"Your plans have good ideas..."

Northwest Antania, Kunpeng Aerospace Research Center, Vasily is training several young people.⊥

"We have indeed made great progress in space technology, but this does not mean that we can lose our foundation and replace science with imagination and aesthetics."

Relying on the synchronous translation intelligence of Pei, Vasily spoke Russian, and other people's A-view will put the required subtitles on it, and there is no communication problem.

"We have not made a big breakthrough in this level of aerospace materials. I can't imagine that titanium alloy is still used as a skeleton and shell, plus various coatings with complex processes. The huge spacecraft created in this way can bear the violent acceleration in space, not to mention fighting, so... it is not qualified."

Vasily waved his hand, and a bunch of design models in his vision turned into powder, making these young designers moan.

“We are engineering research, and demand is preferred!”

A designer bravely stood up to oppose authority. Vasily was a core member of the springboard project. After the establishment of Star Alliance, he was not only responsible for the overall design of the spacecraft, but also in charge of the power system of the spacecraft. He is one of the world's top aerospace designers.

However, in the eyes of these new generations, Vasily came from the Rocket Age and was too confined to tradition. And in terms of professionalism, what he is best at is the power system. In the overall design of the aircraft in the new era, it is not enough to educate them.

"If the materials cannot be done, we will make demands on the materials, rather than deciding what spacecraft can be built based on the existing materials."

The young designer waved his hand to send the design indicators to the air. This was the design instructions sent by the Xinglian Management Committee to Kunpeng Company.

This explanation is the demand plan that Xia Ming took out after returning from the United Nations headquarters and spent several days in the core laboratory.

The plan requires that in the future, Star Alliance must have a powerful space combat platform, that is, a space warship, which has considerable capabilities in firepower, protection, maneuvering and self-sustaining, and can cope with various combat environments.

In terms of firepower, Xia Ming proposed that warships must be equipped with laser weapons and kinetic energy weapons with sufficient power at the same time, and the platform must also leave plenty of space to carry missile weapons, as well as new weapons in the future, such as ion cannons.

Currently, the maximum power of laser weapons with practical value is 200 megawatts. Generally speaking, a 100 kilowatt laser can destroy small missiles in 2 seconds, and 500 kilowatts can destroy ballistic missiles and fighter jets. This is still in the atmosphere, and its power and range will be stronger in space. 200 megawatts are enough to burn through the battleship armor of World War II in 3 seconds. The plan requires the platform to carry at least two such weapons.

Kinetic energy weapons are naturally electromagnetic railguns. The plan requires that the warships carry at least two railguns with a caliber of 200 mm and a kinetic energy of 1,000 megajou. Such railguns can directly penetrate the nests of the mutated Borg.

In addition, it is also equipped with an ultra-high frequency microwave weapon with extremely high range and strength, which can weaken or even destroy all biological targets within hundreds of kilometers.

In addition to these main weapons, there will be a large number of small and medium-power weapons. In addition, a considerable number of small and medium-caliber gunpowder weapons will be installed to deal with emergencies after power failure.

In terms of protection, after all, there is no black technology such as energy shield. From a scientific principle, this type of technology is still far away from the anti-gravity technology, so it can only rely on materials to bear it. Considering the problem of mobility, the solution has very low requirements for hard protection of warships, and only requires the shell to resist general gunpowder weapons. The core area resists small and medium-sized weapons equipped by the warship itself, and focuses more on intelligent damage pipes.

Compared with hard protection, warships consider soft protection more and consider various rays very carefully, requiring sufficient redundancy for the design schemes.

In terms of maneuvering, the plan requires warships to have a 20-day cruise speed from the Earth to the star gate, and have certain tactical maneuverability, such as slewing radius, etc. Although it is much lower than the fighter jets in the atmosphere, it must also have the ability to quickly avoid the battle penalty area and prevent being hit by friendly firepower.

In terms of self-sustainment, Xia Ming hopes to reach a level that can support three months of cruise, and has primary smelting and manufacturing capabilities, and can rely on asteroid resources to supplement basic materials and repair damage to a certain extent.

It can be seen that this plan is not a decisive weapon like a "space fortress", but a warship that can be built in large quantities, with strong merits and weak defenses and strong adaptability. If compared with naval combat thinking, it is equivalent to a cruiser. Unlike Unoc, in Yunas' reconstruction plan, robot fighter jets are emphasized.

Even if it is just a space cruiser rather than a space battleship, it is still technically difficult for humans to achieve, and the first problem is the material.

Qianyi's "intelligence" is unavailable to humans, and even Xia Ming does not have it. The second-level intelligence silver is all on Xia Ming's Scavenger and Siyuan space station, and they cannot be counted on. Unless they obtain the core of intelligence silver, they can only rely on humans' existing material technology.

For humans, the largest spacecraft is the new generation of International Space Station, and it is still difficult to hang small cabins with shelves.

The reason is that the larger the spacecraft, the faster the speed, and the higher the requirements for structural strength. If materials such as titanium alloy are used as skeletons, the spacecraft built in this way will accelerate, decelerate or change direction slightly, and the structure of each part will be deformed.

