So, have an Amagi idea:
Edit; ugh, the typos...
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A grimace at sad news, a side glance at the ship in progress.
A plan was hatched and approved by Naval Command; if the dock workers could pull it off, great, just keep stuff on the down low.
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It was 1922, after the WNT had been signed, and officially, Amagi was to be one of those scrapped, or converted to a carrier; unofficially however, there was a plan to save her.
All it required was a moonless and foggy night before the foreigners came to see the beginning of the scrapping or conversion process. The locals had time to prepare after the dignitaries had passed through the first time.
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Really, Amagi's hull was barely floatable, so it took some careful crane and tugboat cooperation to get the hull to the water, made harder by having very little illumination to work with. But it was managed, and with a slow gait, the hull of the Amagi disappeared into the murky fog of Tokyo Bay.
It would be hours later, that Amagi's hull was raised out of the water again on the north peninsula of the Bay, well away from dignitaries and foreigners. Careful note would be taken by Naval Command so that the hull could be marked for construction later on.
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Years later, in 1927, the hull would surveyed and work would be approved for construction to restart. However, as a 10 gun battleship, since the hull had the beginnings of turret indents already, the twin gun turrets were old and outdated. the gun turrets would get elongated to the 50 caliber modern version.
There were other issues to consider too; the hull would be stretched to accommodate the larger power structure needed as well as strengthened. Amagi would take shape over the next few years, foreign observations be scuttled. After all, resentment lingered from Versailles over their equality proposal being snubbed, so why should others care what Japan did in her own waters?
Years passed, guns were cast, boilers installed, various contracts were acquired, even one for a T/E drive from an American Company in secret. Slowly the new Amagi took shape, how was this pulled off one may ask? The Navy got the Maritime industry somehow to erect buildings over their larger slipways, every place that had a slipway larger than a destroyer size hosted a building or a visual impediment to visual surveys with four walls and a roof type thing.
It was only after the LNT had gone by with a Japanese walkout and even sometime after that where the Amagi was finally secretly commissioned into service and the spirit of the Amagi surveyed the world for the first time in 1932. It was not an auspicious time for Japan, considering the world economy, but construction proceeded apace regardless on Amagi as well as other ships.
There was no band for music at this affair, rather a small collection of Officials, a Shinto priest, and the Emperor. Besides the collection of her human builders, there were also a few of the older ship spirits on hand to greet the new spirit. As months passed, Amagi became accustomed to her crew and learned a great deal of information from both surroundings and her various crewmembers conversations.
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Yeah, this is my take for a story on Amagi, inspired by a truck skin for eurotruck simulator 2 of all things, and Azure Lane; but this Amagi will be primarily a Kancolle version. Still, I wanted to offer this blurb up because there is a great shortage of Amagi centric stories. What do you think about Amagi being converted to a 15 gun ship and what about the PoD, is that doable in a fashion? 10 gun or 15 gun version? I do have representations of Amagi up to a 20 gun 16" version on Ultimate Admiral Dreadnaughts, just as an aside.
