That was quite the story. Quite a unbelievable, otherworldly story-but who was she to doubt it. In this place, with the story she herself had?
..."In some ways, I envy you. I was built for one purpose. I was the strongest battleship the world had ever seen. I was built in secret, my true size and power concealed from the world. I was given the name of Yamato, the homeland of the Japanese people. The apex of my kind, none finer ever made, but I was held back for a 'decisive battle' until the war was nearly lost." She held out her fingers and began to tick off battles. "First Solomons. Sencond Solomons, Third Solomons, the Battle of Savo Island, the Battle of the South Pacific, the Nighttime Battle of Lunga point. I missed all of them. At Midway and the Battle of the Philippines, I was utterly impotent in the face of air-power. In the battle of Layte...I fired my guns in anger for the first time. And I was force to turn away." Tears of shame formed in her eyes, glistening in the light, and a few of her fairies tried to soothe her. "I, Yamato, turned and ran in shame from destroyers! Ships that weighed less than a single one of my turrets, whose broadsides were a hundred times smaller than my own!" She shook with the repressed emotion. "After that...I had only Operation Ten-go awaiting me. My final mission, without enough fuel to return to port, was to head to Okinawa and beach myself. I had not sailed six hours from Japanese waters when the attackers gathered to finish me off. Dive bombers ripped into me and torpedoes ripped open my sides until I rolled over and sank, taking all but a few hundred of my crew with me. That is the truth of history-I had been rebuilt to resist aerial attack with all the power available to me and I was able to strike down ten of my attackers. Twelve dead men for four thousand after my escorts were acounted for as well."
She gestured to herself. "This...body, this form, I cannot explain. I am a rusting hulk of shattered metal at the bottom of the ocean, broken in two by my death-throes, but I am here. Alive, when I was not even properly alive before. It is more than a Battleship like myself deserves."
It's okay, I've read GG.
..."In some ways, I envy you. I was built for one purpose. I was the strongest battleship the world had ever seen. I was built in secret, my true size and power concealed from the world. I was given the name of Yamato, the homeland of the Japanese people. The apex of my kind, none finer ever made, but I was held back for a 'decisive battle' until the war was nearly lost." She held out her fingers and began to tick off battles. "First Solomons. Sencond Solomons, Third Solomons, the Battle of Savo Island, the Battle of the South Pacific, the Nighttime Battle of Lunga point. I missed all of them. At Midway and the Battle of the Philippines, I was utterly impotent in the face of air-power. In the battle of Layte...I fired my guns in anger for the first time. And I was force to turn away." Tears of shame formed in her eyes, glistening in the light, and a few of her fairies tried to soothe her. "I, Yamato, turned and ran in shame from destroyers! Ships that weighed less than a single one of my turrets, whose broadsides were a hundred times smaller than my own!" She shook with the repressed emotion. "After that...I had only Operation Ten-go awaiting me. My final mission, without enough fuel to return to port, was to head to Okinawa and beach myself. I had not sailed six hours from Japanese waters when the attackers gathered to finish me off. Dive bombers ripped into me and torpedoes ripped open my sides until I rolled over and sank, taking all but a few hundred of my crew with me. That is the truth of history-I had been rebuilt to resist aerial attack with all the power available to me and I was able to strike down ten of my attackers. Twelve dead men for four thousand after my escorts were acounted for as well."
She gestured to herself. "This...body, this form, I cannot explain. I am a rusting hulk of shattered metal at the bottom of the ocean, broken in two by my death-throes, but I am here. Alive, when I was not even properly alive before. It is more than a Battleship like myself deserves."