Xia Ye started drawing on the paper as she spoke.
"First of all, it should have a pass-through deck with a large enough area. Two parallel catapults are arranged in front of the deck, so that Xiuji can eject two Strike Witches at once; a blocking net is arranged behind the deck to provide The witches landed; in the middle of the deck is the dispatch area, where the witches waiting to take off and the witches waiting to enter the hangar after landing are all in this area."
"Where is the bridge?" Yaha asked.
"The bridge is placed on the left edge of the deck and designed to be as small as possible so that it does not occupy the deck area." Xia Ye replied.
"I kind of get it," Chris said. "You want to carry as many Strike Witches as possible on a ship, and you want them to rise and fall as fast as possible."
Xia Ye was a little surprised that the other party understood her thoughts so quickly: "Yes, if possible, I would like to bring 20-30 strike witches in a mother ship."
"But why do you need to bring so many? I remember you said that Strike Witches are mainly used for reconnaissance, so 2-3 are enough, right?" Yaha asked immediately.
"That's what I originally planned, but according to the results of the two days of testing, Xiuji is stronger than I thought, and the thrust of the thruster is higher than originally planned. In other words, Strike Witches can carry Some weapons, in this way, the attack range of the whaling ship is suddenly extended from the range of the whaling cannon to more than 100 nautical miles." Xia Ye said.
Coren thought for a while and said: "If we want to let the Strike Witches become an offensive force, it is better to let them sign an attack contract directly. For example, 'Pyroblast' is very suitable. There is sufficient supply, it is not expensive, it is powerful, and Still remote.”
"Ah, that makes sense..."
Xia Ye found that she was also affected by inertial thinking. In this world, contracts were actually the more commonly used weapons.
"No matter how cheap the 'Pyroblast' is, the cost is still higher than the shells of the Whaling Cannon, so there is no advantage in attacking the Witch in terms of attack cost." Yaha shook his head slightly, "However, the advantage in terms of attack range is also true. It cannot be ignored that whether it is chasing down escaped whales or sneaking up on lone whales, it has its role.”
Just after Yaha finished speaking, Chris, who had been thinking about the technical feasibility, spoke again: "I have another question, what if there are witches taking off and landing at the same time? Can Xiuji handle both sides at the same time?"
This is also what Xia Ye is having a headache about: "I asked, but Xiuji can't do it. So, is there a contract that can play a similar role?"
Hearing her words, Chris smiled: "Yes, for the problem of landing, there is actually a contract that is better than Xiuji. But if you want to use it, you must change the design plan."
"Huh?"
"Besides, I personally think that the changed plan will be better." Chris said as she picked up a pen and drew her own plan under Xia Ye's sketch.
Although she was drawing freehand, the lines she drew were as straight as if measured with a ruler. After a while, a double-deck ship appeared on the paper.
"The upper part is still used for ejection takeoff and pre-takeoff preparations." Chris said, "But the lower deck is used for landing. It, together with the ship walls on both sides and the upper deck, forms a tunnel-like confined space for the Strike Witches to land. At this time, fly into it through the opening in the stern.”
"Why is it designed like this?" Xia Ye frowned slightly, she still couldn't understand the other person's thoughts.
Chris smiled again: "Because I plan to use the 'Spider Web' contract to help the witches land, and the 'Spider Web' contract can only be used in airtight or nearly airtight places."
"Ah..." Xia Ye suddenly realized.
She had personally experienced the effect of "Spider Web" in her recent meeting with 704. When Chris mentioned it, she immediately discovered that "Spider Web" was indeed a very suitable contract.
cobweb:
Binds all creatures within the range, making them unable to move, cast spells, attack, defend, and [most] actions other than the above four categories.
The stagnation effect of "Spider Web" on creatures is based on contract power, not physical power. Therefore, no matter how fast the creature is originally moving, the creature affected by the effect will skip the intermediate deceleration process and become stationary directly.
This means that the length of the landing deck can be designed to be very short, and the valuable space saved can be used for other purposes. but--
"The effect of 'Spider Web' only targets living creatures, and Strike Witch has two thrusters on her legs. If the contract makes the witch stop instantly, the thrusters will be as if they suddenly hit a wall. Even if the Cat Witch has The protection will be strengthened simultaneously, but the thrusters will also be damaged, right?"
Xia Ye still remembers that when everyone was trapped in the "cobweb", Curran's prosthetic hand could still move freely and even launch missiles.
Chris nodded: "If you want to use the 'Spider Web' contract, this is indeed a problem, and there is more than just this - the spider web will prohibit almost all actions of the creature, but this effect is too strong for us, we only It only needs the effect of 'unable to move', and only one or two binding objects are needed, instead of 'all creatures within the range' in the original terms. Therefore, what we need is actually a 'spider web' contract with adjusted terms. Since most of the adjustments are the weakening or cancellation of effects, the magic required to sign is expected to be lower than the original version."
"Adjusting the terms...how to do this?"
Although Xia Ye already knew that the terms of the contract could be adjusted, the "cracks" on her body were modified by Susha, and the "returning soul" was modified by someone unknown. They were not normal changes. Now that Chris mentioned this matter, she couldn't help but be curious about what she should do under normal circumstances.
The person who answered was Curran: "The methods of making and adjusting contracts are in the hands of the Uptown District. It stands to reason that these things can only be done in the Uptown District. However, there are exceptions to everything. I know a guy in the black market. She can Although the price of doing this will be higher, since we have to build a ship for Strike Witches, we don’t care about a few more Maul.”
"Uh... It seems that it really costs a lot of magic for this idea of mine..." Xia Ye felt a little embarrassed.
"It doesn't matter, you are the one who injects capital anyway, which is equivalent to spending your own magic." Curran said with a smile.
Xia Ye nodded in agreement: "Yeah~"
"But I also thought of another question." Curran continued.
"……what is the problem?"
She didn't think so when she first proposed it, but now after discussing it, Xia Ye discovered that there were as many loopholes in her thoughts as there were holes in the sieve.
However, this is a normal situation - when the time traveler comes up with an idea, everyone immediately admires it - this kind of good thing should only happen in Li.
"There are problems with communication and positioning," Curran said. "It's easy for the Strike Witches to fly out, but how do they find the whaling ship when they return? Especially when the voyage is relatively long, by the time they fly back, the ship has already sailed to the top Hundreds of miles away.
"The same problem will also occur among the witches. According to your assumption, after they fly in formation to the designated location, they need to disperse in various directions for reconnaissance. So, how will they reunite after the reconnaissance?
"In addition, if the detected information cannot be transmitted to the rear in real time, the significance of the investigation will be much smaller, and witches also need real-time communication to share information."
Xia Ye also thought about these problems, but she originally thought that these problems should not be difficult to solve: "Isn't there a communication contract?"
"Yes, but there is a big problem with this type of contract."
"Huh?"
"They need to consume extra magic power when communicating, and the farther the distance, the worse the communication environment, the more magic power they need. If the distance between the two is 100 nautical miles on the etheric sea, then each communication may require hundreds of magic powers. Well, even more.”
(End of chapter)
