The Naval Base of the Unnamed Ship Girls

“Vivi doesn’t like drinking milk anymore?” Richelieu was taken aback by Veneto’s reaction.

"Has Captain Veneto already given up?" the vanguard asked, gesturing with his hand to show the height difference between Veneto and himself after taking a sip of red tea.

“I suppose he’s given up,” the Prince of Wales said, taking a sip of his whiskey on the rocks and looking down at Veneto’s flat chest.

"I'm going to fire all of you bastards!!" With her ship's rigging fully extended, Veneto fired an armor-piercing shell into her drugged cannon with a click.

While the ship girls of Naval Base No. 233 were having a meeting that seemed to have gone on forever, in a shadowy corner, the Nautilus, having activated its Akarin module and gained stealth capabilities, pursed its lips and sketched out the meeting in a small notebook.

Chapter 160: Ti Needs to Go Online

"In short, even if you go to the Central Academy, you must keep in touch with me during this time!" Tidu said to Adon in an unreasonable manner.

"Oh, that's easy." For Adun, it was just a matter of creating another psionic crystal.

"Even if it's difficult... wait? It's very simple?" Tidu paused for a moment before remembering that the ship girl in front of her was an alien ship girl with an off-the-charts level of advanced technology.

“Yes, as long as we’re still on this planet, establishing point-to-point communication won’t be difficult for Hyperion and me.” To prove the credibility of his words, Adun pulled Hyperion along with him.

(Actually, even if it's not on this planet, it's fine as long as the distance isn't too far.)

"Then...can you connect this to the internet?" Tidu asked somewhat embarrassedly, pulling a small cube out of her ship's equipment space.

"What is this, some kind of special communicator?" Adun asked, scanning the electronic components inside the small cube.

"Be careful, this is the Orange 9 Plus Admiral's special edition, it's very expensive." Seeing Admiral Aden's nonchalant attitude, Tidu quickly snatched it and wiped it, saying.

“It’s not a particularly high-end electronic design. I can make a few more for you if you need them.” Adun, who had figured out the operating principle of the Orange 9 Plus Admiral’s Edition in just one go, said that what he made might not be what Tidu wanted, since the technology trees were different from the very beginning.

"Can you get this Orange 9 connected to the internet?" Ti asked excitedly after hearing Adon's confident words.

"Connect to the internet? Connect to what internet?" Admiral Adon asked, somewhat puzzled.

"It's the Navy's website, something you can use to chat, surf the web, watch anime, and read novels," Tidu explained to the alien ship girl, Adun, what a website was.

"Oh, I see. You're probably referring to some kind of communication protocol." Adun nodded to indicate he understood and asked, "Is there any signal from that naval network around here?"

"If I had one, why would I need to ask you for anything? A temporary garrison that hasn't yet opened up an expeditionary trade route isn't qualified to set up a network signal station." Tidu gave Adon a look that said, "You're an idiot."

"...Without a signal, how can I get it connected to the network?" The situation that Tidu described to Adun was similar to a Protoss separated by a neural bundle or located far from their homeland trying to connect to the Kara Mind Network.

"...Can't you modify it?" Tidu asked, somewhat disappointed.

“Modification? That’s possible.” Adun glanced at Orange 9 Plus, which Tidu was holding like a treasure, and continued, “However, if I modify it the way I do, the communication protocol of this World Navy Network will also need to be modified.”

"Huh? What do you mean?" Tidu didn't understand for a moment.

"What Adun means is that the way you connect to the network is different from how the Protoss connect." Hyperion, also a starship girl, couldn't stand this low-IQ conversation any longer. She walked over and, taking advantage of Ti's inattention, picked up the Orange 9 Plus and said:

"Tsk, this thing reminds me of an iPhone."

"An iPhone? Hey, hey, you... Hyperion, how did you find a signal?" Tidus was stunned for a moment as she watched Hyperion skillfully open Orange 9 Plus and then use an even more skillful way to go online. She asked in utter surprise.

“We’ve been using this kind of thing over there for hundreds of years. We can just use an antenna to search... Don’t rush to take it back. It has to be in my hands.” Before Hyperion could finish explaining, Tidu snatched the Orange 9 Plus back.

"Stare..." Sure enough, the Orange 9 Plus that had returned to his hands once again indicated that there was no local service. Tidu looked at the Hyperion with the same eyes that looked at Solomon's treasure.

“Adon! Give me the Hyperion!” Tidu said decisively.

"Huh?" Adun didn't react!

"I'll give you anything you want! If you want me to warm your bed, I'll go take a shower right now!" Tidu put on a righteous and awe-inspiring look.

