History Fanfic / TheGreatestGeneration

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:The USN ''does'' have a ship girl division, and it's being kept secret. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the ship girl program was '''nowhere''' near as successful as their counterparts in other nations, as the number of known USN shipgirls amount to single digits, and that's out of the hundreds, if not thousands of summoning attempts. The failed summons resulted in either nothing happening, or the summoning of fairies for a USN ship girl that never materialized. Just after the last of the summons, the USN was ''very'' close to asking their Japanese counterparts to review the summoning procedure, thinking there was something wrong with it. That all changed when various European navies were having absolutely no trouble at all summoning their ship girls with the exact same ritual that the [=JMSDF=] had developed and the USN had been using, meaning that there was nothing wrong with the ritual itself, and something else was causing the USN to not be able to summon ship girls. Right after the successful summoning (televised and all) of a certain British ship girl from the age of WoodenShipsAndIronMen, the USN issued a gag order to all relevant personnel to ensure the program's secrecy, while publicly denying the existence of it. The second reason why the cover-up is taking place is due to the implication that the Abyssal fleet is comprised of the vengeful spirits of American ship girls (The Abyssal that masterminded the attack on Okinawa is implied to be a USN aircraft carrier that sank during the war, and the friend who awakened her sank at Pearl Harbor, likely the USS ''Arizona''). Worst, not only could this be the reason why most of the summoning attempts were failing in the first place, but if someone starts screaming "THE AMERICANS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ABYSSALS!!", fear of their ship girl program being leaked is going to be the LEAST of the USN's problems.]]

** Yvonne's motto of "Hit Hard, hit fast, hit often" is a double shout-out to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Admiral William Halsey's famous quote]].

** Re-enacting the Japanese sinking of the [=HMS=] ''Prince of Wales'' and ''Repulse'' on a pair of Singaporean Navy ''Formidable''-class frigates.

** A big one in chapter 5: [[spoiler: Attempting to sink Bismarck in the exact same manner and at the exact same location as her namesake. When Hood intervenes and saves Bismarck, an Abyssal super-sub, taking a page out of the playbook of [=USS=] "Hit 'em again" ''Harder'', plows through several of Hood's escorts while no-selling their depth charges, and re-enacts the deck-penetrating magazine-detonating shot that sunk the original Hood by '''JUMPING OUT OF THE WATER AND LAUNCHING A TORPEDO AT HOOD'S FACE, BLOWING HER HEAD CLEAN OFF'''. ]] This alone causes Yvonne to realize that the repeats/re-enactments were happening in the first place, and causes her to go back and get info on ALL of the previous incidents.

** Yvonne's motto of "Hit Hard, hit fast, hit often" is a double shout-out to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Admiral William Halsey's famous quote]] and [[spoiler:[[Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls Pacific's version of Enterprise]], due to the fact that Yvonne is more or less a CaptainErsatz of her.]]

* 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''.

** The names of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff is a veritable fusillade of these:

* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler: Yvonne Swanson is an AlternateUniverse version of Enterprise from ''Fanfic/PacificWorldWarIIUsNavyShipgirls''.]]
** AlternateUniverse: [[spoiler: And because of this, this entire fic can be seen as one for ''Pacific''.]]

Due to creative difference with some forumgoers and work-related CreatorBreakdown from stress, sasahara17 has decided to delete the fanfic from Website/FanFictionDotNet and [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/kantai-collection-the-greatest-generation.336029/page-108#post-19628198 hand the project over]] to Shaithan, vren55, Sheo Darren, and kct. Time will tell how the story will continue.

Due to creative difference with some forumgoers and work-related CreatorBreakdown from stress, sasahara17 has decided to delete the fanfic from Website/FanFictionDotNet and hand the project over to Shaithan, vren55, Sheo Darren, and kct. Time will tell how the story will continue.

Due to creative difference with some forumgoers and work-related CreatorBreakdown, sasahara17 has decided to delete the fanfic from Website/FanFictionDotNet and hand the project over to Shaithan, vren55, Sheo Darren, and kct. Time will tell how the story will continue.

