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Chapter 827 Looking up at the Starry Sky: Space Battleship

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Running to the universe has always been one of the illusory dreams, and after the appearance of the Zerg, this dream became even more intense.After decades of development, the Pengzu has achieved the launch of the No. 1 and No. 2 projectors from the original wooden-hull airship to the steel airship, and then cooperated with the launch of more than 30 satellites for five consecutive months. After the high-intensity launch test, the Pengzu finally started the real spacecraft research.

And borrowing the technical support of airships, submarines, space launchers, and satellites, coupled with the start of accurate fantasy experiments on the universe simulation, the most important thing is the oppression of the Zerg in the universe. Combat ship standards to carry.

Of course, these spacecraft will be subject to the design constraints of the ground-based electromagnetic orbital accelerator before the Pengzu space factory is transformed from theory to reality.

According to the designers, the current Pengzu orbital accelerator can only deliver objects weighing no more than 1000 tons, having a diameter of no more than 20 meters, and a length of no more than 100 meters to a low orbit of 500 kilometers. Limit the degree of freedom of Pengzu aerospace design.

But this does not shake the determination of the designers, who are oppressed by the Zerg and want to vent all the time, to study space battleships that can fight against the Zerg, and then push the battle line from the Double Moon Star to the universe.

"... Therefore, based on the current situation, we have proposed two design ideas: one is an integral space battleship, with a ground weight of 971 tons, a length of 87 meters, and a maximum diameter of 15 meters. However, in terms of power, the magnetic field engine is The effectiveness of space is too low, and the anti-gravity engine of Elder Void... In addition, only rocket thrust is left. We have carried out a little theoretical verification, but found that if we use rocket thrust instead, it is very difficult to launch large-mass objects... "

The designer shook his head.

Obviously, the anti-gravity engine that is currently most suitable for space battleships is the anti-gravity engine that Unreal holds in his hands, because fighting in the gravitational circle, this kind of engine that affects gravity will be the most suitable for the current use of the friends.

But it was clear that Kong Huan had no intention of letting go.

"Instead of thinking about these, you should think about whether you can research further space engines. Didn't I propose a centralized and feasible plan before?"

"But my lord, what you put forward are just simple concepts and names, without any actual data or even theoretical proof."

Pulse propulsion, solar sails...even space power, apart from the first few, the designers feel that these things are even more mysterious than Shenting, let alone research, but now is not the time to get entangled in these things.

"As for another design idea, it is actually similar to a space station. We consider designing a modular design, which can be combined into a functional ship. The volume of a single module is at the level of a combat ship, but after launching into space, it will be the same as docking with a space station. Combined, and finally welded and integrated in space to become a giant battleship."

"Of course, many of these things are just ideas and have not yet become a reality. The most important thing is the engine."

————Memories drift by————

Kong Huan and Sakuya, who came back to their senses, had already stood in the huge shadow of the dock. At this time, Kong Huan, who was standing here, was still lamenting the abilities of these designers.It never occurred to him that the most important and difficult engine problem would be solved so quickly and so strangely by these designers.

They first borrowed three anti-gravity engines from Kong Huan. At first, Kong Huan thought they were going to dismantle them, but out of confidence in the anti-gravity engines he made with his thoughts, he wasn't worried.However, after checking it a few days later, I found that these designers did not do what he thought (or did, but gave up because they couldn’t be dismantled), but put the energy on the anti-gravity engine and put it in the experimental Scanning room of the room.

These designers have creatively used the anti-gravity engine as an experimental instrument for observing gravitational waves in the laboratory.

This move shocked even the emptiness.

But if you think about it carefully, it's just a matter of way of thinking.One of the prerequisites for being able to design an anti-gravity engine is to observe gravitational waves, and if you can have an anti-gravity engine, do you still need to do such things?But the situation of Pengzu is special. Our anti-gravity engine technology was provided by others. Void Magic just copied the engine but didn't understand the principle.

Seeing this, Kong Huan just hesitated for a moment, and didn't intend to stop this behavior.

