Houyi, the first cruiser of the Canglan series, finally officially rolled off the assembly line.
Both the Qingluan-class frigate and the Wuluo-class destroyer use the railgun array plasma cannon mode.
There is no way around this. One is that the technology of energy weapons is immature, and the other is that the energy system is not powerful enough, so pure kinetic energy attacks such as railguns are still retained.
At the same time, although the main gun uses energy weapons such as plasma cannons, there are actually many problems. One is that in terms of power, it is a bit reluctant as a main gun, and the other is the charging efficiency.
The low charging efficiency seriously affects the combat effectiveness of the entire ship.
But Hou Yihao is different!
It is not only the first large cruiser of the resistance, but also the first battleship with pure energy weapons (referring to the main and secondary guns).
【Houyi Hao】
Class: Cruiser (standard type)
Size: 1127m (length), 358m (width), 285m (height)
Empty weight: 1.89 million tons
Core energy: four third-generation controllable nuclear fusion reactors (ship version)
Main gun: positron star-breaking cannon x 1 (for technical reasons, only a fixed firing angle can be used)
Secondary gun: Particle beam cannon x 24
Close defense weapon: small particle rapid-fire cannon x 196
Other weapons: Eight groups of sixty-four unit multi-purpose missile launch modules
Shipboard equipment: Customized Raider Mecha x 2, Universal Raider Mecha x 192
Sublight engine: 180km/s (maximum combat speed)
Jump engine: 8.8 light years (maximum distance for a single jump), 27 minutes (recharge time)
Self-sustainability: 11 months
Standard crew: 685 people
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Perhaps, this battleship is still rubbish to the former Star Sea Federation.
But it is undeniable that for the humans of the Canglan system, this is the most powerful battleship in history.
Some people may think that using controllable fusion as an energy source is very low, but in fact, until the fourth level civilization, controllable fusion is still the most mainstream energy source.
Take the Milky Way as an example. Even the former Federation of Stars and Seas was unable to develop more powerful energy sources until its demise.
Therefore, many civilizations believe that the watershed between level four civilizations and level five civilizations lies in energy.
Of course, there has never been a Level 5 civilization in the recorded history of the Milky Way, so this statement is just a guess.
However, since seeing the shuttle ship that originally carried Jiang Xingchen, Ling Ruoxuan had different ideas.
because...
The core energy on that shuttle ship was something she couldn't understand. Even after 20 years of research, she still couldn't figure out the mystery. It was most likely a brand new energy source developed by the Star Sea Federation.
It’s just that it hasn’t been widely used yet, so...
But no matter what, one thing Ling Ruoxuan is sure of is that this is a new type of energy that is much more powerful than controllable nuclear fusion.
Okay, back to the topic.
In fact, Hou Yi is not a cruiser designed simply to deal with warships, which can be seen from its close defense system.
Although carrier-based aircraft are still an important part of interstellar warfare, in any case, installing 196 close-in defense systems on a cruiser is really too much, and can even be said to be a crazy performance.
And the reason why it is designed this way is because...
For humans in the Canglan system, the biggest threat today is not the civilizations outside the Death Nebula, but the starry sky Zerg!
Yes, this is a design specifically for the Starry Sky Zerg.
According to simulations, the Hou Yi can still possess a strong ability to protect itself even if it is surrounded by tens of thousands of war insects.
What is even more worth mentioning is the positron star-breaking cannon as the main gun. At full power, it can even penetrate a worm mound with one shot.
Of course, this is for the data on the worm mounds currently known to mankind, that is, those small worm mounds with a diameter of three to four hundred meters.
As for the insect mounds that are more than a thousand meters or even larger, it is hard to say.
The disadvantage is that if you want to use full power mode to fire, it will take at least three minutes to charge, which is slower than the main gun of the Wura-class destroyer.
But it is undeniable that this is a weapon that can truly reach the power of the main gun of a large battleship. Even if it uses the regular mode, that is, 30% power to shoot, its power is much greater than that of the plasma cannon, and the charging time is Only half of it.
The commissioning of the Hou Yi marks that the resistance's fleet strength has entered a new level.
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The main bridge of Houyi.
"Captain, the application for separation has been approved!"
"Helmsman, take us out of the third airport and meet up with the transport fleet."
"Yes, Captain!"
After responding loudly, Chen Xiaoguang began to operate.
Although he had been training in simulations for two full months, when he first used the real thing, he still seemed cautious and did not dare to make any big moves.
Even the sublight engine was not turned on, and the behemoth was slowly moved out of the airport by relying solely on the auxiliary propulsion devices used for attitude control throughout the battleship.
"Captain, we have left the airport!"
"Start the sublight speed engine, third battle speed, target Blue Valley Star, and rendezvous with the 54th batch of fleets carrying out the transfer mission to Hailan Star."
"Yes, Captain, the sublight engine has been started, third battle speed, target Blue Valley Star."
Today's rebels don't have the time to let the new front lines offline conduct long-term trials. Therefore, after taking over the battleship on the first day, the fleet command directly assigned the escort mission to Hou Yi.
Due to the unrelenting construction of the Canglan system, the fleet traveling between the Hailan star system and the Canglan star system has now increased to 270 transport ships, which can transport almost 6 million people at a time, and the transportation capacity has increased several times. .
At this rate, it will take more than half a year to rescue all 500 million people.
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Just when the Houyi had just set sail.
Beyond the Death Nebula.
A Kerry Empire destroyer and two frigates are currently operating here.
"Captain, the monitoring device has been deployed!"
"Well, let the work boats come back."
"I understand, but Captain, is this really useful?"
"Who knows, anyway, we will do whatever the superiors say. Especially recently, Commander Kyle has a very bad temper. I don't want to get into trouble!"
"Too!"
The adjutant nodded and said.
Everyone in the fleet knows what state his commander is in recently, and there is no need to say anything more at the moment.
And just then.
"Captain, three gravity wave formations have been detected!"
"I remember it's not time for rotation yet, right?"
"Yes, Captain, according to the plan, we still need to deploy 27 surveillance areas, and they will not be rotated until three days later."
"Confirm who is coming!"
"Yes, Captain!"
However...
The next moment the radar officer was confused.
"Captain, they are three small celestial bodies, one is about 800 meters in diameter, and the other two are more than 300 meters in diameter."
"Small celestial body? What I just said was the detection of gravitational waves, right?"
Small celestial bodies are jumping, what the hell?
Hearing this, the captain thought he had heard wrongly.
"Yes, it is a celestial body. I scanned its structure. There are countless channel networks in this celestial body, and there is also a hollow area in the center."
"In addition, life scans show that there is a large amount of life in these three celestial bodies, and the individuals are very large."
"At the same time, I also confirmed that there are no weapons on the three targets."
After listening to the report, the captain also became interested.
A brand new species no one has ever seen before...
without any weapons...
So... I might be about to get rich?
"Adjutant, order the frigate to go over and check!"