The short two-and-a-half-year maintenance period has passed......

The human army has almost turned this Riley star upside down, but still has not found any more traces of the "Enlightener Civilization". The other party seemed to come in a hurry and left in a hurry, leaving only an unpredictable breeze.

Now that the maintenance and repair work of Kunlun Mountain has been completed, it is impossible for humans to continue to survey this planet, and the entire fleet is ready to start again.

However, in the past two years, there has been a fairly good technological development.

First of all, the first destroyer of the "Falcon-III" type appeared in this world.

The design of the "Falcon-III" destroyer began in the past few decades, and during the construction process of more than two years, several scientific teams urgently tackled various difficulties, and more powerful magnetic fields were applied to all corners of the spacecraft.

The "Falcon-III" spacecraft uses the supermagnetic-A material to achieve better interstellar ram technology, its mobility will become better, and weapons such as electromagnetic guns and ion cannons will become more powerful, higher and faster.

It is simply estimated that the firepower of one "Falcon-III" is comparable to the two previous "Falcon-II"!

This is a very big improvement, because the population of Kunlun Mountain is limited, and the number of ships that can be maintained is also limited before the industrial upgrade again.

At present, the strength of the human army has a total of four Eagle destroyers and 26 Haiyan-III frigates.

A Falcon-type destroyer needs 3,000 permanent soldiers, and a Haiyan-class frigate needs 200 permanent soldiers, adding up to 17,000 permanent soldiers.

This is just a resident soldier, and the soldier also has to hibernate, take turns, and return to the mothership to recuperate, and it is impossible to carry out military missions in the vast universe for a long time. In this way, the total number of soldiers on rotation has reached almost 100,000.

Counting Kunlun Mountain itself, it also needs a large number of soldiers to be able to exert its true strength. The firepower of Kunlun Mountain is far more powerful than these small and medium-sized ships, a large number of logistics personnel, engineers, and all kinds of messy research and development personnel, if you calculate it this way, the relevant military population exceeds 500,000!

This kind of military strength is already the limit of what society can bear, and it cannot be any more.

It is certainly unrealistic for the entire civilization to be a soldier, or to maintain a spaceship and be a military engineer.

It is even more important for mankind to maintain the normal operation of all walks of life and maintain the stability of society. If the ship is built, there is not enough population, or there is not enough maintenance capacity, it has been idle, and it will soon be abandoned......

So, what people can do is to improve the quality as much as possible, not the quantity.

If only the quantity, it can be compensated for with various mass-produced UAVs.

In addition, for the Kunlun Mountain mothership, it has also been improved to a great extent, after all, even the "Eagle Falcon-III" uses a more powerful magnetic field, so the mothership can also upgrade related military equipment.

In addition, the installation of a magnetic field generator will make the wear and tear of cosmic particles on Kunlun Mountain smaller, and the mothership can accelerate to a higher speed. Probably from the original rated speed of 10% of the speed of light, up to 11%, don't underestimate the difference of 1% speed of light, this is already a very good achievement, kinetic energy acceleration, acceleration is really not easy to accelerate to the present, can not ask too much.

In the meeting before departure, Zhang Yuan summarized the achievements of the past two years, as well as the main directions for tackling key problems in the future.

“…… There are two main things to be carried out next, the first is to miniaturize and normalize the super-magnetic-A material.

"If this magnetic field technology can be applied to drones, the performance of drones will change qualitatively."

"If a larger magnetic field can be used in industry, it can also lead to the upgrading of certain industries...... In particular, the plasma smelting system in the ultra-high magnetic field environment, as well as the research and development of special metal materials. This aspect is a top priority. ”

"Even if there has been no breakthrough in the theory of subatomic materials science...... But we don't force it, let's develop it to the best of our ability. ”

Materials science is the material basis for the survival and development of human beings, and it is also the core of all scientific and technological progress industries. The continuous development of new materials is an important yardstick to measure the level of social technology and the future development of science and technology.

The development of many technologies, in essence, is the development of materials science, and human beings have smelted bronze, as well as black iron, which has opened a new era.

The successful development of ultra-pure silicon and gallium arsenide led to the birth of large-scale and ultra-large-scale integrated circuits, which increased the speed of computer operations from hundreds of thousands of times per second to hundreds of billions of times; The core part of the turbine engine is the turbine blade, which requires a high temperature of about 1500 degrees Celsius to operate, and it needs to withstand high temperature and high pressure. After 40 years of hard work, in 1980, the United States officially developed a qualified duplex nickel-based alloy, which made the birth of turbine engines possible.

Of course, these are all old calendars, and under ultra-high magnetic fields, it is an important topic to make all the atoms in the material be regularly sorted to achieve higher performance.

Many people in the room were silent, and no one issued a military order saying that there would be a breakthrough in the next few decades. It's really hard to build a foundation for this, and it takes a lot of genius, inspiration, and even a little bit of good luck.

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuan paused for a while, and then continued: "Don't think that our civilization is already strong enough to easily feed everyone. We're not enough, can we build a Dyson ball? Not really. ”

"Can we hollow out a metal planet and build a planetary ship? Maybe it's possible, but it will take tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years! ”

"We still have a long way to go."

"Second, it is about the research of brain-assisted memory chips. There are enough materials in the laboratory to squander to the next destination...... So don't worry about resources. ”

"Next, I would like to invite Professor Luo from the Institute of Human Brain Research to introduce the latest progress of brain-assisted memory chips!"

Brain-assisted memory chip!

There was a slight commotion among the people below, and many reporters refocused and looked interested. At every summary meeting, that's all they are most interested in.

Since Professor Li Zhendong cracked part of the memory code in the neural network decades ago, there have been some small breakthroughs in the research of brain-assisted memory chips......

In fact, the research on human brain chips has been going on for thousands of years, and there are many applications on the earth, such as love chips, which can make people feel like first love when they meet a specific lover. This kind of chip controls the derailment rate of the whole society, and things like unspoken rules have also been greatly reduced, which has greatly increased the clarity of the whole society.

What else is focused on chips that can make people happier in certain jobs...... Some boring learning is no longer so boring, but full of fun.

In fact, these chips are designed to achieve a certain purpose by controlling the secretion of certain hormones in the brain, that is, regulating the conditions for the production of "happiness", and the principle and practical operation are not particularly difficult.