- Location
- Canada
He's a surfactant-secreting epithelial cell in a submarine girl's lungs.
Changing Destiny (Kancolle)
- Thread starter Skywalker_T-65
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He's a surfactant-secreting epithelial cell in a submarine girl's lungs.
- Location
- State of Denial
To be fair, you'd be painting them for rust prevention, not decoration. But still...While I don't know Halsey that well, how is that different form his usual self? By any account he had little patience for fools.
One of my former colleagues (now retired) began his career painting the inside of submarine ballast tanks. Implications spectacularly disturbing.
You'd hope the inside of ballast tanks isn't a place that's visited often enough to warrant decorating it.
Either way, that guy is understandably not claustrophobic at all.
Fallenblades643
Seeker of the Divine Taste
Those tanks are big man, and require regular repainting.You'd hope the inside of ballast tanks isn't a place that's visited often enough to warrant decorating it.
Either way, that guy is understandably not claustrophobic at all.
Salt water is a bitch and a half.
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
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- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Yeah really.
There is a very well known incident from around '93 - '94, out at the Bangor sub base, where after a refit/maintenance cycle, one of the Ohios went for its submerged test run, and had to call it off ASAP on the very first dive when they blew the ballast out with compressed air. Due to an extremely loud metallic scraping/crushing sound on her port side bow tanks that freaked the crew into a going from a normal ascent-to-surface, into a near emergency ascent.
Got back in and checked out, and some really poor bastard of a maintenance enlisted had left a ladder in the tank. When they submerged and filled the tank, they didn't hear it shifting from the inflow of watet. But when they re-pressurized it with air, it made one hell of a mess to the inside of the tank, while getting twisted up like a petzel. IIRC the remains of the ladder (whatever is left that is) are kept at the engineering offices as a none-to-subtle reminder of fucking up is NOT an option if you want to keep your stripes. As they were quite easily able to see the number on the ladder, and compare it to which maintenance shift was last using it (signing out everything, yo) and who hadn't signed it back in, but fudged and 'replaced with new', without checking WHERE the old one might have gone.
Personally, I really REALLY don't want to know the damage bill to the tank for that incident. Because six figures is probably lowballing it badly.
Yes, its the same incident that Down Periscope referenced.
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The other Bangor 'incident', about the illegal seine-fishing/drag-net trawler out in the Strait of Juan de Fuca dropping it net and a Los Angeles getting it tangled around its mast, where it then dragging the trawler for miles before figuring out what happened? That one has been repeatedly confirmed as utter bullshit, spread as a base joke to troll civvies.
CompassJimbo
Where’s Your North?
- Location
- The former Rubber Capital of the World
Well, I know where Sink the Shigure got its party trick from, if that's true.
Fallenblades643
Seeker of the Divine Taste
The price tag actually wouldn't be too bad, The tanks are meant to handle depth of upwards of 1000 meters down, so outside of needing some buffing and repainting, its mostly man hours and dock use for cost.
Sakuya's Butler
A refined Butler to a knife wielding Mistress.
- Location
- ↓, ↘, → + Punch
Don't be so certain about that. Ohios are well known for having their 'silent running' gear on damn near everything inside the hull, and outside it too. I wouldn't doubt for a moment if the ladder didn't rip something up internally that could have negatively impacted her 'hole in the water' status.
- Location
- Nashville
USS Tuna: *Hack Cough* My lungs! Why do they hurt so much?
Captain: Someone check the ballast tanks!
Ensign: There's a ladder in here
USS Tuna: *Hacks up a bloody chunk of steel wool*
Captain: Tuna's gonna need a new coat of ballast paint... and a few weeks of dock work
- Location
- Canada
I swear, if the ballast tanks weren't so clearly related to fish air bladders i.e. the evolutionary ancestors of lungs, I would have written that your painter friend could potentially have been some sort of epithelial maintenance cell in the bladder.
In which case the ladder would be passing kidney stones.
In which case the ladder would be passing kidney stones.
