In this particle spear system, the disaster-class battlecruiser's original eight super-heavy laser cannons on the left and right sides were transformed into 16 energy node arrays to provide energy for the entire system. After the design was completed, the energy of the entire system
The supply structure is like a Christmas tree. The trunk is the central light spear launching device, and the 16 groups of branches and leaves around it are energy nodes.
It is precisely because of this that the design of this battleship was regarded by Arroyo Barlow as the best load-carrying prototype ship.
The particle spear is actually a high-energy light speed particle emitter. However, like all laser weapons and energy weapons, due to the principle of wave-particle duality, the energy will show diffusion, so the energy weapon cannot be focused for a long time and is often
After a certain distance, the energy dispersed is almost the same as that of a flashlight.
Therefore, the biggest difficulty of this technology is how to keep light-speed particles focused for a long time. After a single shot of the particle spear is completed, the gradually extinguished ion beam can clearly show two trajectories - one is a straight-line trajectory directly emitted.
, the other is a spiral trajectory wrapped around the launch trajectory.
This spiral trajectory is an intuitive expression of the technology of constraining and focusing particles at the speed of light.
In this era, the galaxy's war model is not yet mature. With new weapons emerging one after another, everyone is trying to cross the river by feeling the stones. For example, the emergence of the Phantom fighter and the Banshee fighter has allowed the Galactic Republic to speed up its anti-stealth technology.
The development of super-matter electromagnetic guns on the Cole-class battlecruisers and Ragnarov-class Titan battleships forced the Republic to start paying attention to countermeasures against kinetic energy weapons.
However, now, a brand new weapon has appeared - an ultra-long-range light speed energy weapon, the particle light spear!
As mentioned before, if super-matter electromagnetic guns and stealth technology are actually just the development of the current technology in the Milky Way, then the emergence of the light spear is an epoch-making progress! This is a super-powerful technology that is at least 100 years ahead of the current technology in the Milky Way.
arms!
In fact, if there is no Kyber Crystal, even if the Fourth Civilization has all the data of the light spear, it will take at least more than ten years to perfect other related technologies and develop this technology. The existence of Kyber Crystal
It's like taking a shortcut.
In the "Star Wars" universe, similar technology is naturally the Death Star. And with the Kyber Crystal, the construction of the Death Star will take at least 20 years. Up to now, the Death Star's energy system is still just a
It’s just a concept. Let alone applying this weapon to battleships for mass production!
The emergence of particle light spears has caused the Galactic Republic, the Confederation of Independent Systems, and even the Fourth Civilization itself to face earth-shaking changes in their tactical structure.
For example, in the past, although the battles in the Milky Way spanned a large area, the width of the battlefield was only tens of thousands of kilometers, and at most it would not exceed 100,000 kilometers. Therefore, even in the interstellar battlefield, it actually took place around the planet. At this distance
, energy weapons are basically launched instantly and hit instantly, while missiles and other sub-light weapons can first detect and then intercept or avoid.
However, the emergence of particle light spears has made it possible to strike at ultra-long distances at the speed of light at the planetary system level. This has led to a situation where at ultra-long distances, even a strike at the speed of light will take dozens of minutes or even hours.
, but there is no possibility of evading this blow.
Because with current technology, all observation methods are based on the speed of light. When you discover the other party's movements and send the message back, the same light-speed blow has already arrived - even if the light-speed particle has been flying for more than ten hours
.
Therefore, this puts forward a requirement for faster-than-light transmission of information for both parties. Whether the attacker needs to get attack feedback instantaneously, or the defender needs to get attack information instantaneously, super-light speed communication is required.
For now, this technology is very mature, that is, hyperspace communication. Hyperspace communication can conduct real-time communication across galaxies. It is not difficult for you to achieve real-time communication within the planetary system, but the only problem is that you need to build
A tactical-grade hyperspace communication base station.
Otherwise, if you use a hyperspace communication base station on a planet, firstly, it will not be able to transmit very complex data, and secondly, it will be easily interfered by various interference signals on the battlefield.
Therefore, the final conclusion is that it is not difficult to detect ultra-long-distance strikes such as particle light spears. What is difficult is that you need to modify the supporting facilities of your entire fleet. And even if you can use hyperspace communication technology to prevent yourself from
As for being beaten just like this time, half a galaxy away, but the opponent's attack range is right here, even if the distance is shortened, you can still have a very broad and flexible tactical range.
It may not be realistic to hit you from more than ten light hours away, but it will be the same if I hit you from more than ten light hours away. Apart from using hyperspace communication technology to know that you are about to be beaten, you have no way to counterattack.
Can be beaten passively.
When the opponent increases the speed of the battlefield to the speed of light and increases the size of the battlefield to light minutes and light hours, weapons such as conventional missiles and turbo laser cannons become meaningless.
And now, such a problem is placed in front of the current commander of the Galactic Republic's Fourth Army Fleet, Admiral Davis.
After being attacked by the particle light spear at an ultra-long distance, he immediately ordered all battleships to be in an evasive state, changing their positions at all times, and at the same time, 10 Jaeger-class battlecruisers were divided into an assault formation to attack the enemy at the edge of the galaxy.
The three warships launched an assault.
"If the other party wants to launch an ultra-long-distance attack on us, they must have hidden detection outposts in the galaxy! Send a spaceship immediately to find these hidden outposts!" Admiral Davis said loudly, "Also! Give it to me immediately
Evaluate the possibility of using a hyperdrive to perform short hyperspace jumps within the galaxy!"
"General, we have already assessed that it is very difficult. According to the current orbits of the seven planets in the Semires galaxy, if we want to make a short-distance hyperspace jump from the vicinity of the Semires planet, then the numbers 5 and 7 in the galaxy will
Planet No. 5 will form a mass projection in hyperspace, interfering with our jump. The other party obviously took this into consideration, so they chose this location, and they have to wait until Planets No. 5 and No. 7 orbit away, revealing the space available in the galaxy.
If it is a hyperspace channel, it will take at least 10 days." The navigation engineer shook his head and said.
"So how long will it take to attack using a sublight speed engine?" Admiral Davis asked.
"It will take close to three days to keep approaching in the avoidance state. I have formulated a plan to use ultra-short hyperspace jumps multiple times to avoid the mass projection of planets No. 5 and No. 7, which can shorten the time to one day." Navigation
said the engineer.
General Davis looked extremely ugly. He waved his hand and said, "Then stop this attack plan! Let's retreat!"
"If we retreat against the opponent's ultra-long-range laser attack, once our battleship stays in place for too long, the opponent can send target information from the planet through hyperspace communication, and then the opponent can directly fire and attack. Then our battleship cannot
We have stayed at the same position for more than 16 hours, but if we want to receive our army on board, it is impossible to stay for less than 16 hours no matter what." the adjutant said from the side.
"Abandon all the armies. In our plan anyway, they are just cannon fodder." General Davis said coldly. He pointed to another document on the table, "We have obtained it from Master Wilf Munn.
We contacted and confirmed that all clone soldiers died due to unknown reasons. In other words, there is nothing we can do on the planet Semels anymore."