The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

1804. Endless-class super aircraft carrier (middle)

The spacecraft entered the Infinity from the hangar entrance and saw only a very huge hangar platform. Above the broad platform, there are hundreds of movable gantry racks. These gantry racks are currently empty, but in the future, each gantry rack will be hung with a fighter jet.

This is a modern hangar platform with a complete set of fighter maintenance and supply functions. There is even a fighter production line that can dismantle and assemble some damaged fighter jets into brand new fighter jets. Or, far away from the rear base, local materials can be used to directly build fighter jets.

There are two such hangar platforms, located on both sides of the rear of the battleship.

"Your Majesty the Grand Duke! Thank you for coming!" More than a dozen Neimoidians walked towards them, and the one walking at the front was naturally the Governor of the Trade Federation, Newt Gunray.

He held his hands in front of his chest with great respect.

"I heard that you have made many changes to the design of the Endless-class super aircraft carrier based on the existing technical conditions. Is that true?" Tang Xiao asked.

"Please allow me to introduce you, Your Majesty." A Neimoidian wearing goggles came out from behind Newt Gunray. He bowed to Tang Xiao, "I am Mar-To Gram is currently tentatively designated as the captain of the Infinity."

"I remember you. During the battle on the planet Rynos, you were commanding the fleet of the Federation of Independent Systems," Tang Xiao said. He naturally remembered this Neimoidian general who had caused a lot of trouble to Anakin Skywalker.

"This is my honor." Mal-Tuk saluted again, then cleared his throat and said loudly: "The Endless-class super aircraft carrier is currently the largest warship our Trade Federation has ever participated in building, even in our Principality of Dawn. Among them, it is second only to the Titan battleship. The length is 5694.2 meters, the height is 1041.2 meters, and the width is 833.3 meters..."

Tang Xiao nodded. Indeed, compared to the Titan battleship that incorporates the most cutting-edge technology of the Dawn Principality, the Endless-class super aircraft carrier can be said to be a super battleship that can be put on the production line, which is of great significance to the Dawn Principality.

"The main design direction of the Endless-class super aircraft carrier is to be able to support continuous operations outside the supply circle for a long time. The battleship has a complete fighter, missile, and bullet manufacturing factory, and also added an explosive gas compression factory. The battleship itself The supplies carried can last for two years, and if simple supplies can be obtained, they can even continue to fight outside for 5 to 10 years."

Mal-Tuke led Tang Xiao and Adele Ulan across the hangar platform and onto a set of high-speed rail cars, which are the means of transportation inside the battleship and are used to move quickly inside the huge battleship. The 4,825-meter-long Conqueror-class battleship has a similar design.

"The biggest change we have made to this battleship is to redesign the weapon system. First of all, the four 27-meter-caliber super electromagnetic guns originally designed to be installed in the front of the battleship will now be modified into three particle light spears." Mar- Took said.

"Shouldn't it be four seats?" Tang Xiao asked sideways.

"With four particle lances, there is not enough space. The length of a group of particle lance systems is about 800 meters, while a group of original 27-meter-caliber super electromagnetic guns is only 300 meters long. This requires us to redesign the space at the bow of the battleship. Arrangement. Therefore, the new space arrangement can only accommodate three particle light spears. However, compared to the original electromagnetic gun, the combat capabilities of the particle light spears are naturally far greater."

Tang Xiao nodded and asked: "So what about the extra space required by the particle light spear? How do you deal with it?"

"Dr. Halsey helped us redesign the battleship's energy transmission system to transmit the energy from the central reactor at the rear of the ship to the bow, and the transmission path is just above the rail transit we are now riding." Marl-Tooke said, "In addition , in the area involved around the energy transmission channel, there were originally 700 missile launch arrays, but now they have all been converted into turbo laser cannons and heavy laser cannons. A lot of space will be freed up in terms of missile storage and manufacturing, which can just make up for it. Particle spears occupy more positions."

He continued: "There were originally 1,100 missile launch systems in the design, but now only 400 of them are retained to make up for the firepower gap of turbolaser cannons and heavy laser cannons. At the same time, 837 70mm caliber rapid-fire close-in defense guns will now also Among them, 500 have been converted into laser point defense systems, and the remaining 337 are mainly used to launch diffusion bombs and special ammunition."

"The current firepower configuration of the Endless-class super aircraft carrier is based on the ultra-long-range particle lance as the core, heavy anti-matter missiles as the outer ring, turbo laser cannon as the middle ring, heavy laser cannon as the inner ring, close-in defense laser system and 70 mm caliber The rapid-fire cannon forms a circle of anti-aircraft firepower, forming a hierarchical distribution of firepower. The warship is also equipped with three different types of missiles to perform tasks against large warships, small and medium-sized warships, and anti-fighter aircraft as a supplement."

"Therefore, the adjusted firepower of the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier can be said to be sufficient to meet the needs of any situation. It is more powerful than any known battleship in the galaxy!" Mal-Tuk said excitedly.

Tang Xiao was very satisfied after hearing this. Because he knew that the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier was not a pure warship in its original design. Its main firepower was four 27-meter-caliber electromagnetic guns, and these four electromagnetic guns were still fixed on the bow, and they had to be aimed at very trouble. Other firepower includes 1,100 groups of missile launchers and 837 groups of close-in defense guns. They are mainly for self-defense. Strictly speaking, they do not have the ability to compete with enemy warships of the same level.

However, now that it has been modified, it is completely different!

Three particle light spears made the firepower of the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier instantly become insane! And although it is also fixed on the bow of the ship, the particle light spear is a light speed energy weapon! Its hit rate is much higher than that of the electromagnetic gun!

And the traditional turbolaser cannon in the "Star Wars" world is also a powerful technology that is far greater than ordinary laser weapons in terms of power and effective range. With the combination of turbolasers and particle lances, the anti-ship combat capability of the Infinity-class super aircraft carrier has reached a new level.

At the same time, the missile technology of the Principality of Dawn is also more advanced than that of the UNSC. The commonly installed anti-matter missiles and proton torpedoes can be said to be a nightmare for enemy warships. The Fire Cloud missile can effectively spread a deadly radiation cloud, which is a huge threat to warships and fighter jets.

On this basis, the Principality of Dawn also has very mature laser technology, and X-ray weapons are now standard equipment on the Principality of Dawn warships. Whether it is ultra-high-power X-rays emitted by heavy laser cannons or high-rate X-rays emitted by close-range defense laser cannons, they can both achieve better combat effectiveness.

Therefore, after such modifications, although the density of defensive firepower of the Endless-class super aircraft carrier has been reduced and it is more inclined to fight against the ship, in fact, even if the opponent has a large number of fighter jets attacking, the Endless-class close-defense firepower network can still hit it head-on.

This kind of modification direction is, on the one hand, to make the best use of everything and directly apply the existing advanced technology of the Dawn Principality. At the same time, it is also designed to face the numerous Imperial-class Star Destroyers of the Galactic Empire Navy!