1337. Particle Light Spear (Part 2)
In this particle spear system, the disaster-class battlecruiser's original eight super-heavy laser cannons on the left and right sides were transformed into 16 energy node arrays to provide energy for the entire system. After the design is completed, the energy supply structure of the entire system is like a Christmas tree. The trunk is the central light spear launching device, and the 16 surrounding groups of branches and leaves are energy nodes.
It is precisely because of this that the design of this battleship was regarded by Arroyo Barlow as the best carrying prototype ship.
The particle spear is actually a high-energy light-speed particle emitter. However, like all laser weapons and energy weapons, due to the principle of wave-particle duality, the energy will show diffusion, so the energy weapon cannot be focused for a long time and is often After a certain distance, the energy dispersed is almost the same as that of a flashlight.
Therefore, the biggest difficulty in this technology is how to keep light-speed particles focused for a long time. After a single shot of the particle spear is completed, the gradually extinguished ion beam can clearly show two trajectories - one is a straight-line trajectory directly emitted. , and the other is a spiral trajectory wrapped around the launch trajectory.
This spiral trajectory is an intuitive expression of the technology of constraining and focusing particles at the speed of light.
In this era, the galaxy's war model is still immature. With new types of weapons emerging one after another, everyone is trying to cross the river by feeling the stones. For example, the emergence of the Phantom fighter and the Banshee fighter allowed the Galactic Republic to accelerate the research and development of anti-stealth technology, and the emergence of the super-matter electromagnetic gun of the Cole-class battlecruiser and the Ragnarov-class Titan battleship made the Republic unable to No attention has been paid to countermeasures against kinetic energy weapons.
However, now, a brand new weapon has appeared - an ultra-long-range light speed energy weapon, the particle light spear!
As mentioned before, if the super-material electromagnetic gun and stealth technology are actually just the development of the current technology in the galaxy, then the emergence of the light spear is an epoch-making progress! This is a super weapon that is at least 100 years ahead of the current technology in the galaxy!
In fact, if there is no Kyber Crystal, even if the Fourth Civilization has all the data of the light spear, it will take at least more than ten years for other related technologies to be perfected and this technology can be developed. The existence of the Kyber Crystal It's like taking a shortcut.
In the "Star Wars" universe, similar technology is naturally the Death Star. And with the Kyber Crystal, the construction of the Death Star will take at least 20 years. Up to now, the Death Star's energy system is still just a Just an idea. Let alone applying this weapon to battleships for mass production!
The emergence of particle light spears has caused the Galactic Republic, the Confederation of Independent Systems, and even the Fourth Civilization itself to face earth-shaking changes in their tactical structure.
For example, in the past, although the battles in the Milky Way spanned a large area, the width of the battlefield was only tens of thousands of kilometers, and at most it would not exceed 100,000 kilometers. Therefore, even in the interstellar battlefield, it actually took place around the planet. At this distance, energy weapons are basically launched instantly and hit instantly, while missiles and other sub-light weapons can first detect and then intercept or avoid.
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However, the emergence of particle light spears has made ultra-long-distance light-speed strikes at the planetary system level possible. This creates a situation where at ultra-long distances, although even a light speed strike would take dozens of minutes or even hours, there is no possibility of evading this strike.
Because with current technology, all observation methods are based on the speed of light. When you discover the other party's movements and send the message back, the same light-speed blow has already arrived - even if the light-speed particle has been flying for more than ten hours.
Therefore, this puts forward a requirement for both parties to transmit information at faster than light speed. Whether the attacker needs to get attack feedback instantaneously, or the defender needs to get attack information instantaneously, super-light communication is required.
For now, this technology is very mature, that is, hyperspace communication. Hyperspace communication can enable real-time communication across galaxies. It is not difficult for you to achieve real-time communication within a planetary system, but the only problem is that you need to build a tactical-level hyperspace communication base station.
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If you use a hyperspace communication base station on a planet, firstly, it will not be able to transmit very complex data, and secondly, it will be easily interfered by various interference signals on the battlefield.
Therefore, the final conclusion is that it is not difficult to detect the ultra-long-distance strike of the particle light spear. The difficulty is that you need to modify the supporting facilities of your entire fleet. And even if you can use hyperspace communication technology to prevent yourself from being beaten half a galaxy away like this time, the opponent's attack range is here. Even if you shorten the distance, you can still have a very vast and flexible attack range. Tactical scope.
It may not be realistic to hit you from more than ten light hours away, but it will be the same if I hit you from more than ten light hours away. Apart from using hyperspace communication technology to know that you are about to be beaten, you have no way to counterattack. Can be beaten passively.
When the opponent increases the speed of the battlefield to the speed of light and increases the size of the battlefield to light minutes and light hours, weapons such as conventional missiles and turbo laser cannons become meaningless.
And now, such a problem is placed in front of the current commander of the Galactic Republic's Fourth Army Fleet, Admiral Davis.
After being attacked by the particle light spear at an ultra-long distance, he immediately ordered all battleships to be in an evasive state and change their positions at all times. At the same time, 10 Jaeger-class battlecruisers were divided into an assault formation to attack the enemy at the edge of the galaxy. The three warships made the assault.
"If the other party wants to launch an ultra-long-distance attack on us, they must have hidden detection outposts in the galaxy! Send a spaceship immediately to find these hidden outposts!" Admiral Davis said loudly, "Also! Give it to me immediately Evaluate the possibility of using a hyperdrive to perform short-distance hyperspace jumps within the galaxy!"
"General, we have already evaluated it. It is very difficult. According to the current orbits of the seven planets in the Samyers galaxy, if we want to make a short-distance hyperspace jump from the vicinity of the Samyers planet, then the numbers 5 and 7 in the galaxy will Planet No. 5 will form a mass projection in hyperspace, interfering with our jump. The other party obviously took this into consideration, so they chose this location. They will have to wait until Planets No. 5 and No. 7 orbit away, revealing the space available in the galaxy. For hyperspace channels, it will take at least 10 days." The navigation engineer shook his head.
"So how long will it take if we use a sublight speed engine to attack?" Admiral Davis asked.
"It will take close to three days to approach in an evasive state. I have formulated a plan to use ultra-short hyperspace jumps multiple times to avoid the mass projection of planets 5 and 7, which can shorten the time to one day." Navigation said the engineer.
General Davis looked extremely ugly. He waved his hand and said, "Then stop this attack plan! Let's retreat!"
"If we retreat against the opponent's ultra-long-range laser attack, once our battleship stays in place for too long, the opponent can send target information from the planet through hyperspace communication, and then the opponent can directly open fire and attack. Then our battleship cannot We have stayed at the same position for more than 16 hours, but if we want to receive our army on board, it is impossible to stay for less than 16 hours no matter how you calculate it." The adjutant said from the side.
"Abandon all the armies. In our plan anyway, they are just cannon fodder." General Davis said coldly. He pointed to another document on the table, "We have obtained it from Master Wilf Munn. We contacted and confirmed that all clone soldiers died due to unknown reasons. In other words, there is nothing we can do on the planet Semels anymore."
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