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Chapter 302: Starry Sky Willow Leaves

The seventh-level plant battleship has been conducting research work since Lu Yingying led the Academy of Life Sciences to complete the scientific and technological analysis of the sixth-level battleship ten years ago. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 But until not so long ago, a Tier 7 plant battleship was an unattainable dream.

It is not because the sturdiness of the hull does not meet the requirements, nor because the firepower and control system cannot meet the conditions. The biggest problem is that the biggest difference between a Tier 7 battleship and a Tier 6 battleship cannot be solved - the problem of space expansion.

Tier 7 warships, all types of ships above medium destroyers and frigates, will all undergo space expansion. Space City, War Factory, a full line of small warships, various basic industrial facilities...... A Tier 7 battleship is a small but complete space fortress. A weaker civilization can form a cosmic-level empire among the battleship-level seventh-tier battleships.

These are all incomparable to the sixth-level battleships, not to mention others, just the huge expansion space inside will throw the sixth-level battleship 108,000 miles away. Not to mention the more powerful wormhole generators, space shield technology, and space cannon technology.

These technologies rely on modular combinations to produce all-technology Type A warships, which are very simple. But it's very difficult to grow on the plant's own.

Gene technology, in the final analysis, is just a kind of extreme modification of natural life. However, until today, none of the many civilizations encountered by mankind have ever seen plants that grow in a natural state that expands space and has the ability to defend and attack space. Not even plants that involve the simplest spatial abilities. This is where the difficulty lies in the development of the Tier 7 Plant Battleship.

"In order to be able to apply space technology to plant warships, we designed a composite warship. You can call this type of plant battleship a sandwich battleship. We've combined three technologies into the Plant Battleship:

The first is primitive genetic technology, which is the main body of the plant warship. The main structure of the entire plant battleship is made up of the plant part of the battleship. This time to create the model species of the plant battleship, we did not use French plane trees and ivy, but used one part of the plant, the leaves of the willow tree. We built plant warships on the basis of willow leaves.

The hull of the plant battleship is made of metallized plant composite armor. During the growth of the plant warship, we added alloys M13 and C18 to the base culture, as well as large quantities of Maury Crystals and other conductive crystal powders. Thus, the outer armor part of the plant battleship, when fully matured, has all the properties of an energized alloy.

Outside of the charged alloy, is the all-plant part of the plant battleship. Here we add the gene fragments of the energy tree. As a result, every part of the surface of the plant battleship can be seen as the torso of the energy tree. As long as the plant battleship is driven to the surface of the star, various levels of energy crystals will be continuously generated in the energy storage area of the plant battleship, and there is no need to replenish the energy crystal resources at all.

The second technology is the integrated silicon crystal cultivation technology. Because the difference between gene technology and crystal technology is so great, there is no possibility of direct integration. As a result, we spent five years researching the compatibility of the two technologies. Just a year and a half ago, we created this model species that can completely merge crystal technology and genetic technology, but this model species is no longer a plant, but a polyp.

We all know that coral reefs in the sea are formed by the accumulation of exoskeletons left behind by the generations of polyps. Polyps are the closest creatures to crystal technology, except that they are carbon-based. We reconstructed the gene chain of the polyp to obtain a polyp with an elemental silicon-based skeleton, and deliberately adjusted its reproductive rate.

We planted these silicon-based polyps on the second layer of the hull of the plant battleship, so that these polyps grew close to the inner wall of the first layer, and adjusted the raw materials used to feed the polyps according to the crystal cultivation technology of the silicon crystal family. After all the silicon-based polyps have dormant or died and piled up, the second layer of the plant battleship is formed.

The second layer is entirely made of Morry Crystals, and when the plant warship is attacked, if the outermost layer of charged armor is damaged, the second layer of Morrie Crystal will act as the second layer of the plant warship's shield system, absorbing all the energy that impacts into the plant warship.

Due to the fact that Maury Crystal has the problem of saturation due to its ability to absorb, and a large explosion will occur after saturation. Therefore, we wrote a detached genetic code at the time of design. Whenever the Maury Crystal turns blue, the blued Maury Crystal will automatically fall off, and the excess energy will stimulate the dormant polyps to continue to multiply rapidly, and then grow a new layer of Maury Crystal. The detached Maury Crystals are transported to the Weapons Warehouse, where they are processed into high-explosive energy munitions by the Plant Factory.

Now comes the highlight of the plant battleship, which is the expansion space inside the plant battleship. Unlike Type A battleships, the expansion space inside the plant battleship is not a huge functional compartment, but an isolated expansion channel. These channels are the stem tissues inside the willow leaves.

We fuse the spar powder into these stems through a special method. Due to the large number of sieve tubes contained in these stems, all of these sieve tubes are hollow during the growth of the plant. Coupled with special genetic engineering methods, when the growth of the plant battleship is completed, these sieve structures will be the expansion space inside the plant battleship.

