Voyage of the Stars.

Chapter 693 Your House Became a Mine

This type of shells is divided into two types, one is conventional kinetic shells, and the other is warp antimatter shells equipped with warp engines.

The two differ in their initial launch velocity and use.

The initial velocity of a cannonball equipped with a warp engine is generally slow, only reaching about 90% of the speed of light. It is not that the firing speed cannot be increased, but mainly because in order to achieve a higher speed, a larger acceleration force field must be applied in the barrel. A larger acceleration force field will lead to a greater acceleration and inertial force. Excessive acceleration may cause the antimatter stored in the gravitational potential well to break through the constraints of the gravitational potential well due to its static inertia and collide with the matter behind it, thereby triggering the annihilation of matter and antimatter and causing the barrel to explode.

There are two measures to avoid this situation. One is to improve the technology level of gravitational potential wells, and the other is to slightly reduce the force field acceleration. The first one cannot be accomplished overnight, so humans can only choose the second one.

For this reason, this type of artillery shell equipped with a warp engine is not suitable for bombing planets. Its main use is in battles between warships. It uses the superluminal characteristics of warp propulsion combined with its own kinetic impact and antimatter annihilation power to strike the target warship.

It's a superluminal weapon.

The other star-destroying mode is now being activated by humans.

In this mode, the shells with antimatter warheads will first be pushed into the Star Destroyer launch force field, where there is also a force field restraint device made of gravitational potential well technology. Then the shells will release their own restraint force field, and the Star Destroyer's own force field will restrain the antimatter as the warhead. The next step is to remove the "shell" that originally stored the antimatter from the restraint force field and leave the antimatter in the barrel force field to be launched.

Finally, the various acceleration components of the star destroyer cannon violently accelerate the antimatter shells. After accelerating for more than 140 kilometers, the antimatter shells are fired out of the muzzle at sub-light speed and hit the target with super kinetic energy.

If we only look at the destructive power from the perspective of kinetic energy, the fired shells can at most be regarded as a more powerful version of the electromagnetic railgun, but its power is not only kinetic energy, but also the powerful energy released by the antimatter annihilation itself.

The reason why the star destroyer can destroy planets is because it combines these two forces, making them produce a destructive power that is greater than the sum of one plus one.

This firing mode of the star destroyer is not suitable for fighting enemy warships at a distance, but it is very accurate for targets such as space fortresses, planets, asteroids, etc.

It is definitely dangerous to use antimatter as a cannon shell. After all, once antimatter touches matter, an annihilation reaction will occur. Therefore, when humans designed this cannon, they added three layers of protection inside and outside to prevent the explosion of the barrel that would cause the entire ship to explode.

Of course, the Star Destroyer can actually use conventional materials as shells, but in that case the Star Destroyer will become a kinetic weapon that only relies on kinetic impact to cause damage, so in general there are actually three modes, but this conventional shell mode is generally not used very often.

It can be considered a multi-purpose gun.

The star destroyer can destroy stars, but it can do more than just destroy stars.

But now, mankind has officially seen the power of the Star Destroyer for the first time. When the countdown reached zero, the antimatter shell that was restrained by the force field was instantly shot into the acceleration force field. Then, the various acceleration components of the Star Destroyer burst out with a powerful acceleration thrust under the powerful antimatter annihilation energy, which accelerated the shell inside from a relatively static state.

Accelerated by the unparalleled force of the force field, the shell flew out of the barrel in the blink of an eye, and rushed all the way at lightning speed, like a stream of light that cuts through the darkness, and hit a planet one astronomical unit away.

In the process of accelerating the antimatter shells, even though various anti-impact systems had been activated in advance and the battleship's own tail nozzle propulsion device had been activated, everyone on the battleship could still feel that Norda's battleship was shaking as it was pushed backwards.

A warship as big as an island can cause such a commotion, which shows the tremendous power of the star destroyer.

The action of force is mutual. If this happened on other warships, they would fall apart. Only the Lyra, a warship built with a frame made of strong materials, could remain safe and sound.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, the result of this shot was seen by humans more than nine minutes later.

The time is the time it takes for the cannonball to rush towards the planet in space. Because humans have placed a probe near the orbit of the target planet in advance, and the probe is equipped with a tachyon communication module, the time it takes for the information to return to Tianqin can be ignored.

It can also be regarded as an event that humans see outside their own light cone in the universe.

The speed close to the speed of light greatly increased the kinetic mass of the antimatter shell. When it hit the planet, it was no longer a light shell, but a powerful asteroid. The powerful impact directly smashed the crust of the target planet. At this moment, the huge target planet raised a wave of earth and dust all over the world and rushed straight into space.

It was at this moment of contact that the antimatter with ultra-high kinetic energy instantly annihilated with the matter of the planet itself, and countless masses instantly turned into energy. At this moment, light, heat and shock waves became physical terms that could describe the impact point, and the turbulent shock waves and violent energy exploded instantly.

At this moment, in the slow-motion footage, people saw winding cracks appearing on the surface of the planet Nanoda. The winding cracks spread out from the impact point to the outside of the sphere, and then the entire planet shattered in the subsequent unparalleled powerful explosive energy.

At this moment, countless dust particles turned into material jets, shooting out into space.

Behind the burst of light and heat, the planet exploded in space like cow dung stuffed with firecrackers. Under this powerful explosion, small pieces of debris were directly separated from their original orbits and flew everywhere, while larger pieces separated at a slower speed and continued to float around in their original orbits under the gravitational force of distant stars.

If humans do not start mining in the next step, these fragments will eventually become the asteroid belt of this binary star system. Or some fragments may be captured by the gravity of other planets after billions of years of collisions, and become comets, satellites of other planets, or insignificant meteorites that fall into stars.

Humans dismembered a planet in the most explosive way, turning it into a space mine that is convenient for mining.

(End of this chapter)