Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26091970-20150604000724/@comment-17703786-20151001134810

TheLenrir wrote:

It's a fucking Hypothetical Ship for christ's sake. We shouldn't allow a 'fictional' ship to suddenly cause us to rebrand Taihou. Doesn't matter, since the issue of "CVB vs new designation" is for their assignment to Kancolle, not to real life history. The designation is to allow us to specifically refer to a particular ship class with unique ingame mechanics from other carriers. If we were to go with real live Taihou would simply be a "CV", and yet because this is Kancolle where Taihou has a unique ability the classification is required for ease of identification.

And while Shoukaku is hypothetical, ingame she now also has a form that has the same ability as Taihou, thus her designation along with Taihou's is also important now, in fact even more so given that Taihou can no longer claim to be unique to her class, and therefore her designation should be capable of encompassing the other carriers that share her ability.