(Sure, there's no way I could have ended up aboard a battlehip as they were all mothballed just before I could have joined up. But I bet you even a modern destroyer is an absolute goddamn maze.)

Tying the thought to UF, this makes me wonder how many years it was before my UF equivalent really knew where the hell anything was aboard the SDF-17. I have images of him wandering around in his off hours with some kind of tourist-map-style deck plan, and it not helping very much. "Ah, fuck, this is Daedalus again. We need to color-code this shit or something..."

Furthermore, and to bring the post even closer to being on topic for the board it's on, this gives me the thought of kanmusu New Jersey obsessively watching hours and hours of this YouTube channel, and occasionally talking to the screen when the curator-host speculates about some aspect of the ship that has been lost to time and guesses wrong.

"Ha! No, Ryan, that's not an emergency station! That rack is there because the #2 gun crew needed someplace to hide Drunk Dombrowski from the officers while he slept off shore leave."

Mind you, she's just as likely to learn something herself. "Huh, so that's what that compartment was for. I always assumed it was just overflow storage for the candy store."

Her sisters think this behavior is deeply weird, but she assumes they're just jealous because their museums' YouTube channels aren't as much fun.

--G.
"Jeez, Jersey, why do you have so friggin' many Damage Control lockers? How many DAMCON fairies does one battleship need?" "Semper paratus, Mo. Semper paratus." "That's the Coast Guard, you goon!"
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