Planet Builder

In two years, Luo An has built a defense system at the No. 19 stronghold, and the new space fortress and force field generator have been completed.

During this time, the enemy was not unaware, and the enemy also had reconnaissance ships coming and going.

"The 19th stronghold is stationed in the fleet again?" Fu Long, the commander of the Hou Yunxiao, noticed this phenomenon.

"My lord, this fleet is not like the fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization. Their ships are lower-level, and they are all four-level hyperspace warships."

"You mean, this is the fleet of Blue Star Civilization?" Fulong asked.

"Maybe yes, our intelligence shows that this fleet is not strongly connected to the fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization. This No. 19 stronghold has been abandoned by them before, and now it is estimated to be thrown to the defense of the Blue Star civilization." Analysis below.

"The third-level civilization also wants to swim in the muddy waters here?" Fulong understood the situation and snorted coldly: "Send a fleet over and destroy them!"

"Yes!"

They immediately dispatched troops and sent a hyperspace fleet to stronghold 19.

Outside the 19 stronghold, hyperspace fluctuations appeared, and a fleet quickly jumped over.

Their jumps were almost instantaneous, and none of the hyperspace jammers worked.

"Warning, enemy attack! Warning, enemy attack!" the space outpost warned.

"Come on!" Luo An immediately arranged for the fleet to meet.

The information of the enemy fleet is also known by the scouts. According to the analysis of energy radiation and hyperspace fluctuations, the lowest level of these battleships are all seventh-level hyperspace battleships, and there are also eighth-level hyperspace battleships!

Luo An also contacted Carmen, the commander of the Ptolemaic civilization, and asked him to mobilize the fleet to assist in defense.

The war has started.

Before the weapons of the Blue Star Civilization fleet could hit each other, a large number of weapons appeared in front of them, various gravity bombs, kinetic energy weapons and gravitational wave weapons.

These weapons seemed to appear in front of the battleship in an instant, and the Blue Star Civilization's fleet was blocked in the stronghold before it could be dispatched.

"Defense, defend with all your strength!" Although the captains were mentally prepared, they were blocked by various weapons before they even left the "home".

"Can you attack?" He Xingzhou, who was also watching the war here, asked.

"There is no way to attack." Luo An said, "The opponent used a hyperspace weapon and attacked us instantly."

"Under the interference of the gravitational field, we can't even launch weapons. If we hadn't built defense facilities, we would have been hit hard in the first round."

"At present, it can only be attacked by hidden warships arranged outside the stronghold in advance. If the battle star is dispatched, it should be able to be shot out."

"Do your best to defend first and collect enemy intelligence. If you can't stop it, withdraw! Wait for the staff of the Ptolemaic civilization to come before attacking." He Xingzhou urged. Now he doesn't expect the Blue Star Civilization fleet to be able to beat his opponents. Now, let them accumulate experience and collect the technological information of the fourth-level civilization.

"Received!" Luo An ordered, "Defend with all your strength, with the preservation of the battleship as the first goal."

"Received!" The ships began to execute. Although they couldn't fight, it was impossible for the enemy to destroy them quickly.

They delayed for a while, and the support fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization also jumped through the hyperspace jump and attacked the enemy.

"The support is here, dispatch the battle star!" Luo An shouted.

The destroyed and rebuilt Golden Battle Star went into battle, directly facing the enemy's fire and rushing out of the stronghold.

"What a powerful battle star!" Carmen saw the battle star with envy in his eyes. Although the Ptolemaic civilization was a fourth-level civilization, it did not build a battle star.

Because their interstellar construction ability is not too high.

"This is the Battle Star? The defense is really amazing!" Fu Long was also observing, "but its mobility is still much weaker than ours. As long as we are not trapped by the gravitational field, it can't reach us at all!"

Their warships are moving or jumping rapidly, adjusting their orientation to attack.

The Golden Battle Star cannot lock on to its own target.

"The support of the Ptolemaic civilization is here, withdraw." Fu Long has determined that this is the fleet of the Blue Star civilization, the information has been grasped, and there is no need to continue fighting.

They retreated directly and jumped away with a hyperspace jump. The Ptolemaic civilization's fleet locked the opponent's position and performed jump tracking. They sent the coordinates to Luo An, and the Blue Star civilization's fleet also performed jump tracking.

Jump once without chasing the enemy.

The fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization continued to jump, but the battleship of the Blue Star civilization had to return.

