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Sovereign once again was greeted with the sight of another shipgirl appearing out of nowhere, or should she said child shipgirl. Little Formidable is sitting on a chair while Little Bel is combing her long hair. They're in the high class hotel that cost thousands a night to stay in, that is in the country of Greece the latest stop on her European tour.
"Illustrious-class aircraft carrier number three, with a promising future of becoming an armored carrier. Commander, I humbly request your aid in training me to become a proper lady," Little Formidable greeted her.
"Nice to have you," Sovereign said patting her on her head.
Sovereign is glad for the the newest member of the fleet to show up, the shipgirls who were killed or damaged during the last endbringer battle are still going repairs and refittings. Which unlike the republicans who kept the bill that would had given her the funds and resources to have them all rebuilt, couldn't be done quickly like they believe. Both destroyers from the Royal Navy, the sister ships HMS Ardent and HMS Acasta who were heavily damaged from a fight with the Merchants mouths ago, are finally refitted and repaired.
Both sisters have been modernized with their weapons and systems have been improved. Getting new bodies and outfits after the repairs and refittings were done. Their bodies are now older being taller and more shapely than they were before. Not voluptuous or busty like the older looking shipgirls but much different from how they were before. From teenagers to young women, which cause the younger shipgirls wanting to be refitted as well to become older looking like Ardent and Acasta. (1)
Sovereign having to deal with fleets worth of sexy shipgirls ranging from slender and busty to voluptuous, to furries right out of pure fan service anime's and mangas. Not to mention the choice of outfits that many of the shipgirls wear that are little more than swimsuits. Had to put her foot down at the request for refits, pointing out that all the money is being used to repair and refit the shipgirls who need it. When they need it then they get new bodies. She also doesn't want to deal with the fact that the young and child shipgirls may look like kids but are actually either close to 100 or older.
'With so many sexy shipgirls, maybe I should just give in and have them release a pin up calendar. It would make lots of money from the perverts,' Sovereign thought to herself as her fleet does need the money. Right now her fleet are being funded by being apart of the arm forces of the EU, but she needs to look into other sources of funding.
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Brockton Bay -
In the PRT HQ, Piggot has been looking over the data of the goings ons around the city. The sole remaining gang the ABB have laid large claims on areas of the city that use to belong to the other gangs. Lung is making sure that the city is now his territory and with the eye of Leviathan that he had personally ripped out and now has on display in a large glass container, few gangs want to challenge him.
Last time the gangs of the city were chased out, is the reason why the 3 gangs had managed to gain power. Till the shipgirls came that is, wiping out all the key players and leaders of the gangs in a few days. The only reason why Lung and his gang are still around is because the moment the shipgirls started destroying the other two gangs, Lung ordered his gang to all lay low and do nothing. Some of their safe houses and operations were hit and gang members arrested or killed during the purge by the shipgirls. But Lung just stayed out of the fighting and stayed low as long as the shipgirls were still in the city. And once they left, Lung and his gang made their move in establishing themselves as the main gang of the city.
Lung is filling up the power vacuum that the two other gangs filled and with him helping to kill Leviathan has given his reputation a huge boost. Other villains and gangs are keeping clear of the city because of him and that if they try it might bring Sovereign and her shipgirls back. Allowing Lung to spread his influence around the city, all but unchallenged.
The only area that is free of gang activity is the docks where Sovereign's father lives and works. Which has improved since the shipgirls removed the ships blocking the harbor, allowing cargo ships to once again come in and out of the city. The docks are seen as the territory that's still under the control of Sovereign and causing trouble there will have the shipgirls being sent to take care of it.
Piggot turns to the reports of the only other major villain who is still activate in the city, Coil. He's been very quiet but once the shipgirls left he's been making black market deals, trading in shipgirls. With so many shipgirls being killed during the Leviathan battle, while their remains were recovered, there was plenty of parts that weren't. Now there's a black market for parts of the shipgirls that weren't recovered by the other shipgirls. Spent shell casing, weapons lost, and body parts are showing up on the black market.
Many governments and companies are paying top dollar for parts of a shipgirl. All wanting to see if they couldn't build their own or build their own weapons base on theirs. Piggot knows that the EU countries are examining the shipgirls that are still being rebuild and on the active ones to help in the rebuilding. Giving them lots of data on how they work, which because of the republicans who filibustered the bill to rebuild the shipgirls here, their chance of learning how they work is lost. All they can do is work with what was recovered after the battle. Armsmaster himself has some shell casings, a gun and part of a hand in his lab.
"A world where shipgirls can be built," Piggot said to herself, thinking of what that would do to the balance of power in the world.
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Author Notes -
1 - In the game Azur Lane when a shipgirl is refitted they usually get an older looking body out of the deal. So in story when a shipgirl is refitted and rebuilt, they get a boost in age for the younger looking shipgirls who look like kids and become young adults.
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