Skywalker_T-65
Writer with too many ideas.
- Location
- United States
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While I try to get my muse to cooperate, have cutes:
Sandy River DL
(Verified Destroyer Leader)
- Location
- Lake Michigan
- Pronouns
- Her/She
Well, if used at sea, they'd be all but unstoppable, as no naval artillery would be likely to hit them. On land, anything cruiser weight and above would be immune to most battlefield weapons.
A little early to speculate on this imo, since Utah just rage-summoned herself after all.
On land, I would imagine it would be almost impossible to harm a shipgirl with regular antitank weapons. Maybe if you have some naval guns as makeshift anti-shipgirl weapons.
Perhaps land combat for shipgirls would be like the Mass Effect/Kantai Collection crossover?
Crossover - Sci-Fi - Ad Astra per Aspera (A Kantai Collection/Mass Effect Quest; No Shepard, you are the spaceship)
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Spectre
eternal servant to the Fire/EMS gods
- Location
- NY
most ship girls not Battleship class have anywhere between 3-5 inches of armor or less, well within the range of most tank gun/ tank guns.
That is true but ships are much bigger than a tank. If the shipgirls have something like the shipgirl effect, it is going to take more than an antitank gun to bring one down.
Admiral_Corgi
The Admiral of the PT Boats
- Location
- The Strange land of Florida
I think a question that should be asked is if we'll see some of the MSSB effects occur. Like trying to get something tailor made for Utah.
Oh the poor tailor who goes through that. I feel sorry for thee.
Oh the poor tailor who goes through that. I feel sorry for thee.
Most likely all clothing that was not manifested for shipgirls would have to be uniquely tailored for each ship.
ijnfleetadmiral
CinC Rengo Kanmusutai
- Location
- Admiral's Bridge, HIJMS Kongo
Be something if the USN decided to give Utah an honorary commission. I created a scale for rank for the shipgirls:
BB/CV/CVL/CVE/CVS/AV - Initial rank is Midshipman
CB/CC/CA/CL - Intial rank is Petty Officer 3rd Class
DD/DE/SS & Auxiliaries - Initial rank is Seaman Recruit
AR - Initial rank is Ensign (Naval Engineer)
AH - Initial rank is Lieutenant (Naval Medical Corps)
Based on this chart, Utah's rank would be backdated to her commission date (31 August 1911). Regular promotions from then on would put her as a Captain with 3 years' seniority at the time of Pearl Harbor. (Not to mention this would negate any problems with her possibly getting involved with her last CO whom - I think we can agree - has a soft spot for her.)
BB/CV/CVL/CVE/CVS/AV - Initial rank is Midshipman
CB/CC/CA/CL - Intial rank is Petty Officer 3rd Class
DD/DE/SS & Auxiliaries - Initial rank is Seaman Recruit
AR - Initial rank is Ensign (Naval Engineer)
AH - Initial rank is Lieutenant (Naval Medical Corps)
Based on this chart, Utah's rank would be backdated to her commission date (31 August 1911). Regular promotions from then on would put her as a Captain with 3 years' seniority at the time of Pearl Harbor. (Not to mention this would negate any problems with her possibly getting involved with her last CO whom - I think we can agree - has a soft spot for her.)
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Too low. I think they should start as sergeant since it is their ship body that went to war and at least they have experience because of it. Or even a lieutenant. As a matter of fact there shouldn't be a fixed starting rank and instead they should be ranked by their exploits for better cohesion.
Personally, I think it would be best for them to be advisers or XOs when they're ship spirits since if you think about it any damage to their shipbody is reflected on their spirit. And giving them the rank of a lowly seaman is very much a grave insult. I personally think it is somewhat comparable to sexual slavery. She have no right to her own body and they can snuff her how they see fit even if she have a better alternative. Wait... That's kinda worse. Especially to the destroyers who are very much children.
Wrong branch you're thinking of there, that rank doesn't exist in the Navy.
This comparison is waaaay off the mark, I don't know why you even thought it appropriate to say.