At this moment, there are about 160,000 adults in the entire human civilization. Except for some industries necessary to maintain the operation of society, such as food production, the rest are all invested in military-related industries, and the rest of the industries have temporarily stopped.
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The supply of all kinds of non-staple food has been greatly reduced, and commercial activities have almost disappeared. Almost everyone you meet on the road has a serious look and a hurried pace. The major factories are busy day and night, never stopping.
The first generation of "Dust" class spy satellites are under intense research and development. Once successfully manufactured, they will be immediately delivered to the vicinity of the deep space star to collect all intelligence about the deep space star. Improved electromagnetic guns and deep space
Space surveillance radars are also being developed. The construction of space docks and roller bases has also not been put aside.
"Build a second space elevator."
Zhao Changxing issued the order.
It is almost certain that if they cannot be exterminated in this revenge, then the confrontation with deep space civilization will be long-lasting, and the time span may be as long as several centuries. In this long confrontation, not only
We must try our best to weaken the opponent, and we must also try our best to improve our own strength. Therefore, not only cannot the large-scale construction task stop, but we must speed up the pace.
In fact, this has also been classified by Zhao Changxing into the category of military-related industries.
Time passed bit by bit, and two years passed in the blink of an eye, reaching the year 246 of the New Calendar.
During this period of time, communication between deep space civilization and human civilization has never been interrupted. Both parties seem to be discussing the details of cooperation in good faith, but so far there has been no concrete progress.
Twenty of the latest generation of flame-type transport spacecraft have been manufactured, partially assuming the responsibility of connecting space and the surface. Another ten small single-person combat spacecraft were manufactured by the spacecraft factory and delivered to the military.
These small one-man combat spaceships are propelled by chemical fuel and do not have a life support system inside but rely on space suits to survive. The weapon they are equipped with is a powder-driven double-barreled machine gun with a rate of fire of up to 100 rounds per minute.
, the bullet exit speed reached 1.2 kilometers per second.
They also have no long-range interstellar combat capabilities and cannot leave Sedna too far because their fuel and oxygen reserves are extremely limited.
Taken together, they are more like space-modified versions of the original earth-era armed helicopters.
This type of spacecraft is code-named Wu-1 within the War Committee.
The members of the War Commission were quite dissatisfied with this thing and generally believed that it had little practical value, but in the end they had to accept it with pinched noses.
In the military system, in addition to weapons such as land-based or space-based electromagnetic guns that can be regarded as fixed firepower points, it is obvious that there is also a need for weapons that can move over a wide range, can flexibly choose attack locations, and flexibly perform combat missions.
The Wu-1 combat spacecraft that occupies this ecological niche is already the best design solution that the military factory can come up with at this moment. If you don’t want it? Then there will be no more.
So at this stage, these ten Wu-1 combat spacecraft have been temporarily used as training aircraft, and have assumed the responsibility of searching for spy satellites in space and capturing or destroying them.
It was at this time that the dust-class spy satellite No. 1 finally passed various acceptance inspections and achieved satisfactory performance in actual verification.
Compared with the Wu-1 combat spacecraft, the members of the war committee really can't say anything dissatisfied with the dust-class spy satellite. First of all, it has high optical reconnaissance capabilities, with the highest resolution at a distance of 200,000 kilometers.
The speed can reach the kilometer level, and it is small in size. With a special coating, it has excellent stealth capabilities and can effectively avoid radar scanning. The high-gain directional antenna can also stably transmit the detected data back to Sedna.
star, and receive instructions from Sedna.
At this stage, it has achieved almost the ultimate in every aspect.
Therefore, under the launch of the launch platform that was also developed recently, they acquired an initial speed of 3.2 kilometers per second and flew towards the deep space star.
Advancing at this speed, they will arrive near the Deep Sky Star in about 8 months, and start decelerating, slowly reducing themselves to a speed of less than 200 meters per second relative to the Deep Sky Star, and will reach the Deep Sky Star at a distance of
Detect the stars in the sky in an orbit of 80,000 to 200,000 kilometers.
The whole process takes approximately one year.
During this period, after a long and difficult search, people finally found the first spy satellite from a deep space civilization in an orbit 176,000 kilometers away from the star Sedna. But unfortunately, people did not succeed.
capture it.
Just like the spy satellites launched by humans to the deep space star, these spy satellites from the deep space star are also equipped with self-destruction systems. After realizing that someone is trying to capture them, they immediately choose to self-destruct.