Like the spacecraft that is larger than the moon in "Independence Day 2", the material technology has surpassed humans for hundreds or thousands of years, and will be beaten by humans. I am really sorry for science. Of course, you can't even bring your brain to watch popcorn movies, let alone science.

The plan proposed by Xia Ming already has an outline in terms of the size of the warship.

The weapons to be carried determine the size of the warship. Each of the main weapons will swallow the power of a power plant. Even if the nuclear fusion reactor can be miniaturized, it will not be too small if the supporting technology is not fully followed up. Moreover, whether it is a laser cannon or a rail cannon, the energy density required is amazing, and the capacitor system will also occupy a lot of space.

The second is power. To push such a large warship to reach a speed close to the Scavenger and to have considerable maneuverability, multiple large ion engines are required. The combustion consumption of ion engines is not large, and there is also a huge demand for electricity. In turn, the size of the warship must be increased.

Including the requirements of crew living space, survival systems, weapons and ammunition storage, etc., the minimum volume of the warship calculated by Gei is the sum of the three Ford-class aircraft carriers.

One of the overall design work of designers is to find the most reasonable space allocation plan and make requirements for the corresponding sub-system based on the indicators of each part of the plan. If you can't even handle this, there is no need to think about it anymore.

Relying on the help of the Lusu engine and the design gei, the young designers fully utilized their imagination and created a variety of appearance solutions. There is a refined and concise style of democracy and freedom, a collection of power, political and violent styles full of edges and spikes, and asymmetric fantasy styles, etc.

But Vasily told them that no matter what kind of wind it was, it was useless!

The designer who stood up was very dissatisfied with Vasily's attitude. Is this obviously a plan to deny Xia Ming's demand?

Some people took the lead, and other designers followed suit.

"Although the material of the mutated Borg is not Zhiyin, it is almost the same. Before we can find new materials, we can completely use it to remove the nest!"

"The long axis of the nest is more than 100 kilometers. What mechanism is its structure that can overcome the intensity problem?"

"If all axial lengths are limited to 500 meters, the requirements for material strength will not be that high, right? The aphrodisiac plan I designed is just right!"

Vasily waved his hand and said seriously: "Disconnect the A connection and the data terminal will be turned off, and video recording is prohibited."

The designers followed suit with half shock and half doubt. Vasily inserted a memory card into the pei on his wrist, and the image appeared on the big screen.

"These are still confidential now. You can see it and cannot be leaked to the outside world."

As soon as Vasily finished speaking, the designers took a breath and their eyes stuck to the screen.

The dark passage, the weird cabin, was obviously the nest of the mutated Borg.

The camera should be a person's helmet camera, and he was observing with a terahertz scanner while walking, while muttering to himself.

"Star Lian Academy of Sciences, Engineering Department Spacecraft Design Center, Wei Long, July 16, 2023, Research on Mutation Borg Nest, Day 12."

"I have completed the model restoration of the power system functional compartment. Today I am transferred to the structural group to figure out how such a big guy can solve the problem of material strength."

"The materials department of the Academy of Sciences has figured out the composition of the nest shell. Unfortunately, except for the part that was eroded by mutant organisms, the other parts are ordinary titanium, and even alloy steel. In terms of composition, it is the level of humans in the 1980s."

"Even if the eroded part is similar to the Zhiyin, its performance is much worse than the Zhiyin on the Scavenger and Siyuan in all aspects. And like the materials on the mutated Borg's corpse, they all show a strange rust phenomenon... How to say, the original materials may be the same as Zhiyin, with some biological characteristics, but now, they are all dead."

"I don't have any expectations for the new research topic. From the power system of the mutated Borg, they are actually using chemical rockets! I really can't figure out how this kind of spacecraft could be built with such a large spacecraft? I was wondering, will I finally discover that the skeleton of this spacecraft is actually a huge biological bone?"

"This spacecraft is becoming more and more like it has been descended by Cthulhu..."

The picture is fast forward, and day after day, Wei Long's research topics are also progressing. By July 25, Wei Long finally came to a conclusion, and the designers have already understood.

"How is that possible?"

The conclusion made them incredible. This huge nest was not a giant ship at all, and could only be called a spaceship.

It has no skeleton at all, but is pieced together by several segments. The connection between each segment is reinforced on the shell with reinforcement materials, which can only ensure that each segment will not be staggered due to the movement of the horizontal axis.

In other words, the spacecraft can only move in one direction and cannot even slow down. Even a little movement in other directions can make the spacecraft fall apart.

"This is a sad story..."

Wei Long's summary was filled with pity. The spacecraft was carrying a civilization running towards the star gate. Most of the cabins were divided into dense sleeping compartments. It was not a refrigeration compartment, but a device that caused the crew to fall into deep sleep, with a total of 200 to 300 million.

The spacecraft should have been built in space. They flew straight to the Star Gate with simple chemical rockets, as if they thought that the Star Gate was a new world like heaven.

