Above the conference table, the holographic image of the intercontinental battleship came to life. The huge hull exuded a thick black metallic luster, and the streamlined hull had hidden naval guns, revealing a ferocious aura.
"Boss, after simplifying the operation process, the number of soldiers required for each warship can be reduced to about 600. They need to be responsible for driving the ship, confirming attack instructions, and protecting the system..." Zhou Xiaozhi reported the results to Zhou Xing.
One hundred thousand intercontinental ships means that 60 million soldiers are needed to operate them. Zhou Xing frowned and asked with some dissatisfaction: "Another 600 people? Can't be any less?"
A huge intercontinental battleship can accommodate one hundred thousand soldiers. However, when the fleet reaches a large scale, once a fierce interstellar war breaks out, countless crew members will be sacrificed. Reducing the number of soldiers required to operate the battleship will greatly reduce the number of soldiers. Sacrifice rate.
"Boss, the intercontinental ship operation station requires at least 100 people to operate on the spot. With the addition of 100,000 turrets, communication transmission... and other operating instructions, it will also require about ten people. When the intercontinental ship enters a wartime state, the ship operators' energy is quickly depleted. , if a long interstellar battle is carried out, the controllers must be rotated in three or four hours... Therefore, in order to exert the full combat effectiveness of the intercontinental ship, 600 people is already the minimum limit." Zhou Xiaozhi replied to Zhou Xing.
Zhou Xing nodded, looked at the federal president, and asked: "Mr. President, is this okay?"
"No problem, of course no problem!" President Puless nodded repeatedly in surprise.
Obviously, in order to obtain the life star awarded by the alliance, Zhou Xing agreed to build 100,000 intercontinental ships within ten years.
"Mr. Zhou, are there other models of intercontinental ships? Compared with the second generation, what kind of improvement does it have?" General Lierle looked at Zhou Xing with vigour, and asked excitedly.
After listening to Zhou Xiaozhi's reply, everyone couldn't help but understand one thing. Shining Star Group also has a more advanced intercontinental ship under construction, but it has not yet been mass-produced.
After listening to General Lierle's question, everyone stared at Zhou Xing, looking forward to his answer.
After Zhou Xing's interstellar exploration and return with the Titan spacecraft, and after those shareholders withdrew, the Shining Star Group has long been beyond the control of the federal government. Now, how many shipbuilding centers does the Shining Star Group have? How many were produced and how many new warships were developed? … All of this, it’s hard for them to get real data.
Facing everyone's concerned gazes, Zhou Xing smiled and explained: "The new generation of intercontinental ships integrates the recently breakthrough negative matter cannon, magnetic energy protection technology, higher-power curvature drive engines, and solid spacecraft materials... Research and development progress It has entered the fourth generation, but it will still take some time before mass production.”
After speaking, Zhou Xing touched the holographic screen, and the holographic screen above the conference table changed. A silver giant ship replaced the original intercontinental ship.
"The fourth intercontinental ship, length: 21 kilometers, width 3-6 kilometers, height 1.3 kilometers, has 170,000 particle turrets... The main naval gun is an 80-meter caliber negative matter cannon. The main naval gun is fully charged In this state, it has the power to destroy the satellite-the moon with one shot, an attack speed 16 times faster than the speed of light, and an effective range of about 127 million kilometers." Zhou Xing looked at the revealed fourth-generation intercontinental ship and introduced it to everyone in detail.
After hearing this, everyone stared at the holographic model of the intercontinental ship in front of them, their eyes blurred immediately, with a look of obsession on their faces.
"Incredible, is this true?"
"Mr. Zhou, this battleship has been developed? Is there a finished product?"
"Yes, is there a finished product?"
"If we can have a large fleet of these intercontinental ships, it is not impossible to develop Baoji Star!"
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Everyone calmed down, looked at Zhou Xing, and asked excitedly.
The four powerful intercontinental ships suddenly attracted everyone's attention. Their hearts were filled with excitement, and their whole bodies were shaking with excitement. If a fleet of such warships could be formed, would humans still need to fear the Dark Zerg
Zhou Xing smiled bitterly and said with some regret: "The manufacturing process of the fourth intercontinental ship is much more complicated than the previous generations. Therefore, the production and production chain are still in the initial stage. It is expected that it will take five years to produce the finished product. , it will take ten years to enter mass production, and it will probably take a long time to reach a certain scale."
