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Chapter 2086 Ling Liang Report (II)

  2087. Ling Liang Report (II)

[Paladin-class battlecruiser. I have to admit that the Salarian engineers are really excellent. I originally thought that it would be difficult to make any breakthroughs in the design of the Disaster-class battlecruiser, but Arroyo Barro from the engineering department always shows his amazing talent.]

[The Paladin class is a new type of battlecruiser that was recently added to the Dawn Principality Navy. It is an upgraded version of the Disaster class battlecruiser. The basic appearance of the Paladin class battlecruiser is almost identical to that of the Disaster class battlecruiser, and its length is also 1550 meters. However, the Salarians assured me that the energy supply structure inside the battleship has been almost completely redesigned, and it uses the most advanced antimatter engine.]

[In fact, when I first attended the Paladin-class maiden voyage ceremony, I was not interested in those fancy performances, but they told me a basic data that can directly show the excellence of the Paladin-class battlecruiser - its energy supply power is 2.15 times that of the Disaster-class battlecruiser.]

[And as the best carrier of particle light spears, the internal energy supply structure of the Paladin-class battlecruiser is almost entirely designed for this kind of large energy weapon. This made me a little confused at the time, so I asked Arroyo-Barro, isn't the energy structure of the disaster-class specially designed? He told me that the design of the disaster-class still made a lot of compromises. ]

[Okay, so now, the Paladin-class battlecruiser equipped with particle lances has a single-shot power far greater than that of the Catastrophic-class.]

[But what I care most about is the actual combat effect. After all, the particle lances of the Disaster-class Battlecruiser were already somewhat powerless when facing the Knight-class Star Destroyer/Imperial-class Star Destroyer. But this time, according to the experimental data, the particle lances fired by the Paladin-class Battlecruiser will cause a devastating blow to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer.]

[Also, Arroyo-Barro told me that the particle lances fired by the Paladin-class battlecruiser can be deflected for up to 1.5 seconds. This is a very good result, because it means that the firing angle can be corrected for 1.5 seconds during the irradiation process. This also means a higher hit rate. Of course, for this 1.5 seconds, the power of the Paladin-class battlecruiser has been increased by more than two times.]

What makes the Paladin-class battlecruiser more in line with my plan is that because there are almost no major changes in the appearance, the reuse rate of parts of the retired Disaster-class battlecruiser can reach more than 60% if it is modified and upgraded.

It takes 12 months to build a new Paladin-class battlecruiser (once again, the Star Wars calendar has 10 months a year and 35 days a month), while it only takes 6 months to convert a Disaster-class battlecruiser into a Paladin-class battlecruiser. Five years is enough to fully upgrade the 170 Disaster-class battlecruisers in service and build about 200 new Paladins.

Originally, the core industrial zone of the planet Vassian did not have the ability to produce Paladin-class battlecruisers, but if the core industrial zone of the planet Dawn could share some of the manufacturing of high-precision parts, then the core industrial zone of Vassian could complete the entire Paladin-class construction plan.

【The industrial zone of the planet Rendili is the only industrial zone in the Principality of Dawn that is being downgraded. There is no other way. Even though the stargate has been built, the planet Rendili is still the most dangerous place. This danger is not only because of the more than 800 star destroyers that the Galactic Empire has assembled around the Rendili galaxy, but also because of the current population of 4000 billion on the planet.】

The loose organization of the Rendili Interstellar Dynamics Company made it relatively easy to relocate the interstellar dock on the planet Rendili, but even though it was being relocated, the Rendili Planet Industrial Zone was still the largest industrial zone in the Principality of Dawn.

At its peak, the planet Rendili had more than 3600 interstellar docks, but now only 1500 are left, but this is far from all of Rendili.

On a planet with a population of 6000 billion, more than 3000 layers have been developed. Among them are extremely large industrial zones. It can be said that at least a quarter of the planet of Rendili is made up of huge factories. For these, I can only say that Rendili Interstellar Power Company is worthy of its -year heritage. If you don't go deep into it, you will never know how much they have. I even suspect that even Edel-Ulan herself does not fully understand it.

Bangila Wulan ostensibly stepped back and left the business to his granddaughter Edel Wulan, but I always think that he still holds some more powerful power. If this is true, maybe I need to talk to Solomon Lane, although I don't like the people of the Secret Intelligence Service very much.

The problems faced by the industrial zone on the planet Rendili are, on the one hand, the problem of raw material input, and on the other hand, the aging of equipment.

It is not easy to fill the countless factories and interstellar docks of the planet Rendili with raw materials. Even building a stargate in the shadow of a planet's satellite is very risky, because it is very likely that the Galactic Empire will know the secret of the stargate. There is no doubt that once the Galactic Empire knows the true function of the stargate, war will break out immediately. I must ensure that this does not happen.

Therefore, at least half of the factories on the planet Rendili are still in a state of suspension and storage. However, to ensure the implementation of Operation Zero, these factories cannot be idle. I have sent a plan to Peggy Carter, the Minister of National Security, hoping that she can find a way to transport the raw materials of the core industrial zone of Vassian to the planet Rendili without being discovered by the Imperial Security Bureau of the Galactic Empire.

[But she didn't look very happy at the time. I guess she thought I was just looking for trouble.]

As for the production plan of the industrial zone on the planet Rendili, I have already suggested that they stop building the Victory II-class Star Destroyer. The blueprint of this Star Destroyer was submitted to the Republic Shipbuilding Review Committee for review when they were still in the Galactic Republic. It is already public data. Now the Galactic Empire is equipped with at least 1000 Victory II-class Star Destroyers.

In addition, after the upgrade of older models of warships such as the Cole-class battlecruisers, the performance of the Victory II-class could no longer meet the requirements of our army.

Therefore, after discussion, I let the planet Lundili mainly undertake the construction of small and medium-sized warships, such as the Steadfast-class cruiser, the Double-blade-class electronic warfare light cruiser, and the latest Zealot-class assault cruiser and the Ogno-class logistics and maintenance ship.

I can see that Edel Ulan is not happy about this decision. She may think that not building a battleship is equivalent to not recognizing the strength of Rendili Interstellar Dynamics, and feels that she is being excluded.

I advised her not to think so, because as a woman, she had already reached the pinnacle of the Principality of Dawn. But she just told me that I didn't understand her position in the eyes of Grand Duke Tang Xiao.

I didn't want to speculate on these things. I just told her that she needed to complete the construction of at least 6 small and medium-sized warships within five years, which I don't think other industrial areas can do.