The life of a ship undergoes three legs of a long journey, and many things can go very wrong for her. Many a ship has partaken in the trials, but only so few can survive the treacherous high seas. The era of navigation is as ancient as man, for man have used nothing but the heavens to calculate the movements, and as technology pushes forward to build bigger vessels, even the strongest known to any captain on board can still sink because the ocean waves is always stronger than we are. The first step for a ship to pass is to weigh her down to dock safely, because no ship can sail without first being laid down. Any ships who fail to weigh down successfully are known as failed vessels.
The second step of a ship is to test its maximum design speed and the amount of punishment she can take hold, some ships are destined to feel fear not by its looks, but from the experience of her crew. The bigger she is, the more she can take, but bigger displacement slows her down, forcing a crew to work harder to make it go faster. Every vessel in history takes on a form that makes up her personality in every detail from the hull up to the masts. When it comes to dealing with the waves, the ship’s crew has to make a tough decision, sail through it or go around it, and an unprepared crew can seal the captain’s and the ship’s fate. Once the ship makes it back into safe harbor again, the vessel itself already knows she passes the second stage.
Last and not the least, the third and final step is to see how long she can make it before she can decommission. This may seem like the toughest out of all the three, because not every vessel can survive very long, and count that as a total loss in the service. Not only that, some cannot even compete with the rapid expansion of tech growth, rendering her obsolete and struck down. When a ship does make it through many years until it shows age, the crew can then thank her joyfully for living a long life for passing the third and final stage, and can preserve or scuttle her into the darkest depths. Resources can be replaced anew, but ships and the crews’ lives that serve onboard them do not, and the cycle of naval service will keep going until not a single man can touch the helm.