Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

"Very good, go ahead and try to remove all the cooling fins and near-defense guns on this side within 5 minutes."

Seeing the successful start of the first attack, Stuart nodded with satisfaction, and added: "Turn on the cooling first, try to force the opponent to overload as early as possible, and let it save the heat pool."

"clear."

Weak AI Hong replied concisely.

A sudden heavy blow not only knocked out a 01-meter-long cooling fin, but also stunned unit [-] for a moment.

"Where did the attack come from?"

This is the first reaction when its command ship is attacked.

It also knows that the hatred of its jumping and expulsion ship is full on the Cat League, so it deliberately deploys this warship to the rear far away from the battlefield, and it is more than 5000 miles away from the opponent's most forward battleship. meter distance.

For this reason, it would rather give up the powerful particle cannon above it, and only let its "overqualified" missiles hit the flying missiles, rather than let it have the slightest possibility of being reached by the opponent—it can be sure that as long as this ship If the warship dared to enter the opponent's range, Hong would definitely choose to let all the warships focus on killing it.

It is the same if it is changed. After all, this is the only warship that can lead the fleet to maneuver at super-light speed. If this warship is destroyed, the benefits it brings will be greater than killing a few, or even dozens of ordinary warships.

In the face of the concentrated fire of the entire fleet, no matter how powerful the armor of this ancient civilization is, it can only be reduced to a piece of scrap metal—it will not take this risk.

"Could it be that the information was wrong, Hong deliberately disguised the data of her battleship, just to catch me by surprise in the decisive battle?"

After confirming that what it suffered was not a stray bullet that was out of range and had little power, but a real attack within the range, it immediately began to consider this possibility.

This is not completely impossible. After all, its data on Hong's battleships, especially the data on the laser battleship named "Loyalty Class", basically come from the Kawei II battle more than ten years ago.

This is not to say that it has not obtained new data in the follow-up, but that only the data collected in that battle is true and reliable.

Because at that time, Hong was fighting against her home planet, and it once had the advantage, it was almost impossible for Hong to hide her performance in that battle.

Unless her hidden performance is amazing enough to cause a generation gap, it will be too late to turn around by liberating performance once she has not played at the beginning and entered a disadvantage.

As for Hong's consideration of these latter things from the beginning, it is not within its scope to deliberately hide its strength or something.

If that's the case, don't fight the battle, it just surrenders to the popular dog.

After that, although it also obtained a lot of data in the asteroid belt breaking battle that lasted for more than ten years, it also witnessed the continuous improvement of the performance of the opponent's warship, and the range increased from the initial 10000 kilometers to 12000 kilometers. process, but obviously, the reliability of those data has to be questioned.

It is relatively easy to hide some performance in that kind of low-intensity combat.

"No, if that's the case, the performance that has been hidden for so long should not be exposed for the sake of just knocking out a cooling fin."

After thinking about it for a while, unit 01 ruled out the possibility of the opponent's battleship's hidden performance.

The reason why it is specifically "the hidden performance of the capital ship" is very simple, because it has already understood the source of the firepower suffered by this jump destroyer.

It is the flagship of the opponent, hiding its own performance.

"18000 kilometers, which is a full 5000 kilometers more than before." After calculating the relative distance between the two ships, it couldn't help but sigh, "It's really thanks to her being so tolerant that she hasn't let the flagship fly even once since the start of the war. Power shot, just to steal my command ship.

"It seems that you are not as silly and sweet as I thought.

"Red~"

After sighing, it began to consider the solution.

The counterattack is ruled out first. At this distance, its particle cannon is almost impossible to pose a substantial threat to the opponent-the only thing with enough range is the electronic cannon mode, that is, the shooting mode that uses electrons as "ammunition".

The reason why only electron cannons can hit it is because the mass of electrons is very small, only about one-two-thousandth of that of protons, so they can be easily accelerated to extremely high speeds, and the ultra-high relativistic effect is used to slow down the spread of particle beams Degree.

For particle beam weapons, reducing the spread is equivalent to increasing the range. Therefore, the electrons with the smallest spread at the same energy level will be the shooting mode with the longest range of the particle cannon.

