Quote:nocarename wrote:And, even if she wakes as a ship-girl... she's banned all contact with Trekkies.Quote:Dartz wrote:If it's the first one that makes the difference, that's a problem. If it's the last two? That can be worked around.And the first one-to-one scale of Yamato to test the possibility will be, of course, the Argo.
There's one or two obvious differences between Ciara and other fencraft...
She's decades old, and lived an active life, aquiring a lot of history and character.
She never had a shipmind.
And she's actually a goddamned warship. Of which there are very few - even fenbuilt ones.
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