The Admiral of Hogwarts

After the negotiations with Sirius Black concluded, the details of the negotiation process were quickly uploaded to the Admiral Network. Many people on the Admiral Network specifically took some time to watch this negotiation process.

Although the ship girls didn't pay too much attention to the situation in the wizarding world, since everyone already lived in this world, it was important to understand such important matters.

"It seems everyone did a great job. Headmaster Dumbledore actually sent someone specifically to contact us," Hugo said softly to Hermione beside him after reading the uploaded information.

"After all, Richelieu and Saint George demonstrated extremely powerful combat capabilities when that guy was resurrected last time, so Headmaster Dumbledore will definitely react," Hermione said, seemingly indifferent to the news.

"However, this also shows what our headmaster has done in the wizarding world in the past hundred years. At least, it's difficult for ordinary people to find the base we set up in the Western Balkans in such a short period of time."

"You're right. Although the headmaster is unwilling to work at the Ministry of Magic for some reason, it doesn't mean that his intelligence in this area is lacking," Hugo nodded.

In fact, the main reason why he is being so cautious now is that he has a deep understanding of Dumbledore's experience and wisdom and doesn't want any conflicts to occur.

After reading the briefings sent from Earth for a while, Hugo and the others left the lounge and went to a nearby workshop to start working.

Hugo and the others are currently located inside the Mars base. For Mars, which is under construction, every person is extremely important. Because of this, even Hugo, as an admiral, needs to work in this place.

The work involves enchanting a large number of parts and creating some magical tools together with other people. Obviously, this is a complex and tiring task.

However, for Hugo and the others, this work is very meaningful to them. Because they can use this to practice various magics, especially ancient Rune magic.

Of course, in addition to using this time to practice magic, Hugo and the others also took this opportunity to hold several meetings to discuss the overall strategy for the next school year.

It has to be said that the conflict triggered by Voldemort's resurrection has had a relatively large impact on Hugo and the others. For example, both Transylvania, which is full of various dark creatures, and Albania, where dark wizards gather, are too close to the Western Balkans.

You must know that the core location of the ship girls on Earth is now the Western Balkans, so they naturally pay a lot of attention to these hot spots near the Balkans.

"I think it's more appropriate for us to take the initiative to attack and clean up those unstable factors," Dzerzhinsky was the first to propose taking the initiative to attack at the meeting.

According to her, the war between the Western Balkans and Albania and the dark wizards had already broken out, so taking the initiative to eliminate unstable factors now is a very worthwhile option.

Especially compared to the previous situation where ship girls basically needed to take the field, the first batch of local armed forces has now been trained, so the overall strength has obviously increased a lot, and there are enough people available to take the initiative to attack.

However, the others didn't quite agree with this decision. For example, her Russian compatriot Stalingrad believed that although the dark wizards in the south had grudges against everyone, the vampires and werewolves in the north had always maintained a neutral state.

So, once they take the initiative to attack the north, they may fall into a troublesome two-front war, or even cause some unnecessary disputes and conflicts, wasting the current available forces.

"We do have the strength to knock out those werewolf settlements and vampire castles, but the subsequent counter-insurgency operations will completely bog us down," Stalingrad sighed.

"Although we don't have a small number of people, our main strength is to be invested in the starry sky, so if we can't solve the problem in a short time, it's best not to participate in this war—"

Listening to the discussion at the meeting, the others used the Admiral Network to look at information about the various magical communities near the Western Balkans.

Judging from the information, unlike Albania, which was regarded as the sewer of the European wizarding world, Transylvania was regarded as one of the several core magical regions in Eastern Europe.

Due to the long history of coexistence, the local vampires and werewolves have even integrated into the local magical community. So, once they take the initiative to attack, it is easy to attract resistance from the entire region.

You must know that when the ship girls of the Western Balkans entered Albania before, they were approved by everyone from the International Confederation of Wizards to the Albanian Ministry of Magic and the ordinary Albanian wizards, so naturally, there were fewer troubles.

But if they want to go north to Transylvania to attack the local vampires or werewolves, it is easy for the wizarding world to regard it as an invasion of the surrounding areas by the Western Balkans.

"So, taking the initiative to attack the north is not a good idea, because it can't solve our current problems, but will bring a lot of new problems," Hugo finally said the result of everyone's discussion after reading the information.

"However, this doesn't mean that we have to passively stay in place and be beaten. We can completely take a defensive position in the north and control the degree of force to the point where we can counterattack after the other party launches an attack."

"And in the southern Albanian region, we will still take the original offensive and control actions to completely bring this region under our control."

"Understood," the ship girls sitting at the long table nodded at the same time. Compared with the radical plan proposed by Dzerzhinsky before, this plan is obviously more suitable.

In addition to these Earth-related issues, Hugo and the ship girls also discussed some issues related to interstellar colonization, and the most troublesome thing for everyone was the lack of manpower.

The reason why so many people could be recruited in a short period of time before was purely due to the accumulation of the previous few years, so now it is not so easy to recruit people as quickly as before.

So, in this meeting, everyone decided to take two approaches: on the one hand, strengthen the recruitment of personnel through various means, and on the other hand, strengthen automation and reduce the demand for personnel.

Compared to personnel recruitment, large-scale automation is a simpler choice for ship girls.

After all, wizards can create items with their own consciousness, such as the Sorting Hat, and magical human statues with a certain degree of intelligence, so automation is much simpler than ordinary people.

As for things like intelligent weapon rebellion, everyone doesn't have to worry, because the ship girls themselves can be regarded as the essence of top intelligent weapons, so they can completely take the method of soul connection to regard those intelligent systems as their own sub-systems.

"According to the plan, using the entire year of next year. We will build a large base in the Mars region that can permanently accommodate 50,000 people and a complete set of independent industrial systems," Repulse explained everyone's goals.

"The most important of which is the overall industrial system. We will build all core heavy industries, including the Earth's core furnace, on Mars. In our future goals, this will be our core industrial area."