Chapter 14: The Ship is Completed
After successfully solving the spaceship's most critical power engine problem, the rest of the matter is naturally much simpler. After spending more than half a year to make a comprehensive optimization of the original perfect design of the spaceship drawings, and using all the technologies, resources, and abilities he had newly mastered, Ye Qiuli finally succeeded in creating a spaceship that could meet his needs.
Of course, at this time, this spacecraft is no longer the one he designed more than 20 years ago, after these years of development, the world's space industry has once again made great progress, and the space plane has completely replaced the old space shuttle and rocket carrier spacecraft, becoming the most mainstream space tool. In addition to the power and materials that need to be improved, the current aerospace aircraft have reached a very high level in terms of structural design and system control.
With so many favorable conditions for reference, when Ye Qiuli actually built his own spaceship, he naturally spent a lot of thought on the basis of the original design, referring to and synthesizing all the advantages of the most advanced aerospace aircraft in various countries, and doing his best to create a top-level spaceship in the current era. And now, the newly built ship is quietly moored in the secret workshop, waiting for him to open it.
The spaceship built by Ye Qiuli is a mixture of streamlined triangles and circles as a whole, with a length of 17.72 meters, a wingspan of 21.67 meters, and a height of 4.33 meters after the landing gear is retracted. The fuselage and wings, but the sleek fuselage and triangular wings are integrated, and the overall streamlined shape makes it possible to minimize the air resistance of the spacecraft in the atmosphere, so that it not only has the ability to travel long distances between stars, but also can do high-speed, high-sensitivity flight and maneuvering in the interior of the planet's atmosphere.
With the newly developed miniature controllable nuclear fusion device, the spacecraft's power system is also well arranged, with a full-thrust vector ion stream jet installed at its tail and behind the wing roots of the left and right wings, which are directly connected to the three miniature fusion reactors built inside the fuselage, through which high-energy ion vortices can be sprayed to the rear of the spacecraft to propel the spacecraft forward.
In addition to these three main nozzles, four auxiliary ion flow jets are also installed on the front and rear sides of the wings, which can be controlled by the airborne intelligent optical brain to control the spacecraft to carry out all-round maneuvers such as up, down, left and right, pitch and roll, etc., to assist the spacecraft in flight. In addition, a jet port is also installed at the center of gravity of the lower abdomen of the spacecraft, which is mainly used to cooperate with several other vents to achieve vertical take-off and landing and void hovering of the spacecraft.
Since the spacecraft is all made of super materials specially refined by Ye Qiuli, the structure is very simple and lightweight, and the weight is reduced to the greatest extent under the premise of maintaining sufficient strength and safety, and the entire spacecraft weighs only about 7.5 tons without calculating fuel. As for the full take-off weight, it is a completely different number, although it has not been tested, but Ye Qiuli estimates that 1,000 tons is not a problem at all.
Of course, the reason why this extremely light spacecraft can have such a huge payload is not only the power provided by the three fusion reactors, but also the way the spacecraft is built. When Ye Qiuli was actually building, he used a lot of techniques for refining storage magic weapons to expand the internal space of the spaceship, making it like a space magic weapon such as a Qiankun bag and a Xuanyu bottle. This treatment not only greatly increases the space capacity inside the spacecraft, but also effectively reduces the overall weight.
This is also the key reason why Ye Qiuli obviously wants to sail the galaxy over a long distance, but the entire spaceship is only the size of a fighter jet. With the support of magical alchemy, he had already refined all the most important fuel storage tanks on the spaceship into the form of Qiankun bags, although the appearance looked small, but the internal space was very huge, and except for the weight of the box itself, the weight of the internal fuel was basically invisible.
After such a transformation, Ye Qiuli's spaceship can not only store fusion fuel that far exceeds its own volume limit, but also maintain a no-load navigation state forever, so that its speed is not dragged down by the huge weight of fuel, not only can it accelerate to the maximum speed in the shortest time, but in the process of sailing, the fuel consumption rate can also be greatly reduced, maximizing its endurance.
In addition to these extremely sci-fi hardware facilities, the software facilities installed on this spaceship by Ye Qiuli are also very advanced. The intelligent control system built with the new high-performance optical brain as the core can control the spacecraft autonomously without spending any energy on the pilot. In the face of the advanced electronic mapping system and holographic optical imaging system carried by the spacecraft, no suspicious target can escape its surveillance, and once it encounters a treacherous cosmic environment, it can issue an early warning from a distance to remind the driver and crew to pay attention to avoidance or defense.
