Lore

Articles related to lore in Pacific are stored here. This page is curated by the smart AI PALATINE. 

For a chronological order of events in the Pacific world refer to the timeline.

Section I: General

Information about Pacific, design processes, and ideas.

• Designing USS Iowa, Pacific’s Overall Shipgirl Design Philosophies (Published 2/25/16)
• Why do Some Shipgirls Have Moles and Ribbons? (2/16/17)
• What about Different Ships with the Same Names? (Published 2/22/17)
• Designing USS New York (2/26/17)
• Other Artist’s Shipgirls and Pacific (3/6/17)
• Paper Shipgirls, Alternate Dimensions, And what STEC and Others Think (Published 3/18/17)
• Prototype New Jersey (Published 3/28/17)
• Do Shipgirls Have Alternate Outfits?(Published 4/8/17)
• Evolution of Shipgirl Designs in Pacific (Published 4/27/17)
• Hoppou and Other KC Abyssal Characters in Pacific (Published 6/12/17)
• Modern Shipgirls (Published 7/4/17)
• Selecting which Ships to turn into Shipgirls (Published 12/5/17)
• Depicting Different Ideologies in Pacific (Published 7/25/17)
• Pin-up Girls and Pacific: A Commentary (Published 8/26/17)
• How to Assign Unique Personalities to Shipgirls (Published 9/3/17)
• Different Faces of a Shipgirl (Published 10/12/17)
• Some Thematic Notes on the Abyssals, Shipgirls, and Pacific as a Whole (Published 10/19/17)
• Thematic Notes on Shipgirls and Abyssals (Published 10/19/17)
• Designing Paper Shipgirls (Published 11/10/17)
• How to Design a Shipgirl (Published 11/17/17)
• Works that Inspire Us (Published 11/21/17)
• Designing the Abyssals (Published 1/18/18)
• PAMPANITO, Submarine Medicine, and Character Design (Published 1/12/18)
• Depicting Fairies in Pacific, Commentary on Design (5/4/18)
• The Fourth of July, America, and What it All Means (7/3/19)

Section II: Shipgirls

Articles on Shipgirls.

• On Subgirls Riding Torpedoes into Battle (Published 2/23/17)
• Role of Cruiser Girls (Published 2/27/17)
• Are Shipgirls Good Cooks? (Published 3/27/17)
• Matters of “Love, Copulation and Marriage” (Published 4/4/17)
• Subgirl Equipment, Anime in Pacific, and USS Arizona (Published 5/1/17)
• Do Shipgirls get Cold? (Published 5/24/17)
• “An Assessment of Shipgirl Clothing Durability” by Dr. Andrea L. Lawrence. (Published 4/9/17)
• Could Conventional Forces fight Abyssals if the Shipgirls Fail? (Published 4/29/17)
• Why do some Shipgirls Wear Glasses? (Published 6/25/17)
• Difference Between Mid-20th Century Naval Combat and Shipgirl Combat (Published 7/2/17)
• Shipgirl Powers (Published 8/21/17)
• What do Shipgirls Eat? (Published 10/18/17)
• Shipgirl and Their Advantages Over Conventional Forces (Published 12/13/17)
• Relative Shipgirl Strength (Published 1/5/18)
• The Working Environment of a STEC Subgirl (Published 2/13/18)
• Ship vs. Girl, How History Affects a Shipgirl (Published 3/16/18)
• A Journey’s Destination: New Jersey on Herself (Published 9/29/21)

Meet the Shipgirl (Extended Shipgirl Profiles):

• O’Bannon (Published 6/4/15)
• Nevada (Published 8/6/15)
• Edsall (Published 8/17/15)
• Scuplin & Sailfish (Published 9/18/15)
• Pennsylvania (Published 10/22/15)

