Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 661 Planetary Battleship

Most of the research on these technical applications will be used on new warships.

The design of new battleships is constantly updated as many technologies become reality. The reason why it is updated with new technology-related creations is that after the emergence of a certain technology-related creation, many original design plans are found to be seriously inconsistent with the battleship design plan. In this case, it is natural to re-plan the battleship layout to make the design plan adapt to the new creation.

After these new technology-related creations appeared one by one, the design blueprint of the new warship was finally finalized after multiple rounds of screening.

In the design, the main frame of the new warship is made of strong interaction material, and the rest of the parts are all made of No. 2 alloy. Only in this way can the huge body of the new warship be supported to perform various actions without collapsing. As for why not all strong interaction materials are used, it is naturally because the production cost of this material is too high.

Engineers estimate that if humans want to use strong interaction force materials to build the main frame of a warship, it will probably be a huge and time-consuming project, because this material is not only difficult to produce, but also difficult to process, or even impossible to process, because it is too hard and too strong.

If you want to break its strong interaction force structure, you have to put it back into the grand unified force field and re-forge it. The other option is to directly use antimatter to annihilate it. The annihilation of antimatter becomes uncontrollable because it will generate incomparable huge energy, so this material is basically the same as it is when it leaves the factory.

High strength and high hardness are both its advantages and disadvantages. It is difficult to be used on other delicate creations, but it is good for supporting the main frame of large creations or the outer shell of small detectors.

For this reason, the warship built according to this so-called new warship design plan will definitely not be the first new warship of mankind. Instead, it will only be put into use after the shipbuilding technology for manufacturing fourth-level civilization warships is fully mature.

At first glance, this shipbuilding plan seems to be useless, but in fact it is not, because it is not based on the design concept of an ordinary warship. It is a design plan for a new flagship of mankind.

As for ordinary warships, the material of their main frame is a modified version of alloy No. 2, which is an improved version made by humans on the basis of alloy No. 2. Although it is an improved version, its high temperature resistance and impact resistance have not been improved. Humans have only increased its toughness by a large level through the operation of the grand unified force field, so that its parameter performance can be used as the main frame structure of new warships and spacecraft.

It can also be said that this is a material used for the main frames of ordinary warships and the bearing structures of various giant creatures.

In the design plan, the ordinary new battleship will be equipped with two warp engines working together, which is a twin-engine battleship. There are two options for its main gun, one is a positive/negative neutron gun.

The so-called positive/anti-neutron race refers to neutron cannons and anti-neutron cannons. This does not mean that a warship has two main guns, but that this main gun can fire both super-strong neutron jets and super-strong anti-neutron jets.

It is a weapon that uses a grand unified force field as its driving force and is one of the applications of the grand unified theory. Since neutrons are not charged, if you want to accelerate neutrons directly, you naturally cannot use the traditional electromagnetic field, you need a grand unified force field.

Because neutrons are not charged, this weapon can ignore the protection of magnetic shields and directly penetrate the shields to hit the warships. Polarized shields are also useless against this weapon, because polarized shields are specially designed to defend against high-energy lasers. Its defense target is high-energy laser beams, which are essentially photons.

When the weapon is filled with a beam of neutrons, it is also called a neutron kill by weapons experts. When it is filled with a beam of antineutrons, it is called a neutron annihilation.

It can be said that all shield technologies of the third-level civilization are useless in front of neutron weapons. The only thing that can defend against it is the position shield of the fourth-level civilization. The force field shield can protect neutron jets like an electric field protects a positron beam.

However, this weapon is still a weapon that is slower than the speed of light. Yes, at the fourth level of civilization, the movement of warships has exceeded the speed of light, and weapons naturally have superluminal weapons, that is, warp antimatter missiles, warp gravity bombs, etc. Before the discovery of tachyons that can be used as weapons, superluminal weapons are of this type. As can be seen from the name, they all need the support of warp engines, just like intercontinental missiles and hypersonic missiles have engines and need rocket technology to propel them.

According to current human thinking, if there are no accidents, the main guns of human conventional warships in the future should be of this type of warships.

Another option is a battleship with a star destroyer as its main gun.

Compared to warships that use neutron killing/neutron explosion as their main guns, the requirements for installing star destroyers on board are much higher. The reason is that star destroyers are too large. The length of this gun alone reaches 150 kilometers, and ordinary warships cannot carry star destroyers at all.

Therefore, if you want to carry a star destroyer, you have to design a larger and stronger warship.

In the plan drawn up by humans, the length of the warship equipped with the star destroyer will reach 300 kilometers, and the width and height parameters will also reach the level of 100 kilometers. Only by building it so large can it accommodate the star destroyer with a length of 150 kilometers and have enough surging energy to drive the star destroyer.

And this is humanity’s planetary battleship plan.

The levels of human warships range from the mountain level of the initial first-level civilization, to the lake level of the second-level civilization, and then to the sea level or continent level of the third-level civilization. When it comes to the fourth-level civilization, humans simply call it the planetary level.

This level of battleship is called a planetary battleship, and it is not a random name, nor does it mean that the battleship is really as big as a planet. The main reason is that this type of battleship can destroy stars.

It is worth mentioning that the Star Destroyer can do more than just destroy stars. It is not a weapon specifically used to destroy planets, because human weapon design experts are already evaluating the possibility of installing a warp engine on the antimatter warhead of the Star Destroyer.

If successful, the antimatter warhead fired from the muzzle of the Star Destroyer will be able to enter the warp state after leaving the barrel. At the same time, due to the powerful kinetic propulsion system of the Star Destroyer itself, it also has unparalleled kinetic energy.

However, there are still some unresolved issues with this design, such as the preservation of antimatter in the warhead during the violent acceleration by the grand unified force field. This requires humans to conduct more thorough research on the gravitational potential well technology, otherwise the barrel will explode once it is activated.

Of course, it can also not use antimatter as a warhead, but in that case, its power will be much smaller and it will directly become a warp + kinetic weapon.

In addition to these two solutions, there is actually another design solution, but it requires humans to find a type of tachyon suitable for combat, so this battleship design solution is still in the conceptual stage. And humans currently do not know whether their conjecture about the tachyon technology tree is correct, so this solution can only remain in the conceptual stage for the time being.

In addition to the main guns, each battleship design will also have different types of secondary guns, such as many sub-light weapons, close-in defense guns, warp missiles, warp gravity bombs, etc.

(End of this chapter)