Voyage of the Stars

The ancients said, "Use your spear to attack your shield." The matter disintegration ray and quark-matter armor are the spear and the shield.

The more Yue Yuan read the report on self-healing strong materials, the more satisfied he was, because it was so powerful. As long as the matter disintegration ray was not allowed to cut at the same position all the time, it could remain intact.

Its self-repair speed is not the kind of slow self-healing, but recovery in an instant. Instant recovery is not about how powerful human technology is, but is determined by the physical properties of the material itself, because the cutting and recovery of quark pairs are almost instantaneous.

The report also wrote that when this material is bombarded by matter disintegration rays, it will produce a hydrogen molecule cloud like mist and thick clouds. Obviously, that is because after the strong reorganization of the broken, new quark pairs are produced. The quark pairs are self-assembled at that moment to form protons and neutrons, form atomic nuclei, and then spontaneously become the simplest and most common hydrogen molecules in the universe.

However, it requires matter disintegration rays with a strength of quark level.

The report mentioned that this material is very rare and difficult to manufacture. It is almost like the original strong material. It must be formed in a super force field at one time, and the difficulty of cutting is very huge. If it is in the shape of a stick, it can be cut with a super-power material disintegration ray while applying tension, but if it is a large component, such as a plate, it cannot be cut twice at all, because the cutting is not as fast as it heals.

At the same time, its performance is perfect.

Its impact resistance and hardness index completely exceed the previous strong materials. It is for this reason that the material science department believes that it is not a traditional strong material known to humans, but a quark material.

Because although it is also a material formed by the arrangement of strong bound particles, the principle is very different from the previous strong materials. It is formed by the rearrangement of quark pairs under the regulation of the super force field after the super force field breaks the proton-neutron barrier.

The forming process of this quark material in the super force field is very complicated and takes a long time, because it needs to be shaped and finalized. If the super force field is withdrawn in insufficient time, it will immediately return to the original ordinary material.

Humans call this process quark materialization, which means that by constantly adjusting the force field parameters, the quark pairs are changed from the natural state to the arrangement that humans want, and then fixed.

This process is a bit like the magnetization technology of permanent magnetic materials.

The magnetization process of permanent magnetic materials means that the magnetization state of the material changes under the action of the magnetic field. After being magnetized by the external magnetic field, the material can maintain its magnetism for a long time even if the external magnetic field is removed.

In this way, the quark material of human beings now is the process of quark materialization of the material in the super force field. After the super force field is removed, its state can be maintained.

According to the report, humans must constantly adjust the super force field structure in this process to produce a force field that changes according to a certain law. The parameters involved in each time stage exceed one billion, and each parameter cannot be wrong. As long as one parameter is wrong, all efforts will be wasted.

In addition, not all materials can be put into the super force field. Like magnetized permanent magnetic materials, it requires specific materials.

This kind of specific material also needs to be made. The raw materials need a lot of rare elements, and many of them are artificial radioactive elements. Heavy metals such as gold and silver also need to be mixed in.

According to the estimate in the report, if you turn over an ordinary rocky planet and obtain various rare metals, you can only make a 1000m quark material.

Of course, when it is really made, humans cannot make a cube. After all, this thing can hardly change its shape after being made by the super force field, and it can't be cut.

Therefore, if you want to make it into battleship armor, you must complete the shaping during the first processing, which is quite similar to firing porcelain.

It is conceivable that if you want to build a fully armed new generation flagship, you must invest a long time.

After receiving this report, the relevant battleship construction department directly made an assessment and believed that if the armor of the new flagship of mankind is all made of this material, then it is estimated that only one ship can be built like the current Tianqin.

There is no way.

The characteristics of this material require humans to use template prefabrication in the new flagship construction plan. First, it is manufactured piece by piece, then the super force field is used to complete the quark materialization, and finally the shells are spliced ​​together piece by piece.

This requires humans to have corresponding splicing technology. After all, interstellar battleships cannot be riveted like aircraft shells, and quark materials cannot be riveted.

And this involves another technology-super force field welding technology.

The general principle is that the super force field is like the process of producing quark materials. After the battleship shells are spliced ​​together, strong pressure is applied to them, and at the same time, the super force field is applied to the joints of the two parts, so that this part undergoes the quark material manufacturing process again, so that the spliced ​​parts complete a perfect seamless whole.

Quark materials are difficult to cut, but they can be bonded in this way.

In this way, a battleship with a smooth shell can be built.

Yes, it is smooth and flat, not a fully reflective mirror shell, because the appearance of this material is also completely different from traditional strong materials.

The surface of traditional strong materials is absolutely smooth at the macroscopic level, with 100% mirror reflectivity. But this quark material does not inherit this at all. If you look closely at it with your naked eyes, you will see that its surface is like a colorless water fluid composed of countless tiny short strips of pixels, giving people a soft and tender feeling.

Before humans successfully developed this material, they could not imagine that its appearance would be so tender, just like a soft water fluid, which is in sharp contrast to its powerful performance.

After the successful development of the new material, the design of the new flagship was also released. Its shape is in line with the current Tianqin, but in order to meet the needs of the super star destroyer, its size will be further enlarged to an astonishing 800 kilometers.

It far exceeds the size of a planetary battleship.

And this level of battleship is called a star-class battleship by humans.

Obviously, a star-class battleship does not mean a battleship as big as a star, but a battleship with the ability to destroy a star.

The relevant departments have initially estimated that the new flagship under design will take at least a thousand years from the start of construction to completion, which is very time-consuming.

However, if quark materials are not used for armor, it will not be so troublesome.