Chapter Twenty-Seven: "Transformed" Equipment
In the second world, Pan Wen's fleet returns to Segeis to add a second main engine, guards/work robots, and modify the ship number.
The combat effectiveness of 00936D, especially in long-distance attack and defense relying on the main gun, is low among ships of the same tonnage, and it is an aircraft-carrying dock ship in the dock ship variant, so after referring to several names submitted by the cadet command team, Pan Wen chose the name "Harbor" that is more logistical.
Broken names such as the Gold, the Harbor, and the Fat Dun can pull out hundreds of ships of the same name in the entire human domination area. The popular ship name with a single word is more recognizable, and it is easier to distinguish it in your own fleet, as for the duplicate name, no one cares, and for pirates, the main role of the port number is only to cover the factory serial number.
The factory serial number will leak further information including the manufacturer, model, engineering batch, and some manufacturers even contain the manufacturing time, due to the different performance focus of each manufacturer's shipyard, through it, plus the appearance size, it is almost impossible to do a detailed investigation to roughly judge the combat effectiveness. There is no shortage of spies on the pirate's territory, and it is too convenient for the spies not to cover up.
According to the arrangement of the harbor to Doris, it can maximize the strike ability of the fleet and provide better security for Doris, and Pan Wen has also made some considerations about this. The decision to arrange a large ship for the two boss-tier captains was delayed, mainly because he didn't want Doris to overexpand. This is nothing to do with a rift in trust, it is purely that Pan Wen does not want to create the illusion to any of his subordinates that the fleet will not be able to leave anyone, and once there is a similar illusion, internal contradictions are inevitable. It is precisely for this reason that Doris has been only the captain of Ensign No. 1 since she left the position of acting commander of D21, and she has not been transferred for half a year.
In addition to the matter of the Harbour, there is also a job to dispose of the loot on this return to port.
Because the new ship still had to return to Segeis to install the second main engine in the end, in order to save the expenses caused by the fleet jump, it did not come back in advance to dispose of the loot, and among them was a superb ship.
This is the Wright AD03, which is similar to the Kuroshio that the Panvin fleet lost in the D21 counterattack against pirates. Different from Type B and Type A, the Type 03 body is the complete version of this type of ship, in other words, Type B and Type A are all castrations. If there is no change in strategy from the Torreston Industrial Alliance, the Type 03 itself will be a ship exclusively for the Islamic Empire.
The volume of the Type 03 is 200,000 tons, which is 11% higher than that of the Type B, in addition to the basic upper deck main gun, there is also an additional twin eight-stage energy-consuming electronic cannon at the bottom of the ship that can shoot at all angles, and the interception system also has two more laser guns than the Type B, and its engine energy supply is also 2 billion joules per second more than that of the Type B in order to cooperate with stronger equipment.
This ship was the only frigate that Panvin's fleet harvested in MR241, and it was the first frigate to be swept by the Super Cannon during the battle, and the wonderful thing is that its evasion direction was the same as the strafe direction at that time, and the Super Cannon itself was also a live kill weapon, the neutron railgun, and after the sweep, it never suffered a follow-up attack without firing a gun, and it was more intact than any other hostile frigate.
Of course, no matter how much better the standard equipment configuration of the Wright AD03 is compared to the AB type, it does not change the fact that it is a medium-sized frigate, which is not comparable to those heavy frigates equipped with two main guns in recent years. The reason why it is said to be the best is because during the week of equipment inventory and maintenance, the technicians found that almost all of its equipment has been upgraded!
The Wright AD03 is a ship type from 20 years ago, but this ship is equipped with brand new equipment, the main gun, the secondary gun are Seiko grade equipment, the engine is even a laboratory model!
If you want to say that the biggest difference between the two major factories of Titan Heavy Industries and Torreston Industrial Alliance in terms of shipbuilding, it should be the engine.
Due to the difference in concept, Titan Heavy Industries believes in the principle of one force down ten, and the engine system used by all ship types must be the maximum value of the engine space that can be loaded, or close to the maximum, to put it bluntly, it is a manifestation of stupid big black _ thick, and there is an advantage that the maintenance difficulty will be reduced, and the maintenance cost of the service cycle will not be significantly increased, anyway, it is a very practical type.
