A few years ago, Gudazar, who had just grown up, also personally experienced that world-ending disaster. At that time, he saw with his own eyes countless nuclear warheads trailing bright tail flames like meteors falling from the sky, bombarding mines, cities, and grain fields. He saw the flames reaching into the sky and felt the shaking of the earth.
For the first time, he saw that "people" who were always aloof and always talking about things that he couldn't understand at all, but when they heard it, they felt that their language was exquisite and extraordinary, as if it contained infinite truth, faced with these things like himself At this time, people are always aloof and full of disgust. Under the bombing of nuclear bombs, there will also be crying, struggling, and panic like dogs.
He always thought he was going to die, but unexpectedly, he was very lucky to survive. However, since that time, some beliefs that have existed in my heart for a long time and have never been doubted or shaken before, like the truth, have been slightly shaken.
"We are human beings too, why are our fates different?"
Of course, he always dared to keep this question deep in his heart and never said it out loud. He knew that if it was revealed, he would die without a burial place.
People never care about a person's life or death. Anyway, as long as there are enough resources, humans can build as many as they want.
"Hopefully today is not the day our enemies nuke us."
After praying silently once again, he slowly landed on the hole-riddled ground of the Deep Sky Star.
Wearing a spacesuit and risking being affected by radiation, he first landed on some simple steel plates loaded in the spacecraft—really just simple steel plates, or maybe iron sheets. Anyway, they were just such a thin layer, and he could easily bend or penetrate them without using too much force, and he hastily built them next to an open space as required.
According to noble people, this method is to deceive the enemy into thinking that their strikes are effective and thus ignore things in space.
Since the final outcome is destruction, Gudazaar is not too concerned about this work. He just put them up hastily, not even caring that the erected house was obviously skewed and seemed to be about to topple over at the next moment.
After hastily completing the work, he drove the landing spaceship quickly to the mining site. There, he still has to transport hundreds of tons of ore to the base.
According to the noble people, the manufacturing technology of the spacecraft they are driving at the moment comes from the deciphering of ancient texts of civilization by scientists in the Temple of Science. That's what makes them so lightweight, durable, simple to make, and performs so well.
Gudazar also occasionally heard people talking. From some of the words that he could barely understand, he roughly understood that it was precisely because of the existence of such spaceships and the large number of subhuman beings that they moved from the surface of the planet to space. Among them, talent did not bring too serious obstacles to the restoration and development of civilization.
As I was busy and working in fear, the supervisor's reprimand suddenly came from the communicator: "Gudazar, work more quickly and faster! If you can't transport the specified amount, the food for the night will be halved!"
He responded with a "yes" as a conditioned reflex, and then his work speed sped up a bit again. But before the communication was hung up, he vaguely heard some words that the supervisor seemed to be chatting with the rest of the people.
The supervisor is a noble "person", but I cannot fully understand his words. However, there are still a few words that I can understand, and after piecing them together, I can roughly guess some of their meanings.
"The Chief Scientific Officer seems to have made an unexpected discovery regarding the deciphering of ancient texts. The President said that we will soon be able to create strategic weapons and reverse the current unfavorable situation in one fell swoop! By then, we will be able to do it without any scruples. developed!"
After this, communications were cut off.
Gudazar was filled with envy.
"Chief Science Officer! He must be a god-like figure! If only I could have one-tenth, no, one-hundredth of his wisdom! Maybe I could get the chance to mate with Ellie , let’s try what it’s like to have natural mating. Maybe we can be like ‘people’ and be able to give birth to a child naturally...”
But this fantasy was soon driven out of mind by the heavy labor. Looking at the large chunks of ore in front of him, Gudazar finally sighed silently.
"I hope people can defeat the enemy as soon as possible. By then we can return to the surface of the planet, and the treatment of us sub-humans will be slightly better. We will be able to eat at least 70% full..."
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Sedna star. In the combat readiness and defense room of the human government building, Zhao Changxing, the committee members, and officials all looked solemn.
"Now we have sufficient evidence to show that deep space civilization has mastered an extremely efficient method of quickly transporting supplies between the surface of the planet and space. This method is most likely to be achieved through spacecraft, because they do not There is no space elevator available.
