Chapter 45: Charging in the Column
As the closest star field to a fixed wormhole in the UAC occupation area of the new African galaxy, WG1's so-called main channel is the closest passage to the non-Pacific Wh airspace at one end and the closest passage through the stellar Kuiper Belt to the Cape of Good Hope star field at the other end. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The 9th Fleet is responsible for garrisoning this strategic point, and naturally it has to ensure the safety and smooth flow of the main channel, in addition to the end close to the non-Tai WH that has been eliminated by the "quasi-ace team", there are also patrols at the other end of the main channel.
The second destination chosen by Fengyu for the Storm was the side of the main channel near the Cape of Good Hope.
Due to the limitations of lagging communication technology, it is much faster to rely on passing spaceships or dedicated high-speed communication ships to carry information than to use other electromagnetic and optical communication technologies.
After a hundred years of experimental research, quantum communication, which was all the rage in the old era, has been proven that the so-called quantum entanglement effect can achieve ultra-long-distance instantaneous communication is nothing more than a beautiful fantasy.
In the end, quantum communication only has advantages in data encryption and channel width that other communication technologies do not have. People can use quantum teleportation to encrypt information, and the superposition of quantum states can be used to make quantum communication have a large transmission capacity far beyond ordinary communication, but there is no such thing as instantaneous transmission.
Because quantum information itself is unreadable, according to the Schrödinger cat theory of quantum physics, all attempts to read quantum information will lead to changes in the content of the message, which is the excellent anti-leakage ability of quantum communication.
True quantum communication is to encrypt messages with the help of a pair of entangled quanta, and divide the information to be transmitted into two - classical information and quantum information. Quantum messages are transmitted by the quanta of the entangled pair through unknown channels on their own, while classical messages are transmitted through conventional communication channels. When the receiver receives the classical message, it performs a unitary transformation with the paired quantum to restore the original original message.
This is what quantum teleportation is really all about, rather than some people equating quantum information with instantaneous communication that is not limited by distance.
Because the transmission of classical information cannot exceed the speed of light, quantum communication cannot exceed the speed of light regardless of whether the transmission of quantum information really arrives instantaneously as people expect.
What is even more tragic is that the stability of quantum communication is very poor, and it is easy to change the quantum state due to various external interferences, which eventually leads to information distortion, and its effective transmission distance is far less than that of conventional electromagnetic communication, not to mention optical communication. Therefore, it is even more ridiculous to use it for ultra-long-distance cosmic wireless communication, and if it encounters the most vicious R particles, the message transmitted is basically "no bones".
At this point, any existing physical theory does not support faster-than-light communication, and before the emergence of new theories that have proven to be effective, countries have temporarily abandoned the research on faster-than-light communication, and instead returned to the ancient postal delivery communication mode, using faster communication ships to achieve information transmission.
Precisely because there is no means of space communication beyond the speed of light, it is impossible for the 9th Fleet patrol to quickly transmit the accident back to the base, at least not faster than the speed of the ship's flight. Even if a passing merchant ship happened to find the wreckage of a patrol warship or an escape pod, it would take as little as twelve hours to get the message back even if it was flying at sub-light speed.
As for why it is flying at sub-light speed, and not at superluminal curvature. This is due to the large number of ships coming and going in the main channel, and it is very dangerous to fly faster than light using a speed that cannot monitor external conditions.
In response to this, all countries have formulated air traffic control regulations in the main channel, for the safety of ships traveling to and from the main channel, no form of faster-than-light flight including jump or curvature is allowed in the main channel area, and even low-speed curvature flight has a speed upper limit, that is, within 0.5 times the speed of light, to ensure that two ships flying opposite each other can detect each other in advance.
Of course, this main channel air traffic control regulation is only valid for civilian spacecraft, and warships like the "Tempest" that come to fight with the 9th Fleet will certainly not honestly abide by it, but will fly directly into the fleet's exclusive military route, which should be the exclusive use of the adversary.
Yes, except in the capital star circle, all other star fields will demarcate military routes for the country's warships to carry out high-speed navigation in the star field under space control, instead of flying slowly like civilian spaceships. Any unauthorized occupation of a military route is considered hostile and is sunk.
For the "Tempest", this is the rule of the UAC, not the rule of the wind, they do not need to abide by it, but seize the time difference and rush to the other end of the main channel to find another patrol to fight.
Feng Yu woke up by Luo Yunxi's side, and the news of the defeat of the first patrol had not even reached the 9th Fleet station, and the "Tempest" had already come to the other side of the main channel. This is still to take care of the sleep and rest time of Fengyu and the "quasi-ace team" awakened pilots, otherwise the range of 80 astronomical units - it really only takes 3 hours to fly at 8 times the curvature of the speed of light.
This time, the "Tempest" changed its appearance mode, and after exiting the curvature flight, it did not enter optical invisibility, but opened the R particle shield and swaggered towards the patrol team.
A destroyer of an unfamiliar model suddenly appeared on the edge of the attack range and was shielded with R-particles, which, according to international practice, was already considered a declaration of war. It's just that the three captains really can't see the nationality of this destroyer, and the dazzling aqua blue paint always looks a little familiar, giving them a sense of fear.
This patrol happened to be "lucky" to participate in the escort of the third-generation jump engine TEM-3(U) last year, and saw first-hand the battle of the E4 legendary ace "Storm". It was an indescribable shock, and even from the opponent's point of view, I was attracted by the natural aesthetics of war from his body. If it weren't for the position that didn't allow it, maybe the officers and men of the 9th Fleet, especially among the pilots, would have given birth to a group of supporters of Fengyu.
At this time, seeing the same aqua blue color in WG1 again, the three captains felt inexplicably flustered, and involuntarily remembered Fengyu.
I have to say that their feelings are actually quite accurate, but they immediately overturned their judgment, because in the battle case after "Storm" became an ace pilot, he has always been a lone ranger, and at this time, 9 mobile suits that are also unrecognizable have been ejected one after another, lined up in front of the aqua blue destroyer.
These mysterious pilots have two highly mobile mobile suits that look like captains at their core, and the other six highly mobile ones are divided into two wings, with the only long-range type dragging behind to form a very classical cavalry array called the Blade Array.
And then there's the charge!