She knew they were EVAs. She's supposed to be a geninus. She can figure out that the best way to "kill" an EVA is to attack the plug. Hell, she put her EVA's fist through at least two of them, she just chose not to aim for the plug, assuming that the MP-EVAs HAVE plugs, and not some other means of control.
When did Fuyutsuki, or indeed anyone, have the opportunity to contact Asuka between her waking up in the Entry Plug and the MP-Evas tearing her apart?
The insertion of the MP-Evas' plugs (distinctly marked 'Kaworu') prior to the carrier planes' releasing them, was shown in EoE.
None and she didn't ask anyone for information and may or may not have spent her comms to yell at how usless shinji is ...
Fuyutsuki was in the command centre. Asuka was in an EVA. So, uh... There should have been a comm channel.
Pretty sure the control room was linked to her Eva - like always.
She also just woke from a coma after being psychologically destroyed and was running on happy endorphins from Kyoko. It's not really a state of mind for clear rationality and intelligence.
Do they have cross-dimensional signal technology?
Just before Misato died, she contacted Asuka and told her to destroy the MPE's and that Shinji would be joining her shortly.
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Oh, right - thought you were referring to Leliel.
Almost; as it was, Misato radioed in when she and Shinji had to leave her car and continue on foot. She told Asuka to just hold on, Shinji would be on his way as soon as she got him to his Eva.
That, and it was nine-on-one so she was probably trying to cripple them and then finish them off later. It's not her fault she can't hurt them nine times as fast as they can heal.
Given that his EVA was sealed in Bakelite, and he was mentally broken, I don't think that's a fair conclusion. Less he didn't want to save her and more he didn't want to be alive anymore.
Eh, the Rei plug was pretty savage.
Given their location, the Plug interrupts the spinal cord right at the base of the neck. This prevents (what's leftof) the EVA's brain from issuing commands without the pilot's assent, perhaps excluding things like rudimentary life functions (provided EVAs even have those). The core, however, is connected to the Plug and therefore the CNS and the rest of the body, meaning one could control the entire EVA from there, presuming the pilot lets that happen (or is unconscious). The idea behind syncing with the soul in the core means that there are two pilots for the EVA, one in the plug, one in the core, and neither can act without the other agreeing, and sync rates reflect how much those two pilots agree. However, if one of them cedes control, either can directly control the EVA, like a berserking Unit or Kaworu's use of Unit-02.Why should they necessarily? When the plug is a control mechanism the logical conclusion would be indeed to simply destroy the plug or destroy the connection of it to the EVA.
The problem is it was never realy explained how the plug works together with the Unit. I would guess Nerv and Seele aren't stupid and built the Eva's in a way that makes them reliant on the plug to operate.
But that begs the question how 'going Berserk' works. In the show we are being told it's the implanted Soul taking over control. That would suggest there is a way to bypass the plug completely.
On the other side we are talking of a 100 meter somewhat cyborg with cybernetics and stuff. These would need to be controlled by a computer system to open the pylons for example or the spike launcher of Unit02.
The plug, I think, also interprets the neural data and then sends it towards the Unit. And with being human-like, it would need to control body functions like breathing, swallowing or that almost uselees digestive system the Units have.
In the end we simply don't know how most of the things work. That leaves us only to say 'Black Magic' or 'science'.
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What Turing said; the question was meant to be from Asuka's perspective.
I believe this is the understatement of the thread here.
Would you prefer 'vultures'? Or 'humans'?
