Arpeggio of Blue Steel - Vol. 27 Ch. 156

[MangaDex]

 

[Antinomy]

They'd have to completely wipe out humans to protect the Earth. Not just run them outta the oceans.

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Thanks for the TL

 

[Bayaya]

Human is also part of the earth, protecting the earth means also protecting human so it's basically culling.

Also Lexington best ship, that confident smile is so shiny.

 

[AnotherDuck]

Must be a comfortable couch.

"Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"

"When human activities become active."

Can you be any less specific?

"When the sea levels rise..."

Okay, the Fog are anti-global warming. Basically the FF7 Weapons of this manga.

Human is also part of the earth, protecting the earth means also protecting human so it's basically culling.

That's something that's often forgotten. Humans are often seen as an unwanted pest when it comes to environmental messages.

Also Lexington best ship, that confident smile is so shiny.

Agree to disagree. Not because she's not awesome, but because there's so much competition. This manga is great at writing great characters.

 

[alacaelum]

The high concept of this story gets higher with every chapter, not complaining though, high concept sci-fi is fun when done right... but it needs to be done right, and more than anything... just because it is practically "fighting against god" now doesnt mean the little stories should be forgotten.

That's something that's often forgotten. Humans are often seen as an unwanted pest when it comes to environmental messages.

Isnt it? It is amazing how people can only think is extremes on that, or we are "the true inheritors of life" or "a plague that should be culled".

Can't people just see that nature is not this "love and peace" thing they think it is, but that the term "natural balance" is much more complex and nuanced than it seems?

If a species capable of transforming and destroying the world didn't exist, the world would have stayed the same forever stagnant, evolution is a state of strife, but as a species with higher thought we can do and be better, but we are not a "anomaly" or "the chosen ones", we just... are.

And that is enough, that is beautiful because there is so much "are" to be.

 

[1234muse]

quite the show of force there

 

[commandodude]

They'd have to completely wipe out humans to protect the Earth. Not just run them outta the oceans.

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Thanks for the TL

A massive amount of pollution comes from sea commerce and production of goods for shipping. Undoubtedly human industrial activity massively contracted after losing sea access, even if it was not completely curtailed.

That would likely satisfy the designs of the Fog Fleet. We already saw a small fraction of that potential during the covid supply chain disruptions.

 

[Coldlight]

Man, I don't even remember what happened to Musashi anymore. I almost mistook Francette as a mental model of hers who went with Zordan's crew and Lexington.

The fog came into existence on May 1, 1945? Why, WWII wasn't even over yet that time, and some of the ships they were based upon were still operating! Hell, the original battleship Yamato sank a little less than a month before on April 7, 1945.

If there ever was a real Kotono Amaha, the information here points to her likely death and rebirth as a mental model of the fog Yamato. IIRC that was already implied before during the reveal of the contents of the burnt-out sealed facility. It's full of nanomaterial and that's where mental model-like entities are essentially born. It's certainly not a coincidence that Kotono disappeared on that day and then the fog started having mental models from then on.

It's also sounding more and more like the Fog was created as a madman's mechanism to enact an artificial Malthusian disaster to cull the excesses of humanity. "Protecting the environment" is just one of the effects of such a catastrophe. Because it buys time for nature to heal a little while humans are recovering economically and are temporarily unable to continue their typically rapacious resource extraction activities.

 

[alacaelum]

Man, I don't even remember what happened to Musashi anymore. I almost mistook Francette as a mental model of hers who went with Zordan's crew and Lexington.

Musashi is alive, but only by a hair breath, Bismarck and her sister/escort ships "betrayed" Musashi... better said Bismarck just ended their deal, something both already knew would happen.

Musashi was saved by one of Yamato's "converted" assault and suppression ships (forgot her name).

Apparently, the assault and suppression ships have become some of these strongest ships in the fog, as their original function was to control planes and offer support, but even being made of nanomaterial those planes proved ineffective, so they stopped using them and the enormous extra processing power that they now have available because they don't use planes anymore allows them to use some powerful new armaments.

So just one of them was able to scare Bismarck away, even when Bismarck had all the mental cores of her sister/escort ships now serving for extra processing power in her main body.

 

[AnotherDuck]

Because it buys time for nature to heal a little while humans are recovering economically and are temporarily unable to continue their typically rapacious resource extraction activities.

It also means humans are much more likely to default back to more environmentally harmful methods, since the focus will be more on survival than sustainability.

 

[darkblade210]

Idk what supported manga means but this is awesome