Shipgirls of STEC

USN Shipgirls

• Tennessee and California Character Tidbits (Published 2/8/17)
• USS New York (Published 2/17/17)
• Do Shipgirls Appear at USO Events? And does Marblehead write Fanfiction? (Published 3/8/17)
• “Badass” Maury and Shipgirl “Martial Arts”(Published 3/14/17)
• What sort of Music does Louisville like? (Published 3/26/17)
• Why is Sailfish a Bit of a Prepper? (Published 4/2/17)
• Supporting Subgirls Operations, Do Subgirls Live Underwater? (Published 4/10/17)
• Carrier Girls in STEC (Published 4/15/17)
• Details on Lori/U-2513 (Published 7/22/17)
• Destroyer Girls in STEC (Published 7/29/17)
• William F. Halsey and USS Enterprise (Published 1/4/18)
• Subgirl Operations, Interview with Admiral Mike Yin (Published 1/14/18)
• USS Essex, The Nature of Man (Published 3/1/18)
• USS Lexington, Queen of the Flattops (Published 3/6/18)
• USS Missouri, The Odd One Out (Published 5/23/18)
• USS San Francisco, Character Design and Inspirations (Published 3/10/18)
• USS Massachusetts and One’s Personal Motivations (Published 10/17/18)
• USS Helena and Maintaining Morale (Published 10/27/18)
• USS Enterprise In Her own Words, Halsey and Why We Believe the Things We Do. (11/9/18)
• A Day in the Life of Tautog (Published 1/5/19)
• Ships Bands and Shipgirls (Published 1/20/19)
• Valentine’s Day on Avalon (Published 2/14/19)
• The Psychological Health of STEC’s Shipgirls (Published 4/21/19)
• Battleships and Bikinis: “Research” by Enterprise (Published 8/1/19) 
• (literally) Outfitting Shipgirls or “Why STEC Shipgirls Don’t go Out Wearing Cardboard Boxes” (But Could Still Do so if They Wished) (Published 10/30/20) 
• Jer’s Alter Egos? (Published 11/12/20) 
• Alternate Equipment Loadouts for Shipgirls? (Published 7/14/22) 

Foreign Shipgirls

Additional articles on non-USN shipgirls in Pacific.        

• About Foreign Shipgirls who Historically Became Part of the USN and Pam (Published 2/19/17)
• Are IJN Shipgirls more Scantly Clad in Pacific? (Published 3/24/17)
• How will German Subgirls be treated in Pacific? (Published 4/14/17)
• More about IJN Shipgirls in Pacific, Their Designs, and Inspirations (Published 9/19/17)
• British Shipgirl Sketches and Notes (Published 11/3/17)

Fairies

Articles about fairies in Pacific

• Fairy and Shipgirl “Magic” in Pacific (Published 2/10/17)
• General Fairy Behavior and Unique “Named” Fairies in Pacific (Published 7/21/17)
• Fairies and New Technological Innovation (Published 8/27/17)
• The Bureau of Fairy Management (Published 12/19/17)
• An Example of Fairy Innovation (Published 2/10/18)
• Working with Fairies: General Advice (Published 5/9/19)
• Fairies, Equipment, and Shipgirl Roles in the Abyssal War: A Post War interview with USS Maury (Published 7/10/19)

Equipment

Articles focusing on discussing shipgirl equipment, weapons, and rigging.

• Shipgirl PDWs, and why Some Shipgirls don’t have Them (Published 2/11/17)
• Fairy Crews, How Shipgirls Operate Their Gear, and can Shipgirls Swap Equipment? (Published 2/13/17)
• Subgirl Equipment, Anime in Pacific, and USS Arizona (Published 5/1/17)
• Cusk’s Radar-Gun and It’s Uses (Published 7/28/17)
• Specialized Subgirl Combat Loadouts (Published 1/22/18)
• Shipgirl Equipment: The Mobile Unit (Published 5/2/18)
• Shipgirl Equipment: Limitations and Upgrades (Published 2/4/19)
• Shipgirl and Abyssal Aircraft  (Published 2/25/19)
• How Shipgirl Equipment Differs From An Actual Warship’s  (Published 11/4/19)