The gravitational waves observed through anti-gravity are the same as the naturally occurring gravitational waves. At this moment, the effect of the anti-gravity engine is just a function similar to a magnifying glass, which has little impact on the independent technology of the friends. The void is also happy to let the laboratory accumulate Gravitational wave theory and experimental data.

However, within a few months, through the analysis of these data, driven by the huge computing power and rich imagination of the experimenters, they proposed a brand new induced gravitational wave engine.

Different from the completely anti-gravity engine, the induced gravitational wave engine proposed by the Pengzu testers seems to be more powerful than the anti-gravity engine if only the theory is used.It will produce different effects through gravitational wave interference in the surrounding space, such as positive gravitational waves, oblique gravitational waves, and even the existence of gravitational waves as spider threads, so that the spacecraft can realize the existence of gravitational waves in space. The area performs functions such as acceleration, deceleration, and tilting.

But in fact, to realize these functions, it only needs to install a few more gravitational wave interference devices that are simpler than anti-gravity engines, but whose design ideas are completely different from those of anti-gravity engines.

Of course, Kong Huan must admit that his research model of the civilization control center also plays a significant role in the design of this gravitational wave interference device, but this is something that Pengzu has developed and fully understood after all.

Then it was more than a month of hasty experiments. Until the last few days, the designers finally took out the first real object of the induced gravitational wave engine and installed it in the prototype of the spaceship that was made for theoretical verification a long time ago for physical experiments. on board.Today, Kong Huan brought Sakuya here, apparently to witness its first start.

"But there is a small problem." Sakuya stood next to Kong Huan, seemingly inadvertently asking the designer who was talking eloquently.

"My lord, please tell me." It took a few months to produce the induced gravitational wave engine from scratch, and the designers are obviously full of confidence now.

"What if, I mean, if, the spaceship flies to a place in the universe where there is no gravity... what then?"

"..."

"..."

"Ahem, at least now our spacecraft is used in the double-moon solar system, and the existence of gravitational waves can be felt everywhere here, and when we highlight the universe, the engine will also be upgraded by then. So Sakuya, consider now It's a little early."

In order to prevent the atmosphere from getting colder, Kong Huan made a relief.

Sakuya nodded calmly, as if he just asked an insignificant question and didn't care.The designers on the side looked embarrassed, because in essence, they did ignore this aspect, which was a huge mistake for rigorous scientific design.

But Kong Huan also knows the reason, there are few people.

This is still an old-fashioned topic, so there is no more nonsense, and the topic is changed from this embarrassing point. After stepping into the dock, Kong Huan looked at the "spaceship prototype ship" in front of him.

To say that for friends who have already designed the floating ship to a length of several hundred meters and tens of thousands of tons, the spaceship in front of me, which is less than a hundred meters long and more than ten meters in diameter, is not enough to put it in the floating fleet.However, compared with the atmospheric spacecraft of the floating ship, the design of the aerospace spacecraft highlights many safety issues such as protection and sealing.

"In terms of protection, the outer shell of the hull is designed in a smooth manner to ensure that there will be no problems due to atmospheric friction when protruding out of the universe.

At the same time, this design is also convenient for us to install various types of armor protection decks.

Compared with the atmospheric floating ship, the hull of this spaceship has a thickness of nearly two meters, and its bullet protection capability will be three times higher than that of the Thunder class. It also strengthens the corrosion resistance of energy corrosion and chemical corrosion.Most importantly, on the inner side of the outermost armor plate, we also installed a large number of improved Type 3 radiation shields for it.Under such a design, more than 22 tons of this guy's weight of more than 900 tons are actually the weight of the shell and the protection zone. "

Looking around, the smooth deck design is indeed much more beautiful than the current floating ships. It is somewhat close to the dedicated high-speed ships of the Swordfish class, but it is much thicker than the Swordfish class.

Kong Huan nodded, and under the guidance of the researcher, entered the interior of the hull through the connecting bridge.

