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16. "RE: RCFR v1: The Human Experience"
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   >>It only occurred to me after I published the story that she should
>>also have had a model of USS Amberjack (SSF-2781), the
>>Skate-class fusion-powered attack submarine that was her last
>>command before she retired from the Navy.

So I've added that to the sequence, because why not. Embrace the flexibility of the new media, old man! (I've been grappling with this for years. :)

>Oho! Yeah, she was an officer, Cappy and Maya mentioned. Wonder if she
>felt anything for her captain then?

In Amberjack she was the captain; as a more junior officer, she was too professional for that kind of thing. She was a very well-regarded officer; she'd have gone farther in her career if not for the Earthdome fiasco in 2406. One of the first things they did upon unifying all the constituent states' wet navies into Earthfleet was get rid of all the crewed submarines, and Commander Poisson was far from the only officer to retire early in protest.

(Retire early in terms of when she intended to; she had her 20 in and so could do so without penalty, but she was at one point aspiring to flag rank.)

Incidentally, that's why she hates those droid submarines so much. They put a lot of friends out of work and led to the premature scrapping of a lot of good boats, Amberjack included.

>Ah. Actually, this was my bad; you're right. I was factoring in a lot
>of other characters Corwin has never met before. Kongo, Maya,
>Haruna...basically, Arpeggio characters. Kancolle
>characters' weird parts are often artifacts of the combat harness, and
>they're just not using them.

There are other Kancolle ships who have peculiar costumes (the Kongō class's uniform is not particularly risqué, for instance, but it certainly is arresting, and then there are the Unryū-class carriers), but he hasn't met any of them either.

>>His name commemorates Captain James Cook FRS RN (1728-1779), the first
>>European to make diplomatic contact with Hawai'i, in 1778... and the
>>first, a year later, to be killed in the course of committing a
>>catastrophic diplomatic blunder in Hawai'i. Oops. Oh well, can't win
>>'em all.
>
>Ouch.

The local swiped one of his ship's boats, and he decided what he was going to do was personally lead a shore party to kidnap their king and ransom him back in exchange for the boat. What could possibly go wrong?

>I once had a coworker in an old job who was -just- discharged from the
>USMC before working with us, and it was very, very painfully obvious.
>Not in a bad way, but no one could mistake him for anything but a vet.
>It just takes time to pick up on civvie social cues, it's not
>something that can really be actively taught.

I'm sure I've told this story on the Forum before, but I had a Marine co-worker at Livingston who, in response to a parking dispute we were having with the Toshiba office next door in the business park, sent the company all-employees mailing list a carefully detailed battle plan in which he envisioned leveraging the military experience of all the veterans in the company, himself included, to overpower Toshiba and drive them from the battlefield office park. It ended with the sentence,

Toshiba started this but we will finish it. SEMPER FI

We were pretty sure he was kidding? But, man, he had thought it through. Be polite, be efficient, et cetera. :)

>Oh, absolutely. I knew her tough-gal act was at least partly just
>that; an act. I think you even stated it once before, mentioning that
>it's part of how she overcomes being as antiquated as she is.

Well, that and her hidden ultimate weapon of last resort. ;)

>Tatsuta is deadly serious all the time, yes, and devious, underhanded,
>and clever. What she doesn't know yet, that her sister does, is just
>how outclassed she is against Corwin in melee combat. If she knew, I
>have a feeling she'd have used some method of intimidation that didn't
>involve a weapon.

Tatsuta has heard about that encounter (I'm sure it's featured in Tenryū's fumbling, flustered attempts to explain to Tatsuta why she's so entertainingly, transparently attached to the Admiral), but she rates her abilities higher than Tenryū's. She assumes it was just a case of Tenryū being a dork as usual and getting romped for it.

Tenryū knows she'll never be able to persuade her otherwise, so she's just going to have to leave her to learn better on her own. If she finds out that Tatsuta actually threatened the Admiral, of course, she's still going to be mortified. :)

>Looking back, how did I miss that name? My, my. I see two
>possibilities here: Either a different ship Kongo was conditioned to
>ignore (because they should have detected each other if one simply did
>not know the other; is that correct?)

Under normal conditions, Fog Mental Models should be able to recognize one another, although Kongō's observation in Cantata that Tenryū wasn't trying to hide her IFF signature suggests that it's something they can at least attempt.

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