Chapter 52: The Ship of the Future and the Woman's Landmine
Roughly figuring out the basic concept of custom AI, Pan Wen asked again.
"If I define a complex AI, can I buy it next time?"
"Yes, 10 Star Coins will be automatically deducted when you save it."
…… 10 Star Coins is enough for the annual salary of an elite basic crew member, but it is also a very cheap consumption in this dark place, so you can't expect it to be free.
With a definite answer, Pan Wen felt the need to spend some time here.
"Can I call?"
Cold for a few seconds.
"The lifting of communication restrictions is complete." It's back to synthesize.
I made a call to the three Elsa sisters who were waiting outside, and asked them to go play by themselves first, and then come and pick him up when he called.
After taking a deep breath, he retreated and turned to the mechanical category - Space Flying Objects - Modern Warships.
To be honest, he has had enough of the current fleet structure, not to mention the number of personnel, several frigates are of different types, and even the manufacturers are different, a single hyperspace jumping hammer and Kuroshio are different systems, and the relative distance must be calculated before each departure.
Of course, he could choose to buy the same model of boat directly from the manufacturer, but he didn't have the money in his hand, so he wanted to spend more time to see if the custom AI could bring some surprises.
First of all, the shape of the battleship was customized, and an existing recommended shape was selected for the convenience of the figure, the side is shaped like a knife blade like the Heavy Hammer, and the top surface is a slightly rectangular geometric multi-faceted structure, which is not necessarily useful, at least it looks easier to deal with radar.
Here's how to adjust the hull size.
Based on several months of combat experience, Pan Vin adjusted the length of the hull to 220 meters, which is about the average length of a corvette and took a whole number.
It was an important internal structure.
The internal structure of the corvette is very complex, and there are a lot of systems, so in order to avoid the lack of any inconspicuous equipment, he directly chose to let the system automatically fill in according to the corvette standard, and then manually modify it as needed.
According to Pan Wen's assumption, in the future, a cannon fodder frigate with standard firepower and few personnel, that is, low maintenance costs, will be needed.
Although it seems to be a bit extravagant to use a frigate as cannon fodder, it is also necessary to consider against the player, the full-size weapon that the frigate can only be equipped with is the longest precision strike range among the energy weapons in the world, and the firepower is not weak, even the cannon fodder that players can't directly ignore is good cannon fodder.
Since the least number of people is to be used, the frigate-class hangar must not be wanted, and the technicians, pilots, and basic crews who serve the hangar account for almost half of the entire population of the battleship. If you really want to use the carrier aircraft or storage function of the hangar, you can be responsible for other ship types, and the cannon fodder is responsible for the cannon fodder.
Ditching the hangar saves a lot of internal space, and the reduction in staff also means a reduction in activity space, which can be used as a basis for adding some internal facilities. But until then, Pan Vin will have to further reduce the ship's personnel requirements.
The name of the system in front of him is the exclusive AI customization system, and the host on the battleship only retains the ability of logical operation in order to enhance the speed of fire control, aiming and tracking, and there is no AI at all!
It's also very simple, add an AI-powered controller to your ship. Similar methods of control have existed hundreds of years earlier in the history of the Second World, and then they have returned to the mode of getting bigger and bigger because they are too few to be killed by hacking, electromagnetic weapons, and boarding combat, and it is difficult to repair themselves outside of the port.
Pan Wen felt that players should disdain to attack NPCs with unconventional means, but he also needed to interact with NPCs from other forces, so he still had to consider avoiding the various weaknesses caused by too few people as much as possible.
First, the AI control is separated from the core host of the battleship, and the main body is placed far away from the main engine, because the volume of the frigate is large enough, and each area reacts differently to high-energy electromagnetic explosions.
Second, in the part of the battleship's control room, the AI is only responsible for navigation, radar, and tactical classes. It no longer controls weapons and shield systems as it did hundreds of years ago, these combat systems are still done by people, and most of the personnel in the control room have superpower licenses, which can improve the capabilities of the warship while avoiding the adverse effects of AI being hacked.
As for avoiding boarding battles, it has nothing to do with the AI or the host. According to Pan Wen's thinking, since the hangar is gone, there will be no personnel entering and leaving the port, so there is simply no passage left.
The idea seems to be at odds with the crew's need to get in and out, but that's not the case.
To put it simply, he only needs to make the entrance impossible to open in a short period of time - for example, after the AI controls the opening and locking parts, he also needs a crane to help pull away the 10,000 square meters of armor on the entire surface of the ship to enter and exit - if the scale is reduced, it is similar to the ancient mobile phone case and book cover.
At the same time, this structure can serve the purpose of isolating personnel access passages, equipment inspection and maintenance passages, and if outsiders do not understand the structure, they may not be able to find the right place if they make holes in the outer armor.
