Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

There is an exit at the back door, so walk slowly.

What?Plasma beyond the upper limit of confinement?

There is an exit at the back door, so walk slowly.

Look at what I'm doing, I didn't stop you, if you want to leave, hurry up, don't hinder the fusion of the fuel behind.

Probably that's it.

This is the most classic design of the "Fusion Direct Injection Engine". It can even be said that when someone talks about the so-called "Fusion Direct Injection", [-]% of them are talking about this magnetic mirror configuration engine.

There is no other reason, the technical requirements are low, the performance is good, the versatility and controllability are all one-to-one, and the steady-state capability is even worse than some closed magnetic confinement reactors that struggle with wild plasma currents every day. Well, it doesn't matter who you use.

However, even such a powerful magnetic confinement fusion direct injection engine will be overshadowed by the inertial confinement engine.

The characteristics of the inertial constraint engine are very obvious. It is not only an open architecture that is very capable in terms of propulsion efficiency, but also has a huge bonus of pulse type-a simple rule, in the propulsion reactor, open > closed , pulse type > continuous type, and the situation is just the other way around in power reactors.

Therefore, the propulsion capacity of a closed continuous steady-state reactor like a stellarator is very high. It can only be understood by the heat absorption of the working fluid. It is no different from a large nuclear thermal engine, but its power generation capacity is the best. Fusion family.

On the contrary, on the inertial constrained engine, because it is an open pulse reactor, its propulsion capability is extremely high, and it can even achieve a 1g acceleration as a fusion engine, which is simply synonymous with horror.

Although its power generation capacity is too rubbish, it even needs an additional power pile to supply power to him to maintain operation, so this thing is difficult to use for those battleships with high power consumption-it is not a problem with the power itself, After all, the battleship itself has plenty of power, and it is quite cost-effective to spend more quality power generation to replace it with a high-performance engine.

The most fundamental reason is that power generation is different from an engine. The waste heat of the engine can be directly taken away by the injected working fluid, but the waste heat brought by power generation is actually applied to the battleship, which requires them to use huge heat sinks. To disperse specially.

Especially considering the inherently high power of the inertial constraint engine, coupled with such a lot of trouble to build a bunch of things, it would seem unnecessary if the power does not greatly exceed the magnetic mirror of the same level, so even if they can activate the constraint efficiency , that is, the efficiency of converting each unit of input electric power into output heat power is very high, and the required power supply is also quite high, and the converted waste heat is naturally extremely expanded.

It is impossible for them to accept a conventional warship that can only choose between firing and maneuvering, so there is no doubt that unless there is a breakthrough in future technology, the inertial constraint engine will have little chance of becoming a power-hungry ship. The engine configuration of the battleship.

However, this is limited to battleships with high power consumption.

In this world, it is not only warships that use lasers and electromagnetic guns that consume hundreds of gigawatts of power to be called capital ships.

In the past, the non-high power-consuming capital ships that Hong could think of were mainly concentrated on missile ships. After all, missiles definitely do not need to consume any electricity. As a "missile rack" that simply transports missiles to designated locations, it What is needed is the engine's super high performance - which is why Hong tried to put it on the ship decades ago.

Although that attempt ultimately failed due to the immature technology, she honestly switched back to the magnetic mirror engine, but this does not mean that there is a problem with this idea. In this new generation of inertial constraint that uses many advanced technologies of Maomeng After the engine comes out, Hong expects that it will only need a period of testing and modification before it can be officially used as the propulsion engine for the new generation of arsenal ships.

But what Hong wants to say is not just this.

In the past, she could only think of missile ships, because at that time, everyone was just playing with the laser electromagnetic gun and missiles. There were only three kinds of weapons, and no matter how much they fiddled, how many kinds of battleships could be created.

But this time, the situation is different.

"This is simply a perfect match for the inertial constraint engine."

Red's arms are crossed in front of his chest, and there is a photo between the index finger and middle finger of both hands - the one on the left is of the inertial confinement fusion experimental ship that has just completed its trial voyage, while the one on the right is a photo of The Great Rupert Truth-class battleships that are being dismantled and analyzed in the temporary dock.

"On the one hand, there is a plasma cannon with a short range but extremely powerful firepower, which has low power and heat dissipation requirements, and can't even run 1% of the power generated by the reactor all the year round.

