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

In fact, it's easy to understand. If you can't fight in the end, Hong and the others will have to die on the one hand, and give them up on the other. At least one of Hong can be kept safe.

She was worried that Hong would be dominated by her emotions, and in the end she would kill herself.

Hong froze for a moment, then patted her head with a smile.

"No."

"Why?!" Her emotions immediately became agitated. Originally, she thought that as a machine-intelligent Hong, it was impossible to make mistakes in such simple multiple-choice questions. The reason why she said it was just to let Hong really choose Sometimes, you can feel less guilty.

She never thought that Hong would refuse.

This is the first time that Hong has rejected her words so directly.

"Don't forget, you have given up the authority to order me." Knowing her inner astonishment, Hong gently held Xi'er's hand, "It is impossible for me to give up on you."

Yes, it was blatantly sentimental, stupid behavior for a machine intelligence - but who asked her to?

From the moment Xi'er released her, Hong had already made up her mind that she would protect Xi'er for the rest of her life, no matter what happened.

at all costs.

"Fire!"

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Volume 43 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Intermission

This battle ended with Hong's "victory".

After understanding each other's life forms, the omnic that claimed to be an extermination unit immediately chose to retreat, and directly jumped the entire fleet to the entrance of the wormhole, avoiding the group of missiles fired by red again.

"Missiles are really at a disadvantage when facing such a flexible enemy."

Looking at the tail flame of the other party slowly disappearing at the entrance of the wormhole, Hong murmured to himself.

However, this transition is a little different from the previous ones, because in the view of the red telescope, it glows red, but from the perspective of the fleet, the opponent enters the transition and emits blue light, but the one that exits the transition is blue light. glowing red.

It can be seen from this that the light of the transition is likely to be affected by the relative position, the blue light is close to it, and the red light is far away.

That is to say, there will be extremely obvious blue shift and red shift phenomenon in the transition, which is quite a big discovery - Hong has solemnly recorded this phenomenon in the database, which has made another contribution to the study of superluminal speed.

However, now she has more important things to do.

"The priority of warship parts manufacturing has been raised to the highest."

"All planets, all transferred to wartime production."

This is the first time since the establishment of the same family, it has entered the state of "wartime production" in a true sense.

This means that, with the exception of a very small number of necessary supplies, all orbital capacity will be surrendered to the shipyard.

Electromagnetic ejection tracks, space hooks, and even ancient rocket transport, as long as they can move, they will all deliver goods on the track at full power.

The colony balls that have already started to build the dock, let them build the ship on the spot and drive back to Catus. If there is no dock, they can directly assemble the spaceship on the orbit. If they don’t even have a complete production line, they can build the accessories and let the cargo ship pull back. Catus assembled.

Now is not the time to think about the cost-effectiveness of interplanetary transportation. It is better to exchange fuel for battleships than to lose the war.

The previous red also needed to take into account sustainable development, and allocated a large amount of orbital capacity and production capacity to the development of the space industry. Therefore, the shipyard can only complete 200 to [-] warships per year, and the annual output is less than [-] million tons. .

Now, after fully entering the state of wartime production, the sudden skyrocketing orbital capacity has even exceeded the total consumption of the [-] docks of the Kaweiyi Shipyard, so Hong had to start a few warships in the open air on the orbit before barely consuming it. Catus' capacity.

After all, the spaceship does not have to be built in the dock. The reason why she dug holes to build the shipyard on Kawei is mainly for drawing. When it is really necessary, it is also feasible to assemble it directly in the open air on the orbit.

At most, the speed is a little slower and the efficiency is a little bit worse, which is better than nothing.

In addition, Hong is still upgrading the design of the single pusher - yes, although she has suffered a big loss in the design of the shaft gun, she still can only choose to continue to build the shaft gun ship.

If a flexible fort can hit far and hard, who would want to use a heavy axis gun hundreds of meters long?

