Of Ships and Girls and Shipgirls - a KanColle-RP (OOC)

[Novaya Equestria]

Dang it. I forgot to reply to ye, Jebs. But now, it istime gor la plot.

Novaya, who will be patrolling at night, will be lured out and captured by Abyssal forces, using an SOS signal, under Jebs' Abyssal Princess, who had plans to marry Novaya. As he disappeared without a trace, the Naval Base marked his patrol as desertion and a fleet will be deployed to find where the heck is he. Then, the fleet will find clues on where he went and why he disappeared/deserted. Once they realized he was caught on patrol, tjey will have to find out where he was located at. And upon finding an Abyssal wedding where the captured Novaya will he forcibly married to Jebs' Abyssal Princrss (sorry, will find yer app of her), they will have to crash the whole wedding and rescue Novaya all the while causing damage to any Abyssal battlegroups or Installations that happened to be there.

Uhmm...is there room for a training ship?

Is it a destroyer, frigate, light cruiser, or a capital ship? We had too much capital ships, in case ye need to know.

[The Helghast Imperium]

Dang it. I forgot to reply to ye, Jebs. But now, it istime gor la plot.

Novaya, who will be patrolling at night, will be lured out and captured by Abyssal forces, using an SOS signal, under Jebs' Abyssal Princess, who had plans to marry Novaya. As he disappeared without a trace, the Naval Base marked his patrol as desertion and a fleet will be deployed to find where the heck is he. Then, the fleet will find clues on where he went and why he disappeared/deserted. Once they realized he was caught on patrol, tjey will have to find out where he was located at. And upon finding an Abyssal wedding where the captured Novaya will he forcibly married to Jebs' Abyssal Princrss (sorry, will find yer app of her), they will have to crash the whole wedding and rescue Novaya all the while causing damage to any Abyssal battlegroups or Installations that happened to be there.

Uhmm...is there room for a training ship?

Is it a destroyer, frigate, light cruiser, or a capital ship? We had too much capital ships, in case ye need to know.

(Looks at the image I had) Merchant Raider.

[Novaya Equestria]

Dang it. I forgot to reply to ye, Jebs. But now, it istime gor la plot.

Novaya, who will be patrolling at night, will be lured out and captured by Abyssal forces, using an SOS signal, under Jebs' Abyssal Princess, who had plans to marry Novaya. As he disappeared without a trace, the Naval Base marked his patrol as desertion and a fleet will be deployed to find where the heck is he. Then, the fleet will find clues on where he went and why he disappeared/deserted. Once they realized he was caught on patrol, tjey will have to find out where he was located at. And upon finding an Abyssal wedding where the captured Novaya will he forcibly married to Jebs' Abyssal Princrss (sorry, will find yer app of her), they will have to crash the whole wedding and rescue Novaya all the while causing damage to any Abyssal battlegroups or Installations that happened to be there.

Is it a destroyer, frigate, light cruiser, or a capital ship? We had too much capital ships, in case ye need to know.

(Looks at the image I had) Merchant Raider.

Okay!

[The Helghast Imperium]

(Looks at the image I had) Merchant Raider.

Okay!

Wait, what would a Frigate look like, age-wise?

[Parcia]

Okay!

Wait, what would a Frigate look like, age-wise?

Like a fucking 10 year old.

[Jebslund]

Dang it. I forgot to reply to ye, Jebs. But now, it istime gor la plot.

Novaya, who will be patrolling at night, will be lured out and captured by Abyssal forces, using an SOS signal, under Jebs' Abyssal Princess, who had plans to marry Novaya. As he disappeared without a trace, the Naval Base marked his patrol as desertion and a fleet will be deployed to find where the heck is he. Then, the fleet will find clues on where he went and why he disappeared/deserted. Once they realized he was caught on patrol, tjey will have to find out where he was located at. And upon finding an Abyssal wedding where the captured Novaya will he forcibly married to Jebs' Abyssal Princrss (sorry, will find yer app of her), they will have to crash the whole wedding and rescue Novaya all the while causing damage to any Abyssal battlegroups or Installations that happened to be there.

Not gonna lie, I looked up the RL ships mentioned to get measurements and armaments, though the 88's and some of the armament numbers are my own substitution. Also, since I couldn't find a source on the top speed of the XP-55 as designed (rather than as built) other than a video I saw on it, I decided to get rid of the fighter based on it, seeing as the other two assimilated fighter types are vastly superior anyway.

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Hornissennest-hime
Type: Carrier
Class: Bienenstock (roughly equivalent to the Yorktown-Class IRL (Enterprise, specifically), if the Yorktowns had carried jets)
Role: Strike carrier
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1947
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Hornissennest-hime, like most Abyssals, has long, white hair, which she wears in a hime style. Rather than the pale white skin of other abyssal, however, Hornissennest-hime and her battlegroup have inhumanly green skin, despite having otherwise human-like features. Hornissennest-hime wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. Detailing near the aluminum collars indicates that the uniform may have originally been orange.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and the catapult exit to the hangar, which now features giant teeth which open to launch fighters. Additionally, the original paint has been corrupted to a dark black, and the entire ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Hornissennest-hime can best be described as... Driven. The targets she's assigned to sink/destroy, she eliminates. That which is to be captured will be pursued to the ends of the earth. The patrols she's put on, she makes sure nothing escapes her sight. The Abyssals she escorts are guarded with her very life. Her own escort is given the best support she can muster.

And, if she wants something, she *will* have it. And NO ONE ELSE.*stabbing sound* Who doesn't outrank her, that is.

That's not to say obsession is all she has. Toward those she cares about, she is very sweet and caring, often acting almost motherly to those she sees as family, and is fairly intelligent. Just... Don't cross her. It's not worth it. There's a reason her name means 'Hornet's Nest'.

Hornissennest-hime's resentment toward humanity is tied to her decommissioning. Namely, her creators using her to test ever-bigger bombs. Every time, they would send her to a beautiful island. Load her for battle with the same old aircraft. Then they would sink her. They'd raised her. Repair her. Load her up once more. And send her to the same island to die again. Over. And over. Until they built one big enough that they *couldn't* fix her. Small wonder, then, that she rose as an Abyssal Carrier-Hime. To her, the humans couldn't possibly be any different.

Special abilities:
Hornissennest-hime pain tolerance is nearly legendary, and her ability to precisely diagnose her injuries/battle damage by feel borders on preternatural.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
21,000 tons standard
32,060 tons full load
Length (overall): 252.2m
Width: 34.9m
Draught: 7.9m
Propulsion: 4 × shafts; 4 × OzeanMaus geared steam turbines
Speed: 32.5 knots
Complement: 2,217
Armament:
8 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
54 × 40mm Pompon (5×2, 11×4)
32 × 20mm Spuckballer (16×2)

Aircraft: 90
40 PHF-12SC(DHF) Ausf. A Corrupted Fliegendewaffel (Twin-engine heavy fighter/dive bomber comparable to a perfected version of the Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack. Designated carrier heavy fighter/dive bomber of the Jebslund Wasserarmee in 1947. Demonic eyes have replaced the intakes and propellers, and the aircraft radiates a demonic aura.)
50 JF-01SC(DJEF/TB) Ausf B Corrupted Maschinenteufel (Single-engine fighter comparable to the de Havilland Sea Vampire made to mount a single torpedo in place of the 500lb bombs. Designated carrier jet escort fighter/torpedo bomber of the Jebslund Wasserarmee in 1947. Demonic eyes have replaced the air intakes, and the nose sports an evil grin. The entire craft is preternaturally black and radiates a demonic aura.)

Armour:
63mm–103mm belt
60lb protective decks
103mm bulkheads
103mm side and 2in top round conning tower
103mm side over steering gear

Notes:

Aviation facilities: 3 × elevators
2 × flight deck hydraulic catapults
1 × hangar deck hydraulic catapults

In 1946, a new type of fighter was developed and put into production: A near-miraculous wonder of the waning propeller era that could take off and land near-vertically, at speeds so low as to be unheard-of in any fighter aircraft before it, and yet, at top speed, could keep pace with even jet fighters. Due to its odd shape, the fighter was called the 'Flying Waffle', and it was rushed into production in 1947 as soon as the kinks had been worked out of its design, with no nevermind paid to those civillians who had seen it in flight and immediately begun ranting about UFOs and flying saucers (and with no mention of teacups! Hmmph!), despite concerns that the fact that the airframe survived initial testing meant the engines may have been underpowered for Jebslund's military leaders' tastes, due to the amazing flight characteristics.

The fighter was put into service with the navy, where its amazing takeoff run could be put to use aboard even the smallest of carriers without the need of a catapult, with the latest of the Bienenstock-class carriers, the Hornissennest, chosen to be the first to receive the new designated heavy fighter. For over a decade, the Hornissennest and her crew faithfully served the Wasserarmee, proudly defending Jebslund and striking fear in the hearts of her enemies.

Until, that is, she was declared obsolete. She had known the day would come. The last five years of active service, she saw fewer and fewer veterans, and more trainees. She'd become a school ship, her once-feared fighters now relegated to training platforms. It was a decent fate, one her spirit was proud to have.

Until they moved her. They'd loaded her up with her old complement, armed her, fueled her, and, to all appearances, were sending her to battle once more. Except they weren't. They sent her to a beautiful island. Then abandoned her. Not a soul on board save the spirit of a once-mighty carrier, left to watch helplessly as radar contacts showed the incoming bomber. The first of many that would soon drive her to despise her creators as the bombs fell, the ocean swallowed her, and... And they dragged her back up. Repaired her. And sent her off to die again. A test target to evaluate new bombs.

At first, she took her new role in stride, seeing it as doing her part to keep the Kermanic war machine strong. As the tests went on, though, the agony of her repeated deaths and resurrections wore all good will Hornissennest spirit bore down until nothing remained but unbridled hatred for the monsters who refuse to just. Let. Her. Die... The ones who had used her and thrown her away and refused to allow even that mercy. The ones who had truly abandoned her. Thrown her to the wolves in an endless nightmare. Until the day they found their perfect bomb. Their silver bullet of annihilation that reduced an entire simulated battlegroup to barely-usable scrap.