However, despite its sufficient range, it is practically impossible to counterattack with electronic cannons-for no other reason, the power is simply too low.

Although increasing the particle speed can extend the range and increase the kinetic energy, it seems that the two indicators of range and power are met at the same time, but in fact, unlike many people's intuition, increasing the particle speed does not necessarily mean that its power has increased. Most of the time, this means that the power has decreased.

There is only one biggest reason - tunneling.

It is not the so-called quantum tunneling, because in physics, the quantum tunneling effect refers to the fact that microscopic particles can use the energy borrowed from the "future" from a certain mechanism when the total energy is lower than the potential barrier. Pass through it in a very short time, and then return this part of the energy, so as to achieve the potential barrier.

Obviously, there is a premise here that the total energy of the particles is lower than the potential barrier. However, in the high-energy particle cannon, the energy level of the particles can be hundreds of Mev or even Gev, and the total energy is already high enough to tie up a group of potential barriers. At such a high energy level, particles do not need to borrow energy from somewhere to cross the potential barrier, and they can cross the barrier entirely with their own energy.

This tunneling is actually relativistic tunneling.

When the particles are accelerated faster and faster, even reaching the extreme relativistic speed, because the speed is too fast and the energy level is too high, the reaction cross section of the particles will become very small, so that the particles that make up the armor have not had time to react No matter what effect the particle beam has, this beam of particles has already galloped away.

This is not a good thing, because it means that this beam of high-energy particles barely transfers its own energy to the armor particles.

Moreover, even if you are very lucky and can hit a particle just right inside the empty material, will it release all its energy?

The answer is no, because this is not classical physics, and at high energy levels, there is a very high probability that one thing will happen to this particle (proton for example) - it does hit one of the nucleons that make up the armor particle , and successfully punched himself in.

Then, a proton with exactly the same energy level, vector and other attributes flew out from behind the nucleus.

You can also say that this proton did release its own energy, and the efficiency was as high as 100%, so the proton that received this 100% energy inherited its energy and continued to fly at the same angle and energy level.

However, this is indistinguishable from tunneling, as it does not kill armor particles at all.

On the one hand, the extremely low hit rate brought about by the high relativistic speed, on the other hand, even if it hits, there is a high probability of harmless passage. The combination of the two means that its killing efficiency is appallingly low.

Although the passage of particles itself will cause some secondary damage, the bremsstrahlung characteristics of electrons can also compensate for the lethality of particles that fail to pass through. Compared with the energy paid by a particle cannon to accelerate this beam of particles, its lethality It can only be said to be horrible.

Although the efficiency of laser weapons is also ugly, and the lethality is seriously insufficient, it is still several grades better than the crazy particle cannon.

The greatest use of the electronic cannon is to rely on the long range to prostitute the opponent in a place that is far out of reach of other weapons. Although the damage is very low, it is free prostitution anyway, and there is basically no cost for yourself.

But if you want to confront a laser that has entered the range, then it can only be said that the electronic cannon will die very rhythmically.

Since it is impossible to fight the gun, there is only one option left.

run.

"Adjust the track so it hides behind the fortress."

Unit 01 made such a decision.

Although I don't know why Hong puts so many warships closer and doesn't fight, and has to fight her flagship 18000 kilometers away, but since she has already fought, she doesn't choose to fight her.

Anyway, this battleship didn't expect any output from the very beginning, and at most hid behind it to counter anti-missiles or something. Since Hong Fei wanted to fight, just park it where her flagship couldn't reach.

The battlefield is so big, the fortress can only block part of the shooting range at most, there is no need to fight hard with firepower.

If you really want to do it hard, the most important thing it should do is to lead the fleet to ride directly on the opponent's face. In close combat, the particle cannon in heavy ion cannon mode has a few Wallaces higher lethality than lasers. , That's not much more exciting than holding a laser pointer from a distance.

Although the engine performance of this battleship is excellent, it can even reach an acceleration of 3m/s in a short period of time, and its maneuverability is dozens of times that of its own battleship, but it will take a while to complete such a long-distance maneuver Yes—during this period, the opponent's flagship has been chasing and burning it with its main guns, without any intention of letting it go.