"On the other side, there is an inertia-constrained engine that requires a lot of power and heat dissipation, but can be exchanged for strong power.

"Don't you think these two things are a perfect match?"

"really."

Everyone thought for a moment and found that it was indeed the case.

Both of them have obvious disadvantages and obvious advantages. When they appear alone, their fatal disadvantages will often greatly affect their effects, but if they are combined, the effects are complementary, but they can play 1+ The effect of 1>2.

"Then why don't those people from the Great Rupers use it?" An officer wondered, "Many of their technologies are more advanced than ours. It stands to reason that as long as they realize the strong complementary effect of this engine and the plasma cannon, they are willing to spend energy on it." If you study with great concentration and cost, the possibility of researching it should be very high, right?"

"First, they probably didn't realize the complementary effect between the two." Hong raised an index finger, "And among the enemies they faced before, there was no long-range unit like ours. Basically, they are plasma gunships similar to them, or electromagnetic gunships with a slightly longer range, and they don’t really need such a powerful engine to close the distance.”

"Second, and the most critical point..." Hong clapped her hands, and said helplessly, "As for their laser technology, which is rubbish that can't be compared with human beings, and the ion beam technology, which is even more rubbish than lasers, they also have Study inertial constraints?"

"Yes."

After such a reminder, some of the officers who were still a little bit confused suddenly figured out what was going on. It has to be said that the laser is really important, and it is far more than just a simple weapon.

Without the plasma cannon technology, they are just inferior to each other in terms of plasma control, but without the laser technology, the technology tree will drop a lot at once, and many projects and researches that require ultra-high laser technology can be done. Can't go on at all.

Sure enough, laser Dafa is good!

Everyone thought.

"However, these are things that happened before." Hong immediately added, "After suffering such a huge loss, they will definitely start desperately trying to make up for laser technology.

"Although it can be predicted that its main direction will be the free electron laser main gun and phased array laser secondary gun used in practical engineering, and the theoretical research is relatively scarce-but we cannot guarantee that the other party will not have There is no way to overcome the mystery of the inertial constraint engine.

"So on the one hand, we have to be mentally prepared that the other party may master the inertial constraint engine, so as to prevent being overwhelmed when it does happen."

After a slight pause, Hong held up her second finger, and continued: "On the other hand, we will not allow the other party to make up for their backward areas like this, and make up for their shortcomings safely.

"We're going to build our own plasma gunships too."

"so..."

Hearing this, among the people present, the officers who knew more about technology already understood what Hong wanted to do.

Although they have a long, long way to go in terms of plasma cannons, it is by no means easy to catch up overnight-but if you want to say that the most difficult and most important problem in the entire plasma cannon project , then there must be only one thing that would qualify for this description.

superconducting magnet.

"Yes."

Hong nodded lightly, confirming their guess.

"We have to find a way to enter the opponent's core star field and steal the detailed manufacturing process of their superconducting magnet from their top-secret industrial area.

"The code name of the plan is--

"Let me borrow your magnet."

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PS2: Tomorrow is July. As usual, I will take a day off on the [-]st of every month.

See you on the second!

Volume 275 Industry and Power: Chapter [-] Straw Boat Borrowing Iron

Of course, this naming was finally refuted by everyone present.

Although to be honest, the code name of this secret project is indeed just a useless name. If it will not be used for publicity, let alone "let me use your magnet", it is just to press a button on the keyboard with your face. Lettering is fine.

But the name is so weird!

If this cat is really given such a name, when everyone is arranging work, they will say "I am the consultant of the 'Let me use your magnet' project team", people really may not be able to hold back their laughter !

So, under the resistance of the project team, Hong had no choice but to delete the good name she thought of for a long time and changed it into a very clichéd one, so clichéd that it would not violate any project. Sensational name.

However, seeing that everyone was satisfied with this, Hong had no choice but to raise a possibility, which probably had a slight possibility... Is it because I named it as waste?

No matter, the cat won't admit it anyway~

By the way, when collecting names, a scholar who is interested in anthropology proposed a name called "Grass Boat Borrowing Iron", and explained the story behind the prototype of this word.