This means that, first of all, moving all development bases from the surface of the planet to space will not have as great an impact on deep space civilizations as we originally expected, nor will it have as great an impact on the development progress of their civilizations.
Secondly, this method of quickly transporting materials between the surface of the planet and space without the help of a space elevator means the development potential of extremely dangerous spacecraft technology. The reason is simple. There is no clear boundary between combat spaceships and civilian spacecrafts. Since they can make such efficient civilian spacecraft, in the future, the military spacecraft they make must be equally efficient.
To sum up, the threat from deep space civilization to our civilization has once again greatly increased. We must launch a new round of effective strikes so that we can effectively slow down their growth. "
The conclusion is obvious. Everyone here, including Zhao Changxing, has no objection to this conclusion. But the key question is, how to launch a new round of effective strikes?
On average, hydrogen bomb strikes once a year are necessary and must continue in the future. But now, the development of the situation has proved that this method is not enough.
However, the hydrogen bomb is already the most powerful and effective attack method that mankind can use at this stage. In addition to hydrogen bombs, what other means can be used?
After all, the target is in space, not on the surface of the planet. It is very difficult to change the motion state of a planet, and it is impossible for human civilization and deep space civilization at this stage to do so. It is like a fixed target, it will just stay there and wait for people to hit it.
But space bases are different. They can move very easily, and their targets are countless times smaller than a planet. This means that they can easily avoid or resist interstellar missile attacks.
The attack method of interstellar missiles equipped with hydrogen bombs is good for dealing with planets, but not good for dealing with space bases.
"New attack methods, new attack methods..."
The crowd fell into silence at the same time.
Because of the long distance, at the current stage, neither side has any good way to attack the other party. Interstellar missiles are almost the only practical method.
However, it is too unrealistic to use interstellar missiles to attack a space base instead of a planet on a scale of more than 60 million kilometers.
"We actually have a solution."
At this time, a slightly young war committee member with a thin beard around his mouth and a somewhat dull look stood up and looked at Zhao Changxing with a firm gaze.
Zhao Changxing knew that his name was Wu Qinghong. He had just been recognized by Zhao Changxing and others last year, joined the war committee, and became a high-level member of the civilization. The reason why he was recognized by Zhao Changxing and others was mainly because of his research on space war theory.
He believes that in the space war with spacecraft as the basic unit for a long period of time, the first principle should be "to prevent one's own from being attacked" rather than "to improve the anti-attack capability of one's own spacecraft." Because according to the current situation analysis, one of the distinctive features of interstellar warfare is the imbalance between spears and shields.
The offensive end is getting stronger and stronger, but the defensive end cannot keep up with the progress. For example, special alloy armor with a thickness of up to one meter can be easily penetrated by an electromagnetic gun projectile with a mass of only 1 gram. In this case, it is unrealistic to continue to increase the thickness of the spacecraft's armor. The only way is to avoid being hit.
He explained his views with strict logic, detailed and accurate data, and won unanimous approval from everyone. This also provided an overall framework and theoretical direction for the military factory's subsequent design of combat spacecraft, allowing people to completely abandon the cumbersome design in the process of designing the spacecraft, and instead use stronger power and lighter ships. Priority is given to a comprehensive and comprehensive intelligence support system, which can be said to have far-reaching influence.
This paper also made him a member of the War Commission.
Now, seeing Wu Qinghong stand up, Zhao Changxing couldn't help but have a look of anticipation on his face.
"Tell me your method."
When he described his plan in a leisurely and confident tone, people looked at each other, and some even patted themselves on the head.
"Why haven't I thought of such a simple solution before?"
"Indeed, this plan has great promise."
Faced with people's compliments, Wu Qinghong looked a little shy: "I just like to think wildly."
"Okay." Zhao Changxing knocked on the table, and everyone became quiet together: "At present, the plan proposed by Commissioner Wu is still very feasible. However, this kind of thing still needs to be rigorous. Let's test it first. Let’s give it a try, if it’s really feasible, then let the deep space civilization be surprised again.”
