Here: Prey 14.11:
Also, Leviathan didn't destroy world shipping by wrecking ships, but by destroying ports. That said, given the crossover you may well want to handwave that as an AU difference for thematic reasons.
Transposition, or: Ship Happens [Worm/Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio | Arpeggio of Blue Steel]
- Thread starter ensou
- Start date
- Crossover
- Location
- Florida
This is a very nice story. I don't know the cross too well beyond it being a ship girl thing but that's okay. The writing is pretty solid, incorporation of transdimensional processing is fine.
The only real fault I find in this story is that it starts with Lung like canon. I just feel like Taylor would have gone out sooner as a brute like Armsmaster said. Maybe sometime in February instead. I think it's just because I'm used to Worm fanfiction being very fluid about where and when Taylor starts doing her thing that a canon start feels wrong. Especially when being a magical robot girl is a bit more impressive seeming than controlling bugs. Oh well, I eagerly await more.
The only real fault I find in this story is that it starts with Lung like canon. I just feel like Taylor would have gone out sooner as a brute like Armsmaster said. Maybe sometime in February instead. I think it's just because I'm used to Worm fanfiction being very fluid about where and when Taylor starts doing her thing that a canon start feels wrong. Especially when being a magical robot girl is a bit more impressive seeming than controlling bugs. Oh well, I eagerly await more.
- Location
- The Beach
You can practically feel canon flying off the rails right here.
Fog are so fucking bullshit is wraps right around into being funny again. An Taylor doesn't even have all the bullshit the ships can pack yet.
About the same I'd say. Fog are far more efficient in what they do because they were engineered that way, utilizing the very building blocks of reality, while Entities' basis for everything they do is dimensional manipulation. On a 1 to 1 scale, I'd say Fog can deal with most parahumans/Shards rather easily; but all the Fog vs. an Entity would lean in the Entity's favor I think. I'd say the Admiralty or whoever created the Fog are certainly above Entities on the Kardeshev scale though.
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ensō's Guide to Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio and the Fleet of Fog
ensou
Magical G̶i̶r̶l̶ Servant Mordred-chan
- Location
- NEW YORK CITY!??
- Pronouns
- She/Her
A Guide to Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio and the Fleet of Fog
This is a pretty in-depth guide to the important stuff about the Fog that I threw together. It's a work in progress, but I'll try to keep it up-to-date as we move forward. Hosted on AO3.
This is a pretty in-depth guide to the important stuff about the Fog that I threw together. It's a work in progress, but I'll try to keep it up-to-date as we move forward. Hosted on AO3.
globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
the fun part is that the mental models can partition themselves and generate multiple personalities with independent human platforms while remaining only one ship (thats what I have gathered from fandom without seeing the show) .
the best part is that Queen admin has networked with her and compu-Taylor dumped a bunch of memory on it alongside of gaining an offsite server for processing she might have become her alter ego, maybe?
ensou
Magical G̶i̶r̶l̶ Servant Mordred-chan
- Location
- NEW YORK CITY!??
- Pronouns
- She/Her
"Super" battleships with enough processing power can do this. Yamato, Bismarck, and Nagato all exhibit twin mental models. It's not really the Mental Models partitioning themselves as much as it's their cores emulating two different personalities simultaneously. Think two virtual machines running on a single physical server (Amazon AWS, for example). Repulse helped supplement Vampire's processor to assist her in manifesting a Mental Model, but isn't shouldering it all on her own. It's a joint effort between them, basically two computers forming a distributed system that then runs the two VMs on the pooled resources.
Also, this is based on manga canon, not the anime. Just an FYI. There's a couple of differences. Not many, but some.
She freed memory on her primary processor as a result of coordinating with QA. Active high-speed low-latency memory that was allocated to controlling her nanomaterial. Which can now be used for other tasks.
I'll refrain from commenting on the possibility of QA gaining sapience or Taylor getting a twin. For reasons.
