The Admiral of Hogwarts

Besides the space engine, this warehouse also contains very important items. Among them, in addition to various parts needed for spaceship construction, the most common are all kinds of weapons.

This is determined by the nature of the ship girls. Compared to humans, the ship girls, who were born in war, have a special love for all kinds of weapons, so even when they enter space, they will arm themselves as soon as possible.

"Comrade, so you are here." Out of curiosity, Hugo naturally went to visit the armory. As a result, a ship girl with short silver hair who was taking inventory here discovered them and immediately greeted them.

"Soviet, so it's you!" As soon as Hugo heard the other party's Russian accent, he immediately understood who it was. "By the way, what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to deliver a batch of munitions and equipment," Soviet said, pointing to the shelf behind her. "Now we can produce all kinds of nuclear missiles like sausages. These are going to be loaded onto transport ships."

"Transport ships!" Hugo's eyes widened suddenly. "I remember that the current transport ships should only be the four on the route and the two in the shipyard. Do these short-haul routes need this kind of thing?"

"Theoretically, no," Soviet smiled and said. "But according to our tradition, it is more appropriate to arm everything that can be armed, so that it can be solved in case of any situation."

"Okay, as long as it doesn't affect the main function of the ship." After hearing what Soviet said, Hugo could only shrug helplessly, because he also knew that his ship girls belonged to the kind who wanted to stick a pole and mount a machine gun on it as long as there was a palm-sized open space.

After exchanging a few pleasantries, the two sides said goodbye and left. After seeing Hugo walking away from the corner, Soviet took out a small bottle of antifreeze from her ship equipment space and started gulping it down.

"We have now sent six ships of goods to Mars, and two more ships of goods will land this week," Hood said as she walked towards the control room, talking about the situation on Mars.

"Then how is the construction situation on Mars now?" Hermione asked upon hearing this. "The temporary base should have been built, right?"

"That's right, we have built an ecological hydroponic farm and a core nuclear fusion energy plant, which can now provide long-term settlement for 350 people on Mars," Hood nodded and said.

"This is thanks to space folding magic, which allows us to transport a large amount of materials to Mars at one time. Of course, the investment and use of the lunar factory has also played a great role, allowing us to have enough materials for construction."

For the rest of the day, Hugo and Hermione stayed in the data room of this space shipyard to check the progress of the entire space program during this period.

Judging from the data, since the first space station went into space, the entire space program has been advancing rapidly, and the speed of advancement is getting faster and faster.

But the whole plan is not without any problems. At least from the current situation, the biggest problem limiting this plan is the lack of labor caused by insufficient population.

Fortunately, the use of a large number of magic and robots greatly reduces the demand for labor, allowing the entire system to advance smoothly, but the lack of personnel will exist as a long-term problem.

"It seems that the network that everyone has spent several years building is still very meaningful," Hermione said with emotion after reading a stack of information.

Because according to the data, the ship girls have now recruited more than 27,000 people into the space program, of which 2,500 have entered space.

It is very rare for such a large-scale mobilization of manpower to remain hidden for a long time. If the ship girls had not built an entire network rooted in the world before, this kind of action would not have been possible at all.

Soon it was early the next morning. Hugo and Hermione, who had hardly slept all night because of checking information, each drank a bottle of sobering potion and came to the restaurant. After a hasty breakfast, they came to the shipyard's control tower.

"Curvature calculation amplification normal, space fluctuation normal!"

"High-dimensional situation normal, engine power adjusted to medium, pay attention to small data fine-tuning!"

"Energy valve adjustment completed, digital divination results are out, engine is preheating, estimated time 7.11 seconds——"

On the metal-colored command tower, this cyberpunk-style command hall makes many people who come here for the first time feel a little uncomfortable. Fortunately, humans are the most adaptable animals, so it did not cause any obvious problems.

Behind the console, Salem and Yubari stood there nervously watching the data on the console display screen. Although everyone was prepared, the first actual operation still made people nervously scalp numb.

"There are five minutes left to start, I hope everything goes smoothly." After checking the time with the admiral network, Hermione crossed her fingers and prayed silently.

Fortunately, the waiting time was not long. As soon as 9:00 in the morning arrived, the voice of Massachusetts, the chief commander of this experiment, came from the previously silent loudspeaker.

"Enter the countdown state, the first full-load long-distance test of the warp engine is now entering the preparation state. Please all personnel leave the No. 3 and No. 7 docking ports and enter your respective positions——"

At the same time, through the large porthole of the command center of more than ten square meters, Hugo could see that the passage originally connected between the two ships and the bed was retracted, and then pushed out of the berth by the robotic arm.

Then the engines at the rear of the two ships lit up with blue light, and then, driven by the surging power of the engines, they glided to the predetermined test position about 10km away from the shipyard.

"Countdown begins, ten, nine…"

The clear countdown sound came from his ears, and people were doing their respective work in an orderly manner, while those who came to watch the ceremony looked at the distant spaceship with excitement.

Especially a group of aerospace technology experts who were recruited were the most excited. The reason why they left their original positions was because of the layoffs caused by the large reduction in human aerospace investment after the Cold War.

Just when these people felt that they would have to leave the aerospace industry for the rest of their lives, the ship girls sent them invitations. Obviously, the ship girls chose people who truly loved the starry sky, so these people quickly gathered together after receiving the invitation.

But they obviously didn't expect that the current situation far exceeded their original imagination. Thinking of those projects on Earth that were cut due to budget cuts, and then thinking that a space jump test like science fiction was about to be carried out here, how could the comparison between the two not make them extremely excited.

"Don't worry, this will definitely succeed," Hugo said to everyone in the admiral network. "I believe that after such a long time of research and construction, we can't have any problems with this——"

"Don't worry, we are not so easily affected," Salem replied at this time. "And I also divined before, this experiment will definitely be successful——"

Just as Salem was answering, the countdown also reached the end.

"One, zero, warp engine starts…"