[OOC][PLOT][ARC 2] Planning for Season 2 - The Retcon

[robkelk]

While I'm waiting for the wiki to come back ... yet again ... so that I can do some work on the retcon, I decided to revisit this from the pre-retcon Arc 2 thread:

Something for Arc 2... because I remember somebody wanting a fleet to take command of.

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"Luna, you used to be an admiral, right?"

The Mau - currently in cat form - turned away from her family and looked up at Rob's question. "That's right. I was one of Queen Serenity's military advisors during the Silver Millennium."

"That implies you and she had a navy. How big was your fleet?"

She sighed deeply. "Before or after Metaria's youma attacked?"

Rob had the grace to look chagrined. "Sorry." After a moment, he continued, "I was hoping that there might have been a few ships somewhere near the ruins of the capital, but that isn't very likely, is it? Even if there was a military base that close to the palace, they would have deployed every ship they had to defend the capital, wouldn't they?"

Artemis turned to Rob. "Why wouldn't there be a military base at the capital, Rob? There's a Canadian Forces Base here in Ottawa, after all."

"And each princess had a yacht that was hangared there, that last day," Luna added. "They refused to use them to escape - they stood and fought, and died, protecting the civilians."

"I don't suppose you remember where the hangars were?"

Luna gave Rob "the look" that all the females at Blossom had learned from Mikoto Misaka. "They were right beside my own office."

"I hadn't asked you that yet. But I'll ask the $64,000 question now: can you give directions to the hangars that Yuuno and Fujitaka could follow?"

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I have more, but it's going on the wiki.

So, just what do Silver Millennium ships look like?

I'm thinking "the more graceful sort of flying wings" because they don't have corners (ask Commander Hadfield why that's important in space), they're atmosphere-capable, they scale up well (to establish scale, I've already decided Mercury's yacht was rigged as an ambulance/medevac ship, and the royal yacht was larger than any of the others), and they kinda-sorta-vaguely look like Moon Tiaras.

However, if anybody has any better ideas, I'm open to suggestions. EDIT: As long as we aren't copying from any other fanfic. I've deliberately not gone looking for any fanon Silver Millennium ship descriptions.

Taking an alternate approach: Use something out of one of the older myths, given a modern spin. Luckily, somebody else has already done the envisioning for me, in a way that I can take advantage of it.

Vimana Flying Machine

The two things that I lose by doing things this way are "scales up" and "looks like a Moon Tiara". The aesthetics are of lesser concern to me. The lack of a larger version... is mildly annoying, but I can live with it.

What I gain is the ability to add this ship to existing images. And I'm reasonably sure that I can give it more than just the four paint jobs that it has "out of the box".