Spear Galaxy, Double Blue Giant Lagrange Point 14, Dawn Mothership.
The outstretched rotors of the Dawn Mothership were like six huge wings, blocking the high temperature and strong radiation of the twin blue giant stars. The Dawn Mothership is like an angel rushing towards the star, guarding a small shadow area under the nearby blue giant star.
In this safe zone shrouded in the light of the blue giant star, a small transit center that is inconspicuous in the entire galaxy is gradually forming. Today, thousands of geth ships travel here every day.
In addition to the geth troop transports used as "work shuttles", there are also cargo ships transporting minerals, tugboats towing asteroids, and some warships that are simply "passing by".
The actual scope of the geth's activities is actually no longer limited to behind the Perseus Curtain. Long before the Citadel Council was aware of it, the geth had quietly extended their tentacles beyond the Perseus Curtain and established strongholds in many edge galaxies - whether it was the "Ancient Machine" faction or the "Self" faction. This is true for all developmentists.
The geth don't need food or refrigeration during the voyage. Most of the time, they just need to "turn off". Therefore, the geth's exploration of new galaxies does not entirely rely on mass effect repeaters. Anyway, several years of sailing will have no impact on them. But now that the Dawn Mothership is available, it can indeed help them achieve fast travel - just report a coordinate, and then the Dawn will throw the battleship over - anyway, the geth are very resistant to falling, so it doesn't matter if it breaks.
However, recently, this ascendant "transit center" has completely come to a standstill.
Because the blue giant star directly above the Dawn mothership is now becoming very violent, throwing out a large amount of light and ion storms all the time! As a result, even if the operation center is hidden in the shadow of Dawn, it will be difficult to resist the invasion of radiation! Even the Dawn Mothership itself had to avoid the edge temporarily, and she completely left the l4 point. Temporarily anchored on a distant waterway.
But all this can only be blamed on the Dawn itself - just four days ago, the Dawn test-fired the main gun "Doomsday Blade" at the blue giant overhead! ——This main gun penetrated the side of the O63-class blue giant star and made a perfect cut along the 5.5 million-kilometer-long diameter surface! The main gun "Doomsday Blade" theoretically "divides" the blue giant into equal parts of 1:7!
This was a reckless bombardment. Created the most intense man-made natural disaster in human history!
Then the blue giant exploded wildly, and its astronomical brightness instantly increased by two absolute magnitudes! It spews out ionized storms that are millions of kilometers long. This directly caused the paralysis of the buoy network in more than twenty nearby star fields...
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When the main gun type was selected for the Dawn, the Dawn regiment and the main scientific and technological leaders participated in the discussion. The second choices at that time were all kinds of things - lasers, ions, neutrons, positrons, high-energy particles... everything you can think of was on the list!
But when it comes to first choice - everyone puts the Mass Effect Cannon at the top of the list. reason? Of course it’s because of the black technology of Element Zero!
Everyone knows that when the energy unit is certain, the lethality of live ammunition weapons is far greater than that of energy weapons.
A sniper rifle bullet loaded with 3 grams of ammunition can penetrate a 5mm steel plate at a distance of 500 meters; but all the energy generated by the combustion of the 3 grams of ammunition, even with a full set of the latest laser generators, will reduce the loss of all energy conversion. To the lowest level - still unable to burn even a small black stain on the steel plate 5 meters away!
This is the difference between the two.
Only when energy no longer becomes the biggest bottleneck. The advantages of various powerful energy weapons are revealed - such as small force, high accuracy, good directivity, etc. - none of which are related to lethality! Because one thing everyone knows is that if the same energy is replaced by an electromagnetic gun, the energy weapon can still be completely destroyed... But the larger the electromagnetic gun is, the more problems it will cause, and eventually it becomes completely impossible. accomplish!
Of course, energy weapons still have other advantages, which we call secondary effects. For example, positrons can decompose matter, neutron beams can create emp explosions, etc...
