The Remaining Evaluation Test
Personnel matters on board can be handled at the captain’s discretion, and they have the decision-making authority.
However, like in any organization, the decided personnel changes must be reported to headquarters.
Well, I’ve heard that captains rarely make these decisions themselves, and more often approve what the grand crew or headquarters personnel have decided.
This is the same for both the military and the Coast Guard. Even my first assignment seems to have been decided by the personnel department at headquarters.
However, in this case, we have to make the decision ourselves.
It would be a burden to leave personnel matters to Her Highness when the organization is not yet solidified. Moreover, it’s more difficult to successfully manage personnel you’ve never met.
Her Highness understood this, and when I received my orders and was about to leave, Mr. Ferman made the request.
I wasn’t told to decide by tomorrow’s order issuance, but I was asked to decide before we start actual operations as an organization.
Since I had been discussing this with Sister Meyrica since taking charge of this ship, we were able to decide before the order issuance. I immediately had someone contact Mr. Ferman.
The next day, as promised, Her Highness came to the ship.
I gathered all crew members in the multi-purpose hall, whose use I’m still unsure about.
It’s too luxurious to be used as a storage room, but there’s nothing in it anyway, so that’s why I gathered everyone here.
Normally, in such cases, we’d use the rear hangar, but for now, with only sixty subordinates, we can somehow fit in this room. But what if we increase in number in the future?
If it weren’t for Her Highness, I’d use the rear hangar without a second thought, but this time, considering we have an ultra-important person of the country – the Princess – security reasons were taken into account.
If we were in space, we could take different measures, but for today, this sufficed.
Sister Meyrica receives the orders on behalf of everyone.
“Second Lieutenant Meyrica, step forward as the representative.”
“Yes, sir.”
“Lieutenant Meyrica, your secondment to the Interstellar Criminal Police Organization Preparatory Office is approved, and you are hereby appointed as the Executive Officer of our space destroyer [Shunmin].”
“I humbly accept.”
With this, the order issuance is complete, and the administrative procedures are finished.
“Henceforth, I command the [Shunmin]. Captain Nao-Bruce, I order a test voyage to assess this ship’s capabilities.”
“Yes, I accept the order. We will depart as soon as preparations are complete.”
“I look forward to the results, Captain Bruce.”
Receiving Her Highness’s words, we began preparations for departure.
Thanks to Captain Ford’s arrangements, who will accompany us on this voyage, we had no issues with supplies, which were taken care of yesterday.
It took the most time to bring the second-class space soldiers to their posts based on the rotation schedule that Kate and Maria had worked so hard to create, but we managed to finish that before Her Highness disembarked.
So, we departed while seeing Her Highness off.
“We will now depart from Faren Spaceport. Executive Officer, give the order to depart.”
“We will now depart. Communications Officer Kaori, contact control.”
“Understood, Executive Officer. …To Faren Spaceport Control. This is KSS9999 Space Destroyer [Shunmin], requesting permission to depart.”
“This is Faren Spaceport Control. Permission granted to depart from spot number five. Please use guest route number three for departure.”
“Guest route number three. Understood. Data reception complete.”
“Navigation Officer Rani. Launch based on the data.”
“Launching. Automatic navigation system normal. Increasing altitude. We will leave Faren Spaceport’s control area in five minutes.”
I’m surprised by the piloting skills that don’t seem like it’s their first time.
Those guys are really skillful, or rather, have high capacity.
I wonder why they were treated as unwanted despite being so excellent.
As I’m thinking about this, Captain Ford, sitting in the guest seat behind me, shares his impression.
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“Excellent piloting. It’s hard to believe they’re not familiar with this ship.”
“Thank you. However, I didn’t expect them to be this capable either. Until now, we’ve only departed from docks, so we relied on guides.”
“I see. But with this, we can feel at ease even if Her Highness boards.”
From his last remark, I understood one of this person’s objectives.
