- Location
- The ETERNAL battlefields of the apocalypse
Why do i get the feeling that she's going to bunnyhop a torpedo and everyone's going to freak out
A Crown of Biosteel (Kancolle)
Spectrum
Tell me a secret~
- Location
- Behind you~
missing space
double period
Aw, Grace has good friends.
- Location
- Somewhere between here and there
Canon torpedo-evasion technique according to the manga.
ltmauve
"Excuse me?"
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Right. Which means about ~250 kJ. But most of that is going into fragments that aren't hitting the target.
Grace's methods of torpedo defense:
0. Torpedoes not launched because Abby really didn't handle the presents the humans and shipgirls gave it well.
1. Evade by *** ****** * **** *****
2. Evade by thrust vectoring maneuvers
3. Prevent detonation by **** ****** ** **** ** ************* *****
4. Underside profile of body deflects surface-running torpedoes down instead of allowing contact detonation
5. Be in ********** ****
6. **** ***** ***** *****, "***** *** ******"
In fact, she's the only shipgirl who can't bunny-hop over a torpedo. Because the lower part of her body is an elongated manta ray, ya know.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
I wonder how much shit the Navy gets from reactionaries for the LGBT-friendly policies. Besides "not enough to outweigh the increase in recruitment and morale," obviously.
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Given this is america we're talking about? Probably a lot, especially in the central, landlocked, states and Texas. But also… war against a common enemy has a way of bringing humans together, so I'd say less than if they didn't have an enemy to fight and the same things were happening.
I expect a great deal of the older top brass at the pentagon has been quietly retired after kicking up one too many messes about such things as the wAr has dragged on though.
Mechanis
Confirmed Extremely Screwed
- Location
- Absconding with Alacrity
There's also probably a certain amount of not wanting to have Angry Shipgirls showing up to hang you by your toenails, because your options for stopping them basically go "another shipgirl" and "Cruise missile strike" without a lot of in between. Even a teeny destroyer isn't going to give a single hecc about pretty much anything man portable, and even the good panic rooms aren't really rated for keeping out somebody that can put a couple thousand horsepower into their fingers to pull the door off.
It's hard to oppress a minority when said minority generally comes with naval rifles and multiple inches of steel plate armor attached.
It's hard to oppress a minority when said minority generally comes with naval rifles and multiple inches of steel plate armor attached.
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Things would get messy if shipgirls threatening to physically attack government officials got beyond 'very deniable implication', no matter how justified.
If you try to personally and directly go after one of them, yeah, you're liable to get the 'bullying a dragon' treatment and unless you get turned into ludicrous gibs nobody's going to be able to complain much. If you're sitting in a legislature making dickish comments and votes, everybody is going to have a lot of incentive to find a way to fix the problem that doesn't involve naval rifles or girls putting fists through walls.
Of course, shipgirls also have brains and the support base that comes with being existentially critical strategic assets, so that can probably be arranged. Seemingly has been arranged relatively well...
- Location
- The ETERNAL battlefields of the apocalypse
Couldn't she just dismiss her rigging and hop the torpedo and resummon it or being a manta just dive under the sea like a fish and go under da torpedo before resurfacing
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Yeah, as much as they might try to deny it, the government doesn't actually have the monopoly on force of arms when it comes to the ship girl minority unless they want to start glassing their own cities in response to ship girl rebellion, so it's in their own interest to keep them happy and not plotting their inevitable revenge, no matter how much it must twist at that quintessentially American city on the hill arrogance that the political class hold so dear.
Granted, I'm sure it really grinds at the gears of the more fanatically monotheistic that they have to put up with boat Yokai fighting for them.
Granted, I'm sure it really grinds at the gears of the more fanatically monotheistic that they have to put up with boat Yokai fighting for them.
Mechanis
Confirmed Extremely Screwed
- Location
- Absconding with Alacrity
Oh, certainly. But just the fact that they could and there wouldn't be much anyone could do about it if there wasn't another Shipgirl stopping them, would be a significant motivator. The basis of diplomacy, when you get right down to it, is the implication of "Or Else"; that applies to sociopolitical issues just as much, if not more, than those of international relations.
Or to put it somewhat crudely, if someone Fucks Around with Shipgirls, they are going to Find Out, and knowing this keeps people from Fucking Around to begin with... Even if it's just because a bunch of other people dogpiled them and dragged them out back before they could do something incredibly stupid.
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Abyssals and shipgirls are going to be constantly stealing Grace from each other in the largest game of keep away the world has ever seen.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
Grace's anatomy is so fucking weird I'm seriously considering that she might be full of tiny space aliens that did research on kanmusu, their place in human society, and who would want to be one even if it came with superfishial resemblances to the enemy.
- Location
- Somewhere between here and there
Not entirely true. HMS Warspite (and most likely the other Queen Elizabeth-class shipgirls) has rigging that's essentially a weaponized throne. So there are a few shipgirls out there who don't have that trick up their sleeve.
