The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 270 Star Hao (2)

The Ezki battleship has a variety of primary and secondary weapons. The escort ship's primary weapons and most of its secondary weapons are high-energy lasers. It retains some large-caliber electromagnetic railguns for ground support. It is also equipped with short- and medium-range weapons. Fusion warhead missiles similar to intercontinental ballistic missiles of later generations of mankind.

This also shows that under normal circumstances, the engagement distance considered when designing the Ezki warship is how terrifying - even close to the light-second level. Although there is no connection between a second of the Ezki people and a second of future generations of humans.

This is why directed energy is the best main weapon in space battles, especially in capital ship battles. Only directed energy weapons whose ballistic speed reaches or approaches the speed of light can ensure hit accuracy at such a distance.

The main weapon of the main star is the large laser weapon reversed from the Ezki battleship. For laser weapons, frequency and wavelength determine its damage and penetration capabilities, and the most powerful one in this regard is undoubtedly the gamma ray laser.

What once caused the end-Ordovician mass extinction was the aftermath of a gamma-ray burst. It is enough to show its power - although talking about toxicity and damage aside from the dose is a hooligan, but it is enough to not consider the damage to the planet, but to kill the ship.

Unfortunately, success depends on penetrating power, and failure depends on penetrating power. The extremely powerful penetrating power of gamma rays means that they cannot be focused into powerful enough materials by any material known to either later generations of humans or the current Ezki people. Gamma ray laser.

As the next best option, X-ray lasers, which are one level lower in frequency than gamma rays and where future generations of humans still have materials that can reflect and focus them, would be a good choice. But the aliens use lasers that are not of this wavelength, but a laser that is close to the ultraviolet band and roughly appears blue-violet under the Tyndall effect.

After questioning, Lin Yi came to the conclusion that the resonant cavity and reflective focusing structure used by X-ray lasers are complex to process and require high materials. At least when the escort ships in the exploration fleet began to be built, they were not used on a large scale. However, It has always been regarded as the future development direction.

But the relevant technical information was carried by the exploration fleet - nothing surprising. In later generations, structural diagrams of nuclear reactors can be easily found on major search engines, but no one has actually produced one. For this kind of equipment, the real difficulty is processing rather than technical theory.

But Lin Yi couldn't learn the other party's processing method, so all this was not that important. Importantly, he had a rough recipe for a material that could reflect and focus X-rays.

As for the processing methods and specific proportions, these can be tried slowly. As for the processing of fine structures, Lin Yi is now better than the Ezki people. Although the biochemical processing at the cellular level is similar to or slightly worse than the other party in terms of minimum accuracy, the cost of large-scale processing can be as high as Too low.

Due to some rigid structural reasons, X-ray lasers are not suitable for use in the atmosphere - in fact, the lethality of directed energy weapons will be weakened by scattering when entering the atmosphere. However, the reduction of X-ray lasers in the atmosphere is particularly severe.

Therefore, all the experimental processes were completed in space. Not long after, the swarm version of the x-ray laser was officially launched, and a simulated shooting was conducted on materials similar to the outer shells of space creatures.

The test shot was to hollow out the meteorite, fill it with tissue inside, and install a directed energy main gun that was similar in size to the main gun of the Ezki frigate, but used X-ray lasers as an attack method. Based on the damage effect comparison, Its power was indeed more powerful than the laser main weapon of the Ezki battleship at that time. According to a series of data, in the end, the main star will install an ultra-high-power laser shaft cannon in the X-ray band, which will penetrate the entire central axis of the body and fire it from a position equivalent to the mouth, physically speaking, the mouth will spit out fragrance.

For the main star's fighting method, it does not require a turret-type main weapon, and the central axis type can simplify the structure as much as possible, which means that in the same space, the central axis type weapon can do better than the turret type. More powerful.

Xinghao retains the pair of ferocious sickle limbs of the fifty-oared warship horseshoe crab - of course, they no longer play an offensive role, nor are they purely decorative. The interior no longer has developed muscle tissue, but is responsible for accommodating a large number of laser-related The organ component serves as the core of Xinghao's attack in another way.

The remaining part of the precursor is a large-scale comprehensive sensing system, including an optical-infrared dual-purpose observation compound eye, a single eye that senses special wavebands, and an active radar detection system left behind just in case.

Due to close combat, the escort Xinghao is not equipped with a large directed energy axis cannon. However, in Lin Yi's vision, its combat method is slightly different from that of the Ezki escort ship, so it is not equipped with a turret-type laser secondary cannon. Instead, it retains the electromagnetic gun design from Space Creatures.

What the escort star pursues is to retain a certain degree of close combat capability at as high a speed as possible, for use in seizing the orbit control rights of terrestrial planets, etc. However, in Lin Yi's vision, excluding the enemy escort ships, some armed Taipei Defense fortifications such as airports may also be the focus of the escort star.

This means that it also needs some heavy firepower. The electromagnetic gun inherited from space creatures is a good choice, and the fight with enemy ships mainly relies on secondary weapons.

In terms of secondary weapons, since the form of the Ezki battleship turret is not suitable for the biological structure. Lin Yi made modifications - the original two pairs of appendages on the front body of the fifty-oared warship horseshoe crab, excluding the sickle limbs, are now replaced by two pairs of appendages with special structures.

These two pairs of appendages are slender and have multiple joints. The ends are not sharp, but a developed spherical structure similar to compound eyes and a pair of clamp-like protrusions shaped like chelicerae. At first glance, they look like four huge centipedes. Xing Hao leaned out half of his body.

These two pairs of appendages, or modular symbiotic life forms similar to Euglena, are quite flexible, and are equipped with X-ray band laser focusing structures at the ends, which serve as the secondary weapons of Xinghao.

Two pairs of four X-ray laser auxiliary weapons will become the auxiliary firepower of the two Stars and part of the close-in defense firepower. Due to the difference in structure, Lin Yi did not install the intensive close-in firepower of the Ezki escorts for the Stars. , instead, the rest of the methods were adopted.

Lin Yi specially designed a space with a special structure on the hind body of the star turtle, which is composed of a large number of scale-like armors that can be opened and closed - just like the micro-torpedo turtles in the past, some are smaller, and in most cases As a one-time use grade, it will be developed to cooperate with the huge star war.

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