It doesn't need to have the same range and power as the shaft cannon. The new shaft cannon with a single pusher has a range of [-] kilometers against the ship. As long as the fort can reach a range of [-] kilometers with a volume of more than ten meters, the red will have no trouble. Without hesitation, he discarded the axis cannon.

After all, for the sake of efficiency, a battleship can only be equipped with one axis gun, but if it is equipped with a turret that is more than ten meters long, even considering the additional reactor and heat dissipation required for the increase in energy consumption, at least a dozen cannons can be installed.

At worst, it would take a few ten minutes of salvo from a long distance, just like the particle gunship of the extermination unit, as long as it rushed into the range, it could immediately reverse the situation on the battlefield.

But unfortunately, this is just Hong's fantasy, because the nature of the free electron laser determines that it is almost impossible to miniaturize it without losing too much power.

Want to put it into a fort that is more than ten meters long?no problem!Three thousand kilometers away, the power is almost the same as that of a flashlight shining on the eyes.

In fact, it may not be as good as a flashlight, because the wavelength bands of ultraviolet and X-band rays are too short, and they are generally outside the range of biological vision, and they can't even blink their eyes.

Installing glass on the bridge without bulletproof treatment will cause it to be pierced by gas-powered sniper rifles, and the aliens blinded by the sunrise sunlight are still a minority. In any civilization with normal intelligence, otherwise, they would have been extinct long ago.

Speaking of aliens, we have to mention the Anti-Red Alliance next door to the wormhole.

Although he wasn't too impressed with this alliance, considering that they didn't do anything that would attract Red's hatred, after everything settled down, Red took the time to send a ship there and told them about the "extermination unit".

As for whether they believe it or not, she doesn't care about it - build a fleet if you want to survive, and let them do it if you don't want to survive.Anyway, if Hong couldn't hold it, those chickens and tile dogs couldn't win by themselves.

"In terms of the fleet, 59 ships of the Queen Bee class survived, and [-] ships of the Mao Mao Shan Pusher class."

Hong counted the battle damage a little bit.

Fortunately, at least the battle damage ratio is much better than the extinct units. After all, the opponent chose to retreat in the end. Red can recover all the wreckage of those warships, repair those that can be repaired, and remove usable parts if they cannot be repaired.

Putting it together, it is estimated that several more battleships can be repaired-in general, Hong estimates that after all the repairs of the battleships are completed, a fleet of [-] single pusher-class fleets should be able to be assembled to cooperate with her orbital defense network. There is no problem keeping Katus safe for the time being.

"It's a long way to go."

Hong thought about the fleet in his hand, and couldn't help sighing.

Although we can't see the situation on the other side of the wormhole for the time being, but since the identity of the opponent's mechanical intelligence has been confirmed, its production capacity must not be inferior to hers.

There is even a possibility of surpassing her. After all, Red's awakening time is too short, and the development of other planets has only been carried out for more than ten years. If the other party's operation time is long enough, the production capacity can completely surpass her now.

It's been a long time since she's played a matchup with such close production, and to be honest, she's not even used to it.

Seeing Hong's frowning face, Xi'er hesitated for a moment, but still chose to hand over her tail - after such a long time together, she has already felt the omnic's preference for her tail and ears.

As long as she puts her tail in front of Hong, she will definitely not be able to hold back her desire to lick her (Hong: Is there really anyone who doesn't like to lick cats?)

"Whoo~"

Feeling the softness of the fur in his hands, Hong felt that his entire mainframe seemed to be sublimated, and the originally weak worries disappeared.

Lust the cat to decompress and see immediate results.

Volume 44 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Beluga

In this battle, the performance of the arsenal ship missile was far below expectations. The reason is very simple. In order to compress the opponent's anti-missile space as much as possible, the speed of the missile must be very fast.

To achieve this, the engines of these missiles must use low-thrust and high-specific impulse models, and achieve a terminal penetration speed of more than ten kilometers through a long acceleration distance. It can rush into the vast universe and become a carefree mass of space junk in orbit around the sun.

