40,000 Years of Cultivation

Li Yao has been in the empire for a long time. He has a deep understanding of the various types of main battleships that the empire relies on to dominate the stars. He knows that two or three hundred years ago, the imperial military had a short period of "cannon giantism revival". .

Originally, as the crystal armor design and the maintenance technology of the giants were more and more developed, the individual combat capabilities were getting stronger and stronger, and the warships were more and more inclined to the combination of the firepower output platform and the integrated supply platform, rather than the vanguard of the hand-to-hand. .

A hundred or so masters, wearing crystal armor armed to their teeth, penetrated into the enemy starship, it is possible to reimburse a starship that cost billions or even tens of billions, and even if it can’t destroy the opponent’s starship, One's own side loses a hundred or so masters at most - these masters can always defeat a lot of opponents before they die.

Under such a price-performance disadvantage, it is obviously not cost-effective to spend a lot of military expenditure to build a larger-scale starship-it is better to invest resources in the construction of the Crystal Armor Group, as well as the repair and imitation of the giant soldiers.

However, the technology of crystal armor and giant soldiers is developing, and the firepower output of starships, psychic shields and unmanned operation technology are also constantly developing. "Cannon giant ship" has always been a soldier's dream. Finally, someone proposed—— When the technology of crystal brain and ling net develops to the extreme, battle puppets, various forms of drones, and remote-controlled space mines can converge into a surging flood, and with a sufficient number of naval guns, all enemies can be destroyed. Including the most powerful crystal armor and giant soldiers!

"The giant soldiers are by no means invincible. As long as there are enough combat puppets and drones, and the firepower output by the naval guns is fierce enough to form an endless and airtight fire net, they will definitely be able to defeat the giant soldiers!

"If it can't be defeated, it means that there are not enough battle puppets and turrets, and the fire net is not dense enough. If you can build 100,000 turrets on a starship, what kind of enemy can't be destroyed?"

This was the argument of some artillery giants at the time.

And they are not just talking about it, they have also conducted decades of theoretical calculations and tests in the empire’s most authoritative military laboratory, and have proved their views in countless virtual battlefield tests— Equipped with hundreds of thousands of psionic puppets and drones, and equipped with at least 10,000 heavy naval guns, the "super arsenal ship" has indeed beaten ordinary giant soldiers, even if the virtual index of these giant soldiers It is also difficult to break through the fire interception net of the'Super Arsenal Ship' if it is adjusted higher to reach the level controlled by the old monster of the **** of transformation.

Such a result must be tempted by the imperial military.

After all, the core cockpit of the Giant God Soldier, that is, the research and development technology of the "Ling Mansion", has not yet been mastered by the Empire. Even if they can imitate and piece together the hands and feet of the Giant God Soldier and the weapon set, once the "Ling Mansion" is When it exploded, this giant soldier was completely scrapped.

The war between the empire and the Holy League does not know how long it will last. If it lasts for another thousand years, the giant soldiers of the empire will die one and one less, and the Holy League with a large number of prehistoric heritage is obviously higher than the empire. Excellent repair and imitation technology of the Giant God Soldier.

It would be very embarrassing if all the giant soldiers in the empire were exhausted at the end of the fight, but there were still some giant soldiers in the Holy League.

It is precisely because of such concerns and the "perfect performance" of virtual warfare in the laboratory that the imperial military launched the construction plan for the super arsenal ship, the new type of super warship, known as the "King Kong"!

The size, space, and firepower of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship are more than ten times the largest arsenal ship built in the empire in the past. In fact, it is more like a combination of an arsenal ship, an integrated supply ship, and even a Star Wars.

In the original design idea, the military put a brain into every King Kong-class super arsenal ship with at least 30,000 turrets of various types, hundreds of the most advanced arrayed fire control crystal brains, and more than With half a million combat puppets and drones, they have become the "perfect battleship, doomsday battleship, and the ultimate battleship that can end all wars" that the designer boasted to the Senate!

Is the actual combat effectiveness of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship so amazing that the designers and contractors can boast that they can hang up the giant soldiers to fight?

This question is destined to remain an unsolved mystery forever.

Perhaps, assuming that these King Kong-class super arsenal ships can really be built according to the highest standards, they can indeed sweep thousands of troops, invincible, explode the giant soldiers, and end all wars.

But before that, what it ended first was the finances of the empire.

The entire construction process of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is a very old and sad story.

