Chapter 259: Glory-class battleship
Pandora World, near the Tree of Souls.
At this moment, a large number of steel and concrete buildings have replaced the previous original basin. Hundreds of research institutes with the emblems of the Star Empire are scattered throughout, surrounded by dense fortresses and military camps.
In addition to the usual Imperial GIs, Vanguard Mechs, and GM Warriors, there is also a legion of 5,000 tall Na'vi Knights.
They are a new team, belonging to the defense force of Pandora under the formation of the Stars Empire's army.
Compared to human armies, these armies of Neville Knights can move with agility and freedom on a planet full of deadly gases without any protective equipment.
They know the local environment, they know the terrain, they know how to deal with ferocious wildlife, and they know how to use neural connections to do things that other creatures can't.
When the Star Empire took over here, two years was enough time for the Na'vi to recognize something, especially the "Ava" under Shen Sen's control, which made the Na'vi people begin to sincerely accept the reality and submit to the Star Empire.
In addition to the land team, it is worth mentioning that near the airport of Pandora, the black-and-red battleship that has just been produced and assembled, suspended in mid-air, can almost be called a small town in the sky.
Compared to the previous Pioneer-class battleships, this new ship is a full circle larger from a sensory point of view. Make it look like a country town that can fly at all!
The huge battleship hovered silently near the take-off and landing platform, and thanks to the anti-gravity anchor technology, such a large machine floated in the air without even a trace of humming.
It is a regular T-shaped shape as a whole, with a total length of at least nearly 1,200 meters, and the widest part is a T-shaped horizontal point, about 500 meters, and every 100 meters on the hull there is a rectangular nesting device that emits a light blue halo, which is the energy shield generator of the entire battleship.
Next to these rings, there are a number of circular protrusions, including around the ship, which are the ship's anti-gravity thrusters.
The Glory-class ship, its full name is the Glory-class heavy hybrid battleship, and just by hearing the name, you know that it pins the high hopes of the Star Empire.
Compared with its predecessors, the biggest improvement is its power system, it can be said that the most advanced engine, the most precious materials, and the most cutting-edge technology of the Star Empire are all used in its body.
Its biggest effect is to save the energy consumption of the spacecraft, prolong the combat time, and at the same time, it can accelerate to 40% of the speed of light in a month.
Although the spaceship in science fiction has a curvature at every turn, and travels faster than the speed of light at the very least, it is actually very difficult to make the spaceship speed reach the speed of light.
Without anti-gravity thrusters and antimatter engines, it would have taken 10 million tons of nuclear fuel to accelerate one gram of payload of matter to 0.2 percent of the speed of light.
Even with an antimatter engine, accelerating 1 gram of matter to 10% of the speed of light, even if it is an ideal reflection of maximum efficiency, annihilation with positive and antimatter requires 0.05 grams of matter and 0.05 grams of antimatter.
Considering that the Glory-class spacecraft itself weighs 210,000 tons, and is able to accelerate to such a fast speed in such a short time, it can be said that this speed is already very difficult.
At least from the point of view of technical content, it is definitely better than the long-distance transport ship such as the entrepreneurial star.
The Honor-class heavy battleships are powered by hybrid engines, including one fusion engine, two antimatter engines, and four anti-gravity thrusters.
The main role is played by two antimatter engines and four anti-gravity thrusters.
The former has already made a breakthrough in research and experimental applications, and after obtaining several Entrepreneurial Star carriers from RDA, it has finally matured, and has begun to replace antimatter engines for all spacecraft.
As for the anti-gravity thruster, this is a new gadget made by the Power Research Institute.
Its technical support comes from two aspects, one is the transport ship of the prawns, and the other is the technological breakthrough after obtaining the un superconducting ore.
The prawns' vessel, which was still parked in the sky above District 9, was still parked in the sky above District 9, and the more researchers studied it, the more they realized how sophisticated the technology was.
At least at the current level of the stars, it is impossible to build such a huge spaceship, let alone levitate it in the air for so long.
In nearly twenty years of research, the Star Empire has made very important gains in spaceship power, instrumentation and equipment, and hull technology. At present, the biggest gain is to break through the difficulties of anti-gravity technology.
In addition, the entire Glory-class battleship is also distributed with various types of anti-aircraft artillery and anti-landing strike devices, and there are many small frigates shuttling next to it, but those frigates that can be called powerful when taken out alone are now like flies and eagles in the comparison of the Glory-class.
The Glory-class heavy battleship is a super big battleship with a standard crew of 12,000 people, and can accommodate up to 20,000 people if the situation requires it.
It has a huge living area as well as regular living facilities, and even a part of the rest and entertainment area.
As a current main combat ship, the Glory-class has enhanced armor and is equipped with shields, increasing speed and firepower.
Shen Sen believed that with this thing, with the escort battle group it matched, as long as one was enough to sweep the earth in the previous life.
Under its protection, hundreds of researchers from the Star Empire are conducting complex research work around the Na'vi people's legendary goddess Ava.
Standing nearby, one or two words of unknown meaning such as "upload memory", "soul transfer", and "physical and mechanical" could be heard from their mouths from time to time, causing Dr. Grace, who was staying in the incarnation of the Ne'vi, to look sideways.
As a Ph.D. in biology in charge of the Avatar program on Pandora, she has survived on this planet for eight years, and she knows more about the planet's ecology than anyone else from a scientific standpoint.
Because of this, the more she knew about herself, the more awe-inspiring she became. Ava of Pandora made her feel the power of gods.
But when she told her knowledgeable colleagues in the Star Empire about her years of research, there was a slightly crazy look on their faces.
For them, Ava is not a god, but a tool that can help the Star Empire understand the mysteries of biological consciousness.
At present, although there is no major breakthrough in the study of the nature of biological consciousness, it does not prevent these Frankensteins from preparing to use it for some whimsical experiments.
For example, if you put the soul of a dying person into the "Well of Souls", can you take it out and use it again in the future? Or if the Tree of Souls is used to transfer "consciousness" to a machine, then whether the machine can move or not, and so on, sounds like crazy experiments.
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