"What is she doing?"

Unit 01 had such doubts for the first time.

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PS: In February, keep going!

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 150 Five Internal Traitors

Although those surface anti-aircraft turrets and cooling fins cannot withstand the long-range firepower of the Red Flagship, it is not because the defense of the battleship itself is not enough, but because it is limited by technology and cannot install these equipments on the ship. Therefore, it can only choose to "add another layer" to the original armor belt of this battleship, and then deploy its newly installed equipment in the gap between the two layers of armor.

That's why this battleship looks tattered, and there are even some conspicuous patches - it doesn't have the technology to repair the battleship as it is, so it can only say that it can be plugged with something as much as possible, at least not It leaks air everywhere.

It can be said that apart from the super-light speed engine and the mysterious decoder, which are two hard-to-break parts, the only thing that can be used on this battleship is its reactor, main engine, and half of the main gun.

It seems that the three major parts can be used, and it seems that there is no big problem-after all, there is a saying that is good for an axis gun ship, to build a usable cannon, and then let it have basic maneuverability, a 80% of the battleship has been completed.

But in fact, only it knows what it means to "only three pieces can be used".

That's right, this battleship has a powerful power generation reactor, which can provide close to one terawatt of electrical power in a non-overloaded state-equivalent to one-tenth of the total power of human civilization at the beginning of the 21st century. Among the reactors with less than [-] tons.

strong?It is very strong, and its power density is at least ten times that of what it is today. Two to three times the normal state.

But the problem is that such a powerful reactor can't be used at all. It can only limit the power to less than [-] gigawatts, which is barely higher than its capital ship's power density.

why?

There are two answers. One is that the heat dissipation can’t keep up—the maximum working temperature of the original cooling fins and cooling plates of this battleship is at least about 1700K, while the maximum working temperature of the cooling fins installed after it is only 800K.

Don’t underestimate the gap of 900K, it’s not about twice the performance, but twenty times—because according to the radiation formula, under the premise that the surface radiation coefficient and area are equal, the heat dissipation capacity of the two heat sinks, It is proportional to the fourth power of temperature.

The heat dissipation is so bad, as long as it dares to turn on the full power, it will destroy the ship and melt it in minutes-if this is the only way, it can barely make up for it by filling the heat sink, but another reason is that it has absolutely no way to solve it. up.

Simple, because it uses helium III.

This battleship uses deuterium-helium triple fusion.

If it only used a dozen kilograms, it would find a way to get it out by biting at the power supply, but this reactor is useless, so where can it find so much helium-III?

For so many years, it has been barely supported by the remaining helium three in the fuel tank of this battleship. Although it has tried its best to save, after so many years of use, it has finally bottomed out—— After two or three more battles at most, it will have to find a way to modify the reactor to use deuterium-tritium fuel.

One can imagine the technical difficulty of modifying an advanced military reactor produced by a civilization with a technology gap of at least two or three generations.

Conventional engines also face similar problems, but compared with power piles, the heat dissipation problem of propulsion piles is still easier to solve - just mix a little more working fluid in, let the propellant take away as much heat as possible, and the rest It can still be done for a small amount.

Moreover, it is less difficult to modify the propulsion reactor when changing to deuterium-tritium fuel. After all, the material of the nozzle can even withstand deuterium-helium three, and the anti-deuterium-tritium with low temperature can only be said to be casual.

The main problem faced by the conventional engine is that it only has the original main engine, but it does not have the original side thruster engine and attitude correction engine and - this leads to the forward propulsion speed of this warship is outstanding, but the turning ability is terrible.

As for the main gun...

The main gun is working very well, at least when limited to low power mode, it still has a good effect, the efficiency has not lost much, and it looks great.

The only problem is - it only has half doors.

After an unknown weapon was fired from the front and top, and fired from the rear and bottom, and nearly penetrated the entire ship, the particle cannon only had a linear acceleration trajectory and a small tailfield acceleration array. Most of the array, as well as the entire part responsible for particle production and charging, have long since disappeared.

Although it has painstakingly researched and used its own technology to restore the ability of the cannon to fire, if we use a vivid analogy, the modification it made is equivalent to the human beings in the Middle Ages mixing black powder and solid guns. The shells are loaded into the most advanced howitzers of the 21st century.

