The Admiral of Hogwarts

That evening, Hugo and the ship girls held a small celebration in the sub-dimension. Although it was called a celebration, in reality, everyone just wanted to take this opportunity to get together.

Currently, many magical creatures have been planted and bred in this sub-dimension, but considering the importance of this sub-dimension, this work is the responsibility of several ship girls in rotation.

Because the climate of this sub-dimension is completely adjustable, Hugo and the others simply spread out tables and chairs on the lawn in front of Nicolas Flamel's small house to prepare for the banquet.

Since they had to wait for the others to fall asleep before they could come over, when the five people from Hogwarts led by Hugo arrived at the venue, the celebration had already begun.

Although it seemed a little strange to hold a celebration without the main character present, considering that the ship girls' goal was for everyone to get together and have fun, it was perfectly normal to do so.

"Well done, especially winning with such an absolute advantage," Saint George said, nodding at Veneto. "This fully demonstrates our absolute advantage in matters related to water."

Everyone naturally didn't seem too excited. After all, the water was the ship girls' home field. Winning was normal, and losing would be abnormal. Too much praise at this time would seem like sarcasm.

There were several long tables on the scene, filled with various delicacies prepared for the ship girls. At the end of these long tables was a small dining table specially prepared for Hugo.

For ship girls, ordinary food can only meet their minimum daily consumption. As long as they use the power of a ship girl, they must consume the four resources.

It's just that everyone is usually used to stuffing resources into the ship equipment space, and it's enough to extract them directly when needed. Only when they are free or at gatherings will they take the time to turn these resources into dishes to satisfy their appetites.

In fact, Hermione was very uncomfortable with this change in the first few days after being converted, so much so that she needed Veneto to remind her when she woke up hungry in the middle of the night to convert those resources stored in the ship equipment space.

However, on the other hand, Hermione is indeed a person who loves to learn, so immediately after the conversion, she used the admiral network and the ship girls' unique computing power to learn various knowledge.

"By the way, did you build a temporary transfer warehouse?" Hugo asked curiously, looking at a row of tall buildings surrounded by high walls not far away. "I remember that it was just a flat ground last time."

"Yes, this is the transfer warehouse, mainly responsible for the work of transporting between Earth's synchronous orbit and the future Earth-Moon system," Enterprise said, walking over at this time to answer.

"Originally, we thought that flat ground would be enough, but later we found that this kind of back-and-forth transportation would scare those magical creatures if there was no concealment, so we adopted this covering plan."

"That's right. Many magical animals and plants are very sensitive to noise and the environment. Compared to creating completely enclosed breeding and planting institutions, covering the hub is obviously more cost-effective," Hugo said with a satisfied nod, and then looked at the ship girls.

At this time, Hermione was discussing personnel replenishment issues with Salem, because according to the ship girls' plan, they would recruit between 1,000 and 3,000 ordinary people every month, so she was a little worried that it would cause unnecessary trouble.

"Don't worry, we will make full preparations to disguise the people who leave as going on a long trip, changing jobs, or something like that," Salem explained.

"And after using magical means to determine that those people are reliable, they can still contact their relatives, and even occasionally go home to visit relatives, so no one will realize that there is anything wrong here."

"After all, it's not ancient times now. Whether it's changing jobs, moving, or just going out of town for a change of pace, it's all very normal. Few people will think it's strange for neighbors or relatives to leave their hometowns."

"By the way, I saw in your report that you proposed building some preventive facilities for those space stations. Can you talk about what those facilities are?" Hugo asked after tasting some delicacies.

"Mainly divided into two types, one is aimed at meteorites, space debris, and malicious man-made aircraft existing in outer space, including lasers, plasma emitters, and orbital electromagnetic projectors."

After hearing Hugo's question, Renown standing next to him immediately explained.

"The other is aimed at the ground, equipped with return facilities similar to spacecraft return capsules, including personnel and material delivery and bomb delivery."

"Most of these weapons are conventional weapons, but in each space station, we are also equipped with strategic weapons equivalent to the level of an Ohio-class nuclear submarine, and have corresponding delivery capabilities."

Some of these weapons do sound full of science fiction, but the technical content inside is not as high as many people imagine. The main reason why they can't be made is still stuck on the materials.

With the help of magic, Yubari and Massachusetts and other technicians quickly solved those technical problems, and then made these theoretically very perfect equipment.

"Well done!" Hugo nodded. He knew how much pressure this plan would face once it was exposed, so he would naturally prepare corresponding backhands. And now it seems that the ship girls have done better in this regard than he imagined.

"However, I see that you seem to have submitted an application, hoping to slow down the pace of Mars development after the completion of the lunar base construction, and transfer productivity to Earth's orbital space station."

"Yes, this is the application we submitted," Renown nodded and said, "Because we believe that ensuring our safety is obviously more important than rapid expansion."

"So we plan to build six more similar armed space stations in addition to the near-Earth orbit space station that has been built and the spare station that is under construction to ensure the safety of our plan operation."

"According to our plan, we will build a total of six space stations scattered around the world, a spare space station, and a more distant command space station to build a near-Earth space station system, so that we can achieve global power projection."

"It would be better if humans didn't like to kill each other so much," Hugo sighed deeply after obtaining the new construction plan from Renown through the admiral network.

To be honest, if it weren't necessary to defend internally, their construction plan for a permanent base on Mars would have been achieved four to six months earlier than the current plan.

However, Hugo also knew that this kind of defense was necessary. Without this kind of defense, any construction could not guarantee sufficient security.

"Of course, these space stations are not only for internal defense," Renown explained softly after seeing that Hugo's face was not very good-looking.

"According to our design, the effect of this system is the same for both internal and external. That is to say, in addition to attacking targets on the ground, it can also deflect, guide, or intercept any flying objects in outer space that may cause damage to the Earth."

"Don't worry, everything you do is right, I'm just a little emotional," Hugo said, shaking his head after Renown finished explaining. "I only hope that these things prepared for war will never be used internally."