Because an embarrassing thing happened, the energy on the battleship was insufficient, and the hyperspace transition consumed a huge amount of energy. In this way, after two more jumps, the battleship would be "out of fuel".

Seeing that the Blue Star Civilization fleet was no longer following, Carmen also ordered to retreat.

There was no loss in the first collision between the two sides, but Blue Star Civilization had already exposed its own shortcomings in strength.

...

Five years have passed.

Not only was the Blue Star Civilization fleet in the M34 star cluster attacked, but also in the M97 star cluster. The Blue Star Civilization fleet was repelled many times, lost more than a dozen hyperspace warships, and lost its stronghold twice.

The record is very ugly, not a single victory has been won.

So much so that the Fox Hunting Royal Court has never sent the main fleet to fight against them, otherwise they can be eliminated in one go.

"If it weren't for the Battle Star, our fleet would have been wiped out long ago." He Hongwei said with emotion, "The gap is too big!"

"Well." He Xingzhou said, "I almost understand."

"The gap between us and the enemy lies mainly in two points."

"The first point is that the enemy has hyperspace weapons, but we don't, so we can only be passively beaten!"

"Second point, the enemy's hyperspace warships have more stable transitions, longer transition distances, and stronger endurance, so they can transition multiple times."

"Our battleship needs to spend 70 to 80 percent of its energy when it jumps two or three times. The enemy also knows this, so it consumes our energy by jumping multiple times when fighting against us, which also results in us being passively beaten!"

"That's it, does the Science Department have a solution?" He Hongwei asked.

"Give us some more time, we are already thinking of a way." He Xingzhou said, "Continue to maintain a defensive posture until our new technology makes a breakthrough."

...

In the past few years of testing, He Xingzhou not only did not feel afraid of the Orion Royal Court, but felt that the other party was not as powerful as he imagined.

The weapons they use, in addition to possessing the hyperspace jump ability, other properties are similar to the Blue Star civilization weapons.

"Then it's enough to consider only one problem, increase the energy of the reactor, so that the battery life can be increased, and a small one-time hyperspace jump engine can be manufactured for the use of weapons." He Xingzhou believes that all the problems they have encountered so far indicate that At the same time, the energy output of the antimatter reactor is not enough!

"The enemy's warships can make multiple jumps and retain a lot of energy to fight. They definitely don't use antimatter reactors, otherwise how could the warships store so much antimatter?" He Xingzhou pondered that there was only one possibility. The enemy used more advanced energy technology. .

He turned on the quantum optical brain and found the answer.

"Vacuum Zero Reactor!"

The so-called vacuum zero-point reactor is a reactor that directly draws energy from the vacuum to supply energy for weapons and equipment.

This sounds fantastic, but it is a very scientific thing.

A vacuum is not nothing, but a system of positron and negative electron rotating wave packets. The energy associated with this phenomenon is called zero-point energy, which means that even at absolute zero, this vacuum activity remains.

Dirac described the vacuum state from quantum field theory, comparing the vacuum to a sea of ​​undulating energy.

The vacuum zero-point reactor draws energy from the "sea of ​​energy" in vacuum!

This is a kind of dynamic energy. Compared with nuclear reactors and antimatter reactors, its biggest advantage is that it can be drawn at any time!

No nuclear fuel, no antimatter, wherever the warship goes, it can draw energy from it!

As long as there is a vacuum, the battleship can go on and on.

On the surface, it looks like a "perpetual motion machine", but it's not.

After the positron and side electron energy in the vacuum is drawn, the vacuum collapses. The figurative understanding is that the reactor consumes "space" to power itself.

If it is in a fixed space, doing so will reduce the volume of the space, which is not conducive to long-term development. But they are in a large expanding universe, and the shrinking space is completely insignificant compared to the expanding large universe.

"Consume 100 energy points to unlock the vacuum zero-point reactor technology." He Xingzhou unlocked this technology and began to research.

As long as the vacuum zero-point reactor is conquered, their hyperspace warship can break through the fifth level and reach the standard of the Galaxy-class warship.

At that time, warships can repeatedly perform hyperspace transitions and battles, and conquer hyperspace weapons, not to mention.

It is of great significance that the Blue Star civilization can be promoted to the fourth-level civilization!

He Xingzhou's research has already begun.

...

The war between the M34 and M97 clusters continues.

