Bai Zhongqi did not believe that there were various races and civilizations in the universe in the game, and there would be no advanced alien civilization in the universe where the earth was located. Take www.biquge.info for example, brain worms, a dangerous alien creature that, although they themselves must parasitize the human body, can undoubtedly steal human science and technology. Extraterrestrial creatures in the universe that are more powerful than brain worms are also inevitable. The fact that Earth has not been invaded by a large-scale alien civilization for so many years does not mean that it will not be in the future. Especially after Iridium continues to open the road of cosmic exploration, it will inevitably come into contact with many extraterrestrial civilizations, and contact may mean conflict. Iridium must also have a strong armed force capable of defending the Empire's civilization.

The capital ship of the Holy Falcon level is technically the latest, but when it comes to actual firepower, it can only be regarded as the last of the Iridium capital ships. The Imperial technology carried by R19 is not complete, and Bai Zhongqi needs to organize the Imperial Research Institute to fill in the gaps in the previous technology tree. Because these technologies are mostly stored in the database, redevelopment will be less difficult to obtain than the first development. Now the 318 Shipbuilding Institute is able to build the strongest capital ship, which is the Pojiang-class battleship built by the empire 180 years ago. The Bojiang class is nearly 2 times larger than the Holy Falcon class, and its firepower is much higher than that of the Holy Falcon, and the Bojiang class is also the first battleship in the empire to carry the [Singularity Weapon], and in fact, it is also the only warship with this weapon.

When playing the game at that time, Bai Zhongqi remembered it very clearly. The second ship of the Bojiang class, the battleship Hero, malfunctioned in a rescue operation, and finally led to the destruction of the entire ship, which was also one of the most tragic accidents in the history of the empire. Since then, the Bojiang class has only been in service with the Imperial Space Force for half a century, and has gradually withdrawn from active service, and the Singularity weapon has become a historical term in the Empire's doomsday weapons.

The so-called singularity weapon, as the name suggests, is to directly create an unstable singularity to achieve a terrible gravity collapse, and the enemy ship or even the star at the center of the collapse will be directly attracted by gravity and fall into the gravitational singularity. After a brief singularity construction, the singularity erupts again and eventually disappears. Iridium physicists can't explain why the singularity erupts and disappears after it forms, and where the material sucked by the singularity goes. But that didn't stop the Iridians from converting it into a doomsday weapon, and the Iridians were more accustomed to calling this terrible weapon, the Black Hole Weapon.

Later wars showed that this kind of weapon, which consumes a lot of energy, takes a long time to prepare, requires a large number of frigates, and is also prone to malfunction and lead to the destruction of your own army, is basically not a full-fledged weapon. Therefore, in the late stage of service, the Pojiang class dismantled the singularity weapon and piled up some turrets, and finally after a few years of service, it was replaced by newer warships.

The resources spent on maintaining the capital ship are huge, and Bai Zhongqi does not plan to build a capital ship like the Mabojiang class until the resources and economic strength of Iridium have not reached a certain level for the time being. Although the construction of the capital ship was postponed, Bai Zhongqi would not give up the construction of other main battle ships.

In Bai Zhongqi's list of buildable warships, the Stormbear-class heavy cruisers in the current fleet are a good choice. This is a ship designed and built during the War with the Snail Mosquito Star, and is characterized by being cheap, simple, and useful, in other words, large cannon fodder that can be consumed.

The current Flying Bear in the fleet is an old ship in the Snail Star War, and has participated in more than 20 star wars in the middle and late stages of the war, and has also sunk enemy ships, so it is also a meritorious ship. However, even the Iridium people who pursue high efficiency feel that the Tyranno-Bear-class mainly installs a few electromagnetic acceleration guns and fires plasma warhead missiles, which is somewhat embarrassing to the United Empire, so nearly 2,000 Tyrant-Bear-class ships were launched during the war, and half of them were sealed as soon as the war ended, and then a quarter was dismantled, and some were decommissioned one after another, and there are less than 100 Tyranny-class ships still in service with the United Empire Space Force today.

