January 1, 2517 in the military calendar, the fourth star field, the constellation Heavy Industry, Beta 1 star sector, the planet Antiga

Kong Linxi is a senior naval engineer. After completing his university studies at Antiga, he enrolled in the Imperial University, where he received a doctorate in naval engineering.

Kong Linxi sat in the pelican's cabin, with the officer sitting next to him and the two soldiers sitting opposite. The Pelican is the most classic troop carrier, and its excellent design has made the Federation copy it.

The early version of the blueprint has already become a textbook for the relevant colleges, and it is possible to study its improvement as an enduring topic in the classroom.

It can be said that Kong Linxi has long been familiar with the Pelican.

But Kong Linxi knew very little about the combat armor equipped by the two soldiers in front of him. From the very beginning, the officer did not say anything superfluous, and the two accompanying soldiers did not say a word. He had long known the seriousness of the imperial soldiers.

But at the moment he couldn't help but ask.

"How do you solve the convenience problem with you wearing full-body armor?"

The two soldiers did not respond, as if they could not hear the question, and sat motionless in their seats.

Kong Linxi's gaze locked on the soldier's armor. Carefully observe every inch of the armor without missing a single detail. The crotch of the armor doesn't seem to have any opening design. From a professional point of view, the sealing performance of military individual armor is a very important indicator.

Because naval officers and sailors may be exposed to the environment of space, any opening in the armor they are equipped with must be sealed with a problem.

There is nothing wrong with the opening itself, but the logistical maintenance problems it brings are crucial. War is not a game, as long as the equipment in it is good-looking and data-powerful, but war is about logistics.

If there is a "opening" in the crotch for the convenience of the soldier, then it is necessary to consider the wear and tear caused by long-term use.

Without a suitable solution, there are serious logistical problems. Kong Linxi was once looking for design inspiration when he came into contact with military individual armor. The military active equipment is strictly secret in both the empire and the federation, and Kong Linxi has no authority to view those confidential design drawings, he is just an ordinary engineer.

They are all old models, and there are old models that have no time to take comfort into account in wartime design. Without exception, there is no opening for the crotch armor, and it even has an air conditioner.

"Sir. Are you trying to steal state secrets? ”

The officer's questioning made Kong Linxi realize what a dangerous thing he was doing, and immediately withdrew his gaze and stopped talking. The curiosity of the occupational disease carried him away, and now he had to think about it in his heart.

Although the Pelican has some space travel capabilities, it is not equipped with a jump engine. After breaking away from the planet's atmosphere, the Pelican landed on a space warship as instructed by the pilot. By looking at the porthole, Kong Linxi immediately recognized that it was the fourth generation armored cruiser of the Imperial Navy, the Iron Dome class.

It was a 14.6-kilometer-long, 7.1-kilometer-wide behemoth, powered by four combined fusion reactors and eight fission reactors as auxiliary power cores.

Its two Type 95 single-mount rapid-fire hybrid railguns running through the central axis were originally the main guns of fourth-generation battleships. Although limited by the size of the battle guns, only two were assembled. But after all, it is the main gun of a battleship, and its power is absolutely devastating.

Its large hangar is large enough to accommodate 12 frigates, 4,000 carrier-based aircraft of various types, and a large number of other land combat readiness. Its comprehensive combat capability is not much better than that of some fourth-generation battleships. Kong Linxi heard from the teacher that armored cruisers are a unique type of ships in the empire, and they are jokingly called pocket battleships.

At that time, the war between the Empire and the Federation was becoming more and more stalemate, the supply of resources gradually became overstretched, and the fleet suffered unprecedented losses. The Empire was in dire need of a multi-purpose, multi-purpose warship to meet its immediate needs. It is in this context that the Iron Dome was born.

Kong Linxi had to admire the empire's shipbuilding technology, according to the teacher, the Iron Dome class project was designed, and it took less than a year to outfit the first batch of warships. In addition, from a professional point of view, the final outcome of such a comprehensive battleship is likely to be unsatisfactory in every aspect.

However, the brilliant achievements of the Iron Dome in actual combat are obvious to all. That is, the empire dared to play like this, and if someone else had to build such a first-class battleship, it would have collapsed a long time ago.

According to the teacher's original words, the empire is an Iron Dome class built with the technology of building fifth-generation ships, and the empire has no money.

This Iron Dome-class cruiser, after accepting Kong Linxi, quickly detached from the planet's orbit and got rid of the planet's gravitational influence. Come gently, walk gently, and don't make a single difference to the planet. Immediately, start the jump engine, tear through the space barrier, and prepare to jump and sail.

For the sake of secrecy, it is not possible to take the high-speed and energy-efficient stargate, nor to use a safe and accurate hop to sail.

As the name suggests, a jump voyage is a voyage that does not require a destination, and the landing point is entirely speculative. It is precisely because of the characteristics of this destination that even they can't tell themselves that it is widely loved by the military.

The only drawback is that if the ability to distinguish the position of the space point is not good, there is a danger of getting lost in the vast universe.

Even under the rule of a behemoth like an empire, the universe is still empty beyond imagination for mortals. Kong Linxi remembered what his teacher said: Human beings have never conquered the universe, never, no.

After several jumps in a row, Kong Linxi and the others seemed to have reached their destination. The cruiser docked at Starport, and next to it were many warships, mostly Iron Dome-class cruisers.

Under the escort of several soldiers, Kong Linxi stepped out of the cabin. If you look up, you can see this huge statue standing in the middle of the square, and the name of the place, Skunk Shipyard, owned by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, is inscribed on it.

At this time, Kong Linxi met several other fellow engineers. Among them were his colleagues in the design bureau where he worked. Like him, he was forcibly recruited and brought here.

Kong Linxi looked up. He saw that the barrier of blue light shrouded the warship more than ten kilometers long, and it was endless. The starport seems to have been built on an asteroid, which would make it less difficult to engineer.

Although it is not the first time to see this kind of super project, when he really faces these super projects, Kong Linxi can't help but feel excited.

The officer from earlier was saluting another, more senior-looking, saying something "this is the last one."

Following the guidance of the officer, Kong Linxi thought that if one day, he could also participate in the design of these super projects and design an unprecedented super warship. How nice that would be! Everyone has a dream.