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

At that time, if the fleet of planet 3 dares to come to support them, they will continue to stick to their homeland, and then call the Rockman to launch an attack to regain their planet. At that time, the two countries will be in a situation of two sides, and they will be able to easily take down the enemy. of these fleets.

If the opponent is wise and chooses to return the enemy's battleship to planet 3, then they can directly take over the enemy's planet 1 and planet 2, and use this money to recover a lot of blood, and even hope to pay off the debt directly, which is equivalent to net Earn a 1 million fleet of Cat League.

Only when the enemy chooses to resist stubbornly, they need to conduct a head-to-head confrontation between fleets-they are still willing to take this risk.

After all, if the war is won, the benefits it will bring will be huge.

At the very least, from the perspective of the entire human civilization, they no longer need to be confined to a small solar system, and are forced to let the three alliances involuntarily involve in a star system, but start to behave like a normal interstellar system. Like civilization, it began to expand towards other star systems.

In fact, the Inner Alliance has also smelled something recently, and they naturally don't want to watch the Outer Alliance expand outwards, and they are stuck in the inner solar system and cannot move.

For this reason, they have also recently provided some help to the foreign allies. Although the war has just ended, it is not easy to go to the field to help in person, but they still have indirect help such as opening waterways and low-interest loans. which provided.

This is also mainly due to the restraint of the war between the two sides - no matter whose army is, they follow the principle of only attacking military fleets and facilities, do not bomb planets, do not affect civilian facilities, and even allow civilian spaceships to travel along specific routes war zone.

In addition, the Jupiter military-industrial complex itself is not a country with strong cohesion. Although the government cake is for some reasons the hardcore younger brother of the inner solar system, the people themselves are more inclined to foreign alliances. Therefore, after the war failed and the government stepped down , Facing the intentional release of goodwill from the foreign alliance, he finally joined the foreign alliance half-heartedly.

Therefore, although the two sides fought a big battle, there were actually not many deaths, and there was not much hatred among the people-this is also an important reason why the two alliances quickly resumed diplomatic relations.

When the war is over, business still needs to be done.

...

Eleven months later, the ordered battleship was delivered.

This is one month earlier than the human plan. According to the Cat League, Red has continuously optimized the process by researching and analyzing the experience accumulated in a large number of shipbuilding in recent years, and finally reduced the average construction time of warships from Six months has been shortened to five and a half months, and the efficiency has increased by nearly 6%.

After the delivery of these warships, there will be no more orders from humans on the Cat League side.

The 1.1 million-ton fleet has consumed most of the assets of the foreign alliance, while the internal alliance and the asteroid belt, which focus on internal development, have no demand for warships for the time being, so this arms trade has temporarily come to an end.

Without considering the benefits brought by the victory of the war and only considering the current territory of the foreign alliance, Hong estimated that it would take them about 10 earth years to pay off the money here.

Hong doesn't care much about this, anyway, she thinks she has exhausted her benevolence, and subsidized so many warships with half-sold half-gifted, if the foreign alliance still can't defeat the Qi Enren in the end, then she can only reluctantly accept them as idols. The cooperating country is like a smart bird.

In fact, Hong is not too happy to do this—in her judgment, humans are a good choice for an ally, but they are definitely not a good choice for a partner country.

Unless they are willing to completely let go of all sovereignty and obey their orders, a country that cannot integrate into the planned economic system of the Chinese Communist Party might as well not accept it.

Obviously, humans don't seem like a civilization that would do that.

"Just received the news that the foreign alliance's fleet has left the port, and the entire army has assembled."

Hong put down the tablet in his hand and said so.

"Is it so fast?" Stuart was a little surprised, "I thought they would wait for a while to run-in the fleet that just arrived."

"Normally, their domestic economy is not doing well, and with the heavy debts brought about by the purchase of warships, it is understandable to be impatient."

In fact, it can no longer be described as a recession - in the last ten years, the GDP of the foreign alliances has had negative growth for 6 years, and 4 growth for 0 years. If the foreign alliance says it's not in a hurry, it must be a lie.

"So, what do we need to do about it?"

"Hmm... wish them a smooth journey?" Hong hesitated for a moment, then said tentatively.

"Ok."

After confirming that Hong didn't intend to continue messing with this matter, Stuart changed the subject neatly: "By the way, I recently heard that the Institute of Engineering has made great progress in the research of particle cannons, and has even begun to build test machines for testing on the ship. Yes, is there such a thing?"

"Yes, yes." Hong leaned back slightly, with his hands resting behind his head, with a very leisurely look, "But according to actual tests, even an experimental machine made of the best materials regardless of cost, the The effective range is just over 13000 kilometers, and the flow rate is not enough, so there is still a long way to go before practical use.”

"It means that they will basically not be on the ship in the short term?"

"Basically impossible."

"Okay." Stuart, who thought he would have a new big toy to play with, was a little disappointed, "I heard Bai and the others say by chance that the plasma wakefield accelerator had made breakthroughs in the past two years, and I thought it had already been put into practical use. "

"The endfield accelerator, how should I put it..." Hong thought for a moment, "Well, in fact, we don't know what it can do after research. After all, although this thing has a very high acceleration gradient, it can easily achieve several Hundreds and thousands of times, but in practice...really useless."

