Star Ship Girl Era: My Shipgirls Are Too Overpowered-Chapter 83: Ecological Ship Girl: Elowen

Its systems had turned out to be far less damaged than the carrier’s, and once the hull repairs were completed, it was already ready for pickup.

Aurelian did not even wait a little after receiving the notice.

He took Astra and Rhoswen with him and headed straight to the dock.

Rhoswen looked at another addition to the fleet and seemed joyful, because more ship girls mean more dangerous missions, as they have more people to handle them.

"So what kind of ship girl will she turn out to be?"

Aurelian’s mouth twitched faintly as he understood where she was going.

"That will wait till the ship is fixed and I am able to summon the ship girl, which has its own probability."

The ship itself looked nothing like a normal warship from the inside.

Once they boarded and moved deeper into it, the whole atmosphere changed.

Instead of cold corridors, weapon feeds, and layered-armor spaces, they stepped into something that felt more like a greenhouse or a contained park than a military vessel.

Green growth spread through the internal ecological zones.

Fresh water ran in narrow channels.

Small animals moved through patches of carefully rebuilt habitat.

The family engineers had clearly restored more than just the metal. The original ecological systems had long since died during the years this ship spent abandoned, so the teams had rebuilt the internal life framework to match what the vessel needed to function again.

Rhoswen slowed down as they walked through it.

"This ship is so much different from what mine and Astra’s look like."

"It is," Astra said calmly. "This is mainly because both of you are the front-line players, while this ship will be the rear logistics, which has its own duties."

Hearing this, Rhoswen nodded as she followed behind the two while looking at everything with a look of slight amazement.

They passed through the ecological interior and eventually reached the command section.

There, Aurelian placed a sufficient amount of blue source fragments into the ship and began the activation.

Then they waited.

It did not take long.

A pale light spread through the chamber, gentle rather than sharp, and after a short while, the activation completed cleanly.

The command door opened.

A woman stepped out.

She had long pale silver-white hair and a composed, dignified look that made her feel older than the others in a way that had nothing to do with age and everything to do with bearing.

Her clothes were mostly white, simple but refined, and the expression she wore when she looked at Aurelian was not uncertainty, but calm recognition.

She walked toward him, then bowed deeply.

"Verdant Ark-class ecological ship, Elowen, reporting to you," she said. "Thank you for taking me away from dismantling and giving me another chance."

Aurelian had not expected her to remember that much of what had happened before activation, but shipgirls often carried fragments of their ship’s memory, especially when it came to the final moments that mattered.

He inclined his head slightly.

"You don’t need to be that formal," he said. "Commander is fine."

A small smile touched her lips.

"Yes, Commander."

Aurelian let Astra and Rhoswen handle the first round of introductions while he stepped slightly aside and opened Elowen’s data through his commander network.

The result was exactly the kind of thing he had hoped for.

[Warship Name: Elowen]

[Warship Status: Shield 100%, Armor 100%, No Structural or Core Damage]

[Warship Prototype: T4 Verdant Ark-class Ecological Ship]

[Warship Length: 2860 meters]

[Warship Rank: Tier IV Destroyer (Level Cap: Lv80)]

[Level: Lv61]

[Ship Components: Verdant Ark Hull (Purple) Lv61, Verdant Ark Armor (Purple) Lv61, Verdant Ark Engine (Purple) Lv61, Verdant Ark Shield (Purple) Lv61, Verdant Ark Radar (Purple) Lv61]

[Ship Armament: None]

[Ship-Exclusive Attachment: Planetary Renewal Chamber (Purple) Lv61]

[Ship Accessories: Internal Ecological Zone (Blue) Lv41, Rare Flora Cultivation Zone (Blue) Lv41, Rare Fauna Cultivation Zone (Blue) Lv41]

[Weapon Slots Remaining: 3]

[Accessory Slots Remaining: 60]

[Ship Girl: Elowen]

[Talents: Nature’s Grace (Purple High-Tier), Benevolent Mutation (Sky Blue-Purple Mid-Tier), Efficiency Priority (Blue High-Tier)]

Then the detailed talent lines unfolded.

[Nature’s Grace: Reduces the difficulty of planetary terraforming by 20%, increases terraforming efficiency by 30%, increases the growth speed of cultivated plants and animals by 50%, increases the annual production of source fragments on terraformed planets by 10%, and increases the probability of finding complete source materials.]

[Benevolent Mutation: Planets transformed by Elowen have a 20% increased chance of developing beneficial mutations. Each completed planetary transformation will guarantee at least one beneficial mutation. Plants and animals cultivated by Elowen have a 5% increased chance of beneficial mutation.]

[Efficiency Priority: Elowen’s overall work efficiency increases by 20%.]

Aurelian looked over the full sheet slowly.

This ship was almost unarmed.

Its defense was basic compared to his combat ships, and its value was in what it could do to worlds, ecosystems, cultivation zones, and future territory.

That made it more important than most warships in a completely different way.

It was also huge.

Longer than Astra’s ship, wider in practical internal use, and clearly built around carrying life and altering environments instead of fighting fleet battles directly.

In Aurelian’s eyes, those three talents were worth far more than they looked at first glance.

Not for the present week.

But for everything after.

If he ever secured Larkspur Haven or any frontier world after that, Elowen would become one of the biggest reasons that place could grow quickly instead of staying a half-dead outpost for decades.

He closed the data panel and looked back toward the three women.

Rhoswen had already relaxed around Elowen faster than expected, probably because Elowen’s calm made her own energy feel less out of place. Astra was speaking to the new shipgirl in her usual steady way, likely already assessing how she would fit into the fleet rhythm.

Aurelian let himself watch the scene for a moment.

Then he thought, very simply, that if he could hold a planet long enough, Elowen might end up becoming the first real cornerstone of everything he wanted to build afterward.