Kinda Story - (unnamed) 1

I'm at the UW right now, and I forgot my USB stick at home, so I'm going to type some stuff here.

A strange anticapatory hush fell over the crowd, a thankful change from the nervous chatter of a few minutes ago, as the HR executive manager stepped up to the podium.
"Congratulations . Now I'd like to say that you were all accepted, but that'd be a cruel joke. And we're all about cruel at HR, so..." Nervous laughter from the already shaking applicants. "But one of you made it. One of you has the chops to join our newest project. The rest of you came close, very close - the only reason we chose the person we did is because he happened to have some Ei-Ar experience. Otherwise, you are all very qualified, and you've all demonstrated yourselves very nicely - come find me or my flunkies afterwards and we'll make sure to be the 'good word' for your next interview, and I have no doubt that you'll get another job. That said, Walter Edwards, please stand up. You are the newest member of the Mary Proctor."
The 30 or so people in the room clapped out of relief as a youngish man in a red and white jacket stood up.

This is going to be the first part of a story I'm working on. It'll have monsters and giant robots. Ei-Ar refers to AR - Armored Researcher; I'm playing with the idea that there are very few giant robot series in which they actual realize that a 20-meter tall behemoth (1) is a big target (2) has to be concerned about how much it can carry (3) and is not likely to be very agile for its size and weight as the Gundam series would have you believe. So, the military uses the weapons it uses now (tanks, machine guns, helicopters, jets, ground troops, etc.), but GESSeR (Geo-Emergency Special Search and Research, pronounced "Guesser") Inc. will use ARs to allow its staff to safely investigate the emergence of GeoPhantoms.
GeoPhantoms are born of GeoPlasm (a real term, apparently, but I haven't pinned down the meaning yet), which appear somehow from faultlines that, in this reality, have begun to spontaneously appear going 10 years back - so the world is constantly wracked by small earthquakes (<3.0 magnitude). At first, the GeoPhantoms were small, just above human size (initially mistaken for Sasquatch and such), and attacked nearby humans without provocation, but turned out to be weak to proportionally-sized firearms. 5 years prior, they grew large enough to require tank fire to destroy, and have stayed at this size, though they have gained the ability to dodge tank rounds somewhat. For insurance purposes, they have been considered natural disasters (if large) or animal attacks (if smaller). They almost never appear in cities, but in more outlying areas where nature and urbanization meet.
GESSeR Inc. was formed as a contractor to the government (I'm not going to use a specific country unless I need to...) to specifically research the origins and possibilities of GeoPlasm - a recent discovery was the confirmation that GeoPlasm is a natural product, but is only formed with the strange faultlines - the idea for the first part of the story is that they (the crew of the Mary Proctor) find out what causes it to rapidly form together and attempt to deal with it along with their own theories as to what it is.
I think this story has some merit to it. I can paint a picture of the society in the background, and bring up various theories about the environment, as well as force me to improve my characterization-ing (if you, solitary reader, scroll down, you'll note that my last story is in first-person, and is basically me rambling).