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* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:As the American Joint Chiefs are trying to figure out how to keep Yamato from blowing the cover on their ship girls, one of them casually suggests Enterprise should try and see if [[GirlsLove she swings that way.]]]]

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* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:As the American Joint Chiefs are trying to figure out how to keep Yamato from blowing the cover on their ship girls, one of them casually suggests Enterprise should try and see if [[GirlsLove she swings that way.]]]]]]

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** In chapter 6 the narration notes that Japan, being as resource-starved as it is, can't make good use of refugee labour the way Australia or other more bountiful nations can.* TrueSight: In chapter 6 [[spoiler:the Abyssal Ringleader]] "sees" ship girls with images overlaying their human appearance.

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** In chapter 6 the narration notes that Japan, being as resource-starved as it is, can't make good use of refugee labour the way Australia or other more bountiful nations can.can.
* TrueSight: In chapter 6 [[spoiler:the Abyssal Ringleader]] "sees" ship girls with images overlaying their human appearance.
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*** [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 Briggs]] (Navy)

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*** [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsII Briggs]] (Navy)
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* ExtremeOmnivore: While Yvonne's tastes in food aren't too weird, the ones she mentions (Muhallabia, Khao Neow Ma Muang, Peanut Butter cups and Durian) throw the Kongou sisters for a loop. However it's her admission that she prefers [[spoiler:coffee to tea]] that causes [[LargeHam Kongou]] to [[SpotOfTea faint]].

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* ExtremeOmnivore: While Yvonne's tastes in food aren't too weird, the ones she mentions (Muhallabia, Khao Neow Ma Muang, Peanut Butter cups and Durian) throw the Kongou sisters for a loop. However it's her admission that she prefers [[spoiler:coffee to tea]] that causes [[LargeHam Kongou]] to [[SpotOfTea faint]].faint.
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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Various pieces of Word of God, including but not limited to [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18449230/ this one]], have declared that this was the intent. Good guys have flaws and shortsightedness, while the devil is not so black as he is painted. Is it working? Well, discussions have been... intense. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment We'll leave it as an exercise to the individual reader.]]

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* GreyAndGrayMorality: Various pieces of Word of God, including but not limited to [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/18449230/ this one]], have declared that this was the intent. Good guys have flaws and shortsightedness, while the devil is not so black as he is painted. Is it working? Well, discussions Discussions on whether or not these work have been... intense. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment We'll leave it as an exercise to the individual reader.]]been somewhat intense.

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** Shipgirls get latitude beyond what conventional personnel are allowed because they are {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s, but there are still limits. Tenryuu has gotten a lot of slack for her recurrent disciplinary issues because of her effectiveness, but gross insubordination and threatening a foreign officer cross the line [[spoiler:and she is scheduled to be scrapped for it.]]



* RealityEnsues:
** Shipgirls get latitude beyond what conventional personnel are allowed because they are {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s, but there are still limits. Tenryuu has gotten a lot of slack for her recurrent disciplinary issues because of her effectiveness, but gross insubordination and threatening a foreign officer cross the line [[spoiler:and she is scheduled to be scrapped for it.]]
** Just because everyone's fighting a war against the common enemy that is the Abyssals doesn't mean that all past hatreds and grudges magically vanish. [[spoiler:Zuikaku]] is the most obvious kanmusu with objections to Yvonne's actions, but far from the only one.
** This is reiterated in Chapter 5. The Akatsuki sisters are made painfully aware that modern geopolitics aren't as simple as they'd thought.
-->"I don't understand, why people would distrust us for trying to capture an Abyssal?" Inazuma asked, "Aren't we all on the same side, nanodesu?"
** In chapter 6 the narration notes that Japan, being as resource-starved as it is, can't make good use of refugee labour the way Australia or other more bountiful nations can.
** In chapter 9, it's noted that the severe losses the US took have changed the geopolitical situation. Getting the World War II fleet back would swing things back in their favour, but failing to do so would only worsen their image further. [[spoiler:And that's why they're suppressing the failure of the programme.]]



* TrueSight: In chapter 6 [[spoiler:the Abyssal Ringleader]] "sees" ship girls with images overlaying their human appearance.

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* ThisIsReality: This is reiterated in Chapter 5. The Akatsuki sisters are made painfully aware that modern geopolitics aren't as simple as they'd thought.
-->"I don't understand, why people would distrust us for trying to capture an Abyssal?" Inazuma asked, "Aren't we all on the same side, nanodesu?"
** In chapter 6 the narration notes that Japan, being as resource-starved as it is, can't make good use of refugee labour the way Australia or other more bountiful nations can.
* TrueSight: In chapter 6 [[spoiler:the Abyssal Ringleader]] "sees" ship girls with images overlaying their human appearance.
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*** [[Franchise/{{Stargate}} O'Neill]] (Air Force)

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* {{Foil}}: Yamato and Yvonne are consistently played off each other for how different [[NotSoDifferent and yet how similar]] their circumstances are.

