July of the Dark Age 408.

The first cruiser of the Canglan series, the Houyi, finally officially rolled off the assembly line.

Whether it is a Qingluan-class frigate or a Wuluo-class destroyer, the mode of railgun array + plasma cannon is used.

There is no way to do this, one is that the technology of energy weapons is immature, and the other is that the energy system is not powerful enough, so that the pure kinetic energy attack of the railgun is still retained.

At the same time, although the main gun uses the energy weapon of plasma cannon, in fact, there are many problems, one is a bit reluctant as the main gun in terms of power, and the other is the charging efficiency.

The low charging efficiency seriously affects the combat effectiveness of the entire ship.

But Hou Yi is different!

It was not only the first large cruiser of the Resistance, but also the first battleship with pure energy weapons (referring to the main and secondary guns).

【Hou Yihao】

Class: Cruiser (Standard)

size: 1127m (length), 358m (width), 285m (height)

Empty weight: 1.89 million tons

Core energy: four third-generation controllable nuclear fusion reactors (marine version)

Main Cannon: Positive Star Shatterer x 1 (for technical reasons, only a fixed angle of fire can be used)

Secondary Cannon: Particle Beam Cannon x 24

Melee Weapons: Small Particle Rapid-Fire Cannon x 196

Other weapons: eight groups of sixty-four multi-purpose missile launch modules

Ship Equipment: Custom Raider Mech x 2, Universal Raider Mech x 192

Sub-light engine: 180 km/s (maximum combat speed)

Jump Engine: 8.8 light-years (maximum distance in a single jump), 27 minutes (recharge time)

Self-sustaining: 11 months

Standard crew: 685 people

.....

Perhaps, this battleship is still a piece of garbage to the former Star Sea Federation.

But it is undeniable that for the humans of the Canglan system, this is the most powerful warship ever built.

Some people may think that controllable fusion as an energy source is very low, but in fact, until the fourth level of civilization, controllable fusion is still the most mainstream energy source.

Take the galaxy as an example, even the former Star Sea Federation, until its demise, has not been able to produce more powerful energy.

Therefore, many civilizations believe that the watershed between the fourth-level civilization and the fifth-level civilization lies in energy.

Of course, there has not been a fifth-level civilization in the recorded history of the galaxy, so this statement is just a guess.

However, since seeing the shuttle ship that carried Jiang Xingchen at the beginning, Ling Ruoxuan had a different idea.

Because...

The core energy on the shuttle ship is something she can't understand, even if it is researched for 20 years, it still can't break the mystery, it is very likely that the Star Sea Federation has researched a new energy source, but it hasn't had time to be applied on a large scale, just...

But in any case, one thing Ling Ruoxuan is sure of is that this is a new energy source that is much more powerful than controlled nuclear fusion.

Well, back to the point.

In fact, the Houyi was not a cruiser designed solely to deal with warships, as can be seen from its close defense system.

Although carrier-based aircraft are still an important part of interstellar warfare, in any case, the installation of 196 close defense systems on a cruiser is too much, and it can even be said to be a manifestation of madness.

And the reason why it is designed this way is because...

For the human beings of the Canglan system, the biggest threat today is not those civilizations outside the Death Nebula, but the Starry Sky Zerg!

That's right, this is a design specifically for the Starry Sky Zerg.

According to the simulation, even if the Houyi is surrounded by tens of thousands of war insects, it can still have a strong self-protection ability.

What's even more worth mentioning is the positive electron smashing star cannon as the main gun, which can even penetrate the insect mound with one shot at full power.

Of course, this is for the data of those insect mounds that are currently known to mankind, that is, those small mounds with a diameter of three or four hundred meters.

As for the insect mounds that are more than a kilometer or even larger, it's hard to say.

On the downside, if you want to fire at full power, it will take at least three minutes to recharge, which is slower than the main guns of the Wuluo-class destroyers.

But it is undeniable that this is a weapon that can truly reach the power of the main gun of a large battleship, even if it is fired at 30% power in the regular mode, it is much more powerful than the plasma cannon, and the recharge time is only half of it.

The commissioning of the Houyi marked a new level in the strength of the rebel fleet.

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Houyi's main bridge.

"Captain, the application to leave the post has been approved!"

"Helmsman, take us out of the third airport and rendezvous with the transport fleet."

"Yes, Captain!"

After responding loudly, Chen Xiaoguang began to operate.

Although he has been training for two whole months, when he first got his hands on the real thing, he still seemed cautious and did not dare to make any big moves.

Even the sub-light engine was not turned on, and the behemoth was slowly moved out of the airport by relying solely on the auxiliary propulsion devices used for attitude control throughout the battleship.

"Captain, we're out of the airport!"

"The sub-light engine starts, the third battle speed, the target Blue Valley Star, and the 54th batch of fleets carrying out the Hailan Star transshipment mission."

"Yes, Captain, the sub-light engine has been activated, the third speed of battle, the target Blue Valley Star."

Today's rebels don't have the time to let the new front go offline for a long sea trial, so after taking over the battleship on the first day, the fleet command directly assigned the Houyi escort mission.

Due to the relentless start of construction on the Canglan side, the fleet between the Hailan and Canglan systems has now increased to 270 transport ships, which can pull almost 6 million people at a time, and the transportation capacity has increased several times.

At this rate, in another half a year, a full 500 million people can be rescued.

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Just when the Houyi had just set sail.

Outside the Nebula of Death.

A Carey Imperial destroyer, as well as two frigates, are operating here at the moment.

"Captain, the monitoring device has been deployed!"

"Well, let's get all the workboats back."

"Understood, but Captain, does this really work?"

"Who knows, we'll do whatever it says above, especially lately, Commander Kyle's temper is very short-tempered, and I don't want to touch my head!"

"Yes!"

The adjutant nodded and said.

Everyone in the fleet knows what their commander is like lately, and they don't say anything more at the moment.

And at this very moment.

"Captain, three gravitational wave formations have been detected!"

"I remember it's not time for rotation yet, right?"

"Yes, Captain, according to the plan, we need to deploy 27 more surveillance zones, and they will not be rotated until three days later."

"Find out who's coming!"

"Yes, Captain!"

However...

The next moment, the radar officer was a little confused.

"Captain, there are three small celestial bodies, one with a diameter of about 800 meters, and the other two are both more than 300 meters in diameter."

"Small celestial bodies? I was talking about the detection of gravitational wave formation, right? ”

Small celestial bodies play with the jump, what the hell?

Hearing this, the captain thought he had misheard.

"Yes, it's a celestial body, I scanned its structure, and there is a network of countless passages in this celestial body, and there is a cavity in the center."

"In addition, life scans show that there is a large amount of life in these three celestial bodies, and the individuals are very large."

"At the same time, I also confirmed that there were no weapons on any of the three targets."

Listening to the report, the captain was also interested.

A whole new species that no one has ever seen...

Without any weapons ...

To put it this way... Maybe you're going to get rich?

"Adjutant, order the frigate to go over and check!"

"Yes, Captain!"