Since these sieves can be found in every part of the vegetal warship's perimeter, these expansion spaces are also the majority of the space that can be found on the vessel. These spaces can be used for a wide range of purposes. Closer to the surface of the battleship, we designed it as an ejection channel for the fighter. Close to the interior, we transformed them into fighter lines and weapons factories. Near the very center, we transformed it into the location of the command center, as well as a special energy hedron reserve warehouse......"

While explaining, Lu Yingying led everyone to a small star gate in the central square of the School of Life Sciences. After everyone stepped in one by one, when they came out from the other side, they had already arrived at an unfamiliar area.

Of course, a behemoth like a warship could not be built in Zhongjin City, and the testing ground of the Academy of Life Sciences was built on a large desert island in the far sea of the Shenwen Continent. Although it is a desert island, its area is also equal to that of Australia and Greenland combined, and it is already a large landmass.

The cost of a Tier 7 plant warship is no less than that of a Type A Tier 7 battleship. The only difference is that it has more recovery capabilities, faster construction speed, and self-sustaining capabilities than Type A ships. During construction, the resources consumed were not much less than those of Type A battleships.

Therefore, Chen Peilin's dream of sowing widely on the desolate planet and then harvesting the overwhelming number of seventh-tier warships was shattered. Fortunately, this is the case, otherwise such technology would be too perverted.

After everyone came out of the Star Gate, the first thing they saw was a large scientific research base not far in front of the Star Gate. Researchers in white lab coats can be seen coming and going from improvised rooms in the experimental base everywhere. According to Lu Yingying, these people are responsible for the later commissioning of the plant warship, and the preliminary work has been completed in the Academy of Life Sciences.

With Lu Yingying's explanation, Chen Peilin and his entourage discovered the appearance of the plant warship in the distance. The dark green body surface, the metallic lines that exude a metallic luster, and the flat hull are like an enlarged version of willow leaves. Judging from the holographic projection of the experimental base, the hull of the seventh-class plant warship is thirty kilometers long, seven .5 kilometers wide, and five kilometers high, with a deep inverted V-shaped cross-section.

The surface of the battleship has no moving armor and no entrance to the starport, and all the entrance to the starport is designed on the inside of an inverted V-shape. Such a design can best protect the safety of the warship and enhance the protection ability of the warship.

"This is just a prototype destroyer, the battleship is much larger than this battleship, the aerospace aircraft carrier is larger, and it is still in the design finalization stage," Lu Yingying explained to everyone, and then led everyone to fly towards the towering "mountain range" in the distance in a hovercar.

Following the bottom space of the battleship's inverted V-shape, the hovercar accelerates as if it were entering a tunnel. Five minutes later, an empty area appeared above the crowd, and it was the starport where the plant battleship had hidden.

The "Buzz ......" hovercar was parked steadily against the parking platform of the starport amid the hum of the engine. Lu Yingying led everyone to ride a bowl-shaped levitating ball. The turquoise color and smooth touch made Chen Peilin recognize at first glance that it was a creation inside the plant battleship.

It's like a traffic ball used inside a sixth-level plant battleship, but this time the levitating ball has been improved, and it is no longer a closed spherical cabin, and sitting in it feels as uncomfortable as hiding in an escape pod.

"Because of the controversy surrounding the original type of shipboard vehicle, we improved it this time. What you're seeing now is the result of cutting the original traffic ball in half. We designed it with a gene that causes the balloon to crack naturally, and as a result, one becomes two when it matures. Lu Yingying seemed to be explaining the origin of these bowl-shaped vehicles, but in fact, Chen Peilin really didn't want to know. Just because of this sentence, many of the exquisite design plans that had just been made up in Chen Peilin's mind were all shattered.

As we pass through an intersection, the traffic bowl (an honorable title that has just been officially conferred) gradually stops. Everyone "came out of the bowl" in turn and followed Lu Yingying into a vast expansion space. The space was covered with thick vines, and dark blue vines grew straight from one end of the space to the other.

The vines were covered with giant leaves ten meters long and more than two meters thick at their thickest point. The leaves are very weighty, as can be seen by the fact that they bend the thick vines. The size of the leaves also varies, some have grown to more than ten meters long and darkened in color, while others are just over a meter long and still verdant green.

There was a cracking sound of the petiole breaking, and a dark green leaf broke off from the vine, and then gently levitated, slowly flying over everyone's heads, far into the huge "shelf" at the end of the space. These blades are all unmanned individual fighters, and the thick vines are the fighter production lines of plant warships.

