Li Yao has been in the empire for quite some time, and he has a deep understanding of all types of main warships on which the empire relies on to dominate the star sea. He knows that two or three hundred years ago, the imperial military had a short period of "revival of cannon giant ships".

Originally, today, with the increasingly developed crystal armor design and giant god weapon maintenance technology, individual combat capabilities are becoming stronger and stronger, and warships are increasingly inclined to combine firepower output platforms and comprehensive supply platforms, rather than vanguards facing each other.

If more than a hundred masters wear crystal armor armed to the teeth and break into the enemy starship, they may reimburse a starship worth billions or even hundreds of billions. Even if they cannot destroy the other party’s starship, their side will only lose more than a hundred masters at most. Before these masters die, they can always defeat many people from the other party.

Under such a cost-effective disadvantage, it is obviously unpaid to spend a lot of military spending to build a larger-scale starship - it is better to invest resources in the construction of the Crystal Armor Battle Group and the restoration and imitation of the Giant Gods.

However, the technology of crystal armor and giant god weapons is developing, the firepower output of starships, psionic shields and unmanned operation technology are also constantly developing, "cannon giant ships" have always been the dreams of soldiers. Finally, someone proposed that when crystal brain and spiritual network technology develop to the extreme, combat puppets and drones of various forms, remote-controlled cosmic mines can gather into a surging flood tide, and with enough naval cannons, it can destroy all enemies, including the most powerful crystal armor and giant god weapons!

"The Giant God Soldier is definitely not invincible. As long as there are enough combat puppets and drones, the firepower output from the naval gun is strong enough to form a continuous and airtight fire net, you will definitely be able to defeat the Giant God Soldier!

"If it cannot be defeated, it is because there are not enough combat puppets and turrets, and the fire net is not dense enough. If one can build 100,000 turrets on a starship, what kind of enemy cannot be destroyed?"

This was the argument of some cannon giant shipists at that time.

Moreover, they not only talked about it, but also conducted decades of theoretical calculations and tests in the most authoritative military laboratory of the empire. They proved their views in countless tests on virtual battlefields - the "super arsenal ship" equipped with hundreds of thousands of psionic puppets and drones, and equipped with at least 10,000 heavy naval guns, which really made ordinary giant gods' weapons look dirty. Even if the virtual index of these giant gods' weapons is raised to reach the level of the old monster in the transformation of the gods, it is difficult to break through the "super arsenal ship" intercept fire network.

Such a result must not help but move the Imperial military.

After all, the core cockpit of the Giant God Soldier, that is, the R&D technology of the "Lingfu", is not yet mastered by the empire. Even if they can imitate and piece together the hands and feet of the Giant God Soldier and the weapon suit, once the "Lingfu" is blown up, the Giant God Soldier will be completely scrapped.

The war between the Empire and the Holy Alliance will last for a thousand years. If it lasts for another thousand years, the giant god weapons in the Empire will die one less. The Holy Alliance, which has a large number of inheritances in the prehistoric world, obviously masters the maintenance and imitation technology of giant god weapons that are better than the Empire.

If the battle ends and all the giant gods in the empire are consumed, but there are still some giant gods left in the Holy Alliance, it would be very embarrassing.

It was stimulated by such concerns and the "perfect performance" of laboratory virtual warfare that the Imperial Military launched a super arsenal ship construction plan, and the new super warship was known as "King Kong"!

The size, space and firepower of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship were built in the past ten times the largest arsenal ship. In fact, it is more like a combination of the arsenal ship, a comprehensive supply ship and even a Star Wars Fortress.

In the initial design idea, the military will stuff at least 30,000 turrets of various types into each King Kong-class super arsenal ship, hundreds of the most advanced array fire control crystal brains, and more than 500,000 combat puppets and drones, making them the "perfect warship, doomsday warship, the ultimate warship that designers boast about to the Senate!

Is the actual combat power of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship so amazing that it can hang all the giant gods?

This problem is destined to be an unsolved mystery forever.

Perhaps, if these Vajra-level super arsenal ships can really be built according to the highest standards, they can indeed sweep away thousands of troops, be invincible, blow up giant gods, and end all wars.

But before that, what it ended first was the finances of the empire.

The entire construction process of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is a very old-fashioned and sad story.

