Lu Yuan's goal is to transform the Dawn into a war mothership.

In the pangalactic era, warships are becoming more and more standardized and specialized. For example, the dreadnought, which is the main force of war, is slow and has destructive long-range firepower. However, it cannot operate on its own, and without the protection of a large number of frigates, it is easy to be attacked by small warships and warplanes. There are also cruisers, which generally refer to integrated warships. The cruiser is fast and slightly inferior in firepower to the dreadnought, but has a variety of attack methods, and is the core warship used to carry out regional missions.

From the size and mass, it can be seen that a huge artificial celestial body like Dawn does not actually meet the requirements of modern warfare. It is not a fortress with a liquid metal surface like the Iserlohn Fortress in Legend of the Galactic Heroes. Although the shell of the Dawn ranged from tens of meters to hundreds of meters thick, it was still unable to resist the intensive bombardment of the dreadnought's main guns.

And the reason why a fortress is a fortress is usually because it is best to stop at a certain vital place, closely integrated with the surrounding favorable environment, so that it can exert two hundred percent power. For example, the fortress of Iserlon, located right in the middle of a narrow interstellar passage, plays the role of a master. Like the Death Star and the Vulture Fortress, these kinds of people who fly out to fight others are all evil words.

In fact, with the advent of many small but powerful explosives -- such as cluster crack torpedoes, high-yield hydrogen bombs, antimatter bombs, proton fusion bombs, and so on -- bombs that can even cause collapse of planetary structures have declared the end of large-scale weapons of war. Because it seems to be the case at the moment that the spear is developing much faster than the shield.

When thousands of warplanes carry this small explosive for a swarm attack. Bulky targets that cannot be effectively defended, such as giant ships, fortresses, and even legendary planetary warships, are in front of the bombing tactics of the warplanes. It's just a huge, clumsy target.

Planetary battleships, in particular, are basically brain holes. Not to mention where the metal is made from (not to mention local materials...... Where does the driving energy come from, just say that the surface of the planet is so large, how to defend it? Presumably, if one side can build a planetary warship, it wouldn't be too much for the other side to have a small bomb that can blow through the earth's crust, right? Isn't that what you have chain mail and I have a shotgun?

Not to mention the use of white dwarfs as planetary battleships...... Do you know how much that thing weighs? You know pushing that thing from the east to the west of the solar system. Isn't burning Jupiter enough? Interestingly, walking in such a battleship, you will be instantly snapped into atomic fragments by gravity. Let's not mention this stalk.

An interplanetary warship the size of the moon, if it doesn't bring tens of thousands of frigates, plus a dense defense gun like a hedgehog, it really doesn't dare to go out.

Off topic. Back to the Dawn. The original layout of the Dawn was entirely in the style of a civilian vessel. All six massive plasma engines are deployed in the stern of the ship - which is almost as conspicuous as a target. Dawn can only accelerate axially, and while the ultimate speed that can be increased is 41% of the speed of light (without a Mass Effect Core), that would take up to two years of acceleration...... It takes about the same amount of time to slow down.

In the end, a few people led by Lu Yuan discussed and came and went, and they still felt that transforming the Dawn into a mothership with a certain combat effectiveness and a large amount of support for the battleship group seemed to be the most suitable positioning.

It was on this basis that Lu Yuan started the first phase of the renovation project for the Dawn.

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The first is a breakthrough in materials science. Mass effect field, which brings about a leap in material processing technology. Now the new nanoalloy material. The arrangement of the internal atoms is more uniform, and the material processing grade is increased by an order of magnitude (10 times). Inside the Dawn. Because it is a quantum-level nanotechnology, the hull material can be automatically decomposed and combined into walls, doors, windows, aisles, simple furniture and other facilities according to the command of the intelligent system.

Therefore, the replacement of the hull is not complicated, it is completely a meticulous and lengthy work. The hull has been updated while processing new materials, and after ten years, it is now 85% complete. The new hull has a 22% increase in mass, but it is also significantly more resistant to physical impacts and high-temperature burns.

The second is the transplantation of Mass Effect repeaters. This transplantation project, supported by Xing Yanshi's room and promoted by Yakumo Purple, is not just as simple as adding a Mass Effect core to the Dawn. The transplantation of the largest mass core in the galaxy gives Dawn an extremely thick shield of kinetic barriers, which is excellent in resisting physical impacts. On the other hand, the increase or decrease in the mass of the Guò effect field finally allowed Dawn to fly faster than light.

With the study of Kexue's dissection of the Sand Devil Worm, it is possible to construct a bionic organ capable of controlling the Mass Effect Field on the Dawn. At that point, the role of the core of quality will be further amplified.

But that's just the basics. Dawn has built a large number of new devices, completely ported and replaced the repeater in the Lance system, and has its own Tunguò License (IFF) - that is, Dawn can be used as a repeater! Dawn can create massless access to and from other repeaters - the ship can teleport directly to and from the surroundings of Dawn via the Guò repeater.

Moreover, Dawn has its own IFF verification system, which ensures that only friendly forces can make the jump.

I won't go into detail about how ungodly this function is, it's just an example of closing the door and letting the dog go! At that time, Nana made a small move, "a cloud-piercing arrow, thousands of troops will meet each other", and then there was an uproar, and Lu Yuan, Li Huamei and other thugs appeared with a large number of dreadnoughts - that sour ......

