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

"That's true."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

As a small deep space industrial station that didn’t even have a thought police because it was too remote, the establishment of their small organization was quite dramatic—because at that time, everyone didn’t know that each other was a supporter of the cat alliance. Therefore, in order to conceal their own anomalies, they pretended to be more like each other in their daily exchanges. When outsiders came, they thought this place was a settlement of extreme Rupaists.

After all, because they support the theory of the Cat League, they have heard a lot of Cat League analysis of the differences between the two countries, the reasons for the formation of the current social form of the Great Rupert, its advantages and disadvantages, and its role. Most of the Grand Ruppist Nationalists have to know more about Grand Ruppist Nationalism, which is more true than it is.

When everyone was working, each of them was a big Rupert who was so strong that they could not be more strong, and they all denounced the horror of alien civilization together, and then after finishing work, a group of people went back to their respective homes, lamenting how well they pretended today. While secretly listening to the Maomeng radio station.

If one day, the antennas erected by several people happened to be damaged by the same piece of space junk, and as a result, a group of people racked their brains and tried various methods and excuses to distract each other, but in the end they looked at each other in the same place , this Mission: Impossible may last for a few more years.

"I mainly want to know, will the annihilation of this semi-fleet have a great impact?" He said, who basically didn't know anything about military affairs, "I remember that they had a total of nine main fleets, and counting the other times Level organization, the fleet lost this time should only be about one-seventh—as for such a troublesome blockade of news?"

"That's not how the accounts are calculated." The scholar who had studied the military theory of the Great Rupert Kingdom and was sent to the frontier for some political reasons shook his head and explained, "Their armies originally had their own strengths. Regarding various missions, in the case of many enemies, once this one-seventh fleet is lost, it is equivalent to the fact that there will be no reliable large-scale firefighting team in the entire Great Rupert Country.

"Once there is a major problem in a certain direction, such as the Zerg war more than 100 years ago, they will not be able to block it with a fleet that usually does not undertake long-term missions and is dedicated to firefighting. For loopholes, there are only two ways to choose from: deploying troops from other directions, increasing the risk and pressure of the transferred direction, and letting the problematic direction fend for itself.

"In addition, even if we don't discuss things that far away, the impact of the cat alliance and the Akachi swarm's fleet being reduced to only half of them is already extremely huge-no matter which party launches an attack, it will be destroyed by only half of the fleet. Not even a fleet of ships can keep them out of the border, which will seriously affect the strategic planning of those Rupers."

"That's it, I understand."

Besides him, several other Lupers who didn't know much about the military also nodded together, expressing that they understood.

Similar things happened in several places.

Although the number of illegal listeners is very small, even fewer of them will listen to cats, and the possibility of gathering a small organization nearby and safely among such a small number of people is even smaller.

But helplessly, the population of the Great Rupert Country is really too much!

With such a huge population base, everything is possible.

...

Hong didn't know that in the Great Rupert Country, the formation of spontaneous organizations was much faster than she imagined—she somewhat overestimated the control power of the Great Rupert Country over remote star fields, and also underestimated the control of the forbidden listeners. level of dissatisfaction in life.

But still the same sentence, until these organizations grow bigger and stronger, until they find a way to communicate with Hong safely, they will be an atmosphere that does not exist in Hong.

Therefore, for Hong, exerting influence through the radio station is of course very important, but after all, it is only a sideline job. What she spends most of her energy on doing now is still one of her real main jobs.

industrial construction.

"Sure enough, if you really want Tiandi Logistics, you have to let the space elevator come."

Looking up at the 'Star Cat's Tail' that seemed to pierce the sky in front of him and could not be seen at a glance, Hong put his hands behind his back and nodded approvingly.

Although the space elevator has been completed for some time, but such a large project, especially Hong also intends to operate it into the most powerful core industrial area of ​​the Mao League, and its supporting work will take a long time and energy-this It was also the reason why Hong had to reduce the number of warships built per cycle in order to free up capacity to speed up the construction of the supporting industrial zone for the space elevator.

Fortunately, the hard work pays off. With the terrible transportation capacity of the space elevator itself and the full assistance of the whole cat alliance, the supporting facilities of the elevator are being followed up at an extremely fast speed. Most of the accessories of the Allied warships, especially the ability of the main structure, and after obtaining the accessories shipped from other places, the warships can be assembled in the dock area of ​​the elevator.

