Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-73.220.89.40-20150318192417/@comment-749631-20160111165816

Actually, IIRC, game devs have already explained tha lt the idea of abyssals is about the negative emotion from sunken ship from both sides, even more clearer than that some individual working for the game said they personally believe dismantled ship just back to become civilian, but people simply does't listen.

p.s. Latest announcement made by someone involved in the conflict of that chinese game basically confirmed the renaming is requested by Chinese governmental department. http://www.p1p1game.com/a/xinwenzhongxin/2016/0108/385.html