Hearing this, everyone was silent for a while. Although the shipbuilding period described by Zhou Xing was already unimaginably fast, what mankind lacks most now is time. Human civilization urgently needs to obtain a perfect life star to carry the ever-expanding population.
With a population base of 45 billion, after the use of life-extending genetic medicine, excluding the people who died accidentally, the current population of human civilization is increasing by two to three billion every year, and it is increasing year by year. If there are no more life stars to carry it, it will not be long before the human civilization Development will be in huge trouble.
Perhaps the Galactic Alliance saw this and offered a reward that human civilization could not refuse, a life star suitable for the development of human civilization and under the threat of the Dark Zerg. For the safety of this planet , human civilization must devote all its strength to this racial war.
After hearing Zhou Xing's answer, the conference room fell into silence. Everyone frowned and felt a little heavy. Humanity must win the life star, but the threat of the Dark Zerg...
Seeing this, Zhou Xing smiled slightly and continued: "In order to fight against the Dark Zerg, we not only developed four generations of intercontinental ships, but also other types of warships, such as the Tarzan mothership."
"Well! President Zhou, isn't the Taishan Mothership the next generation product of the Panshi Mothership? The space war saucer seems to have been restrained by the self-destruction tactics of the Dark Zerg..." General Lierle looked at Zhou Xing and reminded.
The war saucer mothership exerted great destructive power against the Dark Zerg in several actual battles. However, the insect swarm adopted a radical method of self-destruction and wiped out the space war saucer group at once. Without the space war saucer group, the battle saucer group was destroyed. The saucer carrier also lost its ability to continue combat.
Zhou Xing smiled and explained: "Yes, the space war saucer was indeed cracked by the Dark Zerg, but because of this, I deliberately improved the manufacturing process of the space war saucer and designed a new type of war saucer. "
After speaking, Zhou Xingxu clicked on the holographic screen to bring up the holographic image of a new type of space war saucer.
Everyone's eyes lit up. The fourth-generation intercontinental ship disappeared, and a silver saucer-shaped space battle saucer appeared.
The round war disc is bright silver all over and is integrated into one body, like a smooth mirror with no gaps visible. The sharp blade shines with a cold metallic luster. It looks like a handicraft, but it exudes an unstoppable aura. .
"It's called a round-edged war saucer, with a diameter of 1.5 kilometers and a maximum height of 300 meters. It has a built-in anti-matter energy generator, uses an anti-gravity fluid engine, and is made of super-hard special memory metal materials. It can withstand various strong explosions and impacts. High temperature... and other characteristics, the peak speed of the wheel blade: 17,000 rpm, its maximum flight speed in a vacuum environment: 18 kilometers per second..." Zhou Xing looked at the crowd and introduced the parameters of the war saucer in detail.
"The round-edged war saucer, it doesn't seem to have any long-range attack capabilities?" General Lierle looked at the holographic image with bright eyes and asked Zhou Xingdao.
"Yes, it is a melee disc, specially designed for melee combat. Let me show you its internal conditions and its design principles." Zhou Xing nodded and smiled, looking at everyone and said excitedly.
After speaking, Zhou Xing stretched out his hand and tapped the holographic image. The next second, the round-edged war disc in the holographic image was divided into half, exposing its internal space. It has a hollow circle like a bracelet inside. Metal pipes.
Zhou Xing looked at the crowd and explained excitedly: "Everyone, look at these metal pipes that are spirally wound by metal coils. Their interiors are filled with a very special liquid. These special liquids are magnetic fluids and are also super fluids. Magnetic fluids ensure the magnetic properties of these liquids, making them act like magnets..."
"Super fluids ensure that these liquids have no viscosity at low temperatures and no resistance during the flow process. These properties ensure that the quantum surface layer of the liquid changes when it flows at high speed. During the high-speed flow process, these flowing substances will become Bosons instead of fermions, these liquids will no longer follow the Pauli Exclusion Principle in their flow. The entire flow process will generate Covido time-space vortexes, and at the same time will generate artificial gravity fields. The vortices generated by these fluids can absorb time/space on one side of the vortex, and expels time/space on the other side of the vortex… to achieve a massive push.”
