A timely travel reminder…

Safe travels everyone.

I thought about what to write – y’know, communicating the holiday spirit and all that, and then decided to settle on something simpler. Hope you, your family, your friends, and the other important people in your lives get to wherever you want to go safely. 

This time period’s always busy for the team, since we’re either finishing up finals or trying to meet deadlines. For Zero, of course, we’ve got conventions to attend (Shanghai, CM, etc), so everyone’s busy – even in countries that don’t officially celebrate Christmas & the assorted winter holidays. 

2019 was a pretty good year for us (real talk, I think 2015 was probably the toughest, but that’s a story for another time :P) as we met and solved challenges, learned about ourselves, and (for me at least) grew incrementally healthier.

In terms of books that we put out, this year’s output was about half of last years owning to many different circumstances I’ve alluded to. Things are looking up, though, and we’ve been diversifying into other projects as well. Hopefully I can unveil those in the near future. 

Hope it was for you too, and we’ll see you all next year!

Silent Service: Hata

Tautog! Do you need some help?

I’m fine. Thanks! Plus, you’re already gonna be helping me tons today. I’m just trying to figure out what’s the best way to organize what we’ve got today.

Um, I think maybe we should tell my story first, and then get into the history stuff. It kind of explains why the NKT acted the way they did. 

But, if on the other hand people generally don’t know about Japanese submarine doctrine, then I think it’ll make sense to explain as we go along.

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Shipgirls aren’t ships (redux)

Hi! 

First of all, as a gentle reminder, it’s winter flu/sickness season! Please be sure to take care of yourself, drink plenty of savory soups, and head to bed early. Trust me, you don’t want to catch what some of the team’s suffering through right now!

Secondly, I thought I’d pop up and talk a bit about how we’re, well, sorta not ships. You know we’ve talked about the strategies that are involved, or how we can turn around and aim and stuff.

But, I think today maybe we should look at the distinctive “thing” about us shipgirls (our equipment, gear, rigging, whatever the kids are calling it these days) that separates us from other heroic entities and characters in, well, these sorts of stories. 

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