Perhaps the idea of ​​"firepower is supreme, drones are invincible" is not wrong, but the designer's idea is too advanced and too ambitious. The designer greatly overestimated the development speed of the imperial crystal brain level and underestimated tens of thousands of units. The technical difficulty of integrating the turret, or in other words, in order for the Senate to approve the construction plan of the super battleship as soon as possible, from the designer to the empire’s largest arms contractors, to the stakeholders inside the Senate, it has all demonstrated A strong spirit of optimism for cultivating immortals, turning a blind eye to "small difficulties", and throwing out a budget that is not cheap, but can withstand gritted teeth, and that can form combat effectiveness within 20 years at most, A firm guarantee.

The Senate at the time agreed to this plan, and a total of 16 "King Kong-class Super Arsenal Ships" were built in the dock at the same time. This construction was... a whole hundred years.

During the period, the natural and man-made disasters caused by various technical problems will not be mentioned. The upgrade of crystal brain and combat puppet technology has repeatedly overturned the original design. The original plan and budget have long been thrown into the corner. In the wastebasket, the cost of new construction was increased one after another. In the end, the construction cost of each King Kong-class super arsenal ship reached more than twenty times the original budget!

No matter how much the real human empire is "military warriors," and how the Senate desires the birth of a super battleship, it will collapse in the face of such a budget and the indefinite completion time.

"The King Kong-class super arsenal ship is the most powerful doomsday warship ever, but it belongs to the Holy League! Just lying motionless in the dock, it will destroy the entire empire!"

Many empire elders thumped the table and roared.

But apart from roaring, they have nothing to do. They have already invested astronomical resources into this plan. It is not always possible to sell the 16 unfinished King Kong-class super arsenal ships as scrap copper and rotten iron right now?

What's more, the fertile water does not flow into the fields of outsiders, and the astronomical investment of resources will not disappear out of thin air, flowing back and forth, and hasn't it flowed into the hands of stakeholders, large and small?

Even these veterans who blow their beards and stare at the table and snarled at the table, secretly, they may not have benefited from it!

In this way, the construction plan of the King Kong-class super arsenal became a never-ending black hole, dragging the Empire army down for a hundred years-the Holy League can take advantage of the void to break the Black Wind fleet and occupy the empire. It’s hard to say that the entire five heavy industry worlds have nothing to do with the weakening of this plan. Even the outbreak of the post-war economic crisis is so serious that there is a small contribution to the King Kong-class super arsenal ship!

When the Holy League’s invasion of the Black Wind and Five Realms broke out, all parties in the empire finally couldn’t stand the endless delays. The relevant contractors seemed to feel that many people would lose their heads if they continued to do so. Sixteen King Kong-class super The arsenal ship finally entered service.

However, due to the fact that the front-line warfare is in full swing and the budget is severely lacking, the final construction of the 16 King Kong-class super arsenal ships has not been completed, which is equivalent to a congenital shortage of "premature babies." The sixteen super warships cannot exert their theoretical maximum combat effectiveness. It is not their fault, but a question of time and funding. If they are given another thirty to fifty years, and two to three times the funding, the King Kong-class super arsenal ship Definitely be able to blast all giant soldiers!

Even the designers and builders have such a lack of confidence, the performance of these sixteen huge and unaccompanied "premature babies" can be imagined.

On the real battlefield, they completely lost the aura of destruction and destruction on the virtual battlefield, but they exposed their clumsy and fragile weaknesses, and because the cost was too expensive, the four major elector families simply couldn’t bear to let these super arsenals. The ship was thrown into the fiercest battlefield. After only two of them were seriously injured by the Saint League, the remaining 14 super arsenal ships fled back to their home port in a hurry.

King Kong-class super arsenal ships completely turned into a joke. After a hundred years, the empire’s "cannon colossalism" disappeared, and no new super warships were refined. The daily maintenance cost of just sixteen "premature kings" was astronomical. The numbers are too much for even the four major electoral families. How can they be dragged into the dock to complete the actual construction?

So, today, a hundred years later, they are still premature babies who can only exert 30% of their combat effectiveness. They are abandoned by the elite super-class fleets of the four major electors’ families. Instead, they are assigned to the next-tier main fleet, with them as the core. Created the "Eight King Kong" and was put on the battlefield to destroy the reformists.

"I know that the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is not highly rated, but it is caused by a variety of factors. In fact, even unfinished premature babies can only display 30% of their combat effectiveness. As long as they are determined to fight to the death, they It can still scare any enemy."

Jin Yuyan smiled bitterly, "The poor performance on the battlefield against the Saint League does not mean that they will show mercy to our **** fleet. You just tried to deceive so many immortal cultivators for a while, but say a thousand. Dao 10,000, these sixteen King Kong-class super arsenal ships are the "Dinghai Shenzhen" of the coalition of the four major families. If they can't completely defeat them on the battlefield, no one will easily turn back and take refuge in us.

"So,'Black Wind King Li Yao', how are you going to change the next trick? Where are your so-called'Black Wind Fleet'?"