Voyage of the Stars

When this type of tachyon weapon is activated, photons will also appear. However, photons are not fired from the muzzle of the weapon, but are generated in the universe because the tachyon route is activated.

As long as the tachyon weapon is activated, photons will definitely be generated on its damage route, as if it were generated out of thin air.

Of course, photons cannot come out of nothing, but humans do not know how these photons are born, but they are not completely ignorant. According to the report of the weapons research department, these photons are born after the destructive tachyons appear, but the difference between the two is only within the Planck time.

The appearance of photons takes away part of the energy that originally belonged to the destructive tachyons, but this phenomenon is inevitable. Scientists speculate that this phenomenon may be related to the phase transition of the electromagnetic force of the universe, and may also be accompanied by the phase transition of the weak force.

It is gratifying that this accompanying photon is a high-energy photon, which also has lethality and is stronger than any previous laser weapon.

In other words, tachyon weapons are not only the destructive effect of tachyons themselves, but also high-energy laser killing, which is a double-kill weapon.

This physical phenomenon also means that once a tachyon weapon is fired, it must be accompanied by a beam of light.

During the experiment, the weapons department saw that once the tachyon weapon was activated, it looked like a beam of light was lit up from the muzzle from the perspective of the onlooker detector. The beam of light was not shot out, but the muzzle and the line connecting the three light years were lit together, like a lightsaber.

This also gave this successfully developed tachyon weapon a name: tachyon lightsaber.

The tachyon lightsaber is not a flash, it has a duration, which depends on the charging energy of the launch end, and the charging energy depends on the level of technology, or more precisely, the depth of research in the force field. The more thorough the research in the force field, the longer the duration of the tachyon lightsaber.

The reason is that this tachyon weapon is also a derivative technology under the framework of the universal theory, which is the result of the intersection of the tachyon field technology tree and the force field technology tree. The charging of the weapon also depends on the super force field.

The current technology of mankind can maintain the existence of the tachyon lightsaber for 3 seconds.

Three seconds is really manly.

What makes humans happy the most is that although the entire tachyon lightsaber weapon system is also large, it does not reach the level of a super star destroyer cannon, and is very suitable for use as a conventional main gun of a warship.

If the super star destroyer cannon is not carried, the warship can be built smaller, and the length of the warship can be about 600 kilometers, which is 200 kilometers shorter than the planned Tianqin, and the horizontal and vertical sizes are much smaller, so the overall mass of the warship is smaller.

Small mass means higher flexibility, but Tianqin has warp enhancement equipment, so even if it is larger, it will not have much impact.

Therefore, humans plan not to carry super star destroyers except Tianqin.

Anyway, the tachyon lightsaber alone is enough, because the superluminal real-time characteristics of the tachyon lightsaber are even better than the super star destroyer from a practical point of view.

For this reason, this time humans did not divide the warships into kinetic main guns and energy main guns as they did in the lower civilization, but all tachyon lightsabers.

That is an instantaneous weapon with an effective range of 3 light years. It is conceivable that future wars will definitely be dominated by tachyon lightsabers. At a distance of 3 light years, even if the super star destroyer cannon is equipped with warp engine shells, it will take 10 days to hit.

Therefore, the only human warship equipped with a super star destroyer is the Lyra, and this is to ensure that it has the ability to destroy stars. As the flagship, the Lyra naturally cannot only have a super star destroyer cannon, it must also have a tachyon lightsaber.

The emergence of tachyon lightsabers has made weapons tend to be energy-based, and the way of war will also change.

The emergence of tachyon lightsaber technology has also promoted the research and development progress of human beings in interrelated fields such as tachyon detection and tachyon communication. After the tachyon lightsaber technology matured, humans successfully mastered the new generation of tachyon detection and communication technology in just two and a half years.

The new generation of tachyon detection technology allows humans to have a detection radius of 2.5 light years, and communication has been directly expanded to 5 light years. This is the strength of shipborne communication and scanning equipment. If humans build tachyon communication on planets, the communication range can be doubled to 10 light years away.

Humans know very well that this is the interstellar communication technology they heard from the Perseus trade market.

Unfortunately, this technology is difficult to put on warships, because its equipment is too large, larger than the largest interstellar warship Lyra planned by humans, and there is no way to put it except on the planet.

It is very suitable for settled civilizations to use. They can build such tachyon communication base stations in each star system, and then realize the tachyon communication network of the entire starry sky.

Forget about wandering civilizations.

Of course, if you really want to do it, it is not impossible. After all, planetary warp engines are available. Base stations can be built on planets and then packed away, but the cost of doing so is too high, not only the construction cost of the base station, but also the energy cost required to drive the planet's warp navigation.

If you have that time, you might as well build more star-class warships.

For the entire civilization fleet, it is not a big deal because of the lack of communication and detection distance. In ancient times, scouts were used in marching. It is impossible for the entire fleet to be without patrol detection teams. Just spread more patrol teams around.

Engine technology, weapon system, communication technology, detection technology.

The maturity of these major technologies finally allowed humans to put the new ship construction plan on the agenda. It was a thousand-year plan.

In the whole plan, humans will use one thousand years to complete the construction of the new flagship, but not only the new flagship, but also the upgrade and transformation of all ships.

The original planetary-class ships will be replaced with the latest fourth-generation warp engines. In order to keep the speed of the entire fleet consistent, the engine systems of the sea-class ships and lake-class ships will also be updated.

As for the smaller mountain-class ships, they will be transformed into exploration ships. Usually, they will be stored in star-class transport ships and move with the Star Alliance fleet. Planetary-class transport ships are also used as their home ports and equipped with special maintenance ships to maintain these exploration ships that are often on missions.

Humans plan to use one thousand years to build 10,000 star-class residential ships, 3,000 star-class biosphere ships, and 1 million star-class warships, including the new Lyra that runs through the entire plan.

The tachyon lightsaber will be the standard main gun weapon of all star-class warships.

As for the shield system, a position is temporarily reserved, and it will be installed when the real shield technology is realized. Although humans have not yet made a breakthrough in real shield technology, they have made some progress. At least the approximate space occupied by the shield generator is known, and the appearance design has been determined.

After all, there is experience in shield generator design, so there is no problem.

So in the future, all members of the Star Alliance will serve this plan. Each civilization has its own area of ​​responsibility, some specializing in mining, some focusing on transportation, and some assisting in the production of warship parts.

Humans are not idle either. In addition to investing in strong artificial intelligence to produce new creations, humans themselves also participate in design and manufacturing.

In Yue Yuan's words, although most of the work can be done by strong artificial intelligence, humans themselves cannot lose their skills, especially in manufacturing, where someone must know how to do it in every industrial link.

Humans cannot sit and wait for strong artificial intelligence to feed them.

As for other civilizations in the Star Alliance, humans provide fourth-generation warp engines to equip their fleets, and the eliminated planetary-class battleships are also sold on the Star Alliance internal market after approval.