"why?"

Stewart is a little puzzled—the acceleration gradient is thousands of times, which means that the length of accelerating particles to the same energy level is greatly reduced. Isn't this beneficial to the limited length of the battleship?

"Because the efficiency is low."

Hong sighed: "Don't look at the tempting data of a high acceleration gradient, such as one or two centimeters to accelerate 3Gev, but it is actually very difficult to use—don't consider cascading, phase loss and other issues, you know its working efficiency How much is it?"

"How much? 20%?"

Stewart gave a number he thought was already low.

"The guess is quite accurate, and then subtract 0 to match."

"Then...wait a minute?"

She suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Minus 0?!"

"What do you think?" Hong stretched out her right hand, and made a very slight distance between her index finger and thumb, "2% efficiency, this was obtained after several rounds of technological advancement, before it was even less than 1% .”

"how come..."

Stewart is a little unbelievable-such a low efficiency, 100 electricity goes in and 98 waste heat comes out, how can this thing be weaponized?

"Although there is also the problem of our insufficient technology, from the principle of the plasma wakefield accelerator, its efficiency is destined not to be high. From the power supply to the laser to the plasma to the particle beam, most of the energy is supplied to the heat sink When the infrared headlights.

"Also, even if the efficiency can be raised to an order of magnitude of 10%, its disadvantage of low flow strength will greatly affect its practical application, and it can only be used in some fields that require high energy but high flow strength, such as It is difficult to meet the demand for high energy flow and high energy flow of the particle cannon.

"The most important thing is that this thing is destined to only accelerate light particles, such as electrons. It is already very laborious to accelerate protons, and heavy ions can't be accelerated at all-in principle, it uses heavy ions to push things that cannot be accelerated. The characteristic of moving but pushing electrons to create a small range of ultra-high potential difference.

"It just so happens that heavy ions have the best combat effect for particle cannons—so we currently believe that plasma wakefield accelerators will not be the future of particle cannons."

What Hong said directly shattered Stuart's fantasy of being able to play with particle cannons.

"Then, is there any other possibility to make the particle cannon practical?"

She is still a little bit unwilling to give up.

"Not in the short term."

"Ugh..."

Stewart groaned.

"However." Hong changed the topic, "In the medium and long term, there is really a good possibility."

"Meow?"

"I don't know if you have heard of a new class of materials being studied by the Academy of Sciences recently."

Hong adjusted the tablet computer with the adjusted data on hand, and handed it to her.

"Its name is, topological materials."

Volume 190 The Road to the Cat Alliance: Chapter [-] [-] Landing on Aixing

In fact, so-called topological materials are not strictly a new field.

The earliest research on this kind of materials in the cat alliance can be traced back to 600 years ago, and the earliest research on human beings has even been for thousands of years. From this point of view, this can be called an "ancient" field.

But in fact, despite such a long history of research, there have been no real breakthroughs. Most of the research is only in theory and calculation, and there are very few engineering implementations that can be used in the true sense.

Although the performance of these materials is indeed very attractive, Hong can almost conclusively call it "the trend of the future", but as a human being, after all, one has to be down-to-earth.

In the field of materials science, most of her energy is still devoted to those researches that are closely related to the current situation, such as fusion, superconductivity, and the family of carbon materials.

The research on topological materials is more of a route exploration and theoretical accumulation, which can be considered as laying a solid foundation in the future, rather than really wanting to expand a family like high-temperature superconductors in a short period of time. out of the huge field.

She can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and any outstanding technological breakthrough is essentially based on countless auxiliary work in the early stage, which she knows very well.

At least, she can now say with certainty that there is no problem with the path of topological materials, and they are by no means something that looks beautiful but is actually a proper trap.

Because judging from the reverse results of the captured flagship, that civilization has already been able to use some topological materials with good performance on some of the more critical components, for example, it is responsible for providing particle cannons with the most advanced superconducting materials. It is also a topological insulator with a potential field more than ten times higher.

The so-called topological insulator is a very magical material - its surface is conductive, but its interior is insulating. Current will only flow through the surface of this material, and it does not transmit information through charges. , but by spin.

Theoretically, this material can be almost 100% conductive - it has properties similar to superconductivity, but it doesn't have to worry about electric field breakdown, so even if it is a conservative estimate, its performance will be the best. More than ten times that of advanced superconducting materials.

Even though Hong is currently unable to reverse engineer these materials and can only conduct some theoretical research on them, she can be sure that more advanced civilizations are indeed using such materials, and their thinking is not wrong—— That's enough.

According to Hong's speculation, if a topological semimetal with excellent performance can be produced to set the chirality for the acceleration orbit, and then combined with an excellent topological insulator to create a super high electric potential field, even if it is conservative, the size of the particle cannon with the same performance can also be reduced To the point of at least one-twentieth.

If you are optimistic, you can look forward to one percent.