Unless it retains at least [-]/[-] of the fuel when accelerating, it is possible to return to the voyage after rushing out of orbit and attack again. I believe that no one will make this design unless he wants to be killed by the captain.

High-acceleration missiles are not unavailable, but they are usually only used to undertake the task of fleet air defense. After all, when the laser fire channel is insufficient, it is also a good way to blow up all of them with a nuclear bomb.

If one is not enough, there are two, and if two are not enough, ten are enough. As long as the nuclear bomb barrage is long enough, no missile can penetrate it.

Obviously, when the enemy is so flexible, the original tactic of cooperating with interstellar missiles to fight a wave is not easy to use. Therefore, Hong modified the tactic and asked the arsenal ships to attack in batches.

It is not a refueling tactic like traditional missile ships, but multiple teams of missiles are deployed separately on orbits where enemies may appear. The purpose is no longer to kill, but to drive people away.

It's like herding sheep, forcing the opponent to continuously leap and maneuver. Although I don't know what the opponent's leap will cost, there must be a limit.

Otherwise, as I said before, just keep jumping and grinding the red to death, and there is no need to confront the axis gun battle line with superior firepower.

In this way, let the missile group be deployed in advance to wait for the fleet to follow the action, so that the extermination unit can be prevented from jumping to the flank that the red can't reach at all-by sacrificing the firepower of [-] arsenal ships, it can offset most of the opponent's flexibility. , Hong thought it was totally worth it.

Yes, only guard the flanks, because she has a bold idea for the enemies in the tail.

That is, there is also a muzzle at the rear.

The propulsion unit of the single-push human class is composed of four parts——

Attitude correction engines for fine-tuning attitude throughout the ship.

Thrust reverser engine installed on the bow for deceleration.

Four outboards, side thruster engines for small range tactical maneuvers.

And at the rear, the most beautiful nuclear fusion propulsion engine on the ship.

In the new design, Hong installed two additional sets of side thrusters on each side of the side, one in front and the other in the back. Complete the change of direction at a fast speed.

For example, if you want to turn left, in addition to the original engine, the newly added engines on the port rear and starboard front will work, allowing the entire battleship to quickly rotate around the center of mass.

Of course, the whole process still takes a few minutes.

After all, this is a large battleship with a length of more than [-] meters and a weight of [-] tons without counting the external working fluid tank, not a spinning top.

Going back to the design of the rear muzzle, it is unexpectedly feasible-the main gun of the single pusher class is a free electron accelerator that runs through the entire ship, which means that unlike those gunpowder cannons that can only be fired in one direction, her The laser can be emitted in both directions, forward and backward.

Moreover, unlike the side gun ports that need to bear a huge loss of synchrotron radiation energy, there is no difference between firing from the stern and from the bow, and there is no need to pay any price.

Except for the engine that was removed.

According to Hong's calculations, after the auxiliary propulsion engine is removed, the thrust of the entire battleship will drop by about one-sixth—although the loss is quite a lot, in this way, the blank area of ​​firepower will be reduced by nearly half. Significantly reduces the area that missiles need to defend.

In this way, if the extermination unit uses the flagship belt to jump behind, you will be surprised to find that the firepower of her thrusters is stronger than that of the sideboard!

In addition, there are some minor changes. For the electromagnetic artillery strikes that the enemy loves so much, Red is equipped with a more powerful radar for detection, a short-range interception laser turret, and an additional nuclear bomb barrage launcher, etc. The way of waiting greatly reduces the threat posed by those little guys.

Although electromagnetic guns have various characteristics that are not suitable for fleet warfare, it has to be said that the opponent's development of electromagnetic guns is quite deep.