It can be said that the basic ability of the elevator has been obtained so far, and what Hong will do next is to rapidly expand this basic ability, so that the ability to produce warships can increase to dozens, or even hundreds of times, of today's.

In other places, if you want to produce such a large number of warships, the local productivity and orbital capacity are far from enough, which leads to the fact that its main materials have to be obtained from other places, which not only greatly increases the cost of production. It required time and cost, and it also caused the Cat League battleships to be scattered to the shipyards in various star fields in the alliance if they wanted to do a fleet maintenance after the war. Not only was it troublesome, but it was not safe enough.

From Hong's point of view, such a huge project is more than ten times stronger than Catus Skyhook, the strongest heaven and earth logistics facility in China. Even if it is only a first-phase project, it can at least support the simultaneous repair of [-] warships, or the simultaneous construction of a hundred or so warships.

Compared with those large shipyards with a maximum limit of [-] ships and the need to rely on material delivery from other planets to ensure full-speed construction, the potential of Star Cat's Tail and its supporting industries can indeed be described as "terrible".

Even, this is just the basic version of the elevator and the youth version of the industrial zone plan that have just reached the "usable" standard. After these basic things are completed, Hong will upgrade them and expand the number of elevator tracks to increase the transportation capacity. , adding more industrial areas to increase productivity, etc.

There are many ways.

This is a very difficult point for skyhooks to achieve. Since the use of space skyhooks requires the use of aerospace aircraft to span the distance from "0 kilometers per second on the surface" to "several kilometers per second on the suborbit", this greatly limits the increase in its capacity. The potential of the industrial zone and the limitation of transportation capacity will affect the expansion speed of the industrial zone, so that it will take a much longer time for the industrial zone to increase enough productivity.

But with the space elevator, everything will be easily solved.

Fixed on the ground side of the planet's surface, Red can send the load to the transportation track with almost zero cost. At the same time, the load does not need to make compromises for the carrying capacity of the aerospace aircraft. More large and heavy pieces Allows for complete shipment without disassembly.

In addition, its basic version is comparable to the orbital capacity of ten Catus skyhooks and dozens of ordinary version skyhooks, which makes the development speed of the space end of the star cat's tail seem like chicken blood. Anyone who sees it will be dumbfounded speed expands.

This is the charm of the space elevator, and it is also the return of Red's continuous investment of huge costs in research and development over the years, and the little by little research on various problems-as of now, the tail of the star cat is still within the range of the entire known star field. The only space elevator in China, and other civilizations, including the mighty Great Rupert Country of 93 galaxies, have not been able to build such a powerful facility that can bring about a qualitative leap in national power.

The most important reason is that, for the current civilization, the space elevator is a giant-scale building that can only be built with high technological strength and industrial strength. It is a difficult problem in front of civilization, and at the same time, it also requires extremely strong industrial strength to implement those scientific research results into actual products.

Most of the other civilizations on the Cat League are lacking in both, like the typical human beings who lack technology and are not qualified enough for industry. The most optimistic estimate is that the first space elevator will not be considered until a hundred years later. thing.

As for the Great Rupert Country, although it meets the latter's needs for industry, after all, they lack everything except factories, but the former's demand for scientific research is far behind-especially when such a scientific research project What is needed is the full cooperation of scientists from all directions in almost the entire country, and when they jointly contribute their share of ingenuity, the performance of the Great Rupert Country is even worse.

Including their mysterious leader, although he has a lot of experience in guiding scientific research projects, his performance on such extremely complicated projects is also not good - at least from the current information, he can't Like Hong, who disassembles such a huge project into specific small problems for distribution, he can only let scientists handle these things like ordinary organic organisms.

Therefore, what Hong can basically confirm now is that no matter what this mysterious leader is, what is the ultimate creature that has lived from 3000 years ago to the present, or a shadow group in the name of the leader, at least he will not be An AI, nor would it be a warp creature.

In other words, he is most likely an organism.

As for more in-depth things, Hong didn't understand it for the time being.

Due to the above reasons, even though the Great Rupert Kingdom discovered this giant facility connecting the ground and the starry sky with a probe, it seemed to be stimulated to launch their space elevator project at the speed of light, and gathered a large number of Manpower, invested a huge amount of cost, and began to conduct a comprehensive research on it.

But judging from the current performance, unless they can violently blast into the territory of the Cat League and get their real objects and their scientific research materials, at least for a few decades, they will not be able to build a cat that will not click. Broken space elevator.

