Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 904 Tachyon Lightsaber
When this type of tachyon weapon is activated, photons will also appear. However, the photons are not fired from the muzzle of the weapon, but are generated in space because the tachyon route is activated.

As long as the tachyon weapon is activated, photons will definitely be generated along its damage path, as if they were created out of thin air.

Of course, photons cannot come out of nothing. It's just that humans currently don't know how these photons are born. But we are not completely ignorant of them. According to a report from the weapons research department, these photons are born after the appearance of destructive tachyons, but the difference between the two is only within the Planck time.

The appearance of photons took away some of the energy that originally belonged to the destructive tachyons, but this phenomenon is inevitable. Scientists speculate that this phenomenon may be related to the phase transition of the electromagnetic force in the universe, and may also be accompanied by a weak force phase transition.

The good news is that this companion photon is a high-energy photon that is also lethal and more powerful than any previous laser weapon.

In other words, tachyon weapons are not only destructive with the tachyons themselves, but also can kill with high-energy lasers, making them double-kill weapons.

This physical phenomenon also means that once a tachyon weapon is fired, it will be accompanied by a light beam.

During the experiment, the weapons department saw that as soon as the tachyon weapon was activated, it looked like a beam of light was emitted from the muzzle from the perspective of the bystander detector. The light beam was not shot out, but lit up together with the muzzle and the line connecting the three light-years away, like a lightsaber.

This also gave this successfully developed tachyon weapon a name: tachyon lightsaber.

The tachyon lightsaber does not flash by, it has a duration. The duration depends on the charging energy at the transmitting end, and the charging energy depends on the level of technology, or more precisely, the depth of research in the force field. The more thorough the research in the force field, the longer the tachyon lightsaber will last.

The reason is that this type of tachyon weapon is also a derivative technology under the framework of the Theory of Everything. It is the intersection of the tachyon field technology tree and the force field technology tree. The charging of the weapon also depends on the super force field.

Current human technology can maintain the existence of a tachyon lightsaber for 3 seconds.

Three seconds of being a real man is what it is.

What makes humans most happy is that although the entire tachyon lightsaber weapon system is also very large, it does not reach the level of a super star destroyer cannon and is very suitable for use as a conventional main gun of a battleship.

If the super star destroyer cannon is not carried, the battleship can be built smaller. The length of the battleship can be about 600 kilometers, which is 200 kilometers shorter than the planned Tianqin. The lateral and longitudinal sizes are also much smaller, so the overall mass of the battleship is smaller.

Small mass means greater flexibility, but since the Lyra has warp enhancement equipment, it won't have much impact even if it is larger.

Therefore, except for the Lyra, humans plan not to equip any of their spacecraft with super star destroyer cannons.

Anyway, the tachyon lightsaber alone is enough, because of the superluminal real-time characteristics of the tachyon lightsaber, from a practical point of view, it is even better than the super star destroyer cannon.

For this reason, this time humans did not divide their warships into two types: kinetic main guns and energy main guns, as they did in the early civilizations, but instead equipped all of them with tachyon lightsabers.

That is an instantaneous weapon with an effective range of 3 light years. It is conceivable that future wars will definitely be dominated by tachyon lightsabers. At a distance of 3 light years, even if the super star destroyer cannon is equipped with warp engine shells, it will take 10 days to hit.

Therefore, the only human warship equipped with a super star destroyer is the Tianqin, which was installed to ensure that it had the ability to destroy stars. As the flagship, the Tianqin naturally cannot only have a super star destroyer, it must also have a tachyon lightsaber.

The emergence of the tachyon lightsaber has made weapons more energy-based, and the way of warfare will also change.

The emergence of tachyon lightsaber technology has also promoted the research and development progress of human beings in interrelated fields such as tachyon detection and tachyon communication. After the tachyon lightsaber technology matured, it took humans only two and a half years to successfully master the new generation of tachyon detection and communication technology.

The new generation of tachyon detection technology allows humans to have a detection radius of 2.5 light years, and communication has been directly extended to 5 light years. This is the strength of shipborne communication and scanning equipment. If humans build tachyon communication on planets, the communication range can be doubled to 10 light years away. Humans are very clear that this is the interstellar communication technology that they heard about from the Perseus trade market.

Unfortunately, this technology is difficult to put on warships because its equipment is too large, larger than the largest interstellar battleship planned by humans, the Lyra. There is no other way to put it except on a planet.

It is very suitable for use by settled civilizations. They can build such tachyon communication base stations in each star system, and then realize a tachyon communication network in the entire starry sky.

Forget about the wandering civilization.

Of course, if you really want to do it, it is not impossible. After all, we have planetary warp engines. We can build a base station on the planet and then pack it up and take it away. However, the cost of doing so is too high, not only the construction cost of the base station, but also the energy cost required to drive the planet's warp navigation.

It would be better to build more star-class battleships if we have that time.

For the entire civilized fleet, the lack of communication and detection distance will not actually cause any problems, because in ancient times people knew to use scouts during marches, and the entire fleet cannot be without patrol detection teams. It is just a matter of spreading more patrol teams around.

Engine technology, weapon systems, communication technology, detection technology.
The maturity of these major technologies finally allowed humans to put the construction of new ships on the agenda, which was a thousand-year plan.

In the entire plan, humans will use a thousand years to complete the construction of a new flagship, but not only a new flagship, but also the upgrade and transformation of all ships.

The original planetary-class ships will be replaced with the latest fourth-generation warp engines. In order to keep the speed of the entire fleet consistent, the engine systems of the sea-class ships and lake-class ships will also be updated.

As for the smaller Mountain-class ships, they will be converted into exploration ships. Normally, they will be stored in star-class transport ships and move along with the Covenant fleet. Planetary-class transport ships are also used as their home ports and are equipped with special maintenance ships to carry out maintenance on these exploration ships that are frequently on missions.

Humanity plans to spend a thousand years to build 10,000 star-class residential ships, 3,000 star-class biosphere ships, and 1 million star-class warships, including the new Lyra that runs through the entire plan.

The Tachyon Lightsaber will be the standard main gun weapon for all star-class battleships.

As for the shield system, a space is reserved for the time being, and it will be installed when the real shield technology is realized. Although humans have not yet made a breakthrough in real shield technology, they are not without any progress. At least the approximate space occupied by the shield generator is known, and the appearance design has also been determined.

After all, we have experience in shield generator design, so there is no problem with this.

Therefore, in the future, all members of the Star Alliance will serve this plan. Each civilization will have its own area of ​​responsibility, some specializing in mining, some focusing on transportation, and some assisting in the production of warship spare parts.

Humans are not idle either. In addition to investing in strong artificial intelligence to produce new creations, humans themselves also participate in the design and manufacturing.

In Yue Yuan's words, although most jobs can be handled by strong artificial intelligence, humans themselves cannot lose their skills, especially in the manufacturing industry, where there must be someone who knows how to do every aspect of the industry.

Human beings cannot sit and wait to be fed by strong artificial intelligence.

As for other civilizations in the Covenant, humans provided fourth-generation warp engines to equip their fleets, and the eliminated planetary battleships were also put on the Covenant's internal market for sale after approval.

(End of this chapter)