March 2, 10th year of the new era.

The first New Era-class space battleship completed the final outfitting work at the 156 shipyard in the Cooper Belt.

This is a real giant spacecraft, 21 kilometers long, like an enlarged version of the Huo Qu Sick, with a total mass of 35 million tons when fully loaded.

This warship is a collection of all the current technologies of the new humans.

It adopts a front-suction zero-point energy curvature engine and a rear photon injection engine, with a speed of 45% at the fastest speed of light, and a class of perpetual motion machines with a total power.

The interior of the battleship is equipped with a complete quasi-gravity system, an internal circulation ecosystem, a weapon heavy factory, a food factory, a quantum wormhole communication system, a quantum wormhole detection system, a gravitational wave detection system, etc.

In addition, the battleship itself can perform fast wormhole jumping, and it can quickly expand the wormhole for space jumping without launching the wormhole generation core.

As for weapons, they are still the same antimatter missiles, black hole missiles, gamma-ray lasers, and close-in electromagnetic guns.

The armor of the battleship is composed of degenerate materials, and there is also a strong magnetic field shield, as long as it is not ridden by a black hole bomb, the combat effectiveness is still very considerable.

……

Zhang Siping and Liu Dawei, who came to accept the New Era, looked at the battleship like a space city, which increased some confidence of the new human beings.

"The New Era level is definitely very powerful, and it is not possible to fall behind in confrontation with some middle-level civilizations, but it is not possible to take high-level civilizations." Zhang Siping said helplessly.

Liu Dawei was also depressed: "The key is that there is too little information about advanced civilizations, we have no references, and we have no way to start." ”

"By the way, how well has the vacuum zero-point energy weapon been verified by Mingzhe?"

Liu Dawei shook his head: "The Science and Technology Commission has calculated a vacuum decay bomb, but to stimulate the vacuum decay, the energy that needs to be extracted from an area in an instant is very large. ”

"How old?"

"Within the range of 3 cubic light years, the instantaneous extraction of zero point energy equivalent to 5.6 solar masses can trigger vacuum decay, which can instantly destroy an area of 1000~1500 cubic light years."

Zhang Siping was obviously frightened: "Extract 5.6 suns in an instant? Is this really achievable?"

"Mingzhe and Academician Yang have both participated in the verification, what do you say?" Liu Dawei shrugged.

Zhang Siping, who was looking at the simulation of the destruction of the vacuum decay bomb, suddenly said thoughtfully: "How can the destruction of this vacuum decay bomb be so similar to the situation when the Nibelon civilization was destroyed by the Reaper?"

"The Science and Technology Commission suspects that the Reaper is using a vacuum decay bomb."

The more Zhang Siping looked at it, the more it looked.

Attacks at the speed of light, has a large range, destroys all matter, and has no way to defend against attacks (perhaps the Reaper civilization can defend against them).

According to the simulation of the Science and Technology Commission, once multiple vacuum decay bombs detonate nearby, a chain reaction will be triggered, making the scope of vacuum decay even larger.

If the entire universe is to be destroyed, according to the current estimate of the new human being, the universe has a radius of more than 24 trillion light years (including the unobservable part), and it is necessary to instantly detonate 8 billion primary vacuum decay bombs to trigger the decay of the cosmic vacuum.

That's why the Reaper civilization recklessly used vacuum decay bombs to wipe out the Nibelon civilization.

"We need vacuum decay bombs." Zhang Siping said firmly.

"The Science and Technology Commission is trying to figure out a way, but the project is very difficult."

Zhang Siping was categorical: "Only with the power to die together can we officially step onto the big stage of the universe." ”

The situation of the new human beings now is very similar to that of China in the fifties and sixties of the last century.

Before mastering the strategic deterrence of the same end, once the traces of the Reaper civilization are discovered, it is estimated that they will be erased from the universe in an instant.

In order to survive safely in the universe, the new humans must master the vacuum decay bomb.

……

After watching the service of the new era, Zhang Siping and Liu Dawei were in a heavy mood.

He also made an appointment with Huang Mingzhe and other high-level officials of the Science and Technology Commission for a meeting.

in a virtual meeting room.

Zhang Siping got straight to the point: "Mingzhe, Academician Yang, I want to know how difficult the vacuum decay bomb is?"

Huang Mingzhe, who sorted out his thoughts, replied solemnly: "If the efficiency of the current zero-point energy siphon device is calculated, the engineering difficulty of the vacuum decay bomb is comparable to that of a Dyson sphere. ”

"Comparable to a Dyson sphere?"

“……”

The high-level members of the War Council looked at each other and were speechless for a while.

They all more or less understand what a Dyson ball is, and the engineering difficulty of a Dyson ball is really too embarrassing.

Huang Mingzhe unfolded the virtual display screen, and instead of listing some uncertain formulas, he called up the star map of the solar system.

The energy of 5.6 suns is extracted in an instant, and the volume of the zero-point energy siphon device required adds up, which is equivalent to 0.6 suns.

The planet composed of the zero-point energy siphon device is placed next to the sun, and it looks about the same size.

Grunt! This intuitive contrast makes it difficult for everyone to swallow.

"Unless the efficiency of the zero-point energy siphon device is increased by a factor of 1,000, it will be possible to create a vacuum decay bomb."

"One more thing." Academician Yang, who recovered his youth, said: "If you want to be practical, the efficiency can be passed to 1 million times. ”

At this moment, everyone in the war committee looked ugly, and the gap was so great that people had a kind of intriguing thought.

"Haven't we always been afraid of triggering a vacuum decay? Why is a vacuum decay bomb so difficult?" One of the war commissars asked with a frown.

Zhang Tingyu, the new vice chairman of the Science and Technology Commission, explained:

"The two are not the same concept, and the vacuum decay that we are afraid of is caused by the fact that it takes time to accumulate and the expansion of the universe works together."

"Vacuum decay bombs are instantaneously activated by vacuum decay, and when used as a weapon, you should understand the difference."

Zhang Siping and others have already understood the difference.

The vacuum decay bullet used as a weapon must not be swallowed slowly, and in the case of the speed of the soldiers, the slow weapon may be cracked by the enemy.

"Mingzhe, if we fully support it, when will the practical vacuum decay bomb be put into service?" Zhang Siping asked.

"I don't dare to pack tickets, maybe decades, maybe hundreds, or even longer."

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhang Siping discussed with other high-level members of the war committee for a while, and finally said cautiously:

"Mingzhe, we will fully support the vacuum decay bomb, even if our generation can't complete it, we have to lay a solid foundation for the next generation, please!"

Huang Mingzhe nodded: "It's all for the new humans, it's my job." ”

After the virtual meeting, Huang Mingzhe organized a seminar on "Vacuum Decay Bomb" within the Science and Technology Commission, and asked the researchers within the Science and Technology Commission to focus on the project.

It's just that the difficulty of vacuum decay bombs is indeed a technique that is more exaggerated than Dyson spheres.

The technical principle is there, and the key is that the engineering difficulty is too high, and the materials required are also very large.

You must know that to destroy the universe, you need at least 8 billion primary vacuum decay bombs, and using the elements of this galaxy as materials may not be enough to create so many vacuum decay bombs.

And with the passage of time, the universe is constantly expanding, and 8 billion vacuum decay bombs are not necessarily enough.

It's a crater bigger than the Milky Way, but the new humans have to jump into it.

Now we can only hope for the improvement of zero-point energy siphon technology, or the emergence of new theories that allow vacuum decay to be generated simply and quickly.