Her Highness is already eager to travel here and there on this ship, but it seems the people around her were quite worried.
As we were talking about this, it’s time for the control to change.
“KSS9999 Space Destroyer [Shunmin], we will now transfer control to the Capital Star Control Bureau. Have a good voyage.”
“Faren Spaceport Control. Understood regarding the transfer of control. Thank you. We will now contact the Capital Star Control Bureau.”
…
“Captain, we’re proceeding as planned. We’ll leave the Capital Star control area in thirty minutes.”
“Captain, shall we start preparations?”
Executive Officer Sister Meyrica asks me.
“Yes, let’s start with the interdimensional travel test. Please prepare for interdimensional travel.”
“I’ll designate the interdimensional travel point.”
Sister Meyrica goes to Kasumi, who handles radar and optical observation equipment, and they discuss something.
She’s confirming with various departments while ensuring safety for interdimensional travel.
Thirty minutes later, we finally leave the Capital Star Diamond’s control area.
“Captain. We’ve left the control area.”
Kaori, in charge of radio communications, calls out.
“Captain.”
“Alright, we’ll now head to the designated point for the interdimensional travel test. Please increase to cruising speed and head to the designated point.”
“Understood, Captain. Rani, change course to target coordinates, increase speed to seven space velocity for cruising.”
“Changing to target coordinates, increasing speed to seven space velocity, understood.”
Captain Ford, sitting in the guest seat behind me, is surprised at hearing the speed.
“Captain, are you increasing to seven space velocity right away?”
“Yes, Captain Ford. We’ve already completed speed tests for this ship’s normal navigation. Although there’s no catalog for this ship, we’ve set the maximum speed at ten space velocity. Considering combat situations where we might go up to 120% output, we can immediately reach twelve space velocity, so we’ve set the cruising speed at seven space velocity.”
“To exceed our country’s fastest ship’s speed at cruising… what an incredible ship. My ship can only reach five space velocity at most. For cruising, it’s about four space velocity. And we still call it the fastest ship, it’s embarrassing.”
“Not at all. It’s thanks to forcibly replacing the engine with a large passenger ship’s engine when we changed this ship’s engine, giving us extra output. Normally, no one would do such a wasteful thing.”
“Still. The interior, the speed… no wonder Her Highness likes it. By the way, what level are you aiming for in interdimensional travel?”
“In the non-existent catalog, we claim Level 8. The navigation system is set up to Level 10, so we’d like to test up to Level 10 in this test.”
“By the way, interdimensional travel so far…”
“Yes, we’ve tested up to Level 2 when heading to Faren Spaceport. So, once we reach the designated point, we’ll try Level 5 first. From there, we’ll gradually increase, hoping to reach Level 10.”
“You’re going straight to Level 5? Level 5 is equivalent to the speed of our country’s fastest super-dreadnought space battleship. And your goal is double that at Level 10? If that’s possible, it’s incredible. Well, alright. I’m here as a witness to your test, so I’ll observe carefully.”
“Captain, we’re arriving at the designated coordinates.”
“That was quite fast.”
“Well, even though it’s cruising, at seven space velocity, it’s quick. At this speed, we’re probably the fastest in the neighborhood and beyond.”
“Then it could be useful for pirate hunting. They couldn’t escape from this ship. The only thing left is armament.”
“We also have means to attack even where laser cannons can’t be used.”
“If we can use them. We’ll test that too. …By the way, where is Chief Sardar?”
“Oh, he said he wanted to see our weapons, so he’s been looking around at various weapons.”
“Is someone accompanying him? Don’t let him get lost.”
“Don’t worry. We’ve always got a capable kid with him.”
“Ah, you mean the trainee crew members.”
“Yes, and there’s always someone responsible in each department who can answer questions, so it’s fine.”
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This ship is quite high-spec, but I cannot comprehend the naming sense for the weapons. Next we know, we’ll have Rose Mk. III cannons and Peony 2024 CIWS hahaha.