Click to expand.Remember 'look'!= 'actual age'. And here's a critical point that, when it comes to ship-girls: The rules of warfare have already been chucked out the window. Seriously, we've had pages of exploration into the status of shipgirls in both the 'Belated Battleships' and 'Little Ship that Could' threads, especially the latter. If you try to treat them as human, you run into problems of age. If you use summoning date as birth date, they're all minors.

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Every single one of them. If you use their commissioning date, well, that's equally obviously their service date, so most of them should have been mandatory retired 40 years ago. Where's their pension? Where's the back pay and benefits from when they were 'assumed' KIA? If you use appearance, all the destroyers are too young. Include just active service time?

Some of the destroyers are too old, some of your battleships too young. And what if one(or some) of them decides she doesn't want to fight?

Easiest way, as I said, is to recognize that she's Osean or whatever, an allied command(who isn't against the abyssel?) that you're providing support to to keep their combat effectiveness up, since Osea isn't able to. There have been precedents for this in previous wars. Such as forces of overrun countries that weren't completely destroyed, being supported by other nations to help take back said overrun countries. There is a way to get Kestrel into the fight legally, but that would mean letting the French recruit her into their Foreign Legion. It's one of the exceptions to the 'no mercenaries' rules. What the French do with her after that is not important, including if the French assign her to a naval task force (her own) and place her under a UN task force command where she's the CO picking up missions and part of the deal is that the nation in whose waters she's sailing or she's working with is picking up her tab. I know the topic of Kestrel and flight crews came up before but I've read mostly the story posts, not the sheer volume of comment posts, so this might have already been covered; Considering the sheer size of her hangars and the relative tiny size of WWII aircraft, Kestrel would likely be easily able to provide a temporary platform for the entirety of both Zuikaku and Akagis' airwings while the two shipgirls recover.

Wouldn't even need her catapults to launch those antiques; their pilots would consider it a ludicrous luxury to have that much flight deck to launch off from! (Not to mention you most likely couldn't hook a Zero to a modern steam catapult without ripping the poor things to pieces.) The Aces might have a blast cross-training with the old-timers or swapping aerial duel stories, or at least wouldn't be left wandering the halls of a nearly empty ship otherwise. Hell, even without extra aircrews, she'd still have a shit-ton of spare room just for spares, whether parts of whole damn planes, to help resupply the WWII-era shipgirls. That would somewhat make her take a role similar to the 'support carrier' role that was intended for Shinano. Sans the meat-driven cruise missiles, preferably).

[]---[ Chapter 7B: Decisions, Decisions Part 2 ]---[]-------​ Kestrel was now sitting in the mess hall, pouring over the folder of employment offers she’d been given. Admittedly she could’ve gone anywhere else, but for some reason she’d started thinking of food on her way to find a reading place. So now she was munching on a few carrot sticks while she went over the offers again for the fourth time. True to Goto’s word, there were employment offers from pretty much every country that was participating actively in the Abyssal war. Bannerbomb 4.1u. The United States, Russia, Canada, The United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and of course, Japan. She had to admit, a lot of them had some pretty good offers.

Most included the promotion to a brevet rank of Lieutenant Commander or its equivalent, though beyond that the offers differed. The United States was essentially offering its considerable resources as a bonus, meaning she wouldn’t necessarily need to worry about overstepping her bounds when it came to food and materials. Canada’s was much the same. Russia’s offer seemed similar on paper to the United States’ admittedly, though she very much wasn’t keen on the idea of going to a country that shared many similarities with Yuktobania. Ture she’d served alongside many Yuktobanian ships before after the Battle of the Ceres Ocean, but she still wasn’t comfortable with the idea of signing on to their parallel here. Japan’s offer was, on paper, the absolute worst out of all of them.