Due to creative difference with forumgoers and CreatorBreakdown, sasahara17 has decided to delete the fanfic from Website/FanFictionDotNet and hand the project over to Shaithan, vren55, Sheo Darren, and kct. Time will tell how the story will continue.

Due to creative difference with forumgoers and CreatorBreakdown, sasahara17 has decided to delete the fanfic from Website/FanFictionDotNet, quit writing and hand the project over to Shaithan, vren55, Sheo Darren, and kct. Time will tell how the story will continue.

Due to creative difference with forumgoers, sasahara17 has decided to delete the fanfic from Website/FanFictionDotNet, quit writing and hand the project over to Shaithan, vren55, Sheo Darren, and kct. Time will tell how the story will continue.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11187030/1/Kantai-Collection-The-Greatest-Generation The Greatest Generation]] is a ''VideoGame/KantaiCollection'' fanfic 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...

The compiled version can be found on fanfiction.net [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11187030/1/Kantai-Collection-The-Greatest-Generation here]], with discussion threads on [[http://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/kantai-collection-the-greatest-generation.17091 here on Sufficient Velocity]], and [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/kantai-collection-the-greatest-generation.336029 here on Spacebattles]].

* StevenUlyssesPerhero: [[spoiler:While Yvonne and Dakota's cover names are somewhat reasonable with well thought out etymology, that can't be said of San(dy) Deigo.]]

*** [[Franchise/{{Stargate}} O'Neil]]
*** [[Film/TheRock Hummel]]
*** [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Shepard]]
*** [[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps2 Briggs]]
*** [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Ross]]

* StevenUlyssesPerhero: [[spoiler:While Yvonne and Dakota's cover names are somewhat reasonable with well thought out etymology, that can't be said of San(dy) Diego.]]

* 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]].

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:The USN ''does'' have a ship girl division, and it's being kept secret. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the ship girl program was '''nowhere''' near as successful as their counterparts in other nations, as the number of known USN shipgirls amount to single digits, and that's out of the hundreds, if not thousands of summoning attempts. The failed summons resulted in either nothing happening, or the summoning of fairies for a USN ship girl that never materialized. Just after the last of the summons, the USN was ''very'' close to asking their Japanese counterparts to review the summoning procedure, thinking there was something wrong with it. That all changed when various European navies were having absolutely no trouble at all summoning their ship girls with the exact same ritual that the [=JMSDF=] had developed and the USN had been using, meaning that there was nothing wrong with the ritual itself, and something else was causing the USN to not be able to summon ship girls. Right after the successful summoning (televised and all) of a certain British ship girl from the age of WoodenShipsAndIronMen, the USN issued a gag order to all relevant personnel to ensure the program's secrecy, while publicly denying the existence of it. The second reason why the cover-up is taking place is due to the implication that the Abyssal fleet is comprised of the vengeful spirits of American ship girls (The Abyssal that masterminded the attack on Okinawa is implied to be a USN aircraft carrier that sank during the war, and the friend who awakened her sank at Pearl Harbor, likely the USS ''Arizona''). Worst, it could be the reason why most of the summoning attempts were failing in the first place.]]

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:The USN ''does'' have a ship girl division, and it's being kept secret. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the ship girl program was '''nowhere''' near as successful as their counterparts in other nations, as the number of known USN shipgirls amount to single digits, and that's out of the hundreds, if not thousands of summoning attempts. The failed summons resulted in either nothing happening, or the summoning of fairies for a USN ship girl that never materialized. Just after the last of the summons, the USN was ''very'' close to asking their Japanese counterparts to review the summoning procedure, thinking there was something wrong with it. That all changed when various European navies were having absolutely no trouble at all summoning their ship girls with the exact same ritual that the [=JMSDF=] had developed and the USN had been using, meaning that there was nothing wrong with the ritual itself, and something else was causing the USN to not be able to summon ship girls. Right after the successful summoning (televised and all) of a certain British ship girl from the age of WoodenShipsAndIronMen, the USN issued a gag order to their personnel to ensure the program's secrecy, while publicly denying the existence of it. The second reason why the cover-up is taking place is due to the implication that the Abyssal fleet is comprised of the vengeful spirits of American ship girls (The Abyssal that masterminded the attack on Okinawa is implied to be a USN aircraft carrier that sank during the war, and the friend who awakened her sank at Pearl Harbor, likely the USS ''Arizona''). Worst, it could be the reason why most of the summoning attempts were failing in the first place.]]

