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Don't Shoot, We're Republican! - A Kantai Collection Quest

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Slayers148 said:
AKA Magicks!!

On the other hand, I believe that the shipgirls themselves "weigh" exactly as their real life counterpart but without armament. In another word, gunless battleship. The rigging will weigh exactly how much their real life counterparts weigh, i.e. Yamato's rig will weigh exactly as how the weight of 9x46cm Arty weigh plus assorted other secondaries.

Therefore, when combined...well...you do the math.
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I like that theory, but I have to fashion mine after what's already happened in this Quest.
In other words, I need to explain why, once the Ship Girls got on board, the Tulsa didn't just sink.
 
Well, Yamato did manage to stand on that little wooden boat without it imploding underneath her... at the same time she apparently was too heavy for Fubuki to tow.

This is the worst nightmare for guys who like to calculate firepower figures and the like from this sort of stuff. Fucking shipgirls, how do they work? :V
 
obssesednuker said:
Well, Yamato did manage to stand on that little wooden boat without it imploding underneath her... at the same time she apparently was too heavy for Fubuki to tow.

This is the worst nightmare for guys who like to calculate firepower figures and the like from this sort of stuff. Fucking shipgirls, how do they work? :V
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That's the only possible answer.
 
I wonder if the fact shipgirls are technically pagan (Shinto) magic has a lot of Abrahamic fundamentalist types all angry at them. "Shipgirls are the devil!"
 
I always assumed for the weight of the ship girls the original ships weight only pops up when the rigging is on. So Yamato didn't sink the raft because she didn't have her rigging on, and Fubuki and the others had trouble pulling her because they had their own rigging on.
 
dwennon said:
I always assumed for the weight of the ship girls the original ships weight only pops up when the rigging is on. So Yamato didn't sink the raft because she didn't have her rigging on, and Fubuki and the others had trouble pulling her because they had their own rigging on.
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Except once Yamato equipped her rigging, the raft stayed afloat.
And if that were true, that means that a single, not to mention multiple, Destroyers are incapable of pulling the weight of one small raft and a young woman, and that just doesn't follow.

It probably wasn't meant to make sense.
 
Perhaps shipgirls are subjected to their own laws of physics and have two sets of physics parameters once they put on their rigging. To the raft which only experiences one set of physics, Yamato weighed as much as a rather tall young woman, and it showed as much, but to the ship girls who put on their rigging and subjected themselves to the other seperate system of physics, the raft with Yamato really displaced 70000+ tons. This could by why boats and and other structures do not experience such stresses while hosting the ship girls with or without their rigging but the ship girls themselves are.

Incidentally, this would mean that if a ship girl with or without their rigging ran headlong into another shipgirl without her rigging, both parties would probably be knocked over but they would be relatively okay. On the other hand, if they were both wearing their rigging and collided, one of both of them could be seriously injured.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:
Except once Yamato equipped her rigging, the raft stayed afloat.
And if that were true, that means that a single, not to mention multiple, Destroyers are incapable of pulling the weight of one small raft and a young woman, and that just doesn't follow.

It probably wasn't meant to make sense.
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Eh, probably for the best to just not over think it. Besides, for all the official things it's not like it's all consistent anyway.
 
TheBleachDoctor said:
Hm... How about this?
Once on the water, they take on the weight characteristics of the ship they once were?
This holds true for them, and not their rigging.
Of course, this also holds true for over the water, meaning that if they were to try and fly over the ocean in a plane...

For some reason, this is voided when they are on a ship on the ocean.
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Well, looks like I'm going to throw that theory out the window. Because there's going to be a combat air drop in PPKDC. Because Kongou needs to learn how to skydive in full rigging.
 
obssesednuker said:
We're talking about physical objects with the weight of warships and the volume of girls in the middle school to young adult range. Physics is already off sobbing in the corner.
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Well, I was proposing that they are subjected to separate physics parameters depending on if they had their rig on or not and whether or not what they were interacting with was also subjected to the second set of parameters. This way physics still applies, it's just that the only difference is when shipgirls interact with each other and that is heavily dependent on if the shipgirls have their rig on or not.
 
Feng Lengshun said:
That is one ironic choice of image to use in this situation.
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I don't get it. Elaborate, please.

Ramble said:
Well, I was proposing that they are subjected to separate physics parameters depending on if they had their rig on or not and whether or not what they were interacting with was also subjected to the second set of parameters. This way physics still applies, it's just that the only difference is when shipgirls interact with each other and that is heavily dependent on if the shipgirls have their rig on or not.
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Yeah, but if that is true then Doc has to explain why the USN didn't just put the girls they were sending to Japan on an airplane. So in closing one plothole it opens up another.
 
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If this discussion keeps continuing, we might as we'll write a thesis paper on it, titled

An Analytical Report on Anthropomorphic Ships'「kanmusu — 艦娘 (かんむす) 」Surrounding Physics and Their Biology
 
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