The Admiral of Hogwarts

"You're right, Admiral. That's why my sisters and I are building here. I believe we can create a world that's even better than the one we have now."

Lion nodded very seriously, agreeing with Hugo's assertion that space was everyone's future. For the ship girls, being able to fulfill the Admiral's instructions is a great honor. So Hugo's statement now is actually equivalent to praising the ship girls' previous work, which naturally makes these ship girls feel extremely happy.

After putting away his luggage, the first thing Hugo did was go to the command center of the Mars base to understand the specific construction situation of the Mars base. Unlike the lunar base, which was set as a simple industrial hub, the Mars base was defined as a true interstellar colony, so the construction here is naturally the top priority.

In this huge project, an important point of all construction is camouflage and cost-effectiveness. Therefore, there are only a few ground facilities on several planetary bases, while most of the facilities are underground facilities.

Compared to surface facilities, underground facilities have thick rock layers as cover, so whether in terms of construction cost or concealment, they are much better than the surface facilities in many science fiction movies.

Of course, this low cost is based on the wizards' ability to quickly and easily excavate caves. If it were ordinary people, the current technology would still make building surface facilities cheaper.

Although most people live and work underground, it doesn't mean that living in underground facilities is a terrible thing. After using some simple magic, walking in the corridors feels no different from walking outside.

Just like the windows in the Ministry of Magic, after some light and shadow magic is combined with a special ventilation structure, it is difficult for people to feel that they are dozens or even hundreds of meters underground.

Of course, everyone is not just enjoying illusions. The first thing built in the entire underground area was six ecological domes whose total area is equivalent to 60% of an underground base.

Those Chinese ship girls fully utilized their talent for farming, perfectly building an ecosystem for the Mars base, which also laid a solid foundation for future construction.

"Whether it's water, food, or oxygen, this base can now permanently support 12,000 people. But right now, there are only 1,800 people in the entire base," Lion said while Hugo was looking at the data.

"Although the entire base can still operate normally with a ratio of 1:10 between humans and magical puppets or robots and other intelligent constructs, the lack of personnel has always been a huge problem here."

"This is an overall problem, and it's difficult to solve it in a short period of time." Hearing about the population problem, Hugo looked helpless. "You know, what we lack most now is people."

"We have always preferred quality over quantity when choosing people, so it is almost impossible to rapidly increase the population, otherwise it may cause a series of problems."

"Of course we understand this, so we hope to apply for cultivating new races," Lion said with a serious face. "So we hope to cultivate companion fairy races."

"Companion fairies—ah, I see." After hearing what Lion said, Hugo remembered the little guys who looked only three heads tall in the game.

"If I remember correctly, aren't they already present? I remember seeing them when you opened your ship equipment."

"Yes, but now all the fairies are just companion fairies of each of our ship girls, and the fairies I want to summon now are some independent individuals," Lion nodded and explained.

In fact, these creatures called companion fairies are a special kind of creature that lives in symbiosis with the ship girls. The main body, like the ship girl, is a product of the mixture of inorganic matter and heroic spirit.

According to Lion, these three-headed, seemingly only half a palm-sized creatures can assist the ship girls in doing everything and are the ship girls' best helpers.

Except for some companion fairies who were born to live in the ship equipment, the rest of the fairies can be regarded as independent creatures. Although they, like the ship girls, completely and thoroughly accept the Admiral's command, they are, after all, another kind of creature.

So for the ship girls, if they want to summon these independent fairies, they must obtain permission from Hugo, the Admiral, otherwise, they cannot carry out these actions without permission.

"I know these fairies can help you a lot, so I am very willing to summon them, but why didn't you summon them before?" Hugo asked curiously.

"This is mainly because we couldn't summon these lovely little guys until the number of us appearing in this world reached a certain number," Lion explained.

"Only when the number of us ship girls reaches a certain number can this world allow the fairy race to survive and reproduce in this world."

This is mainly because Hugo and the others have gradually adapted to the rules of this world as they came to this world, and at the same time, this world has gradually been changed by them.

For example, the current world can not only accommodate the ship girl race, but also accommodate a newborn companion fairy race.

Compared to other people, these fairy races are obviously more suitable for living in outer space. After all, their consumption is much lower than other races, and in space, lower consumption is a great advantage.

So, the day after the permission was granted, the entire base began to install various facilities prepared for those companion fairies.

Although these small-volume facilities are somewhat difficult for ordinary people to manufacture, with the help of magic, Hugo and the others only spent one day making and installing those facilities.

"It seems the little guys are quite popular." When Hermione walked along the corridor the next morning after breakfast, she nodded, looking at the little guys greeting people on the special passage on the side of the corridor.

Although these companion elves can understand what humans are saying, and humans cannot understand their babbling, in this completely international place, every human has a portable pocket translator, so communication is not a problem.

"This is human nature. They have a great tolerance for things that look cute," Hugo said with a smile.

"In fact, if you ignore the size, these companion fairies look very cute, and they can complement humans in every way, rather than create competition, so humans will naturally accept them."

After roughly knowing the situation of the entire Mars base yesterday, today, whether it was Hugo, Hermione, or Veneto and Firefly who came together, were assigned tasks. And now, Hugo and his sister are on their way to the engine manufacturing factory.

Hyperspace flight and controlled nuclear fusion are some very high-end projects, but now many of the core parts of these high-end technological equipment need to be made by hand.

Of course, this manual does not mean using a hammer to knock, but using a technology that combines alchemy and ship girl magic to create these products that combine technology and magic.