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* {{Foil}}: Yamato and Yvonne are consistently played off each other for how different [[NotSoDifferent [[MirrorCharacter and yet how similar]] their circumstances are.



* MirrorCharacter: There are increasing parallels between Yvonne and Yamato regarding their frustrations and their roles. [[spoiler:Yamato eventually realizes Yvvone's situation is hardly that different from hers: a legendary ship, both symbol to their nation's Navy and their nations unto themselves, unable to fight as they were meant to due to their circumstances.]]



* NotSoDifferent: There are increasing parallels between Yvonne and Yamato regarding their frustrations and their roles. [[spoiler:Yamato eventually realizes Yvvone's situation is hardly that different from hers: a legendary ship, both symbol to their nation's Navy and their nations unto themselves, unable to fight as they were meant to due to their circumstances.]]
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** Shipgirls get latitude beyond what conventional personnel are allowed because they are {{Bunny Ears Lawyer}}s, but there are still limits. Tenryuu has gotten a lot of slack for her recurrent disciplinary issues because of her effectiveness, but gross insubordination and threatening a foreign officer cross the line [[spoiler:and she is scheduled to be scrapped for it.]]
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''The Greatest Generation'' is a ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' fanfic originally written by sasahara17, set in a near future where mankind is at war with the Abyssals. With the loss of Pearl Harbor and Norfolk, and almost its entire fleet, the United States needs ship girls to take the fight to the Abyssals, but they aren't responding. And so Commander Yvonne Swanson, naval intelligence officer, sets forth for Yokosuka Naval Base to find answers, both about the ship girls and the Abyssals... but she may not like what she finds...

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''The Greatest Generation'' is a ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' ''VideoGame/KanColle'' fanfic originally written by sasahara17, set in a near future where mankind is at war with the Abyssals. With the loss of Pearl Harbor and Norfolk, and almost its entire fleet, the United States needs ship girls to take the fight to the Abyssals, but they aren't responding. And so Commander Yvonne Swanson, naval intelligence officer, sets forth for Yokosuka Naval Base to find answers, both about the ship girls and the Abyssals... but she may not like what she finds...
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[[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/kantai-collection-the-greatest-generation.17091/post-8258038 As of April 2017]], the restart was declared dead.

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* BadDreams:
** The story begins with Yvonne reliving the attack on Pearl Harbor in her nightmares. Chapter 5 has Yvonne reliving the Pearl attack again.
** [[spoiler:With the revelation that Yvonne is Enterprise, history-savvy readers will realize that her dream is her reliving the aftermath of the original attack in 1941, which Enterprise missed entirely and sailed in after the Japanese left.]]
** Kaga has recurring nightmares of arriving too late to save refugee ships from the Abyssals.
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** In Chapter 8, Yamato gets a full explanation from both Yvonne and Dakota as to why the US Navy doesn't have a ship girl fleet, as much as the latter knows. [[spoiler:That's only the official statement. In actuality, it does have a ship girl fleet, but the number of girls they have can be counted with two hands. Yvonne herself is the ''Enterprise'', for example. During her explanation, we get a flashback to when she was first summoned. The Navy personnel that first speaks with her asks if anyone came back with her, and when she replies in the negative, he starts listing off a bunch of ships that they tried to summon and failed. Among one of these failed summoning attempts was for USS ''Washington''.]] In Chapter 10, a reporter by the name of Mildred Marshall shanghais her way into Yvonne's posse, serving as her public relations specialist.

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** In Chapter 8, Yamato gets a full explanation from both Yvonne and Dakota as to why the US Navy doesn't have a ship girl fleet, as much as the latter knows. [[spoiler:That's only the official statement. In actuality, it does have a ship girl fleet, but the number of girls they have can be counted with two hands. Yvonne herself is the ''Enterprise'', for example. During her explanation, we get a flashback to when she was first summoned. The Navy personnel that first speaks with her asks if anyone came back with her, and when she replies in the negative, he starts listing off a bunch of ships that they tried to summon and failed. Among one of these failed summoning attempts was for USS ''Washington''.]] In Chapter 10, a reporter by the name of Mildred Marshall shanghais her way into Yvonne's posse, serving as her public relations specialist. [[spoiler:You thought they failed to summon ''Washington''? Think again. Mildred ''is'' the ''Washington'', who was summoned during one of the test summons just so the USN could see it actually worked. Her "actual" summoning and its failure were then faked just so nobody, other than POTUS Bartlett, the Joint Chiefs, and certain members of the [=CIA=] with need-to-know, knew that she had been summoned.]]
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** In Chapter 8, Yamato gets a full explanation from both Yvonne and Dakota as to why the US Navy doesn't have a ship girl fleet, as much as the latter knows. [[spoiler:That's only the official statement. In actuality, it does have a ship girl fleet, but the number of girls they have can be counted with two hands. Yvonne herself is the ''Enterprise'', for example. During her explanation, we get a flashback to when she was first summoned. The Navy personnel that first speaks with her asks if anyone came back with her, and when she replies in the negative, he starts listing off a bunch of ships that they tried to summon and failed. Among one of these failed summoning attempts was for USS ''Washington''.]] In Chapter 10, a reporter by the name of Mildred Marshall shanghais her way into Yvonne's posse, serving as her public relations specialist. [[spoiler:You thought they failed to summon ''Washington''? Think again. Mildred ''is'' the ''Washington''. The only reason why the ship girls and those in the ship girl program thought it failed was because the [=CIA=] managed to spirit her away without anyone knowing, and is currently a [=CIA=] spook with a reporter cover identity.]]

