The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

"Hmm..." General Gita hesitated for a moment before saying, "That's really hard to say..."

“Hey, what’s so hard to say?” Hyperion asked curiously. “But judging from the fact that there isn’t much negative energy on this airship, the natives must have won.”

It is not uncommon for indigenous peoples to defeat interstellar civilizations that have invaded. It does not mean that a civilization that has entered the interstellar age is necessarily more powerful than a civilization that has not yet left its home planet.

Putting everything else aside, even if the Teren Empire came, unless they directly blew up the planet, their ground military units would be no match for the native ship girls.

An ordinary ship girl can kick a shock tank weighing tens of tons like a ball, and the Gauss rifle used by marines is only considered toy-level in this ship girl world.

"In Gransefa's story, the first contact between the Sky People and the Star People was amicable, and the relationship between the two civilizations was quite good," Admiral Gita said to Adun, picking up the refreshments brought by the Gransefa.

"Your Excellency, please have a taste. This is a specialty of the Hong Kong Garrison."

"The food in this world doesn't suit my taste," Adun shook his head and politely declined.

"These dishes, made using the secret recipe from the Dongping Lake ship, will certainly suit your taste even better, Your Excellency," General Gita declared, adding that when it comes to food, the East Asian theater is the best in the world.

Upon hearing what General Gita said, Adun picked up his chopsticks, took a piece of pastry, and put it in his mouth. The taste was indeed just as General Gita had said, very much to the celestial beings' liking.

...Aside from their tastes being completely different from this world's, the Protoss are just as much of a foodie as the residents of the East Asian war zone in this world; otherwise, why would they hold a food competition?

Once again, just as he had praised the Dongpinghu ship's excellent craftsmanship before, Yaton generously praised these Hong Kong Garrison's specialty snacks.

"Oh, could it be that your hometown, Governor, also uses chopsticks?" General Gita said with great surprise as she saw Adun's skillful use of chopsticks.

“It’s not hard to learn,” Ardon said, putting down his chopsticks after tasting a little of each dessert.

"Hehe, for many ship girls of other nationalities serving in the East Asian theater, the most important thing is to learn how to use chopsticks. On the contrary, Gransefa... her hometown also uses chopsticks to eat." Admiral Gita patted the area below her secretary ship's waist again, quite in the style of a female hooligan.

“Hey, hey, we haven’t finished telling the story of the Star People and the Sky People yet!” Hyperion said quickly, seeing that the topic seemed to have gone a bit off track.

When the desserts were served at Gransefa, Hyperion had originally wanted to try them.

As a result, General Gita said that these snacks were specially made according to the Protoss tastes of Adun, so Hyperion immediately gave up the idea of ​​taking a bite first.

“Oh, that? Let Gransefa explain it himself,” said General Gita.

Seeing his admiral directly shift the blame onto him, Gransefa sighed inwardly and began to tell the story of his homeland to the Adun and his crew.

It is a story between a technologically advanced interstellar civilization, especially unique in biotechnology, and a mysterious side-world civilization.

Just as General Gita just said, the first contact between the two civilizations ended with friendly greetings. The Sky People admired the Star People's power and advancement, while the Star People were curious about the Sky People's mystery.

As a result, perhaps the war was initiated by the Sky People, or perhaps due to some misunderstanding, an irreconcilable conflict arose between two civilizations that were fundamentally different from each other.

In short, it wasn't those interstellar civilizations that started the attack.

A war has broken out on the planet inhabited by the Sky People.

The war, known as the "War of the Sky," ended with the Star People leaving the Sky People's planet, leaving behind a bunch of biological weapons called "Star Crystal Beasts." The Sky People's most powerful empire also declined rapidly after that war and soon disintegrated.

Perhaps because the fighting was inexplicable, or perhaps because so much time had passed, at least during Gransefar's time, most of the Sky People did not regard the Star People as evil invaders.

On the contrary, they established a good relationship with many of the bio-weapons "Star Crystal Beasts" left behind by the Star People.

Gransefa's master before coming to this world was a powerful being who could freely control star crystal beasts.

This ability was also inherited by the Gransefa when it came to this world.

Just as the Adun and his crew were wondering what the bio-weapon Star Crystal Beast that the Gransefa could control looked like, an air raid siren, which was common in this world, sounded over the Hong Kong Garrison.

