>>Though I'd
>>think Kongou (the girl) might have had an easier time sneaking aboard,
>>assuming that engineers from Vickers were tending to Kongou (the ship)
>>since they built her.
>
>That was quite a long time ago by 1946, but in a setting where Fusō
>and Britannia are still allies (to the point where the former has a
>major naval base on the latter's shores), it's plausible that the IFN
>might have consulted with the original manufacturers on some technical
>matter or another. Possibly a modernization, as her most recent one
>would have been in 1935, 11 years ago at that point.

I was thinking more the other way around- Kongou has two "cousin classes", the Queen Elizabeth and Revenge Battlecruisers, all designed by George Thurston, who I'd imagine would be quite keen on having as much data from all his "girls" as possible, in order to fix anything that might crop up between the designs. Of course, with 14 ships between the 3 classes, that'd probably be a never-ending conga line through the dry docks as the engineers kept tinkering with the plans.

>(Irritatingly, casting Kongō in the "main" UF universe is even
>thornier. In virtually every other case of overlap I can think of
>offhand, one or the other of the Arpeggio and KanColle
>versions of a given character is clearly ahead of the other in my
>estimation, and deciding which to include is therefore not difficult.
>The KanColle version of Haruna, for instance, wins handily, as
>does the Arpeggio version of Takao (largely since the
>KanColle one doesn't have a particularly strong
>characterization in the first place). Kongō, though... that's a
>hard call. :)

I still think it would be amusing (and very cool) to fuse them together, i.e. Fog Kongou cracks under the strain and ends up acting something like KanColle Kongou as she learns to live with the rest of the world (or is using it as an elaborate disguise, like Hyuuga has been accused of doing).

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