And the day she found herself in a new place, risen as a new ship, a new being. And now with the opportunity to strike back at creatures so like those who had thrown her away.

OOC-section:
RP-sample: Here, under the username GIR
Have you read and understood the rules? "Ahead flank!"

Battlegroup:

Name: Adelheid
Type: light cruiser
Class: Jubelnleiterin (Comparableto the Oaktown class (specifically, USS Oakland) IRL)
Role: Anti-aircraft escort
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Adelheid has shoulder-length white hair done up in a right side ponytail and wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. She has a somewhat muscular build, with a medium bust and usually has a pair of pom-poms clipped to the belt of her uniform.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Perky and almost eternally cheerful, this sadistic cutie loves nothing more than watching enemy aircraft raining from the sky in pieces. Adelheid is determined to ensure nothing with wings even comes close to hurting Hornissennest-hime. And to watch the shower of aircraft parts fall from the sky. She is not all chainsaws and FLAK pops, though. Adelheid has a noble nature hidden under all the hate and spite, and is more than willing to sacrifice herself to save her allies.

Special abilities:
Adelheid has a near-impeccable sense of timing and balance, and a near-limitless emotional energy and stamina.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
6,826 tons (standard)
8,470 tons (max)

Length (overall): 165.05m
Width: 16m
Draught:
6.25m (mean)
8.08m (max)

Propulsion: 2 × geared turbines; 2 × screws
Speed: 32.5 kn
Complement: 802
Armament:
8 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
16 × dual 40 mm Pompon
8 × 40mm Pompon
4 x 88mm Taktstock AA (2x2)
8 × 533mm Imbisswurst torpedo tubes

Armour:
Belt: 28–95mm
Deck: 32mm
Turrets: 32mm
Conning Tower: 64mm

Notes:

The Jubelnleiterin class was a class of anti-aircraft cruisers considered vital to the Jebslunder war effort during the war. Even from the beginning of the war, Jebslunder admirals felt that anti-air firepower was necessary, and so it was that the Jubelnleiterin class was one of the most numerous in the Jebslund Wasserarmee, with several updates between 1940 and 1950. Adelheid sank shielding Hornissennest in a Blue-on-Blue firefight between Hornissennest and a battlecruiser when a miscommunication cased the latter to mistake her battlegroup for enemy ships. Adelheid has never forgiven her creators for what she views as her murder.

Name: Erika
Type: light cruiser
Class: Jubelnleiterin
Role: Anti-aircraft escort
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Erika has shoulder-length white hair done up in a left side ponytail and green skin. She wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. The garment is somewhat less torn than Hornissennest-Hime's, and lacks the orange markings. Erika has a somewhat muscular build, with a medium bust and usually has a pair of pom-poms clipped to the belt of her uniform.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Erika, like her sister, is near-eternally peppy and cheery, with a sense of humor as black as her paint and, like her sister, a thirst for whatever passes for an aircraft's blood. She sees it as her mission to rid the skies of all human-piloted aircraft, and has been known to 'drift' out of AA cover in order to lure aircraft to her. One of her favorite tactics is to time her shots to hit just before the enemy would be able to drop their ordnance, though such "tactics" often earn her an earful.

Special abilities:
Erika, like her sister, has a near-impeccable sense of timing and balance, and a near-limitless emotional energy and stamina.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
6,826 tons (standard)
8,470 tons (max)

Length (overall): 165.05m
Width: 16m
Draught:
6.25m (mean)
8.08m (max)

Propulsion: 2 × OzeanMaus geared turbines; 2 × screws
Speed: 32.5 knots
Complement: 802
Armament:
8 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
16 × dual 40mm Pompon
8 × 40mm Pompon
4 x 88mm Taktstock AA (2x2)
8 × 533mm Imbisswurst torpedo tubes

Armour:
Belt: 28–95mm
Deck: 32mm
Turrets: 32mm
Conning Tower: 64mm

Notes:

The Jubelnleiterin (cheerleader) class were all given feminine names, and were called the Jubelnleiterin class because of the Pompon (Pom-pom) and Taktstock (Baton) AA guns standard to the class. Erika was laid down at the same time as her sister, and, like her sister, escorted battleships and battlecruisers until she was assigned to the Hornissennest. Erika was part of the battlegroup mockup bomb test that finally sank the Hornissennest "for good", and resents being 'thrown away' in such a manner.

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Mary Read Kerman
Type: Destroyer
Class: Pirat-class (comparable to the Battle-class destroyer)
Role: Anti-ship/Anti-sub escort.
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:

Mary Read Kerman has short, white hair in a pixie cut and wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. She is fairly short and has a petite frame, and wears several gold earrings in her left ear.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Strong-willed and somewhat tomboyish, Mary Read Kerman lives for battle, and often finds herself bored when there's nothing to shoot. She has a nose for adventure (some would say 'mischief'), though she will follow regulations to a 'T'. In 'life', looseness with regulations was what cost her her life,

Special abilities:
She is a master of disguise.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
2,480 tons standard
3,430 tons full load

Length (overall): 116m
Width: 12.34m
Draught:
3.89m standard
4.7m full load

Propulsion: 2 Snack-Behälter 3-drum boilers; 2 OzeanMaus geared steam turbines; 2 shafts, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed: 35.75 knots
Complement: 268
Armament:
2 × twin 114mm naval guns
1 × single 104mm naval gun
4 × twin 40mm Pompon
4-6 × single 40mm Pompon
2 × quad tubes for 533mm Imbisswurst torpedoes
1x Verkaufsautomat anti-sub mortar (comparable to a Squid)

Armour: None.

Notes:

The Pirat (Pirate) class destroyer was developed by the Jebslund Wasserarmee specifically to hunt down submarines once the people in command realized that leaving big ships with no effective way of repelling subs was probably a *bad* idea, and frigates weren't always up to the task of chasing down enemy subs. Commissioning of the Pirat class and inclusion of at least one in every capital ship group reduced Jebslund's naval losses during the 2nd World War by a wide margin. Mary Read Kerman sank when laziness in cleaning the magazine and a careless ignoring of the onboard smoking ban resulted in a magazine explosion that cascaded through other explosive bits of the ship, crippling her to the point of scuttling.

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Kerriott
Type: Destroyer tender
Class: Herberge (Comparable to the USS Shenandoah)
Role: Support ship
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Kerriott has short, white hair, kept in an angled cut, green skin, and wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. She is short and, though still petite as far as shipgirls go, is stockier than Mary Read Kerman.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Very nearly obsessed with Mary Read Kerman, Kerriott leaves her side only reluctantly when the shooting starts, quickly returning to her side as soon as its over. She will not willingly allow Mary Read Kerman to leave her sight.
Special abilities:
She can cook almost heartbreakingly well, or lethally bad, depending on how she feels about the one she's cooking for. Kerriott also has training as a medic and a masseuse.
Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement: 11,755 tons
Length (overall): 150m
Width: 21m
Draught: 8.38m
Propulsion: 2 × shafts; 2 × OzeanMaus geared steam turbines
Speed: 18 knots
Complement: 1,035
Armament:
2 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
8 × 40 mm Pompon AA guns
22 × 20 mm Puffmais AA guns

Armour: none
Notes:

Kerriott is your bog-standard destroyer tender, forever sworn to be Mary Read Kerman's spear-carrier, nurse, chef, and maid, and housing for her crew. She doesn't really have any illustrious stories, other than being the one keeping the Mary Read Kerman running smoothly. Was part of the battlegroup mockup bomb test that finally sank the Hornissennest "for good".

Personnel file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Turmfalke
Type: Heavy Cruiser
Class: Turmfalke (comparable to a Admiral Hipper-class cruiser)
Role: Anti-ship Escort
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1939
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Turmfalke has shoulder-length white hair done up in a bun and green skin. She wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. The garment is somewhat less torn than Hornissennest-Hime's, and lacks the orange markings.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Aggressive to a fault, Turmfalke is a fighter, not a lover, and it shows. It takes very little to anger Turmfalke, and, once angered, she will gladly pound the target of her rage into scrap, a trait which is liable to land her in hot water with her superiors. Even as a normal ship, Turmfalke's crew would often pretend not to have heard orders to disengage a target, a habit which proved fatal to the ship in a late postwar skirmish, allowing the heavy cruiser to be sunk in an ambush after being baited by a damaged enemy frigate into a group of destroyers and submarines. Turmfalke bears a strong grudge against her creators, and humanity by virtue of their resemblance to them, over her rather ignominious death, and is no less vicious with her new enemies than her old.

Special abilities:
Turmfalke had got excellent eyesight.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement: 20,100 tons
Length (overall): 210m
Width: 21.8m
Draught: 7.9m
Propulsion: 3 × OzeanMaus geared steam turbines, 3 × three-blade propellers
Speed: 32 knots
Complement: 1382
Armament:
8 × 203mm Fahnenstange-II high-velocity naval guns (received in 1947)
12 × 105mm Lineal naval guns
12 × 40mm Pompon
8 × 20mm Puffmais
6 × 533mm Imbisswurst torpedo tubes

Aircraft:
1x JWC-03SFGBC Ausf. B Fliegendeschweine signal plane (Single-engine jet-powered small flying boat used to extend communications range. Flies to the edge of comms range, then signals all allied ships within its range, flying as much of a circle as it can while avoiding enemy ships as it does. Similar flight characteristics to the Me-163 Komet, but with a top speed of only 1000km/h. Unarmed, and, like the Japanese A6M Type Zero, has no armor or self-sealing fuel tanks. A demonic eye has replaced the cockpit, and the nose has become a demonic mouth much like the shark mouth noseart on the planes of the Flying Tigers. The entire aircraft radiates a demonic aura. *Can* be used for recon, but won't usually be unless the Fernglas recon planes are unavailable.)

2x PR-01SWPC Ausf. Z Fernglas (Single-engine recon seaplane comparable to the Swordfish torpedo bomber, sans armament, with a radar box attached to the frame between the wings on either side of the cockpit for redundancy. Typically launched by lowering the plane into the water first. The entire craft is pitch black, radiates a demonic aura, and has a small imp at the controls.)

