Guide to Galactic Dominance

Bai Zhongqi does not believe that there are various racial civilizations in the game's universe, and there will be no advanced alien civilizations in the universe where the earth is located. Take brainworms as an example. This is a dangerous alien creature. Although they must be parasitic in the human body, they can undoubtedly steal human science and technology. There are bound to be alien creatures in the universe that are more powerful than Cerebrates. The earth has not been invaded by large-scale alien civilizations for so many years, but that does not mean that it will not happen in the future. Especially after Iridium continues to embark on the road of space exploration, it will inevitably come into contact with many alien civilizations, and contact may mean conflicts. Iridium must also have a strong armed force capable of defending the empire's civilization.

The Holy Falcon, a battleship of this level, is technically the latest, but in terms of actual firepower, it can actually only be regarded as the last among the Iridium battleships. The imperial technology carried by R19 is not complete. Bai Zhongqi needs to organize the Imperial Research Institute to fill the gaps in the previous technology tree. Because these technologies are generally stored in the database, redevelopment will be less difficult to obtain than first development. Now the 318th Shipyard can build the most powerful battleship, which is the Eridanus-class battleship built by the empire 180 years ago. The Eridanus class is nearly twice as large as the Holy Falcon class, and its firepower is much greater than that of the Holy Falcon. The Eridanus class is also the first type of warship in the Empire to carry the [Singularity Weapon], and is actually the only type to have this weapon. Battleship.

Bai Zhongqi remembered it very clearly when he was playing the game. During a rescue operation, the second ship of the Eridanus class, the battleship Heroic Spirit, suffered a malfunction of its singularity weapon, which eventually led to the destruction of the entire ship. It was also one of the most tragic accidents in the history of the empire. Since then, the Eridanus class has gradually withdrawn from active service after serving in the Imperial Space Force for half a century. Singularity weapons have also become a historical term among the empire's doomsday weapons.

The so-called singularity weapon, as the name suggests, directly creates an unstable singularity and achieves a terrible gravitational collapse. Enemy ships and even stars in the center of the collapse will be directly attracted by gravity and fall into the gravitational singularity. After the short-term singularity is constructed, this singularity will explode again and eventually disappear. Iridium physicists cannot yet explain why the singularity explodes until it disappears after it is formed, and where the matter sucked away by the singularity goes. But this did not affect the Iridium people from converting it into a doomsday weapon. The Iridium people are more accustomed to calling this terrible weapon a black hole weapon.

Then later wars showed that this kind of weapon consumes huge amounts of energy, takes a long time to prepare, requires a large number of frigates, and can easily malfunction and cause the entire army to be annihilated. Basically, it cannot be regarded as a mature weapon. Therefore, in the later period of its service, the Eridanus class dismantled the singularity weapons and piled some turrets on it. In the end, it was replaced by newer warships after only a few years of service.

The resources spent on maintaining a capital ship are huge. Bai Zhongqi has no plans to build a capital ship like the Mapojiang class until Iridium's resources and economic strength have reached a certain level. Although the construction of the main battleship has been postponed, Bai Zhongqi will not give up the construction of other main battleships.

In Bai Zhongqi's list of buildable battleships, the violent bear-class heavy cruiser currently in the fleet is a good choice. This is a ship designed and built during the war with the Luoji Star. It is characterized by being cheap, simple, and easy to use. In other words, it is a large cannon fodder that is affordable.

The current Flying Bear in the fleet is an old ship from the Snail War. It has participated in more than 20 Star Wars in the middle and late stages of the war, and has also sunk enemy ships. It can be said that it is also a meritorious ship. However, even the Iridium people who pursue high efficiency feel that the Burmese Bear-class, which is mainly equipped with a few electromagnetic accelerator cannons and a warship that launches plasma warhead missiles, is somewhat embarrassing to the United Empire. Therefore, nearly two years of wartime launches were completed. Half of the Thousand-ship Ursa-class ships were mothballed as soon as the war ended. Later, a quarter of them were dismantled, and some were gradually decommissioned. Today, less than a hundred Ursa-class vessels are still in service with the United Empire Space Force.