Advanced science is not like industry, which can be piled up by brainless people.

Scientific problems need to be solved by science.

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Volume 272 Industry and Power: Chapter [-] Wolves and Luncheon Meat

In addition to industrial construction, Hong also did not forget to design a new generation of cats and cats.

At present, this 30-ton single-push human class was basically finalized more than 50 years ago, that is, before the 25th anniversary of the founding of Maomeng. After changing the outfit, even the keel structure has been changed once, coupled with Hong's super long-term planning capabilities, and highly modular designs that are very convenient for later upgrades.

Therefore, these battleships that were finalized 50 years ago can still keep up with the technological development of the Cat League, and they have not shown any signs of decline, whether it is the powerful plasma gunships of the Great Rupert Kingdom, or the same The same is true of the other civilizations on the technological route.

The reason why Hong chooses to design a new battleship now is not because the old design of the old battleship hinders performance upgrades, but because of the unique technological routes of the Great Rupert Kingdom and several nearby civilizations.

Although Hong relied on his strategy and successfully wiped out the 12 billion-ton warships of the Great Rupert Kingdom with 30 billion-ton warships, he still had only [-] million hard battle losses and [-] million soft battle losses, but from the end of the battle, the enemy rushed into the range From the subsequent performance, it can be clearly seen that the close-range combat capabilities of the enemy warships are indeed outstanding.

There is only less than one-tenth of the total fleet, and they are all defeated soldiers who have eaten two rounds of missiles from the Cat League and a laser to wash the deck, but they just took away half of the Cat League before they died with the powerful plasma cannon. Fleet, its combat effectiveness must not be underestimated.

It is impossible for Hong to rely on her range to kite all the time, and it is even more impossible to pin her hopes on the opponent's continuous advantage. Therefore, it is obvious that she must make targeted improvements to it--when all current warships are designed, All of its imaginary enemies are medium and long-range warships with main laser and secondary electromagnetic guns, so Hong naturally chose to deal with the sub-optimal efficiency solution in this environment when designing.

The reason why it is sub-optimal is because of Red’s precautionary measures—although all imaginary enemies at that time used lasers, including from a probabilistic point of view, there is a high probability that the enemies that may appear in the future will mainly use lasers. Due to the sudden occurrence of the hole, I was worried about being killed by the first sight, so I spent a lot of money on purpose to add a lot of resistance to high-speed electromagnetic guns to the Cat League battleship.

In this way, even if it encounters a civilization with pure electromagnetic guns, Hong can ensure the survivability of the single pusher without stretching his hips, and then wait until the first round of first-seeing kills, and then give the new battleship a targeted enhancement of the electromagnetic guns. Resistance, everything is in order, and there is no need to design a warship for the new civilization.

Versatility is a very important consideration when designing warships in various civilizations today. Firstly, it is convenient for subsequent upgrades, and there is no need to frequently update the new generation of warships. There are four main ships of different eras and different models in the entire fleet like humans before. The design and logistics of the situation directly shed tears.

Second, due to the suddenness of wormholes, no one knows what the next civilization's technological level is, what its military and industrial strength is, or what weapons the opponent will use. Therefore, the safest way is naturally to let the warships pay attention to the next civilization. Under the premise of laser resistance, the resistance to various other weapons can also be seen. There are no obvious shortcomings, and there is no need to worry about old ships that cannot adapt to the environment of new civilizations. Retiring is a waste of maintenance. Condition.

This is already the best solution without knowing what the enemy will look like.

But even so, this does not mean that their warships are really a panacea. When this kind of special plasma cannon that everyone has never seen appears, the frame of pushing people alone is not enough now.

Although the range of this weapon is short, its lethality is really high. With today's single-push human-level structure, no matter how much you upgrade it within a reasonable range, it is impossible for the main equipment to receive the next round stably. .

Unless Hong plans to change the entire structure, layout, armor, etc., and even install a stronger reactor to drive the surge in mass, but what is the difference between that and designing a new battleship.

According to Hong's preliminary design draft, no matter what the final design is, the extent of the changes must be such that it cannot be classified under the subset of the old generation's single pusher.

She will be a brand new generation of warships.

Red tentatively named it Maomao Single Pusher Kai II Level.