Armour:
Belt: 70 to 80mm
Armor deck: 20 to 50mm
Turret faces: 105mm

Notes: None

The Turmfalke-class was originally built toward the beginning of the Second World War as an escort vessel for carriers and battleships after it was discovered that big guns and thick armor did *not*, in fact, an invincible battleship make, and that maaaaaaaybe it would be a good idea to have more, smaller guns in addition to the big, powerful ones. Later in the war, when aircraft carriers really started to take off, it became standard practice to put at least one Tumfalke-class in each group for protection. The class namer, the []Turmfalke[/I], received new, higher-velocity main guns when she was refitted and assigned to the Hornissennest, but was spared her fate due to the crew pushing their luck one too many times.

Second, that still doesn't answer the question of why Novaya and how do they *first* meet? There's no reason for Hornissennest to know who he is right from the word go, and less for her to be smitten with him without getting to know him (or at least know *of* him and form an opinion on that).

[The Selkie]

Okay!

Wait, what would a Frigate look like, age-wise?

A bit younger then a ten year old lassie, as Tsushima demonstrates.
Now, more onto the point. As already mentioned, everything up to heavy cruiser tonnage is fine, but I see another issue approaching: Your RP-sample. This is literrally your third post, all three of which are on this thread. To quote the rules:

Please give one RP-sample, namely a RP, where you interacted with other players (no paragraphs written on the fly!) [...]

Not gonna lie, I looked up the RL ships mentioned to get measurements and armaments, though the 88's and some of the armament numbers are my own substitution. Also, since I couldn't find a source on the top speed of the XP-55 as designed (rather than as built) other than a video I saw on it, I decided to get rid of the fighter based on it, seeing as the other two assimilated fighter types are vastly superior anyway.

[spoiler=The Princess]

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Hornissennest-hime
Type: Carrier
Class: Bienenstock (roughly equivalent to the Yorktown-Class IRL (Enterprise, specifically), if the Yorktowns had carried jets)
Role: Strike carrier
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1947
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Hornissennest-hime, like most Abyssals, has long, white hair, which she wears in a hime style. Rather than the pale white skin of other abyssal, however, Hornissennest-hime and her battlegroup have inhumanly green skin, despite having otherwise human-like features. Hornissennest-hime wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. Detailing near the aluminum collars indicates that the uniform may have originally been orange.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and the catapult exit to the hangar, which now features giant teeth which open to launch fighters. Additionally, the original paint has been corrupted to a dark black, and the entire ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Hornissennest-hime can best be described as... Driven. The targets she's assigned to sink/destroy, she eliminates. That which is to be captured will be pursued to the ends of the earth. The patrols she's put on, she makes sure nothing escapes her sight. The Abyssals she escorts are guarded with her very life. Her own escort is given the best support she can muster.

And, if she wants something, she *will* have it. And NO ONE ELSE.*stabbing sound* Who doesn't outrank her, that is.

That's not to say obsession is all she has. Toward those she cares about, she is very sweet and caring, often acting almost motherly to those she sees as family, and is fairly intelligent. Just... Don't cross her. It's not worth it. There's a reason her name means 'Hornet's Nest'.

Hornissennest-hime's resentment toward humanity is tied to her decommissioning. Namely, her creators using her to test ever-bigger bombs. Every time, they would send her to a beautiful island. Load her for battle with the same old aircraft. Then they would sink her. They'd raised her. Repair her. Load her up once more. And send her to the same island to die again. Over. And over. Until they built one big enough that they *couldn't* fix her. Small wonder, then, that she rose as an Abyssal Carrier-Hime. To her, the humans couldn't possibly be any different.

Special abilities:
Hornissennest-hime pain tolerance is nearly legendary, and her ability to precisely diagnose her injuries/battle damage by feel borders on preternatural.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
21,000 tons standard
32,060 tons full load
Length (overall): 252.2m
Width: 34.9m
Draught: 7.9m
Propulsion: 4 × shafts; 4 × OzeanMaus geared steam turbines
Speed: 32.5 knots
Complement: 2,217
Armament:
8 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
54 × 40mm Pompon (5×2, 11×4)
32 × 20mm Spuckballer (16×2)

Aircraft: 90
40 PHF-12SC(DHF) Ausf. A Corrupted Fliegendewaffel (Twin-engine heavy fighter/dive bomber comparable to a perfected version of the Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack. Designated carrier heavy fighter/dive bomber of the Jebslund Wasserarmee in 1947. Demonic eyes have replaced the intakes and propellers, and the aircraft radiates a demonic aura.)
50 JF-01SC(DJEF/TB) Ausf B Corrupted Maschinenteufel (Single-engine fighter comparable to the de Havilland Sea Vampire made to mount a single torpedo in place of the 500lb bombs. Designated carrier jet escort fighter/torpedo bomber of the Jebslund Wasserarmee in 1947. Demonic eyes have replaced the air intakes, and the nose sports an evil grin. The entire craft is preternaturally black and radiates a demonic aura.)

Armour:
63mm–103mm belt
60lb protective decks
103mm bulkheads
103mm side and 2in top round conning tower
103mm side over steering gear

Notes:

Aviation facilities: 3 × elevators
2 × flight deck hydraulic catapults
1 × hangar deck hydraulic catapults

In 1946, a new type of fighter was developed and put into production: A near-miraculous wonder of the waning propeller era that could take off and land near-vertically, at speeds so low as to be unheard-of in any fighter aircraft before it, and yet, at top speed, could keep pace with even jet fighters. Due to its odd shape, the fighter was called the 'Flying Waffle', and it was rushed into production in 1947 as soon as the kinks had been worked out of its design, with no nevermind paid to those civillians who had seen it in flight and immediately begun ranting about UFOs and flying saucers (and with no mention of teacups! Hmmph!), despite concerns that the fact that the airframe survived initial testing meant the engines may have been underpowered for Jebslund's military leaders' tastes, due to the amazing flight characteristics.

The fighter was put into service with the navy, where its amazing takeoff run could be put to use aboard even the smallest of carriers without the need of a catapult, with the latest of the Bienenstock-class carriers, the Hornissennest, chosen to be the first to receive the new designated heavy fighter. For over a decade, the Hornissennest and her crew faithfully served the Wasserarmee, proudly defending Jebslund and striking fear in the hearts of her enemies.

Until, that is, she was declared obsolete. She had known the day would come. The last five years of active service, she saw fewer and fewer veterans, and more trainees. She'd become a school ship, her once-feared fighters now relegated to training platforms. It was a decent fate, one her spirit was proud to have.

Until they moved her. They'd loaded her up with her old complement, armed her, fueled her, and, to all appearances, were sending her to battle once more. Except they weren't. They sent her to a beautiful island. Then abandoned her. Not a soul on board save the spirit of a once-mighty carrier, left to watch helplessly as radar contacts showed the incoming bomber. The first of many that would soon drive her to despise her creators as the bombs fell, the ocean swallowed her, and... And they dragged her back up. Repaired her. And sent her off to die again. A test target to evaluate new bombs.

At first, she took her new role in stride, seeing it as doing her part to keep the Kermanic war machine strong. As the tests went on, though, the agony of her repeated deaths and resurrections wore all good will Hornissennest spirit bore down until nothing remained but unbridled hatred for the monsters who refuse to just. Let. Her. Die... The ones who had used her and thrown her away and refused to allow even that mercy. The ones who had truly abandoned her. Thrown her to the wolves in an endless nightmare. Until the day they found their perfect bomb. Their silver bullet of annihilation that reduced an entire simulated battlegroup to barely-usable scrap.

And the day she found herself in a new place, risen as a new ship, a new being. And now with the opportunity to strike back at creatures so like those who had thrown her away.

OOC-section:
RP-sample: Here, under the username GIR
Have you read and understood the rules? "Ahead flank!"

Battlegroup:

Name: Adelheid
Type: light cruiser
Class: Jubelnleiterin (Comparableto the Oaktown class (specifically, USS Oakland) IRL)
Role: Anti-aircraft escort
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Adelheid has shoulder-length white hair done up in a right side ponytail and wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. She has a somewhat muscular build, with a medium bust and usually has a pair of pom-poms clipped to the belt of her uniform.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Perky and almost eternally cheerful, this sadistic cutie loves nothing more than watching enemy aircraft raining from the sky in pieces. Adelheid is determined to ensure nothing with wings even comes close to hurting Hornissennest-hime. And to watch the shower of aircraft parts fall from the sky. She is not all chainsaws and FLAK pops, though. Adelheid has a noble nature hidden under all the hate and spite, and is more than willing to sacrifice herself to save her allies.

Special abilities:
Adelheid has a near-impeccable sense of timing and balance, and a near-limitless emotional energy and stamina.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
6,826 tons (standard)
8,470 tons (max)

Length (overall): 165.05m
Width: 16m
Draught:
6.25m (mean)
8.08m (max)

Propulsion: 2 × geared turbines; 2 × screws
Speed: 32.5 kn
Complement: 802
Armament:
8 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
16 × dual 40 mm Pompon
8 × 40mm Pompon
4 x 88mm Taktstock AA (2x2)
8 × 533mm Imbisswurst torpedo tubes

Armour:
Belt: 28–95mm
Deck: 32mm
Turrets: 32mm
Conning Tower: 64mm

Notes:

The Jubelnleiterin class was a class of anti-aircraft cruisers considered vital to the Jebslunder war effort during the war. Even from the beginning of the war, Jebslunder admirals felt that anti-air firepower was necessary, and so it was that the Jubelnleiterin class was one of the most numerous in the Jebslund Wasserarmee, with several updates between 1940 and 1950. Adelheid sank shielding Hornissennest in a Blue-on-Blue firefight between Hornissennest and a battlecruiser when a miscommunication cased the latter to mistake her battlegroup for enemy ships. Adelheid has never forgiven her creators for what she views as her murder.

