So Hoppo is another treaty loophole in waiting and definitely not an aircraft carrier, because she's under 10,000 tons, like Rj.
And yes, that was why Rj was built...she's not an aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers are 10,000 tons and over (under the original Washington Treaty. The London Treaty closed that loophole before Rj was finished).
It gets depressing really fast when you realize what sort of hut Hoppo has been living in until now by contemplating the first few frames.
Well, at least it's better than my fanfic's portrayal where she lives under a piece of sunken hull propped up by an old gun barrel in a cratered hellscape of an ocean floor. I took the fic down because it's embedded in a verse I made that was quite original enough to rewrite to be original fiction.
Here's a copy-paste of her introduction chapter:
" Diving and cruising off slowly, Hoppo headed home toward her campsite to spend the night, as it was late enough in the day that no more ship-girls would show up in this season and her campsite was under enough stealth fields to not be found by the annoying Compass Device the ship-girls used. Campsite might be an exaggeration, as the water was too shallow to resist orbital bombardment well enough to warrant long-term bases. This was unlike in the deep ocean where orbital bombardment strong enough to have enough splash damage to destroy a base (passing through water of varying densities, temperatures, etc. did a lot of very bad things to the accuracy of a kinetic warhead) would cause tsunamis on the surrounding shores and thus politically cost-prohibitive.
Though what looked like a sea-floor lean-to might not give the impression, and Hoppo certainly did not look it, she knew how to fight very well. After all, she had defended the Aleutians for so long… But Hoppo sometimes thought… How much longer?
Soon, as evidenced by the plants of the shore showing new growth, summer would come to the Aleutians, and the icebergs would lessen. With the summer, the enemies would again begin sortieing regularly, the Japanese and American ship-girls in their squadrons after squadrons. Then, Hoppo would fight.
Each year she had to fight harder. Each year, she was more badly wounded while fighting off her foes, who seemed to only grow stronger as the days, weeks and months passed, while the reinforcements of springtime dried up as the Abyssal Fleet was again pressed on all fronts…
But this year there had been no reinforcements yet in the springtime, nor had the normal winter reinforcements arrived, cruising under the surface of the sea to reach her garrison. She didn’t have manufactories of her own anymore, having lost them one after another years ago in the fighting, and so had to conserve her forces. It still was not enough for more than a handful at best to survive until the next year, despite the winter having only sporadic attacks.
This year, none of the previous years’ forces had survived to see the start of the combat season, the destroyer husk she was trying and failing to resurrect had been the last to fall, a week ago…
Hoppo knew full well that if things continued, someday, someday soon, the Aleutians would no longer be hers.
She suspected that, when that day came, this life would also no longer be hers. "
It gets depressing really fast when you realize what sort of hut Hoppo has been living in until now by contemplating the first few frames.
Well, we don't know she lives there. She might just have been using some abandoned building as her HQ while she prepped for the infiltration. I mean, I'm assuming the Abyssals don't have a formal network of KGB-style safehouses in the cities where naval bases are. They don't seem organized enough for that. :)
As for the Aleutians etc., I've always been kind of amused that Hoppo is evidently meant to represent Dutch Harbor, Alaska, just because I used to watch Deadliest Catch. As a friend of mine put it when I brought that up,
"Meanwhile, 120 nautical miles southeast of Dutch, Hoppo-chan is back on the crab."
So Hoppo is another treaty loophole in waiting and definitely not an aircraft carrier, because she's under 10,000 tons, like Rj.
And yes, that was why Rj was built...she's not an aircraft carrier. Aircraft carriers are 10,000 tons and over (under the original Washington Treaty. The London Treaty closed that loophole before Rj was finished).
How do yu weigh an entire harbor though (Hoppo is the embodiment of Dutch Harbor.)?
A ship drop, huh...WHA—Who's that little girl?Little sister... I think?You can count on me!Ryuujou's introduction line.I'm a light aircraft carrier, Ryuujou!
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