In fact, when designing the battleship this time, Hong also seriously considered the no-armor design proposed by someone, that is, completely abandoning protection, directly pushing the engine to push the reactor and inserting heat dissipation on the body, and the redundancy is only done on key equipment. When it comes to two sets, what stands out is the extreme cheapness.

The core idea is very simple. Anyway, the cost-effective armor configuration of the old single pusher can't block the opponent's main gun. So instead of adding a lot of cost to the plasma cannon, it is better to simply give up defense and reduce the cost to Ultimate, and then use the saved production capacity to build more warships, relying on massive firepower to win.

This kind of design idea is not advisable in normal battles. The biggest reason is that the opponent’s range is not much different from your own. Although giving up armor and redundancy will increase your firepower, it will also increase your survivability. very weak.

The opponent's firepower lasts for a while, and the firepower of one's own side is wasted after a while. This kind of stupid design is obviously not used by normal people.

But when facing the Great Rupert Kingdom, this design is unexpectedly feasible. Even if it is really from the perspective of purely targeting the enemy, this design is much more cost-effective than any heavy armor plan.

However, after thinking about it for a period of time, Hong still felt that the risk of doing so was too great - firstly, such a design would be in decline when encountering other non-plasma cannon civilizations, and secondly, in case the Great Lupus tried to become stronger and vigorously launched Miracle has really brought up the laser technology, so it will be difficult for them to modify it when the time comes, and building a new one means that the investment in the old ship is basically in vain, and it is tantamount to falling into a passive position.

The strategic initiative that was finally won, it is better not to send it back so easily

Therefore, Hong finally planned to build heavy warships.

The expected tonnage of the new single-push man-to-man reform II will start at least 50 tons, and it may rise to 70 million tons depending on subsequent changes. Of course, this does not mean that the new version of the single-push man-to-man reform II will also learn from large Like Rupert, he began to play with stacking materials.

Now that he has decided to build a large battleship with stronger protection, Hong will definitely not be satisfied with copying the performance of the current version of the single pusher as it is after paying so much cost on it.

There is an old saying that comes and goes. Anyway, the armor is spent, so it’s better to add more money and give it better guns and engines. Then since the guns, engines and armor have been upgraded, then deduct that point. Auxiliary equipment is definitely not possible, and it has to be added.

Add, you can add!

In this way, the basic framework of the new battleship was finalized after a lot of money-raising operations that the laymen would all applaud after seeing it.

Stronger main guns, better armor, faster maneuverability, and larger tonnage—in order to ensure the performance of this class of warships, Hong has integrated a large number of new technologies recently researched or reversed by the Cat League. At the same time, massive The scientific research project was also distributed by Hong, and scientists and scientific research teams who are good at this field took over, and launched intensive research together with Hong.

This is different from the past. Prior to this, when designing warships, Cat League usually integrated existing technologies, and then conducted research and research on technologies that could be overcome in a short period of time, as well as existing shortcomings, and made a ship that was the most powerful at the current level. For an excellent battleship, when the basic technology has been improved to meet the requirements, then the higher-performance equipment that these basic technologies can achieve will be made and assembled on the battleship.

Doing so can not only ensure that Hong can use the best current warships, but also ensure the fleet's formation speed, and there will be no obvious gaps. .

But this time is different. The reason why Hong designed the new warship this time is not to upgrade the conventional combat readiness after the technology reaches the standard, as when the 30-ton single pusher came out, but to specifically deal with large ships. This clear and powerful opponent of Rupert Country.

Therefore, in order to ensure that their new battleship can meet the needs, it is necessary to ensure that such a troublesome upgrade is necessary. She can't just integrate existing technologies and conduct research on technologies that can be overcome in the short term.

Speaking of the current technology, a 30-ton single-pusher is already the sub-optimal solution. At most, she can change her armor configuration to be more suitable for plasma cannons, but obviously, doing so will not stop the Great Rupert Powerful 1.6 TJ plasma cannon.

This will be the first time that Hong has spent such a lot of trouble in the military field. Designing a warship with the method of setting indicators first, and this indicator is still quite high, it is definitely not something that can be broken overnight. The tip of the tail can imagine how high the cost and time-consuming of doing so will be.

Hong hoped that her performance would be worthy of their efforts, and that she would smash the heads of those totalitarian Lupers to pieces as soon as possible.

Hmm... Maybe it's more appropriate to call it a wolf head?

After all, they looked more like wolves—at least from her analysis of the appearance and behavior of the captives, these creatures were more like wolves.