Name: Erika
Type: light cruiser
Class: Jubelnleiterin
Role: Anti-aircraft escort
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Erika has shoulder-length white hair done up in a left side ponytail and green skin. She wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. The garment is somewhat less torn than Hornissennest-Hime's, and lacks the orange markings. Erika has a somewhat muscular build, with a medium bust and usually has a pair of pom-poms clipped to the belt of her uniform.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Erika, like her sister, is near-eternally peppy and cheery, with a sense of humor as black as her paint and, like her sister, a thirst for whatever passes for an aircraft's blood. She sees it as her mission to rid the skies of all human-piloted aircraft, and has been known to 'drift' out of AA cover in order to lure aircraft to her. One of her favorite tactics is to time her shots to hit just before the enemy would be able to drop their ordnance, though such "tactics" often earn her an earful.

Special abilities:
Erika, like her sister, has a near-impeccable sense of timing and balance, and a near-limitless emotional energy and stamina.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
6,826 tons (standard)
8,470 tons (max)

Length (overall): 165.05m
Width: 16m
Draught:
6.25m (mean)
8.08m (max)

Propulsion: 2 × OzeanMaus geared turbines; 2 × screws
Speed: 32.5 knots
Complement: 802
Armament:
8 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
16 × dual 40mm Pompon
8 × 40mm Pompon
4 x 88mm Taktstock AA (2x2)
8 × 533mm Imbisswurst torpedo tubes

Armour:
Belt: 28–95mm
Deck: 32mm
Turrets: 32mm
Conning Tower: 64mm

Notes:

The Jubelnleiterin (cheerleader) class were all given feminine names, and were called the Jubelnleiterin class because of the Pompon (Pom-pom) and Taktstock (Baton) AA guns standard to the class. Erika was laid down at the same time as her sister, and, like her sister, escorted battleships and battlecruisers until she was assigned to the Hornissennest. Erika was part of the battlegroup mockup bomb test that finally sank the Hornissennest "for good", and resents being 'thrown away' in such a manner.

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Mary Read Kerman
Type: Destroyer
Class: Pirat-class (comparable to the Battle-class destroyer)
Role: Anti-ship/Anti-sub escort.
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:

Mary Read Kerman has short, white hair in a pixie cut and wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. She is fairly short and has a petite frame, and wears several gold earrings in her left ear.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Strong-willed and somewhat tomboyish, Mary Read Kerman lives for battle, and often finds herself bored when there's nothing to shoot. She has a nose for adventure (some would say 'mischief'), though she will follow regulations to a 'T'. In 'life', looseness with regulations was what cost her her life,

Special abilities:
She is a master of disguise.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
2,480 tons standard
3,430 tons full load

Length (overall): 116m
Width: 12.34m
Draught:
3.89m standard
4.7m full load

Propulsion: 2 Snack-Behälter 3-drum boilers; 2 OzeanMaus geared steam turbines; 2 shafts, 50,000 shp (37 MW)
Speed: 35.75 knots
Complement: 268
Armament:
2 × twin 114mm naval guns
1 × single 104mm naval gun
4 × twin 40mm Pompon
4-6 × single 40mm Pompon
2 × quad tubes for 533mm Imbisswurst torpedoes
1x Verkaufsautomat anti-sub mortar (comparable to a Squid)

Armour: None.

Notes:

The Pirat (Pirate) class destroyer was developed by the Jebslund Wasserarmee specifically to hunt down submarines once the people in command realized that leaving big ships with no effective way of repelling subs was probably a *bad* idea, and frigates weren't always up to the task of chasing down enemy subs. Commissioning of the Pirat class and inclusion of at least one in every capital ship group reduced Jebslund's naval losses during the 2nd World War by a wide margin. Mary Read Kerman sank when laziness in cleaning the magazine and a careless ignoring of the onboard smoking ban resulted in a magazine explosion that cascaded through other explosive bits of the ship, crippling her to the point of scuttling.

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Kerriott
Type: Destroyer tender
Class: Herberge (Comparable to the USS Shenandoah)
Role: Support ship
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1943
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Kerriott has short, white hair, kept in an angled cut, green skin, and wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. She is short and, though still petite as far as shipgirls go, is stockier than Mary Read Kerman.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Very nearly obsessed with Mary Read Kerman, Kerriott leaves her side only reluctantly when the shooting starts, quickly returning to her side as soon as its over. She will not willingly allow Mary Read Kerman to leave her sight.
Special abilities:
She can cook almost heartbreakingly well, or lethally bad, depending on how she feels about the one she's cooking for. Kerriott also has training as a medic and a masseuse.
Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement: 11,755 tons
Length (overall): 150m
Width: 21m
Draught: 8.38m
Propulsion: 2 × shafts; 2 × OzeanMaus geared steam turbines
Speed: 18 knots
Complement: 1,035
Armament:
2 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
8 × 40 mm Pompon AA guns
22 × 20 mm Puffmais AA guns

Armour: none
Notes:

Kerriott is your bog-standard destroyer tender, forever sworn to be Mary Read Kerman's spear-carrier, nurse, chef, and maid, and housing for her crew. She doesn't really have any illustrious stories, other than being the one keeping the Mary Read Kerman running smoothly. Was part of the battlegroup mockup bomb test that finally sank the Hornissennest "for good".

Personnel file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Turmfalke
Type: Heavy Cruiser
Class: Turmfalke (comparable to a Admiral Hipper-class cruiser)
Role: Anti-ship Escort
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1939
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Turmfalke has shoulder-length white hair done up in a bun and green skin. She wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. The garment is somewhat less torn than Hornissennest-Hime's, and lacks the orange markings.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and a giant, and her bow has become a demonic mouth. The entire ship's paint job has turned an unearthly black, and the ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Aggressive to a fault, Turmfalke is a fighter, not a lover, and it shows. It takes very little to anger Turmfalke, and, once angered, she will gladly pound the target of her rage into scrap, a trait which is liable to land her in hot water with her superiors. Even as a normal ship, Turmfalke's crew would often pretend not to have heard orders to disengage a target, a habit which proved fatal to the ship in a late postwar skirmish, allowing the heavy cruiser to be sunk in an ambush after being baited by a damaged enemy frigate into a group of destroyers and submarines. Turmfalke bears a strong grudge against her creators, and humanity by virtue of their resemblance to them, over her rather ignominious death, and is no less vicious with her new enemies than her old.

Special abilities:
Turmfalke had got excellent eyesight.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement: 20,100 tons
Length (overall): 210m
Width: 21.8m
Draught: 7.9m
Propulsion: 3 × OzeanMaus geared steam turbines, 3 × three-blade propellers
Speed: 32 knots
Complement: 1382
Armament:
8 × 203mm Fahnenstange-II high-velocity naval guns (received in 1947)
12 × 105mm Lineal naval guns
12 × 40mm Pompon
8 × 20mm Puffmais
6 × 533mm Imbisswurst torpedo tubes

Aircraft:
1x JWC-03SFGBC Ausf. B Fliegendeschweine signal plane (Single-engine jet-powered small flying boat used to extend communications range. Flies to the edge of comms range, then signals all allied ships within its range, flying as much of a circle as it can while avoiding enemy ships as it does. Similar flight characteristics to the Me-163 Komet, but with a top speed of only 1000km/h. Unarmed, and, like the Japanese A6M Type Zero, has no armor or self-sealing fuel tanks. A demonic eye has replaced the cockpit, and the nose has become a demonic mouth much like the shark mouth noseart on the planes of the Flying Tigers. The entire aircraft radiates a demonic aura. *Can* be used for recon, but won't usually be unless the Fernglas recon planes are unavailable.)

2x PR-01SWPC Ausf. Z Fernglas (Single-engine recon seaplane comparable to the Swordfish torpedo bomber, sans armament, with a radar box attached to the frame between the wings on either side of the cockpit for redundancy. Typically launched by lowering the plane into the water first. The entire craft is pitch black, radiates a demonic aura, and has a small imp at the controls.)

Armour:
Belt: 70 to 80mm
Armor deck: 20 to 50mm
Turret faces: 105mm

Notes: None

The Turmfalke-class was originally built toward the beginning of the Second World War as an escort vessel for carriers and battleships after it was discovered that big guns and thick armor did *not*, in fact, an invincible battleship make, and that maaaaaaaybe it would be a good idea to have more, smaller guns in addition to the big, powerful ones. Later in the war, when aircraft carriers really started to take off, it became standard practice to put at least one Tumfalke-class in each group for protection. The class namer, the []Turmfalke[/I], received new, higher-velocity main guns when she was refitted and assigned to the Hornissennest, but was spared her fate due to the crew pushing their luck one too many times.

Second, that still doesn't answer the question of why Novaya and how do they *first* meet? There's no reason for Hornissennest to know who he is right from the word go, and less for her to be smitten with him without getting to know him (or at least know *of* him and form an opinion on that).

Gladly accepted, Jebslund, good to have you onboard!

[Mestovakia]

Y'all can just call me Lazarus.

[The Selkie]

Y'all can just call me Lazarus.

Glad to have you back, Mestovakia. A lot has happened and the Abyssals could really use the reinforcements of an Armoured Cruiser Princess. Also, one lucky bomb hit might free Re the Re-class Battleship.

