The evolution of insect swarms from XNUMX million years ago

Chapter 308: Class Fleet
On the front line, the battle is still going on. At the tactical level, it is still the game between the sharp horseshoe crab-class surveillance and strike Xinghao and the opponent's laser radar carrier. Then there is a salvo of artillery fire, and the most intense firepower is concentrated on the target at the same time. enemy ship.

Now, as the production speed of Xinghao in the rear has been greatly accelerated, Lin Yi on the front line has also adopted more radical response methods of exchanging injuries for injuries and lives for lives, with the Sharp Horseshoe Class as the core, trying to seize every round as much as possible If you have a chance to shoot, even if you injure the enemy one thousand, you will lose eight hundred.

The enemy's reconnaissance ship and Lin Yi's reconnaissance star have clearly explored the details of the star system and the distribution of hyperspace channels in this area. The enemy's known fleet has been basically defeated, and the battle line is basically stable.

The pioneering planets accompanying the team began to look for suitable planets to start construction, preparing to use them as frontline bases to quickly produce planets to supplement battle losses. At the rear, more newly produced stars are also being quickly incorporated into the fleet or scattered to the front line to fill the vacancies.

The existence of the nest group allows a main starship to immediately enter the battle once it completes the pupation process and replenishes the fusion fuel, without any form of training or running-in at all.

However, judging from the information currently available, the other party does not need to care about this, which makes Lin Yi's advantage in this area not completely outstanding. But in general, he is better in terms of explosive speed.

The number is moderate. As the smallest unit commanded at the strategic level, the division-level fleet is composed of two hundred combat-type main or escort stars, while the five division-level fleets form a super division-level fleet, with a total of one thousand stars. Now, the number of super-class fleets has begun to increase rapidly, and soon, there will be 10,000 of them.

According to the assumption, Ten Thousand Stars will be a brand new unit division, and according to the current fleet level naming rules for later species classification units, the family level and super family level will continue upward, which is the order level.

Judging from the current situation, a fleet of this level may not be able to completely protect all the star systems it currently occupies. It can only form an all-round attack on important places in the solar system, Centauri Three Stars and Tianyuan Four. protection.

The definition of this all-round protection is that if the enemy ship that used an unknown weapon to detonate the mantle plume and trigger the mass extinction at the end of the Permian used an unknown method to directly enter any part of the star system, the defensive fleet would be able to attack it before it launched. Fight it off.

That is to say, the biological structure makes maintenance costs and various miscellaneous expenses almost negligible. Otherwise, with such a large number of fleets, if it were a normal civilization, the logistical pressure would be astonishing.

Fusion fuel is basically the only substance that Xinghao needs to replenish, and the rest can basically be produced by itself. Pure fusion fuel can be easily mined and replenished on Jupiter-like planets. As long as these natural "gas stations" are controlled, replenishment is not a problem.

Parts loss and structural repairs can directly use the carpet-like structure that has been upgraded countless times to convert fuel into organic matter to supply cell proliferation to replace tissues, and the overall unmanned system also allows them to not consider the supplies needed for the crew's life.

Although the latter point can also be achieved by the unmanned enemy, the former point is the natural advantage that biological structure brings to Lin Yi. With the same supply of material resources, the number of warships that a hive group can support is greater than that of a basically purely mechanical existence like the enemy, while ordinary forms of civilization can only be at the bottom.

However, in applied science, the relative lack of creative thinking remains a fatal problem. Even though Lin Yi had the consciousness he once had as a human, and now had the help of the remnants of Ezki's exploration fleet and the Anomalocaris nest, he still remained quite vigilant.

In applied science, while it's not easy to imagine a completely new application, it's always easy to steal someone else's idea. Lin Yi knew this well as early as during the battle with the Zhiluojiao Stone Nest Group. Although the technical means are completely different from those of the past, the intense and intense arms race, which is like the normal evolution process accelerating hundreds of millions of times, has made Lin Yi accustomed to this fighting mode early on.

From directly copying gene fragments to now using genetic language to improve and reproduce the reference structure, in a sense, rapid imitation and response is a good way to deal with new technologies, especially since there are not many barriers to entry. application design technology.

On the one hand, the research on the Dikla star located in Tianyuan IV has not stopped. On the other hand, after every battle, Lin Yi will analyze the wreckage of the enemy ship in detail, learn as much as possible, and respond to the enemy's possible improvements.

And many times, these detailed data will be packaged and sent back to the Anomalocaris nest on Dikla and the remnants of the Ezki exploration fleet in various ways for joint discussion in order to respond quickly.

In the arms race with the Straight Helical Stone Nest Group back then, because the opponent had been using the original mother nest to accelerate evolution, Lin Yi was tired of dealing with the opponent's endless new levels. But now, the emergence of genetic linguistic technology makes everything possible.

In a sense, the past battle with the Zhihejiao Stone Nest Group and the recent surprise attack by an enemy ship made Lin Yi always feel a serious sense of uneasiness. In this new arms race, he could no longer lose to The other party.

Located at the space mother nest of the Anomalocaris nest in the orbit of the star Dikla, the space level belonging to the Anomalocaris nest group has been initially formed and is waiting for the final step of experiments. But what was even more experimental than this was a brand new structure.

In the last interception battle, Lin Yi's too single attack method caused Lin Yi to lose effective attack methods when facing unknown enemy ships. Therefore, an auxiliary attack method that can complement the directed energy main weapon is necessary.

Electromagnetic guns cannot overcome their existing shortcomings in a short period of time and become effective weapons in light-second range battles between battleships. If you want to put them into use in the shortest time, the simplest way is to improve the missiles.

In Lin Yi's mind, disposable missiles were not suitable for equipped with expensive and complex fusion reactors and supporting propulsion systems. The best configuration was to install chemical thrusters and use them as close-range weapons similar to torpedoes from the naval warfare era. .

The Baghornite Type III is the product of this kind of thinking, and there are also small close-range interceptor missiles such as the Cornerstone Type. However, the tactics of escorting Xinghao to ram enemy ships and the further improvement of productivity gave Lin Yi some new ideas.

Two high-speed and long-range missile plans were formed through discussions between the Anomalocaris nest, the remnants of the Ezki exploration fleet, and Lin Yi himself, in order to obtain an auxiliary attack method at medium and long distances.

(End of this chapter)