Chapter 505: Two or Three Things of the Academy of Sciences (2)

The communication system of the Golden Crow Fleet consists of two parts: hyperspace communication and subspace communication. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Info hyperspace communication enables real-time communication within a large river system such as the Milky Way, and this distance will continue to expand if repeaters and signal amplifiers are installed in the middle. Of course, there will be a certain delay in communication because of the repeater. At the beginning, ultra-long-distance communication between galaxies around the world of Dyson used signal relay.

The subspace communicator is mainly used for communication within 1,000 light years, and it can be achieved even farther away, and it is also necessary to add relay stations and signal amplifiers, and of course communication delays are inevitable. However, both communicators are bulky and large, and the smallest of which can be loaded by a 500-meter-long reconnaissance ship.

The Xingtian III mecha also has a subspace communicator on it, but it is a castrated version, and the effective communication distance can reach two light years. However, this is based on the fact that a lot of energy is consumed and the space of the mech itself. Often, a subspace communicator needs to consume a special Aquamarine-level hedron reactor for energy, and at the same time occupies 30% of the payload of the mecha, so Xingtian-3 has to sacrifice the missile launcher and composite armor layer that was originally built on the back.

As for infantry communications, it was even more rudimentary. The quantum communication module has been used since the fourth level of civilization, and the infantry of the Golden Crow fleet are still using these old men even if the fleet has entered the sixth civilization level as a whole. In fact, not only the Golden Crow Fleet, judging from the cosmic civilizations that the fleet came into contact with, the grassroots soldiers of most civilizations used quantum communicators. And in most cases, such a communication module can also fully meet the needs, after all, the range of activities of the infantry is not very large, and sometimes radio communication can meet the needs if the communication delay is not considered.

However, this kind of communication also has a weakness, that is, during the interstellar war, sometimes the infantry breaks through the enemy's large warships, and as a result, there will be a large-scale signal loss due to the distance, and even because of this, the command center announced that all an army was killed, and as a result, the other side appeared again after the war.

If the subspace communicator can be miniaturized, even if the cost is high and the distance is not far, it can be equipped to the commander level, at least there will be no more trouble with the grassroots army not being able to contact the command center in wartime. You must know that in the war of the interstellar age, the communication requirement is that the command center can call the individual soldiers on the front-line battlefield at any time.

The miniaturized subspace communicator of the Academy of Information Sciences is a rectangular metal box with a diameter of 50 centimeters, which is indeed successful compared with the complete body that originally occupied thousands of cubic meters of space. The metal box is army green throughout, and there is also a pointed telescopic antenna on top, which can extend up to twenty meters out of the rectangular metal box. It looks like an old-fashioned military radio station.

"We have miniaturized the structure of the communicator and miniaturized the structure that cannot be cut by using more efficient materials. Therefore, this small subspace communicator is equivalent to 10 percent of the cost of a large subspace communicator, and it must be powered by blue crystal, and the effective communication radiation range is five light years, which can be doubled if it can establish a connection network with a higher-level communicator.

However, the communicator will overheat or even overflow during use, and must be maintained frequently. We've added some nanobots to the communicator, and they can automatically maintain the damage to the communicator, as long as the nanobots are filled regularly, it's no problem to make up for the loss of the robots," Sheldon said, pointing to the communicator.

"Can you reduce the cost a little more?" Zhuge Wushuang frowned. One-tenth of the cost of a large subspace communicator, which is still too expensive. Within the Golden Crow Fleet, although militarily, contribution points are not of much value, but the precious metal materials used to produce communicators are very valuable. There are some things that have very few minerals, like the antimatter catalyst TRB-51, and every time you find it, it's like hitting the jackpot.

"If you can produce on the assembly line, you can reduce the cost by another two percentage points, and if you can increase the volume of the communicator to ten times, you can reduce it by another five percentage points. But in that case, the communicator would be very inconvenient to carry," Sheldon replied after a moment's thought.

"It doesn't matter, this thing will only be equipped at the combat camp level, so it's no problem to be bigger. The space watch worn by the battalion commander is fully capable," said Li Boming, commander of the First Army.

"Then it's no problem, zoom in and mass produce as soon as possible" Chen Peilin nodded, and then led everyone towards the Mechanical Engineering Research Institute.

