In order to be able to ensure that the ground forces can fight smoothly even without the cover of the warship in orbit in the future planetary ground battles, and at the same time be able to increase the ability of ground combat units to attack fortifications, the Empire has specially developed this unmanned orbital auxiliary attack system. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The beam attack of the Light "Divine Messenger" is very simple, it is an orbital attack satellite equipped with a beam cannon in orbit.

The "Divine Messenger" of Death is a special satellite that can cooperate with the chip on the Divine Messenger's body to control the electromagnetic force and gravity in the local area.

The Thunderbolt Messenger and the Death Messenger use the same support system, but the metal is controlled by a magnetic field to release electricity.

The Weather Messenger is a huge weather column that is dropped directly from orbit and inserted into the ground.

This weather pillar is capable of altering the weather in parts of the planet's surface, and its technology comes from the terraforming technology being developed by the Empire.

This weather tower is capable of creating extreme weather such as hail, heavy rain, tornadoes, etc., within a certain range.

Once these weapons systems are successfully tested, the Empire will not have to waste valuable warship resources on supporting ground forces in future wars.

In the future, it is completely possible to drop the satellites and continue to advance after the fleet has eliminated the opponent's orbital units, and the later landing force will seize control of the planet with the assistance of these orbiting satellites.

Unlike the silence in the experimental ship in the orbit of Test 001, the Empire's largest shipyard in the orbit of Nuwa at this time was full of people.

Dignitaries from all of the Empire's colonies gathered here, as did the Empire's top military leaders, who were about to witness the launch of the Empire's first mass-produced dreadnought.

This mass-produced dreadnought is different from the three experimental ships that the Empire has already built.

The three experimental ships all use metal materials cut from the world by maintenance drones, although the hardness and strength of this metal material are very high, but the speed of material acquisition greatly restricts the construction speed of dreadnoughts.

In order to speed up the construction of dreadnoughts, Li Mingze ordered the Academy of Sciences to step up research on new materials that could be used as substitutes, and finally made a breakthrough under the day and night of all the scientists of the Academy of Sciences.

Scientists have found that after adding a small amount of Ring World Metal to an existing metal in the Empire, the alloy made has almost half the strength of the Ring World Metal, and the dreadnoughts built with this alloy are extremely cost-effective, and most importantly, the Empire can produce this alloy in large quantities, which basically solves the material problem that restricts the mass production of dreadnoughts.

And the empire can also make up for the shortcomings in quality with the advantage of quantity!

The shape of this mass-produced dreadnought is still the same as that of the Michigan, but it is one-fifth smaller and only about a quarter of the cost of building an experimental ship.

The reason for the reduction in size is that scientists have found that if the Empire's existing reactor technology were used to propel such a large warship, the number of reactors required would reach a terrifying number.

Reducing the volume by one-fifth, removing the mass projector (formerly Crescent's superweapon) from the experimental ship's equipment, and replacing it with a new, lighter purple beam weapon as the ship's superweapon, the number of reactors required by the dreadnought will be greatly reduced.

The saved space was used by the empire to strengthen the number of guns and armor of the battleship.

More than half of the original dreadnought's large storage space has also been cut, and the remaining small part has been converted into a storage compartment for installing and repairing drone swarms.

The new maintenance drones are not the product of the previous civilization, but the battlefield-type maintenance drones designed by the empire itself.

These maintenance drones are capable of covering the entire fleet, and each drone carries a small material transfer device that can print out a steady stream of materials for maintenance.

These drones allow the Imperial fleet to repair broken hulls at any time during combat.

Not only that, but in special cases, these drones can also synthesize fusion weapons in their bodies to become suicide drones.

In addition to superweapon and storage improvements, the production dreadnought has replaced half of its mass booster with the Empire's newly developed purple beam weapon. In addition, the production dreadnought is equipped with a new Honeycomb missile.

It can be said that the mass-produced dreadnoughts armed to the teeth have greatly increased the combat effectiveness of the empire!

"Your Majesty has arrived!" With a message, the guards at the entrance of the banquet hall slowly opened the door to both sides.

"Long live Your Majesty!" The originally noisy shipyard banquet hall immediately fell silent, and everyone stood and saluted in the direction of the gate.

Li Mingze walked into the hall under the escort of the royal guards, looked around at the excited people in the hall, and Li Mingze reached out and took a glass of wine from the tray in the hand of the maid on the side.

"Today is a day to celebrate, don't be so restricted, everyone enjoy!" Li Mingze raised his wine glass and took the next sip.

Everyone in the hall also hurriedly raised the wine glasses in their hands and drank them all, and the lively atmosphere in the hall returned to the hall Li Mingze nodded with satisfaction and walked to the floor-to-ceiling window.

The shipyard's banquet hall is located above the shipyard's five docks, and the windows reveal most of the five docks and their exits.

"Your Majesty, you can begin." Tianyi reminded softly in Li Mingze's ear.

Li Mingze nodded, turned to face the middle of the hall and raised the wine glass in his hand.

"Listen to me, and I would like to take this opportunity to announce an important matter." Li Mingze picked up a spoon and knocked on the wine glass in his hand.

Everyone in the hall stopped whispering and looked in the direction of Li Mingze.

"In view of the fact that our empire's technology is becoming more and more advanced, and the size of the warships that can be manufactured is also getting larger and larger, the original battleship units are no longer suitable for the existing imperial fleet!"

"From today, the original dreadnought will be downgraded to a battleship! Battleships are downgraded to cruisers, cruisers to destroyers, and destroyers to frigates! ”

"And the original frigates, which are now the gunboats, are all allocated to the ground forces and are no longer subordinate to the Imperial Air Force." (The size of the ship remains the same, except that the named tier has been downgraded.) ）

"Now I announce that the Empire's brand new battleship is officially in use!" Li Mingze shouted.

With that, the doors of the five huge docks slowly opened, and five battleships that were not much different in size from the USS Michigan slowly sailed out of the dock.

The lights on the battleship were all on, and the huge guns on the ship were neatly aimed at the upper right.

"Long live Your Majesty! Long live the Empire! The officers and dignitaries in the hall shouted excitedly.