Why this civilization did this is not something Wei Long and the designers could understand. They only knew that this spacecraft, at least in aerospace technology, did not leave them anything available.

Humans can also build such a spacecraft, but it is impossible to do so if they are not killed or tempted by something. If they really want to build it, they will also have technologies such as intelligence and ion engines.

"Things related to the mutated Borg civilization have nothing to do with our work." The image disappeared, and Vasily's words made the designers wake up. "I asked you to see this, just telling you that what we want to build is a warship, not a super-large wooden raft of refuge. If the threshold of the material cannot pass, we can only reduce the size of the warship and reduce the indicators in all aspects."

The designer who stood up first sighed: "So, are you asking us to report to Xiaoxia together? His needs plan is unrealistic?"

"Of course not," Vasily shrugged, "but ask Xiaoxia what level of material technology can reach in the next two years, and then we can figure out what kind of space warships we can build."

In Antania, in the core laboratory like a huge chimney, Xia Ming held the railing and looked down. In the space that was tens of meters deep, a thick cylinder stood, and the blue lights that kept jumping on the surface seemed to roll up a sky.

"Qianyan is upgraded to the critical moment, it seems that you are also in a hurry."

Xia Ming murmured, Xiaotang was lying on his glasses in his vision and said seriously: "Qian Yan's crystal structure depiction of Zhiyin has penetrated into the atomic layer. The biometric characteristics found need to be further analyzed, and it is necessary to improve the computing power of more than a thousand times in both neural computing and supercomputing. The existing artificial synaptic architecture can no longer meet this demand and must be upgraded."

She sighed: "What you are worried about is not the scientific research progress issue, but the new neural unit, right?"

Xia Ming scratched his head: "It's not that he is worried about anything, but... he is a little bit emotionally and emotionally entangled."

"I understand, but you still agree, don't you?" Xiaotang blinked: "If you are struggling with this, aren't you afraid that I will be jealous?"

Xia Ming smiled, knowing that Xiaotang was comforting him.

Qianyan's upgrade this time has a completely different nature from the previous few times. After Xiaotang studied the brain composition of the mutated Borg, he believed that Qianyan could learn from this principle, throw away artificial synapses based on low-level biological manufacturing, and clone and transform more complex advanced biological synapses.

Originally, the priority of this project was not that high, after all, now it has to rely on Qianyan to support the research and development of a lot of core technologies. However, Xiaotang's material project has made progress, and it is only a short time to get a shot, so he made up his mind to take the project ahead of time.

The reason why Xia Ming was a little confused about this direction is that Qianyan’s new neuronal unit will use human crystallized neuronal clones. The cloning object is the brain tissue donated by Lin Qianyan to a medical institution. Xiaotang believes that since Lin Qianyan has carried R3ai, cloning and transforming her neural unit should be very consistent with the existing Qianyan.

Ethically speaking, this matter is indeed a bit taboo. Emotionally, it is not a pleasant thing to use for biological computers after the brain tissue of the first love is cloned and transformed.

However, the threat from Star Gate was like the sword of Damocles, hanging on his head, and in the end he chose to treat the matter rationally.

"If you really want to comfort someone, just have something real," Xia Ming sent a grievance to Xiaotang.

"No problem, I'll give you a Xiaohuan tonight." Xiaotang threw a ginkgo eye back.

While chatting, Lou Xinghai sent a communication request.

"Vasily is forcing the palace." After listening to Lou Xinghai's report, Xia Ming smiled and said, "It's not just him, you also think I'm making big-Leap Forward, right?"

Lou Xinghai was very frank: "Yes, we all think it is safer to build space fighters and miniaturized warships first. You can get on a large warship at once. Materials are just a problem, and energy issues are also a problem, and they all take a long time to solve them."

"The question is, is the next opponent still the technical level of the Sum people?"

Xia Ming said helplessly that the Sum people are mutated Borg civilizations. The Star Alliance Academy and the Space Science Academy have joined forces to crack the text in the nest. "Sum" is the name of this civilization for the mother star, just like humans calling the mother star the earth.

The Sumu people were completely lured into the Star Gate by high-dimensional space-time intelligence. They selected more than 200 million people, the smartest and most dynamic of the tens of billions of races, and rode straight to the Star Gate on a simple and huge spacecraft, thinking that they could open an era of the big star sea. As a result, these people not only became mutated Borgs, but the cosmic bubble where their mother star was also dimensionally reduced, leaving only a lifeless planet shell.

"The key point is not fighter jets or warships, but weapons." Xia Ming's words made Lou Xinghai suddenly realize: "We must deploy the most powerful weapons at this stage in the Star Gate!"

"The Star Gate War has also proved that human nuclear weapons are not very useful in the universe. We can only rely on lasers, orbital guns, and microwave weapons. The greater the power, the better! Platforms such as fighter jets or small warships cannot carry heavy weapons, and we must have large warships."

Xia Ming sighed: "I also know that there are too many technologies that cannot be solved, but this direction is the most preferred. Even if you cannot build a warship that can be flexibly maneuvered, you must deploy some turrets first."
To be continued...