war with adam has concluded and third impact never happened, but unit-01 it's pilot, lilith, and all the rei clones are gone, having vanished during the events of the attempted take over of the JSSDF, experimentation on the evangelions however did not stop, thanks to all of the failed prototypes and the nine unmanned units, and the EVA units 02 and the newly completed 04, NERV has taken up it's predecessor's mantle becoming a scientific facility once more with new friends coming to NERVs door with new technology surely everything seems brighter right