Universe dominance

In Longling Town, Meijiang County, compared with the bustling lunar tourism outside, Fuyun Group has become quite low-key at this time. It has not come out with new technological products for a long time, so that some people are wondering whether Li Fu is Jiang Lang's talents are exhausted.

Here at the Space Center in Longling Town, on the huge parking lot, several huge "Hercules" space planes are parked quietly next to their respective terminals. At this time, the ground staff are extremely busy, giving these aircraft The space shuttle replenishes energy, compressed air, and materials that need to be transported into space.

Here at the command center, Li Fu is currently discussing with Yu Liang, Chen Bin, Cao Haitao, and Yang Yiping about building their own space station. The Sky City Plan is a huge plan made by everyone. The purpose is to first build a space station in space. Build a space station, and then slowly build a huge space city around the space station.

City in the Sky, just by listening to the name, you can tell that Li Fu and others are obviously unwilling to just build a space station.

A detailed planning map is being played on the huge monitor. This is what the entire sky will look like under planning. Under the plan, the Sky City can be divided into space agriculture area, space factory area, space port, scientific research area, and living area. Each of the five parts is a separate structure, and they are connected to each other by passages to form a huge space city.

"Should we consider adding a weapon system? Otherwise, if a meteorite or a scrapped satellite hits our sky city, it will cause inestimable losses."

Yu Liang looked at the big screen. The entire planning of the Sky City has been completed a long time ago, and construction will start soon. What everyone is discussing now is to improve the Sky City and see what areas need improvement. .

After all, we are in space and not on the ground. Once a mistake occurs and we want to make up for it, it is definitely not an easy task, especially from the beginning of the design, all aspects should be taken into consideration.

"This is an issue that we have never considered. However, when we originally applied to build the Sky City, we did not apply for a weapon system. If we add a weapon system now, will it be considered illegal?"

Chen Bin nodded when he heard this. Sky City has a huge investment and is of great importance. It is the bridgehead for Fuyun Group to enter space. Naturally, there is no room for failure. However, in space, if there is no self-defense weapon system, meteorites, satellite debris, etc. etc. can easily cause huge damage to the Sky City.

Historically, the International Space Station has been hit by abandoned satellite debris, almost crashing the International Space Station. You must know that over the decades of human space exploration, satellite debris, rocket debris, abandoned satellites, The number of spacecraft and so on is already quite large.

And as time goes by, there will be more and more space junk in space. These space junk moving at high speed in space will cause huge losses as long as they hit satellites, spacecrafts, space stations, etc.

Therefore, the International Space Station and the Tiangong Space Station are equipped with advanced detection instruments that can detect these space junks on a large scale. Once it is discovered that space junks will hit them, they will immediately use weapons to destroy them, or carry out Change track to avoid.

"Our Sky City will definitely be very large in the future. Even if we install many large plasma engines, it will not be easy to change orbit. If there is really no weapon system, it will definitely be attacked frequently in the future. Space debris impact."

Li Fu also nodded. Space debris is an issue that must be carefully considered. Thinking of this, Li Fu couldn't help but frown.

"According to international practice, this outer space does not belong to any country. If we equip the weapon system on the Sky City, it will not violate the laws of any country. However, we are Chinese after all, and our company is also in China. It stands to reason The city in the sky we built should also be regarded as the territory of China, and naturally it must be under the jurisdiction of China and must abide by China's laws, so this matter is not easy to handle. "

Yang Yiping also frowned and told the key points.

"If we apply to someone now, do you think the higher-ups will agree to our equipping weapons systems in Sky City?"

Cao Haitao touched his chin and thought carefully.

"We in China have very strict weapons management. It is definitely not an easy task for a private company to equip us with weapons systems, let alone in space."

"Our company has gone through many applications to equip its security personnel with weapons. Until now, we can only be equipped with some simple weapons, and they must be inspected regularly. I'm confused!"