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** In Chapter 8, Yamato gets a full explanation from both Yvonne and Dakota as to why the US Navy doesn't have a ship girl fleet, as much as the latter knows. [[spoiler:That's only the official statement. In actuality, it does have a ship girl fleet, but the number of girls they have can be counted with two hands. Yvonne herself is the ''Enterprise'', for example. During her explanation, we get a flashback to when she was first summoned. The Navy personnel that first speaks with her asks if anyone came back with her, and when she replies in the negative, he starts listing off a bunch of ships that they tried to summon and failed. Among one of these failed summoning attempts was for USS ''Washington''.]] In Chapter 10, a reporter by the name of Mildred Marshall shanghais her way into Yvonne's posse, serving as her public relations specialist. [[spoiler:You thought they failed to summon ''Washington''? Think again. Mildred ''is'' the ''Washington''. The only reason why the ship girls and those in the ship girl program thought it failed was because the [=CIA=] managed to spirit her away without anyone knowing, and is currently a [=CIA=] spook with a reporter cover identity.]]

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Please be aware that spoilers and tropes pertaining to the previous version of the story have been removed given the ongoing rewrite.

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* BigSecret: Chapter 5 mentions that Yvonne and Dakota seem to be hiding something. [[spoiler:Chapter 6 reveals that the former is the USS ''Enterprise''.]].
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Following the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and Norfolk by the Abyssals, and the amount of surface ships lost in the fighting afterwards, the [=US=] Navy has had to re-activate whatever ships they could just to get back on their feet. A [=CNN=]-style news article details the reactivation of the ''Missouri'', ''Kitty Hawk'', and ''Little Rock''.

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* BigSecret: Chapter 5 mentions that Yvonne and Dakota seem to be hiding something. [[spoiler:Chapter 6 reveals that the former is the USS ''Enterprise''.]].
Later chapters reveal that Dakota is the USS ''South Dakota'' and there there are other US shipgirls]].
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: Following the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and Norfolk by the Abyssals, and the amount of surface ships lost in the fighting afterwards, the [=US=] Navy has had to re-activate whatever ships they could just to get back on their feet. A [=CNN=]-style news article details the reactivation of the ''Missouri'', ''Kitty Hawk'', and ''Little Rock''. Rock''.
* BreakTheCutie: The [=DesDiv=] Six girls, angry at being treated like kids who can't handle more mature subjects, do this ''to themselves'', [[spoiler: by researching Imperial Japanese war crimes]] in Chapter 7, except for Hibiki.



** In Chapter 8, Yamato gets a full explanation from both Yvonne and Dakota as to why the US Navy doesn't have a ship girl fleet, as much as the latter knows. [[spoiler:That's only the official statement. In actuality, it does have a ship girl fleet, but the number of girls they have can be counted with two hands. Yvonne herself is the ''Enterprise'', for example. During her explanation, we get a flashback to when she was first summoned. The Navy personnel that first speaks with her asks if anyone came back with her, and when she replies in the negative, he starts listing off a bunch of ships that they tried to summon and failed. Among one of these failed summoning attempts was for USS ''Washington''.]] In Chapter 10, a reporter by the name of Mildred Marshall shanghais her way into Yvonne's posse, serving as her public relations specialist. [[spoiler:You thought they failed to summon ''Washington''? Think again. Mildred ''is'' the ''Washington''. The only reason why the ship girls and those in the ship girl program thought it failed was because the [=CIA=] managed to spirit her away without anyone knowing, and is currently a [=CIA=] spook with a reporter cover identity.]]



