Star Ship Girl Era: My Shipgirls Are Too Overpowered-Chapter 12: Destiny System Upgrades

Meanwhile, in the principal’s office of Polaris Naval Academy, the mood was anything but calm.

A grade director stood in front of the desk with a report tablet in his hands, and the principal had already reread the first page three times, like the words might change if he looked hard enough.

"Good heavens," the principal muttered, then looked up with a sharp stare. "Director Zhang, are you messing with me, or did four students just awaken gold-rarity shipgirls on the same morning?"

Director Zhang looked at the principal as he sighed, the way people do when they do not believe it but have no choice but to because of the situation. "Principal, how could I joke about something like this, and you can verify it any time you want. It’s real, it’s clean, and it’s already in the internal logs."

The principal leaned back, rubbed his face once, then sighed as his day had just been stolen from him.

"Four," he repeated, slower this time. "One is Aurelian Vale Arcturus, and the other three are the Morozova triplets, Yelena Aiko Morozova, Mirei Hana Morozova, and Katsura Rei Morozova."

Director Zhang nodded, his expression changing from a tired one to a smiling one, as if he was trying very hard not to look smug. "Yes, and all four bonds formed smoothly. No instability. No rejection. No delays beyond the normal high-rarity response window."

The principal stared at the report again, then let out a dry laugh. "Do you realize what kind of mess this is about to cause, Old Zhang?"

Director Zhang’s smile widened. "A good mess."

"Don’t give me that," the principal said, pointing the report at him. "This academy runs on routine and numbers. The moment people realize gold can drop like this, the entire grade is going to lose its mind, and half the teachers are going to start acting like recruiters."

Director Zhang shrugged, still pleased. "They’re outstanding students. It’s not like we can hide it."

The principal tapped the report against his desk a few times, then his expression hardened into something more practical.

"Fine," he said. "Give them the highest qualification tier the academy can legally assign, fast-track their dock access, and meet their requests as much as possible. I want protective escorts on them immediately, not because they need babysitting, but because everyone else is going to act stupid when they learn about this."

Director Zhang’s smile faded into a serious expression. "Understood. I’ll assign staff and security teams right away."

The principal sighed again and muttered, almost to himself, "And the families are going to hear about it within the hour anyway, even if we don’t say a word. If anything happens to those four, every major faction that cares about them will come to Polaris to knock at my door to get an explanation."

He looked up at Director Zhang. "You know what makes it worse?"

"What?"

"The Arcturus family doesn’t make noise as they are more focused on their family’s promotion recently," the principal said, voice flat. "They just remember things and will take care of things if they get out of hand, but the Morozova family... they absolutely do make noise."

Director Zhang gave a small cough, like he couldn’t argue with that.

The principal waved his hand. "Go. Before I start regretting my career choices."

Director Zhang bowed slightly and left, already pulling up security assignments on his device as the door shut behind him.

The principal sat there alone for a moment, staring at the gold-rarity confirmation stamps on the report, then finally muttered, "Four gold awakenings in one day. Polaris is going to be famous for the next decade, whether I like it or not."

Back at the starport, Aurelian stood near Dock C-17 while Astra’s hull continued to grow behind him, the scaffolding fields holding the structure in place as robotic arms layered materials with quiet precision.

He had already sent the triplets the dock details so they could regroup here after securing their own construction slots and would know exactly where to return in a few days when the hulls finished.

The timing mattered, and he wasn’t about to let them waste it.

Astra stayed near the developing framework, watching it like someone looking at a familiar shape that had been missing for too long.

She didn’t touch anything, didn’t interfere, just stood there with that steady presence of hers, calm but clearly awake inside.

Aurelian sat down on a bench near the dock control area, pulled out his device again, and skimmed the last of the system messages that had piled up.

He wasn’t worried about the attention that would come from four gold awakenings in a row, because the truth was simple: their families could handle fallout even if the entire academy panicked. What mattered more was getting the early steps clean and fast, because the early phase always decided whether a commander stayed ahead or got dragged into other people’s pace.

Then, suddenly, he felt something change, and he knew that it was related to the Destiny System.

So he decided to see what it was, as he has nothing else to do anyway right now, as he waits for the triplets.

And he was glad he did, as there had been changes in the system.

A semi-transparent panel surfaced in his mind, clear enough that he could read it without blinking.

Host: Aurelian Vale Arcturus

Life Energy Level: First Order

Fate Points: 233

Number of uses per month: 2

Aurelian smiled slightly when he saw this change.

’It had changed.’

Before today, it had been simpler, with no Life Energy Level field and only one question per month. Now it showed a clear growth state, and the question count had doubled.

"So it upgrades," he muttered quietly, more surprised than he wanted to admit.

Astra’s head tilted slightly as if she heard his muttering, even if she didn’t hear the words. "Something wrong?"

"No," he said, then added honestly, "nothing major, just can’t wait for our first sea trial."