Heh, I just noticed her signal flags. Her hoist appears to be YANKEE UNIFORM, "I am going to communicate with your station by means of the International Code of Signals." Assuming it's a single horizontal hoist, anyway. Read as two separate signals vertically, it'd be
YANKEE - "I am dragging my anchor" (or "I am carrying mail," but I think that's just for civilian ships) UNIFORM - "You are standing into danger"
Which is somehow funnier, but seems less likely in context. :)
It'd be a fun visual detail gag if one of the shipgirls whose design includes an ICS flag was shown with a different one based on conditions. For instance, Yamato's flag armband is canonically ZULU as a reference to Japanese naval tradition (in which it was flown as a hoist meaning, basically, the Japanese equivalent of Nelson's ENGLAND EXPECTS EVERY MAN TO DO HIS DUTY signal), but if I were an artist, I'd be tempted to depict her having had a little too much to drink at the summer festival and flying DELTA ("Keep clear, I am maneuvering with difficulty") instead. :)
Heh, I just noticed her signal flags. Her hoist appears to be YANKEE UNIFORM, "I am going to communicate with your station by means of the International Code of Signals." Assuming it's a single horizontal hoist, anyway. Read as two separate signals vertically, it'd be
YANKEE - "I am dragging my anchor" (or "I am carrying mail," but I think that's just for civilian ships) UNIFORM - "You are standing into danger"
Which is somehow funnier, but seems less likely in context. :)
I believe it's UY - "I am carrying out exercises. Please keep clear of me." She is a training cruiser after all.
