>>Color me curious, will be fun to find out more.
>
>I am, as always, waiting with bated breath. Yesterday, in fact, I
>looked through all the Abyssal ships, curious, when that clever
>Thriller video got posted. I was sorta thinking that Earthforce would
>be trying to duplicate the Mental Model concept--not sure why--and
>their abortive efforts would create the disturbing Abyssal Models,
>just like how the more powerful Abyssals are obviously more humanoid
>variants of the early ships in KanColle. I wouldn't have
>thought of conflating the RE-class with a real-world ship, the
>Reckless, though. I'm pleased there's a link there.
>
>Of course, this begs the question of what turns a regular ship into an
>Abyssal, but perhaps we shall see. =)

Earthforce being Earthforce, I'm suddenly imagining an attempt to fuse Shadow tech (as in the enemies of the Vorlons, not the stuff from Robotech) with a Union Core...