In the decades since the Blue Star Civilization Assistance Fleet arrived, although they have been losing battles, they have not lost much.

As the enemy fully understands their weaknesses, the war gets harder, with each battle increasing the damage.

Even two Battle Stars were almost blown up and sent back for repair twice!

The Ptolemaic Civilization and Ye Owl Civilization did not have the energy to take care of them either. They themselves fell into the quagmire of hard fighting, and the defense line around the star cluster was gradually eroded.

Night Owl civilization is worse than Ptolemaic civilization, their external space has been blocked in half!

Hou Qingfeng and Hou Mingyue have placed a large number of hyperspace detectors and jammers on the periphery of the M97 star cluster, so that now Ye Xiao civilization needs to be extremely careful to communicate or exchange resources with other civilizations. In case of discovery and destruction, they will Get hurt once!

In the star trade group, many members have realized that it is not good, and began to surrender to the Orion Royal Court voluntarily.

The power of the star trade group is weakening every day!

In order to prevent your allies from falling too fast, leave yourself room for development.

The Blue Star Civilization decided to send a large number of interstellar engineering teams and transportation teams to build defense measures, energy measures, transportation resources, etc. for allies.

This did relieve their pressure to a certain extent, but the real threat of the enemy was still not lifted.

...

The M4 star cluster, a space science test site.

He Xingzhou is testing the vacuum zero-point reactor he designed and developed.

The reactor is suspended in a vacuum with nothing around it!

No electricity, solar, nuclear...

"Reactor start!" He Xingzhou began to operate.

The vacuum zero-point reactor begins, it begins to draw the energy of the electric particles in the vacuum.

This energy is collected by the device and converted into various energies.

A minute later, the data showed that the vacuum-zero reactor had collected roughly one kilowatt of energy.

This ray of energy is pitifully small, but for researchers, it is a surprise!

For anything, the process of starting from nothing is the most difficult. Once developed, it is much easier to upgrade and improve!

"We have obtained the vacuum zero-point energy!" He Xingzhou said with satisfaction, "The design idea is right, Lumi, the detection device, analyze the reaction data, and prepare for improvement!"

"Okay, master!" Lumi began to analyze the data.

The vacuum zero-point reactor, after more than 150 years of improvement and tens of millions of experiments, has finally obtained a vacuum zero-point reactor that can function as a hyperspace warship.

Because the technology is not yet fully mature, the vacuum zero-point reactor cannot be said to allow the battleship and battle star to have "infinite endurance", so He Xingzhou used it to design the reactor group with the antimatter reactor.

The antimatter reactor and the vacuum zero-point reactor are powered at the same time. Compared with the previous five-level hyperspace warships, the ability of the new reactor group to continue fighting is more than 100 times that of the previous one!

Hyperspace jumps can also make multiple jumps without rushing back home to replenish energy.

So far, Blue Star Civilization has also naturally broken through to Level 4.0 civilization.

After solving the problem of the vacuum zero-point reactor, the Military Research Institute quickly broke through the hyperspace weapon.

Blue Star Civilization recalled the warships that were fighting outside in batches, and upgraded them one by one.

And the star-level ultimate weapon, the gravitational wave mid-end station, has also been built for most of it, and it will be completed in a few years.

...

M34 star cluster.

The transformed Blue Star Civilization battleship came here again, and their stronghold has been changed from No. 19 to No. 122.

The previous strongholds have all been occupied by the enemy.

Fu Long, the commander of the Marquis of Yunxiao, once again found out the situation of the Blue Star Civilization fleet.

"The Blue Star Civilization fleet is stationed at No. 122. This is our chance!" Fu Long said, "Compared to the Ptolemaic Civilization fleet, the Blue Star Civilization fleet is weaker and more suitable for our breakthrough attack."

"The Ptolemaic civilization is also exhausted. Let the third-level civilization help defend the stronghold. Isn't this giving us territory?"

"If the order goes on, the fleet will attack immediately. Just like before, it will flash the riding face directly with a quick flash attack!"

"Received!" The subordinates understood, jumped directly to the opponent's defense zone, and bombed. If the fleet of the Ptolemaic civilization came to assist in the defense, they would temporarily evacuate.

The other party has no ability to pursue and attack, so repeating this a few times can win a stronghold at a very small price.

Over the years, the captains have regarded the strongholds defended by the Blue Star civilization as a "welfare". Whoever finds out in advance is equivalent to picking up a military exploit for nothing!