Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 686 New Flagship

Well, humans who had originally prepared to return to the universe are now forced to stay here. However, there is nothing they can do. Humans can only do what the "illusion" has set.

Thus, the major project of the new flagship was launched.

According to the construction plan, the new flagship of mankind is very large. In order to adapt to the star destroyer cannon, its total length reaches 300 kilometers, its width is about 200 kilometers, and its height is more than 100 kilometers. It is definitely a space behemoth.

Before this, the designers had already completed the design drawings. Although now they need to make room for the consciousness synchronization equipment, they only need to optimize the core parts inside the battleship, which the designers can complete in a short time.

The name of the new battleship remains unchanged, still called Tianqin, but the difference is that this time it is a planetary battleship Tianqin. Its exterior design is just like the design drawing, shaped like a large melon seed, and uses a multi-engine linkage drive method.

The designers had already calculated that to generate a warp bubble large enough to envelop the entire battleship, four large warp engines were needed, two more than the conventional new battleships. They were placed in appropriate locations on the battleship and then controlled by a central hub.

It is worth mentioning that the warp engine does not need to expose the tail nozzle like the conventional one, so the four warp engines can be placed inside the battleship with full coverage, which is very different from the warp engines in the movie. However, because the human warp engine design is based on the alien spacecraft that crashed on Callisto, the tail nozzle style engine is still retained in the design, just like the structure of the warp engine that was dismantled that year, the tail nozzle is connected to the warp engine.

Those are conventional large magnetic thrusters, with four at the head and four at the tail. They are all mechanical structures that can be mechanically flipped up and down, retracted and retracted to the inside of the warship and released to the outside. Humans have long been able to do this easily in terms of mechanics, and thus the thrusters on the sides and in the upper and lower directions have been eliminated, saving a lot of space for the warship.

This design not only saves space, but also can discharge the excess heat generated by the warp speed operation out of the spacecraft through the conventional power tail nozzle system. The conventional power system is also connected to the warship's cooling system. This is the design that humans referred to the spacecraft that crashed on Callisto, and it has been proven that this design is very good.

The manufacturing process of the planetary-level Tianqin is very complicated. In terms of complexity alone, it is more complicated than an astronomical particle collider. Its shell needs to be made entirely of No. 2 alloy material, and its main support frame must be made entirely of strong materials.

These two items alone would constitute a huge project.

But the construction of a battleship requires more than just materials. It also requires the construction of a ship-borne supercomputer that can carry comprehensive strong artificial intelligence. Yes, as the flagship of a level four civilization, it is impossible for humans to use the original supercomputer, so everything needs to be rebuilt using the latest technological achievements to build this new battleship.

The weapon system, power system, and detection system all need to be newly built. The weapon system includes many categories, including the star destroyer cannon with an acceleration of 150 kilometers, the force field shield system with components that need to be distributed in various positions of the warship, and various secondary guns as well as gravity bombs and antimatter bomb projection devices.
All of these things have to be produced from scratch. These things will be produced together with the structural shell of the planetary-level Lyra. Like the warp drive, they will be processed and produced in different factories, and then transported to the warships that have completed the frame construction for installation.

Since the battleship is very huge, humans do not plan to build a huge space dock before constructing it as before, but directly build a basic working platform in space, and then start building from the basic working platform.

Such a large warship naturally cannot be formed in one go, so both its shell and frame need to be processed one by one in the space factory, and then transported to the construction site for secondary processing and assembly. This creates a problem - strong materials cannot be processed twice.

It is impossible for humans to mold the entire battleship frame in the factory at one time, so they can only rivet and connect it by manufacturing various mortise and tenon structures and adding joints, screws, and external reinforcements. The workload is huge and the difficulty is high. Some places cannot even be fully automated, and people have to drive engineering ships there manually and build it up slowly like bees building a nest.

Building such a huge warship is not only about these major items, but also very complex. With a huge size of hundreds of kilometers, its internal structure is more complicated than building several large cities, with various compartments, plywood, partition units, living facilities, workplaces, combat command, weapons and ammunition depots, and resource warehouses.
It must have a complete set of things needed for human life and combat, and even various scientific research departments, technical colleges and other institutions, as well as various industrial production and mechanical processing factories. It can be said that such a warship is a comprehensive collection of the entire creation of human civilization.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this battleship was placed on the earth, it would be larger than Treasure Island. An island can only be built on one plane, but the interior of this planetary battleship is multi-layered and three-dimensional. Let’s put it this way, the entire Treasure Island spans only 395 kilometers from north to south and 144 kilometers from east to west. A comparison will give you an idea of ​​the huge size of this battleship.

It is certain that it will take a long time to build such a complex warship that ensures its strong combat capability. Experts estimate that it will take about 500 years.

In order to accommodate the "consciousness synchronization device", the interior of this new flagship has to be designed according to the design drawings given by the awakener's intelligent system. In particular, the various equipment in the command center must be placed according to the layout it gives. Only in this way can the battleship use the equipment given by the awakener.

Moreover, these devices are completely different from the various devices that humans usually place in the command center. Visual display systems such as large screens are not needed at all, and external input devices such as workbenches that humans usually use are not needed either.

These are no longer needed, but many other devices are needed, such as external input devices. Humans have to make enough space inside the ship to accommodate that set of equipment, and arrange a large number of densely packed access ports here. All control system ports on the battleship must be connected here. The purpose is naturally self-evident, which is to connect the "consciousness synchronization device" with the entire battleship.

Of course, the command center still exists, and humans still need to build at least eight thousand cockpits here.

(End of this chapter)