The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 295 Unmanned Warship
This batch is mainly the previous batch of escort stars and a few pioneer stars. They have fast linear acceleration and quickly pass the main star cluster. The fusion fuel is directly heated by the reactor and is directly discharged without going through the fusion reaction. As a traditional propulsion process quality, instantly generating powerful thrust.

The escort star, which itself has thicker armor, has been upgraded to install multi-layer scale reactive armor. At this time, the body surface also reflects the metallic luster that changes with the angle - although at this time, it is difficult for the enemy's remaining soldiers to rise. to threats.

The electromagnetic gun on the central axis of the escort star has sufficient damage, and the projectiles of sufficient quality can also ensure that after destroying the Whipple shield-like gap armor, it can also cause fatal damage to the main armor layer below.

The only disadvantage is that even if the muzzle velocity of the electromagnetic projectile is higher than that of the previous space biological main gun, it is very difficult to accurately hit the target at the light-second level directed energy weapon engagement distance, so it is only suitable for use at close range.

However, at this time, it is appropriate to quickly end the game through approaching attacks and perform last-ditch attacks on enemy ships that may not be completely dead. Those Pioneer Stars were loaded with airdrop capsule structures improved from Type III, and were preparing to conduct reverse engineering research on the wreckage of enemy ships.

These escort starships are still the two subordinate-level fleets under the super-class fleet. At this time, they have basically reached the location of the enemy's remnants and spread out, facing the sporadic enemy secondary artillery fire. He forcefully changed the direction and pointed his head at the enemy, and a large number of electric plate column power generating organs immediately began to operate.

The projectiles shot out, drawing a vague trajectory in the void. Immediately, the body of an enemy ship was immediately penetrated and shattered, turning into a ball of space junk and flying away. The other escorting stars also opened fire one after another, completely eliminating the remaining enemy ship.

Immediately, the Pioneer Star from behind slowly stepped forward, the improved vertical launch unit on the side opened, and the airdrop bag improved on the Baghorn Stone III type slowly flew towards the wreckage of the battleships.

The interior of the huge warhead, which was originally equipped with fusion warheads, is now composed of carpet tissue and nutrients. It can quickly multiply a mother nest inside the enemy ship's hull, and then explore it by various means.

Countless wreckage floats quietly in orbit under the light of stars, turning into lumps of space junk. Between the wreckage and the debris, there are intact turret-type secondary battery focused arrays rotating from time to time, trying to launch a final death struggle. .

However, at such a distance, the escort star's secondary gun structure can easily and accurately destroy these secondary gun structures, while avoiding damage to other structures as much as possible to ensure that the hull structure is as intact as possible.

Those airdrop pod structures have tried their best to find holes on the surface of the enemy ship's hull to attach and extend the carpet tissue to enter. If there is no such thing, the nearby escort star can use the secondary gun to control the laser energy level to break open on the spot and enter the interior of the ship's hull.

The carpet tissue began to proliferate, and immediately, a batch of special space grades were produced - similar in appearance to the original version, with chelicerae and paddling legs added to the appearance of the short-winged horseshoe crab, without any kind of reactor. Relying on comprehensive autotrophic synthesis to obtain nutrients and propelled by electric rocket engines.

Although the size of these space workers is much larger than the design prototypes in the sea, the two pairs of chelicerae are still quite flexible and can achieve precise operations similar to the Ezki forelimbs. As for more precise operations, they can be directly controlled by bacteria. The carpet root structure is completed.

Artificial gravity is still too advanced for the Ezki civilization. Even the easiest way to implement it-using rotating centrifugal force to simulate a gravity environment is quite complicated for battleships.

Directly making it into a shape suitable for spin will affect the layout of weapons, indirectly affect combat effectiveness, and make it easy to become a target for the enemy. However, installing a section of rotating cabin inside the hull has a somewhat complicated structure and is prone to failure. Therefore, the previous Ezki escort ship did not use any means to create gravity, and the entire crew lived and fought in a weightless environment. As for the various body function problems caused by the long-term weightless environment, they can be avoided through special treatment methods.

As for Xinghui, there is no need to consider similar issues at all, and these warships that are likely to be controlled by AI do not need to be either - at least for now, Lin Yi has not found any living people or structures for living people to use.

The Ezki frigates in the previous exploration fleet have been mostly unmanned. Most of the structures that require living people to control are concentrated in a core cabin, while the outside is mostly automated mechanical structures.

This kind of design can reduce the parts that need to be covered by the life support system as much as possible, reducing complexity and failure rate. But at this time, Lin Yi had discovered that the life support system in this core cabin had basically been removed, leaving only a simple extra hull.

Slowly entering the core cabin, the structures that originally facilitated the individual movement of the Ezki people were basically dismantled. The interior of the cabin was empty, like an undecorated rough house.

In some cabins, the equipment consoles that originally required living people to control them have been changed beyond recognition. Various data lines are connected to them, replacing the original manual operation structure.

The Ezki warship is already highly automated and can be used as an unmanned warship with only simple improvements. Now it seems that they, or it is indeed what they did.

After realizing the overall unmanned operation, due to saving a lot of space, the overall combat effectiveness of the warship can be improved a lot. However, for normal civilization, complete remote control has various problems such as inconvenient information transmission and possible interference. Autonomous combat It is not completely realistic, and control by a small number of members is necessary.

This also further shows that the other party is fully controlled by AI and can safely use fully unmanned methods. Some other warships seem to be newly built warships, and the core cabin design has been completely canceled, and the original cabins are all used for Store propellant.

Among this batch of warships, it seems that there are many original manned warships that have been improved by unmanned operations. Newly built warships that originally used unmanned designs account for a small number. At the same time, it can also be seen from the layer of Whipple shield-like gap armor. The difference between their newness and their oldness.

On those fully unmanned warships, this structure should be built together with the main hull. On those warships that are manned and converted to unmanned, this layer of structure is obviously added after a period of time after the construction of the main hull is completed. of.

From all aspects, the combat effectiveness of these modified old ships is inferior to those of new completely unmanned warships - or perhaps the enemy intends to use these old warships with lower combat effectiveness as cannon fodder to test Lin Yiyifang.

(End of this chapter)