Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 794 What is a surprise?
All superluminal weapons are based on warp speed, which is the standard of a fourth-level civilization's military force.

Of course, it's not just warp speed, there's also full optical stealth technology, but this thing is generally useless when the opponent is a level four civilization.

Antimatter missiles and antimatter bombs are different, and the difference lies in guidance. The two devices have similar structures, both of which use matter to form a unified force field device to store antimatter and then rely on the powerful energy generated by the annihilation of positive and negative matter to destroy the target when striking. The difference is that the former has an additional guidance device, which can continuously send and receive tachyons to the target during the warp process, thereby feedbacking the target's real-time position, and then adjust the course through its own warp engine to keep heading towards the target.

However, this type of weapon is not the most difficult to avoid, because they can be easily discovered due to the real-time tachyon detection. The warship can adjust the parameters of the force field shield according to its course and guide it to other places.

Alternatively, it can be intercepted using an interceptor-type warp missile system, but this method requires a powerful computer system and powerful strong artificial intelligence assistance.

In fact, these types of weapons are similar to those in the era of hot weapons and gunpowder, except that the speed and energy levels have been raised. Of course, there are also differences, such as the various effects outside the light cone brought about by superluminal speed.

Many of those effects are counterintuitive, and it will be too late to think about them when you encounter them, so intelligent life needs to preset various possibilities in advance.

In wars between level four civilizations, sublight-speed weapons are actually used, but they are also labeled as antimatter, such as antiparticle energy cannons and particle energy cannons.

Typical weapons are neutron killing and neutron explosion. The former is normal neutron beam scanning, and the latter is anti-neutron beam scanning.

These two weapons may have impressive names, but they are generally not used for offense. They are more used for close defense.

After all, they are just sub-light-speed weapons that can reach the speed of light. If they are used to bully civilizations below level four, they will kill them in droves, but they are not enough to attack a superluminal civilization.

It is just right for close-range strafing defense after the force field shield is broken, and the two types can just deal with star destroyer shells of opposite material types.

The speed of light is still very fast within the range of the force field shield, and it can be said to arrive immediately upon launch.

But now, facing the attacks of various weapons from all over the sky, human warships don’t even turn on the force field shields. No... they don’t turn on any shields including the force field shields, polarization shields, and magnetic field shields. This is because humans think that turning on the shields will disperse energy utilization. The energy used to support the shields might as well be used to concentrate on powering the warp engines, as well as various components and computing inputs related to the maneuverability of the warships.

This will make the warship more agile.

What humans need most now is the agility of battleships, because the battleship mode in the third-person perspective is too powerful.

In the drivers' subconscious perspective, they can easily perceive various changes in situations and events on the battlefield.

From the course of enemy warships, turning angles, and the overall movement of large fleets to every artillery shell, whether it is an extreme warp gravity bomb, a warp missile with guidance function, or a star destroyer that reaches the limit of conventional speed and warp speed, they cannot escape the subconscious third-person perspective of human beings.

Humans currently do not fully understand this perspective. It is very obvious to human drivers that the perspective they see is shared with others, and other drivers also share their perspectives, but they do not know how this equipment achieves this. If they want to understand it, it is estimated that the technology in the field of mental consciousness needs to reach a certain level.

In other words, as far as Yue Yuan is concerned, in the third-person perspective, he can see everything, even the trajectory of every shell, and even the position of the Tianqin detected by the tachyon detector, he can see it subconsciously. Even if he focuses on the tachyon detector, he can "see" the moment when the tachyon appears almost instantly. He has a feeling that if the Tianqin is maneuverable enough, maybe it can even avoid this instantaneous tachyon detection. Of course, that requires focusing on the tachyon detection device, and being very focused, so that you can detect the moment when the tachyon is about to appear.

This kind of meticulous observation is an application of the third-person perspective. We noticed it when we were training drivers, but this method of observation is obviously more energy-consuming.

The power of driving a warship from a third-person perspective gives humans full confidence. As for the current Tianqin, Yue Yuan and other pilots can clearly see every trajectory on the scene.

What the tachyon detector can detect can be seen, Yue Yuan and the drivers can see it, and what the tachyon detector cannot detect can also be seen.

Therefore, under Yue Yuan's control, the Tianqin avoided possible attacks in advance, and driven by the warp engine, it made many turns and dodged all attacks.

The same was true for other human warships. All 2,996 warships had their dodge skills maxed out and easily avoided all the bullets.

While dodging the attack, all the human warships, led by the Tianqin, could also fight back. It was not the kind of fight that required all their strength to free their hands. Moreover, when dodging, they knew where their warships were moving from, how to shoot, and which predicted position they would hit...

Dodge, fight back, and then turn around to a safe place, everything goes smoothly.

What surprised the Orange Star Civilization was that the warp gravity bomb fired by humans in retaliation seemed to be thrown at random, but it appeared in the path of the Orange Star Civilization warship just seven or eight seconds later, as if the warship was directly hitting the bomb. The same was true of the antimatter bomb attack that followed.

In an instant, more than 2,000 Orange Star civilization warships that entered into close combat were destroyed by humans in one encounter.

The attacks of the human fleet were so efficient that almost every attack was effective, although not every strike was successful. After all, the Orange Star Civilization could still detect some warp gravity bombs. But after a batch of attacks, there would always be several or dozens of gravity bombs that were not detected by them.

Then the battleship, whose force field shield was torn apart by many gravity bombs, was blown up by the subsequent antimatter bombs.

The Lyra's star destroyer cannon is also exerting its power. Its conventional near-light speed plus 38 times warp speed antimatter shells can even hit the target every time.

On one hand, they couldn't hit the target, and on the other hand, nearly three thousand of their own warships were destroyed in one encounter. The Orange Star Civilization finally felt something was wrong.

This human civilization... doesn't seem to be running away?

However, after a few dozen minutes, the reaction of the Orange Star civilization changed from confusion to disbelief.

(End of this chapter)