Ch.608The Time for ‘Real’ Ship Modification Has Come. (2)

# Chapter 608. The Time for ‘Real’ Starship Modification Has Come. (2)

Of course, there was an incident where Griyanar and Nero got grabbed by the collar by Jessica for daring to use “chicken out?” on me.

To be honest, Gri-gri and Nero-nero narrowly avoided getting massive bumps on their heads because I thought it would be amusing.

Shortly after that.

“All right, all right, all right.”

“Dreadnought No. 1, successfully docked at the starship modification facility!”

“Gravity anchor activated, hull space fixation complete.”

Listening to all these sci-fi terms being thrown around, I confirmed that the large and beautiful Dreadnought had settled into the modification facility prepared at one side of the base.

“Then Commander, I’ll start the modification work right away~”

“I-I’ll do it quickly…!”

“Onya, good work.”

Soon after, I watched as the research team, including Griyanar and Nero, rushed at the Dreadnought with a large number of mechanical arms.

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<Large-scale Starship Modification Facility in Operation>

<Dreadnought’s ‘Extreme Modification’ System Activated>

<Supervising Superhuman: Griyanar>

└<Assistant Superhuman: Nero>

<As this is proceeding as an extreme modification, it is impossible to know what the result will be until completion.>

<Resources consumed: 200,000 minerals, 25,000 rare resources>

<Time remaining until modification completion: 6 days 23 hours 59 minutes 45 seconds>

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‘That’s pretty fast.’

Looking at the message saying it would take exactly one week, I decided to hold some expectations about what might come out.

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While proceeding with various things like this, I suddenly realized something strange.

“Commander~ About this modification~”

“…Griyanar, there’s something I’m curious about.”

“Hm?”

“Why do you use simple modification, ‘modification facility,’ and your favorite body modification interchangeably?”

That’s right.

I hadn’t given it much thought before, so I just went along with it without noticing.

But looking back at the Overseer modification and other instances, it seemed like Griyanar and Nero kept using these terms interchangeably.

To be precise, they didn’t distinguish between the base’s own modification equipment—from that distant past… when I only had the Overseer as a gacha starship.

From that time when Griyanar was alone and modified things stitch by stitch by hand, and the modification facility that was newly created when I upgraded to a level 10 base.

Both Griyanar and Nero used a way of speaking that confused listeners about what was what.

Of course, in response to my comment, Gri-gri and Nero-nero said:

“Huh? Can’t you just understand when you hear it?”

“Th-that’s right… it’s, it’s not that difficult…”

“……”

Perhaps because the two experts could distinguish the subtle differences in the general term “modification” through their tone or various methods.

When I asked them to be more specific in their explanations, they maintained an attitude of “ugh, what a bothersome human.”

But after thinking about it among themselves for a while…

“Come to think of it, the Commander is right.”

“I think so too. Af-after all, if we’re not clear, it could ca-cause misunderstandings and pr-problems…”

“Well, I guess so.”

When they realized why I had pointed it out and showed willingness to correct themselves, I decided to shed tears of emotion and give them a seal clap.

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Exactly one week later.

After leisurely giving one-day bans to troublemakers in the gallery and returning the modification costs for Daedalus.

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<Event>

<Large-scale Starship Modification Facility’s Modification Work Complete!>

<Content>

<The extreme modification of the Common Rank Dreadnought has been completed.>

<Modified parts: ‘All’ parts>

<Result>

<‘Common Rank Dreadnought’ has been changed to ‘Common Rank Dreadnought (Extremely Modified)’ and reintegrated into the fleet.>

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“Commander! The Dreadnought’s modification is complete!”

“It-it was difficult but, but rewarding work…!”

With a cheerful sound effect and the modification completion message appearing before my eyes, I heard Griyanar and Nero’s voices simultaneously.

Soon after, through the command center’s screen, I could clearly see with my own eyes how the randomly extreme-modified Dreadnought had changed.

But the moment I saw that extremely modified Dreadnought, only one thought came to my mind.

And because of that, I naturally expressed my thoughts in perfect alignment with my feelings…

‘What is that, it’s bizarre.’

“What is that, it’s bizarre.”

The form of the extremely modified Dreadnought was just too different from its original shape in many ways.

Of course, in response to my reaction, the two people connected through the communication immediately burst out in frustration…

“What do you mean bizarre, what kind of comment is that!”

“I-I worked hard on it…!”

“Commander, here’s the report on resource supply status, and Austria has something to… what is that bizarre thing?”

“Is it perhaps something you created by adjusting dimensional causality?”

“See, Jessica and Austria are reacting the same way.”

“Urgh!”

Jessica, who had just returned after briefly stepping out, and Austria, who followed her in, reacted like this.

“Ungyanya, I don’t know much, but it seems a bit strange to call it a Dreadnought.”

“S-Sumeragi, you too!”

When even Sumeragi, who now preferred being here without any parasites, gave a negative assessment of the extremely modified Dreadnought’s appearance.

Griyanar looked shocked in many ways, sitting down and trembling.

Of course, it only looked “bizarre” and strange, but at first glance, there didn’t seem to be any performance issues.

The biggest characteristic of this extremely modified Dreadnought was that most of the original main turrets and secondary guns had been removed.

Those spaces were covered with armor plates, and a massive annihilation ship’s main cannon was attached to the center of the hull.

In other words, unlike the original design where weapon points were distributed among main guns and secondary guns.

Now almost all weapon points were all-in on that ‘main cannon’ structure.

And accordingly, where there should have been at least 10 main turrets, there were only two, one on each side of the upper hull.

And where there used to be dozens of densely packed secondary guns, only traces remained as if they were vestigial organs.

The typical appearance that comes to mind when thinking of a “Dreadnought” was gone from the start, making viewers naturally feel uncomfortable.

But the real problem didn’t end there.

When Griyanar, who had returned to the command center from the modification facility, began briefing me about the extremely modified Dreadnought with a very satisfied expression:

“As you can see, the armaments are all like that, and I’ve also added a flight deck and hangar.”

“Uh… what?”

“A flight deck~ Since the annihilation cannon alone consumes a lot of energy, removing the main turrets wasn’t enough, so I removed the secondary guns, right?”

“That’s true, but…”

“But if we just left it like that, it could be helplessly defeated by smaller ships, so I also made it able to launch carrier-based aircraft for escort and containment!”

“Oh…”

There was a “flight deck” that wasn’t visible from my viewpoint.

“A-and I also added na-nano machines…!”

“…Nano machines?”

“I-I-I suggested it… hehehe…”

They even added “nano machine-type recovery equipment” like what’s on the Paladin-class.

After hearing about various other things they added:

“Wait, wait, so… our Dreadnought No. 1 has become an annihilation ship, light aircraft carrier, and healer all in one?”

“That’s exactly it.”

I couldn’t help but be amazed at the fact that they had extremely modified it into an awesome all-purpose ship.