The ships launched by the Torreston Industrial Alliance are mainly considered to be the cost of production and purchase, and under the premise that other performance is not too outrageous, the engine is the main item in the cost of the battleship. If the engine is not powerful, it will not be able to support the main gun, the shield will be quickly recharged when the interceptor is in full swing, and the hyperspace jump can only be towed by the old external equipment. However, because the external equipment traction and jumping method only needs a low speed to complete the disengagement action, the energy consumption is slightly higher, but the time saving is not a disadvantage at all, so for customers with low combat intensity needs, the sales of warships of this factory are good.
But for players, low-intensity combat support is obviously not what they want, but on the imperial side, they can only buy it from gray channels, and there are not many choices before anyone buys it.
The owner of this Wright AD03 obviously can't stand the mental blow caused by the garbage engine, and now the laboratory model equipped with it is actually a laboratory model that even technicians have not seen, according to the performance indicators on the metal nameplate, the standard output of this engine is 32 billion joules!
The output figure of 32 billion joules per second is not a very high value in the galactic era, especially the hyperspace jump, which is calculated in microseconds but requires long-term energy storage, and its energy waveform peak is ten more zeros. But in the quantum engine, the level of 30 billion joules is already very good in mobile applications, and the standard output of the Cam X-VI in the Pan Wen fleet is only about the same value, but if you think about the engine room space capacity of the Cam X-VI is 2.5 times that of the Wright AD03, you can know how valuable this lab-grade engine is!
There is no special appraiser on the ship, but according to the indicators given by the technicians before, if the laboratory-grade engine on the Wright AD03 is sold, it will be at least 12,000 star coins to talk about!
"It's good to be able to make money!" This is the feeling in Pan Wen's heart when he hears the assessment.
The laboratory-level equipment that Pan Wen participated in earlier, the magnetic energy pulse close-in defense cannon and the shield amplifier loaded on the Gold are both technical verification equipment. The engine on this Wright AD03 is different, the technology is mature, and there is no need to use fully Seiko grade parts, but because of the material, the manufacturing cost cannot be commercialized at all, so only the laboratory undertakes the manufacture of such equipment.
This kind of laboratory equipment is also one of the sources of funding for each laboratory, but the proportion is very low, mainly because it is too cost-effective compared with industrial products. However, with the Wright AD03 in front of him as witness, presumably there will be more and more orders for such equipment on the side of the Islamic Empire.
The disposal of the best ship has been planned before returning, and after arriving at the port, it is directly towed to the "One Star Coin Factory" (the local ship/equipment factory designated by the Black House) for dismantling, and then the engine is thrown to the auction house through the alliance trading channel.
It's not that Pan Wen doesn't covet the lab engine, it's just that this thing is too valuable. And it was useless to keep one in his hand, he couldn't build another ship for one engine. But even if he is willing to build the result, he is only disappointed, the 30 billion joule class engine is best equipped with a heavy frigate with two main guns, but the heavy frigate has enough space, and the energy demand can be reached by loading a slightly better industrial-grade engine, even if it is a little bit worse, the energy storage mechanism on the ship is enough to deal with it, and the industrial-grade engine of this level, the cost of ordering it separately is only half of that of the laboratory engine, and the price is even lower with the ship.
Can't you save some of the engine room space for something else?
In fact, it is useless, the engine room is surrounded by isolation, protection, fire protection, lines, main engines and other systems, and the general design is to prevent the hangar from being broken down when the engine is directly damaged together, the engine room and the hangar are far apart, and the extra space can only be used for isolation and protection unless the internal structure is redesigned, and it cannot be used for living activities anyway.
Ships that have not been developed for this engine can only be used as an industrial-grade backup engine of the Cam X-VI in their hands, not to mention the overkill, it is a question of whether they can be used when they are really needed, because the engine room has been hit, and the basic ship is useless. So this kind of thing is still left for guys who have a hobby of modding!
This kind of laboratory-grade equipment is not like Seiko-grade equipment, Seiko-grade equipment is a high-end product in large-scale industrial production, it is easy to find the corresponding type of ship, easy to sell, compared to the audience of laboratory-grade equipment is too small, can only be thrown to the auction house. When Pan Wen was filling the positions for the students, he saw two or three guys with player licenses in the exchange center who were already third-level members, and I heard that they liked to run to the auction house, and maybe they could shorten the one-to-six-month sales cycle promised by the auction house to the shortest.
