Chapter 540 Manufacture of Heterogeneous Battleships
Walking into the secret shipyard built deep underground, Todd looked at the behemoth in front of him and stood there in shock, without moving for a long time.
A huge black warship that was half-constructed was sitting quietly in the center of the underground dock, lying on a wooden ship frame that was three stories high, almost occupying the entire space of the underground cave.
Compared with the completely experimental alien warship that participated in the Battle of Lone Rock City in the past, this huge warship is nearly ten times larger in terms of length and displacement. If you really want to compare, the two ships are
Comparing is like putting an apple and a cherry together.
This new type of warship is all black, with a faint metallic reflective color. It adopts a spindle-shaped hull structure, completely abandoning sails and angular ropes. The propeller uses a common twin-shaft propeller, and the bottom of the ship has a steering function.
The bottom rudder and auxiliary wings. From the appearance, it is obviously similar to the modern battleships of the previous generation, and is more in line with the design style of hydrodynamics.
Surrounding the battleship, thousands of workers, scholars and crew members were intensively conducting a series of construction and tests around the battleship.
The sound of knocking and conversation spread throughout the cave. Even though it was already late at night, everyone's face was filled with enthusiasm for their work, without any signs of fatigue or boredom.
"The Holy King has arrived!"
With a loud shout, everyone who was busy working looked at the visitors at the door in surprise. After a brief moment of confusion, people quickly dropped what they were doing, knelt on the ground, and headed in the direction Todd was walking from.
, the sound of praise comes and goes, never ending.
"The total length is 107.5 meters, the full load displacement is 2130 tons, the total width is 9.68 meters, and the draft is 3.81 meters." Facing his brainchild, Wayne, who was uncontrollably excited, walked to the front of the battleship and looked up at the people on the bow who were not stopping.
The crawling parasite limbs said proudly: "The maximum ship speed is 4.1 kilometers per hour, and the standard crew is 201 people, including 167 Crusaders and 34 humans."
Passing through the staff kneeling on the ground, Todd slowly walked to the base of the battleship, and when he got closer, he felt the hugeness of the battleship and the insignificance of human beings.
Todd looked at the connection between ship armor and the entangled keel tentacles, and asked: "Is this the module you are talking about?"
Wayne nodded to the assistant behind him, who blew the whistle hanging around his neck.
After a while, the originally tight-fitting armor of the warship began to gradually deform, and the parasite decks one after another loosened their joints and transformed into independent insect units.
Seeing an orc jump off the hull of the ship with a separated keel parasite that looked like a huge iron plate, Wayne said: "Your Majesty, as I introduced before, each host controls
A hull module, and the modules are connected by the nervous system of the keel to ensure that orders from the bridge can be transmitted smoothly."
Todd asked: "How many modules are there in the entire warship?"
"The entire battleship is divided into six major areas, namely the command area, power area, armor area, cabin area, weapons area and reconnaissance area."
"Among them, the command area has three modules, that is, three pairs of keel parasites, including a main command module and two deputy command modules."
"The power area includes 16 modules, including 6 propeller modules, 6 bearing modules, and 4 linkage modules."
"The armor area refers to the outer armor and inner armor of the hull. The outer armor has 65 modules and the inner armor has 35 modules."
"The cabin area includes the hull frame and internal nervous system wiring, adding up to 32 modules."
"The modules for the weapons area and reconnaissance area are still being manufactured, and the quantity cannot be determined yet."
After listening to Wayne's introduction, Todd asked: "How are the control of the module and the host of the parasite arranged?"
Wayne waved to Todd and motioned for him to walk up the steps to the top of the hull to take a look.
Todd followed the instructions and walked up the stairs to the construction site of the hull. Looking inside through the unfinished parts, he saw that countless parasite limbs linked together countless keels. Among them, some keels transformed into
The cabins were changed, some changed into floors, and some changed into lines.
Many keel modules are immersed in a viscous liquid, and in the center of them, a host can be vaguely seen sitting or lying inside.
Wayne pointed to the structure inside the hull and explained: "The keel limbs of most modules are soaked in a special nutrient solution. During non-war periods, the keel parasites enter a quasi-dormant state, and their daily nutrients
The consumption can be completely provided by nutrient solution. At this time, the host can temporarily escape from the parasite module and engage in free activities such as eating, sleeping, and entertainment inside the ship."
"Once entering a state of war, the host must immediately return to the body of the parasite module, respond to the command from the command module, and enter the activation mode of its own module. The dragon bone parasite will begin to extract nutrients from the host body and use them for
Attrition during the war.”
Todd thought for a while and then asked: "If this battleship is allowed to enter a state of war, how long can the nutrients in the host's body support it?"
Wayne touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "This time is not fixed. It will continue to change according to the situation on the battlefield."
"Let me give you an example. For example, if we need to engage in close combat with enemy warships, then the ship's armor will inevitably withstand a large amount of artillery fire. Although all armor modules can be continuously repaired through regeneration, this repair requires consumption.
The host has a lot of nutrients in the body. To be more intuitive, if you use numbers to express it, assuming that the person controlling the ship armor module is an orc with a standard physique, then under continuous artillery fire, the host will appear in the ship armor module in about two hours.
circumstances of death.”
"But if you are attacking the enemy from a long distance, then the module host that controls the weapon system will be under the greatest pressure. If the alien destroyer's giant gun fires at maximum power, it will fire about nine times in a row without taking rest into consideration.
Endangering the life of the weapon module host."
"Weapon system? Giant cannon?" Todd looked around and suddenly turned back to Wayne and asked: "Why didn't I see the weapons of this battleship?"
Wayne nodded and stretched out his hand to point to the cave behind the dock: "The weapons of this battleship are the most absolute secrets in the entire exotic weapons research. Its experiments and manufacturing are placed in a safer place. Moreover,
, its power also means that the thing cannot be placed in this narrow place."
Todd looked towards the cave at the end of the dock, with a curious look on his face.
He jumped down from the wooden ship frame and said to Wayne: "Let's go, take me to see the battleship cannon you mentioned."