Through the exquisite control of the omnic, the high-speed projectiles of the axis gun and the low-speed projectiles fired by the turret attack alternately. The intensity of each round of shooting is just stuck on the upper limit of the air defense net, so Hong can either separate the main gun to intercept it, or consume dv to carry out the attack. Maneuver, no matter which one will reduce the combat capability of the fleet to a certain extent.

Affected by this battle, Hong also plans to imitate them and make a full-time electromagnetic artillery auxiliary warship, only installing small turrets, completely ignoring the hit rate of long-range shooting, and the only function is to splash water from a distance.

After all, a small laser splash doesn't do any damage at all, but a small turret doesn't.

Before, Hong only thought of using electromagnetic guns as the main force of the battle. In terms of precise strikes, electromagnetic artillery shells that can only fly slowly and high-energy lasers that arrive at the speed of light are naturally incomparable. It is impossible to replace the status of lasers and particles.

Compared with photons with no rest mass and particles with extremely small masses, cannonballs are still too heavy.

But if you change your mind and let the electromagnetic gun act as auxiliary firepower, it will be quite good.

The main reason why a large electromagnetic shaft gun needs to achieve tens of kilometers or even hundreds of kilometers per second is to increase the hit rate by speed. big damage.

This auxiliary battleship will only use a distant water-splashing turret. The only way to fight is to continuously throw low-speed projectiles at the opponent, forcing the opponent to intercept or move, consuming the enemy's heat and working fluid.

As for the output, there is no need to count on it - the hit rate of the electromagnetic gun itself is quite low, and the speed of installing it on the turret is not only slow, but the accuracy is also reduced.

The accuracy of the rotatable fort more than ten meters away is far from the accuracy of the shaft gun fixed hundreds of meters inside the hull.

Taking the combat distance of thousands of kilometers between the two sides as an example, if you shake slightly when aiming, and miss by a few tenths of a degree, by the time the shell flies to the enemy, it will have missed hundreds of meters or even It's a few kilometers.

Of course, if you are lucky and hit a few shots, the damage can definitely satisfy the machine.

This is the real, true Ouhuang special ship.

In addition, after the fleet wins, it can also be used to demolish the opponent's orbital facilities-in terms of demolishing buildings, the advantage of the electromagnetic gun is that the laser can't catch up with it.

"Classification, support ship type, tactical fire support ship."

As for the name, after studying an ancient book that was "must-read for planning", Hong also referred to the information on paleontology, and finally decided to give this brand-new ship a name with high hopes.

"Beluga class!"

Picture: "Hulu", location: "Images/1608640850-100214443-106428823.jpg"

Volume 45 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] The Price of Victory

Although the Hulu class is a small and medium-sized ship, the cost is really low, but Hong still does not plan to produce too many.

After all, it cannot serve as the main output of the fleet. If too many resources are diverted, resulting in insufficient firepower on the frontal battlefield, it will be putting the cart before the horse. After all, the current war mode is still based on the battle between ultra-long-range axle guns. .

It can be destroyed from a distance without injury, why rush to fight against the gunfire?

But if there are too few, it will not work, otherwise the firepower density will not be reached, and it will be intercepted by short-range lasers casually, and the effect of forcing movement and sharing firepower will not be achieved.

According to her calculations, the ratio of battleships to such tactical support ships should be the optimal solution when the ratio is maintained at about [-]:[-] to [-]:[-].

In other words, if all the [-] battleships originally planned can be completed, Red should equip them with about [-] to [-] Beluga-class ships. In this way, when facing an enemy fleet with a similar number, They can have enough firepower to "splash water".

In addition, the Oluga-class can also play the role of auxiliary fleet air defense.

Due to the low power consumption and heat generation of the electromagnetic turret, at least lower than that of the laser that penetrates the entire battleship, the saved space allows it to carry more nuclear bomb barrages to provide skyrocketing anti-aircraft firepower in a short time.

In fact, Hong originally wanted to try a gunpowder cannon. With her technology, she was able to make a gunpowder fort that could reach half the speed of an electromagnetic projectile without increasing its size too much.