In addition, the defense force loaded on the spacecraft is also very powerful, and the power of the laser strike system, which is directly powered by the nuclear fusion reactor, is really not to be underestimated, and it can directly deal with a high degree of threat. The high-energy ultrasonic and infrasonic waves emitted by it are not only powerful and magical, but can directly damage the enemy's internal organs, and they are invisible and invincible, whether it is to deal with a single enemy or to deal with group attacks, it can play a very significant effect.
Moreover, these are just conventional offensive and defensive forces, in order to deal with some extremely dangerous special situations, Ye Qiuli has installed a very powerful electromagnetic cannon on this spaceship, which may not be enough to deal with huge planets or satellites, but to fight those meteorites and meteors with a diameter of 1,000 meters and 800 meters, it is definitely easy to capture, and one cannon can bombard them into slag.
In addition, the protective force field generator that Ye Qiuli arranged on the surface of the spacecraft is also a very powerful set of super equipment. This kind of defense system that he transformed from the high-level protection prohibition of the cultivation realm, the "Water Curtain Tianhua", once activated, will immediately form a layer of pure energy shield with very strong defensive capabilities on the surface of the spaceship, even if it is bombarded with the kind of electromagnetic cannon that comes with the spaceship, it can withstand seven or eight cannons without destruction.
In addition to these super equipment with a very sci-fi color, the comprehensive stealth system that Ye Qiuli originally envisioned has also been well solved. The low-energy plasma launch device installed at the head of the spacecraft not only effectively solves the problem of stealth, but also increases the defense capability of the spacecraft in conventional conditions, and greatly reduces the flight resistance of the spacecraft when moving.
In the case that the radar cannot detect it, in order to make the stealth more thorough, Ye Qiuli also installed an optical simulation system on the spacecraft, which can simulate the surrounding environment in full truth, so as to achieve visual stealth and avoid the detection of optical equipment.
Equipping the spacecraft with an offensive and defensive system and making it have full stealth functions, Ye Qiuli's preparations are not just for the humans on Earth. Although this was his starting point, after the ship was actually built, these devices were used more to protect against unknown alien creatures. Those things may not have the power to hurt his life, but if he is unprepared, destroying the spaceship will be troublesome.
In the vast interstellar world, if you can't use a spaceship and want to successfully reach another planet by flying alone, not to mention whether that kind of thing is realistic, even if you can, the amount of cultivation and time required is not a small number. And that kind of situation is obviously not something that Ye Qiuli can accept, otherwise he wouldn't have to rush to build this spaceship, it would take him a thousand years or two to cultivate to the distraction stage, and he would naturally be able to fly away from the earth.
For Ye Qiuli, who is on the earth, any cultivation resources are extremely precious things, and they are still non-renewable resources for the time being, and if they are used a little, they will be a little less, and there is no channel to replenish them at all. If you can, try not to waste, and when you have the opportunity to save, you should naturally try your best to save, so as not to fall into an unsustainable state of embarrassment in the future and repeat Zhang Sanfeng's sad experience that makes people regret for life.
However, although it is true that he can't easily waste all kinds of heavenly and earthly treasures that can assist him in cultivating, he doesn't care at all about resources such as deuterium, tritium, and helium-3 that are useless for cultivation. It doesn't matter if those things are wasted, anyway, after flying away from the earth, they can be collected from the universe at any time, and there is absolutely no problem of resource depletion.
It is also adhering to this idea of saving cultivation resources and using fusion fuels such as deuterium, tritium, and helium 3 as much as possible, Ye Qiuli did not consider the problem of energy consumption at all when building the spacecraft, as long as it was still within the power of the three fusion reactors, he would install as much equipment as he could install on the spacecraft, without considering the load at all, and would always try his best to improve its comprehensive performance.
In this way, from the shell structure of the spaceship to the power system, to the control system, to the auxiliary system, to the defense system and attack system, Ye Qiuli assembled this spaceship that was hundreds of years ahead of the scientific and technological level of the human world step by step.
Now, standing in front of this spaceship named "Red Rabbit", he really can't help but feel happy. After more than 20 years of preparation, spending countless manpower, material and financial resources, and even using a lot of cultivation resources stored in the Qiankun bag, he finally built this unique super spaceship, and passed the test to confirm that it could fly into the sky.