My empire of stars

"Such a large space allows us to equip this battleship with more equipment!"

"We have redesigned a new shield system for this battleship. Due to the reduction in the size of the battleship, the shield strength per unit area has been greatly enhanced. We have also prepared a shield connection device for it, so that this battleship can integrate the shield with other battleships."

"The outermost layer of the battleship is still our dimensional armor, and the inner layer is two layers of crystal armor."

"However, due to the reduction in the surface area of ​​the battleship, the strength of the dimensional armor is much less than before, but the advantage is that the shield strength we have improved is enough to make up for the loss of defense and even enhance it."

"The extremely shrunken hull can greatly reduce the possible area of ​​the battleship, thereby improving the survivability of the battleship."

"The application of space folding makes the weight of Zeus III only the size of an ordinary destroyer, which improves its maneuverability." The design director explained to Li Mingze.

"I understand all this, I just want to know where the weapons of this battleship are?" Li Mingze frowned as he looked at the smooth surface of the battleship.

A designer stood up and unfolded a holographic image from his hand again.

"Your Majesty, please allow us to show you the most advanced technology of our empire!" The designer said as he gently swiped his hand on the tablet.

Suddenly, hundreds of "windows" of different sizes flashed on both sides of the Zeus III warship parked in the dock.

These windows densely covered the entire warship, and then gun barrels of varying thicknesses stretched out from these space windows suspended in the air!

"In order to ensure the overall strength of the warship, we did not design a conventional muzzle on the warship, but left all the weapons inside the warship."

"When they need to attack, open the space windows around the warship directly, and these weapons inside the warship can attack directly through these windows!" As the designer waved his arm, Li Mingze could see the gun barrels in these windows dancing along his arm, extremely flexible!

"Originally, the space folding technology allowed this Zeus III to carry more ammunition."

"However, after we applied the space folding technology to the shells, due to the non-superposition of space, the shells could not be stuffed into the space folding device of the warship after using the space folding device."

"We can only design a separate magazine for it to store these physical ammunition." The designer shook his head regretfully.

Li Mingze was shocked. If it could not be put into the space folding magazine, how much ammunition could this warship of only one thousand meters carry.

"Your Majesty, I know what you are thinking." The designer smiled slightly, and the holographic image in his hand turned into an ordinary warhead.

"This is a high-explosive warhead that uses space folding technology. It is only the size of our fist, but its power is not small at all. Moreover, due to its reduced size and mass, it is more difficult for the enemy to intercept it!"

"Similarly, we need less time and energy to accelerate it to sub-light speed, which greatly increases the firing rate of our weapons!"

"Of course, the solid warheads used for physical attacks are still stored in the space folding magazine and are not mixed with these warheads." The designer proudly showed Li Mingze their latest masterpiece.

"Very good! Very good! I am very satisfied with everything except the appearance of this battleship!" Li Mingze clapped his hands with satisfaction.

He has already imagined that when millions of these Zeus III battleships fly in front of the enemy, the enemy may laugh at how powerful these destroyer-sized battleships can be.

And then the empire's battleships will be able to slap them in the face!

In addition to the Zeus III battleships, the size of all the empire's space units has been greatly reduced. The fleet that was originally able to block the stars can now only barely block the moonlight.

But their combat effectiveness has not been reduced, but has been greatly enhanced.

The Empire has now officially entered a new era, in which the combat effectiveness of warships is no longer constrained by size.

Time flies again, and another hundred years pass in the blink of an eye.

During this hundred years, various experimental civilizations have completely digested the damaged ring worlds prepared for them by the Empire.

After possessing nearly top-level technology, these experimental civilizations finally launched an attack on the entire river system.

In just fifty years, these civilizations dominated their respective river systems, and the experiment really began at this time.

As one of the three experimental civilizations in the experiment, one of them was set to verify whether the technological bottleneck is related to space folding technology.

Its territory will remain in its current state under the guidance of the Empire, and their population has been guided to be in a normal state in the past four hundred years.

Next, the Empire will create an accident to allow this civilization to obtain space folding technology.

The second experimental civilization, because it needs to study whether breaking the bottleneck is related to population, this civilization was not given space folding technology, but their population, under the guidance of the Empire's observers, increased to a very terrifying level using clones.

Their average population density far exceeds that of the Empire's No. 1 River System in the Empire's homeland.

The third experimental subject, the Taotie Empire, was used to study whether it was related to the area of ​​territory. Therefore, the empire specially prepared a new river system for it, which was next to this civilization river system.

They only need to pass through a portal ruins to easily reach this new river system.

Of course, it is impossible to give the teleportation technology empire to the Taotie Empire. What if these civilizations master the teleportation technology and run away.

Therefore, this portal is not detachable and will self-destruct once it is disassembled and studied.

Soon, these three civilizations developed their technology to a point where they were on par with the current empire.

The person in charge of this research project and a group of scientists became nervous.

Because they must always monitor the technological development of these civilizations through observers. It would be ridiculous if their technology surpassed the empire and finally defeated the experimental Sith Empire.

But waiting and waiting, these civilizations have not experienced scientific research bottlenecks like the Empire, but the scientific research speed is getting faster and faster.

This made the scientists of the Sith Empire and Li Mingze anxious. If after a while, there were no signs of scientific research bottlenecks, the empire would have to take action to eliminate them.

Even if the reason cannot be found, action must be taken. Now the technological development of these civilizations has threatened the empire's own security.

While the scientists of the empire were waiting impatiently, an abnormality suddenly occurred in the Taotie Empire.