"Because space warfare must be considered from the very beginning. In that environment, we cannot let the spacecraft we designed become a one-shot death. But the problem is that the volume is too small, and we cannot realize double-hull or even multi-hull Therefore, we designed the interior of the entire hull into nearly ten compartments that can be completely closed to each other, similar to the multi-watertight compartment design of a surface ship."

"But the most important thing is that as a space battleship, its weapons will be completely targeted."

The space inside the hull is very small, and there is only one straight-through aisle. The so-called ten compartments are connected through this aisle. Kong Huan and others boarded the ship in the middle section, and they walked to the bridge at the middle and front end within a few steps.

The position of the bridge is a little higher than other compartments, but it is still hidden inside the hull, canceling the relatively arrogant and prominent bridge design of the floating ship.Also because of the small size, it is impossible to realize the multi-bridge design. Inside the bridge of this spaceship, only the captain's seat, driver's seat, and navigator's seat can see the outside scenery through the portholes, and the rest of the positions are sunk into the hull.The portholes are no longer wide and wide, but low and narrow.

However, a large number of automated designs, artificial brains and screen installations make the entire bridge look very sci-fi.

After a while of operations, several large screens in the bridge were turned on, and the main picture of the spaceship was displayed on the central screen.Through the 3771 sensors on the ship, bridge members can instantly understand the damage of various parts of the ship on this map, so as to make immediate corrections.

Unreal nodded in satisfaction.

At this time, the designer has switched the display of the main map to the weapon, and then the biggest difference from the ordinary floating ship design is displayed.

"Through many years of fighting against the Zerg, after joint discussions with the Military Academy, we believe that the biggest threat of the Zerg to us is actually those low-level Zerg that are not strong in defense but have a large number. Therefore, we are designing this spaceship. When it comes to weapons, after many discussions, the medium and large-caliber electromagnetic guns that were not used frequently were abandoned, and the SS-7 orbital electromagnetic storm turret with a high rate of fire, automatic loading, and a 3mm caliber was completely adopted.”

"The sword is slanted, so there will be no problems, right?" Sakuya asked attentively, and Kong Huan, who was preempted by the first step, also nodded in agreement.

"No." After a few minutes of buffering, the researcher seemed to regain his confidence again: "We just canceled those medium and large-caliber electromagnetic guns that were not high enough or low enough, but we didn't completely give up high-end attack capabilities. Please see... "

The image zoomed in for a moment, and Kong Huan saw some signs at the front of the hull.

"Thunder Cannon?"

"Yes, it's Thunder's main cannon."

Waving his arms, the designer looked excited: "We have installed six SS-3 turrets on this spaceship, so that nearly 4000 rounds of 7mm caliber ammunition will be consumed per minute. Although this ammunition is small, But the ship's regular ammunition is only 20 rounds, which means that under high-intensity combat, she can only last for an hour at most."

"Besides, it's impossible for us to only encounter those little bugs. If there is a tentacle monster, the SS-3 is completely powerless. So we have also added a main gun design, which will not rely on physical ammunition, and it will kill the tentacle monster. Even the Thunder Cannon, which has a certain range of attack and defense capabilities, has been added."

"That is to say, abandon the mid-range battle and use the pure rate of fire as the main force, supplemented by the main gun lore mode?"

Thinking about the process of fighting the Zerg, Kong Huan found that considering the various situations that the friends are currently encountering, the design of this kind of warship in the floating ship is no longer useless, but very important.

So, he didn't mention any rebuttal sentences.

"By the way, is the engine installed?"

"Of course, today's main task is this."

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The experiment went smoothly, and the use of gravitational waves sounds very difficult, but just like many science and technology in history, it is important to break through the 'nothing'.After knowing the principle of its existence, the mysterious mist has disappeared, and the rest is as simple as picking a fruit and eating it.

However, on the ground, the performance of this induced gravitational wave engine is not as good as that of the pumice-powered engine, so the test at this stage is just a feasibility verification.Relying on this kind of engine alone, the output cannot reach the level of breaking through the universe, so we still have to wait for a period of time to launch it into the universe through the orbiter before further testing can be carried out.