[Kraicia]

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

(Name):
- (Military Designation): HLFFS Heavenforetrekker (Holtland Folkskripen Fleetship - Heavenforetrekker; "Sky Scout"; Nicknamed, "Hazel")
- (Civilian Designation): HLTS Hazel (Holtland Townsmanship - Hazel; "Kraician Civilian Vessel - Hazel")
(Type): 'Sailing Q-Ship Type' Submarine
(Class): Hazel-Class Submarine (First in her Class)
(Role): Nighttime Minelayer, Nighttime Coastal Patrol, Nighttime Submarine HUnter, and 'Q-Ship' Role
(Nation of Origin): Kraicia
(Year Commissioned): January 1943
(Image or description of the ship girl/boy):

(Gender): Female
(Character): At a height of 183cm (6ft) and retaining slightly pale complexion, medium blonde hair, and yellow eyes, Hazel retains everything that every young man would imagine in a beautiful woman like Hazel. Being that Hazel's primary form of propulsion is by sails, along with her secondary form of propulsion being electric motors (lead-acid batteries are included), Hazel has an efficient metabolism - barely consuming as much resources as a destroyer shipgirl/shipboy. Subsequently, Hazel's beauty is undeniably enchanting; however, despite her natural beauty and unique metabolism, Hazel doesn't exactly enjoy flaunting her beauty unless encouraged so passively by her superiors. Personality-wise, Hazel is a very poetic and vibrant individual whom is not afraid to unleash her beautiful voice - unlike some other shipboys/shipgirls like Blake (whom only speaks when necessary either directly as possible or poetically). Her rich and advanced Kraician vocabulary was developed not from education, but rather from her love and skill in poetry, which has become both her favorite hobby and half of her source of education. Being built in the civilian shipyards of the Central Kraician archipelago(aka, Griffinstead Island Shipyards), Hazel's education and vocabulary outside of poetry is that of an ordinary rural Kraician farmer girl.
(Special Abilities): Despite retaining two 'masts' for her sails and retaining no deck guns, Hazel is a very quiet ship. In fact, Hazel is so quiet, that enemy U-Boats/Submarines at night cannot detect her presence. This is not only because of Hazel's 'clean' propulsion (sails and electric power), but also her hybrid 'modified full' hull design, which allows Hazel to sail gently and slow enough where she generates no bow wave without the need for a bulbous bow. Plus, given with Hazel's beautiful and charming appearance, enemy ships (especially shipboys) will initially mistaken Hazel for an innocent civilian yacht that simply gotten lost out at sea; however, on the other hand, some or most shipgirls will not be entirely convinced with Hazel's beauty. Therefore, Hazel's good looks is only a matter of luck - she will always charm shipboys but it will only charm some shipgirls if Hazel is very lucky.
(Technical Description of the vessel):

Designed and built as an experimental type of submarine for the Kraician Navy, Hazel was a project conceived under the possible threat of diminishing fuel supplies in Kraicia (though this threat was eventually eliminated when Kraicia resumed the construction to its coastal oil rigs after WWII). Introduced into service under civilian designation, Hazel's civilian appearance and markings were meant to disguise her from German spies and U-Boats; basically fooling the enemy into thinking that Hazel is a yacht rather than a submarine. Beyond the disguise, Hazel was an unusual submarine in which she was built with an unusual 'flush-deck' design. Furthermore, Hazel had no conning tower, since she was outfitted with a polished wooden deck and a smooth steel hull given extraordinary polishing as opposed to the ordinary grey steel appearance like any other submarine. Lastly, her most distinctive design detail is her two masts as well as their lateen sail.

At first, sails on a submarine may seem reasonably impracticable, but Hazel's designers had inserted some unique tricks to accelerate the transition from sailboat to submarine. First, both masts are telescopic and can be retracted into the deck via manual hydraulic pumps inside the submarine. Second, Hazel's hull design is a cross between an ordinary German U-boat and a yacht; her hull retains a 'modified full' hull design while elegantly retaining the necessary aerodynamics of an ordinary submarine. While the 'modified full' hull does hamper Hazel's speed when sailing on the surface, Hazel can sail smoothly and elegantly with ease, thereby appearing 'normal' and 'casual' to the enemy from afar. Otherwise, Hazel was designed from the ground up as an experimental submarine Q-ship.

Her objectives, given her experimental design and shape, was nighttime combat - originally a Nighttime Coastal Submarine. Because of her sails and electric power, Hazel can last for months out to sea without needing to refuel (except for rations and provisions for the crews). In the daytime, she spent her time underwater or at port among civilian yachts and trawlers; however, at night, Hazel would silently sail the seas with her sails and quietly startle any U-Boat attempting to stalk the Kraician archipelago. To the surprise of Hazel's crew and her designers, Hazel was a phenomenally feared submarine hunter - given that her sails and electric propulsion generate no noise. Subsequently, Hazel and her sister ships became the stuff of nightmares to any German or Italian submarine that dared to sail into the Kraician archipelago at night.

Technical Data
Displacement: 1,018 tons
Length (overall): 78m (255.906ft)
Width: 7m (22.9659ft)
Draught: 6.1m (20.0131ft)
Propulsion:
- 2 x Masts (Lateen Sails & Rigging Included)
- 2 x Electric Motors (Lead-Acid Batteries Included)
- 2 x Propellers
Speed: 16 Knots (Surface); 12 Knots (Submerged)
Complement: 45 to 52
Armament:
- 2 x 533mm Torpedo Tubes
- 20 x Underwater Mines (Minelayer; Kept on Deck)
(OR)
- 20 x Depth Charges (Coastal Patrols; Kept on Deck)
Armour: N/A
Notes: Rural Kraicians typically tend to use more agglutination in their vocabulary and grammar, whereas urban Kraicians use more inflection and treat the grammar more analytically very much like US/UK English. Take the equivalent word for "astronaut/cosmonaut" as an example of this detail; Heavenfarer (Rural Dialects) / Heaven Ferrier (Urban Dialects). Subsequently, for the sake of simplicity, Kraician shipboys/shipgirls will tend to call Hazel by her civilian designation rather than her military designation.

OOC-section:
(RP-sample): Last Known IC Post
(Have you read and understood the rules?): Ahead Flank!

[The Selkie]

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

(Name):
- (Military Designation): HLFFS Heavenforetrekker (Holtland Folkskripen Fleetship - Heavenforetrekker; "Sky Scout"; Nicknamed, "Hazel")
- (Civilian Designation): HLTS Hazel (Holtland Townsmanship - Hazel; "Kraician Civilian Vessel - Hazel")
(Type): 'Sailing Q-Ship Type' Submarine
(Class): Hazel-Class Submarine (First in her Class)
(Role): Nighttime Minelayer, Nighttime Coastal Patrol, Nighttime Submarine HUnter, and 'Q-Ship' Role
(Nation of Origin): Kraicia
(Year Commissioned): January 1943
(Image or description of the ship girl/boy):

(Image)

(Gender): Female
(Character): At a height of 183cm (6ft) and retaining slightly pale complexion, medium blonde hair, and yellow eyes, Hazel retains everything that every young man would imagine in a beautiful woman like Hazel. Being that Hazel's primary form of propulsion is by sails, along with her secondary form of propulsion being electric motors (lead-acid batteries are included), Hazel has an efficient metabolism - barely consuming as much resources as a destroyer shipgirl/shipboy. Subsequently, Hazel's beauty is undeniably enchanting; however, despite her natural beauty and unique metabolism, Hazel doesn't exactly enjoy flaunting her beauty unless encouraged so passively by her superiors. Personality-wise, Hazel is a very poetic and vibrant individual whom is not afraid to unleash her beautiful voice - unlike some other shipboys/shipgirls like Blake (whom only speaks when necessary either directly as possible or poetically). Her rich and advanced Kraician vocabulary was developed not from education, but rather from her love and skill in poetry, which has become both her favorite hobby and half of her source of education. Being built in the civilian shipyards of the Central Kraician archipelago(aka, Griffinstead Island Shipyards), Hazel's education and vocabulary outside of poetry is that of an ordinary rural Kraician farmer girl.
(Special Abilities): Despite retaining two 'masts' for her sails and retaining no deck guns, Hazel is a very quiet ship. In fact, Hazel is so quiet, that enemy U-Boats/Submarines at night cannot detect her presence. This is not only because of Hazel's 'clean' propulsion (sails and electric power), but also her hybrid 'modified full' hull design, which allows Hazel to sail gently and slow enough where she generates no bow wave without the need for a bulbous bow. Plus, given with Hazel's beautiful and charming appearance, enemy ships (especially shipboys) will initially mistaken Hazel for an innocent civilian yacht that simply gotten lost out at sea; however, on the other hand, some or most shipgirls will not be entirely convinced with Hazel's beauty. Therefore, Hazel's good looks is only a matter of luck - she will always charm shipboys but it will only charm some shipgirls if Hazel is very lucky.
(Technical Description of the vessel):

Designed and built as an experimental type of submarine for the Kraician Navy, Hazel was a project conceived under the possible threat of diminishing fuel supplies in Kraicia (though this threat was eventually eliminated when Kraicia resumed the construction to its coastal oil rigs after WWII). Introduced into service under civilian designation, Hazel's civilian appearance and markings were meant to disguise her from German spies and U-Boats; basically fooling the enemy into thinking that Hazel is a yacht rather than a submarine. Beyond the disguise, Hazel was an unusual submarine in which she was built with an unusual 'flush-deck' design. Furthermore, Hazel had no conning tower, since she was outfitted with a polished wooden deck and a smooth steel hull given extraordinary polishing as opposed to the ordinary grey steel appearance like any other submarine. Lastly, her most distinctive design detail is her two masts as well as their lateen sail.

At first, sails on a submarine may seem reasonably impracticable, but Hazel's designers had inserted some unique tricks to accelerate the transition from sailboat to submarine. First, both masts are telescopic and can be retracted into the deck via manual hydraulic pumps inside the submarine. Second, Hazel's hull design is a cross between an ordinary German U-boat and a yacht; her hull retains a 'modified full' hull design while elegantly retaining the necessary aerodynamics of an ordinary submarine. While the 'modified full' hull does hamper Hazel's speed when sailing on the surface, Hazel can sail smoothly and elegantly with ease, thereby appearing 'normal' and 'casual' to the enemy from afar. Otherwise, Hazel was designed from the ground up as an experimental submarine Q-ship.

Her objectives, given her experimental design and shape, was nighttime combat - originally a Nighttime Coastal Submarine. Because of her sails and electric power, Hazel can last for months out to sea without needing to refuel (except for rations and provisions for the crews). In the daytime, she spent her time underwater or at port among civilian yachts and trawlers; however, at night, Hazel would silently sail the seas with her sails and quietly startle any U-Boat attempting to stalk the Kraician archipelago. To the surprise of Hazel's crew and her designers, Hazel was a phenomenally feared submarine hunter - given that her sails and electric propulsion generate no noise. Subsequently, Hazel and her sister ships became the stuff of nightmares to any German or Italian submarine that dared to sail into the Kraician archipelago at night.

