My empire of stars

In order to be able to ensure that in future planetary ground battles, even if there are no warships to provide orbital attack cover, ground troops can fight smoothly, and at the same time to increase the ability of ground combat units to attack difficulties, the empire has specially developed this set of unmanned orbits Auxiliary attack system.

The beam attack of the "Angel of Light" is very simple. It is an orbital attack satellite equipped with a beam cannon in orbit.

The "Angel of Death" is a special satellite that can cooperate with the chip on the Angel of Death to control the electromagnetic force and gravity of a local area.

The "Arrogant of Thunder" and the Archangel of Death use the same support system, but instead of controlling metal with a magnetic field, it releases electrical energy.

The Weather Angel uses huge weather pillars that are airdropped directly from orbit and inserted into the ground.

This kind of weather column can change the weather in some areas on the surface of the planet. Its technology comes from the planet modification technology being developed by the Empire.

This kind of weather tower can create extreme weather such as hail, heavy rain, and tornadoes within a certain range.

Once these weapon systems are successfully tested and put into use, the Empire will not have to waste precious warship resources on supporting ground forces in future wars.

In the future, after the fleet has destroyed the opponent's orbital units, it can drop the satellites and continue to advance. Later landing troops will seize control of the planet with the assistance of these orbiting satellites.

Different from the silence inside the experimental ship in the orbit of Experiment 001, at this time the Empire's largest shipyard in the orbit of Nuwa Star was bustling with people.

Dignitaries from various colonial stars in the empire gathered here, as did the top brass of the empire. They were about to witness the launch of the empire's first mass-produced dreadnought.

This mass-produced dreadnought is different from the three experimental ships the Empire has built.

Those three experimental ships all use metal materials cut from the world by maintenance drones. Although this metal material has very high hardness and strength and other aspects of performance, the speed of material acquisition greatly restricts the ability of the dreadnought ships. Construction speed.

In order to speed up the construction of the dreadnought, Li Mingze ordered the Academy of Sciences to step up research on new materials that could be used as alternatives. With the hard work of all scientists at the Academy of Sciences day and night, a breakthrough was finally made.

Scientists have discovered that by adding a small amount of Ringworld metal to an existing metal in the Empire, the resulting alloy is almost half as strong as Ringworld metal. Dreadnoughts built using this alloy are extremely cost-effective. Most importantly, Yes, the empire can produce this alloy in large quantities, which basically solves the material problem that restricts the mass production of dreadnoughts.

Moreover, the empire can also use its advantage in quantity to make up for its shortcomings in quality!

The shape of this mass-produced dreadnought is still the appearance of the USS Michigan, but its size is one-fifth smaller, and the construction cost is only about one-quarter of the experimental ship.

The reason for reducing the size is because scientists have discovered that if the empire's existing reactor technology is used to propel such a huge warship, the number of reactors required will reach a terrifying number.

And reduce the size by one-fifth, remove the mass projector (the original super weapon of the Crescent) equipped on the experimental ship, and replace it with a new, lighter purple beam weapon as the super weapon of the battleship. At this time, the dreadnought needs The number of reactors will be greatly reduced.

The saved space empire used it to strengthen the number of main guns and armor of the battleships.

The original large storage space of the dreadnought was also cut by more than half, and the remaining small part was transformed into a storage warehouse for installing maintenance drone swarms.

The brand new maintenance drone is not a product of the previous generation of civilization, but a battlefield maintenance drone designed by the empire itself.

These maintenance drones can cover the entire fleet, and each drone carries a small material transfer device that can continuously print out maintenance materials.

These drones allow the Imperial fleet to repair damaged hulls at any time during combat.

Not only that, under special circumstances, these drones can also synthesize fusion weapons in the body to become suicide drones.

In addition to improvements in superweapons and storage space, the mass-produced dreadnought also replaced half of its mass accelerator cannons with the Empire's newly developed purple beam weapons. In addition, the mass-produced dreadnought is also equipped with new honeycomb missiles.

It can be said that the mass-produced dreadnought, which is armed to the teeth, has greatly improved the empire's combat effectiveness!

"Your Majesty has arrived!" Following the message, the guards at the door of the banquet hall slowly opened the door to both sides.

"Long live your Majesty!" The noisy shipyard banquet hall immediately fell silent, and everyone stood at attention and saluted in the direction of the door.

Li Mingze walked into the hall under the escort of the royal guard. After looking around at the excited people in the hall, Li Mingze reached out and took a glass of wine from the tray in the hand of the maid.

"Today is a day worth celebrating. No need to be so restrained. Let's enjoy it!" Li Mingze raised his glass and gestured for him to take a sip.

Everyone in the hall also hurriedly raised their wine glasses and drank in one gulp. The lively atmosphere returned to the hall. Li Mingze nodded with satisfaction and walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows.

The banquet hall of this shipyard is located above the five docks of the shipyard. Looking out from the window, you can see most of the bodies and exits of the five docks.

"Your Majesty, it's time to begin." Tianyi reminded Li Mingze softly in his ear.

Li Mingze nodded, turned to face the middle of the hall and raised the wine glass in his hand.

"Everyone, listen to me. I want to take this opportunity to announce an important matter." Li Mingze picked up a spoon and tapped the wine glass in his hand.

The people in the hall stopped whispering and looked in the direction of Li Mingze.

"In view of the fact that our empire's technology is becoming more and more advanced, the warships that can be manufactured are getting larger and larger. The original warship units are no longer suitable for the existing imperial fleet!"

"From today on, the original dreadnoughts are downgraded to battleships! Battleships are downgraded to cruisers, cruisers are downgraded to destroyers, and destroyers are downgraded to frigates!"

"And the original frigates, which are now gunboats, are all allocated to ground forces and no longer belong to the Imperial Air Force." (The size of the spacecraft remains unchanged, but the naming level is downgraded.)

"Now I announce that the empire's new battleships are officially put into use!" Li Mingze shouted.

After that, the five huge dock doors slowly opened, and five battleships with a size not much different from the Michigan slowly sailed out of the dock.

All the lights on the battleships were on, and the huge cannons on the ships were aimed neatly at the upper right corner.

"Long live His Majesty! Long live the Empire!" The officers and dignitaries in the hall shouted excitedly.