Chapter 157: Mercury Academy

On December 25, the third year of the ephemeralis, Chen Peilin's family got up early, and after getting ready, they set off towards the last scheduled place of this honeymoon - Mercury College. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In the past month, Chen Peilin and the others have visited almost the entire alliance, the agricultural ship, the ecological spaceship, the four major space cities, the depths of the nebula, the Cangyan planet, and even other life planets that are a little closer to the Peach Blossom Spring, Chen Peilin and their footprints have been left behind, and even the residences of various civilizations and the generation spaceships that have been delivered and are being renovated have also been visited.

On the one hand, it is to visit the cultural atmosphere and various landscapes of different civilizations in order to deepen the understanding of the various races of the Alliance. Through the continuous efforts of various adventure groups, so far, the members of the alliance have increased to more than five hundred, and most of the civilizations Chen Peilin has not even remembered their names, so it is necessary to take this opportunity to make a simple visit and pull in feelings.

On the other hand, it was also a vigorous propaganda of such a marriage between humans and the Amys throughout the alliance, and the Emmes were firmly tied to the chariot of the humans. It is best to achieve a situation where other civilized creatures will no longer call Emmy people when they see them in the future, but will directly become humans, in which case Chen Peilin's efforts will be considered a complete success. When the time comes, whether the Amy wants it or not, they can only cling to the thighs of the human race, and they will be both prosperous and lossy with the human race. Otherwise, once the earthlings decline, the Aimes will not benefit.

Mercury Academy is the most distinctive comprehensive academy in the Golden Crow fleet, this academy was established the latest, but the enrollment of cadets is the most complex, because it recruits all civilizations in the entire alliance. Therefore, after the establishment of the academy, with the number of cadets surged, the size of the academy continued to expand, and now it occupies the area of five decks. Fortunately, after the promulgation of the Citizenship Decree, a large number of civilians were relocated to the Guanghan Palace generation spaceship to free up a lot of space, otherwise the dean of the academy, Omar, planned to apply for space to establish another branch in the Golden Crow mothership.

Mercury Academy is so big that the huge space can't be seen in a day. Moreover, the four colleges are completely comprehensive colleges, more like a large collection of various colleges, which are divided into thousands of independent departments according to different scientific and technological points, and the faculties are composed of laboratories and teaching areas.

After entering the academy, Chen Peilin was separated from the four girls, and did not accompany them to the art academy to see the so-called art of various civilizations, let alone visit those "lady training classes", God knows how other civilizations define ladies. You must know that some civilized creatures are completely genderless, and they are all able to give birth to the next generation. After separating from the four daughters, Chen Peilin went directly to the military department of Mercury Academy accompanied by Li Feng and a guard guard.

After entering the Academy of Military Sciences, everything became unusual, and a sense of tension filled the entire Military Academy. A semester is coming to an end, and the final assessment is about to take place. After the promulgation of the citizenship law, the students' assessment results were recorded in the citizenship evaluation criteria as a reference, so both humans and foreigners were nervously prepared.

All kinds of intelligent creatures of different races and shapes walk in the military academy. Legless, two-legged, four-legged, one-tailed, two-tailed, and even two-headed intelligent creatures swaggered through the academy like this, which made Chen Peilin muttered in his heart whether his original choice was correct.

Chen Peilin's arrival was warmly welcomed by Omar, although as a member of the Standing Committee of the think tank, the two often see each other, but after all, this is completely Omar's territory, and the former president of the United States is also decent as the president. After knowing the purpose of Chen Peilin's arrival, Omar enthusiastically suggested that Chen Peilin go to the central staircase hall of the Military Academy to have a look, where the term thesis defense of the outstanding students of the entire Military Academy was being carried out, which would definitely bring unexpected surprises to Chen Peilin.

The teaching model of the four university academies is completely formulated by the four academies themselves, and as long as it does not endanger the safety of the fleet, the officials will not easily interfere. In this way, the different characteristics of the four institutions have been formed. Mercury College has a strong democratic atmosphere, of course, this has a lot to do with its dean and a large number of faculty members from the United States during the Earth period. When Chen Peilin entered the staircase hall, an emotional speech had just begun.

The speaker, a human student of European and American descent, was entitled "The Application Prospects of Faster-than-Light Attacks and Over-the-horizon Attacks in Current Modes of Warfare."

"After civilization entered the interstellar age, because of the rapid expansion of the combat space, the two sides of the war often had an embarrassing situation where they could see but could not fight. Therefore, the development of a weapon capable of achieving ultra-long-range strikes has become the greatest demand of all civilizations. When we were still a third-level civilization, all kinds of imaginary weapons constantly appeared in various science fiction works. Electromagnetic weapons, laser weapons, cation cannons, neutron cannons, ray weapons, and more. Some of these weapons have been implemented with the advancement of civilization technology, such as electromagnetic weapons. And some regrettably withdrew from the stage, such as laser weapons, various ray weapons, and so on, which were once very marketable. There are many reasons for this phenomenon, the main one being the appearance of energy crystals. The Energy Shield is simply the nemesis of all kinds of ray weapons, and almost all light weapons are useless.

Before the third-level civilization, few civilizations could know exactly how to use the energy spar, and even among the fourth-level civilizations, there were very few civilizations that could invent energy reactors at the beginning of the fourth-level civilization and release the energy in the spars. This makes high-energy ray weapons such as electromagnetic weapons and lasers marketable, as both of them are capable of ultra-long-range strikes. Here I call it an over-the-horizon strike, and the line-of-sight here refers to the distance that an optical telescope can detect.

