Chapter 7: The Limitations of Technological Weapons
Compared with the complexity of the torrent background of the Wild Tales, the character world "City of Heroes" with a Western magical background is much simpler.
This is a world similar to the classic fantasy background game "Diablo".
A planet was invaded by the devil, most of humanity was destroyed, and only a few survivors fled into the desert, where they established the last camp of human resistance, which was named the City of Dawn......
City of Heroes is a large-scale series of missions, and space warriors will go through one staged mission after another, and finally complete the mission of destroying the invading devil and retaking the planet.
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After carefully studying the two tasks, Bai Qi chose the task of "Wild Torrent", which has a complex background and a very complicated mission situation.
The reason is simple, the City of Heroes is obviously more suitable for large teams, and the Wild Rapids with complex situations are more suitable for a lone ranger like Bai Qi, who is not weak, to fish in troubled waters.
Having chosen the task, Bai Qi began to prepare for the battle with all his might.
Just as Bai Qi left his private space and rushed to the auction house, a voice suddenly resounded throughout the barracks space.
"Attention all soldiers."
"Dozens of spaces leading to hell and abyss suddenly appeared on the 774th Life Planet in this star area, and a large number of mid- and low-level demons and demons poured into the unsuspecting 774 Life Planet."
"Life Planet 774 is still in the early stage of the planetary era, and it is powerless to fight against demons and devils, Babel has decided to transfer one-third of the soldiers in its barracks to Life Planet 774, please be drawn soldiers to prepare for departure quickly."
As the voice fell. A familiar electronic sound sounded in Bai Qi's ears......
"Lieutenant D-3667-4587, you have been selected for this rescue mission. Get ready within four hours and head to the mission lobby. The system will temporarily open the portal to Planet 774 through the Tower of Babel on Planet 774. ”
"Repeat ......"
This jackpot hint made Bai Qi, who was driving a hoverbike, almost unable to control this newly arrived vehicle, and caused an air traffic accident with a driver who was also a little distracted next to him.
Bai Qi cursed the damn space, the damn luck, and the speed of the motorcycle, and flew towards the small city.
In the nearby sky, there are quite a few hoverbikes that react almost exactly like Bai Qi......
Enter the town. Bai Qi collected the motorcycle and went straight to the auction house, but fortunately he only bought a few basic equipment, and most of the resources were left behind by him to prepare for targeted purchases.
There are many different rules for real-world missions and mission-space missions.
The biggest difference is that real-world missions remove the restriction of technological weapons......
That is, in the real world, you can destroy the enemy by any means, machine guns, artillery, bombs...... There are no more restrictions. As long as you can kill enemies.
By this time, Bai Qi had basically understood why Space was restricting soldiers from using technological weapons in the mission space.
The three forces behind the Tower of Babel themselves have an extremely high level of science and technology, and they are able to produce advanced and powerful scientific and technological weapons.
The high-tech sailors of the three major forces were not developed by themselves. It is the process of expansion of these three forces that has integrated a lot of scientific and technological civilizations, which has gradually formed the current high level of science and technology of the three major forces. Even today, there are still powerful schools of science and technology within the three major forces.
But. The reason why the school of science and technology has never been dominant among the three major forces is that technological weapons have many limitations.
Let's start with the electromagnetic rifle. At present, the power of the most mainstream repeating electromagnetic rifle produced by the three major forces is about 500, which is slightly weaker than the mage's third-level spell and comparable to the monk's nine-grade spell.
This has almost reached the current limit of the power of the electromagnetic rifle, and if the power continues to increase, the weight and volume of the electromagnetic rifle will increase significantly, affecting the use of individual soldiers.
The bottleneck that limits the power of an electromagnetic gun is the material.
In the Milky Way, the strongest metal that can be mass-produced is black iron, so modern technology, the highest-strength steel that can be mass-produced is black steel.
The maximum excitation intensity that an electromagnetic gun with black steel as the main material can hold has its limit.
At present, the most powerful single-shot electromagnetic rifle is only at the level of a level 4 single spell.
The bottleneck that limits technological weapons such as mechs, vehicles, spaceships, etc., is also a matter of materials.
The most common light black steel armor uses a three-millimeter-thick black steel plate as the basic material, and its basic protection is about two hundred points, and after being strengthened by the magic circle, it can almost reach more than four hundred points, which is almost the standard protection of the light black armor.
If it is not strengthened by the magic circle, the unit protection of the black steel should be seventy or eighty points/mm.
The standard mecha uses 9 mm black steel plate as the main material, and its protective power is less than 700.
What's even worse is that due to the lack of the blessing of the magic circle, the black steel of the whiteboard can only provide the most basic physical protection, a strong acid arrow can erode through the steel armor, and a fireball technique can burn the soldiers inside alive......
In order to make the mecha armor able to cope with most situations, scientists have developed composite armor that can be acid-proof, anti-poison, fire-proof, and anti-ice, and the thickness of the mecha has reached the limit of 12 mm without increasing the protection of the mecha......
Of course, the repeating electromagnetic cannon mounted on the tank, the tank's armor hundreds of centimeters thick, can easily reach the level of cyan equipment, and even the protection of silver equipment, but if you let a tank deal with a level 9 warrior, you will find that it is more difficult than fighting flies with a rifle.
The Ninth-level warrior has reached a running speed of hundreds of kilometers, and he can easily shuttle through a group of tanks, wantonly destroying the weak points of the tanks.
It can be said that below level eight, scientific and technological weapons can still compete with the truly strong, but at level eight and above, it is difficult for scientific and technological weapons to keep up with the footsteps of the strong.
Another fatal flaw of technological weapons is the fragile soul of the warrior who wields them.
A mage's large-area mind spell can destroy and even control a large area of ordinary warriors.
Of course, with the technological power of the Galactic Alliance, it is possible to create pure robot warriors, but the robot warriors still face the same problems as mecha warriors, if not worse.
If the robot warrior uses an electronic system to control it, then a specially invented first-level spell "Magnetic Storm Ray" can easily paralyze a powerful robot......
Of course, alchemy can also be incorporated into technological weapons, and in fact, such a practice is quite common.
For example, combining robots with the Golem technology in alchemy, or combining alchemy with primitive physical bullets and guns to produce powerful magic guns, and even more extravagant guys even use alchemy to create magic weapon-level individual mechas......
However, once it is integrated into alchemy, it cannot achieve industrial mass production, after all, no machine can produce spiritual power, and without spiritual power, it is impossible to engrave any magic circle, so any alchemy refiner can only be handmade by humans.
Once it cannot be mass-produced, the technological weapon will lose its most important advantage, mass ...... Cheap......
All in all, in the low-end, technological weapons can of course completely replace traditional professionals, but above the advanced level, technological weapons are still not the opponent of traditional professionals.
At least until scientists find new, high-strength materials that are stronger than black iron and can be mass-produced, this will be difficult to change.
This is the purpose of the existence of the Babel Training Camp, to train professionals above the senior level for the three major forces......
However, at least at this stage, scientific and technological weapons still have immeasurable advantages. (To be continued.) )