Technical Data
Displacement: 1,018 tons
Length (overall): 78m (255.906ft)
Width: 7m (22.9659ft)
Draught: 6.1m (20.0131ft)
Propulsion:
- 2 x Electric Motors (Lead-Acid Batteries Included)
- 2 x Propellers
Speed: 16 Knots (Surface); 12 Knots (Submerged)
Complement: 45 to 52
Armament:
- 2 x 533mm Torpedo Tubes
- 20 x Underwater Mines (Minelayer; Kept on Deck)
(OR)
- 20 x Depth Charges (Coastal Patrols; Kept on Deck)
Armour: N/A
Notes: Rural Kraicians typically tend to use more agglutination in their vocabulary and grammar, whereas urban Kraicians use more inflection and treat the grammar more analytically very much like US/UK English. Take the equivalent word for "astronaut/cosmonaut" as an example of this detail; Heavenfarer (Rural Dialects) / Heaven Ferrier (Urban Dialects). Subsequently, for the sake of simplicity, Kraician shipboys/shipgirls will tend to call Hazel by her civilian designation rather than her military designation.

OOC-section:
(RP-sample): Last Known IC Post
(Have you read and understood the rules?): Ahead Flank!

Accepted. Glad to have you back, Kraicia. She certainly is a pretty lassie and Lodan Lir might have found a crush... ; )
Would you mind, if we were to attach her to the convoy's rear guard with the two submarine carriers and SDFS Lodan Lir?

[Kraicia]

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

(Name):
- (Military Designation): HLFFS Heavenforetrekker (Holtland Folkskripen Fleetship - Heavenforetrekker; "Sky Scout"; Nicknamed, "Hazel")
- (Civilian Designation): HLTS Hazel (Holtland Townsmanship - Hazel; "Kraician Civilian Vessel - Hazel")
(Type): 'Sailing Q-Ship Type' Submarine
(Class): Hazel-Class Submarine (First in her Class)
(Role): Nighttime Minelayer, Nighttime Coastal Patrol, Nighttime Submarine HUnter, and 'Q-Ship' Role
(Nation of Origin): Kraicia
(Year Commissioned): January 1943
(Image or description of the ship girl/boy):

(Image)

(Gender): Female
(Character): At a height of 183cm (6ft) and retaining slightly pale complexion, medium blonde hair, and yellow eyes, Hazel retains everything that every young man would imagine in a beautiful woman like Hazel. Being that Hazel's primary form of propulsion is by sails, along with her secondary form of propulsion being electric motors (lead-acid batteries are included), Hazel has an efficient metabolism - barely consuming as much resources as a destroyer shipgirl/shipboy. Subsequently, Hazel's beauty is undeniably enchanting; however, despite her natural beauty and unique metabolism, Hazel doesn't exactly enjoy flaunting her beauty unless encouraged so passively by her superiors. Personality-wise, Hazel is a very poetic and vibrant individual whom is not afraid to unleash her beautiful voice - unlike some other shipboys/shipgirls like Blake (whom only speaks when necessary either directly as possible or poetically). Her rich and advanced Kraician vocabulary was developed not from education, but rather from her love and skill in poetry, which has become both her favorite hobby and half of her source of education. Being built in the civilian shipyards of the Central Kraician archipelago(aka, Griffinstead Island Shipyards), Hazel's education and vocabulary outside of poetry is that of an ordinary rural Kraician farmer girl.
(Special Abilities): Despite retaining two 'masts' for her sails and retaining no deck guns, Hazel is a very quiet ship. In fact, Hazel is so quiet, that enemy U-Boats/Submarines at night cannot detect her presence. This is not only because of Hazel's 'clean' propulsion (sails and electric power), but also her hybrid 'modified full' hull design, which allows Hazel to sail gently and slow enough where she generates no bow wave without the need for a bulbous bow. Plus, given with Hazel's beautiful and charming appearance, enemy ships (especially shipboys) will initially mistaken Hazel for an innocent civilian yacht that simply gotten lost out at sea; however, on the other hand, some or most shipgirls will not be entirely convinced with Hazel's beauty. Therefore, Hazel's good looks is only a matter of luck - she will always charm shipboys but it will only charm some shipgirls if Hazel is very lucky.
(Technical Description of the vessel):

Designed and built as an experimental type of submarine for the Kraician Navy, Hazel was a project conceived under the possible threat of diminishing fuel supplies in Kraicia (though this threat was eventually eliminated when Kraicia resumed the construction to its coastal oil rigs after WWII). Introduced into service under civilian designation, Hazel's civilian appearance and markings were meant to disguise her from German spies and U-Boats; basically fooling the enemy into thinking that Hazel is a yacht rather than a submarine. Beyond the disguise, Hazel was an unusual submarine in which she was built with an unusual 'flush-deck' design. Furthermore, Hazel had no conning tower, since she was outfitted with a polished wooden deck and a smooth steel hull given extraordinary polishing as opposed to the ordinary grey steel appearance like any other submarine. Lastly, her most distinctive design detail is her two masts as well as their lateen sail.

At first, sails on a submarine may seem reasonably impracticable, but Hazel's designers had inserted some unique tricks to accelerate the transition from sailboat to submarine. First, both masts are telescopic and can be retracted into the deck via manual hydraulic pumps inside the submarine. Second, Hazel's hull design is a cross between an ordinary German U-boat and a yacht; her hull retains a 'modified full' hull design while elegantly retaining the necessary aerodynamics of an ordinary submarine. While the 'modified full' hull does hamper Hazel's speed when sailing on the surface, Hazel can sail smoothly and elegantly with ease, thereby appearing 'normal' and 'casual' to the enemy from afar. Otherwise, Hazel was designed from the ground up as an experimental submarine Q-ship.

Her objectives, given her experimental design and shape, was nighttime combat - originally a Nighttime Coastal Submarine. Because of her sails and electric power, Hazel can last for months out to sea without needing to refuel (except for rations and provisions for the crews). In the daytime, she spent her time underwater or at port among civilian yachts and trawlers; however, at night, Hazel would silently sail the seas with her sails and quietly startle any U-Boat attempting to stalk the Kraician archipelago. To the surprise of Hazel's crew and her designers, Hazel was a phenomenally feared submarine hunter - given that her sails and electric propulsion generate no noise. Subsequently, Hazel and her sister ships became the stuff of nightmares to any German or Italian submarine that dared to sail into the Kraician archipelago at night.

Technical Data
Displacement: 1,018 tons
Length (overall): 78m (255.906ft)
Width: 7m (22.9659ft)
Draught: 6.1m (20.0131ft)
Propulsion:
- 2 x Electric Motors (Lead-Acid Batteries Included)
- 2 x Propellers
Speed: 16 Knots (Surface); 12 Knots (Submerged)
Complement: 45 to 52
Armament:
- 2 x 533mm Torpedo Tubes
- 20 x Underwater Mines (Minelayer; Kept on Deck)
(OR)
- 20 x Depth Charges (Coastal Patrols; Kept on Deck)
Armour: N/A
Notes: Rural Kraicians typically tend to use more agglutination in their vocabulary and grammar, whereas urban Kraicians use more inflection and treat the grammar more analytically very much like US/UK English. Take the equivalent word for "astronaut/cosmonaut" as an example of this detail; Heavenfarer (Rural Dialects) / Heaven Ferrier (Urban Dialects). Subsequently, for the sake of simplicity, Kraician shipboys/shipgirls will tend to call Hazel by her civilian designation rather than her military designation.

OOC-section:
(RP-sample): Last Known IC Post
(Have you read and understood the rules?): Ahead Flank!

Accepted. Glad to have you back, Kraicia. She certainly is a pretty lassie and Lodan Lir might have found a crush... ; )
Would you mind, if we were to attach her to the convoy's rear guard with the two submarine carriers and SDFS Lodan Lir?

Convoy's rear guard? My goodness, how much did I miss? I can't really recall where I last left off in the RP. Otherwise, what is this convoy you speak of?

[Jebslund]

Okay... Having a tiny bit of trouble visualising the battle... Can anyone fill me in in who's where so I know where to put Hornissennest-Hime?

[Mestovakia]

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: HIJMS Sagami/ HMS Sagami
Type: Battleship
Class: Hitachi Class
Role: Old Battleship, support for light cruisers and destroyers.
Nation of origin: Kingdom of Japan, currently an on-and-off ally of the European Federation
Year commissioned: 1900
Image or description of the ship girl/boy: Sagami
Gender: Female
Character: A weak and somewhat outclassed battleship. Sagami is aware of her inadequacy for Battleship warfare, and tends to stay out of the heavier brawls. She loves video games and reading, and would love to play Sports. She also becomes a bit clumsy when she gets nervous, usually when trying to answer awkward uestions or being chased by Abyssals.
Special abilities: Costs less to maintain, on par with a Heavy Cruiser.
Technical Description of the vessel:
Sagami was one of the 8 Hitachi Class Battleships developed by the Britannian Empire for the Japanese Navy
at the dawn of the 20th Century. For their time, they were fast and well-armoured.
They were quite suited to the High Seas battles of the 1905 War against Moskva,
but the post-war advances in Technology meant that Sagami became far outclassed.

By the 1940's, Sagami was little more than a training ship sometimes used for
trips to foreign nations. On December 4th, 1941, she was at anchor in London
when news of the Japanese Declaration of war reached Britannia. Her crew was
detained and Sagami herself met a somewhat abrupt end to active service.
If not for a member of the Admiralty who was a fan of old designs, Sagami would
have been scrapped. Instead, she was put into Active Britannian Service as an
elite club for the Admiralty and Nobility. This has been her existence for over 70 years,
hence why her outfit is an Employee's uniform.