"No, no! I don't want to be a signal amplifier! I'd rather be rained down with nuclear bombs than be a signal amplifier!" Hyperion shouted, knowing immediately what Tidus was up to.

"Is it necessary?" Adon couldn't understand why Tidu would react this way.

"It's absolutely necessary!! I haven't had internet for over a month! If this continues, I'll turn into a caveman!" Actually, Tidu had already prepared herself for a period of time without internet and didn't care about this, but now the Hyperion gave her hope, and all the pressure she had accumulated from not having internet for a month suddenly exploded.

“Hmm… there’s no need for bed warming. If it’s your order, Admiral…” Adun turned her gaze to her blood test ship girl, her former partner, comrade-in-arms, good brother… oh no, good sister Hyperion.

"Adun, you can't do this!" Hyperion said, taking several steps back as he read Adun's eyes that the Protoss Ark was planning to betray his teammates.

"Obeying orders is a soldier's duty." Yaton adopted an attitude of open and aboveboard blatant selling.

"If you need a signal receiver, I'll just build one for you..." Hyperion's mind flashed back to the words: "Comrades are precious, but friendship is even more valuable; for the sake of freedom, both can be sacrificed."

"Hyperion, you can make signal receivers? Are they easy to use? Do they require a lot of materials?" Tidu asked excitedly, realizing that the possibility of getting online was getting closer and closer.

"Made by the Empire, quality guaranteed. As for consumables, it's not a matter of quantity, but mainly whether you have energy crystals and high-energy gas here? I haven't seen any since I came out of the construction device," Hyperion said, striving for freedom.

"What is that?" Tidu asked, bewildered, having no idea what energy crystals and high-energy gas were, even though she had just witnessed Adun condensing high-energy crystals.

“One of my resources, if we don’t have those things…” Before Hyperion could finish speaking, Adun quickly condensed a small piece of energy crystal in front of her, pausing as he said:

"Okay, forget about that matter converter in your stomach, Adun."

“Conversion is possible, but the ratio is a bit off. How many resources do you need for that signal receiver?” Ardon asked after demonstrating.

"Not too much," Hyperion said after estimating how much material would be needed to cover the entire planet with a signal receiver.

"...That should be enough for one repair." After converting the energy crystals and high-energy gas calculated by Hyperion into the equivalent amounts of oil, ammunition, steel, and aluminum in this world, he reported the numbers to his admiral and then asked curiously:

"Why does this resource consumption figure look so familiar?"

“It’s the one on Tarzanis,” Hyperion said somewhat awkwardly.

“…Oh, that’s it.” Ardon nodded and didn’t say anything more.

"I...I...I made it!" Startled by the number Adon said, Tidu gritted her teeth and stamped her foot as she spoke.

At worst, I'll just catch fish every day until Adon comes back... That's what Ti thought, knowing what the result would be after spending so much resources.

Seeing her admiral's resolute expression, Yaton wanted to say that if they didn't have enough resources, they could ask South Dakota for them. As a "wandering" ship girl, she was quite wealthy.

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The book's title is: The Carefree Daily Life of a Starship Girl. Well, something like that.

Chapter 161 Mengsk Through Adun's Eyes

"I remember that was a signal generator on Tarsonis back then?" Adun, who was following Tidu with the Hyperion and South Dakota to build the signal tower, asked as if he remembered something.

"Huh? How did you know, Adun?" Hyperion remembered that when that signal generator was activated, Adun should still be living the life of a homebody in Ark Harbor, El.

"It was found in the archives; after all, that incident was the beginning of many things."

Adun recalled the Queen of Blades, born from that incident, and the scene where, due to a startup program error, she could only remain in her own port, watching her two sister ships be surrounded by countless swarms of insects before the system was ready.

"Ahem, although Mengsk was my boss back then, you know that had nothing to do with me, huh?" Hyperion asked, feeling a bit pressured by Adun's expression.

“I didn’t blame you for anything…” After all, as a warship, it was just a weapon that obeyed orders, so Adun wouldn’t take his anger out on the Hyperion.

“But your expression is terrifying,” Hyperion said, patting his chest.

"What are you talking about, so suspiciously?" Tidu, who was leading the way, asked curiously because Adun and Hyperion weren't talking loudly and he couldn't understand what they were saying.

“They’re talking about the past.” Because of his status as a quasi-“leader,” South Dakota was treated as an honored guest by Tidu. Although he couldn’t understand what Adun and Hyperion were talking about, he could glean some information from their tone.