However, they did not adopt this name. After all, what they planned to do was too far from the story described by this scholar—just getting iron is far from enough, just like how many tons of Dalu they have on hand now. This special superconducting magnet in the country of Perth has been discovered, and the elemental composition of this magnet has been known through elemental analysis, but they still don't know how to make this kind of magnet.

Even if they adjusted the raw materials strictly according to the analyzed element ratios, and exhausted all the superconducting magnet preparation processes they currently know, there is still a huge gap in the finished products, although the superconductivity in the ultra-thin film state It is close to the measured value of the sample, which proves that its composition is no problem.

But once it is a little thicker, the superconductivity will plummet immediately, and actual observations have also proved that the finished products made by these methods cannot achieve the exquisite composition like the samples, and the performance is even more different.

Obviously, just like yttrium barium copper oxide, this kind of superconducting magnet also needs some very cutting-edge technology to ensure that it can perfectly play the performance of its material itself.

It is almost impossible to reverse engineer it from the finished material alone, so even if they borrowed this iron with a straw boat, they still couldn't do anything about it.

Therefore, they must find a way to get the real and detailed manufacturing process of these magnets-whether it is stealing from the other party's computer, robbing the other party's factory, or some other method, the goal is only one.

"Borrow" all their understanding of superconducting magnets.

The kind that doesn't pay back.

Of course, like the radio offensive against the Great Rupert Country, the Cat League is also not in a hurry for this plan-unlike other enemies the Cat League has encountered before, the Great Rupert Country is advanced due to its huge territory. The advanced technology, as well as the thick blood bar that can guarantee an advantage when fighting multiple civilizations at the same time, make it an opponent that they will almost certainly have to fight for a long time.

Judging from the information collected by Hong, taking into account the daily maintenance, combat consumption and replenishment of other fleets, it is estimated that the opponent will only need about ten years, and the longest time is no more than 20 years, to complete this battle. The lost fleet and a half was replaced in its entirety.

After all, the gap of more than ten times the production capacity of the space industry is not covered-this is an extremely strong opponent, there is no doubt about it.

But fortunately, after the other party sent this wave of big rhythm, the pressure on the cat alliance has been reduced all of a sudden - not only will they not face direct military threats from the Great Rupert Kingdom in the short term, it has given them a precious period of time Time is used for development, especially because after this wave of rhythm is sent out, the opponent will no longer be able to seize such a perfect opportunity to attack like this time.

After all, by that time, the Cat League, which has completed the transformation of its industry and warships, will definitely have much stronger combat effectiveness than this time with the industry and fleet it has developed during this period. The entrance of the cave was tightly blocked, and if you think about it so easily, you must have not woken up.

And it’s not just that they and the Great Rupert Congress become stronger, during this period, other civilizations in this star field, especially those that are at war with the Great Rupert Country, will definitely not be idle—this is also the case of cats. Why does the League think that the opponent's strategic failure this time is because of "breaking the big rhythm".

The fleet can be rebuilt, but the situation will never return to the way it was before.

After reading some of the recently intercepted low-secret information about the military circles of the Great Rupert Country, she blocked the documents in front of her face and almost couldn't help laughing.

They still think that the consequences of this aggressive advance are only short-lived?As long as the fleet is rebuilt, with their powerful industry and fleet, everything will be back to normal?

Against such a naive opponent, a heavy blow must be struck.

This time, Hong wants them to take a good look at what is meant by "an opportunity never to be missed".

I believe they will not regret the consequences of this rash advance.

The corner of the red mouth curved slightly.

No?

...

However, no matter how you say it, these are very long-term things.

For the time being, the defeat of the Great Rupert Kingdom in this direction is a foregone conclusion. According to the report from the detectors that Hong has walked to the territory of the Akachi swarm for five jumps, these bugs discovered the rout of the Eighth and Ninth Fleets. After that, it has already started to move around.

The military fleets in the surrounding star fields are rapidly gathering, and the external working fluid tanks for long-distance voyages have been filled in the space station. Coupled with their surge in detection activities in the direction of the Great Rupert Kingdom, it is clear that they intend to give these people who are heading towards The remnant Lupers army who had fled in the territory came and cut them off.

In fact, Hong really hopes that these bugs can take down several nearby galaxies and completely block the connection between the Great Rupert Kingdom and them—compared to the Great Rupert Kingdom, this swarm is weaker There are many, less threatening, and there are four enemies from two directions at the same time. is a perfect buffer zone.