Technical Data
Displacement: 11,020 tons
Length (overall): 100.61 metres
Width: 21 metres
Draught: 8.15 metres
Propulsion: 2× Humphreys & Tennant triple-expansion engines, 2× screws
Speed: 16.27 knots
Complement: 430
Armament:
2× BL 16.25-inch (413 mm) guns
1× BL 10-inch (254 mm) gun
12× BL 6-inch (152 mm) guns
12× 6-pounder (57 mm) guns
6× 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:

Belt: 18 in (46 cm)
Bulkheads: 16 in (41 cm)
Turrets: 17 in (43 cm)
Redoubt: 18 in (46 cm)
Forward screen to battery: 6 in (15 cm)
After screen to battery: 3 in (7.6 cm)
Conning Tower: 14 in (36 cm) (sides), 2 in (5.1 cm) (top)
Deck: 3 in (7.6 cm)
Notes: The circumstances of her return to Britannian service is a very embarrassing matter for her, due to how anti-climatic it was.

OOC-section:
RP-sample: viewtopic.php?p=31615317#p31615317
Have you read and understood the rules? Ahead Flank!

Edited~

[The Selkie]

Post will not be coming later today, sorry for the delay.
EDIT: In italics. My apologies for any confusion.

Accepted. Glad to have you back, Kraicia. She certainly is a pretty lassie and Lodan Lir might have found a crush... ; )
Would you mind, if we were to attach her to the convoy's rear guard with the two submarine carriers and SDFS Lodan Lir?

Convoy's rear guard? My goodness, how much did I miss? I can't really recall where I last left off in the RP. Otherwise, what is this convoy you speak of?[/quote]

A whole lot, I'm afraid. Almost the whole of the first real offensive operation of our fleet, where we are getting one heck of a bloody nose and giving the Abyssals a bit more then that.
The supply convoy is ours, which arrived in the early morning of Day 3, just before we departed, with reinforcements and supplies, much to our relief and unmolested (I originally wanted to do another convoy battle, reminiscent of the Arctic Convoy Battles - another time). The rearguard of that convoy should by now arrive in Sector CN-16.
Summaries are here and here, if you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

Okay... Having a tiny bit of trouble visualising the battle... Can anyone fill me in in who's where so I know where to put Hornissennest-Hime?

By now, to my understanding, it's less of a battle and more of a bar-room brawl, but first of all map (it's north-oriented).
Most of us are currently in Sector DN-17, right side. To my knowledge, the carriers are north of the Airfield Princess Chill, currently under air attack, while the battleships mostly, basically parked in front of her, firing at her and providing long-range support for a landing, which is closer supported by the cruisers Rhiannon and Spartan, as well as the LST Broadsword. Only exception to that are Caty, Monty and Coriolanus, who, together with a small battlegroup, had been engaged with two Abyssal Battlegroups, Lamia and Caty, which are by now retreating. The repair ship Salvation brought the sloop Stilin to a beaching on the island. The submarines are hunting freely. Our base is under a short air-attack as well.
As for the Abyssals, besides the marked positions of Installation-Types, the battlegroup led by the Abyssal-Prince Bob, a.k.a. Baka-Prince, is west of the Shipwreck Islands, Sector DN-16, mostly, and preparing to receive damaged vessels (Comet, played by ASO, and my Lamia are currently retreating towards there). The battlegroup around the battleship Rubia is still in the Shipwreck Islands and Hellboat Princess has torpedo boat imps in every cove without kanmusu knowledge.
Did I get any position wrong? And are there further questions?

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: HIJMS Sagami/ HMS Sagami
Type: Battleship
Class: Hitachi Class
Role: Old Battleship, support for light cruisers and destroyers.
Nation of origin: Kingdom of Japan, currently an on-and-off ally of the European Federation
Year commissioned: 1900
Image or description of the ship girl/boy: Sagami
Gender: Female
Character: A weak and somewhat outclassed battleship. Sagami is aware of her inadequacy for Battleship warfare, and tends to stay out of the heavier brawls. She loves video games and reading, and would love to play Sports. She also becomes a bit clumsy when she gets nervous, usually when trying to answer awkward uestions or being chased by Abyssals.
Special abilities: Costs less to maintain, on par with a Heavy Cruiser.
Technical Description of the vessel:
Sagami was one of the 8 Hitachi Class Battleships developed by the Britannian Empire for the Japanese Navy
at the dawn of the 20th Century. For their time, they were fast and well-armoured.
They were quite suited to the High Seas battles of the 1905 War against Moskva,
but the post-war advances in Technology meant that Sagami became far outclassed.

By the 1940's, Sagami was little more than a training ship sometimes used for
trips to foreign nations. On December 4th, 1941, she was at anchor in London
when news of the Japanese Declaration of war reached Britannia. Her crew was
detained and Sagami herself met a somewhat abrupt end to active service.
If not for a member of the Admiralty who was a fan of old designs, Sagami would
have been scrapped. Instead, she was put into Active Britannian Service as an
elite club for the Admiralty and Nobility. This has been her existence for over 70 years,
hence why her outfit is an Employee's uniform.

Technical Data
Displacement: 11,020 tons
Length (overall): 100.61 metres
Width: 21 metres
Draught: 8.15 metres
Propulsion: 2× Humphreys & Tennant triple-expansion engines, 2× screws
Speed: 16.27 knots
Complement: 430
Armament:
2× BL 16.25-inch (413 mm) guns
1× BL 10-inch (254 mm) gun
12× BL 6-inch (152 mm) guns
12× 6-pounder (57 mm) guns
6× 14 in (360 mm) torpedo tubes
Armour:

Belt: 18 in (46 cm)
Bulkheads: 16 in (41 cm)
Turrets: 17 in (43 cm)
Redoubt: 18 in (46 cm)
Forward screen to battery: 6 in (15 cm)
After screen to battery: 3 in (7.6 cm)
Conning Tower: 14 in (36 cm) (sides), 2 in (5.1 cm) (top)
Deck: 3 in (7.6 cm)
Notes: The circumstances of her return to Britannian service is a very embarrassing matter for her, due to how anti-climatic it was.

OOC-section:
RP-sample: viewtopic.php?p=31615317#p31615317
Have you read and understood the rules? Ahead Flank!

Edited~

Splendid! And accepted! Would you mind her being part of the rear guard as well?
Also, if I'm not mistaken, she has no AA-armament - am I seeing that right?

[Novaya Equestria]

Dang it. I forgot to reply to ye, Jebs. But now, it istime gor la plot.

Novaya, who will be patrolling at night, will be lured out and captured by Abyssal forces, using an SOS signal, under Jebs' Abyssal Princess, who had plans to marry Novaya. As he disappeared without a trace, the Naval Base marked his patrol as desertion and a fleet will be deployed to find where the heck is he. Then, the fleet will find clues on where he went and why he disappeared/deserted. Once they realized he was caught on patrol, tjey will have to find out where he was located at. And upon finding an Abyssal wedding where the captured Novaya will he forcibly married to Jebs' Abyssal Princrss (sorry, will find yer app of her), they will have to crash the whole wedding and rescue Novaya all the while causing damage to any Abyssal battlegroups or Installations that happened to be there.

Not gonna lie, I looked up the RL ships mentioned to get measurements and armaments, though the 88's and some of the armament numbers are my own substitution. Also, since I couldn't find a source on the top speed of the XP-55 as designed (rather than as built) other than a video I saw on it, I decided to get rid of the fighter based on it, seeing as the other two assimilated fighter types are vastly superior anyway.

Personell file - Operational Sector Wide Sea - South West

Name: Hornissennest-hime
Type: Carrier
Class: Bienenstock (roughly equivalent to the Yorktown-Class IRL (Enterprise, specifically), if the Yorktowns had carried jets)
Role: Strike carrier
Nation of origin: Jebslund
Year commissioned: 1947
Image or description of the ship girl/boy:
Hornissennest-hime, like most Abyssals, has long, white hair, which she wears in a hime style. Rather than the pale white skin of other abyssal, however, Hornissennest-hime and her battlegroup have inhumanly green skin, despite having otherwise human-like features. Hornissennest-hime wears a blackened and torn Wasserarmee uniform, a garment meant to visually resemble diving suits of the era, without the weights and helmet, and with rubber boots instead of metal, the soles designed to be as slip-resistant as the mid-1940's can muster. Detailing near the aluminum collars indicates that the uniform may have originally been orange.

In ship form, she looks much as she did as a ship, with the exception of the windows of her conning tower, and her anchor ports, which have become glowing demonic eyes, and the catapult exit to the hangar, which now features giant teeth which open to launch fighters. Additionally, the original paint has been corrupted to a dark black, and the entire ship radiates a demonic aura.

Gender: Female
Character:
Hornissennest-hime can best be described as... Driven. The targets she's assigned to sink/destroy, she eliminates. That which is to be captured will be pursued to the ends of the earth. The patrols she's put on, she makes sure nothing escapes her sight. The Abyssals she escorts are guarded with her very life. Her own escort is given the best support she can muster.

And, if she wants something, she *will* have it. And NO ONE ELSE.*stabbing sound* Who doesn't outrank her, that is.

That's not to say obsession is all she has. Toward those she cares about, she is very sweet and caring, often acting almost motherly to those she sees as family, and is fairly intelligent. Just... Don't cross her. It's not worth it. There's a reason her name means 'Hornet's Nest'.

Hornissennest-hime's resentment toward humanity is tied to her decommissioning. Namely, her creators using her to test ever-bigger bombs. Every time, they would send her to a beautiful island. Load her for battle with the same old aircraft. Then they would sink her. They'd raised her. Repair her. Load her up once more. And send her to the same island to die again. Over. And over. Until they built one big enough that they *couldn't* fix her. Small wonder, then, that she rose as an Abyssal Carrier-Hime. To her, the humans couldn't possibly be any different.

Special abilities:
Hornissennest-hime pain tolerance is nearly legendary, and her ability to precisely diagnose her injuries/battle damage by feel borders on preternatural.

