NERV

 

NERVE is a secret organization that was established some when before the second impact, after humanity learned of their evolutionary dead end from the dead sea scrolls; one of the great twentieth century archaeological finds. NERVE, realizing humanity's limitations, thus began the human instrumentality project; the next step in human evolution. The creation of a single perfect entity formed from the unity of all human souls. Otherwise known as the third impact.

Based on the many predictions depicted in the dead sea scrolls, NERVE organized an expedition to the south pole lead by Misato's father, Dr. Katsuragi, and it was there that the second greatest twentieth century archaeological find was found buried deep in the Antarctic; the first Angel, Adam. Humanity had found their god of gods, but when humanity attempted to contain what they had found, by reducing Adam to his embryo form, their god fought back, the second impact

Other than those individuals who left prior to the second impact, only Misato, at the time still a young girl, from the expedition team survived the nightmarish hell, no one else was spared as the polar ice caps melted giving rise to the true dead sea. All knowledge of the incident was covered up by the UN, or to be exact by NERVE now using the UN as a cover for the organization, and so the popular meteorite story was born to cover up any unwanted attention.