Of course, what the Iridium people don't look down on is also out of reach for the current Earth.

Bai Zhongqi believes that the cost is equivalent to that of two frigates, a heavy cruiser, which is definitely a relatively affordable combat power, and the construction speed can also be relatively fast, and it can be installed in a large number of Star Alliance fleets, and even used as capital ships.

Bai Zhongqi also prefers to combine the existing Iridium technology, and the Imperial Academy of Scientific Research and the Imperial Military Equipment Bureau will jointly develop a new cruiser, which can be equipped with a more powerful main gun, and adopt newer technology, especially power technology, so that it can really make a cameo appearance as a capital ship.

When Bai Zhongqi was playing the game, he felt that the cruiser was already a relatively embarrassing type of ship. With the exception of aircraft-carrying cruisers, which are still widely used in the fields of fleet air defense and regional reconnaissance, the status of pure heavy cruisers has declined a lot. The Imperial fleet is powerful, and basically every mission mixed fleet can assign a capital ship as the flagship, and the firepower is not comparable to that of heavy cruisers. In terms of multi-task (miscellaneous) and cost, the heavy patrol cannot be compared with ships such as destroyers and frigates. Therefore, the usual configuration of the Imperial fleet is that the capital ship leads a group of small ships, and the heavy cruises of more than 1,000 meters appear relatively rarely, and there are no new ones built recently.

Now Bai Zhongqi is facing a completely different situation, less consumption than the capital ship, more firepower than the destroyer, and the importance of the cruiser suddenly rises. Bai Zhongqi sought to constantly build heavy cruisers in order to fill the strength of the Iridium fleet.

The small and highly flexible ships Bai Zhongqi planned to build in large quantities. The shuttle-class is undoubtedly a very good air defense frigate, but now Bai Zhongqi does not have a particularly large air defense demand, and Bai Zhongqi now needs a more balanced all-rounder, which can be engaged in reconnaissance, exploration, escort, rescue, landing cover and other tasks of a comprehensive destroyer or frigate.

The Axe-class destroyer, a destroyer equipped with a small planetary bombing weapon, can reach more than 700 meters in length, has a very balanced combat effectiveness, and is also very adaptable. Basically, from fleet warfare, landing warfare and even planetary bombing, the needs of common interstellar battles can be met by the axe-level level. It is generally customary to refer to warships (non-capital ships) with planetary bombing weapons as Star Destroyers, so the Axe class can also be called the Axe class Star Destroyer.

The Tai-Arab class frigate is only slightly larger than the shuttle-class air defense frigate. Although the construction cost is more expensive than the pike class, it is more widely used than the pike class.

These two types of destroyers are also the older generation of Iridium ships, which are basically eliminated weapons, but Bai Zhongqi feels that in all fairness, the combat effectiveness of these two types of ships is not much weaker than the latest main destroyer of the Iridium United Empire before the crossing.

Unlike the naval warships of the early 21st century on Earth compared to the warships of the Second World War, the Iridium Star Battleship itself has great technological innovation, but the progress in power is not particularly disparity. Like a maingun-level weapon, the Iridium battleship has been stable in terms of energy output for almost a thousand years. Of course, the same output of weapons in this millennium has reduced energy consumption, reduced cost, increased rate of fire, increased range, and so on, but the striking effect has not been significantly improved.

This is mainly related to the level of the enemy, for nearly a thousand years, Iridium's enemies have not needed Iridium to develop a main gun with a larger energy output (larger caliber), so Iridium has been constantly improving its existing weapons. Bai Zhongqi focused more on some unpopular military or people's livelihood technologies in terms of science and technology trees, hoping to have an unexpected chain reaction.

The 318 shipyard will set up a super-large dock and nine medium-sized docks, and the construction period will be as long as 45 days. Bai Zhongqi predicts that within half a year to a year, the combat strength of the Iridium Fleet will be increased by more than five times compared to the current level, if the capital ships are not counted.