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Twei
I have a face!
- Location
- the land where they write things
- Pronouns
- They/Them
REASONS? Now I'm excited~She freed memory on her primary processor as a result of coordinating with QA. Active high-speed low-latency memory that was allocated to controlling her nanomaterial. Which can now be used for other tasks.
I'll refrain from commenting on the possibility of QA gaining sapience or Taylor getting a twin. For reasons.
The thing is the kardeshev scale is merely a power generating measurement, so in that case the entities would be far highier since they can harness the energy from stars directly.
globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
QA used to manage the inner network for Scion right? how likely is that she jumps ship (Ha!) to Taylor's side and removes the whole apocalyptic end battle against him by opening a backdoor in ShardNet? :lol
ShipTaylor: please don't kill my planet
SCION: [APATHY] [GRIEF] [HATE] [HATE]
ShipTaylor: Sudo don't blow the planet
SCION: [ACKNOWLEDGED]
ShipTaylor: please don't kill my planet
SCION: [APATHY] [GRIEF] [HATE] [HATE]
ShipTaylor: Sudo don't blow the planet
SCION: [ACKNOWLEDGED]
that´s mildly disturbing and utterly hilarious.
globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
"I'm Armsmaster you're now a halberd"
or
(running in the middle of the crowded street)
" Come back! let me study you in detail! you want candy? I've got candy! "
Well, if this happens I doubt there'd be a PRT/Protectorate/Wards left, never mind any kind of positive PR Image, it would probably kill the PRT/Protectorate/Wards faster than pretty much anything if people find out that was really Armsmaster running after a teenage girl while shouting that, PR might be able to mitigate it if spun as if some look a likes where doing it, though it'd cost even more if later found out it WAS him. And admit it, if you were a villain with access to PRT databases and found such there you would release it, seeing as it would keep PRT/Protectorate/Wards very, very busy to deal with it while you empty any warehouse/store/bank/whatever nearby...
I would love to see a PHO reaction thread to something like that actually...
You should not allow that to stop you. This is fanfiction. If you allow it, you can construct cores.
Then again, Hopefully, Iona and the other would enter earth bet
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jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
Well considering how Tinkers etc tend to have particular blind spots when it comes to specific things, Halbeard might not even detect her technology or something.
Twei
I have a face!
- Location
- the land where they write things
- Pronouns
- They/Them
He's not wrong. If you want to consciously break canon, you should feel free to do so - so long as you are fully aware of it, let us know that you're aware of it and can deal with the consequences (in story and out of story). If you don't want Taylor building AI friends, that's A-OK!
Clone Mental Models, on the other hand? With QA in the mix, who basically focuses on minions or at least parallel processing and networked control? She could probably pull off all sorts of clone shenanigans. Use random material lying around for the bulk of it, and use nanomaterials mostly for animating it rather than, well, material? Wave Field clones? Just plain appearing and disappearing into fields of silver sand? There's lots of options if she has the processing power to handle it. EDIT: and as people pointed out, clone shenanigans are nothing too rare for even middling Fog ships like Iona.
This is assuming, of course, that Mental Models are the human body, not the Union Core. If there is a max of one MM per UC, does Yamato have two Union Cores?
Actually having multiple personalities is of course optional, but she could just as well go with a multitude of (relatively) simple AI operating in a group, ala Geth.
Of course, it sounds like you already have plans for at least one AI friend. Even if they may be more Sufficiently Advanced Exotic Alien Biology. Wink wink nudge nudge.
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globalwarmth
ruining the weather.
- Location
- Polar ice caps
Went and read the setting infodump from the author and non sapient chibi humanoid platforms (1/4 size) are common, as are normal drone planes and subs. That's before QA so I gather there is no need to go off canon or shard shenanigans for those.
Turn the entirety of Brokton Bay into nanomaterials acting like what they were before like what Tony - I mean - Iron 'Lady' did.
