Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-26091666-20160704043705/@comment-261125-20160706041859

Vcharng wrote: Ar-cen-ciel wrote: I don't think having a common enemy is good enough of a convincing factor to let the operation to be (seemingly) fully entrusted to Admirals in command of IJN-majority fleet girls.

We don't know what happened to America in the meantime, but this operation probably wouldn't had happened to fall upon us if USN fleet girls were at the height of their power. Sure, it could be excused by whatever fan-made speculations being thrown around.

Either way, having us to take care of recapturing of Pearl Harbor is one of the major sign that there is a serious trouble somewhere in the oceans around the American continent. From the fact that USS Iowa was not given back to USN after IJN "rescued" her, I think the USN is most likely completely non-operational in terms of combat. Or maybe worse, the whole damn America is falling, and probably only a handful of officials managed to escape and form a government in exile.

Except most of the continental United States is nowhere near the ocean. The Abyssals would mostly just be a nuisance for coastal cities unless they decide to go up the rivers (which would still leave their killzone very limited). The American government could escape the Abyssal threat by...moving to Kansas.

The rest of the American shipgirls are probably busy keeping the Panama Canal and those two giant coastlines secure. Iowa is probably being permitted to stay with the Japanese force because (a) Japan and the USA are allies (assuming that KanColle is set in "modern" times), and (b) it would be too difficult to have her cross the Abyssal-infested Pacific.

Of course, the brutally realistic explanation is that KanColle has no official story at all and any foreign kanmusu can be explained with "because the devs said so."