Creators' comments
- November: Raleigh is a docile girl without excess words. This has been the design I have done since the start. I don't remember her war achievements when I drew her, aside of her being an "old oil boat". But I continued with that fuzzy impression and made her a docile, silent, and a trustworthy miss.
- Morgane: When I read Raleigh's story in WWII, I somehow think of a girl who has a weak disposition, but still helps everyone in obscurity. Omaha-class is bad, but I'd say, as she is a shipgirl now, shouldn't we provide her with a new opportunity?
- Zeroblade: When we discuss her personality settings, we found Raleigh having weak disposition due to her fulfilling demands from different stakeholders of the Navy. It reminds me of the girl who cannot fight due to experiments in Gunslinger Girl. We need somebody to devote themselves after all, and she became that tragic character.Introduction
Commander, Raleigh, CL-7. Sorry, I think you already noticed that I'm not the prime choice among light cruisers, haha.
We Omaha-class are the oldest cruisers commissioned in WWII. Similar to the Nevada-class sisters, but we share all their disadvantages. Their advantages, uh, how do I put this, we have none. I know that the Navy Development Group have gave their very best to design us under the limiting Treaty, but still, we Omaha-class has countless funny defects. You know our nickname is "Oma-hahaha..." ("ha" ad nauseam) right? Sigh, can't help it. Delayed time for construction, and defects in design, we were a group of top-heavy, crew-unfriendly aberrations with cruiser sizes and destroyer equipments. I think, if it isn't the Designing Department have an emergent fix with my balance problems, and I'm even bigger, I think I'm as screwed up as Fusou sisters, hoho~
(Well, considering current situations, I rather I'm more top-heavy, if you know what I mean, hee hee.)
Albeit so, I think the Designing Department were quite proud of us. "Failure is the mother of Success" as we say. At least our failures are appropriately compensated in later designs. About my commission records, you know my profile, commander. I survived the Pearl Harbour Attack, and later I did a series of escorts, oversea supports and transportation missions. We're light cruisers after all, and are competent enough in terms of speed and firepower. Even now, I have about no problems on expeditions and transporting resources, things like that. I know, commander, "King of Kids" isn't the prime choice of yours, but an objective of our design was to be the flagship of a destroyer fleet, hee hee.
Wait a sec, let me get a breather...
Sorry, I don't have a good endurance historically, so I need... a break...
STEC commentary: Although she has significant defects in terms of body and ability, Raleigh has good humour and a spirit of self-sacrifice as an experiment subject. She is popular among the fleet. STEC recommends the Development Group at their earliest convenience conduct research regarding light cruiser girls and their naval mine and torpedo equipments. raleigh has thorough knowledge regarding usage of these 2 weapons, and she has been expressing wish to provide more support to the fleet.
PS: She is indeed a "King of Kids", as she is well-received by the Destroyer girls.Trivia
- Additional comments from STEC: From a series of records afterwards, Omaha-class cruisers performed mediocre historically in the war. Even though their subpar design are pitiable, the Navy designing department earned precious experience from the process of designing them. Omaha-class can be termed as an experiments to fulfill demands of all stakeholders, but the sad results is that they are the sacrifices of this multi-aspect compromise, as shown in Raleigh's self-intro. If Raleigh is finished a few years earlier, she might be compatible with other equipments, to make her more historically significant. But sadly, the equipments are just simply promises in WWII.
- Water mines is mentioned Raleigh's intro due to Omaha-class' initial design had included carrying of 224 water mines.