Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 656 Star Destroyer Cannon

The weapon design department predicts that this conceptual weapon has great prospects. Its general design idea is to use antimatter as fuel to provide energy, use the grand unified force field as the direct driving force, and the warhead is also composed of antimatter.

In general, it is an antimatter kinetic weapon.

When it was first designed, weapons experts thought it was just a Level 4 civilization version of an electromagnetic railgun. After all, the development path and ideas of this weapon were based on the original electromagnetic railgun. But what shocked them was that when the design drawings appeared and they began to verify various feasibility, they found that this weapon was incredibly powerful in various performance indicators.

According to theoretical data, the high-efficiency energy of antimatter plus the powerful driving force of the grand unified force field, combined with the powerful energy of antimatter annihilation, the theoretical value after calculation can actually reach the level of star destruction.

Yes, Star Destroyer.

Of course not stars. Humans do not have the ability to shake stars.

In weapon design, the theoretical value calculated by experts is that its huge explosive energy is so huge that it can easily destroy an asteroid. Yes, it can easily destroy it, because the value is far greater than the energy level required to destroy an asteroid. This is the conservative estimate of the experts.

If the weapons created by humans can be extremely close to the theoretical level, then it is not impossible to destroy a satellite or even a planet.

The combination of antimatter annihilation and the grand unified force field has unleashed a terrifying energy that was previously unimaginable to humans. Now, some weapons experts have suggested naming this weapon under design the Star Destroyer Cannon.

This proposal has been shelved for the time being because the weapon has not yet been built and people have not yet seen its power in reality. If it is really as powerful as the theory, then it will inevitably be named a star destroyer.

Star destroyer, what a resounding name.

However, it is not easy to actually manufacture such a weapon. First of all, it is mentioned in the design that the acceleration part of the weapon must reach at least 150 kilometers. Such a long acceleration part is naturally to allow the artillery shells to have enough acceleration time to achieve a higher artillery shell speed, which is a kinetic weapon.

Such a length, coupled with the powerful acceleration ability of the Grand Unified Force Field, is enough to increase the antimatter projectile to sub-light speed. Then, the kinetic mass enhancement effect brought by the super-strong kinetic energy of sub-light speed, coupled with the huge energy of antimatter annihilation itself, is enough to destroy a planet.

At the third level of civilization, humans can at most plow the surface of a star. Even if the entire civilization explodes with all its power and uses all available weapons, they cannot shake a planet. But it is different at the fourth level of civilization. Just from the theoretical energy level, humans have the confidence to destroy a planet.

The power that the grand unified theory brings to mankind is truly too great.

Now, humans have finally realized why the fourth-level civilization is classified as an advanced civilization. It is indeed because its level is strong enough that the stars in the starry sky that were previously unshakable can be easily destroyed by the fourth-level civilization.

In the design, the barrel wall of the star destroyer is full of devices that produce a grand unified force field. The grand unified force field generated by these devices will be cleverly interwoven in a special form to form a powerful force that drives the antimatter shells in the barrel forward. Needless to say, the energy supply system of the star destroyer must be the antimatter engine on the battleship. However, because the star destroyer is too large, the battleship must be large enough. The longest warship currently available to humans, the Lyra, is only 15 kilometers long, which is ten times the difference, and it is definitely not enough. Therefore, if you want to make the star destroyer a reality, you must simultaneously manufacture a larger battleship, and to manufacture a larger battleship, humans need to make breakthroughs in all aspects of technology.

Things like material technology are definitely a must.

The emergence of the star destroyer cannon will inevitably change the war situation.

Natural planets in the starry sky will no longer be space fortresses, because a fourth-level civilization can destroy them with one shot. All road-based defense cannons built on planets like the defense measures of third-level civilizations will become decorations and will become the souls of the star destroyers.

Of course, if we have the ability to transform a planet into a war star, that would be a completely different story. However, it is obvious that even if we master the grand unified theory and possess the grand unified force field equations, humans cannot see any possibility of driving a planet on their own.

It is possible to destroy a planet, but it is not even theoretically possible to drive a planet away at warp speed. The reason is that the mass of the planet is too large, and with the current warp speed navigation technology parameters of mankind, it is impossible to generate such a huge warp field.

Installing tens of thousands of conventional magnetic thrust engines could push the planets, but it would be as slow as a turtle in interstellar travel, making it a sitting duck. It would be meaningless and would not even be able to keep up with normal human fleets.

In fact, to push a star, humans can do it at the second-level civilization, but to drive a star as fast as a battleship, it is impossible even at the fourth-level civilization.

Now some scientists who study warp technology are a little puzzled, because they find that the current warp theory of mankind seems to have developed to the limit and can turn the theory into reality, but it is still unable to create a warp bubble that can wrap an entire planet.

In other words, it is not allowed under the existing warp theory.

This was very puzzling to them, because as early as the era when humans came into contact with the Kuntai civilization, they had seen some descriptions in the Kuntai civilization's materials. They said that at that time their mother planet was destroyed because a civilization called the Quill civilization received the broadcast of the Galactic Center Alliance near their mother planet, which eventually led to their entire mother planet being packed up and taken away.

Humans knew that the technology of "packing planets away" was very powerful, but they didn't expect it to be this powerful. That was a lossless packing and taking away. In the past, humans only knew that it was powerful, but they didn't have much concept. Now it's different. Even though the grand unified theory has been realized, humans themselves still can't theoretically pack a planet away. This shows that the civilization whose name is unknown in the Kuntai civilization database is at least a level 5 civilization.

From these data, human dynamics experts speculate that a level-five civilization should master a warp drive method that is more powerful than a level-four civilization, otherwise it would not be possible to pack up and take away a planet.

And that way of obtaining it may be related to the theory of everything, just like the current human warp speed navigation technology is related to the grand unified theory. This is easy to associate, after all, the pioneers have told humans the theory or technology of the hallmarks of level 5 and level 6 civilizations.

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