Technical Description of the vessel:

Technical Data
Displacement:
21,000 tons standard
32,060 tons full load
Length (overall): 252.2m
Width: 34.9m
Draught: 7.9m
Propulsion: 4 × shafts; 4 × OzeanMaus geared steam turbines
Speed: 32.5 knots
Complement: 2,217
Armament:
8 × 127mm Zollstock naval guns
54 × 40mm Pompon (5×2, 11×4)
32 × 20mm Spuckballer (16×2)

Aircraft: 90
40 PHF-12SC(DHF) Ausf. A Corrupted Fliegendewaffel (Twin-engine heavy fighter/dive bomber comparable to a perfected version of the Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack. Designated carrier heavy fighter/dive bomber of the Jebslund Wasserarmee in 1947. Demonic eyes have replaced the intakes and propellers, and the aircraft radiates a demonic aura.)
50 JF-01SC(DJEF/TB) Ausf B Corrupted Maschinenteufel (Single-engine fighter comparable to the de Havilland Sea Vampire made to mount a single torpedo in place of the 500lb bombs. Designated carrier jet escort fighter/torpedo bomber of the Jebslund Wasserarmee in 1947. Demonic eyes have replaced the air intakes, and the nose sports an evil grin. The entire craft is preternaturally black and radiates a demonic aura.)

Armour:
63mm–103mm belt
60lb protective decks
103mm bulkheads
103mm side and 2in top round conning tower
103mm side over steering gear

Notes:

Aviation facilities: 3 × elevators
2 × flight deck hydraulic catapults
1 × hangar deck hydraulic catapults

In 1946, a new type of fighter was developed and put into production: A near-miraculous wonder of the waning propeller era that could take off and land near-vertically, at speeds so low as to be unheard-of in any fighter aircraft before it, and yet, at top speed, could keep pace with even jet fighters. Due to its odd shape, the fighter was called the 'Flying Waffle', and it was rushed into production in 1947 as soon as the kinks had been worked out of its design, with no nevermind paid to those civillians who had seen it in flight and immediately begun ranting about UFOs and flying saucers (and with no mention of teacups! Hmmph!), despite concerns that the fact that the airframe survived initial testing meant the engines may have been underpowered for Jebslund's military leaders' tastes, due to the amazing flight characteristics.

The fighter was put into service with the navy, where its amazing takeoff run could be put to use aboard even the smallest of carriers without the need of a catapult, with the latest of the Bienenstock-class carriers, the Hornissennest, chosen to be the first to receive the new designated heavy fighter. For over a decade, the Hornissennest and her crew faithfully served the Wasserarmee, proudly defending Jebslund and striking fear in the hearts of her enemies.

Until, that is, she was declared obsolete. She had known the day would come. The last five years of active service, she saw fewer and fewer veterans, and more trainees. She'd become a school ship, her once-feared fighters now relegated to training platforms. It was a decent fate, one her spirit was proud to have.

Until they moved her. They'd loaded her up with her old complement, armed her, fueled her, and, to all appearances, were sending her to battle once more. Except they weren't. They sent her to a beautiful island. Then abandoned her. Not a soul on board save the spirit of a once-mighty carrier, left to watch helplessly as radar contacts showed the incoming bomber. The first of many that would soon drive her to despise her creators as the bombs fell, the ocean swallowed her, and... And they dragged her back up. Repaired her. And sent her off to die again. A test target to evaluate new bombs.

At first, she took her new role in stride, seeing it as doing her part to keep the Kermanic war machine strong. As the tests went on, though, the agony of her repeated deaths and resurrections wore all good will Hornissennest spirit bore down until nothing remained but unbridled hatred for the monsters who refuse to just. Let. Her. Die... The ones who had used her and thrown her away and refused to allow even that mercy. The ones who had truly abandoned her. Thrown her to the wolves in an endless nightmare. Until the day they found their perfect bomb. Their silver bullet of annihilation that reduced an entire simulated battlegroup to barely-usable scrap.

And the day she found herself in a new place, risen as a new ship, a new being. And now with the opportunity to strike back at creatures so like those who had thrown her away.

OOC-section:
RP-sample: Here, under the username GIR
Have you read and understood the rules? "Ahead flank!"

Battlegroup:

Second, that still doesn't answer the question of why Novaya and how do they *first* meet? There's no reason for Hornissennest to know who he is right from the word go, and less for her to be smitten with him without getting to know him (or at least know *of* him and form an opinion on that).

Oh, right. Well, they sighted each other during that battle involving the Allied Fairies landing, the carriers fleeing to any AA ship groupies, and the Baka Prince and the Tsundere Abyssal.

Unfortunately, Mozilla has, recently, screwed me right over. The tabs with the loading icon at the center of the page, the freaking Multiprocess Windows that I dreaded over, and the fact that the new version of Mozilla, V58.1, doesn't help. I already got four Firefox.exes running just to give me the middle fingers. If the Mozilla guys that did the Firefox versions made another version, I'm getting myself totally screwed right over again.

If you ask why, it means it's giving me more frustrations.

[Kraicia]

-snip-

I might make my reintroductory post where Hazel is venturing in her own. In this scenario, she had gotten separated from the rearguard and is now attempting to sail to the naval base alone. But given with the time of day, she is either anchored underwater near an island or she is traveling underwater via battery power.

There is no use in Hazel sailing in the day; the abyssal shipgirls will not be entirely convinced by Hazel’s beauty and charm unlike shipboys who’ll fall for the same thing with ease. Plus, as standard of Hazel’s design, she sails on the surface at night, and rather quietly for a ship with ‘clean’ propulsion systems. So, either way, I’ll be deciding Hazel’s fate in my upcoming reintroductory post.

P.S. I have not entirely forgotten my four other Kraician kanmusus (shipbys/shipgirls) - I’ll get to them when the timing is right. Plus, keep in mind with Hazel’s sails and electric power that she’ll be arriving to the naval base by the next morning (that is if it’s okay for me to have her venture on her own). Sails and battery power come at a cost compared to steam or diesel (or nuclear reactors).

[The Selkie]

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I might make my reintroductory post where Hazel is venturing in her own. In this scenario, she had gotten separated from the rearguard and is now attempting to sail to the naval base alone. But given with the time of day, she is either anchored underwater near an island or she is traveling underwater via battery power.

There is no use in Hazel sailing in the day; the abyssal shipgirls will not be entirely convinced by Hazel’s beauty and charm unlike shipboys who’ll fall for the same thing with ease. Plus, as standard of Hazel’s design, she sails on the surface at night, and rather quietly for a ship with ‘clean’ propulsion systems. So, either way, I’ll be deciding Hazel’s fate in my upcoming reintroductory post.

P.S. I have not entirely forgotten my four other Kraician kanmusus (shipbys/shipgirls) - I’ll get to them when the timing is right. Plus, keep in mind with Hazel’s sails and electric power that she’ll be arriving to the naval base by the next morning (that is if it’s okay for me to have her venture on her own). Sails and battery power come at a cost compared to steam or diesel (or nuclear reactors).

Sounds like a plan, if you insist on that. Be aware, though, that if any Abyssals spot her, that she's in a bit of a pickle... I'm still debating whether or not there might be a few Yuri-Abyssals amongst the ones led by me or not, but the chances are rather low.
Be aware, though, that if she is separated from the rear guard, at least one vessel of that will be very worried about her.

[Kraicia]

I might make my reintroductory post where Hazel is venturing in her own. In this scenario, she had gotten separated from the rearguard and is now attempting to sail to the naval base alone. But given with the time of day, she is either anchored underwater near an island or she is traveling underwater via battery power.

There is no use in Hazel sailing in the day; the abyssal shipgirls will not be entirely convinced by Hazel’s beauty and charm unlike shipboys who’ll fall for the same thing with ease. Plus, as standard of Hazel’s design, she sails on the surface at night, and rather quietly for a ship with ‘clean’ propulsion systems. So, either way, I’ll be deciding Hazel’s fate in my upcoming reintroductory post.

P.S. I have not entirely forgotten my four other Kraician kanmusus (shipbys/shipgirls) - I’ll get to them when the timing is right. Plus, keep in mind with Hazel’s sails and electric power that she’ll be arriving to the naval base by the next morning (that is if it’s okay for me to have her venture on her own). Sails and battery power come at a cost compared to steam or diesel (or nuclear reactors).

Sounds like a plan, if you insist on that. Be aware, though, that if any Abyssals spot her, that she's in a bit of a pickle... I'm still debating whether or not there might be a few Yuri-Abyssals amongst the ones led by me or not, but the chances are rather low.
Be aware, though, that if she is separated from the rear guard, at least one vessel of that will be very worried about her.

I understand, Selkie.

P.S. I will not be able to get a post up this morning (7:07am here in California), so I’ll be posting either in the late afternoon or tonight (early or late). Otherwise, I’m about to set sail once again...

[Mestovakia]

Splendid! And accepted! Would you mind her being part of the rear guard as well?
Also, if I'm not mistaken, she has no AA-armament - am I seeing that right?

I don't mind. And yes, she has no AA armament. What does the Rear Guard do?

[The Cross and Davids Star]

Splendid! And accepted! Would you mind her being part of the rear guard as well?
Also, if I'm not mistaken, she has no AA-armament - am I seeing that right?

I don't mind. And yes, she has no AA armament. What does the Rear Guard do?

Rear Guard helps protect a force from being attacked from behind, especially when retreating.

[Mestovakia]

I don't mind. And yes, she has no AA armament. What does the Rear Guard do?

Rear Guard helps protect a force from being attacked from behind, especially when retreating.

I see. Man, Sagami's gonna have to put up with a bunch of Grandma jokes.

[Mestovakia]

Until I see a good opportunity to get Sagami in, I'll roll with Re. Who knws? Maybe Re becomes Un-abyssaled and becomes Sagami?

[The Selkie]

Until I see a good opportunity to get Sagami in, I'll roll with Re. Who knws? Maybe Re becomes Un-abyssaled and becomes Sagami?

...actually, that's not a bad idea. Would that be an option for you?
CDS, would Salvation be up for it? Provided we get him back to base in a timely manner, of course.

[Mestovakia]

Until I see a good opportunity to get Sagami in, I'll roll with Re. Who knws? Maybe Re becomes Un-abyssaled and becomes Sagami?

...actually, that's not a bad idea. Would that be an option for you?
CDS, would Salvation be up for it? Provided we get him back to base in a timely manner, of course.

That's definitely an option for me! I get to combine the two instead of having to write one out.