But the space battlefield is empty, so empty that it takes a long time to fly at the speed of light. As a result, in the course of the battle between the two sides, when the shells were still advancing towards the enemy, the enemy was no longer on the trajectory of the artillery fire, and the over-the-horizon strike became vain. Even with state-of-the-art fire control radar to aim and predict enemy movements, war is like a matter of luck, and the only thing that can be done is to increase the density and area of artillery coverage. As for the quasi-head? Forget it, after such a long distance and the influence of various large and small natural gravity forces on the way, it is not certain where the electromagnetic cannonball will be able to fly in the end.

At this time, light energy weapons that can quickly attack the enemy appear on the battlefield, but even if they are light energy weapons, the maximum speed is only the speed of light, and as the distance extends, the focused beam will slowly spread, and after reaching a certain limit distance, it will no longer even have attack power. Moreover, in the breadth of the universe, even the speed of light is as slow as a turtle crawling. With the development of energy technology, the energy cannon, a faster-than-light weapon that can reach almost instantaneously at the time of attack, has also come into being.

It needs to be said that faster-than-light attacks and over-the-horizon attacks are not the same concept. Faster-than-light does not mean over-the-horizon, it only means that the speed of artillery fire is fast, but the distance is not necessarily far. Just like the SS-class energy cannon used by our Fourth Fleet, the farthest attack range hovers between a few light hours and a dozen light hours.

Below the speed of light, space is smooth and has no resistance. However, once the speed reaches the speed of light, the space resistance increases exponentially, and the energy cannon attack must spend a lot of energy to overcome the space resistance in order to reach the speed of light. As the distance increases, the energy carried by the energy cannon gradually decreases, and its attack power gradually decreases until it is close to nothing. Therefore, the attack range of faster-than-light weapons is also limited.

For other weapon forms that can attack faster-than-light, I have collected a few reasonable ideas: for example, equipping super-giant missiles with warp engines, so that the missiles can fly towards the enemy at the speed of light and attack the enemy. This weapon is now equipped on the expedition ships of various expedition groups, but the results are not satisfactory. Because the warp engine achieves faster than light speed by distorting space, when the missile attacks the enemy, due to the curvature of space, most of the missiles will slide around the target, causing it to miss the target. To solve this problem, the missile must be out of the speed of light near the target before attacking the enemy. This left the enemy time to intercept, and most of the missiles were lost at the last step.

Another is to use our temporary wormhole technology to open a temporary wormhole in front of the entire fleet, and artillery fire will attack the enemy's formation directly through the temporary wormhole. But after consulting my mentor, General Zhou Weiguo of the Military Theory Research Institute, the answer I got was that it could not be successful. There are two reasons for this, first, civilizations above level 5 are equipped with subspace radar and hyperspace radar, and the fleet can scan all unconventional energy fluctuations around it for more than ten light years, and do a good job of evasion in time, which makes most of the attacks miss. Second, temporary wormholes consume a lot of energy, and large-scale energy injection will also cause the instability of the internal space of the wormhole, causing the wormhole to collapse. These two problems, until now, we have not solved them.

Therefore, I believe that at present or for a long time, in the combat situation of cosmic civilizations, giant ships and cannons are still the mainstream, and artillery battles and wars of attrition arranged in close formations are still the same form of warfare. Over-the-horizon strikes may be marketable for low-level civilizations or higher-level civilizations, but they still don't work for us. All we can do is shorten the distance to the enemy as much as possible, and then use the energy cannon's faster-than-light characteristics to strike the enemy in real time.

To this end, we must intensify the study of positional warfare and the formation of warships in space. Moreover, I think that the traditional commander is temporarily commanded, and the fleet's slow change of formation can no longer keep up with the trend, we should record the formation and combat plan in advance in the computer built on each warship, and when fighting, there is no need for the commander to arrange the formation, only need to send the corresponding combat plan code, and then the flagship's intelligent AI can autonomously carry out the formation, so that it can be more convenient and fast to make wartime adjustments, reduce losses, and increase results. I'm done, thank you" After speaking, the student stood up and saluted, and then left the podium.

"Not bad, good idea. Extra points can be given to outstanding students as appropriate. In addition, I think it will be very valuable for them to formulate a combat plan by passing on a copy of the excellent ideas to the military committee," Chen Peilin sat behind, touched his chin, and said to Omar on the side.

"Thank you, President!" Omar said excitedly.

"Why thank me?" Chen Peilin was puzzled.

"Hehe, this student is my grandson, and if the president gave him extra points just now, I think by the time Jerry graduates, the citizenship rights will already be in hand," Omar said with a treacherous smile.

"Okay, you cunning Omar, you dare to fool me," Chen Peilin scolded with a smile.

The next speaker was an intelligent creature of the Turbulent Race, the race that advocated cannonism, built a large number of low-cost gunboats, and completely covered the enemy with artillery fire. Obviously, this cadet is a loyal supporter of the cannonism of the Brilliant Civilization, and has already promoted the idea of war of the Brilliant Civilization to the Mercury Military Academy. During the speech, the trainee suggested attaching a large number of low-cost unmanned gunboats to the capital ship. During the battle, the gunboats were released into the formation, so that the firepower of the fleet exploded several times and more than ten times in an instant, and the enemy was crushed and crushed......

Well, although it is a good doctrine, many problems of this student have not been thought through at all. For example, how to solve such a large energy consumption? How to deal with the huge recoil force that can destroy the battleship in an instant? Without armor and energy protection, how can a gunboat withstand enemy attacks?

Chen Peilin listened to the speech in the back with little interest, and after a hurried tour of the academy with Li Feng, he took the four girls into the return spaceship. The cosy holiday has finally come to an end.