How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 224 New Combat Preparations (Part 1)

After bidding farewell to Ma Wen, the head of state and his party arrived at another research facility in a flying car according to the schedule, but this research facility was bigger than Ma Wen's. Occasionally, soldiers and kings could be seen patrolling somewhere. It can be seen at a glance how much importance the empire attaches to itself.

The head of state who got off the speeding car entered the facility, and there were all kinds of busy people inside. The bustling scene made people feel like they were in a downtown. Or near a large instrument, a heated discussion is going on.

Another notable feature is that the dark circles under the eyes of these people are really heavy, and it seems that they will suffer a cardiac arrest in the next second and die suddenly on the spot...

Seeing this, the Führer called a nearby guard.

How long have they been asleep?

Führer, it's been three mother star days.

Call me the person in charge, and let the others go to sleep immediately. This is the highest order.

Obey!

The guard left immediately, and then a group of soldiers rushed in, picked up the scientists who were still discussing heatedly and took them away, injecting sedatives directly to those who were struggling, completely ignoring the protests of these scientists.

After a while, a man ran panting all the way to the head of state.

Yuan...Head of State...you...here...

Are you planning to commit suicide as a group?

After taking a breath, the principal finally stopped panting heavily.

Führer, everyone is fighting for the future of the empire. Although we can't drive warships, at least we can't lose to those fighters who are fighting on the front line on our battlefield. Our technology improves a little bit, and the warships on the future battlefield will be It’s worth it to save one ship from being destroyed.”

Then you are exhausted, who is going to take over the research project for you? You have also studied mathematics, but if you all die together, the empire will find someone to take over the research project, from unfamiliar to familiar, and then to absorb your research. What is the time cost for continuing to specialize in the results?

The head of state asked coldly, and the person in charge was left speechless by the question.

Report to me on the progress of your research, and then roll off to sleep immediately.

yes!

The person in charge immediately gave a military salute to the head of state and reported.

At present, a few strategic research projects have been preliminarily finalized, and others are still in the theoretical category. The finalized ones are the swarm-type sonic boom, the modified long-range autonomous ship, the cluster-type pulse radar, the nano-mothership, and the sonic boom-type persistent oscillator.

Let me start with a simple introduction. The first is the modified long-range autonomous ship.

Through the combat records, we found that neither the empire nor the enemy seems to be very good at dealing with small high-speed units in the universe. Once the distance is opened, they will be in a hurry. The most fundamental reason is that the radar is not sensitive enough to capture them. Small units coming from afar.

The Führer pondered for a moment before asking his own question.

But the size also limits the output of small units, which prevents them from playing a greater strategic role. Therefore, the main force of the space battlefield has always been large warships, because the weapons carried by small ships cannot break the defense system of large ships at once. .”

Yes, this is a strange circle. The heavier the load of a battleship, the more things it can carry, the stronger its defense, and the stronger its firepower. But at the same time, the larger the target, the easier it is to be captured and aimed at a long distance by the fire control radar, so it will play out. It became a situation of queuing up and shooting in space, so the tonnage of warships increased again and again, defense and firepower were strengthened, and the Imperial Mothership class was born.

Small ships, such as destroyers, frigates, and even unmanned autonomous ships, have weak firepower, small load, and weak defense. However, damage on the battlefield often comes from attacks from warships of the same level, and rarely in non-spiral arrays. Of course, there are reasons why capital ships do not want to waste artillery fire, but there are also reasons why it is difficult for radars to capture these small ships from a long distance.

Huogu digested the mothership technology of the Serenes, and even went further on that road than the Serenes because of the advantages of materials science, which made the Serenes realize that in order to gain the advantage of the interstellar battlefield, they must It is necessary to seek breakthroughs in new technologies and pull the mothership class from the imperial military altar.

The head of state had vaguely guessed what the person in charge wanted to express, but he was not sure yet.

So, you want to combine the advantages of large ships and small ships? Create a warship with superior performance to the Mothership class?

Yes, try to think about it, a ship is only the size of gravel, but its firepower is mothership level or even higher...

Wait, the size of gravel? Can people sit on it?

The person in charge coughed dryly, suppressing his excitement just now.

Sorry, Head of State, that's the research direction. I'm too excited. The modified long-range autonomous ship I want to introduce to you is a small achievement of this research direction. The reason why I chose the autonomous ship as a template is mainly because it is an empire. The ship with the smallest unit, the ship rectified under the mature system does not need too many tests to form combat effectiveness.

As he said that, the person in charge led the head of state to a projector and showed his superior the profile of the modified long-range autonomous ship.

Under the vibrating armor, we have installed cryogenic fluid, using the temperature difference effect, to obtain current from the thermal energy of the vibrating armor, and the current is introduced into the laser. Therefore, increasing the power of the pulse engine at the tail of the autonomous ship will speed up the autonomous ship...

Nodens, who was following the head of state, suddenly asked.

Excuse me, where does the thermal energy of the vibrating armor come from... Uh, what did I say wrong?

Facing the focused gazes of the person in charge and the head of state, Nordens scratched his head in confusion.

The person in charge shook his head and explained.

The high temperature naturally comes from the enemy's laser. The enemy's radar system will definitely detect and lock the autonomous ship. This is inevitable, but due to its size, it will be later than the mothership class when it is locked by weapons.

But what's the point of this? It's just faster, the conversion efficiency is not 100%, and heat will still accumulate on the vibrating armor. You should have read the battle records. Those large creatures can release a large number of small individuals. I'm afraid the autonomous ship hasn't come close to those The creature is vaporized. The head of state said.

That's why the autonomous ship is chosen. It is consumable by definition. It doesn't matter how much it loses. Considering the construction materials and construction time, even if a whole autonomous ship formation is sacrificed, a single autonomous ship can break into the enemy unit. , that’s also earning money.”

In addition, the speed of the modified long-range autonomous ship is not as high as you think. We didn't plan to arrange them into the fleet from the beginning. Do you think the acceleration orbit of the mother star and the acceleration orbit of the mother ship are the same? Is it of magnitude?

PS: The temperature difference effect here refers to the Sebel effect. In 1821, the German scientist Seebeck discovered that in the connection of two different metals, if a node of the connection is placed in a high temperature state T2 (hot end), and the other end is open circuit and in low temperature state T1 cold end, then there is an open circuit voltage ΔV at the cold end, this phenomenon is called Seibel effect. ('ω)