Voyage of the Stars

Well, human beings who were ready to return to the big universe are now forced to stay here, but there is no other way. Human beings can only do what the "illusion" set.

As a result, the big project of the new flagship was started.

In the construction plan, humanity's new flagship is very large. In order to adapt to the Star Destroyer Cannon, its total length reaches 300 kilometers, its width is about 200 kilometers, and its height is more than 100 kilometers. It is truly a giant in the starry sky.

Prior to this, the designers had already completed the drawing design. Although now in order to make room for the conscious co-channel equipment, only the core parts inside the battleship needed to be optimized, and the designers did not need much time to complete it.

The name of the new battleship has not changed, it is still called Tianqin, but the difference is that this time it is a planet-class battleship Tianqin. Its appearance design is like a design drawing, shaped like a large melon seed, and adopts a multi-engine linkage drive method.

Designers have already calculated that generating a warp bubble large enough to envelop the entire battleship would require four large warp engines, two more than conventional new battleships. They are placed at appropriate locations on the battleship and then uniformly controlled by a center.

It is worth mentioning that the warp engine does not actually need to expose the tail nozzle as conventionally, so the four warp engines can be fully covered and placed inside the battleship. This is very similar to the warp engine in the movie. Big difference. However, because the human warp engine design was based on the alien spacecraft that crashed on Callisto, the design still retains the tail nozzle style engine, which is similar to the structure of the warp engine that was dismantled that year. Same, the tail nozzle is connected to the warp engine.

It is a conventional large-scale magnetic thruster, with four heads and four tails. They are all mechanical structures that can mechanically flip up, down, left, and right, retract the interior of the warship, and release the exterior. Humans have long been able to do this easily in terms of mechanics. This also eliminates the need for propellers on both sides and in the upper and lower directions, saving a lot of space for the battleship.

This design not only saves space, but also allows the excess heat generated during work due to warp speed to be discharged from the spacecraft through the conventional power tail jet system. The conventional power system is also connected to the battleship's cooling system. This is a human reference for the ship that crashed on Jupiter. The four-ship design has proven to be very good.

The manufacturing process of the planetary Lyra is very complex. In terms of complexity alone, it is more complicated than an astronomical particle collider. Its shell needs to be made entirely of No. 2 alloy materials, and its main support frame must all be made of strong materials.

These two items alone are a huge project.

But the construction of warships involves more than just materials. There is also the construction of shipboard supercomputers that can carry comprehensive strong artificial intelligence. Yes, as the flagship of a fourth-level civilization, it is impossible for humans to use the original supercomputers, so everything needs to be rebuilt. Use the latest technological achievements to build a new warship.

Weapon systems, power systems, and detection systems all need to be newly built. Among them, the weapon system includes many categories, including the Star Destroyer Cannon whose acceleration part reaches 150 kilometers, the force field shield system whose components need to be distributed in various positions of the battleship, various secondary guns and gravity bombs, anti-matter bomb delivery device

All of these must be produced from scratch.

These things will be constructed together with the structural shell of the planet-class Lyran. Like the warp engine, they will be processed and produced in different factories. After completion, they will be transported to the battleship that has completed the frame construction for installation.

Since the battleship is very huge, humans do not intend to build a huge space dock first and then build it as before. Instead, they directly build a basic working platform in space and then start building it from the basic working platform.

Naturally, such a large warship cannot be formed in one go, so whether it is its shell or frame, each part needs to be processed in the space factory first, and then transported to the construction site for secondary processing and assembly. This presents a problem - strong materials cannot be processed twice.

It is impossible for humans to plasticize the entire battleship frame from the factory at once, so they can only rivet and link it by manufacturing various mortise and tenon structures, adding fittings, screws, external reinforcement, etc. This workload is very huge and difficult. Some places cannot even be fully automated, and must be manually driven by engineering boats and built slowly like bees building a nest.

Building such a huge warship is just a matter of these major items. The internal construction of the warship is also extremely complicated. With a huge size of hundreds of kilometers, its internal structure is more complicated than the construction of several large cities, with various compartments, plywood, and partitions. Units, living facilities, workplaces, combat command, weapons and ammunition depots, and resource warehouses.

It must have a complete set of things needed for human life and warfare. It must even have various scientific research departments, technical colleges and other institutions of higher learning, as well as various industrial production and mechanical processing factories. It can be said that such a battleship is a comprehensive one, a collection of the entire creation of human civilization.

It is no exaggeration to say that if this battleship were placed on the earth, it would be an existence larger than a treasure island. An island can only be built on one ground plane, and the interior of this planet-class battleship is multi-layered and three-dimensional. Yes, let's put it this way, the entire treasure island spans only 395 kilometers from north to south and 144 kilometers from east to west. By comparison, you can understand the huge size of this battleship.

To build such a complex warship that ensures its strong combat effectiveness, the construction period will definitely be long. Experts estimate that the construction period will be about five hundred years.

In order to accommodate the ‘consciousness synchronization device’, the interior of this new flagship must be designed according to the design drawings given by the awakener’s intelligent system. In particular, the various devices in the command center must be placed according to the layout it gives, so that the warship can use the equipment given by the awakener.

Moreover, these devices are completely different from the various devices that humans usually put in the command center. Visual display systems such as large screens are completely unnecessary, and external input devices such as workbenches that humans usually use are also unnecessary.

These are no longer necessary, but many other devices are needed, such as external input devices. Humans have to make enough space in the very interior to accommodate that set of equipment, and arrange a large number of densely packed access ports here. All the control system ports on the warship must be connected here. The purpose is naturally self-evident, which is to connect the ‘consciousness synchronization device’ to the entire warship.

Of course, the command center still exists, and humans need to build at least 8,000 cockpits here.