"Not offhand, but I'm sure you could find it easily enough if you looked for the right keywords."

I started up the absolutely ancient computer next to me, "Like what?"

"Well, the largest video right now is called..." There was a pause that seemed to stretch on just long enough to be awkward, "Crazy one-eyed Abyssal Pirate Cosplayer Kanmusu singing about hookers."

I couldn't see the woman on the other end of the line, but I could 'see' her pinching the bridge of her nose from the tone of her voice.

"I'm sorry, what?" there was a chuckle in my voice.

"That's the name of the video, apparently its a lot more believable than 'Abyssal Princess gets drunk and sings karaoke with Japanese Kanmusu" I snorted in disbelief as Chitose's Admiral continued, "Most people don't believe its real due to the well-known problems with filming Abyssals in the first place, which I assume your own crew's camcorder gets around neatly. As for the title, it's a good deal more flattering than some of the other titles floating around."

"Meh, its the internet, if your face is plastered on it you're going to get insults, nothing worth getting mad over."

"I'm actually quite surprised you know how to use it in the first place, one of my Carriers, Akagi, thought you had to feed the computer on start-up, and kept putting rice offerings in the disk drive."

"No way, really?"

"Hmm, yes, the incident gave me reason to push for basic computer courses to be added to the standard curriculum, the proposal should go through soon, in the meantime, I've been thinking of having Kaga mentor her, as she took a private course herself to help with her mental exercises."

"Courses? Wait a second." I held my arm up in a 'stop' gesture, before remembering there was no video, "Your ships go toschool? Like, actual school? What is this, an anime?!"

"Well, technically yes. Certain courses are compulsory, like navigation and mathematics, mostly in regards to ballistic applications." The Admiral hurried to continue in the face of my disgusted sounds over going to school of all things. "Please bear in mind its not an actual standardized school, mixing untrained Destroyers with actual human children would lead to property damage and lawsuits in the case of potential injury and death, so the board of education in Japan trained a handful of our Cruisers, among them the training Cruisers Katori and Kashima, to teach classes to a junior college level. Most of the courses are elective, meaning you can pick and choose what you want to learn, my secretaryship, Houshou, for instance, privately tutors most Carriers in my fleet from time to time using the facility's built-in archery range.

"Man your school has archery?!" I shook my head rapidly, "Anyway, back to what you said before, yeah, I know computers, I was made in the early eighties, and I dunno when it was exactly, but I was originally probably sunk by Abyssals, so It can't have been over 8 years ago, right?"

"Yes, you were presumed sunk with all hands roughly seven years ago now, though your wreck was never found. I guess that makes a fair amount of sense, the Iowa's, I've heard, never had nearly as much trouble with technology as others. Hibiki, one of my Destroyers, lived as a steel hull into the seventies, she only had minor difficulties adjusting."

The aged computer finally finished booting up, I put in the keywords into google and selected search by video as I spoke. "If Abyssals originally appear near their wrecks then my steel-hull probably bought the big one North of Pratas, that's where I originally showed up. Dang it!"

"Is something wrong?"

The vid is blocked in Cambodia, it says it's unavailable in this country, dang. Wait a minute... oh I'm an idiot." I slapped myself in the forehead."I still have the original video in me right now! Duh!"

Chitose chose that moment to return, holding a slip of paper in her hands "I have the number."

I held out the phone to her, and she dutifully recited the fax number to the waiting Admiral.

"Alright, I'll send off copies for you and additional slips for the other two ships you have with you, a Heavy Cruiser, and... Light Battlecruiser, was it?"

"Ah, You may have to send an additional slip, we've, well... we have a Battleship now," Chitose said a bit sheepishly. Diana, who had been sitting quietly listening to us talk, perked up.

"...Come again?"

"She's a Fast Battleship named Diana, Georgia... Acquired her, a few days ago, and we got her up and operational since."

"She has a Ta-Class? Or is it some other variant?"

"She's classed as a Ta, yes, when we were taking a closer look at her specs, it became apparent that she was based heavily off of a Queen Elizabeth-class Battleship, but modified heavily towards additional horsepower and sea-going capability."

"So the Queen Elizabeth design is available to the Abyssals... Berham? But she was sunk in the Mediterranean near Egypt... Something to go over later. We are still working over the last intelligence you provided, to be honest."

It was now Chitose's turn to be slightly confused, "Intelligence, Admiral?"

"When it was revealed that some design's for the Abyssals classed under the 'Ri' category were, in fact, very likely based off of the Ashigara, we had a satellite try to look at the area she sank in off the Sumatran coast, the entire area was nothing but static, mostly centered around the former town of Mentok. I've been arranging for a low-flying drone to pass over the area with a vacuum-tube camera hard-wired into its chassis, to see if we can get some direct images of the area. It's a good opportunity to test out the viability of the design the engineering department came up with."

"A drone? But arent they incapable of seeing Abyssals?" Chitose wasn't all that knowledgeable about the pilot-less craft, her previous exposure limited to the ones used by Georgia and what she'd heard about their general ineffectiveness.

"Normally, yes. But several photos of Georgia and her fleet have surfaced on the internet, mostly captured by scanned pictures taken by disposable, wind up camera's and developed in a red-room. It seems that chemical photography may work at capturing direct imaging of Abyssal vessels. The drone will be considered a 'proof of concept', and if successful... well, I don't need to say how beneficial that may be in the long run."

"I can imagine... But regardless Admiral, the extra slip?"

"Oh! right, of course, the additional add-on paperwork is exactly the same for the ships under command of Georgia, so I'll just send off another copy for... Diana was it?"

"Yes, their names are Hakone, Anne, and Diana."

At that moment, the fax machine lit up, and pages upon pages of what looked like pretty formal-looking documents spat out.

"Alright, let's see what we got here!" I said, taking the stack of papers out of the tray, only to quickly have it replaced with more sheets of paper, "Ummm, how long is this document?" I said, beginning to get a bad feeling.

Chitose repeated my question over the phone, and her face went a little pale at the answer, I didn't even need to hear the response as I looked back at the fax machine forlornly, which had already disgorged another full-tray of papers.

I slumped, "Dang it."

I hated doing forms.