Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-24.10.135.95-20150417064239

Sorry to put another large block of text here, but I really feel like this theory needs to be mentioned as it does play a rather large role in whether or not Allied ships could be added to Kancolle.

Ok here it is-

Do you all remember that crossover event with Arpeggio of Blue Steel that happened awhile back? I personally wasn't there for it but I have seen videos of the event and Im familliar with Arpeggio lore. Ok, if you don't look it up, if you do, remember that and bear with me for alittle here.

Ok, so it is obvious that the anime is supposed to add to the games lore, whether or not it sucks isn't the matter here but what it says at the very beggining of the Anime- WWII never happened, the Abyssals appeared, from where no one knows, and they began to destroy the navies of the world, consuming saliors and ships of the Navies of the world, and because they probably consumed various admirals, captians, and such in thier attacks, they probably got ahold of the stratagies that the Allied and Axis powers would have used to combat eachother, sort of absorbing that info, and trying to use it to thier atvantage. This is why in the Anime it ends up being so important for the girls to break from the history of the battle, because the Abbysal are using the US battle plan in case base MI (Midway) was ever attacked. By breaking from the historical norm, the Japanese ship girls can win against the Allied battle plan.

Well what about the Allies? And the US? you may ask. They beat the Japanese fleet historically, so they shouldnt have trouble cleaning out the Abyssals that represent the Japanese navy, and cleaning out the Pacific Theater right? Well you are... Technically... the US did beat the Japanese, but not because the Japanese used thier planned strategy, because according to Japanese strategy, for those of you who remained awake in history class, the plan was NOT to stop at Pearl Harbor. The plan was to continue on to the California coast line and take out the then much smaller US navy, becuae (also mentioned in history class) the US production machine did not kick up UNTIL the US offically entered WWII. Before that the US was in the Depression, factories wheren't activly producing ships. The entire reason the US overproduced ships like that was to replace all the ships lost at Pearl Harbor, and then to have enough ships to fight back the Japanese, had Admiral Yamoto (the Admiral in charge of the Pearl Harbor attacks) moved on, instead of deciding to pull back to resupply his fleet, the war in the Pacific could have gone on ALOT longer.

AH, but according to this theroy the Abyssals only absorbed plans, not later decisions, so in this Uninverse, the Japanese Parallel Abysal Fleet moved on to the California coast line and proceded to decimate the barely prepared US forces. This gives us an explanation as to the devide between the US and JSN forces, because the Abysals where much more agressive than the Japanese in taking US waters, and so it would take a lot longer for the US to push back the Abyssals, and also explains the parallels between the US ships and the Abysal ships we all see in Kancolle.

So, you may say, where do the Abysal come from? Well this leads me back to the Arpeggio crossover mentioned before. While Kancolle may not exist in the exact same universe as Arpeggio, the event leads me to the possiblity that the two universes are connected in some way as to allow characters from each universe to meet. Laides and Gentleman, what I belive is that somehow the Abysals are connected to the Fleet of Fog. Perhaps an experiment by the fleet to create a better, more effective version of themselves. Realizing that intigrating human strategy into thier battle plans (as seen in Arpeggio) has atvantages, the Fleet of Fog build this new speices to absorb human data, human nature, in an attempt to create a better form of Fog ship. Something goes wrong. The Fleet creates a new life form, a symbiote type lifeform (think venom from spiderman, which might also explain why all the Abysal ships are blackish) but the  lifeform starts to go out of control, the Fleet of Fog cannot control it. Using thier advanced Technology, the Fleet ejects the newly born Abyssal ooze into space/ parallel dimension/ etc. to end up landing on a early to mid 20th century Earth. The ooze evolves and begins to attack ships on the planet, absorbing and consuming the vessels and thier crew. Just as with the Fleet of fog, Humanity on this planet ends up cornered by this new threat, forced from thier oceans, and away from eachother, as each of thier warships are absorbed, and changed into diffrent forms, but also realizing the need for diffrent ships than what it is absorbing to work in it's hive the ooze replicates farther and creates the torpedo ships we see the Abysal fleet using in Kancolle (explaining why the Abyssal fleet has torpedo ships, when the allies didnt have any for the ooze to absorb).

Now what does this mean for us as fans... not much really, besides a new theroy to throw arround. after all if this great, replicating ooze is seperating the fleets, it is unlikely that the two will meet until they manage to push both fleets back completley, and locate the source (hey, but it would make for an awesome final boss battle, the Japanese Fleet girls are being pushed back, but then out of nowhere, the US pacific Fleet Girls come in to assist them). But what it could mean for us, and even better yet, DMM, is that they can relase the game in new form in diffrent countires if enough interest is generated. A version of the game released in the US could instead star US fleet girls, and would give DMM a new source of income. Now, this is unlikley (at the moment), as enough interest would have to be genrated within the states to justify creating an office full of designers, and placing servers over here, but if enough interest can be generated, and the market looks like it might be viable to them over here, then maybe we could see the US fleet girls in that form. Until then, we can only hope, dream, and create lots and lots o' fan art... and hopefully fan games. I don't know about you guys, but I think a Kancolle conversion mod for Valkyiria Chronicles would be awesome, or at least some kind of Kancolle TBS (turn based strategy) game.