"What's going on? Didn't we just sweep through a few days ago? Why are those things reappearing?" General Gita jumped up from the sofa and said.

"No... I don't know. The investigation department said it seems to be a new species," the ship girl reported.

"Where are the nearest reconnaissance units? I need to speak with them." General Jita asked with a serious expression, imagining how much Ying Zheng would punish her for this mishap during the reception of the Pacific Governor.

"The reconnaissance unit that sent the message back has been completely wiped out; there are no survivors..." the messenger said weakly.

"..." After a moment of silence, General Jita ordered, "Immediately activate all the Skyhawk Warriors left behind by Yue Yi, and do not let those new species get within 100 kilometers of the garrison!"

"Yes, sir!" The messenger, abandoning his timid demeanor, immediately saluted and replied.

"I'm sorry to have made you look so foolish, Your Excellency," General Gita said apologetically to Adun. "I thought I had already cleared things up... Your Excellency?"

Before General Gita could finish speaking, she saw Adun staring out the window with an even more serious expression than before, as if she were looking at something.

"Eyes of Fear?" Adun muttered to herself, uttering words that neither the ship girls nor the admiral present could understand.

Chapter 1283 The Duties of the Hong Kong Garrison

Before ancient humans were invaded by the deep sea, there was a city in the South China Sea that was entirely built by land reclamation.

This city started as a small sandy area and has grown into a pearl on the sea with millions of people.

The Chinese nation, which had already replaced the United States of America as the first ancient human empire, invested a great deal of resources in this miraculous city.

If Hong Kong before its destruction and New York City before its destruction were cities that resembled interstellar civilizations, then...

Therefore, this man-made city is what it represents as a purely interstellar metropolis.

Every moment, a constant stream of spaceships from the star system travel between this planet and lunar colonies, Martian colonies, and even further afield.

Such an important city naturally had the largest navy in the empire stationed there.

During the deep-sea invasion, this city was also the one that lasted the longest among all ancient human coastal cities.

Even though some landlocked countries were destroyed, this city persisted, with the last few hundred people holding on.

They remained in the city's most fortified underground fortress, facing the ancient deep sea that remained undiminished and surrounded by ocean, using their most tenacious will to stall for time.

The chief scientist delayed the reversal of the warp drive, which was still in the experimental stage.

Their persistence paid off... at least halfway. The reversed warp drive tore apart a space with a radius of over a hundred kilometers around the city.

Hundreds of millions of deep-sea ships surrounded the city, none of which survived.

But from some perspectives... they also failed. Their sacrifice, after destroying hundreds of millions of deep-sea ship girls, also opened a demonic gate, a portal connecting to the subspace.

Ironically, in the ship girl era after the Paleohuman era, the first group to consciously and systematically defend against subspace invasion were not ship girls, but the deep-sea ship girls who were the culprits who destroyed Paleohuman civilization.

On the surface, the deep-sea ship girls and the demons of the subspace seem to have similar ways of doing things, but in the end, it turns out that these two factions can't get along.

Through the Void Seekers' one-day warp tour of three Protoss warships and two ghost ships, it was confirmed that the deep-sea ship girls of this world, under the leadership of the first generation Yamato, had once stormed into the warp and clashed with Khorne's subordinates.

Although we don't know why that Yamato did such a thing, or what the outcome of that battle was, this proves that the ship girl civilization is incredibly powerful.

The vast majority of civilizations recorded in the Adun database... including some highly developed civilizations, could only be in a passive defensive position when facing the warp.

Only a handful of civilizations are capable of pushing back into the warp and interacting with the warp demons; these few civilizations are all among the best of their kind.

This means that the ship girls in this world... whether they are deep-sea or ship girls, as long as they can break free from the shackles of the contract and leave their home planet, they are definitely top-notch conqueror civilizations.

As for the significance of the Hong Kong Naval Base in the East Asian Theater, it is that the ship girl faction took over the flag from the deep-sea faction and used it as a bridgehead against subspace invasion.

Who made it possible for the human ship girl faction to occupy the Northern Hemisphere, and for the South China Sea to fall within their sphere of influence?

"Actually, it wasn't those deep-sea ship girls who voluntarily handed over the responsibility to us." In the high-speed elevator, Admiral Jita, clad in the five-clawed dragon robe reserved for admirals of the East Asia Theater, explained:

"I heard that it was because all those deep-sea creatures died out after losing the support and protection of the deep-sea domain that it was our turn to go up there."

