The passageway on the sextant a side finally stopped, and no more war bugs rushed out of it.
According to post-war statistics, including the several advanced reconnaissance fleets that had been eliminated before, the total number of the opponent's warships actually reached a terrifying one billion ships.
In this process, the federation also consumes a lot of money.
The initial 3 million Joint I-type battleships, plus the 1 million more ships that were supported after the subsequent war, resulted in a total loss of 2.37 million ships, leaving only 1.63 million ships.
Of the 500,000 Joint II-type battleships including subsequent reinforcements, 210,000 were lost, leaving 290,000.
More than 17,000 Pangu-class battleships were lost.
More than 8,000 Alda-class battleships were lost.
The overall loss was more than 1.865 million ships.
Of course, the losses belonging to the Federation itself were actually more than 20,000 battleships, and the rest were affiliated civilized fleets.
Although the entrance to the passage has been completely suppressed since the arrival of the pioneering fleet, basically every wave of arriving warships can be cleared out in one wave.
However, when you are firing, others are also firing, although only 2,000 warships are firing at a time.
But 1 billion warships continued their uninterrupted attack for more than four months.
The accumulated losses are also considerable.
------
Military meeting room.
A kind of high-ranking military officer is summing up after the war.
As the commander of this battle, Jiang Xingchen was naturally the first to speak.
"Everyone, this is the first time we have competed with a fleet of this size since the establishment of the New Federation."
"During this process, we confirmed the effectiveness of some previous strategies, but also exposed many problems."
"The first is the formation of the affiliated civilization mercenary fleet. It is precisely because of the implementation of this policy that our federation's losses were finally reduced to an acceptable and very low level."
"Otherwise, if we want to invade this unknown civilization in Hell, the Federation may have to pay more than ten times the price, and may even be defeated in the end."
After saying this, all the senior officials in the conference room nodded.
One billion Tier 5 civilization warships...
It's just too scary, okay?
At present, the Federation's own main battleships, namely the Pangu class, and the three major fleets...
Ah, the guard fleet does not have the Pangu class. The two fleets combined have less than 300,000 ships.
Such a force may be able to withstand it at first.
But as more and more battleships are lost and the firepower on the defense line gradually weakens, the entire battle will snowball until the defenders finally collapse completely.
And even if it can resist in the end, I am afraid that the forces accumulated by the Federation over the past decades will be almost exhausted.
"So I think we must not only continue the strategy of attaching a civilized fleet, but also significantly expand its scale."
"If we can have tens of millions of Joint I-type battleships and millions of Joint II-type battleships, we can win without even the federal fleet participating this time."
Everyone nodded again, fully agreeing with this suggestion.
For the current Federation, the cost of manufacturing these joint battleships is very low.
Furthermore, despite the fact that the Federation is currently selling these battleships to affiliated civilizations at very low prices, in fact...
The points spent by affiliated civilizations for each combined battleship are enough for the federation to use these points to exchange them for the resources needed for hundreds of combined battleships.
As for construction costs...
Apart from energy consumption, there are really not many other costs.
After all, space particle reconstruction technology has such bugs.
"Now, let me talk about the second question, which is also the most important one among the questions I want to talk about today."
"That's...the battleship energy aspect!"
"There is a set of data. Everyone should know that in a continuous high-intensity war, a Pangu-class battleship will completely exhaust the vacuum zero-point energy in a set of zero-point energy modules in almost three months."
"According to post-war statistics, the 240,000 main battleships of the pioneering fleet consumed an additional 320,000 sets of zero-point energy modules during this battle in addition to the original zero-point energy modules."
"And this additional consumption is already more than 80% of the current federal reserves."
"In other words, if the war continues for a few months, the federal fleet will collapse on itself because there is no energy to replenish it."
"This is a very serious problem."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent.
That's right, the Federation has never experienced such a high-intensity war before, which lasted almost non-stop for more than four months.
Therefore, I have never been aware of this problem.
Although the zero-point vacuum energy stored in the zero-point energy module is very powerful, can the Federation really rely on this energy to sustain a large-scale and protracted cosmic war?
This battle really sounded the alarm for the Federation.
Sometimes, it is not that the stronger the energy, the better, but more aspects must be considered.
Otherwise, do you really think that the Silver Light Empire does not have more powerful energy?
Don't be kidding me. We are a ninth-level technological civilization. How could we not have energy sources that are even more powerful than zero-point vacuum energy?
"Xingchen, what do you think?"
After pondering for a moment, Mu Zhengfeng asked.
"I think the Central Academy of Sciences should be allowed to invest more resources in the star nuclear energy project and tap into the potential of this energy system."
"Have you noticed one thing? After four months of the war, the United Type II battleships affiliated with the civilization have never received any energy supply?"
"Yes, zero-point vacuum energy is indeed very strong, much stronger than star core energy, but it also has a fatal flaw, that is, the output is too low."
"According to the current production, even if there is no war, I am afraid that we can only maintain 500,000 to 600,000 federal main battleships at most."
"Unless, after the federal warships are put into service, they will stay in the airport and never move out."
"Not to mention, if a large-scale war breaks out, the zero-point energy module will be severely consumed."
"So I think that the federal fleet needs to be matched with high-level and low-level ships, instead of just building the strongest Pangu-class battleship like it is now."
"We need a new type of warship, one with star nuclear energy as its core."
"Of course, it can't be like the United Type II, that's too weak!"
"Therefore, as I just said, the Central Academy of Sciences needs to invest more resources to tap into the potential of star nuclear energy."
"A set of star core energy sources is too weak? It would be like using multi-core zero-point vacuum energy modules on battle stars, and developing technology to synchronize multiple star core energy sources so that it can achieve higher energy output."
"Ultimately, the number of the first-class warships in the federal fleet, that is, the Pangu-class warships, should be limited in accordance with the federal zero-point module production capacity, as well as taking into account war consumption factors, etc."
"The rest are heavily equipped with this new type of warship that uses star core energy."
Mu Zhengfeng also has a deep understanding of this issue.
In the later stages of this battle, the entire military headquarters was a little panicked.
More than 80% of the reserves of the zero-point energy module were consumed just like this.
At that time, the opponent's fleet was like a bottomless pit, rushing out of the channel one after another.
Who knows when it will end.
Everyone has to panic now, okay?
Fortunately, the worst situation did not happen. More than four months later, another enemy ship emerged from it, and the war finally came to an end.
After that, the military department also thought about how to solve this problem.
After all, this is definitely a fatal problem.
And now, what Jiang Xingchen said is a good suggestion and deserves careful study.
Of course, it is not just a matter of which warships will be used by the subsequent federal fleet.
Even the Pangu-class and Alda-class battleships currently in service still need to be upgraded.
Adopting the dual system model of star core energy and zero-point energy.
However, this upgrade plan had been decided before the war, and there was no need for Jiang Xingchen to come up with it now.
------
After talking about the core energy issues used by warships.
Jiang Xingchen raised several more issues. Although they were not as serious as the energy issue, they were still relatively important issues.
It can be said that only after this battle did everyone discover.
federal...
Especially the Federation fleet...
There are still so many problems that need to be solved.