作者： Morgane

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Lens of History (5)

by Morgane 2017年4月9日

STEC Archives, Print Document Division
Curator signature: Cusk, on behalf of Andrea Lawrence, Chief Science Officer, STEC
Format: Archival Records
Object: Lab notebook of Andrea Lawrence, Chief Science Officer, Special Task and Evaluation Command.
Location (if known): STEC Mobile Base 03, “Avalon”
Time (if known): Feb. 10th-13th, 1989

Note: All pages have the subheading “An Assessment of Shipgirl Clothing Durability, by Dr. Andrea L. Lawrence.”

Feb 10th:

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: Beretta M9, 9x19mm NATO x5
Distance: 50 meters
Results: No effect. Bullet simply “bounced” off or fragmented upon impact.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: Beretta M9, 9x19mm NATO x5
Distance: 25 meters
Results: See above.
Comments: Wait, I have it! It’s got to be because Helena’s wearing it, right? I know what to do now…

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: Beretta M9, 9x19mm NATO x5
Distance: 5 meters
Results: See above.
Comments: Nope, let me try the other thing.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Ballistic Dummy created in crude facsimile of Helena
Equipment Used: Beretta M9, 9x19mm NATO x5
Distance: 25 meters
Results: Round fully penetrated ballistic dummy, but the cloth remain completely undamaged.
Comments: Huuuuuuuuuuh. Well, I sort of knew this would be the case, but seriously, look at that flimsy thing! Just what is the stuff made out of anyways?

Feb 11th:

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: M4 Carbine Prototype, 5.56×45mm NATO x5
Distance: 250 meters, 150m, 50m, 25m.
Results: None observed.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: Barrett Sniper Rifle Prototype, .338 Lapua Magnum x5
Distance: 250 meters
Results: Round fragmented upon contact. Otherwise no effect.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: M72LAW x5
Distance: 100 meters
Results: No visible effects.
Comments: Wow, well, time to bring out the big guns then.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: AAWS-M x 5
Distance: 1000 meters
Results: No visible effects.

Item tested: Helena’s dress and/or headpiece
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: M224 firing 10x M720A HE rounds.
Distance: 1000 meters
Results: Small crater around the otherwise unaffected Helena. Helena looking bored.
Comment: Was told that I needed to take experiments elsewhere, hmph. Well, someone should have done this stuff a LONG time ago, it’s just nobody ever took the time to do science PROPERLY!

Feb 12th:

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: M198 howitzer firing 5x M-107 standard.
Distance: 10,000 meters
Results: No visible effects.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: M1 Abrams Tank, firing 10x Prototype M829A2 APFSDS rounds
Distance: 4,000 meters
Results: No visible effects.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena
Equipment Used: M109A6 “Paladin”, firing 2x M712 Copperhead.
Distance: 8,000 meters
Results: No visible effects.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Concrete facsimile of Helena “wearing” dress.
Equipment Used: M109A6 “Paladin”, firing 2x M712 Copperhead.
Distance: 8,000 meters
Results: Facsimile reduced to fine powder. Dress unharmed.

Feb 13th:

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena, at sea.
Equipment Used: MGM-52 Lance launched from Avalon base.
Distance: ~25,000 meters
Results: No visible effects.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena, at sea.
Equipment Used: MGM-140B – Block IA launched from Avalon base.
Distance: ~25,000 meters
Results: Helena’s hair slightly out of order. Otherwise, no visible effects.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Boat with Helena’s dress placed on it.
Equipment Used: MGM-140B – Block IA launched from Avalon base.
Distance: ~25,000 meters
Results: Boat annilated. Helena’s dress completely unharmed.

Item tested: Helena’s dress
Object: Helena, at sea.
Equipment Used: BGM-109A w/W80 warhead launched from USN Destroyer – Requsition Pending DENIED
Distance: ~25,000 meters
Results: 

A note is found stapled to the crossed-out section above.

Cusk here. Mike would like to see you in his office tomorrow regarding unauthorized deployment of conventional weapons on Avalon base. Do you have any idea how much trouble you’re in? 

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[Mail Call] 2017/04/08 – Bugs on the website edition

by Morgane 2017年4月8日

Yeah, sorry about the mess. We’re trying to figure out what’s going on at the moment, but it looks like layout is kind of messy right now.

[Mail Call] 2017/04/08 - Bugs on the website edition

Oh, well, at least we get to bring out our old “Sorry Enterprise” xD

You know, while we don’t really have a protagonist (per se, unless you count the commander), we really do like her quite a lot.

“Do the shells the shipgirls shoot from their riggings have the same kind of power as the actual, full sized thing?”

I would say more. If you think about it, a shipgirl’s equipment isn’t too far from “magitech.” If it’s observed that their weapons can pierce an Abyssal’s armored skin while a conventional naval shell cannot, or that the shell flies at far faster speeds than their naval counterparts, the fact that the shipgirls aren’t knocked back half a mile from the recoil is pretty incredible, no?

 

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[Mail Call] 2017/04/07 – Enterprise’s Great Adventure

by Morgane 2017年4月7日

Hey! It’s Prisse! Guess where I went the other day?

This is the National Personnel Records Center, where pretty much all service records of U.S. military personnel lives. It’s a neat place!

Yeah, I wish I had bigger pictures to show, but, it was a great trip! Looking at old records get kind of boring sometimes, but you know, we did learn a lot of things! Like, for instance, what kind of a car Admiral Nimitz drove. Or what the other commanders thought of each other (based on their scoring performances!)

Other than that, I took a trip in Zero’s backpack. You can see it here.

【美国之行】旧金山·第一节

Also, cat is friend! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Okay back to work now.

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[Mail Call] 2017/04/06

by Morgane 2017年4月6日

“Why is the site down?”

Zero’s the one that largely sets the stuff up. xD Oftentimes though it’s just some generic outage. A restart tends to do the trick.

No, guys, we’re seriously sorry. Sometimes I can’t get back at a reasonable hour because of real-life business. I’ll be able to resume to more postings probably Friday.

For today? I think I’ll comment on a few “slangish” terms that the shipgirls use sometimes. You’ll notice that we deliberately (and often intentionally) avoid using terms that are too WW2 or mili-jargony. This is really because (and Boston shows this pretty clearly) that much of our audience are more on the “interested genera public” than “hardcore militaria/military historian.” Add a healthy number of non-English speakers, and I think it’s important to communicate meanings clearly.

Here’s a term, for instance, that oftentimes get misinterpreted. Hot and bothered. This is actually very situational dependent, and the meanings can mean very different things. One meaning is getting angry, and the other is lusting for something or passionate for someone.

Then, we have other terms such as dope. During WW2-era (and how I understood it), this basically means idiot. Dope in today’s slang largely means it’s something positive – how good or positive something is.

Unless I’m intentionally thinking of a double entente I personally prefer using a more precise way to get the gist of something across. Other than possibly character-based colloquialisms, that is.

Alright looks like no coherence has been achieved today. Hello bed. Night everyone.