Gehirn


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Gehirn (ゲヒルン) (German: brain) is NERV's predecessor located outside NERV Headquarters and tasked with research and development of the Evangelion units via Project E, and the Magi, amongst other things. Branch 3 is located in Germany. Two other branches are located in the USA, and one probably in China. A minor branch is located in Matsushiro, Japan. Many of its facilities and members (including prominently Gendo Ikari, Yui Ikari, Kōzō Fuyutsuki, Kyoko Zeppelin Sohryu, and Ritsuko Akagi) would become NERV personnel later. It was converted into NERV shortly after Naoko Akagi's death and the MAGI were declared operational; moving from it's original location to the inside of what, today, is NERV HQ. Shinji Ikari, Ritsuko Akagi, and Misato Katsuragi would later see a "graveyard" filled with Gehirn's Failed Evangelion Prototypes within Terminal Dogma, of which line of research Unit-00 and later Evangelions would be made from the collected results of.

Known Members

 * Gendo Ikari - Commander
 * Kōzō Fuyutsuki - Unknown role
 * Naoko Akagi - Chief Scientist, Head of Project-E and creator of the magi supercomputer
 * Yui Ikari - Scientist working on Project-E

Evangelion Units

 * Evangelion Unit-00 - Unknown state of completion, later transferred to NERV
 * Evangelion Unit-01 - Incomplete, later transferred to NERV and completed

Non-Combat Equipment

 * Magi
 * Failed Evangelion Prototypes

Trivia

 * Although Gehirn is consistently spelled using all-capital letters, it is not an acronym. Many times during the series English words are spelled in all-capital letters as a stylistic choice by the Japanese production team, including words that are obviously not acronyms such as "ADAM" or "SECOND IMPACT". This has unintentionally led to some confusion when words such as "NERV", "SEELE", and "Magi" are spelled with all-capitals, leading to the incorrect assumption that they are acronyms, also referral to the pyramid and inverted pyramid shaped building called Gehirn.
 * It is unclear if the Graveyard was created during Gehirn's era, with NERV transporting it from an undisclosed location into Terminal Dogma and then contributing to it, or if the work of Gehirn was carried on (Project E) with NERV then moving to the GeoFront for space to create the Graveyard.

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