Chapter 271: Continent-class battleship
"The continent-class battleship is equipped with the most advanced energy shield technology at present, it is divided into five layers of defense, and the outermost layer is a laser destruction device, which forms an energy network by firing lasers to destroy incoming kinetic weapons!"
On this day, Zhou Chen and the leaders of civilization went to visit the continent-class battleship that had just been put into the list of equipment, and the scientist in charge of the development of the battleship explained enthusiastically. As soon as www.biquge.info pen & fun & pavilion talked about their old profession, these scientists and weapons experts gushed endlessly, trying their best to "sell" their creative ideas.
The continent-class battleship was really large, and its weapon area alone was enough for Zhou Chen and them to visit for several days.
At this time, they visited the flagship Draco, as the flagship of the entire civilization, its main task is not to undertake the mission of combat, but to ensure the safety of the core of the entire civilization.
Therefore, the Draco is designed and built with more emphasis on defense, and the interior is not like the Sea Dragon and the Shenlong, all of which are filled with various weapon magazines, and the interior of the Draco is actually a large office area, which can carry nearly 60 million people at the same time, and is a well-deserved command and control center of the earth's civilization.
"This process will destroy at least 30 percent of incoming targets, and the remaining 70 percent will go to the second layer of defense. The second layer of defense is the momentum mitigation zone composed of the Higgs field, which is actually a more traditional mechanical field, in this zone, all kinetic weapons will be affected by the Higgs field, making their mass larger, resulting in a decrease in speed! ”
"Then we'll destroy it with a laser or a gamma cannon!"
Next Zhou Chen came to the area of a huge pipe construction, each of which was ten meters in diameter and stretched out long, ending in a horizontal launch port, and the rear end was submerged into the deck, and a maintenance robot on duty was on call to repair these devices if they failed.
The scientist in charge of the explanation pointed to these devices and said: "Of course, there are some non-kinetic weapons or weapons with great kinetic energy that can directly break through the first two layers of defense, but it doesn't matter, we also have a third layer, and the third layer is another defense belt, which we call the positive matter annihilation zone." ”
"These thick pipes in front of us are the ones used to convey the annihilation matter!"
"The zone of positive matter annihilation is filled with a large number of antimatter particles, which are as small as antiprotons, antineutrons, and antielectrons, which can ensure that any positive matter will be annihilated in the zone of annihilation! And we can collect the energy generated by the annihilation of these particles to charge our weapon system, the gamma-ray cannon! ”
"If the third layer fails to stop the opponent's attack, then the opponent may also be a weapon similar to a laser or high-energy ray, then it will be our energy shield 'high-speed surround particle wall' to isolate them, which is made of high-density photons and high-density electrons."
Speaking of this, the scientist paused, and motioned everyone to look at the thick or black or red cables on the side: "Photons are not weak and powerless, they are high-density aggregation, with strong interference with the magnetic field, which can have a greater impact on the rays, and at the same time, the high-density electrons form a thin wall with a scale of five nanometers through degenerate state constraints, which can withstand more violent external bombardment!" ”
"If even this layer is breached, then there is still the last layer of the protective shield, the 'particle degenerate wall', which is the main protection mechanism of the whole ship! It is made up of countless neutron degenerate states of femtometer-class thin walls, and the countless layers of neutron degenerate walls are like overlapping aluminum plates, forming a very thick and hard wall, which uses degeneracy pressure to withstand external shocks such as the surface pressure of neutron stars. ”
"Theoretically, unless the spacecraft is driven to the edge of a neutron star or a black hole, this degenerate wall will not collapse."
Listening to what the scientists said so much, Zhou Chen nodded while visiting. There is a full understanding of the protection capabilities of this new generation of warships.
"Of course, we also have to prepare for the worst, in case all five layers of protection are breached, then we will have to rely on the ship's own thick armor to withstand the attack." That's when another scientist mentioned the worst-case scenario.