In addition to the lab-grade engines, the restored patrol ships and other loot are still at the disposal of their own financial team.
In addition, the situation encountered by MR241 in the past also made Pan Wen start to plan for the future, and after handing over the loot, Pan Wen took Hu Ke, the leader of the financial representative team, to the exchange center and assigned him a financial team.
Huco's business ability and professional ethics were affirmed by Pan Wen, and it was certain to take his team to D21 to take root, but the Sea of Death provided a strong geographical advantage after all, and Segeis was not going to collapse immediately, and when D21 established a sales and intelligence relationship, it still needed a reliable team of financial representatives to handle things like loot. Pan Wen was too lazy to remember and explain one item to another, and let the new finance team mix with Hu Ke for two months.
After dealing with the mess, the No. 6 laboratory of the Golden also added biological experiment equipment and closed it, and Pan Wen's fleet set off again.
Because the hangar of the new ship Harbor can carry two ensigns to run away, and the cost of the fleet's hyperspace jump does not increase but decreases, Pan Wen plans to go to D21 to have a look, and send the dozens of students on the Gold who only have ordinary licenses over, and when he turns back, he will go to the territory of MR246 Blue Pirates to see if there are any good quality slaves to buy.
A few days on the road were not wasted, through video conferencing and strategic deductions made by the command of the Harbour, and even when they went to MR251 and passed by the Blue Pirates' house, they added a bit of hatred to the trainees on the Harbour, and they paid the tolls.
Pan Wen decided to do this out of an immature idea.
Because of the distance between galaxies and the shape of the arrangement, MR242 can jump directly to any star system from 243 to 247 at the location of Segeis, but only 246 and 7 can jump directly to 250, and the distance between 251 and 250 means that you must land at 250 once before D21 directly faces the player's ship sea, 250, 246, and 247 are very important nodes.
However, 250 is a blank galaxy with only stars, and there are no nebulae and no particle storms, so there is no way to defend it, so in order to protect the MR243 interstellar bridge to form a resistance front, for the sake of the more than ten small and medium-sized countries in the KT star cluster, 243 must be the main direction of attack after pushing away Segeis, and 246 and 247 are the nodes that D21 needs the most attention.
MR247 is the territory of the Republic of Florina, a feminist country that has operated for hundreds of years in a well-resourced galaxy and has the most powerful minicomputer technology. The mini-machine is indeed easy to be done, but in your own home, no matter how much you die, you can't help the small machine to build fast, it can be said that no matter what scale the player reaches, it is impossible to win Frolyn by simply competing for attack ability! Moreover, Florina's national territory is a galaxy, and the unique xenophobic strategy means that they don't need to judge friend or foe, once the size of the fleet that jumps in reaches a certain level, they will directly start fighting, so they are not afraid of sneak attacks, and it is almost impossible to push down 247 for a while.
Compared to MR247, MR246 is much weaker, don't look at the blue pirates popularizing big ships, but because the home was destroyed during the human-insect war, there is no resident star and large resource star support, the war potential is limited, and it is likely that it will not last long. So it's time to start making some arrangements on MR246 gradually.
The Blue Pirates are vassals in their territory, and it is unlikely that Pan Wen will help them defend their homes, but they also need better relationships to avoid being beaten up as a group of guys on the player's side, which is easy to achieve by buying slaves multiple times. And once MR246 shows that he can't support it, he also needs to try his best to plunder as many slave resources as possible in the end of the game to increase D21's manpower reserves, after all, it is a violation of the Joint Declaration of Human Expansion to create people indefinitely outside of MR246, although any statement may be waste paper to that extent, but it is always bad to give the enemy too many reasons. Plundering slave resources, and it is undoubtedly a good excuse for the students to do it under the banner of "liberating their companions", and before that, it is necessary to let the students know how bad the Blue Pirates are, and compare with their current leader, that is, Pan Wen's attitude towards them (them), which can basically avoid the possibility of any Stockholm syndrome patient temporarily rebelling.