Chapter 90: Plasma Cannon
Around the entire equator of Gliese 667Cc, space elevators separated by 3.5 km from each other plunge into the sky.
If you observe this planet from space, the image that appears is a "cut in half" planet.
Most of the view is obstructed by a finished keel or a finished shipyard.
The same is true of the other two planets, a star system full of pitch-black warships.
At this time, 230 years after arriving in this star system, the three planets have been completely colonized, their surfaces have been worn off their edges, and the area except for the rivers is flat.
The robots that roam the surface are indistinguishable from moths, and they are eating away at all minerals on the three planets, with refining bases every few tens of meters.
Mining vessels and robotic production use discrete production, which maintains the quality and speed of production, and each component is sent directly to the assembly plant after production.
Unfortunately, the results of the exploration of the ocean planet can only serve as a "fuel planet".
There is no life on this green planet.
Ruan Lin has been devoting himself to the research of plasma cannon at the moment, and this theoretical refinement has been carried out for 140 years.
The simplest "beggar's version of plasma cannon" can be easily made by primary school students in the earth era, who only need to prepare a water dispenser bucket, one-way copper pipe interface, butane and a simple rubber and plastic water pipe.
Now, the theory of this type of weapon is close to maturity, and Nguyen Lam immediately began to work on the specific manufacture.
Attack methods such as kinetic artillery and laser weapons can only be regarded as "rifles", which are only the most basic weapons.
"Missiles" are the most powerful means of attack.
Now that the Earth Civilization Fleet lacks a large-area attack weapon, the plasma cannon is urgently needed and necessary!
It's not a laser weapon that shoots out like a burst shot, imagine millions of ships spewing out an overwhelming ball of plasma in a second, what a spectacular spectacle!
And it is also the equivalent of a countermissile, and the range attack makes it an unrivaled interception capability.
There is only one obstacle that Ruan Lin needs to overcome: the power supply required by the weapon needs to be appropriately reduced.
If a ship is loaded with four weapons that have been developed at the same time, and it runs non-stop for 30 minutes, then the power energy required by a ship is about the electricity consumption of a county town in a day.
The demand for electricity today is simply unimaginable compared to the age of the earth.
In fact, the plasma cannon is based on the same principle as controlled nuclear fusion, which also uses magnetic confinement to heat heavy hydrogen to a million degrees Celsius to a high temperature to make it a plasma state.
The extra step is to further constrain the plasma, turning it into a mass of charged particles, which is then emitted.
Its method of destroying the target is very unique, it is not like laser weapons, which burn the ship at high temperatures, but uses the high-speed nonlinear motion of the plasma cluster to produce abnormal stresses that are different from the mechanical relations of motion, which will cause the target to disintegrate on its own.
To put it simply, it uses a "detour" to make the attacked ship produce a rotational moment in a "tripper" way, and the overload force caused is large enough to make it "shatter" in an instant.
It does not require aiming calibration, it is an indirect strike that destroys the target's flight environment, and the recoil is 1.4 times that of kinetic artillery.
In less than three years, a stripped-down plasma cannon launcher appeared in the lab, and Ruan Lin was about to conduct his first attack experiment.
The plasma cannon adapted to the meteor-class destroyer is about 2.6 meters long, the gun chamber occupies two-thirds of the total length, and the rear section adopts a turret-like design.
"WIT, install this launcher on a ship and prepare it for a test launch."
Under Ruan Lin's deployment, 15 meteor-class destroyers were used as live targets this time, and they had already been unloaded with the internal strong interaction force generating device.
At the same time, the speed of these ships must be the maximum speed: 30,000 km/s.
The plasma cannon was installed directly above a Meteor-class destroyer, and its power supply line was connected to the main power supply inside.
Ruan Lin also entered the interior of this ship, and the first test launch naturally could not be missed!
As the ship's speed gradually increased, the Milky Way once again came into view.
The 15 ships that had been stagnant began to gradually accelerate, and this test launch was equivalent to "cat and mouse".
These 15 ships will fly erratically at full speed.
It took them 14 minutes to accelerate to 10% of the speed of light, and the plasma cannon officially began to pre-fire!
Ruan Lin manipulated the plasma cannons, casually aiming at their possible flight paths.
In the next second, a blue sphere was launched! The ship fell back 1 km due to a small amount of recoil.
The blue-blue plasma ball looked so pleasing to the eye on the way to the target, but to Ruan Lin, it seemed that the mild plasma ball represented destruction and death.
In the second second, the charge was completed, and another ball of plasma was launched, which was already its ultimate rate of fire.
The speed of the plasma sphere was first determined: 40% of the speed of light.
A ship was hit! The plasma sphere attaches directly to the surface of the ship at an invisible velocity, and it is hard to imagine what they would suffer if there were sapient beings inside the ship.
At this moment, it seemed to be laundry in a drum washing machine, and the whole ship began to spin uncontrollably and irregularly, the speed of which was almost discernible to the naked eye.
Looking at the spot again, all I could see was a small explosion, and then it calmed down.
If this test launch had taken place on the Gliese 667Cc, the explosion would have been extremely spectacular, and the resulting shock wave would have been visible to the naked eye.
Just a bunch! The energy caused by the plasma ball attack is about 0.12 joules, which is equivalent to the total energy released by the simultaneous explosion of tens of thousands of megaton hydrogen bombs!
If this plasma sphere were aimed at the planet's surface, it would produce more than 1,000 times more energy than the original version of the "Great Billion".
In Ruan Lin's original vision, the plasma ball shot by the plasma cannon would be as powerful as a type I solar radio burst.
It's a pity that the power has shrunk a lot now, and it still needs to be further improved.
Controlled nuclear fusion technology can be used both as a cornerstone for stargazing and as a terrifying weapon of mass destruction.
I have to say that human beings are particularly talented in killing, and perhaps killing is what humans are best at.