The third was the arming of the Dawn. In addition to the 10-kilometer-long super main gun laid along the axis, Lu Yuan also tried his best to add a lot of unconventional weapons to the Dawn. The idea of these weapons, everyone felt that his brain was too big when they heard it. There is a feeling of discovering a metamorphosis/metamorphosis and wanting to call the police...... Lu Yuan himself was complacent. These weapons are unconventional weapons and can only be used in certain environments. Once you use it, you will cut off your children and grandchildren, and you will not negotiate with the dead...... Let's sell it and wait until it's time to use it.

"The fourth item is about the transformation of the ship into a ship, and the Dawn has now been emptied of nine decks. Used for ......"

"Ahh Yakumo Lan was about to continue in that undulating tone, Lu Yuan was nothing, Yakumo Zi had already been tortured to sleep! Therefore, Yakumo Zi directly interrupted her report. She held Lu Yuan's arm with one hand, and quickly held Yayun Lan's hand with the other, "Let's go see it together, there are surprises!" ”

Immediately, the three of them were engulfed together in a gap.

When the three of them walked out of the gap. They had reached the 50th floor of the Dawn, the first deck under the Dawn's "canopy".

The first thing Lu Yuan saw after leaving the gap was an incomparably vast cylindrical space. There is only a large patio in the center. The 50th deck has been completely widened and heightened, making it look like it used to be more than a dozen floors in one. Today, it forms a two-and-a-half space, one half on the left and one half, each with an inner circumference of about 12 kilometers and a height of one kilometer.

On the patio between the semi-rings, there is a cross-shaped gangway connected to it, and directly below the gangway is the newly transplanted Mass Effect core. It glows blue.

Three people happened to appear on the crossbar bridge of the patio. Looking down, one can see that there are nine decks of the same height, interlocking around the azure core of mass.

"Now the interior of each semi-ring is a closed dock. However, with the exception of the one on the left, everything else is being used as a metal warehouse for the time being. Eventually, the Dawn will have four 12-kilometre-long mega-docks, eight 5-kilometre-long medium-sized docks, and a number of platforms for fighter building and maneuver maintenance. In the future, a battle group will be formed that can carry fifteen dreadnoughts and thirty-two cruisers at the same time! Yakumo Lan thought about it, and finally added. If I had driven it in green skin, I wouldn't have built it as well as I could have built it. There should be more features like suicide attacks. ”

Yakumo Blue said with a twinkle in his eyes, "Kexue recently designed a gunboat with only a main gun and a high-power core, which is easy to self-detonate, and I highly recommend using green skin to pilot!" After the cannonball is fired, drive the boat to the target! duang！ Even the recycling process saves ......"

But what she said, Lu Yuan couldn't hear it anymore. He stared at the dock on the left side with burning eyes, and he looked at it without blinking, and he was reluctant to leave the slender hull for a moment! Yakumo Lan reluctantly stopped her introduction, and Yayun Zi smiled proudly when she saw Lu Yuan's obsessed look...... She's busy like this, isn't that just to see this scene?!

I'm Yakumo Purple, but I'm not just a spring monster!

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The 12-kilometer-long platform on the left is divided into two stages, each with a track of about five kilometers.

Around the tracks, there are countless engineers and construction machinery busy. The engineers were wearing armor and doing their work in a nervous and orderly manner - especially when Yakumo Purple appeared, many of them subconsciously walked away from them.

But Lu Yuan didn't notice this, his eyes were completely attracted by the two battleships under construction on the slipway, the cruiser that was almost completed.

3.5 kilometers long, 400 meters high, the smooth golden hull of the ship, and two huge engines on the left and right - make her look like a super race car that can speed through the universe! But this was only an experimental model, and the first battleship built by the Dawn.

One 3-kilometer-long rail-based main gun (enlarged version of the main gun of the Star-United cruiser), six 400-meter secondary guns (standard cruiser main gun), twenty-four rapid-fire close-in guns, torpedo launchers (only eight cracked torpedoes, can't buy more). The hull uses a four-core parallel connection (ibid., lacking dreadnought-class mass core data), twin ion engines (ditto, lack of antimatter, thermonuclear engine data), and a top speed of "only" 2.5 times the speed of light......

As can be seen from the above, its paper number jù is quite average. Although it is far superior to the dreadnoughts of the Star Alliance, the power of the main gun is only about 1.25 times that of the Star Alliance, and the overall combat performance is not outstanding. On the one hand, the Dawn Regiment has not yet obtained the core warship manufacturing technology of the Star Alliance, on the other hand, this experimental battleship has verified the design ideas of countless Mu Xing and others, and after actual combat exercises, the other No. 2 spaceship that is building the keel will do better!

As for the 10-kilometer-long giant dreadnought, it was only a few words on paper, and even the design of the foundation was not completed. From the beginning, Lu Yuan used Mona, not the Reaper, as an imaginary enemy! After all, the two ten-kilometer-long cruisers of the Mona people really impressed him very deeply!

Lu Yuan flickered, disappeared from the crossbar, and came to the side of the battleship. He pressed his hand against the cool metal surface, and even though the battleship was not yet finished, he seemed to be able to feel the countless surges of energy beneath the hull!

Lu Yuan walked forward, his fingers swiped over the huge words, and finally he took dozens of steps back in a row before he could see the painted text of several hundred meters in size - "Qixing No. 1" - this is the name of this test ship!

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PS: There should be a Bgm here. (To be continued......)