Azur Lane (Verse)

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==Summary==
Azur Lane (碧蓝航线) is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up video game developed by Manjuu and Yongshi, published by bilibili for both iOS and Android. 
Set in an alternate timeline of World War II, the player takes on the role of a Commander, commanding and maintaining a fleet of shipgirls. In the midst of an earlier worldwide conflict, mysterious enemies named the Siren emerged from the sea, devastating the divided nations of the world and causing humanity to lose more than 90% of its control over the sea. Decades later, everyone decided to unite against this enemy and reclaim the sea, with the major nations of the world allying and creating Azur Lane, a worldwide military organization.
The game has been adapted into several manga and novelizations, such as the Slow Ahead manga featuring Javelin, Laffey, and Z-23 as viewpoint characters. Then there is Azur Lane Crosswave, a 3D adaptation for PlayStation 4 and PC. 
An anime television series adaptation by Bibury Animation Studios was announced in 2018, and was aired from October 3, 2019 to March 20, 2020. Another anime television series is for the AzurLane: Slow Ahead! manga by studios CANDYBOX and Yostar Pictures aired from January 12 to March 30, 2021. With the next animation adaptation based on the manga Queen's Order.
==Power of the Verse==
Azur Lane is an fairly strong and unique verse because of that its combatants were based on real life WWII warships. Most shipgirls scale above their real life counterparts and are capable of destroying warships with ease. They can also reduce aircrafts and submarines to fragments upon destruction. Characters like Enterprise and Bismarck are notable individuals known for their immense power and leadership skills, and so on.
In term of abitities, Forcefield Creation, Statistics Amplification, and Probability Manipulation are common among shipgirls as they can increase critical chance to hit harder or reduce damage based upon the number of ships in the fleet.
All of this however is nothing compare to the Siren who have overall superior intelligence and knowledge to humanity. Their technology far surpasses that of humanity and is able to create pocket dimensions, dimensional travel, etc...... The full extent of their power is currently unknown. 
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*Shipgirl are the names given to beings who are humanoid manifestations of ships that are based on our real-life naval warships that participated in World War I & II (mostly from WWII, as only a handful that come from WWI). There are also ships that just existed as plans, design concepts, blueprints, or were unfinished in real-life, but still appear in the game. There are also some ships that belong exclusively to the Wargaming's World of Warship game or other special shipgirls as a result of collaboration. Ships usually serve in factions that also based on real-life nations participated in World War 2, aligning themselves with a faction depending on the region they originate from.
*The Siren are a mysterious race of beings that are currently the primary antagonist faction in the game, their true origin and intention are currently unknown. They generally take a hands-off, passive approach, preferring to observe event unfold from the shadows. However, they do show up and engage themselves with shipgirls sometime, but mostly for fun and experimentation. Siren has hierarchy in its ranks, consisting of normal Siren ships which appear to be futuristic naval warship. Starting from Elite the Siren have appearances similar to shipgirls, which look like human women with mechanic rigging on their back, and the last and highest in current commanding order is the Arbiter or nickname Antiochus.
*META Shipgirl are also a special group of shipgirls that look alike to the normal Shipgirls the players have, but with a darker look, and more advance rigging with stronger power. They are currently not aligned with any faction, even Siren. Only the top brass of each faction/nation know them as they are top secret information. They are officially called META Shipgirl due to the mysterious phenomenon revolving around their existences: METAmorphosis
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*Warship Destruction - Multi-City Block level (214.38 Tons), scales to every Shipgirl.
*Zuikaku slices some missiles - Supersonic (Mach 1.10983), scales to every Shipgirl.
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===Supporters===
*Vietthai96
*Jamesthetaker
*Veloxtr0kore
===Opponents===
*Stocking.exe
*GarrixianXD
===Neutral===
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==Characters==
=====Azur Lane=====
A special organization first formed as a united navy of all nations to combat the Siren, protect humans, and reclaim the ocean. The core combatants of this group are shipgirls. After combating Siren for a long time the original Azur Lane split up into current Azur Lane and the newly formed Crimson Axis, due to differences in ideas and fighting methods, as the former believe in more traditional methods when it comes to combat Siren than the Crimson Axis, who prefer to enhance themself with Siren technology to fight against them. The organization is, in a sense, based on our real world WWII Allied Forces.