Even if there is no such good thing, then the best thing to do is the next best thing. If they can lose their minds and launch an attack on their border, that is something Hong would like to see very much.

After all, when the opponent can only produce a fleet of less than one billion tons in this direction at most, isn't it because they think their galaxy is a bit small when they come to fight them?

But it is obvious that these bugs are not stupid. It is obvious that with the force they can invest in a single direction, it is impossible to break into the territory of the Cat League, otherwise they will definitely bring the engineering ships and The supply ship——judging from the fact that they only assembled military ships, it was obvious that they planned to get a vote and run away on the only way the Great Rupert Fleet must pass, and they did not pose a threat to the territory of the Cat League.

Wait a minute, the place where the wormhole opened seems to be from the earth, right?

Forget it, there is no difference, although this is a place of human beings in name, but from the actual situation, passing by the cat alliance fleet here is like taking a walk in the back garden of your own home, and even the logistics can be seamlessly connected, using them directly Over the years, the industrial logistics system in the shape of the Cat League has been used for supplies and maintenance.

However, unlike the cooperating countries of the Cat League, human countries still control these star domains both legally and practically. Unlike Taga and Avis, who temporarily or permanently transferred the space to Red, In order to make yourself a part of the cat alliance.

To be honest, both methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. How much you get depends on how much you pay. There is no strict distinction between good and bad. Which one is better depends on the civilization itself.

However, there is at least one point that all human beings can reach a consensus on, that is, it is impossible to really rule out the influence of the Cat League—not to mention, if they really want to exclude the Cat League, they can hardly stop even Kion , not to mention this big Rupert country that is so powerful that you can't even see your chin when you look up.

If they didn't have a good relationship with Maomao, they might already be learning Newspeak by now.

No, if you really want to say it, you may not be able to support Qi En—don't forget that red was absolutely indispensable for winning the Anti-Extinction War back then.

Without the help of their fleet, and a subspace collision that directly killed unit 01 and the decoder, the earth should probably still be fighting the army of extinct units.

Thinking of this, they had a deeper understanding of their good luck.

If it weren't for good luck, the first non-hostile civilization encountered was the Cat League, which seemed like an ideal country stepped out of an adult fairy tale, what kind of situation would they be in today?

Sure enough, I still want to suck cats.

Leaving aside the fact that human countries have sprung up like bamboo shoots after a spring rain in recent years, compared with before encountering the Cat League, it can be said that there are beast ear mother cultural works from one place to another. In terms of national and civilization-level cooperation, the two sides have also shown a harmonious relationship— ——For the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Cat League this time, all human countries have carried out a lot of publicity on their media channels to show their friendship.

However, since the 75th anniversary is only one month away from the victory of the war, not only the maintenance of the fleet has not been completed, but even part of the wreckage area in the distance has only been cleaned. It would be even uglier if it escaped the Catus Hill sphere too quickly and became a pile of carefree space junk orbiting the star.

Therefore, in such a post-war situation, even if the review-style fleet only accounts for a part of the total number of the army, and we can try our best to pick out the best-selling warships in the fleet to participate in the performance, it will not change that it is not as glamorous as the previous two times. Bright facts.

But it is such a fleet that looks a bit poor and can vaguely see the traces of the war after the war, but on the contrary, it brings people a stronger sense of peace and pride than before.

Every trace of war is left by the fleet to defend them, the Cat League, and even all the friendly and intelligent civilizations around them.

Although there is no one under those solid hulls, behind every inch of armor, there is the will of all cat alliance members, the ideals and dreams they are fighting for.

In contrast, those armies in the Great Rupert Kingdom who, despite being full of crews, don't even have a single target to fight for, who wants to be more "human"?

Who can truly represent the will of man?

Why does civilization exist?

Obviously, the Great Rupert and the Cat League have different views on this.

What the Cat League has to do is to defend their ideas and viewpoints, keep the threat of the Great Rupert Kingdom out of their territory, and one day in the future, use their advancement and strength to destroy those who are in the Great Rupert Kingdom. The people under the tyrannical rule of the country of Pur were completely pulled out of the sea of ​​suffering.

For this, they need a stronger force.

A force capable of rivaling the Great Rupert Kingdom.