Yu Liang shook his head. Fuyun Group has developed to this day. It is huge in scale and has many high-tech technologies. Therefore, it has invested a huge amount of money in security to build a huge security team. It has also applied for weapons. It can apply for The reason why we came down was because Fuyun Group's technology was too important, and foreign spies were frequently discovered. In order to protect our own technology, we naturally had to agree.

"A weapon system in space, and a weapon system that is used to destroy space junk. The power of this weapon must be acceptable, and it is best to be a weapon system similar to a laser weapon."

Chen Bin didn't think about whether it was legal or not, but instead thought about what kind of weapon would be more appropriate.

When everyone else heard about laser weapons, they couldn't help but nod. Traditional weapon systems are not easy to use in space. You must know that the speed of space debris is very fast. In space orbit, the speed can reach several kilometers or even A speed of more than ten kilometers per second.

Such an astonishing speed, on the one hand, requires very high detection equipment, which can detect these space junks very far away, and on the other hand, it also requires very high requirements on attack weapon systems. You simply cannot deal with these small objects with ordinary weapons. Small space junk.

It is possible to use missiles to attack space junk, but after the missile explodes, it will produce more space junk. As for other weapons, it is basically useless in space.

On the contrary, laser weapons are very suitable. The advantages of laser weapons are very obvious. The light energy output of laser weapons can reach the level of the speed of light, truly as fast as lightning; laser weapons can accurately directional attacks; the energy release of laser weapons is controllable. Sex - High-energy beams can be used for lethal strikes and high-speed cutting, while low-energy beams can cause non-lethal damage.

Using laser weapons to destroy space junk in space is definitely the most appropriate method at present. No other weapon system can destroy space junk as quickly, accurately, and pollution-free as laser weapons.

"Laser weapons are of course a very good choice, but laser weapons are among the top weapons now. No country in the world has mastered laser weapons. Moreover, these laser weapons are only limited to laser stunners. Really speaking, using lasers to There have been no relevant actual cases of physical attacks.”

"Let's not talk about whether it is legal or not. It is definitely not an easy task for us to develop a laser weapon that can be used for physical attacks."

Cao Haitao frowned bitterly. Laser weapons can often be seen in science fiction movies. Attacks between space fighter planes, laser beams flashing in the void, accompanied by vehicles being hit by laser beams. The exploding spaceships and so on are very cool.

However, in reality, mankind's current technological level is not yet capable of producing advanced laser weapon systems similar to those in science fiction movies. Otherwise, missiles would still be needed to deal with missiles.

As long as there are laser weapons and laser beams traveling at the speed of light to intercept missiles, wouldn't it be possible to destroy enemy missiles completely? All the famous anti-missile systems now can be thrown into the trash can.

"If laser weapons are not used, what other weapon system can be used in space? What's more, it can be used to deal with high-speed moving space junk."

Chen Bin, who was the first to propose the use of laser weapons, shook his head and objected. You must know that as early as the last century, advanced Western countries had experimented with anti-satellite weapons, which were actually experiments to destroy directed targets in space.

The means used are anti-satellite missiles and anti-satellite satellites, which use physical propulsion means to collide or explode to destroy the target. The response speed of this method is relatively slow and very troublesome.

To launch missiles and satellites into space, and then calculate the orbit of the target, etc., and finally achieve the destruction target, if Fuyun Group needs to use such means to deal with space junk in space, the cost will obviously be very high. And it is very uneconomical and will produce more space junk.

"It is not impossible to manufacture laser weapons, and laser weapons are also very suitable for use in space. If we really install a laser weapon system on Sky City, the safety of Sky City will be There’s nothing to worry about anymore.”

Li Fu, who had been silent all this time, nodded slowly. From the civilization seeds of the super-civilized Han Technological Empire, Li Fu knew that this laser weapon could be considered a very mainstream attack weapon in the universe, and even more so. To be precise, it should be a type of energy weapon.

Laser weapons are very basic energy weapons, and basically all cosmic civilizations can master this kind of weapon.