The Admiral of Hogwarts

An hour later, the rocket successfully reached its designated orbit. As soon as this news spread, the control hall erupted in cheers.

People stood up, jumping and shouting at the top of their lungs. Not only in this underwater base, but also in all the bases in various locations, everyone watching or listening to this report was excitedly shouting.

Immediately afterwards, the two ship girls directly left the spacecraft and expanded the effective range of the concealment runes on the spacecraft, and then began to assemble the parts that had been launched into the sky earlier.

"The first thing to be assembled will be the space transfer magic array and its supporting facilities. This entire system was developed from the Floo Network," Repulse whispered to Hugo, explaining.

"It must be said that Nicolas Flamel's legacy has played a significant role. We never imagined before that he was also the original designer of the Floo Network."

"And with the detailed design ideas and structural diagrams left by him, we have successfully created the current space teleportation magic array by referring to these drawings."

"According to the plan, this magic array will be the first thing that Laffey and the others need to build. And after the magic array is built, the subsequent series of personnel and materials can be quickly transported up."

Because the magic array was designed to be modular in advance, and the ship girls had practiced many times on the ground, their work efficiency was much higher than ordinary astronauts, so the magic array was put into use only half an hour after arriving at the location.

In the control center, Hugo saw through the display screen that several ship girls located on the East Coast, West Coast, West Balkans, England, Japan, and other places stepped onto the magic array and then appeared at the construction site in Earth's geosynchronous orbit.

"There's a small problem." Looking at the ship girls busying around on the screen, Hugo asked curiously, "Where does the energy for these magic arrays come from?"

"The energy of these magic arrays comes from the energy generated by controlled nuclear fusion." Repulse pointed to a giant metal cube with a surface covered with runes, looking like a 10m x 10m x 10m cube, which Missouri took out of her ship equipment space.

"In fact, the conversion between different energies is not as complicated as everyone thinks. It's just that the loss is too great to convert lower-level energy sources such as electrical energy, light energy, and thermal energy into higher-level energy sources such as magic power."

"Therefore, in daily life, the practice of using lower-level energy sources such as electrical energy or light energy to charge magic props is actually a very uneconomical thing."

"However, with controlled nuclear fusion, this energy conversion method has strong practicality. Compared with the limit that current technology can achieve, the effect of magic energy is obviously more flexible—"

"Actually, I think you may be limited by some kind of thinking here." Hearing this, Hugo suddenly interrupted Repulse's introduction somewhat rudely, and then said seriously.

"Different worlds have different characteristics. Since this world has magic, then perhaps combining with magic is the truly correct path for technological development."

"You're right, we've been limited." After hearing Hugo's words, Repulse was stunned for a moment, and then replied after quickly exchanging a bunch of information in the admiral network.

"Different worlds may look very similar, but the basic rules at the bottom of the world may be completely different. In this case, trying to copy the practices of the previous world will obviously cause many problems."

"For example, the reason why we are now able to carry out interstellar travel is that the most core technologies require the power of magic to help, such as room-temperature superconductors, energy internal circulation systems, space teleportation, or controlled nuclear fusion."

"Yes, when different worlds develop technology, they often have technologies that are suitable for the local area. Forcibly applying them will affect the speed of overall development instead."

Because there were warehouses that released a large number of space folding spells and the ship equipment space of the ship girls, and the ship girls as builders were able to cast spells, the space station was built very quickly.

When Hugo and Hermione went to the rocket control center for breakfast the next day, they were surprised to find that the main part of the first phase of the space station project had been roughly completed, and the second batch of non-ship girl astronauts began to enter the space station for internal repairs.

For safety reasons, most of the second batch of non-ship girl astronauts, except for a small number of people, were wizards or those new transcendents who had just been born.

With the help of powered armor, the work efficiency of these people was far better than ordinary humans. Together with the ship girls working outside, they quickly promoted the construction of the space station.

"This efficiency far exceeds all known space projects. If there were no magic, I believe it would be extremely difficult to send so many things into Earth's orbit, let alone build this thing in such a short period of time."

Looking at the rapidly increasing percentage number of the space station completion progress on the screen, Hugo said with emotion. Because among similar space stations, whether it is Mir or the International Space Station, the construction time is calculated in years.

"It's not just magic, there is also a lot of work that only we ship girls can complete." Repulse explained seriously. "And our next job is to improve this system as much as possible to ensure that the vast majority of the work can be taken over by humans."

"After all, the number of us ship girls is really too small. In this case, choosing to master key irreplaceable projects instead of mastering all content is a reasonable choice."

Because Hugo and Hermione had to take the Hogwarts Express back to school early the next morning, and it was basically certain that this launch was successful, the ship girls held a lively dinner party that night.

"Why is everyone looking at me now?" After entering the banquet hall, Hugo could clearly feel that many people were looking at him.

In fact, he had noticed this before in the launch control center, but at that time he was in the VIP seat, and he thought that some people might be curious. But now it seems a little strange.

"Because the transcendents other than the wizards present can feel the special aura on you." Repulse explained softly, "After all, whether it is Saint George or the Soviet Union, the source of their abilities still comes from you."

"Therefore, they, who are summoned by the ship girls, can naturally feel your summoning to their souls in the dark, and at the same time they will have heartfelt respect and loyalty to you."

"Moreover, we have always been promoting your existence during the promotion, in this case, everyone will naturally be a little curious about you, such a young leader."

"In this way, everyone will naturally focus their attention on you. Especially for many people, they may hope to take this opportunity to observe you carefully."

"I can understand, this is similar to the practice of employees observing the level of the boss." Hugo nodded. "After all, the leader of an organization is related to the future of this organization, and naturally also to the future of every member."

However, in this way, Hugo had a more troublesome task before eating, that is, he needed to give a speech before the banquet started to show everyone the way forward.