Many people would argue that genetic enhancement is not important in the interstellar age.
After all, interstellar war is not a cold-weapon war, and so-called hand-to-hand combat is rarely carried out.
After entering the fifth level of technological civilization, even mechas have lost their meaning.
Therefore, physical strengthening seems to have completely lost its meaning.
But in fact, this is not the case.
For a civilization, the real purpose of genetic enhancement is not physical fitness.
More importantly, it’s about lifespan.
The length of lifespan will largely determine the speed of technological development of a civilization.
Give a simple example.
Without genetic enhancement technology, the average human lifespan would not exceed one hundred years.
According to the Federation's current civilization level, if you want to become a scientist, the amount of knowledge you need to learn is much greater than that of the home planet era.
Therefore, a Federation scientist would have to study in his 40s or 50s just by studying in school, instead of in the home planet era, he could complete his PhD in his 30s.
So according to the normal age of human beings, how long can the golden scientific research period last?
It can even be said that as soon as you finish your studies, you have already passed the golden age of scientific research.
In this case, how can we talk about development or progress?
Therefore, the more advanced a civilization is, the more important life span is.
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More than an hour later.
Hisham took three worm groups and made another jump.
At this moment, there is only more than forty light years away from the battlefield.
This time the operation against the Zerg Prince did not require the participation of a large fleet.
After all, there is no need to decapitate, nor to eliminate many Zerg.
Therefore, the only fleets participating in the core battle were the Star and one hundred Pangu-class battleships.
And the rest of the fleet...
More than forty light-years away, thousands of hyperspace windows were opened simultaneously.
A large number of warships sailed out and appeared behind the Zerg army.
The next moment, the attack began.
5,000 Zhurong-class battleships and 900 Pangu-class battleships fired wave after wave of space-cutting cannons.
Even though they were ten light seconds apart, these bombardments still blasted out a flesh and blood channel for forty light seconds after they penetrated the insect swarm.
After all, the maximum attack distance of space cutting can reach an astonishing fifty light seconds.
The sudden attack made Hisham very confused.
But soon, after some sensing, it discovered that most of the high-quality biological individuals that were originally located in front had disappeared.
Did he abandon the original battlefield and come over to attack him?
However, regardless of what happened, the weapons used by the opponent's warships still refreshed its understanding to a great extent.
even...
It's even more outrageous than what Fisher told himself.
After all, when Jiang Xingchen carried out hunting operations before, in order to kill quickly and accurately with one hit, he would basically sail through hyperspace and attack within one light second every time.
It does not intuitively show the maximum range of the space cutting cannon.
Therefore, Hisham has always known that although human warships have strong attack power, they still pose a certain threat to the prince.
However, he has a natural advantage in attack distance.
But looking at it now, it doesn't seem to be the case.
Their attack distance is no worse than mine.
If he went up to fight directly, Hisham still didn't think that the other party could kill him.
But...
Based on the power of that attack, it shouldn't be difficult to hurt yourself.
After realizing this, Hisham immediately gave up the idea of attacking personally.
Just let the three insect swarms disperse the insect swarms under their command, and then outflank them from all directions.
Although the attack of human warships is very strong, the attack range is also far enough.
But in Hisham's view, it is not without its shortcomings.
The disadvantage is...
The attack surface is too small!
To understand it in a simple way, the space cutting cannon is like a single-target attack, but it cannot be stopped by conventional methods, so it creates an infinite penetration effect, causing multiple kills.
However, with this killing speed, even three insect groups standing there would not be able to fight back.
These 5,900 warships may not be able to complete the total annihilation even if they fight non-stop for a month.
Therefore, although the attack of the human warships was very strong, Hisham was not too worried.
Spend it!
Round consumption, who are the Zerg afraid of?
There are several insect groups under his command, and they are also on their way here.
Not only that, under Fisher's order, several other princes who were sweeping the upper spiral arm also came over.
In the end, no matter how powerful the enemy is, they will not be defeated by the endless numbers of the Zerg.
Even if it can't kill you, it can still drain your energy.
As for whether the other party will escape through a jump?
Hisham really doesn't care, because...
He has corresponding means.
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At the same time.
Inside a Pangu-class battleship.
"Commodore, there are a total of 175 swarms of the Starry Sky Zerg, which have completely dispersed. According to analysis, they should be planning to completely surround our fleet from all directions."
"Where's the Zerg Prince?"
"There is no movement. The current distance is 186 light seconds."
In the bridge, Shangguan Ningxue looked at the three-dimensional real-time battlefield model in front of her and nodded slightly.
So far, everything is going according to plan.
Next, it depends on the commander's actions.
And at this time.
"Report, a strange interference wave has been detected, and the source of the interference is being tracked in reverse."
"Interference wave? From which side?"
"It seems to be for the jump, but I can't be 100% sure yet."
"Arrange a Zhurong-class warship to start the jump engine and try it."
"clear!"
The order was soon conveyed to a Zhurong-class battleship.
After all, the Pangu-class battleship was not equipped with a jump engine from the beginning of its design.
The reason why the Zhurong class is equipped with twin jump and hyperspace engines is because it is not equipped with a zero-point energy module.
The hyperspace engine will not be used unless necessary.
The Pangu-class battleship is different. With the support of the powerful zero-point energy module, you no longer need to care about this energy consumption. Naturally...
There is no need to go to the trouble of installing a jump engine that is easily targeted and inefficient.
More than ten seconds later.
The jump engine of this Zhurong-class battleship was started.
Immediately, a large number of fault messages appeared, and even the entire jump engine went offline due to unknown faults.
This news was quickly reported to Shangguan Ningxue.
"Brigadier, this interference is very strange."
In the bridge, the science officer spoke after analyzing the data of the Zhurong-class battleship.
"How to say?"
"Commodore, our federation's jump interference is to disrupt the space environment in the area so that the opponent's warships cannot create an artificial gravity field."
"Is there any difference in the way these bugs use it?"
Shangguan Ningxue asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
"Yes, they are not interfering with the space environment, but disrupting the transmission of energy, that is to say..."
"This is not an interference specifically targeting transitions, but an interference targeting the way energy is transmitted."
Hearing this, Shangguan Ningxue frowned.
Disrupt energy transfer?
Of course she knew what this meant.
only...
"If it is disrupting energy transfer, then it should not only be a problem with the jump engine, but also why are other warships fine?"
Shangguan Ningxue raised her own question.
And when the science officer just wanted to answer this question.
Before he could speak, the urgent voice of the communications officer sounded from the bridge.
"Commodore, ship No. 15528 reports that the energy shield cannot be re-deployed, and the sublight engine, hyperspace engine, weapon system, and life support system are all offline for unknown reasons!"
"Just now, it seems that their communication system has also been offline, and they are currently unable to contact them."
Even the life support system is offline?
"Commodore, there was no problem before. It should be related to the energy shield. This interference seems to be unable to penetrate the energy shield. When ship No. 15528 started the jump engine, the energy shield was turned off, so..."
At this time, the science officer also opened his mouth to explain.
Of course, this is just a guess, but in Shangguan Ningxue's opinion, this guess is most likely to be the truth.
This also explains why other battleships were not affected.
Because other battleships have activated energy shields.
However, these are not important now. What is important is to rescue all the people in the 15528th ship.
After all, after the life support system is offline, it will be very dangerous for a long time.
"Near the 15528 ship, are there any Pangu-class battleships within the range where light transmission can be carried out?"
"There are three ships."
"Order them to use light teleportation immediately to rescue the crew members on ship 15528."