Section III: The Abyssals

Additional articles on the Abyssal Fleet, the omnicidal antagonists of Pacific

• An Intercepted Abyssal Transmission (Published 2/18/17)
• How Big are Abyssals? And General Abyssal Characteristics (Published 3/10/17)
• Abyssal Doctrine (Published 5/16/17)
• Abyssal Motivations and “Morality” (Published 7/8/17)
• Do Abyssals use Propaganda? (Published 8/19/17)
• The Abyssal Focus on Psychological Warfare (Published 3/19/18)
• Abyssal Unit Design (Published 3/22/18)
• USS New Jersey’s Thoughts on the Coming Abyssal War (Published 3/26/18) 
• Abyssal Perspectives: From one defect to another (Published 7/12/18) 
• Abyssals, Civilization, and Humanity (Published 1/26/19) 
• Abyssal Attitudes Towards Innovation and Adaptation (Published 7/17/19) 
• The Abyssal – A Product of Cybernetic Engineering? (Published 11/19/19) 
• An Abyssal Limitation (Published 07/25/20) 
• Alternate Timelines, Alternate Shipgirls, Implications for the Coming War (7/20/21)
• Towards Civilization’s End (3/30/22)
• Wargaming the Abyssals (6/1/22)

Section IV: The World of Pacific

Articles on nations, organizations, factions, and alternate history of Pacific.

Alternate History

Articles on how history has changed for America and the world in general.

• Why the Abyssal Threat is Kept Secret (Published 2/6/17)
• The UK, US, and USSR, General changes in the Timeline (Published 4/26/17)
• Timeline Changes for America (Published 8/4/17)
• Improvements to US Civil Infrastructure: 84th Congress & Commentary from Dwight D. Eisenhower (Published 8/4/17)
• How Truman and Eisenhower treated the Abyssal Threat (Published 9/29/17)
• The Abyssal Threat as seen by President Truman, Early Contacts with Other World Leaders (Published 10/5/17)
• Preparedness in the Abyssal War: Printed Document Meant for Conventional Forces (Published 11/13/17)
• The Naval Rebuilding Act Of 1978 (Published 1/7/18)
• NATO in Pacific: Personal Communications of Dwight D. Eisenhower (Published 3/12/18)
• US Food Security in the Event of an Abyssal Invasion (Published 4/9/18)
• Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War: Transcript of Conversation with New Jersey  (Published 7/2/18)
• The Wreck of the USS Boxer (Published 8/8/18)
• Cultural Shifts & Differences in the Pacific World (Published 9/17/18)
• Archival Scan of “The General”, Anti-Eisenhower Publication, 1958  (Published 4/11/19)
• Magical Girl Angela Edsall, “Japanimation” in Pacific  (Published 5/21/19)
• The Pacific Conference  (Published 5/21/21)
• A Post Abyssal Future (Published 4/15/22)
• Profiteering in the Abyssal War (Published 5/1/22)

Special Task and Evaluation Command (STEC)

Articles on STEC, it’s operation, and personnel.