* CompositeCharacter: Yvonne Swanson is [[spoiler: essentially, a composite of '' [[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls Pacific's]] '' Pre-refit Enterprise and her semi-official remodeled version, if not an outright {{expy}} ]].
* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:The USN ''does'' have a ship girl division, and it's being kept secret. In Chapter 8, after Yamato ends up seeing Yvonne as Enterprise when the latter was forced to break cover to save her, Yamato is fully briefed by Yvonne and Dakota about the USN ship girl fleet, and exactly why it's being kept secret to the best of their knowledge, as none of the those in the need-to-know, nor even the heads of the program, know that not only are the Abyssals ''actively'' blocking their summoning attempts and stealing their girls, the Abyssal behind the plot to revive as many USN ship girls into Abyssals as possible is frickin USS ''Arizona''!]]



** Chapter 8 introduces the USS ''Independence'', [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Independence_(LCS-2) lead ship]] of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence-class_littoral_combat_ship her class]] of littoral combat ships. [[spoiler:She was heavily modified to serve as a support ship for the US Navy's ship girl fleet. There's also USS ''Detroit'', another Littoral Combat Ship outfitted as a shipgirl tender, supporting Thresher's mission]].



* DirtyBusiness: [[spoiler:Yvonne hates having to conceal her true nature, but it was a direct order from their superiors.]]

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* DirtyBusiness: [[spoiler:Yvonne hates and the other American ship girls hate having to conceal her their true nature, natures, but it was a direct order from their superiors.]]


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* EmptyQuiver: A number of US Navy warships carrying nuclear weapons were sunk by Abyssals, and the Navy is ''very'' concerned about the possibility of its nukes being stolen by Abyssals or human factions. [[spoiler: Thresher is on assignment to survey the wrecks and ascertain the status of the nuclear weapons]].
* EtTuBrute: In chapter 8 [[spoiler:Yvonne expresses her fear that Yamato will take the concealment of her true identity as a betrayal of trust.]]
* EveryoneHasStandards: Dakota may be an incorrigible prankster, but in chapter ten there's a moment where even she realises she might have said the wrong thing.


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* {{Farce}}: Chapter ten is a series of misunderstandings that lead to Musashi having the impression that [[spoiler:Yvonne is trying to seduce Yamato.]]


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* HoneyTrap: [[spoiler:As the American Joint Chiefs are trying to figure out how to keep Yamato from blowing the cover on their ship girls, one of them casually suggests Enterprise should try and see if [[GirlsLove she swings that way.]]]]


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* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:All the known American shipgirls thus far are all covertly working in various US Navy departments. Enterprise (Yvonne) works in Office of Naval Intelligence, South Dakota (Dakota) works in Advanced Naval Weapon R&D Divison (aka the US Shipgirl division), O'Bannon works in Naval Construction Force on logistics, San Diego is helping with Kitty Hawk reactivation, then got roped into being a diva, and Thresher is working on trying to locate all the missing nuclear weapons. The sole exception would be Washington, who is a reporter with [=CNN=], and managed to get herself embedded with Enterprise and her crew.]].


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** [[spoiler:Dakota's full name would be another one. The "Leigh Gatch" part refers to Captain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Leigh_Gatch Thomas Leigh Gatch]].]]
** [[spoiler:Washington's cover name is another one. Her cover name's surname (Marshall) is a reference to the person who christened her historical counterpart, Virginia Marshall.]]


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** In chapter 8 Dakota's attempt to [[spoiler:help Yvonne break the existence of the American ship girl programme to Yamato only creates more problems.]] It's apparently a bad habit of hers.
--> She may have always had good intentions, but sometimes good intentions weren't enough.


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** In chapter 9, it's noted that the severe losses the US took have changed the geopolitical situation. Getting the World War II fleet back would swing things back in their favour, but failing to do so would only worsen their image further. [[spoiler:And that's why they're suppressing the failure of the programme.]]


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** The CNN-style news interludes mention the reactivated USS ''Missouri'' being put under the command of [[Film/{{Battleship}} Captain Alex Hopper]].
** The US President is [[Series/TheWestWing Bartlett]].
** The names of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff are a veritable fusillade of these:
*** [[Series/TheWestWing Alexander]] (Vice Chairman)
*** [[Franchise/{{Stargate}} O'Neill]] (Air Force)
*** [[Film/TheRock Hummel]] (Marine Corps)
*** [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Shepard]] (Army)
*** [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 Briggs]] (Navy)
*** [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Ross]] (National Guard)


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* TemptingFate: An unrelenting string of '[[WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong How bad could it be?]]' from the [=DesDiv=] Six girls in chapter 7.


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* WhatTheHellHero: In chapter 8 Yvonne lays into Dakota for [[spoiler:her unauthorised spilling the beans about the US ship girl programme to Yamato]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Hibiki, very much so. ''No one'' noticed this until Tenryuu finally noticed it in the aftermath of the internet incident, noting that Hibiki probably had seen a LOT of things as Verniy.

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