I'm just trying to come up with a good way to wedge it in there. (No Ever Given/Suez Canal jokes, please. 
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The thing I have about the ships showing up as part of Step 5 is that they'd be a big enough deal that we'd be all too tied up to handle Academy City right away once it does show up, emergency or not.
For one thing, there's "Where to put them?" Labster has already figured out that LA, San Diego, and even San Fran are a no-go because of the undersea geography. Zuikaku is among the smallest of these ships, but even that has a phenomenally huge draft of 250 meters!
Our characters would probably be all right in the middle of getting the command staff, civilian government, school administration, and student body government on each ship read-in on the situation when Academy City shows up.
Now, we can go ahead and write it like that. This is deconstruction, and so this will present the issue of "What now?" because you can't just hide these things because they're all as tall as sky scrapers. Not even Maginot's Surcouf because, despite it being a submarine, the old listening nets are still out there, and they'd sure as hell hear that monster of a sub and the allied navies would all fucking shit themselves.
Our objectives would be thus:
1) Keep the school ships out of territorial waters - particularly those of countries that will take any intrusions poorly, like China.
2) Keep anyone from shooting at these things.
3) Make sure they got at least a temporary line on supplies so nobody winds up starving.
The only quick and reasonable solution that I can think of would be to get them into Washu's lab somehow, but that'd almost be cheating.
And then you have the solution that I thought of - have them show up as the first and most immediate result of the MCS going into failure mode, where most of the world's countries are a little too distracted to do anything immediate about ships the size of cities arriving because they just had actual cities take off for orbit. It still makes for good reading, it doesn't really interfere with the chain of events we have already set up, and it gives our characters something light-duty to do in the wake of the Academy City Job.
It could also prove to be fortuitous in a ways, as having those ships, each one dedicated to an all-girls boarding academy, can provide a temporary residence for all the Misaka Clones.
Thoughts?
)The thing I have about the ships showing up as part of Step 5 is that they'd be a big enough deal that we'd be all too tied up to handle Academy City right away once it does show up, emergency or not.
For one thing, there's "Where to put them?" Labster has already figured out that LA, San Diego, and even San Fran are a no-go because of the undersea geography. Zuikaku is among the smallest of these ships, but even that has a phenomenally huge draft of 250 meters!
Our characters would probably be all right in the middle of getting the command staff, civilian government, school administration, and student body government on each ship read-in on the situation when Academy City shows up.
Now, we can go ahead and write it like that. This is deconstruction, and so this will present the issue of "What now?" because you can't just hide these things because they're all as tall as sky scrapers. Not even Maginot's Surcouf because, despite it being a submarine, the old listening nets are still out there, and they'd sure as hell hear that monster of a sub and the allied navies would all fucking shit themselves.
Our objectives would be thus:
1) Keep the school ships out of territorial waters - particularly those of countries that will take any intrusions poorly, like China.
2) Keep anyone from shooting at these things.
3) Make sure they got at least a temporary line on supplies so nobody winds up starving.
The only quick and reasonable solution that I can think of would be to get them into Washu's lab somehow, but that'd almost be cheating.
And then you have the solution that I thought of - have them show up as the first and most immediate result of the MCS going into failure mode, where most of the world's countries are a little too distracted to do anything immediate about ships the size of cities arriving because they just had actual cities take off for orbit. It still makes for good reading, it doesn't really interfere with the chain of events we have already set up, and it gives our characters something light-duty to do in the wake of the Academy City Job.
It could also prove to be fortuitous in a ways, as having those ships, each one dedicated to an all-girls boarding academy, can provide a temporary residence for all the Misaka Clones.
Thoughts?