Daiségei

Alistair Young

Oct 12, 2026 — 1 min read

Gentles all, for those of you who liked the tunnel carrier I described a while back, I have gone forth and struggled manfully with image-generation models to bring you a fully-realized rendering of Daiségai at sea, somewhere outside the Great Bay on her shakedown cruise:

Pray pardon the Roman alphabet for her name, used solely for the purposes of illustration.

And since it is well known that all Imperial warships since the advent of artificial intelligences adopt kanmusume avatars (and just giggle when asked about this, but really, who's going to argue with a warship about their self-image), behold our practitioner of the noble art of aviation archery at work:

(Please don't count the number of points on the flag's star. That's the one thing I simply could not get gpt-image-2.5-flare to draw consistently.)

Daiségei-class aircraft carrier, kanmusume, Imperial Navy, wet navy

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