How the Zergs were Made

Chapter 368 Plagiarism Plagiarism Plagiarism

Unknowingly, the flying car that Huogu and the others were in actually broke away from the mothership and went to the outside of the mothership.

Not paying attention to Hogu's line of sight, Amanda signaled Hogu to stay calm. This was also part of the itinerary in the combat zone. Driven by Amanda, the speeding car approached the outer armor of the mothership.

It can be seen here that at intervals, a 'small cannon' with a diameter of about 6.5m can be seen.

"These are X-OMG pulse beams with a caliber of 100C. They are close-in anti-aircraft guns. They were originally designed to defend against solid weapons. Combined with vibrating armor, as long as the initial speed of solid weapons is not fast enough, it is difficult to exert sufficient lethality. .”

"But now this pulse beam is gradually withdrawing from the design layout of the mothership."

While introducing, Amanda showed a look of regret, looking at these 'small cannons', as if looking at a twilight hero.

"Why?"

Any weapon has its own role to play. Since it is retired, it means that the role of this weapon is no longer on the battlefield, or there is a better weapon that can replace this old weapon.

The first one shows that the Serene people's war mode has changed, and the second one shows that the Serene people have prepared more dangerous weapons. Either way, it is not good news.

Therefore, Hogu became alert.

Amandabi didn't notice Hogu's thoughts, and she explained the reason.

"Because the ship designers of the empire discovered that today's live ammunition weapons are basically at the sub-light speed level, and in such a large-scale environment as the space battlefield, laser weapons are basically used to attack opponents."

"This leads to the fact that these close-in defense guns can only defend against sub-light-speed physical weapons such as detonations, or clean up space junk close to the mothership, so in some people's opinion, the energy supplied to the close-in defense guns is actually It’s a waste, instead of installing a close-in pulse, it’s better to install a few more large-caliber main guns.”

"This kind of pulse gun is small in size and should have low energy consumption. There should be no need to be reduced to being evaluated like this."

Huo Gu pretended to be puzzled, and deliberately led the topic.

"That's because you ignored the number of close-in defense pulses. The mothership is very large, so the number of close-in defense pulses must also be large enough to ensure all-round interception. In this way, the overall energy consumption is actually low. Low."

"And after seeing some of the amoeba's technology applications, the empire also began to have some imitative designs, which accelerated the pace of retirement of the close-in defense guns."

"Imitation?"

Huogu was obviously stunned, and this strangeness was so big that Amanda, an unintentional person, noticed it.

But Amanda didn't think too much about it, she just thought that Huogu was very interested in this aspect, so she became concerned.

"Come with me, I know you're interested in this."

"Isn't this the anchorage area?" Hogu asked.

Amanda led Hogu to a fairly open place. At a glance, the target was a huge number of aircraft. These aircraft were comparable in size to autonomous ships, and their shapes were also similar. In other words, they were based on the original autonomous ship. There are some other appearance structures.

Amanda explained Hogu's question and introduced this place by the way.

"No, although there are many flying units anchored here, it is classified as a combat zone because these units cannot achieve deep space voyage."

"After seeing the spiral array of mothership creatures using small units, the designers of the empire also fully learned from it and designed this close-in defense drone."

"Its functions are similar to those of the small creatures around the mothership. It is a defense against high-speed objects close to its own mothership. It has built-in heat ray weapons. Although the power of a single ship is not high, multiple ships can be used together. In addition, the design idea of ​​autonomous ships has been added. If the distance is sufficient, these drones can also be used as short-range autonomous ships to charge enemy ships."

"Wait, with such a small body, after the laser cannon is installed, there is still enough energy to support the vibration armor?"

Huo Gu remembered that the energy needed to maintain the vibrating armor was very high. It was quite difficult for the autonomous ship to maintain the high speed while maintaining the vibrating armor. There was no extra energy to supply the laser cannon.

Could it be an advance in energy technology? ——Huo Gu secretly guessed in his heart.

But soon, Hogu's guess was dismissed by Amanda.

"No, it's just a strategic choice. Due to energy constraints, when drones are used as gunships, vibrating armor cannot be used. When drones are used as autonomous ships, heat-ray lasers cannot be used, and this conversion is not instant. , need to wait for a while, after all, gunboats and autonomous ships are two completely different types of ships."

This is Huogu's intuitive feeling. If it is an epoch-making progress in energy technology, then Huogu and the others will be able to accept it, because it will lead to a series of chain-type improvements.

"Even if this is the case, it is very powerful... The key reason for the gradual decline of close-in defense guns is that there is a group of mothership drones that can replace them and play more roles on the battlefield. ,Right?"

Amanda nodded.

"That's it."

"The mothership is now equipped with a special unmanned salvage ship. Because it is a non-combat unit, it belongs to the anchorage area. The wreckage of the drone is salvaged in the space around the mothership, and it is very easy to bring it back to the mothership for refurbishment. Soon there will be new drones re-entering the battlefield, and thanks to these two new units, the defense performance of the spiral array against lasers has been further improved."

"Oh, by the way, there are still many techniques to learn from amoebas, please follow me."

Introducing the technological creations derived from the plagiarism from the amoeba to the technical ideas, Amanda still had more to say, and she continued to lead Hogu to see other things.

"This is the inner armor structure layer, a design structure that did not exist in the mothership class before. After seeing the amoeba's technology that allows combat units to quickly regenerate, the designers of the empire are considering whether they can use the existing technology. achieve the same effect, and then they designed this inner armor structure."

"...May I ask what the purpose of this thing is?"

Huogu already guessed what the effect was, but he still pretended not to know on the surface.

"Its function is to regenerate. After being deformed by external force, it will spontaneously restore its original structure, thus simulating the technology of biological regeneration on the amoeba."

"Its principle is also very simple. It is to allow the nanomachines to always get a layout instruction. Therefore, after the inner armor is deformed, the nanomachines that make up the inner armor will actively move to their original positions."

"In terms of performance, the effect of inner armor is better than cell regeneration, because nanomachines are more patient in resisting high-energy rays, but cells need to worry about high-energy rays damaging the expression of gene chains, which will lead to the loss of self-replication ability."

"That's it..."

Feelings, you don’t open your own brains, come to plagiarize my design ideas? ! Then who should I plagiarize! ——Huo Gu was in a panic.

"And this... Let me tell you... the empire has learned a lot from the amoeba..."

...

"Prince, allowing the amoeba's envoy to visit the mothership is just to cater to the current situation, but is this really appropriate?"

In the empire there are some high officials of the empire who ask the Führer.

"Is there any problem? It's too late to change what has been promised and is going on."

"You want to discredit the empire?"

The head of state asked calmly.

"You once said that trust does not exist between countries, and only interests are eternal. This is still true at the level of civilization, at least for now."

"Let the amoeba envoy visit the mothership, which means that many new technologies of the empire will be exposed to the amoeba."

"If one of you is unarmed and aware, will any of you take the initiative to attack a ferocious beast?" the head of state asked back.

"Won't."

The head of state continued.

"If you don't know, that creature is a fierce beast? It looks very docile and cute, and you happen to be a little hungry at this time."

"..."

"Don't think too much, the mothership will be seen after seeing it, anyway, it is a product that will be eliminated."