"Next, we looked at its center. This central sphere is its core - a small 'antimatter energy station'..."
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Superfluid, space vortex, Pauli exclusion principle...
Various professional terms popped out of Zhou Xing's mouth one after another.
Listening to Zhou Xing's eloquent narration, after a while, everyone's focused eyes showed blank expressions. They understood the meaning of these funny words, but after forming words, it was a completely different concept.
"Ahem, Mr. Zhou, its internal design is too exquisite, but are the construction materials used on its exterior sure to be able to completely resist the self-destruction of the Dark Zerg?" General Lierle coughed twice and couldn't help but speak out. Interrupting Zhou Xing's explanation, he asked.
"Well! I have put a lot of effort into making it strong enough to withstand strong explosions!" Zhou Xing looked at General Lierle and nodded happily: "Now, let me introduce this material to you. It is Titanium alloy with special atomic structure, similar to quasicrystal structure.”
After speaking, Zhou Xing touched the holographic screen again, which displayed a structural model of two pairs of atoms. The two atomic materials were condensed together in different ways.
"Look, everyone, the space tetrahedron organizes the structural model of diamond, which is the material model of the hardest substance known on the earth. You can look at another picture. This one is the space model of a five-fold folded quasicrystal. It is the construction material used for the round-edged war saucer." Zhou Xing explained while looking at the crowd.
"With the birth of this quasicrystal structure material, diamond has lost its position as the number one in hardness. It is completely different from the crystal structure we are familiar with. Quasicrystals are composed of periodic and seemingly irregular structures. Different For crystalline materials…”
"In crystal materials, a symmetrical pattern can be obtained by connecting any two points of the atomic structure. After folding the crystal in half, a new structure will be obtained. The appearance of the obtained pattern is different each time. However, the characteristic of having a symmetrical structure after folding in half is not Change, then, we look at the quasicrystalline structure material formed after folding five times... This structure can maintain its basic structural properties when folded in half at any angle."
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"This kind of material can only be synthesized under conditions of strong gravity. The processing process must go through a special refining and purification process, a series of artificial electromagnetic and ultrasonic processing, and then some isotropic modification processing... "
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Zhou Xing looked at everyone, started a virtual experiment on the spot, and explained it to them.
I saw that the atomic material structure diagram in the holographic screen showed various special changes under Zhou Xing's twists and turns.
Everyone twitched their mouths slightly and looked at each other, feeling as if their IQs were being crushed.
General Lierle, who had not heard the main point for a long time, couldn't help but asked again: "Well, Mr. Zhou, can this material resist the high-intensity explosion of the Dark Zerg?"
Hearing this, Zhou Xing glared at General Lierle and asked with some incomprehension: "I've explained it in such detail, but you still can't understand?"
General Lierle blushed and said: "What you said is too professional, I can't understand it!"
"President Zhou, can you put it more simply? How much explosion strength can it withstand?" President Puless looked at Zhou Xing and asked inquiringly.
Everyone nodded in unison and looked at Zhou Xing expectantly. They were not professionals and could not understand Zhou Xing's description at all. They did not understand the technological content of this round battle saucer. They only wanted to know its various combat capabilities. parameter.
Zhou Xing sighed helplessly. If he had known better, he wouldn't have wasted so much time.
Zhou Xing looked at everyone and introduced calmly: "The round-edged war saucer can probably withstand the intensity of a nuclear bomb explosion without being damaged. If the temperature exceeds 5,000 degrees, it will cause devastating damage to its atomic structure and cannot be restored. "
General Lierle's eyes lit up and he couldn't wait to ask: "Mr. Zhou, does this data mean that the self-destruction of the insect ship cannot cause damage to the spacecraft?"
Zhou Xing rolled his eyes at General Lierle: "The self-destruction of insect ships instantly detonates the biological energy capsules inside them. The core temperature of the explosion is not high. The flying speed of the disc war saucer and its material properties are enough to be immune to these injuries."
Hearing this, everyone cheered up. This war disc is simply the nemesis of the Dark Zerg!
"Mr. Zhou, can this war disc be produced? If so..." General Lierle looked at Zhou Xing with bright eyes and asked excitedly.
Zhou Xing smiled at him and nodded understandingly.