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:The USN ''does'' have a ship girl division, and it's being kept secret. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the ship girl program was '''nowhere''' as successful as their counterparts in other nations, as the number of known USN shipgirls amount to single digits, and that's out of the hundreds, if not thousands of summoning attempts. The failed summons resulted in either nothing happening, or the summoning of fairies for a USN ship girl that never materialized. The USN is thus publicly denying the existence of the program just to save face, while keeping the actual existence of the program, and all the ship girls they've summoned, a secret. The second reason why the cover-up is taking place is due to the implication that the Abyssal fleet is comprised of the vengeful spirits of American ship girls (The Abyssal that masterminded the attack on Okinawa is implied to be a USN aircraft carrier that sank during the war, and the friend who awakened her sank at Pearl Harbor, likely the USS ''Arizona''). Worst, it could be the reason why most of the summoning attempts were failing in the first place.]]

* TheConspiracy: [[spoiler:The USN ''does'' have a ship girl division, and it's being kept secret. There are two reasons for this. The first is that the ship girl program was '''nowhere''' as successful as their counterparts in other nations, as the number of known USN shipgirls amount to single digits, and that's out of the hundreds, if not thousands of summoning attempts. The failed summons resulted in either nothing happening, or the summoning of fairies for a USN ship girl that never materialized. The USN is thus publicly denying the existence of the program just to save face, while keeping the actual existence of the program, and all the ship girls they've summoned, a secret. The second reason why the cover-up is taking place is due to the implication that the Abyssal fleet is comprised of the vengeful spirits of American ship girls (The Abyssal that masterminded the attack on Okinawa is implied to be one of ''Enterprise'''s sister ships). Worst, it could be the reason why most of the summoning attempts were failing in the first place.]]

* FailedASpotCheck: In chapter 6 [[spoiler:the ten Abyssal carrier strike groups somehow fail to notice Yamato sneaking up on them. Perhaps a ploy by the ringleader present to lure her in.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: The way Admiral Shimada delivered his assertion left much to be desired, but the fact was that he had already sortied his full, optimal condition fleet the first time around and was beaten down to five effectives to little effect! No reasonable person can deny that sending five already fatigued and damaged kanmusu against [[spoiler:ten Abyssal ''carrier strike groups'']] is the definition of SuicideMission and TooDumbToLive, a SenselessSacrifice that would barely inconvenience the attacker, much less distract them from the refugees. After all, the general track record of surface combatants without air cover against air power is less than stellar. Just ask Repulse and Prince of Wales about how they sunk. Or Yamato about a little thing called Ten-Go.

* WeHaveReserves: The Abyssals have always had seemingly endless numbers to throw at mankind. Best demonstrated in chapter 6, where [[spoiler:the Abyssal Ringleader uses ten ''carrier strike groups'' as bait to lure Yamato out.]]

* MortonsFork: Whichever way Admiral Shimada chose, he would have been screwed since he didn't know [[spoiler:that Yvonne is Enterprise]]. Stay and fight? His ship girls get overwhelmed by the vastly superior Abyssal numbers and die in a SenselessSacrifice. Some of the civilians might - and that's a pretty big ''might'' - succeed in evacuating, but most would probably still get slaughtered by the Abyssals. The way to the home islands is left wide open. Retreat? His ship girls might survive, but the civilians would be done for. Either way, lots of people would die and someone would be calling for his political crucifixion.