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Belated Battleships (KanColle) [REHOST]

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theJMPer said:
Only none of the ships during the test had any crew aboard. They weren't ships, not really. They were just hulls that had at one point been ships. A ship needs a hull and a soul. Without her crew, without her soul, she's just so much iron floating on a pond. Some of their crew does rub off on the ship, which is how you get shipgirls. But a ship without her crew just isn't whole.

A ship "dies" when the last of her crew steps off her for the last time. Going to the breakers is less a torturous death, and more the embalmers doing their work. The ships at crossroads were generally aware of what was happening to them, but they were already well on their way to the locker before the first bomb dropped. What pain they felt was dulled almost to nothing, and the last thing Sara felt was a vague sense of pride that she'd found one last way to serve her country.

Plus, shipgirls have very different sensitivities to pain, which will come in handy for a certain someone...
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This particular interpretation of shipgirls seems to have some basis in canon: none of the Crossroads survivors ingame have lines that have them vividly remember the nukes, just some vague, fleeting memories of it. For example, Nagato:

"What is it I wonder? What is that landscape, deep inside my memories? Friendly and enemy ships, and then that intense light... Hey, Admiral...I must be stressed out."

Here's another from Prinz Eugen:

"It's 9am. Hm? Ah, it's Nagato! Ooy, Na-gato! ...hm? Where have we met? That is, of course! ...uh... huh? Umm... where was it...?"

She knows Nagato, but doesn't remember where they first met.
 
I think i know how Wash and Mutsus kids are gonna grow up. First five years is fitting out. School is sea trials. Graduation is commissioning. :V
 
Heh. There's a difference between a bleeding heart and a shattered mind. There's enough of Pennsylvania there still to move the screws and train the guns, but there will always be a little something missing. Not many people recover from a stab in the back, even after the knife's path scars over.
 
Harry Leferts said:
I can strangely see Pennsy, every time she comes across Smolzona, picking her up and placing her into a pocket to protect her. It's one of the few times she actually smiles as well.
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Adding that thought to the list.

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Oh yeah, this reminds me, hey @7734!
Have you found some nice pictures yet? It's best to strike while I still have those ship-is-now-shipgirl goggles.
 
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Harry Leferts said:
Pennsy stared down at the little... being in front of her. It looked like a tiny, fairy sized version of her sister which was also staring at her in return. Behind her, on the wall, the clock ticked back and forth as the two held a staring contest before Pennsy looked first in one direction and then the other. Not seeing anything or anyone, she picked up the tiny being and placed it in her shirt pocket before rubbing it's head. That done, she buttoned up her jacket and walked off with a small smile on her face.
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Oh...oh god...I just thought...What will Nagato's reaction if she meets Minimu and Smallzona? The Squeeing may reach lethal levels.
 
konnigvanmessen said:
But ya gotta admit, having at least one Japanese capital ship from WWII as a museum for future generations would be preferable to getting nuked. Other ships could have been used that were not the last capital ship of their entire navy.
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Japan tried to get Yukikaze back from Taiwan in 1970 when she'd been decommissioned; there was actually quite a bit of support to have her returned to Japan as a museum, but the Taiwanese refused.

Harry Leferts said:
I can strangely see Pennsy, every time she comes across Smolzona, picking her up and placing her into a pocket to protect her. It's one of the few times she actually smiles as well.
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Agreed...perhaps her interactions with Smolzona will begin to wear down her walls?

Viper5delta said:
Oh...oh god...I just thought...What will Nagato's reaction if she meets Minimu and Smallzona? The Squeeing may reach lethal levels.
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Um, I think that's a given. :D

And for those who mentioned it, here's the wedding cake topper.
 
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Sakuya's Butler said:
I f'ing well loved that mode. I wished they'd bring it back.

Hell I'd BUY the hull as a premium in order to play that mode.
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konnigvanmessen said:
I like the space one. I never actually got to play it and I got in right after it... T_T. It actually was the reason I wanted to get a CBT and not wait.
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And here I am only having been able to play the most recent april fools where they just put a sub in port :/
 
Viper5delta said:
And here I am only having been able to play the most recent april fools where they just put a sub in port :/
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I missed that one... what was that about? Jeez the forums must have blown up at that...
Also, bring back the good devs! The quality of the company has gone down significantly since launch. I mean, April fools now sucks, premium ships are staggered in an obvious cash grab, and Haifuri, what replaced ARP, is premium! I can't stand the devs anymore, so much that I almost didn't by the Enterprise because it supports said company.
 
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konnigvanmessen said:
I missed that one... what was that about? Jeez the forums must have blown up at that...
Also, bring back the good devs! The quality of the company has gone down significantly since launch. I mean, April fools now sucks, premium ships are staggered in an obvious cash grab, and Haifuri, what replaced ARP, is premium! I can't stand the devs anymore, so much that I almost didn't by the Enterprise because it supports said company.
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They put a sub in your port. You couldn't use it. After the event was over you got a free slot.
 
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