Before we get into characters and all the action stuff, we need to perform some world building here as it'll make everything make sense.
1. The countries have their real names with the "factions" actually being the names of their navies. This is just to assist in the prefixes of many naval vessels either official or allocated by NATO or OSD. This means their nation's flags and naval ensigns are exactly as they are in real life. The flags popular in Azur Lane for each "faction" don't exist in this universe.
2. North Korea doesn't exist anymore as they "fucked around and found out" after an attempted attack on the battleship USS Iowa (BB-61) which resulted in "Operation Freedom". As a result, the Korean peninsula is under Seoul's control and any Chinese readers seeing this that hate the leech known as "North Korea" that your government likes but yous hate, you can thank me later. Moral: Don't touch America's boats.
3. The physical ship and the KAN-SEN's rigging are two separate entities. While KAN-SEN can form rigging if needed, the ship doesn't break into cubes. The main upside is they double the ship's amount of munition.
4. Retired KAN-SEN can return to active duty either by order or through volunteering to be recommissioned. Most prefer to stay retired due to their age and technology being obsolete for a modern battlefield.
5. The Royal Navy faction is split into its Commonwealth navies. This is to help with point 1.
6. The Sirens are gone. Yay! After the events of the "Second Siren War" (this timeline's World War Two), the world follows the same path as our world except the Korean War is won after North Korea did the fatal mistake of "touching America's boats", which became their death warrant.
7. KAN-SEN were first developed following the Russo-Japanese War and the first encounter with the Sirens around the end of the conflict. This would mean some KAN-SEN already in the Azur Lane wrecked or scrapped before the Russo-Japanese War do not exist in this timeline and as a result, the oldest KAN-SEN that exists in terms of "hull age" is the retired Dragon Empery protected cruiser Hai Chi (her hull survived even after scuttling in 1937 until scrapped in 1960. Currently, this KAN-SEN lives in Taiwan).
8. Following the Second Siren War, laws were created for KAN-SEN when their ship is decommissioned from naval service and that is either retirement while the ship preserved or sold to a shipbreaker for dismantling, or be transferred to a different navy or a new role. It's also considered a crime to murder a KAN-SEN as they are also protected under an international treaty that all countries, regardless of ideology, have signed. This however doesn't apply to KAN-SEN killing each other during a combat situation.
9. Merchant ship KAN-SEN are a real thing but they're rather rare with ships built, launched or commissioned before mid-1914. It's reported the development of these "merchant KAN-SEN" started around the First Siren War following the loss of several ships and navies converting passenger liners into Armed Merchant Cruisers (AMC) with the first official merchant KAN-SEN being HMS Carmania (an ocean liner from Cunard Line), with this being done prior to a famous duel between Sirens and KAN-SEN alongside Ironblood's SMS Cap Trafalgar in that same year, which also underwent the process to merchant KAN-SEN and sadly perishing in the battle (Fun fact: The action of 14th September 1914 is regarded as the first ever engagement between KAN-SEN and Sirens). The practice of merchant KAN-SEN was discontinued in the 1980s with the advent of the cruise industry and the changing goods industry.
10. KAN-SEN, due to not being 100% human, are immortal and have no life expectancy. This means they can outlive the normal human but if they sustain an injury that is super serious, then this immortality is taken from them and age will ultimately become their demise. This occurs with KAN-SEN whose hulls have been sunk in combat. Normally these KAN-SEN who have lost their immortality have an expected life extension of 20-50 years the moment immortality is lost.
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