But now that the Dawn mothership already has the Mass Effect core. That means that the lethality of the electromagnetic rail gun can be amplified thousands of times! Then the mothership's advantage in physical ammunition will be amplified to an incomparable degree!
It was based on this idea that everyone immediately supported the mass effect cannon. But the specific choice. Lu Yuan first rejected the idea of building an ultra-long rail gun. Regarding the idea of mass effect cannons, Lu Yuan believes that the Reaper's idea is the most advanced.
Although Lu Yuan has not captured a Reaper warship as a reference yet, he knows the principle of the Reaper's main gun - the Reaper has completely abandoned the idea of linear acceleration of electromagnetic orbit - their main gun, It can be called a "magnetohydrodynamic mass effect cannon".
The simple principle is to use molten uranium-tungsten alloy as ammunition. The alloy solution accelerates in a spiral curve by orbiting the mass effect core of the battleship! When the flight speed around the core reaches the limit, the Reaper opens a channel to the core, allowing the extremely accelerated metal solution to shoot towards the target at an exit speed exceeding a quarter of the speed of light! The power of this main gun can easily penetrate the shield of any dreadnought!
When the power of this ammunition is carefully analyzed. able to discover——
First, the uranium-tungsten alloy metal melt is fired. Sudden condensation will occur, greatly increasing the kinetic lethality of the ammunition. And magnetized metallic fluid ammunition. In the process of operating close to the speed of light, a large amount of electromagnetic energy and metal particles are accumulated! This results in the final lethality being multiple and compound, and even the most powerful kinetic energy barrier can only defend part of it.
Secondly, when shooting, about 30kg of molten uranium-tungsten alloy metal will be stretched into an extremely fine linear trajectory. In appearance, each shot looks like a waving long sword with flames burning on the edge. Shooting seems to involve thrusting the sword towards the target with force, and then cutting it horizontally. In addition to piercing, linear ammunition can also cause horizontal cutting, chopping and other effects.
The linear impact surface makes it impossible for the kinetic energy barrier to deflect.
(So we often see Star Alliance battleships being cut in half by the opponent's main gun.
The Reaper's main cannon is so powerful that it is nearly unbeatable in the entire galaxy! But in terms of technical content, it seems to be inferior to the miniaturized main gun created by combining Reaper and Turian technologies in the later period-the Senix Super Magnetic Fluid Cannon. This most high-tech main gun truly takes magnetic fluid ammunition to its extreme!
However, the reason why the original main gun of the Reaper is so powerful is because the Overlord-level Reapers have a giant super-level mass effect core! It is estimated to be at least several hundred meters in diameter! It is precisely because of this huge core that the Reaper is invincible in combat. Moreover, the two-kilometer-long giant body of the "Overlord" can actually land on the surface of the planet at will, also because of the function of the large core.
So speaking of battleships alone, whoever has a larger mass effect core will have a more powerful main gun!
So comparing the size of the Mass Effect Core, can it be compared to the Dawn Mothership? The diameter is 18.7 kilometers, this is the latest measured data! Based on such core size and power, the estimated data derived from Dawn's main gun can simply increase the exit speed of the molten alloy to 95% of the speed of light!
After Lu Yuan confirmed the type of the main gun, he handed over all the work to the laboratories of Mu Xing and Dawn - professional things were of course done by professionals. And things in scientific research are usually like this. Although it makes sense in principle, there are often thousands of difficulties that need to be overcome in order to create a prototype that can actually be used! The final result obtained is very likely to be very different from the original design...
So Lu Yuan occasionally thought that what Mu Xing and the others designed should be quite crazy - but he never expected that it could be so crazy! !
Perhaps it was the power of the "fetish cannon" that could slice the moon, giving Mu Xing and the others a great sense of accomplishment! So this time, they directly upgraded their imaginary shooting target to countless levels and chose one of the most awesome celestial bodies in the Milky Way - the blue giant! .
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ps: The key data saved before was lost and had to be searched again. And the main gun and stuff...(To be continued)
