Oceans Ventured is about humanization.
We are humanizing these ships and giving them a body to express themselves, breathing life to vessels of history.
In the pursuit of the preservation of history, we find ourselves thinking, deconstructing, revisiting our own humanity, diving into the understanding that the study of history is a study of human stories. These ships are history. Our history, and how we treat it, reflects upon ourselves as people.
No one will remember these ships, vessels of history, unless we give them the life they deserve, reflective of the life that they gave us, the life we live today. In the pursuit of delivering remembrance, we have to appeal to a changing time - how better to capture a story than to give it life? To reimagine the story of a ship is akin to remembering the life of a person, someone who lived as full a life as they could.
Our fiction serves a purpose: to imagine the past through humanization.
To breathe life to vehicles of our eternity, in earnest, presents our project a challenge. We must sift through moments in time and piece together the clues left by civilization in order to grant our human life justice. What is humanization, truly?
These ships are more than just a piece of history. These are our lives, reimagined to believe that some of it meant something more, that some of it had to have mattered.
To explore this world, we dive into that awful question:
What does it mean to be human?
Is it a question we can even answer? This great test of humanization can only be approached.
Can we use anatomy to express our existence? Our memories? Our aspirations?
For every argument you can make, there’s an argument against it. Humans can differ biologically and our appearances can be so scarred we are hardly recognizable. Our memories can leave us and lie when we need them the most. Our aspirations and motivations, which no one but the individual may possess, can be so insatiably human to the point where we lose ourselves in the process.
Approaching these questions leaves me with more questions than philosophy can answer. But that said, at the end of the day, it’s easy to work with what we have. Cutesy anime girls and a missile or two. That much has and will be present from start to finish.
For what we’re doing, I want to go back.
Through mechanics of fiction, we will have these characters explore the past that shaped them, much like they shaped us. We will come to terms with the pictures we have now, wondering if they are nearly as good as the real thing. We will approach the means by which we love one another, expressions of self and uncertainty, the depths of behavior and the reasons by which individuals and communities act. Braced with the optimism in stars, we will lose our inhibition in search of hysteria, becoming witnesses to time and the concepts that terrify us the most. We will lose our voice.
I will come to say, loving and hating all the time I would be so happy to give again, “Look! You get to live again. You will come to live forever. Isn’t that what you always wanted?”
I will come to terms with the fact that I will never find an answer.
So! Come explore the Cold War with us!
I’m so very glad you’re here.
Core goals of of OV's story:
- Promoting the histories of Cold War ships, telling their stories and bringing these ships to life, effectively 'reimagining' them for today's world
- Introducing people to complex military topics in an effort to educate and inform with the intent to prevent war through understanding
Intent: “Reimagine”
- In keeping attention to detail, attention to character design and building through our historical focus, we will use story to forge a unique identity.