Chapter 37: Three Generations of Engines
Edward's good news can be traced back to Fengyu's trip to New Africa two years ago. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In January of SC0102, the HM03 field of the New African Galaxy accidentally crashed the test of the UAC's third-generation jump engine, causing the development of the UAC to be delayed for half a year. This is not the whole story, at that time, the UAC was conducting a prototype of the third-generation jump engine in the HM03, which is rich in FI-298, and this incident was undoubtedly a wake-up call for other countries.
As a result, countries have a clear direction to follow up, and the progress of research and development has been greatly accelerated. Two years have passed, and the three generations of engines from various countries have been launched in no more than two months, which has not allowed UAC to form a dominant situation.
Once the third-generation jump engine is developed, its core technology is no longer a secret, and even Awa-Ker can reverse its design principle, which is nothing more than using the inert gas characteristics of the stability island element fi-298 to effectively improve the efficiency of the jump engine, rather than essentially changing the internal structure of the jump engine. It can be said that this is a technology that is easy to copy.
Don't look at the technical content of the three generations of jump engines, the technical content has not improved much, but the effect is amazing.
Half a century ago, the second generation of the SC0052 jump engine was developed, with a distance of 1,000 AU in a single jump. Although there were many technological innovations and upgrades, the performance improvement of the second-generation jump engine was very limited, and basically failed to exceed 5% of the year.
The advent of the third-generation engine directly increased the jump distance by an order of magnitude, reaching a staggering 12,000 astronomical units, that is, a light year can be jumped in a little more than 5 jumps. To put it figuratively, it only takes 22 space jumps to travel from Earth to Centauri A, known as Proxima Centauri.
Even if the current three generations of engines have a longer charging capacity and are not yet fully miniaturized, the speed can be doubled by just one mounted on the "Tropical High Pressure". If the miniaturization study is finalized, and three jump engines are installed at the same time to work alternately, the speed of the high-speed ship will reach 2,400 times the speed of light.
This news made Fengyu sigh. Time is of the essence, and most of his more than six years of military career has been consumed by long voyages. With the third-generation jump engine, the speed has increased by six times, and the six-year range has been reduced to one year, which is unimaginable.
Of course, it can't be said that a long voyage is a waste of Fengyu's life. Even during the voyage, he continued to train on the simulator for several hours every day. Without this training, he would not be where he is today. If he doesn't train in the voyage, he will also have to train if he stays at the base, and from this point of view alone, the outcome is no different.
Looking at the impact of the third-generation jump engine on space warfare, it has greatly increased the pace of war, making troop movements more frequent and more intensive. If this achievement had been published five years earlier, it would not have been a good thing for Fengyu. If you don't have enough time for basic training, and only rely on a lot of encounters to sharpen yourself, the death rate on the battlefield will only be higher, and maybe Fengyu will die early in a certain battle.
It can be said that now that Fengyu has fully matured, the third-generation jump engine has come at the right time, and it can maximize the role of his trump card and become a Dinghai Divine Needle that can be put on the battlefield at any time.
To this end, the Awa-ker Board of Directors has passed a motion to produce a third-generation engine for the Tropical High Pressure at any cost to its engine research institute and production base, at least doubling the speed first. However, with Awa-Ker's technical strength, this work may take at least a year to complete.
For this point, Fengyu has a more direct way - grab!
Maybe it was because I grabbed the MS-102 prototype from NO before, which made Fengyu taste the sweetness, so I had the idea of grabbing it again.
The idea, though violent, was endorsed by Chairman Edward. Awa-ker is short of time now, and the way to save time is a good way. However, this issue is a bit cumbersome to implement, and it needs to be discussed by the Council at a special meeting.
Awa-ker is a borderless organization that does not intervene in disputes between countries. Because of this, almost all of the members of Awa-ker actually have two positions, one is to represent the national interest and the other is to represent the organization's philosophy. Once the organizational philosophy infringes on the national interests and triggers conflicts between the members' own positions, it will lead to the split or even collapse of the awa-ker. Only in the face of no will the members put aside their national prejudices and fight together. Normally, however, the issue of the state is downplayed and only some internal matters of the organization are discussed.
Feng Yu proposed this plan, and there was naturally only one target for the robbery, and the only place he knew about the third-generation jump engine was the HM03 star field.
From Fengyu's personal standpoint, there is no problem with this plan, no is his enemy, and so is UAC. But from the standpoint of Awa-ker as a whole, this is not going to work. Not to mention the rank-and-file members, there are three UACs on the Awa-Ker Council alone, including Captain Morgan, even more than the New Asians. Even if there are a few new EU councillors of nationality who are hostile to the UAC, such a proposal is unlikely to be on the council's agenda, and it would only be divisive.
So what Edward intends to propose is an alternative, seeking the opinions of the directors and seeking the feasibility of obtaining a third-generation leap engine from other powers.
The Awa-Ker Council members are usually scattered throughout the universe, and a general meeting can be held as long as the number of attendees reaches 5. Although this number does not even reach half of the total number of seats on the council, as long as the five members can reach a unanimous vote, the resolution is still valid. Otherwise, if you want to organize a meeting of more than half of the people, I am afraid that it will take a whole year to travel back and forth, and I am afraid that the timeliness of the topic will be long gone.
However, this problem will be improved in the future, and with the widespread use of the third generation of jump engines, six times the speed will be sufficient to meet the needs of an ad hoc meeting of the Council.
Even if only five people are present, it is not easy to hold a meeting. The only directors stationed on Earth are Chairman Edward, the Minister of Logistics and the Minister of Security, and the five intelligence officers on the other board of directors do not even have a fixed office location, so they can only leave messages at the contact point and wait for them to see them before returning. And the Minister of Commerce and Trade is even busier than the intelligence officers, touring the five major galaxies all year round, and unless he voluntarily returns to Earth, he can't be found.
Only the other three ministers have a fixed place of activity, and the member management minister is on the L4 of the earth and the moon, but it is not far away, and he can come down on the same day when he shouts. The problem was that the Minister of Human Resources and Reserves was far away in the New African Galaxy, and it would take a full three months to notify him of the meeting. The head of the paramilitary operations department is in the galaxy, but the distance is also not close, although it is not as exaggerated as the "edge of the world" of NO, but it is almost there.
Rather than shouting at these unlikely people, it is better to wait for Sherlock, the galactic intelligence officer, to show up. Normally, it won't take more than a month, but if you're lucky, it might appear in two or three days.
Staying on Earth and other issues turned out to be stupid, and Edward suggested that Fengyu fulfill his duties as the honorary principal of the Pilot School, so that those young people who are full of expectations have a hope, at least they should show their faces in the school at the beginning of their tenure.