"Welcome to the White Rose Fleet, Ms. Scarlet. I was told to let you know that yes, these alien battleships have cores, and no, you aren't allowed to eat them."
"That was one time!"

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>"Welcome to the White Rose Fleet, Ms. Scarlet. I was told to let you
>know that yes, these alien battleships have cores, and no, you aren't
>allowed to eat them."
>"That was one time!"

I dunno, I mean, "Flandre, second of the Scarlet-class* battleships**" has a certain ring to it.

>This post brought to you by Antidepressant Withdrawal
>Theater.

Oof. That must be no bueno.

--G.
* obviously this would have to use the British alternate style of class naming, as applied to e.g. the Town-class cruisers

** or possibly assault carriers?
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Based on the type of and sheer volume of fire available to her, I'd definitely lean towards assault carriers.

>I dunno, I mean, "Flandre, second of the Scarlet-class*
>battleships**" has a certain ring to it.

True. And it's better to eat a Union Core than a Neuroi core because (a) the former doesn't necessarily overwrite your mind, and (b) Corwin's there to help midwife her rebirth as a vampire battleship.

>>This post brought to you by Antidepressant Withdrawal
>>Theater.
>
>Oof. That must be no bueno.

My lips are tingling, my head spins when I move it, and I get all kinds of random disconnected thoughts even more than my divergent neurology already does. Last night, I came up with the idea for an all-cat remake of the Metal Gear Solid series, produced by Kitty O. Kojima. :V

But I'm on a taper to get me off it, so my psychiatrist and I can try and see if another antidepressant actually helps more.

>True. And it's better to eat a Union Core than a Neuroi core because
>(a) the former doesn't necessarily overwrite your mind, and (b)
>Corwin's there to help midwife her rebirth as a vampire battleship.

Alas, of the three historical ships actually named HMS or HMAS Vampire, two were destroyers and one a WWII-era submarine, none of which, I contend, has sufficient grandeur. :)

>My lips are tingling, my head spins when I move it, and I get all
>kinds of random disconnected thoughts even more than my divergent
>neurology already does. Last night, I came up with the idea for an
>all-cat remake of the Metal Gear Solid series, produced by Kitty O.
>Kojima. :V

This reminds me of when I was coming off the Demerol after they took away my dope-on-demand button, a couple days after the fucked-up cancer surgery from hell, and I dreamed what I am reasonably sure, in my hazy recollection, was a complete yakuza-themed action buddy comedy I starred in opposite Beat Takeshi.

>But I'm on a taper to get me off it, so my psychiatrist and I can try
>and see if another antidepressant actually helps more.

Well, that's better than what I was initially afraid of, which was something along the lines of "welp, lost my insurance, HERE WE GOOOOOOOO~" :/

--G.
first-world country, my ass*
* as it were
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>True. And it's better to eat a Union Core than a Neuroi core because
>(a) the former doesn't necessarily overwrite your mind, and (b)
>Corwin's there to help midwife her rebirth as a vampire battleship.
>

So what would a vampire battleship feed off of? I have this partially formed mental image of a ship whose bow splits open, revealing steel fangs, and chomps down on lesser vessels, sucking all the fuel out of them. Not a very functional sort of idea, outside of certain anime universes (might fit in Gurren Lagann for example.)

>
>My lips are tingling, my head spins when I move it, and I get all
>kinds of random disconnected thoughts even more than my divergent
>neurology already does. Last night, I came up with the idea for an
>all-cat remake of the Metal Gear Solid series, produced by Kitty O.
>Kojima. :V
>

I could actually see there being a market for such a game, and it would open up some new possible stealth and movement mechanics.

>But I'm on a taper to get me off it, so my psychiatrist and I can try
>and see if another antidepressant actually helps more.
>

May the medication gods be kind to you.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "This Space For Rent."

>I could actually see there being a market for such a game, and it
>would open up some new possible stealth and movement mechanics.

The downside is that it would inevitably followed by Kitty O's deliriously incoherent passion project, Cat Stranding.

--G.
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I think you meant Cat Standing.

Doesn't "deliriously incoherent passion project" describe most of Kojima's work?

(okay, I suppose the "passion" part may be variable and/or negotiable.)

>Doesn't "deliriously incoherent passion project" describe most
>of Kojima's work?

Based on the gameplay I've watched online, Death Stranding takes the above to levels that are positively Annovian.

--G.
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Fair.

I can't help but compare a vampire ship to the Abyssals in KanColle.

Granted, so far we've only seen the Reckless, and she's apparently unique, but as we have all seen stranger things have happened.

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>I dunno, I mean, "Flandre, second of the Scarlet-class*
>battleships**" has a certain ring to it.

Oh yeah, tangentially to this, I recently learned that just before World War I, the French Navy planned and ordered a class of five super-dreadnought battleships, the Normandie class. Construction was begun on all five of them, but none had been completed by the outbreak of the war, at which point changed national priorities meant that they never would be. The guns earmarked for the ships were sent to the French Army instead, and the four hulls that were finished enough to float were launched to clear the slipways so they could be used to build more urgently needed vessels of other types.

After the war, the Normandie-class ships would have been obsolete before they could even be completed, so after a lot of wrangling about what to do with them, the four launched hulls were scrapped in the 1920s. The fifth ship, Béarn, which hadn't been far enough along to launch during the war, was eventually completed as the French Navy's first aircraft carrier and served into the 1960s.

I mention this because dreadnought-era French battleships were all named after traditional provinces of ancien régime France, in much the same way that Japanese battleships of the same era were named after historical provinces of Japan, e.g., Nagato. Had they been completed, the second Normandie-class ship would have been named Flandre after the ancient County of Flanders.

So there almost was a French battleship named Flandre. In fact, the French Navy did have an earlier ironclad frigate by that name, which was launched in 1864 and scrapped in 1887.

--G.
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... Well now there has to be a shipgirl of the Flandre in Valhalla. Though that does technically mean that her older sister ship is the Provence. I wonder if Remilia took summer holidays there?

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