Ship People
Ship people is the common name for those who are the human manifestations of warships. They share the same names, weapons, and aircraft of their ship. There are three main types, KAN-SEN, Kanmusu and Kan-Kakai. While they are fairly similar, they all have major differences, especially the Kan-Kakai against the others.
KAN-SEN
KAN-SEN (Kinetic Artifactual Navy-Self-regulative En-lore Node), are the first type of shipgirls. KAN-SEN were created thanks to the Wisdom Cubes. Most KAN-SENs are part of either the Crimson Axis or Azur Lane, the latter of which is commanded by Azur Peka, a secondary clone of Original Peka.
Wisdom Cubes
A metaphysical object that contains the thoughts, ideals, and beliefs of humanity. This object is embodied in Ships and is their foundation. Additionally, Wisdom Cubes can be used offensively to achieve reality altering effects, such as creating things from nothing or making thoughts, fantasies, ideals and desires become reality. It can also be used for resurrecting dead shipgirls.
Factions and Nations with KAN-SEN
KAN-SENs can come from any nation, whether it be from the past, present, future or even alternate universes. Most KAN-SEN are split into two factions, the Crimson Axis (the equivalent of our Axis Powers from WW2), and Azur Lane (the Allies from WW2). Collabs with other with the likes of Hyperdimension Neptunia (HDN), Gridman Universe (SSSS), Hololive and more, exist, and they are neutral. They aren't KAN-SEN, but still have rigging due to Siren shenanigans and the like. Other nations with KAN-SEN are the Barrinae, having shipgirls for the RBN and RBAVC, Ginsenfandt, and Lower Canada.
Kanmusu
Kanmusu is the second type of shipgirls to appear in canon, and the one most United Nations Space Command ships belong to. Introduced into canon with UNSC Melbourne II's arrival into canon, Kanmusu, unlike KAN-SEN, were not manifested via a Wisdom Cube, and instead manifested by themselves or via summoning ritual. They are the literal souls of ships that gain 'weight' via their crew. The more people get invested or the longer people are invested in a ship, the more spiritual 'weight' they have, until they can eventually manifest.
Biology
Unlike KAN-SEN, Kanmusu's body are an entire ship compressed into a human body. Inside her instead of regular human internals, they have metal corridors, machinery, etc. It’s like the TARDIS in that it’s physically larger on the inside than the exterior. However, the interior and exterior do 'line up' to a certain degree, with her head being her bridge, her heart being her reactor, etc. A kanmusu's body is the ship, so when a fairy goes inside her (there are so many innuendoes you could make with this), they're in a pocket dimension that’s the inside of the ship. Fairies can enter via entrances on the rigging, by being flown in by aircraft or the entrances used to board a docked ship. Kanmusu can also grab objects and shrink them into fairy size to store them inside her ship form. Kanmusu can also pretty much eat anything metal. They’ll either just bite pieces directly off an object, or shrink it down then eat it. This can be helpful, as it resupplies a Kanmusu's food, but as a side effect they can and will eat a lot.
Fairies
Ship fairies are spirits that represent the crew a ship once had. They come into existence when ships became shipgirls. Fairies are miniature representations of the crew onboard. They’re only a few centimeters tall. They can manage weapon systems, pilot spacecraft, anything a human can do on a normal ship. They even get their own weapons sized for them, which are still lethal to normal sized humans, as rounds expand into normal size after being fired. Fairies are not forced to stay on a shipgirl, as they can freely disembark at any time. This makes them great for doing the stuff a shipgirl wants them to do. If a fairy dies, they reappear on their ship, but lack the experience from battles prior to death, but not battles they participated in before becoming a shipgirl (essentially, just brought back to lvl1). To non-Kanmusu, Fairies are heard as only saying Oorah, Desu, Hey, and others depending on the Fairy.
Summoning
In order to summon a Kanmusu, two conditions must be met.
- A certain amount of years (usually a couple decades) must have been past
- They must have enough spiritual 'weight'
When they are met, there are two ways for a spirit to manifest as a Kanmusu.
- By summoning themselves on their own via unknown means
- An outside force uses a summoning ritual to summon them
Factions with Kanmusu
Currently, the only faction with Kanmusu are the United Nations Space Command, or UNSC, notable among them being UNSC Melbourne II. Kanmusu make up most of the shipgirls of the UNSC, the only exception being UNSC Vestal, who was a KAN-SEN before becoming part of the UNSC.
Kan-Kikai
The third type of ship people to be introduced into canon, Kan-Kikai is the most different from the other ship girls. They were created by the SKE (Samantha Keeling Enterprises) after they saw what the RBVAC and UNSC had. Whereas KAN-SEN and Kanmusu have all their members female, which is why they're called shipgirls, Kan-Kikai also are males... if they were even human in the first place.
Biology
Kan-Kikai are all metal, and aren't human. While KAN-SEN and Kanmusu have, well 'normal' skin, Kan-Kikai do not have 'normal' human skin. They are powered by P.L.O.T. Energy Drives (PEDs). They are pretty much the Titans from Transformers. They can transform from ship form to humanoid form, downsizing by about a fourth of the size in human form. While KAN-SEN and Kanmusu could be confused to the other, being superficially the same, Kan-Kikai are humongous.
Sizes
Ship Form
- Battle class (SKE Genesis) - 268.224 meters.
- Destroyer class (SKE Raven) - 804.672 meters.
- Mega class Carrier (SKE Destiny) - 2414.016 meters.
Humanoid Form
- Battle class (SKE Genesis) - 67.056 meters.
- Destroyer class (SKE Raven) - 201.168 meters.
- Mega class Carrier (SKE Destiny) - 603.504 meters.
Factions with Kan-Kikai
The only faction with Kan-Kikai is SKE.
Rigging
Rigging is a compacted form of a shipgirl's ship, used by KAN-SEN and Kanmusu, but not Kan-Kikai. When deployed, it allows a shipgirl to use their ships weapons and aircraft while inhibiting a smaller and more mobile form. It allows shipgirls to skate on water, or in the case of ships from the UNSC and the RBAVC, fly. In addition, rigging can be manifested as their entire full hull. For Kanmusu, all fairies become regular human sized, and can talk normally. If a Kanmusu returns their hull into normal rigging while an actual normal human is onboard, the human becomes a temporary fairy. They can unfairify once a shipgirl remanifests their rigging at full-size. If they die as a temporary fairy, they can be resummoned at the cost of becoming a normal fairy.