Lu Yuan's goal is to transform the Dawn into a war carrier.
In the pan-galactic era, battleships are becoming more and more standardized and professional. For example, the dreadnought, the main force of the war, is slow and possesses devastating long-range firepower. However, it cannot fight independently. Without the protection of a large number of frigates, it can easily be attacked by small warships and fighter planes. There are also cruisers, which usually refer to comprehensive battleships. Cruisers are fast and slightly inferior to dreadnoughts in terms of firepower, but have various attack methods. They are the core battleships used to perform regional missions.
It can be seen from the size and mass that a huge artificial celestial body like Dawn does not actually meet the requirements of modern warfare. It is not a fortress with a liquid metal surface like the Iserlohn Fortress in "Legend of the Galactic Heroes". Although the Dawn's shell had a thickness ranging from tens to hundreds of meters, it still could not withstand the intensive bombing of the dreadnought's main gun.
And the reason why a fortress is a fortress is usually because it is best to stop at a certain key point and be closely integrated with the surrounding favorable environment, so that it can exert 200% of its power. For example, Iserlohn Fortress is located in the middle of the narrow interstellar passage, playing the role of one man in charge. Things like the Death Star and Vulture Fortress that fly out to hit others are all evil words.
In fact, with the emergence of many small but extremely powerful explosives - such as cluster fragmentation torpedoes, high-yield hydrogen bombs, anti-matter bombs, proton fusion bombs, etc. - such bombs can even cause collapse of planetary structures. , has announced the end of large-scale war weapons. Because that's what seems to be going on right now. Spears developed much faster than shields.
When thousands of fighter planes carry such small explosives to carry out swarm attacks, those large targets that cannot be effectively defended, such as giant ships, fortresses, and even legendary planetary battleships, etc. In front of the fighter jet group approaching the bombing tactics, they are just huge and clumsy targets.
Especially the planetary battleship, which is basically a product of imagination. Not to mention where the metal comes from (not to mention local materials...), where does the driving energy come from? How can we defend such a large area on the planet's surface? Presumably if one party can build a planetary battleship, then the other party can't. It's not too much for one side to have small bombs that can blast through the earth's crust, right? Isn't it just that you have chainmail and I have a shotgun?
What's more, there are people who use white dwarfs to make planetary battleships... Do you know how heavy that thing is? Do you know that pushing something like that from the east to the west of the solar system wouldn't even be enough to burn Jupiter? It's interesting to walk in a battleship like this. It will be instantly smashed into atomic fragments by gravity. I won’t mention this story.
An interplanetary warship the size of the moon would really not dare to go out without bringing along tens of thousands of frigates and densely packed close-in defense cannons like hedgehogs.
I digress, let’s talk about Dawn. The original layout of the Dawn was completely in the style of a civilian ship, with six huge plasma engines all deployed at the stern - almost as conspicuous as a target. And Dawn can only accelerate axially. Although the ultimate speed that can be increased is 41% of the speed of light (without the mass effect core), that would require up to two years of acceleration time... and the deceleration time would be about the same.
In the end, several people headed by Lu Yuan discussed it and decided to transform the Dawn into a mothership that has a certain combat effectiveness and can provide a lot of support to the battleship group. It seems to be the most appropriate positioning.
It was on this basis that Lu Yuan started the first phase of the transformation project of Dawn.
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The first is a breakthrough in materials science. The mass effect field brings a leap in material processing technology. Nowadays new nano alloy materials. The arrangement of internal atoms is more uniform, and the material processing level has been improved by an order of magnitude (10 times). Inside the Dawn, due to quantum-level nanotechnology, the hull materials can be automatically decomposed and assembled into walls, doors and windows according to the command of the intelligent system. Aisles, simple-structured furniture and other facilities.
Therefore, the replacement of the hull is not complicated, it is a meticulous and long work. The hull is being updated while processing new materials. Ten years have passed and the current completion rate has reached 85%. The quality of the new hull has increased by 22%, but its resistance to physical impact and high-temperature burning has been greatly improved.
The second item is to port the Mass Effect repeaters. This transplant project supported by Xing Yan Laboratory and promoted by Yakumo Murasaki is not just as simple as adding a mass effect core to Dawn. Transplanting the largest mass core in the entire galaxy gives Dawn an extremely thick kinetic energy barrier shield, which is excellent in resisting physical impacts. On the other hand, by increasing or decreasing the mass of the effect field, Dawn can finally fly faster than light.
With the dissection of Kirsch's sandworms, it may be possible to build bionic organs on the Dawn that can control the mass effect field. By then, the role of the quality core will be further amplified.
But these are only the most basic benefits. Dawn has completely transplanted and replaced the role of the repeater in the "Spear" system by building a large number of new equipment, and has its own permission (iff - that is to say, Dawn can be used as a repeater! Dawn Massless channels can be established with other relays - the spacecraft can be teleported directly to or from the vicinity of Dawn through the relay.
Moreover, Dawn has its own iff verification system, which ensures that only friendly forces can make the jump.
I won’t go into details about how incredible this function is, it’s simply an example of letting the dogs out! At that time, Nana made a move with her little hand, "A cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops are coming to meet each other", and then with a crash, Lu Yuan, Li Huamei and other thugs appeared with a lot of dreadnoughts - it was so refreshing...
