The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 355 Space Hurd Shrimp

Until the meeting was declared over in a strange atmosphere, the light signals on a pair of communication structures of some "people" remained chaotic or completely dim, telling of the neural signals called emotions flashing in the brain and nervous system at this moment.

The more information we have, the more confusing the truth becomes. The vast distance of light years makes everything so vague. The Ezkimu civilization, the Ascension Church, the "Presolin", and the unknown interveners who are still unknown whether they have anything to do with all this, have made things a mess like the northwest of Shanxi in later generations.

But now, Lin Yi temporarily turned his attention to the other side - in the orbit of Dicra, the first batch of space battleship-class organisms designed completely independently by the Anomalocaris colony were about to complete the pupation process.

The old-fashioned reused pupal sacs are still growing on the graptolite-shaped structure at the end of the space elevator on the planet Dikla. At this moment, a series of structures have already taken shape in two of the pupal sacs, waiting for the final emergence.

Under the gaze of countless pairs of compound eyes and the cluster consciousness network connected to them, the first pupa sac burst open like a bloom, and underneath, the pitch-black exoskeleton, which almost completely blended into the vast cosmic background at the optical level, vaguely revealed its huge outline.

The electric rocket engine flashed a barely detectable ion trail, and then ripples appeared on the originally black exoskeleton, as if pieces of broken color were gradually pieced together, revealing a bright blue color.

That was the change caused by the adjustment of the shield-scale reactive armor layer. As the color of the exoskeleton changed, the complete shape of this giant beast that was comparable to the star scorpion became apparent.

Like Lin Yi, the Anomalocaris nest also chose to make changes to the basic form that once made up the nest to produce space-grade products.

The main body of this class is similar to the former Benmera Poseidon Helmet Shrimp, with two rows each, a total of four rows of swimming leaf-like structures arranged in an X shape on the sides of the body - although they are no longer responsible for driving the body, but are used as heat sinks, just like the paddling-foot-like structure retained by the star scorpion.

The head of the Benmora Poseidon has retained its classic, battleship-like huge head shell, but below, the pair of feeding appendages on the head of the Poseidon Poseidon, which have been specialized into a sieve-like filter-feeding structure, are now replaced by a pair of hideous sickle-limbs like those of the Pseudognathus sphenoidalis, and the lower jaw seems to have fangs, which is extremely hideous.

Of course, just like the ferocious sickle limbs that the Star Scorpion retained, inherited from the Fearless Scorpion, or its original prototype, the horseshoe crab form of the Pentacles, this pair of appendages no longer has the ability to attack at close range, but only exists as an external design.

According to the design, these two pairs of appendages and some tissues under the head shell formed a huge electromagnetic acceleration track, driving its axis-based electromagnetic track main gun structure that was even more amazing than the main gun of the escort star scorpion.

The type of main weapon also determines that according to the Ezki civilization's positioning, this is an escort ship - but even though the general category has been determined, some underlying concepts, that is, the supporting tactics, have begun to show different structures, reflecting the relatively more radical tactics and design ideas of the Anomalocaris nest group.

The concept of the Ezki escort ship is to have relatively flexible close-range firepower, mainly turret-type firepower, and a more flexible dogfighting mode. If there is a need to destroy large targets such as asteroids or enemy space stations, the missiles on board will be used.

The escort star scorpion developed by Lin Yi on this basis replaced the main weapon with an electromagnetic rail gun to better adapt to the biological structure and the existing combat mode, but still retained the secondary gun at the end of the flexible special appendage, just in case. However, this space combat grade belonging to the Anomalocaris nest group boldly did not install any secondary gun-level firepower, but only had some "vertical launch unit" structures that accommodated the Baghorn III heavy attack missiles and the Orthoclase close defense missiles as supplementary firepower.

Instead, the size of the disciple's electromagnetic railgun was made to an astonishing degree - the acceleration track in the head appendage was only a part of it, the real launch track almost ran through the entire body, and the supporting electric plate column organs were densely packed in the body.

With a body size similar to that of the Escort Star Scorpion, the length and caliber of the main gun acceleration track of this "Space Hurd Shrimp" are almost twice that of the Escort Star Scorpion's main gun, perfectly illustrating the saying "big power means big flying".

Unlike gunpowder weapons, which must match the corresponding caliber exactly, the caliber of electromagnetic weapons is downward compatible - a 100mm caliber artillery cannot directly fire a 90mm caliber shell, but a 100mm caliber electromagnetic gun can easily be compatible with any caliber ammunition below 100mm through power adjustment.

There is no need for even special shells. As long as the object contains metal components and can be accelerated by the Ampere force of the magnetic field, it can be stuffed in and used to fire. The only difference is the damage caused.

At the same time, since the launch power of electromagnetic weapons can also be easily adjusted, this also illustrates the design concept of the Space Hurd Shrimp's weapon system - using projectiles of different sizes and different powers to adapt to combat at different distances and in different environments.

This design concept is also reflected in the standard electromagnetic firearms used by Ezki Marines, which are designed to easily adjust multiple output power levels, and are equipped with modular accessory structures and different ammunition to achieve a variety of different purposes.

During the initial contact on Earth, the first electromagnetic gun shooting that Lin Yi witnessed was when it fired subsonic anesthetic bullets at the lowest power to capture wild animals. Later, when he was testing the other party by pretending to be wild animals, he also saw the electromagnetic gun firing lethal bullets at full power.

Although similar technology was later used on the improved Crazy Tooth Saw Ant to make the launching structure at the end of the abdomen compatible with shotgun shells and armor-piercing single-barreled bullets, Lin Yi had not dared to try such a large-scale adjustment and bold application.

But no matter what, in order to make up for the shortcomings in applied science caused by insufficient innovation and to further develop applied technologies in various fields, it is always necessary to create a variety of advanced technology experimental platforms for verification.

Among these, perhaps some technologies will stand out and become the focus of the future, while some can only be called failed trials and errors. Still others, although impressive, can only be cancelled for one reason or another, and will be sealed as technology reserves, waiting for the day when conditions allow their activation.

Therefore, Lin Yi was also curious about whether these technologies could be promoted on a large scale or used as useful technology reserves. And next, it was time to see the first real performance of the Anomalocaris nest, a billion-year-old "old friend", on the brand-new cosmic stage that it had always longed for.

(End of this chapter)