"This can't be done, although there has been a big breakthrough, but it will not help the next action" Chen Peilin scratched his head in distress and said to Zhang Zheng who was following him. Chen Peilin is not idle to visit the research institute, just yesterday, the military committee checked the latest reconnaissance report of the giant galaxy, and the situation is not ideal.

The two large black holes of the giant planet and the small black holes scattered around it form a fragile equilibrium system, and if a massive spacecraft enters the interior, the entire balance will collapse. In fact, even if there is no massive object close, the place is already on the verge of collapse.

According to Elaine's calculations, the entry of a ship larger than a medium-sized destroyer could cause a system collapse. And a battleship of the destroyer's level simply can't last too long in such a very short environment, and even a seventh-level battleship will collapse due to energy exhaustion after being there for a long time. Maybe it wasn't like this at first, but now it's going to be like this. It's not easy to break the blockade and get in.

There is another problem that plagues Chen Peilin and others, that is, it is difficult to transmit the communication within the giant galaxy. Just look at the signal delay that will occur where the extra-dimensional communication passes. What's even more troublesome is that I don't know how fast the time flow inside has been, and a hundred years have passed outside, and only two seconds have passed in the core. It's not impossible, black holes slow down the flow of time. If that happens, it will undoubtedly make the next exploration more difficult.

The reason why Chen Peilin and his entourage chose to come to the Academy of Sciences today to check was to find out if they could find scientific and technological equipment suitable for the environment of the giant galaxy. However, at present, it is not very optimistic, at least the communication link is in vain.

"It's better to use a half-dimensional battleship," Zhang Zheng proposed again.

"If it really doesn't work, that's the only way to do it. However, when this thing is activated, it will fluctuate in higher dimensions, and it may attract other people, such as the Guangling civilization that is chasing the Galactic Alliance all over the universe. Guangling civilization, this name is really strange" Chen Peilin muttered twice.

"Can we collect the black holes of the giant galaxies from the outside in, layer by layer, just like we used the Kelbes space labyrinth to collect the energy of the black holes," Bernard suggested.

"I've thought about it, the movement and the gravitational environment there are very complex, and one bad thing is the total collapse. We are now like monkeys around the fire trying to get rid of the fire, and the situation we are facing is very tricky," Chen Peilin sighed again.

"Finally, let's go to the Mechanical Engineering Academy to take a look, isn't their Water Drop Battleship completed, it is also a seventh-level battleship, and the protection ability is stronger than the plant warship, maybe it can meet the needs" Zhuge Wushuang glanced at Hagrid-Ludwig and suggested.

The speed of the hovering car was very fast, and it took only five minutes to cross half the city and reach the mechanical engineering institute located in the southeast corner of the city. This is only the headquarters of the engineering academy, and the real battleship assembly plant is still far away on the mainland. After passing through the small stargate, the group came to a large dock. Although the battleship assembly plant has nothing to do with water anymore, everyone is still used to calling it a dock.

Moored above the dock was a teardrop-shaped white battleship, not very large, with a pointed conical cabin at the front and a ball with a diameter of a hundred meters attached to it. This is the teardrop-shaped battleship developed by the Institute of Mechanical Engineering with reference to the warships of the interstellar police fleet. The appearance of the whole battleship is very smooth, there is no external armor, no close defense guns, no communication antennas, not even the slightest gap, smooth like a mirror.

"What you see is a medium-sized destroyer of a teardrop-shaped battleship, tentatively named the Blue Wolf class. The battleship as a whole is built using integrated atomic stacking technology, there is no assembly structure, and the entire battleship is stacked from the shell to the engine and even the handrails inside the battleship," Hagrid Ludwig looked at the work in front of him with fascination and introduced it to everyone.

"Wait? You say that this is a medium destroyer, I remember that the medium destroyers currently used inside the fleet are all thirty to fifty kilometers long, right? This thing is not as big as a landing ship," Zhuge Wushuang was very surprised.

"That's right, this is a medium destroyer. The previous battleships were built very large, mainly for the placement of gun barrels and various weapon installations. However, these things are not needed for teardrop-shaped battleships. The pointed part of the front end is the battleship's concentrating needle, and the energy begins to converge from the appearance of the battleship, reaches the extreme at the tip of the needle, and then tears through the space and launches outward.