Perhaps the idea of ​​"fire power first, drone invincible sea" is not wrong, but the designer's idea is too advanced and too grand. The designer greatly overestimated the development speed of the Imperial Crystal Brain Level and underestimated the technical difficulty of tens of thousands of turrets. In other words, in order to allow the Senate to approve the construction plan of the super warship as soon as possible, from the designer to the largest arms contractors in the empire, to the stakeholders within the Senate, they all showed a strong spirit of optimism in cultivating immortals, turned a blind eye to the "small difficulties", and put forward a budget that is not cheap but can still bear it, and a firm guarantee that can form combat effectiveness within 20 years at most.

The Senate at that time agreed to this plan, and sixteen "Kingok-class super arsenal ships" were built in the dock at the same time. This construction lasted for a full hundred years.

During this period, let’s not talk about the natural disasters and man-made disasters caused by various technical problems. The upgrade of the Crystal and combat puppet technology has repeatedly pushed back the original design. The original plan and budget have long been thrown into the wastebasket in the corners. The new construction cost has been increased again and again. In the end, the construction cost of each King Kong-class super arsenal ship actually reached more than twenty times the initial budget!

No matter how "military and poor" the real human empire is, no matter how eager the Senate is to be a successful super warship, it will collapse in the face of such a budget and a long-lasting completion time.

"The King Kong-class super arsenal ship is the most powerful doomsday warship ever, but it is from the Holy Alliance! It just lies motionlessly in the dock and will destroy the entire empire!"

Many elders of the empire roared on the table.

But apart from roaring, they had no choice but to invest astronomical resources into this plan. They might not be able to sell the sixteen unfinished King Kong-class super arsenal ships as scrap metal, right?

What's more, the wealth and water will not flow out of the world, and the astronomical resource investment will not disappear out of thin air, flowing around, but it will flow into the hands of stakeholders of all sizes?

Even these veterans who blew their beards and stared at the table and roared, may not have lost their benefits from it!

In this way, the construction plan of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship became an endless black hole, which dragged the Imperial Army to a severe burden for a hundred years - the Holy Alliance was able to take advantage of the opportunity to defeat the Black Wind Fleet and occupy the entire five heavy industrial worlds of the empire. It is hard to say that it has nothing to do with the weakening of this plan. Even the post-war economic crisis broke out so severely, and it was a small contribution to the King Kong-class super arsenal ship!

When the Holy Alliance invaded the Five Kingdoms of Black Wind, all parties in the empire finally could not bear the endless delay. The relevant contractors seemed to feel that if they continued like this, many people would lose their heads. Sixteen King Kong-class super arsenal ships were finally put into service.

However, because the frontline war is in full swing and the budget is seriously lacking, the sixteen King Kong-class super arsenal ships have not completed the final construction, which is equivalent to a congenital "premature baby". The designers and arms contractors are convinced. If these sixteen Super warships cannot exert their theoretical ultimate combat effectiveness, it is not their fault, but their time and funding. If they are given another thirty or fifty years, and two to three times the funding, the King Kong-class super arsenal ship will definitely blow up all giant gods!

Even the designer and builder are so confident that the performance of these sixteen huge "premature babies" can be imagined.

On the real battlefield, they completely lost the aura of destroying everything on the virtual battlefield, but exposed their clumsy and fragile weaknesses. Moreover, because the cost is too expensive, the four Electoral Emperors' families were reluctant to let these super arsenal ships be put into the most intense battlefield. After only two of them were seriously injured by the Holy Alliance, the remaining fourteen super arsenal ships fled back to their home port in a hurry.

The King Kong-class super arsenal ship completely became a joke. After a hundred years, the empire's "cannon giant ship theory" disappeared, and no new super warships were refined. The daily maintenance costs of the sixteen "premature King Kong" were astronomical, and even the four major electoral families could not bear it. How could they drag them into the dock to complete the real construction?

Therefore, a hundred years later, they are still premature babies who can only exert 30% of their combat effectiveness. They were abandoned by the most elite fleet of the four Election Emperors' families. Instead, they were assigned to the next-level main fleet, and built the "Eight King Kongs" with them as the core, and were sent to the battlefield to wipe out the reformists.

"I know that the evaluation of the King Kong-class super arsenal ship is not very high, but that is caused by a variety of factors. In fact, even if the unfinished premature babies can only exert 30% of their combat effectiveness. As long as they are determined to fight to the death, they can still make any enemy frightened."

Jin Yuyan smiled bitterly, "It does not mean that they will show mercy to our escort fleet. You just tried your best to deceive so many immortal cultivators for a while, but if you say one thousand and ten thousand, these sixteen Vajra-class super arsenal ships are the "Dinghai Sword Needle" of the coalition forces of the four major families. If you cannot completely defeat them on the battlefield, no one will easily turn against us and surrender to us.
Chapter completed!