of many camouflaging predators that will not hesitate to devour a human, these swamps are fueled by the freshwater rivers flowing in from the North and the saltwater flowing in from the South, creating a wide range of water conditions and habitats, with many species able to thrive in both fresh and saltwater. The chasms scarring the island's surface run deep into the earth, with the deepest of them not seeing light at its bottom. These chasms are similar to the abyssal zones of the ocean, and similarly some species of both plant and animal have evolved to produce their own light. The Great Rift is the largest of these chasms and many smaller chasms are connected to it one way or another. It is well understood that the Rift as it is today was created during the earthquakes that flooded most of the island, however there is evidence to support that a smaller Rift was always present on the island, leading to some researchers to speculate this was the entrance to the Hollow Earth.
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Island
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