After hearing this, Zhou Chen thought for a while and said, "If we really encounter this situation, then it can only mean that we have encountered the top third-level civilization, and this situation is the worst!" ”
The scientist nodded in agreement: "That's right, I consulted the scientists of the Blue Horse Consortium, and they told them that the main force of the third-level civilization in the universe is the continent-class warship, and the attack methods of the continent-class warships of different civilizations are not much different, and the main difference is reflected in the size of the fleet and the density of the attack!" But it is not excluded that the top-level third-level civilization has a new means of attack! ”
Zhou Chen nodded and said: "I also heard Gu Luo talk about the development of the late stage of the third-level civilization, the focus itself is no longer on the attack method of the weapon, but on its own concealment effect, listen to them, if you can achieve the complete concealment of the fleet, it can be called the late third-level civilization!" ”
After listening to this, everyone nodded again and again, in fact, after the technical exchange with the Blue Horse Consortium, their cognition of the third-level civilization now has a relatively clear context.
In the past, it was a black touch on the world of the third-level civilization, but now that I am a member of it, my horizons have become broader.
The third-level civilization sounds very bright and bright, but this is actually from the perspective of the second-level civilization, but in fact it is a relatively embarrassing class.
They are between the second-level civilization and the fourth-level civilization, far beyond the second-level civilization in science and technology, but in the final analysis, it is still doing tinkering work, there is a big leap, but in essence, there is a large window period, after reaching the early stage of the third-level civilization, the basic discipline of the science and technology tree has been relatively complete, the middle and late stage of the third-level education, mainly to repair the existing science and technology building, increase the heritage of civilization.
To put it bluntly, the third-level civilization is more like a sprint to break through to the fourth-level civilization, and in terms of the completeness of the technology tree, it is difficult to create subversively!
Like the promotion of the second-level civilization to the third-level civilization, it is necessary to achieve the overall improvement of the entire technology tree, because this is a huge threshold, which is the main embodiment of the civilization level, and it takes a long time to cross this threshold, and almost for most civilizations, the changeability of the universe makes them die before they can get out of the way, and in the end, there are not many civilizations that can really cross this threshold.
And in the early stage of the third-level civilization to the middle stage, or the middle stage to the late stage, but there is no obvious boundary, it can only be said that the civilization that has just established a complete technology tree is the early civilization, and the fleet size and heritage have accumulated to a certain extent, it can be called the middle civilization, as for how to reach the late stage of the third level, you only need to let the spaceship complete a better concealment.
One technology makes civilization leap forward! It makes sense to explain it from the perspective of actual combat, because since everyone's hole cards are almost the same, the enemy hiding in the dark is always the most terrifying.
Speaking of returning to the earth civilization, the current earth civilization only has three continent-class warships, and hundreds of thousands of civilization-class warships, and the population can reach 15 billion, so it is still only a civilization in the early stage of the third level.
After a round of visits, Zhuang Shengsi on the side asked curiously: "Is this new generation of energy shield equipped on the continent-class battleship the same technology as the energy shield equipped on the civilization-class battleship?" ”
"It's the same technology, but there are differences in the size of the spaceship, and the power core of the equipment is also different, so in general, the civilization-class battleship is weakened by one level compared to the continent-class battleship."
"Of course, compared to the early civilization-class warships, the new warships equipped with energy shield technology will not have a problem with one enemy and ten thousand."
Zhuang Shengsi smiled. Comparing a battleship equipped with an energy shield with a battleship without an energy shield, it is certainly not an exaggeration to use one enemy against ten thousand, because the other party only has to be beaten!
Not to mention the civilization-class warships with the current fleet as the main force, it is estimated that a warship from the Earth Fleet period can be used by thousands or tens of thousands of warships after subsequent modifications.
You must know that the current earth civilization, even the habitation ship, resource ship, and experimental ship are equipped with energy shield technology, and in front of the second-level civilization, it is indestructible.