Of course, things that the Iridium people look down upon are also out of reach for the current earth.

Bai Zhongqi believes that the cost of a heavy cruiser is equivalent to that of two frigates. It is definitely a relatively affordable combat force. The construction speed can also be relatively fast. It can be equipped with a large number of Star Alliance fleets and even be used as a capital ship.

Bai Zhongqi is also more inclined to combine the existing Iridium satellite technology, and the Imperial Scientific Research Institute and the Imperial Military Equipment Bureau will jointly develop a new cruiser that can install a more powerful main gun and adopt newer technology, especially power technology. So that it can really make a guest appearance as a battleship.

When Bai Zhongqi was playing the game, he felt that cruisers were already a rather embarrassing type of ship. In addition to aircraft-carrying cruisers, which are still widely used in the fields of fleet air defense and regional reconnaissance, the status of simple heavy cruisers has declined a lot. The imperial fleet is powerful. Basically, each mission mixed fleet can be assigned a capital ship as the flagship. The firepower is not comparable to that of heavy cruisers. However, the heavy cruiser cannot compare with ships such as destroyers and frigates in terms of multi-tasking (doing chores) and cost. Therefore, the usual configuration of the imperial fleet is that the capital ship leads a group of small ships. There are relatively few heavy cruisers with more than 1,000 meters, and no new ones have been built recently.

Now Bai Zhongqi is facing a completely different situation. It consumes less than the battleship and has more firepower than the destroyer and frigate. The importance of the cruiser has suddenly risen. Bai Zhongqi seeks to continuously build heavy cruisers to supplement the strength of the Iridium fleet.

Bai Zhongqi, a small and highly flexible ship, plans to build it in large quantities. The Spear-class is undoubtedly a very excellent air defense frigate. However, Bai Zhongqi does not have particularly large air defense needs for the time being. Bai Zhongqi now needs an all-rounder with relatively balanced performance, which can be engaged in a variety of tasks including reconnaissance, exploration, escort, rescue, landing cover, etc. Comprehensive destroyer or frigate.

The Axe-class destroyer is a destroyer equipped with small planetary bombing weapons. It can reach a length of more than 700 meters. It has a very balanced combat effectiveness and very good adaptability. Basically, from fleet battles, landing battles and even planetary bombings, the Ax-class can meet the needs of common interstellar battles. Generally, people refer to battleships (non-capital ships) equipped with planetary bombing weapons as Star Destroyers, so the Axe-class Star Destroyer can also be called the Axe-class Star Destroyer.

The Tai'a-class frigate is a comprehensive frigate that is only slightly larger than the Spear-class anti-aircraft frigate. Although the construction cost is more expensive than the Spear-class, its applications are wider than the Spear-class.

These two types of destroyers and frigates are also older generation Iridium ships and are basically obsolete weapons. However, Bai Zhongqi feels that in all fairness, the combat effectiveness of these two types of ships is no better than the latest main destroyer frigates of the Iridium United Empire before time travel. How much weaker.

Unlike the disparity in combat power between the naval battleships of the early 21st century and the warships of World War II on Earth, the Iridium star battleship itself has undergone great technological innovations, but the improvement in power is not particularly disparate. For example, main gun-level weapons, Iridium battleships have been stable in energy output for almost a thousand years. Of course, weapons with the same output over the past thousand years have reduced energy consumption, lower cost, increased rate of fire, increased range, etc., but the strike effect has not been significantly improved.

This is mainly related to the level of the enemy. In the past thousand years, Iridium's enemies have no longer needed Iridium to develop main guns with greater energy output (larger caliber), so Iridium has been constantly improving existing weapons. When Bai Zhongqi clicked on technology trees, he focused more on some unpopular military or people's livelihood technologies, hoping to produce unexpected chain reactions.

The 318 Shipyard will set up a very large shipyard and 9 medium-sized shipyards, and the construction period will be as long as 45 days. Bai Zhongqi predicts that within half a year to a year, the combat strength of the Iridium fleet, excluding battleships, will be more than five times higher than it is now.

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