The weapon system of the Teardrop-type battleship is different from the traditional one. The previous barrel walls were inward, and the teardrop-shaped battleships were exposed. In this way, the space fluctuations will not collide with the shaped needle when the space cannon is fired, so there is no problem of damage to the barrel. ”

"So where is the close defense system of the battleship? How to defend against attacks from the enemy? Battleships can't be equipped with just one main gun, right? Zhang Zheng raised more substantive questions. After all, a battleship that cannot be effectively defended is simply a target, especially since the cross-section of this drop-shaped battleship is still so large, and the hit rate is not lower than that of the Willow Leaf ship.

"Look," Hagrid Ludwig motioned to the field engineers to activate the Drop's close defense system.

I saw that the locked battleship slowly rose from the dock connection platform, and then a large amount of energy overflowed from the inside of the battleship, and soon, the energy flow of the C-class put a white veil on the battleship, which was the space shield. Then, some protrusions composed of energy protruded from the inside of the spatial shield, and then began to deform, and finally formed spikes close to substance, and the white energy flow began to converge along these spikes towards the tip, and soon a beam of energy cannon blasted out from the spikes, knocking the outer energy shield for isolation into a wave of ripples.

"You've mastered the energy shaping technique?" Chen Peilin asked in surprise. Energy shaping technology is very complex, it is necessary to regulate the energy field to achieve the shape of the energy flow, and even to carry out local energy compression to achieve the solidification of energy, which is difficult to do, and a big explosion will occur if you accidentally play with it. Compressing energy to form energy crystals is a primitive energy shaping technique, but it can only form irregular crystals. The energy shaping technology currently used on battleships and the energy compression technology are similar to the gap between arquebuses and electromagnetic railguns.

"Well, in fact we discovered this technology on the warships of the Star Police fleet," Hagrid Ludwig explained awkwardly. The Energy Shaping Technology Mechanical Engineering Institute has been researching, but the progress has not been very fast, and it was not until the capture of the Water Drop Warship of the Interstellar Police Fleet that a breakthrough was made by borrowing the enemy's technology.

"How big is the interior space of a battleship?" Zhang Zheng asked. One of the criteria for measuring the seventh-tier battleship is the internal expansion space, and its size directly determines the self-sustaining ability of the battleship. The larger the space, the better the war factory, material reserves, and ecosystem, the shorter the replenishment frequency of warships, and the longer the corresponding combat cycle.

"The expansion space inside a medium-sized destroyer like this is a spherical space with a diameter of five kilometers, which is only a small warship, and the expansion space inside a large spaceship such as a battleship and an aerospace aircraft carrier is more than hundreds of kilometers. After all, this is a battleship, not a migrant ship, as long as it meets the operational needs.

Too much room for expansion is a waste of resources. The battleship is used for combat, and once it is destroyed, all the materials inside will be finished" As if worried that Chen Peilin was dissatisfied with the small expansion space inside the battleship, Hagrid began to explain.

However, the space inside the water drop battleship is much smaller than that of the willow leaf ship, but the advantage is also very prominent, that is, this kind of battleship has a compact structure and small size, which is a trend in the development of advanced civilization warships. In comparison, the plant battleship can be called a big one.

"How big are your battleships?" Chen Peilin asked, maybe this kind of spaceship can pass through the atomic cage, just like the inner world.

"The battleship plus the energy gathering needle is one thousand meters long, the diameter of the water droplet part is 800 meters, and the aerospace aircraft carrier is larger, but there is no starport and ejection channel, we are not equipped with aerospace fighters on the aerospace aircraft carrier, and the fighters used in assault warfare are formed after leaving the hull through an efficient memory alloy secreted by the mother ship.

The formation process is somewhat similar to the budding reproduction of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, where the energy flow passes through a layer of memory alloy to make it liquid, and then pushes it out of the mothership's surface in a special orbit by electromagnetic repulsion. Memory Metal leaves the mothership confidently assembled into small Drop fighters capable of space attack and can cover destroyers and frigates. When recycling, all you need to do is reintegrate it into the surface of the mothership's hull.

As for the entry and exit of personnel, it is also very simple, the composition material of the starport is a liquid alloy with memory properties, in the absence of charging, the metal is liquid, and the aircraft can enter and exit freely, just as the spacecraft can enter and exit the sea. Once charged, the metal solidifies instantly, not much different from the rest of the mothership. ”

"Nice design, is it in stock?" The size of the teardrop-shaped battleship made Chen Peilin very satisfied.

"Yes, yes, we produced two test ships for each type of battleship," Hagrid replied excitedly.

"Prepare it as soon as possible, we may need it soon" (To be continued.) )