The third item is the weaponization of Dawn. In addition to the ten-kilometer-long super main gun laid along the axis, Lu Yuan also tried his best to add a lot of unconventional weapons to the Dawn. Everyone thought he was too imaginative after hearing the ideas for these weapons. It felt like he had discovered a pervert and wanted to call the police... Lu Yuan himself was quite complacent. These weapons are unconventional weapons. It can only be used under certain circumstances. Once it is used, it will exterminate all descendants and deceive people without negotiation... Let's wait until it is used.
"The fourth item is about the transformation of the spacecraft into a mothership. At present, the Dawn has cleared nine decks for..."
"Ah wu ~ I'm so sleepy, I don't want to listen anymore!" Yakumo Lan was about to continue speaking in that calm tone, but Lu Yuan was fine. Yakumo Purple has been tortured to the point of falling asleep! Therefore, Yakumo Purple directly interrupted her report. She held Lu Yuan's arm with one hand, and quickly held Yakumo Lan's hand with the other hand, "Let's go see it together, there will be a surprise!"
Then a gap swallowed the three people together.
When the three people walked out of the gap, they had arrived at the 50th floor of the Dawn, which was the first deck under the "umbrella cover" of the Dawn.
It was the first thing Lu Yuan saw after leaving the gap. It is an extremely vast cylindrical space, but there is a large patio in the center. The 50th deck has been completely widened and raised, making it look like the dozens of decks in the past were integrated into one. Nowadays, two semi-annular spaces are formed, one on the left and one on the left, each with an inner circumference of about 12 kilometers and a height of one kilometer.
On the patio between the half-rings, there are vertical and horizontal cross-shaped bridges connected to each other. Directly under the bridge is the newly transplanted mass effect core, emitting a blue light.
Three people happened to appear on the cross bridge of the patio and looked down. You can see at a glance that there are nine more decks of the same height, interlocking and surrounding the azure mass core.
"Now inside each half-ring is a closed dock. But except for the one on the left, the others are temporarily used as metal warehouses. The Dawn will eventually have four 12-kilometer-long giant docks, eight 5 A kilometer-long medium-sized shipyard and some platforms for fighter manufacturing and mobile maintenance. In the future, a battle group that can carry fifteen dreadnoughts and thirty-two cruisers at the same time will be formed!" Yakumo Lan thought for a while, and finally added road. "If it is piloted by greenskins, I suggest that the battleship does not need to be so well built, and more functions such as suicide attacks should be added."
Yakumo Lan said with shining eyes, "Kexue recently designed a gunboat with only a main gun and a high-power core. It is easy to self-destruct. I strongly recommend using a green skin to drive it! After firing up the cannonballs, drive the boat to Such a hit on the target! Duang! Even the recovery process is saved..."
But Lu Yuan could no longer hear what she said. He stared at the dock on the left with burning eyes, looking at it without blinking, and he couldn't bear to leave the slender hull for a moment! Yakumo Lan reluctantly stopped her introduction, and Yakumo Purple saw Lu Yuan's distracted and obsessed look, and smiled proudly... Wasn't she so busy just to see this scene? !
I, Yakumo Murasaki, am not the only spring monster!
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The 12-kilometer-long platform on the left is divided into upper and lower levels like steps, with a track of about five kilometers each laid on it.
Around the track, countless engineers and construction machinery are busy. The engineers wore armor and were doing their jobs nervously and orderly - especially when they saw Yakumo Murasaki appearing, many people subconsciously walked away from them.
But Lu Yuan didn't notice this. His eyes were completely attracted by the cruiser that was almost completed among the two warships under construction on the slipway.
3.5 kilometers long, 400 meters high, with a smooth golden hull and two huge engines on the left and right - making her look like a super racing car that can speed through the universe! But this is just an experimental model and the first battleship built by Dawn.
A 3-kilometer-long orbital main gun (an enlarged version of the Starfleet cruiser main gun, six 400-meter secondary guns (standard cruiser main gun), twenty-four rapid-fire close-in defense guns, torpedo launchers (only eight disintegration torpedoes, You can’t buy more. The hull adopts four-core parallel connection (same as above, lack of Dreadnought-class mass core data), twin ion engines (same as above, lack of data on antimatter and thermonuclear engines, and the maximum speed is “only” 2.5 times the speed of light...
As can be seen from the above, its paper data is quite average. Although its size far exceeds that of Star Alliance's dreadnoughts, the power of its main gun is only about 1.25 times that of Star Alliance, and its overall combat performance is not outstanding. On the one hand, the Dawn Regiment has not yet obtained the core warship manufacturing technology of the Star Alliance. On the other hand, this experimental warship has verified the design ideas of countless Mu Xing and others. After actual combat exercises, another No. 2 ship is building the keel. The spaceship will do better!
As for the 10-kilometer-long giant dreadnought, that is only data on paper, and even the basic design has not been completed. From the beginning, Lu Yuan used the Mona people as his imaginary enemy, not the reapers! After all, the Mona people's two ten-kilometer-long cruisers really impressed him deeply!
Lu Yuan suddenly disappeared from the cross bridge and came to the side of the battleship. He pressed his hand on the cool metal surface. Even though the battleship was not yet completed, he seemed to be able to feel countless energies rushing under the hull!
Lu Yuan walked forward, running his fingers across the huge words. Finally, he took dozens of steps back before he could fully see the painted words hundreds of meters in size - "Venus One" - This is the name of this test ship!
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ps: There should be BGM here. (To be continued.