"Why is it just hearsay?" Adun asked, standing in the high-speed elevator and looking at the massive base that was gradually coming into view.

"Because I'm not in charge of this area; it's always been Le Yi who's in charge," General Jita said, blatantly shifting the blame.

As the high-speed elevator began to decelerate, several humanoid robots, some tens to hundreds of meters tall, came into view of Adun and his ship. Hyperion immediately climbed to the glass wall of the elevator and exclaimed in surprise:

"Oh ho, so these are your Skyhawk Warriors?"

"To be precise, it belongs to Yue Yi. I only managed it temporarily when he wasn't around, so I don't know how these large robots move." General Gita indicated that she didn't know anything about them.

"What's there to doubt? One is nuclear-powered, one is electric-powered, and one... wait, steam-powered? It's actually steam-powered!"

Hyperion stared blankly at the shortest and fattest of the three Skyhawk Warriors, and asked in an incredulous tone.

How did you solve the problem of energy loss in steam power?

Hyperion, in asking the question, seemed to have forgotten the "Imperial Comedians" he and Adun had seen in London.

"...I told you I don't know either." Admiral Gita spread her hands, looking helpless. "You'll have to ask Admiral Yueyi, who's over at the Great Wall in the Himalayas. I doubt the engineering ship girls here can give you any answers either."

"Hey, surely such cutting-edge technology can't be entirely controlled by one person?" Hyperion asked incredulously.

It's not that it's impossible, but it would be incredibly exhausting...

Only a true interstellar civilization, and one that has studied such humanoid robots, can understand how complex the technology required for such robots is.

Leaving aside the three Skyhawks with completely different power systems, even if we were to record the Thor series manufactured by Hyperion on A4 paper, it would probably take more than a dozen warehouses to hold them all.

Mentioning Thor, South Dakota asked in a low voice, "Weren't your combat robots also built from one of your ships?"

“It’s different. I am a ship, while that admiral is just a person,” Hyperion immediately retorted.

"Ahem, whether General Yue Yi is still considered a human being is something everyone wants to know," General Jita continued, revealing her colleague's secrets.

"He transformed himself into a ship girl?" Hyperion asked curiously.

“No, he transformed himself into something inexplicable, or rather, a bunch of inexplicable things,” General Gita said.

Meanwhile, in the Akimiya Fortress, General Yue Yi was studying the "Eternal Glory" combat armor that a Royal Guard ship girl had removed.

The Imperial Guard ship girl, who had long admired General Yue Yi's name, kept a wary and subtle gaze on this "humanoid" who appeared to be nothing more than a collection of machines.

"Ah...choochoochoochoochoochoochoochoo." General Yue Yi, who hadn't moved an inch, let out a series of sneezes with their own diaphragms.

"Hmm? Are you talking about me?" General Yue Yi turned his attention to the Imperial Guard ship girl who was still holding the particle war halberd.

"No, General Forging," the Imperial Guard ship girl said without looking at him.

"Oh, do you need the heating turned on?" General Yue Yi glanced at the guard who was wearing nothing but white silk underwear on his face and asked with concern.

“I’m fine, General,” the Imperial Guard ship girl continued.

"Oh." Without saying anything more, Commander Yue Yi continued to examine the golden armor.

This nonchalant reaction made the Imperial Guard ship girl, whose figure was so voluptuous, somewhat believe the rumor that General Yue Yi had removed certain organs that were very important to men as "useless" when he modified his body.

Chapter 1284 Sky Eagle Puppet Armor

"Looking at the space here, there should be many more of these Skyhawk Warriors, right?" Hyperion counted the maintenance rooms in this massive base one by one, wondering why there were only three Skyhawk Warriors undergoing final adjustments before their attack.

"At its peak, there should have been... wait a minute." Admiral Gita thought for a moment and, realizing she couldn't remember, grabbed the mechanical arm of an engineering ship girl next to her and asked, "How many Skyhawks were there at the peak?"

"At its peak, there were a total of seventy-one aircraft, General." The engineering ship girl who had been pulled back saluted and replied, "However, because the maintenance of the Skyhawk series puppet armor is quite time-consuming, the maximum number of aircraft that could be deployed at once was only fifteen."