The Empire begins with the Fourth Scourge

48. Prepare to open a new technology tree

At this time, Tang Xiao turned his attention to Qu Xuewen.

Compared with Guan Yan and the others, Qu Xuewen's appearance is much more outstanding, with short hair and black-rimmed glasses, he looks very delicate and pleasant. Under the spacious white coat is a turtleneck sweater, one-step skirt and tight stockings. This outfit can easily be misunderstood as cosplay and uniform temptation, but she is also an elite-level material science expert.

This is a typical case where you can rely on your face, but you must rely on your talent.

Because he knew that Tang Xiao was coming, Qu Xuewen seemed to have dressed up, and there was a faint smell of perfume on his body. This made Tang Xiao gradually become interested in this beautiful scientist whom he had no impression of before. Although she is 32 years old according to the information, she is well maintained, her skin is tender and firm, she looks like she just graduated from university, but she is full of the charm of a mature woman.

His previous impression of Qu Xuewen was that she was Feng Yongwang's follower. She has been conducting research on ghost fighters with Dr. Feng. She has excellent professional standards, and is much smoother than the other nerds, and her appearance is also above the standard. , nothing else.

Qu Xuewen seemed to be approaching Tang Xiao intentionally or unintentionally, but Tang Xiao still backed away without a trace.

He's not a saint, but he really hasn't figured out how to deal with such a superior-subordinate relationship. Perhaps because she sensed Tang Xiao's distance, Qu Xuewen didn't get too entangled, she coughed lightly, and led Tang Xiao to the refitting area of ​​the frigate as soon as she turned the corner, "Here it is, Professor Chi I am leading the team to refit the turbolaser turret, because it does not match my major, so I am relatively free recently."

There was a drop of cold sweat on Tang Xiao's forehead. Was this woman leading him around just now?

Over there, the shell on one side of the Hammer-class frigate had been completely opened, revealing the dense wiring and instruments underneath that made Tang Xiao's skin crawl.

Chi Jianjun was pointing to several of the lines and said: "This is the area of ​​energy compression, and a compartment needs to be added here, but there are two deflector release lines that need to pass through here, so we need to drill the compartments." After the holes are insulated twice. Only in this way can the integrity and safety of the energy compression process be guaranteed. The reverse engineering of this turbolaser cannon is not considered for the time being. What we need is to form sufficient combat effectiveness as soon as possible.”

In front of him, Feng Yongwang and two other elite experts kept nodding while taking notes like students.

Noticing Tang Xiao's arrival, Chi Jianjun turned around and nodded, "Manager, Dr. Qu has already informed you that he is coming. It just so happens that I have something to report to you."

"I'm mainly here to visit our newest frigate in service." Tang Xiao said with a smile.

"Although the Hammer-class frigate is not excellent, it is still a very rough frigate in general, but after all, as a weapon platform, its performance will be much better than that of the blade fighter. At least the energy level is much higher. Many. If there were a few Hammer-class frigates when the pirates attacked last time, the battle would have been much better." Chi Jianjun said frankly.

"Talk about this frigate."

Chi Jianjun unfolded a screen projection next to him, pointed to the dissection diagram of the hammer-class frigate above and said: "This frigate is 31.4 meters long. Increased survivability and added heavy armor. The result is that the armor and ammunition bays take up a lot of space, making the entire interior of the spacecraft look like a can of lunch meat stuffed."

Then he clicked, and the dissection diagram began to change, "We optimized it without overturning the original design during the research process. The dual-mounted electromagnetic gun turret was replaced with a dual-mounted infrared laser turret. While maintaining the characteristics of thick armor, it can also save a lot of space in the ammunition compartment for installing larger nuclear fusion engines and energy shield generators. But this still cannot conceal the poor handling and maneuverability of this frigate, the two turrets Its firepower coverage is also insufficient, and a large number of frigates are needed to cooperate in operations to play a role."

He paused and said: "This can increase the combat efficiency of the Hammer-class light frigate by about 30%, basically reaching a usable level. But... there is still more room for improvement!"

"Where are there any deficiencies?" Tang Xiao asked humbly.

"Avionics, fire control, flight control!" Chi Jianjun raised his hand in the air, and crossed out the anatomy diagram of the Hammer-class frigate on the interface, "Let me just say it, this kind of frigate is still an installed It’s just the iron box of the turret and the engine. I checked the technology list of the mothership, and this type of spaceship is classified under the category of ‘Kushin Civilization’. Although the analysis difficulty is the lowest, the efficiency of the spaceship is generally not high.”

"Then do you have any suggestions?"

"The suggestion is this." Chi Jianjun opened another technology list page, pointed to a long list of spaceships and technologies, and said, "This technology comes from the 'Emergency Traders Alliance'."

Kushen Wenming Tang Xiao also knew that this was "Homeland", but the Union of Urgent Traders? Tang Xiao was stunned when he heard this term, but he didn't understand what it was until he opened his exclusive technology interface.

It seems that in the mastermind's database, everyone can only see the forces to which these technologies belong, such as the Wraith Fighter, and the source in the technology list is the Terran Empire (Terran). As for whether this thing came from the "StarCraft" game, that was Tang Xiao's own judgment.

In this way, in the eyes of others, this technology library is a collection of countless civilizations, and will not think of others. This matches the false history of the fourth civilization he created, because the fourth civilization carried the fire of their entire galaxy in the end, and it is not surprising that it contains the technology of other civilizations.

But this Trader Emergency Coalition (Trader Emergency Coalition) Tang Xiao is a bit unfamiliar, but after he continued to read down this entry, he realized that this is the technology in "Original Sins of a Solar Empire"!

"Original Sin of a Solar Empire" is also a very grand interstellar war game, and the major factions in it are extremely powerful. They can build everything from light frigates with various functions to huge titan warships.

The Traders Emergency Alliance is one of the factions in the game, and it is a civilization that is highly similar to humans. Professor Chi's choice of this technology tree should also be based on this consideration.

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[Easter Egg Chapter Attachment 1: The Original Sin of the Solar Empire]

[Easter Egg Chapter Attachment 2: Hammer-class frigate]

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