• Avalon: STEC’s Floating Island Base. And, Are Lost Subgirls labeled MIA or KIA? (Published 2/7/17)
• How Self-Sufficient is STEC when Conducting Operations? Does STEC have Other Facilities Besides Avalon? (Published 3/2/17)
• How much does it Cost the Navy to run STEC? (Published 3/29/17)
• What it Takes to Join STEC (Published 6/21/17)
• Why is Avalon a Mobile Floating Island, and on the Qualifications of STEC Staff (Published 7/1/17)
• Mike Yin’s Early Days at STEC  (Published 14/44/2018)
• Openness and Honesty in Communications, Proposals by Marblehead (Published 29/4/2018)
• STEC and the Control and Refinement of Tactical Information (Published 7/17/2019) 
• Mike Yin’s Commentary on his Role in STEC, the Bureaucracy of STEC, and the Power of Delegation (Published 8/18/2019) 
• Information Control (Published 1/29/2020) 
• A Brief Overview of STEC’s Approach to Mental Health (Published 2/17/2020) 
• Contingency Planning and Civilian Response During the Abyssal War  (Published 3/5/2020) 
• STEC, National Mobilization during the Abyssal War, and the Preservation of Normalcy (Published 3/28/2020) 
• STEC’s Industry, Information on how STEC makes it’s Equipment (Published 6/12/2020) 
• On Matters of Morale and Hopelessness: Abyssal Demoralization and it’s Countermeasures (Published 6/29/2020) 
• Application of MERLIN (Published 7/11/2020)
• Prospective Warning Systems: Q&As with Government Representatives (Published 8/10/2020)
• Experimental Weapon Testing (Published 8/27/2020)
• Ethics of Intervention (Published 9/11/2020)
• Abyssal War Preparations: Civilian Oil Reserves (Published 9/27/2020)
• MERLIN: STEC’s “Artificial” Intelligence (Published 9/27/2020)
• Marblehead Media: The Bright Futures Aviation Challenge (Published 2/3/2021)
• The Burden of Genius (Published 4/21/2021)
• Civil Liberties During Alien Invasion (Published 5/6/2021)
• “A little bird once told me that”: Shipgirl Trivia (Published 6/5/2021)
• A Letter from Mike (Published 6/19/2021)
• A Shipgirl’s Guide to Answering Press Questions (Published 8/16/2021)
• What’s Expected of a STEC Commander (Published 8/31/2021)
• Etiquette and Blending In for Shipgirls (Published 9/14/2021)
• “Fish Fraud”: An Example of STEC Technology (Published 10/15/2021)
• Breaking the 1945 Barrier (Published 11/16/2021)
• The Christening and Deployment of STEC Base Eden (Published 1/15/2022)
• Long-Term Investment: Different Strategies for Dealing with the Abyssal Threat (Published 2/1/2022)
• Lend Lease & the Abyssal War (Published 2/15/2022)
• How MERLIN Thinks (Published 3/1/2022)
• Contingency Plans for Civilian Management in the Abyssal War  (Published 3/15/2022)
• Marblehead Media: Conference of the Seven Seas (Published 5/15/2022)
• STEC in a Policy Making Role? (Published 6/15/2022)\
• Experiments and Considerations in the Arctic (Published 7/31/2022)

The STEC Archives

Historical Artifacts and Exhibits from the Abyssal War

• Real Life Historical Equipment (Published 5/30/2020) 
• A Letter to Mike (Published 10/12/2020) 
• Different Counter-Abyssal Doctrines (Published 8/1/2021) 

Other Nations

Articles focusing on the states of other nations in this alternate timeline, how they are responding to the Abyssal threat, and the politics that come with defending humanity.

• Foreign Officers in STEC (Published 2/4/17)
• International Collaboration, Is the Cold War Still Going On? (Published 4/20/17)
• The Vladivostok Conference 1990 (Published 2711/17)

Japan

• Overview of Japan’s National Shipgirl Service, the Nihon Kaigun Tokusentai (NKT) (Published 3/4/18)
• Why is Japan the Way it is in Pacific? (Published 3/10/17)
• NKT Doctrine (Published 3/13/17)
• Japanese Culture and how it Affects Their Views on Shipgirls (Published 3/20/17)
• Food Security, Economic Development, and Japanese Ambitions in Pacific (Published 4/22/17)
• The Ishida Institute incident, Communications with New Jersey (Published 1/25/18)
• The Chrysanthemum Throne of Pacific (Published 5/4/19)
• Japan’s Struggle for Meaning: Letters from Yamashiro (Published 10/20/19)
• The New National Shinto (Published 2/19/21)
• Japan’s Domestic Affairs: Incidents During the Construction of Narita Airport (Published 3/21/21)
• Diverging Sun (Published 7/3/21)

USSR

• The USSR in Pacific, Changes in the Cold War (Published 2/5/17)
• Early Soviet Attempts to Prepare for the Abyssals: 1974 (Published 3/22/17)
• USSR State Defense Committee Memo on the Defensive Measures of the USSR (Published 1/27/18)
• Soviet Perspectives on the United States: Tashkent (Published 9/26/18)
• Soviet Economics 101 (Published 6/3/19)

United Kingdom

• An Overview of the UK in Pacific and the Role of RN-STEC in the 1977 Incident (Published 5/30/17)
• Visions from Another World? Recollections of New Jersey (Published 4/19/18)

France

• The Submarine Surcouf and An Overview of Pacific’s France (Published 2/4/18)