Hello again，

I am interested in naval ships but hope they are not actually used in warfare. (I am a former sailor, of the USN, but I design ships for my own interests, not for the USN.)

To this date, I have created them on paper --I sometimes feel it "feels more artistic" (yes, it is quite limiting), but eventually want to transfer them to the digital realm in Blender, Maya, AC3D, VariCAD (for fictional use) and DefCar, Catia or some similar tool (in the real world if they support Linux). I use Linux, and I am looking for like-minded persons who have a true international mindset in which end users and learners have inexpensive, unfettered access to information and technology in nonproprietary, operating system-agnostic environments.

In the past and today, no matter whatever employment I have had, I always had my drawings at home to return to. It seems the hobby of mine persists and is the one enduring and endearing thing the makes me feel there is a higher cause or force involved with what I am doing. But I cannot do it alone. I must concede and seek help of other people.


Please continue to read further.

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Personal objective:

I wish to set up a small network of people so we can convert to electronic 3D environment one or more of my ship designs and to adapt my spreadsheed, database, and word processing files to useful products. (Obviously, these are copyrighted and intellectual property, so be mindful in that regard。)

I am fairly detail-oriented, "kind of" technically-minded (but, I am not an engineer), and realism-pursuing with my naval blueprints. I am reasonably sure they can be built if any shipbuilder decides to "just build it" without excuses or 10-year exploratory programs politically designed to make the project "go away". However, whether or not real-world naval ship builders undertake the "challenge", the ships certainly can be built in a 3-D environment, and this certainly can lead to a financially viable gaming opportunity. Platforms of interest to me are generic PCs (turn the PC into a gaming platform at the BIOS level, not the OS level, then run whatever OS you need in the background -- if the hardware support; but I want the game to be OS-independent), the Play Station, the Dream Station, and similar.


Additionally, I am interested in Dragon/DML/Shanghai-labeled distribution of my hull designs. I would love to see a "take-apart" model of my designs, too. For far too long, there has been a dearth of fictional or notional/conceptual models on a mass-produced scale. (Consequently, a market must be built for this by creating a fan fiction base.)

Considering that my ideals or ideas can reach a viable audience seeking a "flattening" of dominant navies in favor of more palatable, world-body-participating nationals, these ships could be sold as kit models. (I am not seeking "riches", just some cash flow -- and to help create jobs for some LIKE-MINDED people). However, in China such models could be built inexpensively. Though I lack the up front cash or investor sponsorship, I can offer this: If a manufacturer can produce the kits affordably and then facilitate pricing a hobbyist can accept, then I will donate to hungry regions of the manufacturer's nation some 20% (or more) of profits attained. If quality, affordable kits are produced and the quality maintained, I will allow exclusive licensing options for the other drawings and future drawings to be injection-molded and manufactured in various scales/sizes. However, this licensing shall apply to kit models, not software, blueprints, art, or other productions, medium, or the like.

Initially, I would like to partner with people from these areas:

Japan, Korea, China (Mainland and Island), Singapore, India, Pakistan, Australia, The Philippines and surroundings (since Vietnam is soaking up Linux, they should be included, too) where there are electronic gaming world developers, designers and others looking for fresh, new action and entertainment in the naval ship environment. (Yes, I realize that some of these countries are "traditional adversaries", but I intend to transcend that and transform the wasteful use of energy...)

Eventually of course, African, European, Canadian, South American and others will be very welcome, too. But, for now, since I am from San Francisco, then maybe at first I should be the only "US-originating/based representation" on this team I want to create. (Although I don't let any officials speak for me, I am opinionated -- and sometimes uninformed enough to more than make up for being the only one from the US initially on this project. Besides, I am not looking to have my project hijacked from me. However, there are some things on which I will be very open-minded.)