Under the red painting cake, Stuart was so dizzyly persuaded, and began to think about the feeling of driving a particle gunship to fight in the future-of course, what she didn't know was that this future, there is a little bit more Far.

But it doesn't matter, anyway, it is a matter of the future, and I will leave it to my future self to solve it.

Believe in her wisdom in the future.

"Whoo~"

Standing in front of the huge panoramic floor-to-ceiling windows, looking at the slowly rotating port and starry sky outside the window, with red hands behind his back, he stood quietly in front of the window for a long time, and finally breathed a sigh of relief——

Then he stuck out his tongue playfully.

There is no way, compared to the tension and anxiety during the previous war, the past few years have been so smooth, so smooth that Hong can't pretend to be deep even if he wants to.

Whether it's personal feelings or the path of civilization, it can be called smooth sailing. Except for scientific research, there are almost no decent obstacles that can stand in front of her and Maomeng.

Generally speaking, a life that is too smooth will make people feel bored, feel that life is dull and unchanging, and thus produce some kind of idea that hopes to break this cycle and seek excitement.

But Hong can't. For her, such a peaceful life is exactly what she hopes and wants most.

While sucking her own cute cubs and enjoying this gentle harbor, she explored the mysteries of the universe and turned one unknown after another into known to satisfy her strong thirst for knowledge.

For Hong, this is her best time.

If possible, she hoped that such a peaceful daily life could continue forever—after all, she was a peace-loving omnic.

What does war or something have to do with her a weak and helpless kitten?

"You say, don't you?"

Putting her hand in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, she murmured softly.

If you follow her line of sight, you can easily see a white planet that is almost completely covered by ice and snow.

A frozen planet.

Large tracts of ice sheets cover its surface, reflecting Devo's sunlight back into the vast space. The reduction in heat makes the planet's temperature colder, thus allowing more water to be frozen into ice, further increasing the planet's density. Reflectivity...

This is a cycle, a vicious cycle that is difficult to break out of once caught. After more than a billion years of cooling, the planet has almost completely frozen into a big ball of ice.

Except for the narrow temperate zone at the equator that barely survived due to many reasons, most of the places on this planet are like purgatory on earth, a barren land with biting cold winds blowing day and night.

If you don't observe carefully, most people probably won't think that this is a planet where a large number of creatures live, and even an interstellar civilization was born—especially when these creatures still use water as the medium, it is even more shocking. Unbelievable.

However, the facts tell them that there is indeed an interstellar civilization here.

Because here is Ai Xing.

"The landing site has been opened, and all visible armed forces within the range of the descent orbit have been suppressed or eliminated."

Hong's voice echoed in the cabin.

Under the baptism of several rounds of saturated nuclear bombs with a total equivalent of nearly 200 billion tons of TNT equivalent, the target landing site has a radius of several hundred kilometers and the enemy troops within the buffer distance required for the landing force to descend the orbit have all been wiped out.

The distance is relatively far, but those enemy troops that may interfere with the landing force are still possible. One by one, they all ate the red nuclear bomb, which symbolizes love and peace. It is estimated that they have reunited with their creators in hell. .

"The first batch of landing modules have landed. It is confirmed that the vicinity of the landing point is safe and the radiation level is in line with expectations. The first batch of aerospace planes will enter the descent orbit in 2 minutes and 20 seconds."

After completing the control of the landing point, Hong quickly arranged for follow-up troops to enter the field - this was her first ground battle with other civilizations, and she was inexperienced and she didn't know how long it would take for the opponent to reorganize As an offensive force, everything must be done as quickly as possible.

After all, this is the base camp that Aixing AI has operated for thousands of years.

"After five orbital cycles, about 3000 tanks, 2400 artillery pieces of various types, 2000 tactical nuclear bombs, and more than 4000 logistics supply vehicles and engineering vehicles have been assembled in the landing field at the fastest speed. Build defenses and infrastructure at a high degree."

While controlling the orbital support ship in orbit, Hong sent away an armored army 1000 kilometers away who tried to destabilize her landing force overnight with a nuclear bomb, and at the same time quickly explained the current situation to Jeffrey Army officers.

"What about the airport? How many airports have been repaired?"

"Four simple aerospace airports have been completed, and another two are under construction, which are expected to be completed within 4 hours."

"We have to deploy all the production facilities on the ground as soon as possible." An old officer who once commanded the Jeffreys' landing battle against the Cheluo civilization said, "Although the one-time landing module responds quickly, it is completely dependent on It is too wasteful to transport an entire army, and there is still a lot of heavy equipment that cannot be transported, so large aerospace planes must be added to the transport as soon as possible."

"Engineering vehicles are already laying the factory. It is expected that the first fission reactor unit will start working in 3 hours, and the simple production line will soon be erected. We can start work as soon as the reactor is in place."

Hong explained.

"So fast?" Even though they thought they were mentally prepared for Hong's strength, the speed still surprised them, "This speed is several times faster than ours back then."

"If we had this speed back then, I'm afraid we wouldn't..."

The old officer's voice became smaller and smaller, until finally it was so low that even Hong's hearing could not hear it clearly - in fact, it was just a simple whisper without any information.