Well yes, but she has more than 10k Displacement on the bloody Midway-class. They could make that speed, but going up in displacement is a loosing game in keeping speed + as a ship she would loose speed due to her flight deck needing a broader prow, but then again, it can be fixed with biomimicry.
We managed to keep it up through at least CVN-65, who is actually about the same size as Grace. And may have actually hit 35 knots in service...
Well, Biggest E is kinda something else. She got that nuclear grindset.
When you consider what the roll of the Great Panjandrum was, it's actually an entirely logical device to create. They just didn't have the existing engineering knowledge to solve the issues with such a complicated design, and didn't have either the time nor tools (modern computer simulations for instance) to make up for that lack in existing knowledge.
So, one of the thoughts I had on this was this: what is the fundamental limit on this fleet? Hulls.
There's a suggestion that it was part of Operation Fortitude, the plan to convince the Nazis that Normandy was not an invasion site. No official word on that as far as I could tell.
I was originally thinking her entire wing would be at the surface of the water. But now I'm thinking just the tips sit in the water. They can't be under the water because buddies might hit it, but it has to be close to the water surface (at least) because they're used for counterheeling during intense turns.
Nothing says it wasn't meant to be a serious weapon for breaking out of the beaches but when it became clear that there were serious issues which wouldn't be solved in time (or within budget), it got 'sacrificed' and used in such a disinformation campaign to get some benefit from the invested resources and time. Or hell, have the failure happen unintentionally and then have said incident used as part of the general disinformation effort later without having planned it beforehand.
So basically her Rigging is a 'multi-foil hydrofoil' then?
Myself Id picture the battleships as being great whites or something. Also don't discount a sneaky submarine fron the list lol
Maybe something like the Soviet Project P-2 design?
Spelljammer comma The:
Might I suggest for the likes of destroyers. Remoras or pilot fish or other symbiotic commensal fish
Do you have any plans to use larger oceanic species like whales?
And amphibious warfare vessels are obviously crocodylians.
Honestly I figured crustaceans would fit for BB's, what with the armor and such.
This makes a heck of a lot of sense. Now that however many years of war have trained humans to associate "abyssopelagic complexion and biosteel" with implacable evil, the number of folks who'd be "comfortable with the end product" as our dear author put it is going to be pretty darn low; Grace's special circumstance of "batshit upbringing prevented her from forming any strong opinions about the war" was a winning lottery ticket in that sense. I almost wonder whether the second example, when it eventually comes, will be someone who thawed on the Innsmouth Look because Grace got over the PR speedbump and started attracting actual fans/supporters.
Only 10,000 tons? What is this, amateur hour?
Their spines are the basis for the fueling hoses.
Yeah. Keep in mind the ******* fleet only has one member right now.
Unknowns make a weird spirit-girl-biomechanical abomination against nautical engineering to contest with US Navy!
Abyss: Connects to abused child, to use them as an instrument of war
Grace has now beat Kitty Hawk's record, while K-314 is pointing and laughing from the afterlife.