Looking at the middle-aged Lupers man staring at her on the opposite side of the window, Hong shook his head helplessly, and placed the dinner plate with the heat preservation cover in his hand in front of the desk.

"This is your lunch."

Afterwards, she closed the shade of the window, and had no choice to say more—not to mention how deep Rupers' totalitarianism and Great Rupersism are in his head, she just killed him with the fleet For almost all colleagues, it is wishful thinking to let the two sides sit down and chat peacefully in a short period of time.

This has nothing to do with justice or not. Even if Hong thinks that they represent the righteous side, she will not feel any guilt for killing the invading enemy, but she can also understand that the other party is killed by all colleagues. The hostile attitude towards them after being under her command.

Rather, it was difficult for her to think of any kind of war in which the two warring parties would not hate each other even after suffering heavy losses.

Anyway, this place is in deep space, far away from any populated areas of the Cat League, and with the surrounding battleships, missile silos, and a nuclear safety trigger buried underground in the prison, it is impossible for them to break through the red even if they become genetic brothers. security measures.

As long as the safety of the Cat League is not threatened, Hong has time and patience to slowly extract information from these captives, and try to use the Cat League theory to influence them, turning them from totalitarians into determined cats Leaguers.

Red has a lot of patience.

Seeing the iron-clad robot that didn't match its crisp and lovely voice close the visor and leave, Reed finally felt relieved.

Although he also understands that as an enemy who was still fighting and preparing to invade the other party's home planet a few days ago, the other party will definitely be very vigilant against them-but, is it too much to use a robot to even deliver a meal? Be vigilant!

Having said that, he still stood up honestly, ready to see what kind of food the other side had prepared for these captives.

Normally, whether it is the Great Rupert Country or the other totalitarian countries, the food given to the captives is usually the kind of nutritional cream used to fool the laborers, but look at the innocent fairy tales that are preached every day before the Cat League For the sake of theory, maybe we can prepare a little food for them?

To be honest, he didn't expect too much from this—in the Great Rupert Country, they never treated captives as human beings. Valuable targets might be able to eat a little better, but the bottom captives were just Make sure you don't starve to death.

The Great Rupert Country is not even willing to guarantee the living conditions of its own people, and still wants to count on them to guarantee the life of the alien captives at the bottom?

It's beautiful to think about.

Although this cat alliance doesn't look as extreme as the Great Rupert Kingdom, and even has a sense of innocence, otherwise he wouldn't have "unintentionally" ignored some information about the other party before, causing the rear to find out The speed of the Cat League's strength has slowed down a lot.

But no matter what, the other party is also a decent civilization, able to stand in this sea of ​​stars for such a long time, no one will believe you if you say that they are all white lotuses.

The most important thing is that before this, they captured the opponent's two star fields in a row. They fought and killed all the way. They blew up all the fortresses of the star port defense platform. There must be a large number of cat alliance members dead Under their firepower - even the Great Rupert Kingdom will make a fuss about this kind of thing, let alone this cat alliance.

This is all a bloody feud!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but become pessimistic about his future—even if the other party didn't come up like a normal civilization, they immediately began to take revenge on their brutal executioners, and it seemed that they were actually practicing the fairy tales they preached before theory.

But with your toes, you can think that they killed so many cats, they must not get any good results--if you are lucky, you may be able to rely on intelligence in exchange for a decent prison life. It can be served with two or three good dishes. If you are unlucky, you may be served directly with 7 flavors of nutritional cream.

Even a little more scary, just eat a nutritional cream with a taste for a lifetime!

To be fair, it's depressing to think about.

But fortunately, at least for now, this cat alliance treats them as preferential treatment for these prisoners-as far as he knows, no known country has come up to arrange a single cell, bedding, etc. for each prisoner The daily necessities are all new products of good quality, and at least in the first two days after being arrested, no prisoners were beaten, scolded or even executed.

Given such good conditions in other aspects, it shouldn't be possible to skimp too much on food.

Feeling the intense hunger in his belly that had not been eaten for almost a day, he sighed, and walked slowly to the desk above the cell door, ready to see what the so-called prison standard meal looked like.

Then, I looked at the pile of four dishes and one soup with rice on the dinner plate, which was very appetizing even though I had never seen it before, and there was a small one next to it. A figure standing sign drawn in a weird art style, holding a small board with the words "Please let us know if there is anything unusual" in its arms.

He was lost in thought.