“Hmm, speaking of the past, I remember you said you were very close to the Hyperion, right?” Tidu said, recalling something because of South Dakota’s words.

“Yes, what’s wrong?” Ardon nodded in acknowledgment.

"So... what exactly was your relationship back then?" Tidu was very curious about this.

“I suppose we could call each other allies.” After glancing at the curious Tidu and then at the Hyperion, Adun thought for a moment and said.

"What do you mean by 'considered an ally'?" Ti didn't understand why an ally could be considered an ally.

“Hey, old buddy, describing our relationship as allies doesn’t seem quite right.” Hearing Adun describe their relationship this way, Hyperion had something to say.

"So, you're admitting you're my escort ship?" Adun said with a smile, seeing the Hyperion's reaction.

"..." Hyperion was almost unable to breathe because of Adun's words.

"It seems you two were indeed quite close back then." Tidu looked at Adun and Hyperion and recalled the daily lives of the first-generation ship girls she had seen at the Central Academy.

“Hey, if it were the earliest, my first reaction upon seeing Adun would probably be to test the waters with a Yamato cannon shot,” Hyperion said, feeling he should explain.

"The earliest? Based on my understanding of Mengsk and Renault, if we were on opposing sides, you should have run faster than a dog." Adun didn't think that the captains of the Hyperion back then would have dared to fire at him; they were all people who believed in staying alive as long as they could.

"Ahem, so I was just saying I was testing the waters, I didn't say I was really going to fight you." Hyperion coughed a few times to cover his embarrassment.

"So you two were enemies before?" Tidu asked, imagining the story of these two starship girls.

"Not really. Ever since the Hyperion joined Commander Raynor, we... to be precise, our races should be considered allies." Adun didn't make any absolute statements, because when the Hyperion's leader, Raynor, allied with the Protoss, Adun was still hiding in the harbor watching the bugs run around in front of him.

"We're not really racial allies. It's just that we Rangers allied with you Protoss, and it didn't really matter. It wasn't until that bastard Mengsk got blown up and the little prince took the throne that we became true allies." Hyperion also corrected Adun's words.

"Speaking of which, Mengsk, that human, is quite pitiful. I remember from the files, although Mengsk is the head of state of a country, he actually doesn't have many combat-ready troops under his command." Adun said with some sigh when he heard Hyperion mention Mengsk.

"Who says otherwise? The Alpha Squadron with any fighting ability is Duke's men, the Rangers with the highest fighting ability are my boss's, the only ones who can be considered cannon fodder are his own sons of Korhal, most of them are his father's old troops, and even these old troops were tricked by his son half of them."

Hyperion also spoke in a tone that suggested Mengsk, as the leader, had failed miserably.

"Isn't there some General Warfield?" Ardon only saw this information in the updated database after the system was officially launched.

"Pah! Don't even mention that idiot! Those Gorgons were turned into complete airheads by that general!" Hyperion said angrily when Adun mentioned General Warfield.

"And back then, that idiot actually bragged to Commander Lei on Busephalos about how he had resisted five Zerg invasions. At that time, I wanted to slam my Yamato cannon into his thick old face. You know, when my Commander Lei was bullying the Zerg, who did he think he was?"

"Speaking of insects, will we encounter Izusa in this world?" Adun asked, recalling the last member of the three-ship crew who saved the world when Hyperion mentioned the insect swarm.

"That Leviathan? Maybe we'll encounter it. Why don't you try using the builder again to see if you can summon it?" Hyperion said, also thinking of the Zerg mothership.

"Stop... Adun, if you're going to use the builder again, just use your own. Don't mess with mine anymore." Tidu, who hadn't understood what Adun and Hyperion were talking about at all, quickly spoke up.

"Ah, what a pity." Hyperion said with some regret about the strategic obstacles that had arisen in the reunion of the three ship crews to save the world.

Hyperion knew he understood Adun's personality quite well. Since Adun's admiral had said so, Adun, who took obedience to orders as a daily routine, certainly wouldn't question it.

Hyperion wouldn't have thought this way if he knew that Adun had said "no" to Titus's orders in front of Titus.

"If we're meant to meet, we'll meet again," South Dakota said, as if remembering something.

"Actually, from some perspectives, I don't look forward to reuniting with Izusa." Even though they once saved the world side by side, Adun still can't forget the scene of a ship hiding in a dark and sunless harbor, watching those disgusting insects running around and tearing each other apart.

"..."

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Regarding the naming issue of the Yamato Cannon, it's certain that the Yamato ship girls will encounter some strange situations in the future.

After all, the battlecruiser's main gun is named "Yamato Gun".