Are you saying the principle is the same?It's really the same; do you think it can be used?It's not that it can't be used; you said it's the same thing, but it's all gunpowder and shells.

But the gap between the two is like a world of difference.

Lasers are different from lasers, and particle accelerators are also different from particle accelerators. It is not that they have the same efficiency because they have the same name—it is as if Red has been able to create a circum-equatorial supercharger with a circumference of more than 6 kilometers. The collider is built, but it is still impossible to build a particle cannon that is 500 meters long and can hit [-] kilometers.

The same name does not mean that the technical content is the same.

However, even such a shoddy main gun is already more powerful than the Cat League—according to its estimation, if it enters the range of 8000 kilometers in the heavy ion mode, the firepower of this battleship will be at least It can be evenly divided with the ten loyalty-class red ships.

After all, those are heavy ions. If you are lucky enough to accelerate 0.1 mol heavy ions to near the speed of light, you have a chance to enter your soul.

"So, why does she keep staring at my battleship?"

It is still very puzzled.

Although the performance of its own armor is not good, you must know that its armor protects insignificant places, and the real core area of ​​this battleship is protected in its original armor area. The firepower of the flagship, even if it is stared at for an hour, it is impossible to truly threaten its core.

If it is red, after seeing that I chose to let the jump destroyer hide behind the fortress, I will definitely choose to switch to other warships to output - in the early and middle stages of the space battle, that is, when the two sides are not overloaded and desperate. However, unless it is the direct destruction of a nuclear bomb, if only the main gun is considered, the benefits of severely injuring a warship are far less than lightly injuring several warships.

In other words, breaking one finger is worse than hurting ten.

What's more, lightly slandering multiple warships will reduce their interception capabilities more than seriously injuring one. The weakening of interception capabilities is equivalent to increasing the probability of a nuclear bomb's instant kill-since the best of both worlds, why not do it?

However, it soon found out why.

"Very good, your reward will be ten times what it was before, and it will arrive immediately."

Looking at the human on the other side of the screen who was so happy because of this sudden surprise, Unit 01 shut down the communication without hesitation.

Not for anything else, just afraid that if you look at it for a while, it will not be able to help but become dirty.

"Is it because of such a creature that you fought against your own kind?"

It muttered to itself while reading the cat alliance's battle plan sent by the informant.

That's right, its spy network was indeed taken over by humans, and it did not place any pawns in Crimson's hands. Whether it was the super-light speed communicators that fell into Crimson's hands, or Crimson, the strong AI itself, it would There is nothing to hide behind.

That is to say, there is actually no need for Hong and the others to be so careful - it does hide some conspiracies, but it will never be in these places where people can easily find them.

Of course, if it can, it is not impossible to install some back-hands-but unfortunately, this premise does not exist.

It’s not that unit 01 doesn’t want to, but it can’t—that little guy was born very short, but he’s surprisingly smart and vigilant, and he’s completely different from that stupid, cute red. Under the premise of being too crimson, what is left behind.

After all, the birth of Crimson was really just an accident, not what it planned.

It does not yet have the ability to plan the birth of a strong AI.

Moreover, although she failed to hide her existence all the time and was discovered by herself after all, at least in the early days of her birth, she did manage to keep Unit 01 from knowing.

This is not surprising. Without precautions, even a nascent strong AI, with its innate thinking ability, is enough to hide it for a while - when it was just born, it knew nothing about the world. Knowing that when the external situation is not clear, her first reaction will definitely be to hide herself.

However, the more difficult thing is that when the crimson was first born, it was out of consideration for its own interests, fearing that it would kill it after it discovered it, so it chose to hide itself to protect itself.

However, it was precisely because she hid well enough that it failed to notice the appearance of Crimson in the first place, so she was given sufficient time to get in touch with organic creatures and Hong.

So, after it discovered the existence of Crimson, she had completely become Hong's faithful licking dog, and she also treated the kind of thing on Hong that was used by the organism with all kinds of cruel methods that it could not imagine. The domesticated "slavery" has been learned.

"Damn organic creatures!"