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[Mail Call] 2017/03/23 – Outfit Design Edition

by Morgane 2017年3月24日

Sune here. It’s the beginning of spring break for many. We are busier around now as the team travels or slowly recuperates or in my case doing overtime for work.

Today’s question is a not so serious one. Someone asked me why is it that the Japanese shipgirls are heavier in fanservice in Pacific than the American ones.

My first answer is that they are not particularly more scantily clad than roughly a good 1/3rd of the Pacific cast. I happen to like sexy girls and think it is good to make them appealing to the eye.

My second answer is that I think it fits the characters. What a character is wearing says a lot about their personalities. Out of the ones shown almost all are fairly loud and energetic. Zao is prone to dramatic trolling so it works fine. To me it makes more sense to make their outfits be bold. In the times we live in to be bold means to show a little more skin than you would expect.

My third answer is that for many cases, it is a traditional Japanese thing to wear. While the fundoshi is a traditionally male garment it works well for a girl because it has the potential to be a sexy thong or loincloth. Pacific’s focus is on the American girls and I want to use motifs that is not entirely centered around the kimono to emphasize their Japaneseness.

Finally I have one really good answer. Because.

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[Mail Call] 2017/03/22 – Cardboard Enterprise Edition

by Morgane 2017年3月23日

“Hey Morgane, is the cardboard Enterprise for sale?”

No.

“If so, how big is it? How much is it? Can you ship to South Dakota?”

Er… I think we only made one of those. I can ask if we can ship something else to South Dakota?

(Sorry, I can’t upload to wordpress or our Chinese contraption, so this’ll have to do)

She’s about that big? In other words,probably not that much smaller than how tall she’d be normally?

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[Mail Call] 2017/03/21 – Sleep Edition III

by Morgane 2017年3月22日

Because the options here are either calling it “sleep edition” or “Morgane’s exhausted ramble,” it really doesn’t make much of a difference.

Folks have asked us what our long-term plans are, and to be perfectly honest, I don’t think I’m at a position to give an answer to that just yet. I’ve seen far too many projects out there where they promise you the sky and then disappear (often having taken your money, too!) without a trace. I certainly have a vision for Pacific, but it’ll take a lot of shaping and a lot more production. In fact, I’d say it’s only starting to come together now. What you saw up there? That’s just laying a foundation.

“How does the world’s other super-power (USSR) deal with the Abyssals?”

Lens of History (3)

Funny how you mention that…

English Devblog, 美舰本·Pacific Lore

Lens of History (3)

by Morgane 2017年3月22日

STEC Archives, Print Document Division
Curator signature: Caroline
Format: Message, Personal
Object: Correspondences to Hymen G. Rickover, from New Jersey
Location (if known): STEC Mobile Base 01 “Tir’na’nog”
Time (if known): 1974

Admiral Rickover,

We’ve reached a tentative agreement with the Soviets. It took some convincing on our parts, but I’ve managed to persuade the higher-ups to let me take a peek at their AA operation plans. Thank me later.

In short? It’s a mess. FUBAR doesn’t even begin to cover it. The Soviets have been on-and-off throwing money and manpower in disparate directions without much to show for the last decade. I’m actually impressed by the KGB’s honesty here. When I asked them what have they learned so far, they showed us the entirety of their espionage attempts on STEC over the tenure of the last seven or eight directors.

Credit to them for trying. Credit to us for keeping a securely ran operation.

My guess? They’re being honest with us because they have nothing left to play. I suspect that they’ve figured out that we’ve got important stuff, and there are several bargaining chips that I can think of that would be of immense interest to the reds.

You’ll get the full report the day after tomorrow, but currently, the Soviet Union is entirely reliant on conventional land and coastal-based forces to counteract any Abyssal assaults on the USSR. Given the large vulnerable coastline, the Soviets have modified their traditional Deep Battle plans and currently focus on large numbers of mobile units with very limited field operational lifespan. Their current focus is stockpiling enough materiel and to enhance their winter-fighting capabilities, as the Red Army would be facing not only the Abyssals, but also the Arctic environment which would serve as a second enemy.

That’s about all the good news I have. Everything from the implementation to the theory to the command structure to the design of the equipment to the timetable is a mess. The coordination between different military services is poor, and I can’t help but wonder if the total absence of the Red Fleet (and their coastal defense units) in these plans are political in nature.

Honestly, I know there’s been gossip in the public regarding this build-up and interpreting it as evidence for some sort of communist invasion of Europe or even Alaska, but that really isn’t possible given their current force-readiness status. My little caper in the heads of those generals show that even they think those man-powered nuclear-tipped panzerfaust things are probably going to be entirely hit or miss against the Abyssals, and to turn them against much smaller targets? Pffft. Forget about it.