The explosion almost took away the life of a soldier. Even if he escaped by chance, the Wu-1 spacecraft lost all power and could only wait for rescue. The subsequent rescue spacecraft only found some of the spy satellites.
Just scraps of metal.
These things were immediately taken to the laboratory by military industry experts who were eager to find treasures for analysis. They hoped to deduce more information about deep space civilization by analyzing the relevant data of these materials.
The search is always going on. I believe it won't be long before people can find the second spy satellite. At that time, people will be more careful and bring back the complete satellite as much as possible.
Time passed by in a hurry, and soon the spy satellites arrived above the Deep Sky Star, lurked quietly, and started working. The first batch of information about the Deep Sky Star was also transmitted back.
Deep Sky Star and Sedna Star are both distant independent celestial bodies. In addition to being smaller, the surface structure is almost the same as that of Sedna Star. Both are covered with a thick layer of tholin and have all kinds of landforms.
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Just above the surface, spy satellites captured numerous buildings with very obvious artificial features. However, their number was much smaller than that of Sedna.
Looking at these creations of another civilization, people's hearts are filled with wonderful feelings.
Under people's careful identification, living areas, industrial areas, military areas and other areas were identified one by one. As for space targets, no space targets were found.
"There are too few creations of deep space civilization. Judging by our human standards, it is unlikely that a cluster of this size can create weapons such as long-range interstellar missiles."
"There are two possibilities. First, they have a higher level of technology. Second, they actually have many creations, but they are hidden. They may be underground on the deep space star, or they may be in space, just like our Spark
Like a spaceship."
"If it is the second possibility, more of their creations should exist underground, and it is unlikely to be in space. Industrial clusters are very huge things, and as long as there is no technological generation gap, they must be like this. And if there is really a problem in space,
If there is such a large-scale building cluster, it is impossible that our spy satellites cannot detect it."
This judgment has been recognized by people.
"It should be underground. If their technological level is really high, there is no need for them to compromise with us."
This is the result that people most hope for. It is best if the technological heritage of deep space civilizations is discontinued or lost, so that people do not have to worry about their technological development surpassing their own.
Zhao Changxing knocked on the table: "Let's conduct further testing."
"yes."
In the plan, people will control one of these spy satellites to keep it approaching the deep space star until it is destroyed or captured by the deep space civilization.
In this way, people can indirectly test the capabilities of the deep space civilization's planetary defense system, and make next arrangements based on this.
Of course, this may lead to the leakage of one's own scientific and technological data, or the other party's details of one's own, just as one's own side is currently searching for their spy satellites and trying to capture them. However, Zhao Changxing believes that this price is worth it. Besides, a
It's just a spy satellite. Even if it is leaked again, how much can it be leaked?
The signal from Sedna has been sent out at this moment. It will arrive at the spy satellite after a communication delay of more than three minutes.
After the delay, people saw that the picture displayed on the screen began to become clear bit by bit. It was obvious that the spy satellite was constantly shortening the distance between itself and the deep sky star.
The distance shortening process lasted for more than four days. When the distance was finally shortened to 62,500 kilometers, the screen disappeared.
Signal transmission interrupted.
"The satellite was destroyed or captured. I don't know if it self-destructed."
People sighed and immediately started further discussions.
Measuring the defense capabilities of a planet's defense system can be calculated through a complex model. Now, people have obviously obtained some of the more critical data.
After inputting a series of data into the model, Xiaoxi gave a conclusion the next moment.
"To break through the planetary defense system of the Deep Space Star, the final speed of the interstellar missile must reach at least 29.21 kilometers per second."
"29.21 kilometers per second..."
This data makes people look at each other in shock.
You must know that the fastest missiles launched by the deep space civilization towards the Sedna star were only 25 kilometers per second when they reached their maximum speed.
What's more noteworthy is that the results calculated by this model are presented in a probabilistic manner. Even if the missile can reach this speed, the probability of a single missile breaking through the defense network is only 31%.
Calculated based on this probability, the probability that five consecutive missiles are unable to break through the defense network is 69% to the fifth power, or about 15.64%. Conversely, the probability that at least one missile will hit is 84.36%. This probability
, Zhao Changxing thinks it is the acceptable lower limit.
The five long-range interstellar missiles are the greatest strength that people can use in retaliatory actions at this stage.
Any more would be unrealistic.
"However, our missiles are fully loaded, but their maximum speed can only reach 19 kilometers per second..."