Ten projectiles, one large and nine small, directly hit the Orca-class battleship as the target ship at a speed infinitely close to the speed of light, causing waves on the energy shield.
It stands to reason that the rail gun is definitely not so powerful that it can make waves in the energy shield of the Orca-class battleship.
According to Bai Zixuan's previous statement, the ten rail launch ports of this new rail gun are specially arranged to ensure that ten projectiles impact at the same time, and the energy formed by the impact will resonate with each other, which will affect the energy shield. Cause great harm.
"Commander, the target ship sent back information that the energy shield is depleted by 12%!"
The tester was also very excited when he reported it. He did not expect that such an old-fashioned weapon could have such power. Should he be said to be Bai Zixuan, the chief scientist of mankind
"Okay, how soon can I shoot again?"
Lin Fan listened to the tester's report, nodded with satisfaction, and continued to ask.
"Because it uses physical ammunition, it needs to be reloaded after firing, and the reloading speed is about 15 seconds. However, this rail gun is currently mounted on a battleship, and there is no problem with charging. But if it operates independently, It needs to be provided with a powerful energy source!”
Hearing this, Lin Fan frowned. This is a big problem!
You can't install a fusion reactor on every rail gun, that would be ridiculous.
But if this is not the case, how to supply energy to the rail gun
Wait, there it is! Lycra crystal, yes, use Lycra crystal (the energy crystal of the Lycra Empire, named Lycra crystal by humans)!
Lycra crystals have been specially tested before. After each one is full of energy, it can power a federal Orca-class battleship to conduct a high-intensity battle.
If it is used on a new rail gun system, it will definitely last for many years, and that will be under heavy use!
Besides, this thing has huge reserves in the Laika Capital Region. Almost every resource star has huge reserves. According to the results of exploration, the entire Laika Capital Region has at least 10 trillion Lycra crystal mineral deposits.
As for the purchase price of Federal Lycra, it is quite cheap, only 10 points each, which is no different from grabbing for nothing.
Today, the Lycra Empire's annual mining volume is approximately 100 million, of which 60% will be acquired by the Federation. So far, the Federation has acquired more than hundreds of millions of Lycra crystals.
"Would it be possible to use Lycra crystals as a source of energy?"
Lin Fan asked the tester. After all, he was not a professional, so he had to let professionals confirm it before he could rest assured!
"Commander, it's absolutely fine to use Lycra crystals, but we don't have Lycra crystals here, so we need to deploy them from the earth!"
"Don't worry about this! Liang Xue, help me contact the earth. I need a lot of Lycra crystals and ask them to prepare 50 million for me!"
"clear!"
"Look, the problem is solved!"
After giving instructions to Liang Xue, Lin Fan turned his head and looked at the tester with a smile!
The tester and several of his assistants were in a daze for a while. 50 million Lycra crystals seemed to be just a matter of words in the eyes of the commander!
And just ask the deputy to inform you, why don't you even bother to show up
Is this the boss of the interstellar era
"Okay, come to your senses. After you go back to the scientific research city, talk to Mr. Bai! The Lycra crystal will be delivered in a few months and let him make some modifications to the energy system. At the same time, he will use what I told him before for posture. The control thruster will also be designed, and then mass production can begin!”
"Okay, Commander, is there anything else you need me to tell you?"
"No, that's it!"
Lin Fan will not admit that the reason why he asked you to tell him was because he was afraid that he would be slapped by Bai Zixuan again!
After saying that, he immediately left with Liang Xue.
After settling the rail gun matter, Lin Fan and Liang Xue began to check the construction progress of the starry sky defense network. After all, this was also one of the important means in this battle.
The so-called starry sky defense network is composed of tens of millions of fixed defense platforms and a starry sky cannon.
The structure of the entire defense network is an extremely complex three-dimensional mesh structure with a total of 13.8 million nodes, each of which is a fixed defense platform.
[Fixed defense platform (remote control type)]
Level: Defense Platform
Tonnage: 200,000 tons
Hull size: 382 meters long, 235 meters wide, 120 meters high
Main weapon: Triple 15m caliber plasma cannon, quantity 1
Secondary weapon: twin 3m caliber positron cannon, quantity 4
Close defense weapon: Rapid-fire electromagnetic projectile cannon, quantity 16
Other weapons: Multipurpose missile silos, quantity 128
Defense device: third generation energy shield
Number of passengers: None (remote control type)
It can be seen from the data that the so-called defense platform is actually a small warship that cannot move without an engine.
It has a triple-mounted plasma cannon and 4 twin-mounted positron cannons from a killer whale-class battleship. It can be said to have such impressive attack capabilities!
Although the firepower of a single unit is still far behind that of the Orca-class battleship, the key is that the number is sufficient. The entire starry sky defense network has a total of 13.8 million defense platforms.
Although this is already very powerful, the defense platform is not the focus of the starry sky defense network. The real core is the starry sky cannon.
Its real name is [Nuclear Explosion-Induced Gamma Ray Emitter], which is a long-range gamma ray cannon. It is a weapon in the early stage of level five civilization and is generally used as a fortress cannon in important strongholds.
This is a weapon of mass destruction in the interstellar era. Once launched, no one will be left alive on the ray with a diameter of about 200,000 kilometers, and even the energy shield cannot block it at all.
But the disadvantages are also huge. This weapon charges extremely slowly and can only be fired every thirty minutes.
In addition, the starry sky cannon is also very large, almost the size of ten battleships. Therefore, a large number of battleships must be escorted to keep the enemy out of range at all times so that they cannot attack the starry sky cannon. Otherwise, the starry sky cannon will never be able to attack. There is no possibility of firing a second shot!
Normally, a Level 4 civilization cannot afford to use a starry sky cannon. After all, the energy consumption of this thing is too terrible. Even if you deploy dozens or hundreds of nuclear fusion reactors, you cannot keep up with the energy required to charge it. .
However, because of the Lycra crystal, the starry sky cannon is possible. In its internal energy compartment, there are 100,000 Lycra crystals full of energy stored.
Each time the Star Cannon is charged before firing, the energy stored in a full 10,000 Lycra crystals will be consumed.
In other words, the starry sky cannon can be fired up to ten times during a war. It’s not that humans are reluctant to buy more Lycra crystals as spares, but it’s completely unnecessary!
Because normally, you won't have the opportunity to launch ten times!
Before you fire ten times, you either have killed the opponent, or you have been killed by the opponent!
(End of chapter)