Voyage of the Stars

Equipping different types of weapons is not to show the advancedness of the warship, but each weapon has its own meaning.

For example, the so-called sub-light speed weapon is actually mainly the positron cannon. Yes, the powerful positron cannon of the second and third level civilizations can only be used as a close-range defense cannon in the fourth level civilization. The main function is naturally to use high-frequency shooting to block the shells entering the extremely close distance.

In addition, there are electron cannons and laser energy cannons previously equipped on the third-level civilization warships, all of which have become close-range defense cannons.

The reason why electron cannons are equipped in addition to positron cannons is mainly because the main weapon of the fourth-level warships is that humans have never seen other fourth-level civilization warships, and can only guess based on the main guns in the warships they designed. You must know that the star destroyer cannons designed by humans now can not only fire antimatter warheads, but also conventional normal matter warheads, so the close-range defense cannon must also have normal matter firepower and antimatter firepower.

The purpose is naturally to efficiently block the opponent's star destroyer warhead.

If the warhead is normal matter, use antimatter such as positron cannons to sweep it, otherwise use electron cannons to block it. The annihilation of matter and antimatter is a physical law, and the fourth-level civilization has no ability to change the law. Therefore, no matter how high-tech it looks or how powerful its shells are, it cannot escape the law of annihilation of matter and antimatter.

The same is true for the armor of the fourth-level civilization warships.

Whether it is No. 2 alloy or a more powerful strong interaction material, no matter how powerful your material performance is, as long as it is directly hit by an antimatter bomb or antimatter missile, it will inevitably be annihilated and destroyed.

It is for this reason that on warships designed by humans, not only force field shields have become the main defense capability, perhaps not only humans, but also any civilization that has realized the grand unified theory and stepped onto the fourth-level civilization and mastered the various scientific and technological application relationships of the fourth-level civilization will do so.

The force field shield has become the main shield of the warship. As for the status of the warship armor, due to the large-scale application of antimatter-related weapons, its role will not be as great as that of the lower-level civilization.

Of course, it is not useless. Strong armor is much better than armor that can be broken with a single poke. After all, even if everyone can be blown out by an antimatter bomb, the structure of a warship with better armor must be more stable and more able to withstand the trauma caused by the explosion. At the same time, it can also adapt to the harsh cosmic environment.

Just like a detector made of strong interaction force materials, it can even dive into a star, but after entering, it will not be able to drive its warp engine out due to the huge gravitational force of the star.

So in this case, the repair ability of the warship is extremely important. Nano-repair technology has been elevated to an extremely core position in the fourth-level civilization. For this reason, it is impossible for the main battleship to be made entirely of strong interaction force materials, because once this material is destroyed by an antimatter bomb, it will move the whole body and cause irreversible changes in the entire piece of material.

This change was already known when humans developed the strong interaction force material. It belongs to a whole piece of material. Once it is destroyed, its internal mechanical structure will change, resulting in the strong interaction force no longer occupying a dominant position, which also changes its material nature, turning it into an ordinary material, and then collapses.

Therefore, although the strong interaction material is strong and hard, it is not omnipotent and is not suitable for use as armor for large warships. It is very good for the skeleton keel and main frame support because it can withstand the volume of the large warship itself and prevent the warship from falling apart due to various ultra-high-speed inertial speed changes during the battle.

The reason why humans dare to design warships with a length of 300 kilometers and a width and height of 100 kilometers is mainly because of the confidence given by the strong interaction material. It can even be said that it is a necessary material for designing super-large warships.

In the future, humans will definitely use this material as the main frame. As for other warships, they can probably only be modified with No. 2 alloy, after all, strong interaction materials are still too difficult to obtain.

The high production difficulty also led to humans only being able to focus on high technology on the flagship, and other ordinary warships could not be built so huge. Fortunately, in addition to the star destroyer, warships with neutron killing/neutron explosion as the main gun do not need such a huge body.

Therefore, it can be predicted that the flagship of the future human fleet must be very conspicuous, because it must be the largest and most advanced warship in the fleet.

Of course, it must be the most powerful, because the warship design experts plan to put several nano-repair robot production workshops in this future period, and the design of the interior of the warship will also change the past, adopting the internal and external armored compartment mode.

In other words, the warship is also equipped with internal compartment armor like the outer armor of the warship, just like the bottom compartment of the ship, so that the warship will not be leaked everywhere if a hole is punched. This mode is like covering a layer of skin on the internal organs of the human body, making the warship more resistant to beating.

The design also requires that the new flagship must have super high maneuverability and cannot become bulky because of its large size. To achieve this requirement, the new flagship must have enough powerful power, and the so-called powerful power of the fourth-level civilization must have two types, one is warp power, and the other is conventional power.

In terms of warp speed, the designers calculated that such a large warship must adopt a multi-engine linkage drive method to generate a large enough warp bubble to wrap the entire warship. After careful calculations, scientists concluded that there were four large warp engines, two more than in conventional new battleships.

They are placed in appropriate positions on the warship and then controlled by a central hub.

It is worth mentioning that the warp engine does not need to expose the tail nozzle like the conventional one, so the four warp engines can be placed inside the warship with full coverage, which is very different from the warp engines in the movie.

However, the design of the new flagship still has a tail nozzle-style engine, which is a conventional large magnetic thruster, with four at the head and four at the tail. They are all mechanical structures that can be mechanically flipped up and down and retracted to the inside of the warship and released to the outside. Humans can easily do this in terms of mechanics, and therefore the thrusters on both sides and in the upper and lower directions are omitted, saving a lot of space for the warship.

For this design requirement, the warship design department does not know how much hair has been plucked out. Fortunately, human genetic technology is advanced enough to prevent designers from changing their hairstyles.