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Chapter 378 The Territory of the Ming Empire

The controllable nuclear fusion engine and plasma engine currently used by the Ming Empire were the most important engines before the Ming Empire developed the photon engine and antimatter engine.

However, the Ming Empire's military and civilians have different views on the needs of these two technologies. The controllable nuclear fusion technology is generally installed on military spaceships, and civilian spaceships are rarely installed on other spaceships except for mining.

This is because the controllable nuclear fusion engine technology is much higher in terms of manufacturing price and spacecraft flight cost, although the controllable nuclear fusion engine has absolute advantages in terms of thrust, extraordinary speed and range. Advantage.

However, for spaceships powered by controllable nuclear fusion engines, the quotation format uses more than four times that of ordinary plasma engines, and the cost of each voyage is more than three times that of ordinary plasma engines. Plasma propulsion technology.

Moreover, not all spaceships using plasma propulsion use gold essence batteries as their energy source. After all, most of the spaceships in the Ming Empire are spaceships that can travel long distances. realistic.

Although the Ming Empire has also made great breakthroughs in battery technology over the past hundred years, making the storage capacity of each kilogram of gold essence battery reach nearly [-] million degrees, but such a small amount of energy for long-distance spaceships Not enough at all.

So those spaceships that use conventional plasma propulsion as power, in addition to a large number of Jingjing batteries as energy sources, the spacecraft itself is also equipped with controllable nuclear fusion reactors, but these reactors are only used to generate electricity. It is just for charging, instead of directly using controllable nuclear fusion to propel the spacecraft forward like the controllable nuclear fusion thruster.

So now the civil spaceships of the Ming Empire are basically powered by the conventional plasma recommendation system, or the integrated propulsion system of the plasma nuclear fusion engine.

In addition to this, the Ming Empire also began to conduct some research on mechas in the universe. However, the role of mechas in space cannot be compared with that of space fighters. This is a large-scale exercise, but the result is very unsatisfactory. The same number of mechs can't compete with the fighters, and even the losses of the fighters are very small.

However, mechs have natural advantages in land warfare, that is, landing battles, but there is still a certain gap in combat effectiveness compared to the real king of the land chariot, especially in terms of heavy firepower and resistance to strikes, but mechas also have their own advantages. The biggest advantage is the flexibility of the mecha and the ability to survive in special environments.

Therefore, although the Ming Empire is not very optimistic about mechas, it has still formed a ground combat force using mechas, but the number is not very large. After all, although mechas are very powerful and flexible, they are different from real heavy armor The power suspension tank is far behind in attack and defense, and in terms of mobility, it is also much worse than the individual exoskeleton armor currently in active service in the Ming Empire, so the number of mecha troops is not very large.

However, although the number of mecha troops in the Ming Empire is not large, the soldiers who drive these mechas are all elites in the Ming Empire Army. It can be said that they are one in a million, because these mechas can only play their greatest role in their hands. Efficiency, in fact, the combat power of mechas is still very powerful, a mecha can even defeat a battalion of ordinary ground troops, of course, this is only if the troops of this battalion do not have heavy firepower.

If the mech encounters heavy ground armor forces such as floating tanks, heavy tanks, and ground fire platforms when attacking, the best way is to evacuate immediately, because the mech is useless in front of these equipment.

Moreover, although the Ming Empire has not sent out to other civilizations for more than a hundred years, it has sent probes to all star systems within 8.5 light-years of the solar system. There are a total of five star systems within 8.5 light-years centered on the solar system. Planetary systems, among which star a in Centaurus has been explored long ago, the other four are Barnard's (barnard's) 6.0 light-years away from the earth, Wolf 359 (wolf359) 7.7 light-years away from the earth, Brander's 2147 star (bd+36°) is 8.2 light-years away from Earth, and uv Ceti (luyten726-8) is 8.4 light-years away from Earth.

The Ming Empire has explored all of these four galaxies in the past hundred years or so. Except for the star Woolf 7.7, which is 359 light-years away from the earth, which has a living planet, the Ming Empire has not found the existence of life on the other three planets, and Even the living planet in Woolf's 359 star system has not yet evolved intelligent life, and the entire planet is still quite primitive. This planet is still at the time when creatures are evolving from the ocean to the land, and there is no such thing on the land yet. What animals, but algae plants are everywhere on land.

However, although this planet is a living planet, due to the relatively primitive nature of this planet, the atmosphere on the planet contains a lot of harmful gases to the human body, so although this planet is a living planet, it is not yet ready for human survival. If humans If you want to colonize this planet, you must speed up the evolution of life on this planet, or remove the harmful gases on this planet to make this planet suitable for human survival.

And because humans discovered that there is a living planet in the Woolf 359 galaxy, the Ming Empire renamed this galaxy and the living planet, and the planet Woolf 359 was renamed Chang'an Star by the Ming Empire.

Therefore, the current territory of the Ming Empire is within 8.5 light-years around the solar system. After all, no intelligent life has been found in these galaxies, so these galaxies automatically become the territory of the Ming Empire according to the laws of the Ming Empire.

In addition to the detailed detection of these galaxies, the Ming Empire also sent probes to other planets within ten light-years of the Ming Empire, but no life or intelligent life was found in other galaxies other than Sirius. exist,

This is because the probe sent by the Ming Empire to Sirius lost contact when it was two light years away from Sirius. According to the records of the probe, it should have been destroyed by an energy weapon.

However, the Ming Empire still obtained a lot of galaxies about Sirius, and according to the information of the probe, there are intelligent life on Sirius, and the level of civilization is not low, and the civilization level of the Milky Way is set, and the civilization on Sirius is the least. The existence of level five or quasi-level five civilization.

Although the detectors sent by the Ming Empire are relatively early products, and they are not as powerful as the current detectors in terms of defense or performance, but these detectors cannot be destroyed by ordinary civilizations.

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