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|-|Eagle Union=
EnterpriseBluray.png|Enterprise|link=Enterprise (Azur Lane) 
446Laffey.png|Laffey|link=Laffey 
662-Cleveland.png|Cleveland|link=Cleveland (Azur Lane)
596-St. Louis.png|St. Louis|link=St. Louis (Azur Lane) 
New Jersey pic.png|New Jersey|link=New Jersey (Azur Lane)
|-|Royal Navy=
Indomitable.png|Indomitable|link=Indomitable
616-Javelin.png|Javelin|link=Javelin (Azur Lane)
Formidable AL.png|Formidable|link=Formidable (Azur Lane)
1095-Hood.png|Hood|link=Hood (Azur Lane)
1025-Vanguard.png|Vanguard|link=Vanguard (Azur Lane)
Plymouth (Azur Lane).png|Plymouth|link=Plymouth (Azur Lane)
|-|Dragon Empery=
962-Chen Hai.png|Chen Hai|link=Chen Hai
|-|Northern Parliament=
956-Sovetskaya Rossiya.png|Sovetskaya Rossiya|link=Sovetskaya Rossiya
Kronshtadt.png|Kronshtadt|link=Kronshtadt (Azur Lane)
|-|Iris Libre=
932-Saint Louis.png|Saint Louis|link=Saint Louis (Azur Lane)
Brest (Azur Lane).png|Brest|link=Brest (Azur Lane)
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=====Crimson Axis=====
Formed by Ironbloods and Sakura Empire after they withdrew from Azur Lane. They pursue the idea of using Siren technology to further enhance their power and use Siren's own tech against Siren; as oppose to Azur Lane's idea of using traditional mean to fight the Siren and protect humanity, thus leading to the conflict between this group and Azur Lane. They are, in a sense, based on our real world WWII Axis Powers.
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|-|Sakura Empire=
Aircraft Kaga.png|Kaga|link=Kaga (Azur Lane)
974px-Atago.png|Atago|link=Atago (Azur Lane)
864-Takao.png|Takao|link=Takao (Azur Lane)
371-Ayanami.png|Ayanami|link=Ayanami
AL-Shimakaze.png|Shimakaze|link=Shimakaze (Azur Lane)
600-Zuikaku.png|Zuikaku|link=Zuikaku
55cb119b86519d5015fca8033788d3fc.png|Shoukaku|link=Shoukaku
Hiryuu.png|Hiryuu|link=Hiryuu (Azur Lane)
834-Souryuu.png|Souryuu|link=Souryuu (Azur Lane)
|-|Ironbloods=
Z23 azur lane drawn by kaede 003591163 314616948bbfad414472688a72c2e578.png|Z23|link=Z23
Prinz_Eugen.png|Prinz Eugen|link=Prinz Eugen
600-Roon.png|Roon|link=Roon (Azur Lane)
597-Graf Zeppelin.png|Graf Zeppelin|link=Graf Zeppelin
600-U-37.png|U-37|link=U-37
600-Peter Strasser.png|Peter Strasse|link=Peter Strasser
Ulrich von Hutten.png|Ulrich von Hutten|link=Ulrich von Hutten
|-|Vichya Dominion=
1103-Algérie.png|Algérie|link=Algérie (Azur Lane)
|-|Sardegna Empire=
1049-Littorio.png|Littorio|link=Littorio (Azur Lane)
1034-Vittorio Veneto.png|Vittorio Veneto|link=Vittorio Veneto
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====Others====
Siren are the term for the antagonists of the verse (with their real name unknown), a mysterious invader with a very advanced technology. They pushed humans back to the land and claimed the ocean. They threaten the world until the appearance of shipgirls allow humans to fight on equal terms, push back the Siren, and now stalemate them as both fought each others frequently to control the sea. It is hinted that they are actually a second generation of shipgirls that come from the future where humans faced an apocalyptic event that lead to their destruction. Now Siren travel across time to experiment and find a way to save the human race from their eventual destruction.
*Arbiter is a sub-faction of Siren. They are, in a sense, a group consisting of the extremely powerful and highest ranking Siren that always deal with extreme problems, like dealing with the Ashen group. The group's name is based on a Tarot card.
META Shipgirl are an equally mysterious group of shipgirls. Like the Siren they appeared to be much more powerful and high-tech than their normal counterparts. Their true goal is unknown as sometimes they cooperate with Siren, and sometime they oppose them and do their own thing. It is hinted that they are shipgirls that come from the original timeline like the Siren, as they are possibly also trying to find a way to save the human race from their destined future, but with different methods. They are also called META Shipgirl due to the mysterious phenomenon revolving around their existences: METAmorphosis
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|-|Siren=
|-|META Shipgirl=
Takao META (AL).png|Takao META|link=Takao META
1067-Hiryuu META.png|Hiryuu META|link=Hiryuu META
900-Souryuu META.png|Souryuu META|link=Souryuu META
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==Items & Physiologies==
Wisdom Cube (Azur Lane).jpg|Wisdom Cube|link=Wisdom Cube (Azur Lane)
Azur Lane.jpg|Shipgirl Physiology|link=Shipgirl Physiology (Azur Lane) 
AL Siren.png|Siren Physiology|link=Siren Physiology (Azur Lane) 
==Notes==
*The main continuity of the verse is the Mobile Game, with Slow Ahead as spin-off (both anime adaptation and the main 4-panels/4-koma manga)
*Azur Lane the Animation and the game Azur Lane Crosswave are their own continuity. However universal "species" like Wisdom Cube, Shipgirls and Sirens can be scaled between each others since they are all the same, especially Sirens, since they are capable of timeline, world and dimensional travelling and with the main game established the existence of different timelines, Crosswave and the Animation could possibly are just another timeline and Siren capable of travelling to them
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