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6/13/2025, 12:38:16 AM
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“You’ve likely also noticed that they cannot speak, which is a serious problem, especially for carrier girls like you, but a general weakness of all shipgirls. However, know that we can split our attention a few many ways with a bit of practice, and the more we displace, the more we can pay attention to. Little destroyers can’t do much more than maybe three or four conversations at the same time, but carriers can do about one per airframe, assuming they’re all strictly business. You’d do well to try it out pretty much now, though it usually takes us a while to get the hang.
“Also, your connection to your fairies does fade over time once they’re more than about a thousand miles away. Right now the crews of Ruby One and Two are merged with their airframes - I’m talking to empty cockpits here - but in another couple hours they’ll pop out, and you won’t be able to see through their eyes anymore.”
“Shit. I hadn’t considered that,” you admit. “Um… do Abyssals have fairies?”
Raleigh gives you an unpleasant look. “I hope not. I don’t want to imagine what awful little imps they’d be. But their carriers can communicate with their aircraft telepathically, we know that for certain.”
“I expected they would.” Unjammable and un-interceptible communications are going to be a serious problem, but both are still limited by the quality of the information their sensors can gather. “Juuust great. Next?”
“There’s still a lot, but most of this is about adjusting to life on land, so we’ll skip it for now. Let me see… Ooh, right. This last one isn’t part of the standard briefing, since most of the girls who’ve turned up here were sunk or scrapped before the space race ever began.” She then brings up another picture on the oversized flatscreen. A satellite view of Hawaii, it looks like, inverted across the x-axis. “This was taken by NOAA-20 yesterday. What you’re seeing is Hawaii, except exactly as it would be if it were flipped across the equator.” The image changes then, becoming a false-colour elevation map. “ISAR images of the islands produce the same results - Hawaii, as it is, down to about a kilometre-to-pixel resolution. It’s been there all week, obscuring some of the Cook Islands. This is typical of high-atmospheric illusions.
“You’ve likely also noticed that they cannot speak, which is a serious problem, especially for carrier girls like you, but a general weakness of all shipgirls. However, know that we can split our attention a few many ways with a bit of practice, and the more we displace, the more we can pay attention to. Little destroyers can’t do much more than maybe three or four conversations at the same time, but carriers can do about one per airframe, assuming they’re all strictly business. You’d do well to try it out pretty much now, though it usually takes us a while to get the hang.
“Also, your connection to your fairies does fade over time once they’re more than about a thousand miles away. Right now the crews of Ruby One and Two are merged with their airframes - I’m talking to empty cockpits here - but in another couple hours they’ll pop out, and you won’t be able to see through their eyes anymore.”
“Shit. I hadn’t considered that,” you admit. “Um… do Abyssals have fairies?”
Raleigh gives you an unpleasant look. “I hope not. I don’t want to imagine what awful little imps they’d be. But their carriers can communicate with their aircraft telepathically, we know that for certain.”
“I expected they would.” Unjammable and un-interceptible communications are going to be a serious problem, but both are still limited by the quality of the information their sensors can gather. “Juuust great. Next?”
“There’s still a lot, but most of this is about adjusting to life on land, so we’ll skip it for now. Let me see… Ooh, right. This last one isn’t part of the standard briefing, since most of the girls who’ve turned up here were sunk or scrapped before the space race ever began.” She then brings up another picture on the oversized flatscreen. A satellite view of Hawaii, it looks like, inverted across the x-axis. “This was taken by NOAA-20 yesterday. What you’re seeing is Hawaii, except exactly as it would be if it were flipped across the equator.” The image changes then, becoming a false-colour elevation map. “ISAR images of the islands produce the same results - Hawaii, as it is, down to about a kilometre-to-pixel resolution. It’s been there all week, obscuring some of the Cook Islands. This is typical of high-atmospheric illusions.
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