[OOC][PLOT] The Seventh Thread of Planning for Arc 1 - Arrivals

[Labster]

I had been wondering if this was a problem.  Let's use a couple images for scale...

   

Oh, hello, Suez Canal.  It doesn't even fit on this image.  Just imagine the Zuikaku was four times larger and also much wider than the canal, at least on deck.  Cool.  Now let's look at how things are in Venice...

   

Oh wow, this is going to have a hard time working.  The bay is big enough, and basically deep enough -- the source materials say Zuikaku goes 250m below the water line -- but haha that's huge.  The big cargo ships come by all the time, but this is much bigger and much closer.  Can you imagine the NIMBYs?  No, really.  They're going to be involved faster than you can say "the Coastal Commission".  The film industry might be upset too, but eh, you can fix it in post.  

We may want to make some adjustments here.  Either these ships get much smaller, or we might want to push it much later in the plot and somewhere else, like on Aqua.  Or on Umi no Akeboshi.