If this project comes alive and is able to reach an audience, then I want it to be both anime, animation and live-action based, and I want it to be delivered via the Internet. I want it to be developed by digital artists and the action and stories in the digital realm -- as in non-human performers on screen. Delivered straight to viewers' computers. This will allow the least amount of overhead (excess, and expensive labor with some unnecessary political/organizational attachments typically germane to the existing entertainment industry. This way, writers can freely come and go without any artificially-constructed impediments. Moreover, the stories told by authors will be owned by them with the understanding that they strip out any "Otanashide", or "UNAUN-Shift Colors!", or "Underway-Shift Colors!" material. This then permits them to be seen as a good writer and to make or sign any external contracts as long as they don't sub-assign or taint my intellectual property. Authors may copyright their stories as normal copyright applies to self-originated materials, but they must tag or flag as non-original material anything they borrow or use from "Otanashide", or "UNAUN-Shift Colors!", or "Underway-Shift Colors!" Any stories presented for adaptation to anime, animation, or used in the UNAN-Shift Colors! world will first be vetted, evaluated, and put into the pipeline for adaptation.

REAL-WORLD

That said, I would be excited if a real-world ship builder would undertake construction of these designs. Therefore, I offer this open letter to the world's governments, defense industries, and military leaders willing to accept this challenge:
 

• Fund the construction of these "navy-deprecating" "oceangoing police cruisers" that will be constructed in modules and assembled at numerous ship yards on every continent and island nations which have ship construction facilities
• Command the ships with captains and executive officers from differing nations; crew the ships with persons from every continent being represented (EVEN North Korea, in the interests of giving NK a chance to show it sincerely wants to be part of the economic world, while simultaneously blunting in the nose any nations vengefully thwarting reunification of Korea)
  
• Make the ships "stateless"; rescind and never demand national authority of these ships, since they will be a new "great experiment"
• Subjugate own navies to the authority of these police vessels in all matters pertaining to international policing actions that are not specific internal matters and to cease and desist any hostile or aggressive postures before, during, or after these police vessels arrive on scene (nations should have the right to locally/at home DEFEND themselves FROM, but NEVER the right to WAGE WAR UPON another nation... there is something unforgivably evil, insipid, vicious and pernicious, malodorous, odious, malevolent, unctuous, indefensible, imperialist, wholly contemptible and just plain damned uncouth about a powerful or superpower nation assaulting and occupying another nation or land that cannot even initiate sustained conflict near or beyond its own borders, and which cannot defend itself against such an attack, and thoroughly deplorable that other nations just roll over and take behind-the-scenes booty/payoff to remain mum or hush about such affairs...)
  
• Assign to these ships the following minimum mission responsibilities:
• Seek and arrest and -- if necessary -- fight terrorists when found at sea, but bringing them to justice if possible so their grievances may be heard in defiance of the urge of some nations to posit they have not legitimate claims or grievances (this assumes that most in the lesser position people don't murder or embark upon campaings of destruction without cause--untainted history is replete with examples of the mighty rewriting history to support the victor and denigrate the loser)
  
• Combat piracy by observing, tracking and arresting pirates (challenging corrupted nations to find other ways of generating revenues)
  
• Assist in humanitarian rescue and relocation operations when there are refugees of natural calamities or disasters or displaced by political purges and upheavals
• Escort reflagged merchant or passenger ships (such ships will have been reflagged and will have applied for UNAUN escort due to resentment at being interdicted, hailed to heave to, boarded, delayed, inspected, and sometimes ransacked) to ensure that goods will not be intercepted by any one particular nation wielding its power
  
• Under standing orders scour territorial, defense and EEZ waters of UNAUN member nations and force the surfacing of and if necessary the immobilization of surveillance and other uninvited types of submerged vessels when discovered (depth charges, propeller-fouling, noise makers, and other psychological harrassment will be employed to deter snoops; this will be done under satellite and televised relay when a detection is made-- if such subs are brazen enough to defy surfacing or should they take a defensive or offensive posture, they then should be ravaged with the highest fury and destructiveness the world has to mete out, whether or not the sub may be an unidentified, friendly boat; if it's not on a verified, scheduled, and announced port visit, and it appears to be snooping or conducting espionage, and appears to be operating stealthily or under communications silence, and refuses to acknowledge hails or orders to surface, then BLOW IT OUT OF THE WATER! Any lesser posturing simply permits superior subs and superiority-minded nations a "free ticket" to act wantonly without fear for deserved repercussions or for corporeal limitations)