On the one hand, no caffeine, which likely means no chocolate 😱, but on the other hand, probably no periods, which is a significant reason to want chocolate. On the gripping hand, a quick search suggests that decaffeinated chocolate exists, at least today, anyway.
Also, crustaceans, quite possibly crabs... a future video of a not-Abyssal crab rave? 🦀🦀🦀
Hmm, I wonder, if Grace were to wear a 'disguise', say a set of Groucho glasses, would that cause enough mental dissonance to throw people off from "Eek, an Abyssal! Run away!"
Perhaps add a pastel chibi version of her rigging to her clothes, somehow?
Presumably, there's something in her insides that makes black steel, black cloth and white 'flesh; perhaps if she takes onboard some paints, she might eventually convince her body that colours other than red exist.
I wonder if it would be possible to embroider shipgirl clothes?
Also, crustaceans, quite possibly crabs... a future video of a not-Abyssal crab rave? 🦀🦀🦀
Hmm, I wonder, if Grace were to wear a 'disguise', say a set of Groucho glasses, would that cause enough mental dissonance to throw people off from "Eek, an Abyssal! Run away!"
Perhaps add a pastel chibi version of her rigging to her clothes, somehow?
Presumably, there's something in her insides that makes black steel, black cloth and white 'flesh; perhaps if she takes onboard some paints, she might eventually convince her body that colours other than red exist.
I wonder if it would be possible to embroider shipgirl clothes?
I wonder if "mistaken for an allied abyssal and thus not engaged" is in this list. Probably not when shipgirl escorts are around. But it would be funny if an abyssal fleet would try to intentionally capture Grace thinking that she was in turn captured by shipgirls.
Jonen C
F.M.D.G.
- Location
- Lincopense, Ostrogothia, Suecia
Historicals are mostly Union girls, no?
Filed under ideas for Grace's future (temporary/testing/trial command) Division poster and or Patch.
I can already see the jokes about the two sides having joint custody.
Winged One
Not the Simurgh
- Location
- definitely the ground
- Pronouns
- They/Them/It
ltmauve
"Excuse me?"
- Location
- Earth
- Pronouns
- She/Her
USS Constitution seems to have a speech to make anyone feel 10cm tall, and like they have 10 IQ.
Plus I mentioned earlier about there being a law where you can't make money distributing fake news about the war. So it's harder for people to stir up the entire pot.
Maybe. But a fleet carrier sailing around without escorts is the kind of thing that makes flag officers start asking pointed questions. As a fleet carrier, any Admiral is going to consider "escorts" to go on the same checklist as "food" "ammo" and "spares."
Normal shipgirls only ovulate (and therefore have the possibility of menstruating) when one factor is low and another is high. Grace's parts may or may not have the same factors.
But I hadn't heard about decalf chocolate before. So that'll be showing up (hopefully)
Correct. No CSA girls.
I was gonna suggest as the *******'s fleet flag/symbol but I realized that it has to be something else. Which I have already foreshadowed.
Jonen C
F.M.D.G.
- Location
- Lincopense, Ostrogothia, Suecia
Unfortunately, while decaf chocolate exists, it isn't zero caffeine. Much like with decaf coffee, they can remove ~95% of the caffeine, but can't quite get the last little bit out, and with the degree to which caffeine is a poison to Grace, I suspect that would not be good enough.
However, white chocolate is caffeine free because it doesn't include any of the cocoa solids, so that is still viable, as is various chocolate replacements like carob. Though I could see a well meaning friend giving her decaf chocolate without realizing that doesn't have a complete removal of caffeine.
- Location
- Queensland, Australia
What I am hearing is that there were a bunch of disasters that pissed off the general populace in the Early days of the War to get those passed. With an interesting twist being that it's the groups usually supporting freedom of expression helping craft the legislature restricting it (because they want to ensure it's as hard to abuse as possible) whilst the groups which have traditionally been all about restricting freedom of expression (though admittedly also screaming about how they have rights to speak freely any time someone tries to stop them enforcing restrictions) which are pissed off at the legislation.
You know, I just had an interesting thought about the American 'Vocally Traditionalist' groups. Namely, their heartlands tend to be the inland regions right? Likely because those regions tended to have more restricted and slower methods of communication and travel. Well, the Abyssal War is a war where the coastline is most at risk and it's at risk in a way which can only be partially protected from.
Hence the mass migrations of the coastal population towards the inland regions. That must have caused quite a lot of hilarity which has continued until the current day in-story, especially in the electoral system due to some groups certainties about regions remaining as they are or becoming more in their favour getting flipped.
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- Location
- Somewhere between here and there
Shipgirls are quite capable of changing clothes; some remodels grant a new default outfit, and most of the canon cast have access to at least one seasonal outfit or costume (which they're capable of sortieing in with no lost performance). Embroidery should be doable, with the only question being would such added details persist through the damage-and-repair cycle shipgirls deal with on a regular basis?
Guarantee you there's still a demographic in Florida that insists on rebuilding their fancy beach houses year after year despite constant reminders from Mother Nature and now the Abyssals as well that that really isn't a good place to build a house you doorknobs.
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