I’m indecently proud of my ship girls, and whether I personally pulled them or not, they are absolutely my girls. They volunteered to fight, the Cybernetic Council gave them ships to command, and they went out of their way to do their thing. They flew all over space looking for things to do and people to help. Everyone who served in the Hyades has a story of a losing battle with no hope of escape until a ship wielding a name like Enterprise or California came in out of the black. They grabbed entire fleets by the scruff of their necks and held on until every allied ship escaped. They saved a lot of lives. Yes, they died a lot when they bit off more than they could chew, but they chewed up a lot of things. And they never stopped coming back to do it again.