Of course, the security measures of the spacecraft are absolutely excellent under the lessons of the No. 1 and No. 2 lunar launchers.

Then, I continued to express my condolences to the first batch of space battleship crews selected from the Military Academy. Kongfan bid farewell to Sakuya, who was going to continue patrolling, and returned to his residence in B02.

At the same time, Lanyue was having a major meeting.

Although significant, it was accidental.

It took Bai Nong and the people to dig the mine for two full months before he was able to refine enough minerals with his mind and set up the two most basic mineral factories.But this is not over yet, the newly built mineral factory does not have mineral robots, because the number of artificial brains preserved when the delivery cabin was shattered is limited, and after supporting two mineral factories, there are only two left.In this way, after discussion, Bai Nong and the others separated the artificial brain production line urgently needed by the automated factory into a mechanical station and built it in advance.

It took them nearly a month.

After all these were done, everyone tried their best to use the blueprints to artificially manufacture ten mining robots. It was not until this time that most of the members were liberated.The energy bodies who worked as miners for more than three months lost the interest to continue. Although it was a bit slow, everyone still broke away. Some were responsible for defense, and some were responsible for researching what to do next. The people below were all released to look for the creatures that were still resisting the Zerg on the blue moon.

However, according to the previous search by the team, there are traces of Zerg all around, and there are no rebels at all.

But just when everyone thought that the rebel army was a tragedy, the careful Bai Min discovered a point that was ignored by everyone: "Don't you think that there are a little more plants on this planet?"

"Plants... yes!"

The crowd suddenly realized, but then they became more confused.

Where the Zerg exist, there is no way there will be any extra plants. They used to not notice this before, but now after Bai Min reminded them, everyone found that among the many places around that have been covered by creep, there are still plants. That's quite a few plants there.

Different from the plants on Double Moon, probably due to the difference in many factors such as gravity and the thickness of the atmosphere, the plants on Blue Moon look like mushrooms, but they are huge. They are distributed one by one in various places, forming the Blue Moon endemic forest.

"Could it be that these plants are more beneficial to the Zerg if they live?"

Everyone had to think so, and soon, several plant samples were brought back to their temporary base.However, in order to manufacture instruments for testing these samples, the full version of the mechanical station that was just about to be opened was stopped again.Then a month later, they came to a strange conclusion: this plant is just an ordinary plant, except for its appearance, its actual effect is no different from that of Double Moon Star.

Just when everyone was in a state of distress, the rebel army, which had not been discovered for a long time, appeared at this moment, attracting everyone's attention.

On this day, two energy bodies were investigating the outskirts of a Zerg base [-] kilometers away from the temporary base. Suddenly, a group of strange-looking creatures rushed into the Zerg base at an extraordinary speed, causing thousands of people to attack. insect.Not long after, a group of more creatures of the same kind rushed in taking advantage of the emptiness of the base.

It seems to be a similar strategy to tune the tiger away from the mountain.

But at this moment, those bugs that chased out before suddenly returned as if they had known about it for a long time.

When the energy body was about to step forward to rescue, a large number of strange spherical creatures were suddenly thrown out from the group of attacking Zerg creatures, and hit the Zerg core base, triggering a series of explosions.

When the flesh foam produced by the explosion covered a large area, taking advantage of the chaos, the group of creatures chose the hiding place of two energy bodies to break through.Both sides seem to be very experienced in fighting. It is obviously not the first time that the worms have encountered this kind of situation, and they quickly chased after them under the guidance of a brain worm who does not know somewhere. It seems to be a war bee with some different arms.

If all goes well, this group of creatures that missed a step will probably be caught by bugs, but that is only normal.Don't forget, there are still two of these two on the way forward, who can single out the energy body of this base.

The subsequent results are self-evident. They have long wanted to find out the energy bodies of the rebels. One is in charge of communicating with creatures, and the other directly rushed into the Zerg base with great power and started killing.

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