At this point, personnel access and maintenance channels are completely isolated, so what equipment maintenance personnel are needed?
With the help of intelligent AI, even the management of the engine, energy, and canteen can be handed over to its remote-controlled robot, and if you do the math, a boat can have thirty or forty people. To put it bluntly, it became a large patrol ship.
After making changes and reassigning space with the help of a custom system, Pan Wen realized that the ship in front of him no longer seemed to be a frigate, but a corvette that was an all-rounder that integrated assault, patrol, escort, reconnaissance, loading, and self-repair...... Well, at least the same firepower as a regular corvette.
There is another trouble, Pan Wen configured it with a high-level shield and engine, and in the end it still failed to exhaust the internal space, after all, the proportion of the movement space occupied by the average ship's personnel is almost half of the hangar, and here he saves more than half is enough to increase the energy level of several main equipment.
Add more secondary guns or add missiles, torpedo launchers?
Cost, cost, since it is cannon fodder, you can't expect it to use too outrageous firepower, Pan Wen still prefers the power and range of the main gun, although the theoretical fire kill of the secondary gun is higher than that of the main gun, but the threat to the fleet itself is too great when it enters that range, and the frigate is even at a disadvantage against the patrol ship fleet with the same total value in the range of the secondary gun.
Downsizing?
It doesn't seem to shrink much.
The length of a frigate's bottom shaft is determined by the sum of the main gun and its mechanical motion system, the engine room and its inseparable equipment components (most of which contain shield cores), and the thruster group, and even a guy the size of the Hammer actually obeys this theorem, the engine room and thruster group of that thing are much larger than those of a medium frigate. Among them, the engine room and thruster must be on the central axis, and the main gun needs an angle of movement, which is generally on the upper or lower side of the front end, and the other side must be a hangar, and moving the east and west to the hangar in the back will lead to an increase in the unexpected danger when improving operations, and many things cannot be changed.
Well? Can't change?
Pan Wen suddenly thought of the scalpel number! That thing took a unique path and directly made a giant independent turret with a large movement angle for the main gun. It's a pity that that thing uses a beam-type main gun, which is one size smaller than the particle type that requires a huge accelerator, so it can only be used for reference, and it is impossible to copy it.
Turning his head sideways to look at the shimmering face of the woman next to him, he was stunned for a while while thinking about things.
The Glowing Girl also looked at him, and neither of them spoke.
"There it is!"
Modularization!
Although he himself couldn't figure out how to associate a woman with a hammer, but this was the case, he suddenly remembered the modular design of Titan Heavy Industries, since this is the case, then treat the hangar as a module, and the shape in space is only used.
After reshaping the shape and leaving behind the fixed structure necessary to install the entire hangar, the side view of the east and west came out changed from a blade to a revolver with a half-handle missing. By the way, except for a slight increase in the armor that protected the front, he reduced the rest of the armor to a certain extent.
Completed.
"How much?"
"Eight thousand."
Surprise, it's amazing!
Eight thousand Star Coins is close to the best of them compared to the average for new corvettes, but after removing a lot of personnel expenses, it is almost the same as the most ordinary one, but don't forget that the shield of this thing is the shield of a medium ship.
In short, the woman said a price that Pan Wen could easily accept.
Before storing the data, the system also provided a virtual test link, Pan Wen was not lazy, mainly checked the reaction of the shape to the radar, and based on this, the system made fine-tuning the shape.
Save.
"This stuff works so well."
In just a few hours, as a layman, the designers need to complete a lot of work on the ship design, thanks to the extremely high degree of intelligence and computing power of the system, otherwise just confirm the center of gravity will not be able to get it in a moment and a half, the consequence of the center of gravity deviating from the central axis is that the thruster can not work at full efficiency, and in serious cases, it may not be able to accelerate in a straight line as soon as the afterburner is opened.
The glowing woman didn't answer immediately, and was cold for more than ten seconds before she spoke.
"It's a part of me." Her voice was still cold, and she couldn't hear any change in mood.
However, Pan Wen knew: he had hit a landmine.
Maybe people in the outside world think that she should only be a machine, but Pan Wen knows that she is already on the most dangerous edge of artificial intelligence because of a certain chance - she has a sense of alien rejection, if the four lives also represent one race, it can be called racial conflict! Whether it is the second world or the outside world, as the top artificial intelligence in the entire human society, it can be said that she may threaten the security of the entire human society at any time.
It's just that NPC's Pan Wen doesn't have any say in her situation, but when they meet, he definitely doesn't praise her for her outstanding mechanical or logical performance, but just now he didn't realize that the custom AI ability was something she had in the outside world!
Shrugging his shoulders, he pretended not to understand anything, returned to the panel and began to work on the next kind of ship.