分类： 前线来信·Mail call

“Why is this called mail call and not daily updates?”

Why should it be called daily updates? What if we can’t update every day?

I mean, this thing’s halfway between what I randomly post on our forums every day and a way to formally answer questions. I also use it to throw out content on reasonably regular occasions.

“Question. Just what is the conventional military of the world doing? I get that STEC is supposed to be this super secret organization, but why not get the world to engage in a massive military build-up to counter the Abyssal invasion?”

This question pops up fairly regularly, and I’ll answer it with a few notes. In short, there’s no advantage right now to make this stuff public knowledge and a number of shortcomings.

1. See vol. 1’s reasoning for keeping things a secret. Not many ways to hurt the things short of shipgirl, and your unappealing options are:
   1. lie to people and tell them that the weapons work when they don’t.
   2. don’t lie to people and tell them that the weapons don’t work.
2. STEC doesn’t want to raise world tensions when the Abyssals haven’t struck in force. If there’s a military build up and the Abyssals don’t show, it’s pre-emptively depleting resources and political will that could go towards fighting the Abyssals.
3. Current Abyssal activities are contained.
4. No practical benefit to STEC’s own operations since they don’t really need the massive infrastructural and logistical supports of the other branches of the military.

I can go on, but those are a few examples.

“Could you send me the cubs fan Chicago please?”

Sure.

On 2016: Also, I’m wondering whether it will be a “Horus Heresy” series after the Emperor ascend. Look at the protests or even riots in US, or much worse, around the world. It just look like M30, when “Galaxy is in flame”

Haha, well, we’ll think about doing this one once we finish 2016.

We’ll think about it.

“I have a question in regards to ships that became “members” of the USN (aside from U-2513). How do ships like Nagato, I-400, I-401, Prinz Eugen, U-505, etc. feel about the USN and STEC in Pacific?”

I-401/I-400/U-505 has not made an appearance in Pacific proper yet. I found nothing particularly interesting or compelling about their personalities, and I didn’t write them as a result.

Nagato is arguably the reason why EVERYTHING in the 80s happened to begin with. AR2 kind of touches upon it, and I’m saving that short for a slow time when there isn’t much to post.

Pringles is fairly liberal-left as far as things go. Live, love, laugh type. I wrote her initially around the same time she was hinted at for KanColle, and the personalities basically meshed because I wanted a contrast to the hardline nationalist Bismarck, both of whom are meant to contrast Lori, who came out of East Germany.

We can now add Ulla to this list, too – along with a few others.

“Who’s Pam?”

Raleigh?

So, Pam finally gave me the okay to go to practice today. It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to! Pam says that I should keep it easy and not tire myself out, but I’m just so excited! Sorry I’m a bit late!

…Update? Cripes. Er, Pam’s the person that makes you feel better. I guess I’m her only long-term patient, but she’s kind of the base’s doctor? Yeah. Something like that. 

Come to think of it. Pam normally just comes in twice a week and asks me how I’m doing. She takes a few measurements, writes stuff down, then tells me stuff I should do or things I should eat. Recently she’s given me this tea that made my cough go away, but sometimes I feel better if she just stands there. It’s like she has this ‘get better’ aura around her.

So she’s kind of like a bigger version of Shaw? Yeah. I know she’s a subgirl and all but I’ve barely seen her out at all. She’s mostly hanging around the medical bay or tech lab areas or here helping me out. I mean you couldn’t exactly mistake her for a DD girl or anything like that since she’s definitely pretty well-developed, heh, but yeah… I guess we’ve got a lot of pretty blondes around. 

Does that help?