There are more than a dozen such fighter lines in the entire destroyer. At any given moment, hundreds of individual fighters mature and then break away from the vines and are guided by the mothership's own navigation system into the hangar, where they are waiting to enter the ejection channel in wartime. This is not wartime, so the production of individual fighters is not very fast. If desired, this speed can be increased by a factor of thirty.

"Let's take a look at the new weapons on the seventh-level battleship, this is the proud work of our R&D department" Lu Yingying looked at the stunned crowd proudly, and began to lead the group into the weapon production space.

As expected, the weapon production line was still a bunch of vines. However, the weapons that appeared this time were no longer blade-type individual fighters, but "octopus fruits" with long tails in tow.

The fruit is more than half a meter long, with an ellipsoid of about 20 centimeters at the front and six tails more than 30 centimeters long. Translucent, you can even see the pit inside. It was a long, slender spindle pit, blue, like crystal.

"This is an Octopus missile, don't look big, but it's not small at all. The skin of the missile is puplicated with pectin from plants, and the blue crystals embedded in the bread are Murray crystals that are charged to the limit of explosion. Pectin is very flexible, ordinary attacks can not be damaged at all, and has a high energy affinity, is a good conductive material.

As long as the plant pectin hits the enemy's shield, it will immediately absorb energy and break down, and firmly embedded in the energy shield, and the Mori crystal inside the missile absorbs the enemy's shield energy and activates quickly, and then a violent energy explosion occurs. Its explosive yield is almost ten times that of the same volume of blue energy crystal.

The tail of the Octopus missile is six small energy propulsion engines, which can flexibly adjust the trajectory of the missile to prevent it from being intercepted by the enemy. There are enough SS-class biocrystals left in the propulsion engine, which can not only be used as an energy supply for the engine, but also can charge the Mori Crystal in the core at a critical time, causing the explosion of the Octopus missile. It can be called the second fuse of the Octopus missile.

Another point is that the Octopus missile can be loaded with semi-intelligent assistance programs developed by the fleet to achieve intelligent operation. It can completely ignore the launch after launching, can independently seek targets, actively identify friends and foes, automatically evade enemy interception, and independently track and intercept the enemy.

If you want to attack the enemy, the pilot only needs to confirm the enemy with his eyes, and then launch a few Octopus missiles, and the rest of the work is completely ignored, and all the follow-up combat Octopus bombs will be done by themselves. We found that the Octopus missile is not only suitable for air combat, but can also be equipped in large quantities even on the Xingtian mecha. Hundreds of them at a time should be no problem" Speaking of this, Lu Yingying smiled proudly, like a little girl.

Such a missile can indeed be regarded as powerful, at least the Golden Crow fleet does not have such a perverted automatic weapon at present. Either they are too big and bulky (the DF-46 super giant missiles are more than 500 meters long), or they are not powerful enough (the Patriot missile warhead is only an A-class energy crystal).

"What about the armament of the battleship itself?" Zhang Zheng asked after thinking about it.

"It is equipped with two destroyer-level space main guns, fifty secondary guns, and more energy cannons and energy slurry cannons for close defense, and its combat effectiveness is no worse than that of A-type ships of the same class. This version of the battleship strengthens the role of Octopus missiles, and if it is launched at saturation, it can launch 100,000 Octopus missiles in two minutes, which is completely sufficient in close combat.

For a destroyer that fights mainly in the melee position, it is completely sufficient. On battleships of the type of battleship and cruiser, there will be a little more main guns," Lu Yingying straightened up and said confidently.

"Yes, totally enough. I am very satisfied with the performance of the Life Science Institute, and I will send you the resource quota requirements you need later, and I will send it to you later" Ignoring the jealous and angry eyes of the others, Chen Peilin took the lead in making a guarantee.

"This, President, the newest warship of our Mechanical Engineering Institute is also good, do you want to take a look?" Hagrid Ludwig came up again with a shy face.

"Ahem...... I'm afraid our visit will have to end early. I just received the news that Exxon Energy's fleet was surrounded by an alien fleet that suddenly appeared, and now I'm afraid it's almost a fight" Just as Chen Peilin was thinking about whether to continue to hang the old guy's appetite, Zhang Zheng stepped forward and informed Chen Peilin of such a "surprise" information.

"Exxon Energy? Where did they go? Chen Peilin thought about it for a long time before he remembered the largest resource provider in the private sector.

"I heard they've gone to a binary star system more than a dozen light-years away. The reconnaissance fleet looked at it before, but found nothing. I didn't expect to run into aliens. However, they were accompanied by a sixth-level fleet of the Rockefeller family, and there should be no problem in a short time. I think it's better for us to take a look, meet a new alien civilization, and get in touch with it to find out about it."

"yes, it's time to check it out. But it has to be faster, if it's over, it won't be good if Exxon Energy's industrial fleet is eaten clean" (My novel "Starship Civilization" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! (To be continued.) )