Iarna
*indistinct crashing sounds*
- Location
- *points vaguely at the west coast of the US*
- Pronouns
- She/Her
Was basically enough to sell me on this. =D I know nothing of the cross, but enjoyed it just the same. Looking forward to more!
I think that was a combination of being seriously worried about giving away what she really was, having a far easier time of putting up with the trio so under less pressure, and being more rational in general.
Edit: Oh, and QA was in quarantine so wasn't pushing for conflict.
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Twei
I have a face!
- Location
- the land where they write things
- Pronouns
- They/Them
Bit of proofreading/typo correction here and there.
Missing period.
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Some actually commentary: TT thinks Taylor is interesting. Clearly this will not end badly at all. I wonder if Taylor will try to turn the Undersiders to the side of (relative) good? A non-Government-Sanctioned-Asshole version of the side of good, that is. (As opposed to the judgemental collateral damage version, which would be New Wave. Probably. And the Wards featuring Shadow Stalker would be the We'reTryingSoHardPleaseTakeUsSeriously version? )
As an aside: It occurs to me that the various different Fog glyphs Taylor is playing with are simple enough you could probably mock them up in Paint (or your local equivalent) and post them or link them. It would be helpful for visualization, y'know?
On the other hand, this reaction is good enough that I don't even care. Besides, it's fanon that I can support.
EDIT: More commentary, this time: QA! What kind of work is she doing, just to confirm? Or, to put it another way, what are Taylor's 'parahuman powers'? We see that QA's handling control (probably just direction, not telekinesis?) of the nanomaterials, and also apparently adding some Tinker ideas here and there? It's not entirely clear which of Taylor's newly found abilities are her Shard specifically, if any, and how many of them are just the extra processor power giving her more room to play around with more interesting stuff like Klein Fields. Which could be intentional, of course, but if not, well, I wouldn't mind a clarification. That's what author's notes are for after all.
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Missing word!
Missing period.
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Some actually commentary: TT thinks Taylor is interesting. Clearly this will not end badly at all. I wonder if Taylor will try to turn the Undersiders to the side of (relative) good? A non-Government-Sanctioned-Asshole version of the side of good, that is. (As opposed to the judgemental collateral damage version, which would be New Wave. Probably. And the Wards featuring Shadow Stalker would be the We'reTryingSoHardPleaseTakeUsSeriously version? )
As an aside: It occurs to me that the various different Fog glyphs Taylor is playing with are simple enough you could probably mock them up in Paint (or your local equivalent) and post them or link them. It would be helpful for visualization, y'know?
On the one hand, it's pretty much fanon that Leviathan goes ship hunting. He doesn't go ship hunting, he just tends to screw over ports. Which is still an issue, and the other two Endbringers hit coastal centers as well, but no ship hunting.
On the other hand, this reaction is good enough that I don't even care. Besides, it's fanon that I can support.
EDIT: More commentary, this time: QA! What kind of work is she doing, just to confirm? Or, to put it another way, what are Taylor's 'parahuman powers'? We see that QA's handling control (probably just direction, not telekinesis?) of the nanomaterials, and also apparently adding some Tinker ideas here and there? It's not entirely clear which of Taylor's newly found abilities are her Shard specifically, if any, and how many of them are just the extra processor power giving her more room to play around with more interesting stuff like Klein Fields. Which could be intentional, of course, but if not, well, I wouldn't mind a clarification. That's what author's notes are for after all.
And is that Shard conflict drive I spy there? Or something more interesting than that? o:
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- Location
- Seattle, Washington, USA
Unfortunately, an E88 Nazi already owns the trademark on Fog.
jwolfe_beta
Semi Genre-Savvy Overlord
- Location
- Canada
What I can't wait for is Taylor/Relentless chatting with the rest of the Fog Fleet over the quantum-linked BS that is their communication network. I mean Iona already said "Hello", Taylor just needs the Japanese language patch uploaded.