We actually did briefly back during Taylor's trigger event; for precisely long enough not to crush Haida like an empty soda can.
The question is, is Haida deliberately hiding that information? Because that's the sort of thing that should definitly have appeared in the briefing she gave.
This line just reads as comedy, even though it's a serious one, from the sheer picture it paints. Battleships in human form are scary!
They WISH Taylor was a battleship. The difference between the armor levels isn't significant and there pretty much aren't any targets she can't take with her aircraft, that could be taken with 16" guns, while having a much greater range.
Something about it that struck me; presumably the only way Dani could possibly stop Taylor is by torpedoing her. I
That may be the only way to kill her, it's certainly not the only way to stop her. I'm not sure how Haida's containment foam rounds would interact with Taylor, but if she could drop a 5" containment foam round on Taylor's deck Taylor isn't going to be launching any planes for at least a few hours, and might be able to disable all the guns with a dozen rounds, then she's "just" a high level brute. Even with conventional rounds mission kill is much easier than actual killing.
I was always under the impression that military folk were fairly understanding of their allies having extensive plans about how to destroy them utterly, since they had to review the plans about how to destroy those same allies.
I assume that was the point about "depending on how military Taylor's mindset is..." because yes, if she's thinking like a military officer, or even better an Essex class fleet carrier she'd probably take that as a compliment, or start arguing with Haida that there's no way Haida could take her out in a serious fight...
However if she's thinking like an abused 15 y/o girl with repeated bad experience with authority, she'd likely react very badly to finding out about that meeting. Fortunately Taylor has a crew* so is not likely to react negatively.
*Although Piggot is forgiven for not seeing it that way once she realizes what having several thousand highly trained thieves and pranksters under Taylor's command means...
Thinking about Taylor's ratings:
Breaker: Her fog form, but no idea what breaker rating.
Brute 9 (Duh. also stated in the story)
Mover: depends on the exact details of her fog form anywhere from 3 (if it doesn't actually help her move in ways humans can't so her mover rating is just her ship form) to 6 (if she can move at her ship speed in fog form and move through any opening large enough for fog to go through). I'd guess probably 5-6.
Master: Haida said 6-8 but seems to have overlooked the fact that Taylor's crew can leave her and handle various tasks on their own so I'd say 8 at minimum, possibly 9.
Blaster: 9, again duh.
Shaker:Might get folded into the blaster and master ratings, but I think between cluster bombs, her demolitions teams, and the crew's ability to sneak around she might need a 2-3 here.
Changer: probably only 1-2, unless her shifting from ship girl to girl is also counted as breaker, in which case nothing here.
Thinker: Oh boy. Just her ship senses probably count as 3 or 4, adding her crew spreading out and gathering information and the indirect skills they bring probably 5-6, if they "acquire" modern electronics to upgrade Taylor's sensors might as well call it 7, possibly 8.
Stranger: Might get folded into her master ability since it's only via her crew
You would be hoping like hell you get a golden BB and hit a magazine space or two.
Or simply going for mission kill.
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