Chapter 1381 Scientists Have Power
The acceptance of the new spaceship is an important matter, and because this is a project that Sandora and I are personally following up on, we also need to go and see it in person during the acceptance. ¤Literary Bar: wxba¤So after breakfast, I threw aside the noisy protoss cops, and came to the shadow space with Sandora, who was in high spirits.
The new spaceship was assembled in a high orbit on the back side of the mother star Gaia - I usually call the side of Gaia facing the Shadow City the front side. Tavel has established a medium-sized starport here, specifically for Used to build various verification space facilities. When Sandora and I came here, Tavel was still directing his team to make final system adjustments and initial energy injection to the new spacecraft. We stand at the top of the A-2 tower on the space-facing side of the star port. There is an open observation hall. Through the transparent barrier of the observation hall, we can see two silver-gray alloy "bridges" that are more than ten kilometers long. Leaping out from the main body of the star port below, straight into space, a large number of metal or beam "skeletons" extend from the bridge, making them look like weird multi-legged arthropods: this is a variable slipway. It should be used to secure the new spaceship. But in the middle of this slipway, I only saw a dark space with nothing there.
"The new spaceship is temporarily shielded by an invisible force field. I hope this can achieve a surprise effect." Tavel's... I don't know what time the clone came behind me and said with a proud tone, "Wait until the final debugging is completed. , your majesties can see it. It’s really a beautiful big guy.”
The corner of my mouth moved, and I thought to myself, isn't it still a coffin? I saw the sketch of the new spaceship in Sandora's room that day. The only improvement in the shape of this coffin-controlling glasses girl was to turn one coffin into two parallel ones. Arranged coffins. But seeing the happy look on Tavel's face, I was too embarrassed to say it directly.
"If the new spaceship passes the acceptance inspection, it can be put into production directly," Sandora said without looking back. "In addition, the technology with general value on the new spaceship should be degraded as soon as possible, and a large-scale authorized upgrade of the empire's existing starships should be carried out."
Tavel's mass projection responded with a military salute: "Yes, Your Majesty, this is already being done."
Shandora mentioned "authorized upgrades" and the upgrading of imperial starships. I have been exposed to a lot of things in this area, so it is best to explain this high-tech-sounding term.
We all know that there are many things in the Xiling Empire that have been in service for millions or even tens of millions of years. A series of starships may even have been active on the battlefield for longer than the civilization cycle of many races. Just like the Eternal-class battleships, they have been in service since the end of the expansion era of the old empire and are still one of the most important main battleships of the imperial army. This can easily give people the wrong impression that the imperial weapons are all antiques and have been used for so many years. It has not been updated.
In fact, quite the opposite. The war machines equipped by the Imperial Army are not only updated, but their progress can reach an incredible level. New equipment is even put into front-line troops almost every moment. However, after crossing the stage of being "limited by form and usefulness", the empire's military industry experts no longer carried out drastic reforms on the shells of those war machines. They turned to subtle but continuous "fine-tuning upgrades" of in-service equipment, that is, they continued to use small technological breakthroughs to improve the spacecraft, and then carried out a major upgrade when the new technology accumulated to the breaking point. The Eternal-class starship appears to have remained unchanged for millions of years, but in fact its main structure is completely updated almost every thirty to fifty years. This thorough update will be split into tens of thousands of times to complete.
And each update is carried out simultaneously for all troops throughout the empire.
This method of upgrading equipment sounds a bit crazy and seems to be a whimsical setting. In the real world, I am afraid that no normal logistics system can support this kind of equipment replacement plan: to develop a new screw, you have to run around. All the equipment in the country was screwed up. And you are asked to do this every three to five days - the logistics director must be crazy.
Therefore, the Xiling Apostles established an unusual and abnormal so-called "logistics" system. They used something called an "authorized upgrade agreement" to carry out ultra-high-speed routine updates for their army.
The effective mechanism of this "Authorization Upgrade Agreement" is very complicated, and the instruction manual weighs several kilograms. We only need to know the general process: First. This agreement is based on two premises. One is the different space storage and link technology of Xiling Apostle. One is the "information-material" conversion production module that will be carried by medium and large war units. These two technologies are the basis for "authorized upgrade".
The first step of "authorized upgrade" is naturally the work of R&D departments at all levels. Military industry experts develop a new war machine, or a small component of this war machine. Any slight technological progress can be regarded as an authorized upgrade. "unit", even if this unit is just a new model of spaceship seat. This new "unit" that can be upgraded is designed and manufactured by technicians. After passing the acceptance, the senior R&D team will make a judgment. If this is a new model of independent equipment, the blueprint will be sent to various arsenals for regular production. , if this is a component of an existing device and it meets certain "metrics", then do an "authorized upgrade".
All information about new model components, including production processes, technical indicators, replacement processes, etc., will be sealed into "data packages" in detail, uploaded to the Empire Data Network, and then downloaded to the entire Empire in an instant. In every spacecraft or military base in the environment, the terminal that downloads this data package can even be as small as a troop transport ship, or a deep space observation station with only a few dozen people stationed there. As long as this grassroots site has a set of "information-material" conversion and production modules. And we all know that it has always been a good habit of Xiling apostles to build arsenals on their own spaceships, and the empire's "information is everything" technology allows these factories to create almost anything with drawings...
So these terminals that download the data package will manufacture new parts in a very short time, and then the autonomous machines that download the installation tutorial simultaneously can complete the change in just a moment: all equipment has reserved space for this change. The operating space, or even a fully powered reactor, can be replaced with a new buffer chamber without shutting down. For the "information-matter" conversion production module, there are no common problems such as the difficulty of processing technology. As long as there is sufficiently accurate information expression, it is basically difficult to manufacture an armor plate and a starship host in the imperial factory. it's the same.
The only thing that limits its production process is the "authority" of each grassroots factory. The "authorization" in "authorization upgrade" certainly refers to the steps of authority authentication and transfer.
For those lower-level units that do not have production modules, such as an ordinary imperial soldier, the rifle he usually uses needs to be updated to a new model of trigger. Of course, the imperial soldiers cannot have an arsenal on their bodies, so their equipment relies on aliens. Space storage and link technology to upgrade. Everyone knows that the weapons and equipment of imperial soldiers are kept in portable spaces, and these portable spaces can actually be opened by other people under certain circumstances, such as the soldiers' immediate superiors. The portable space is not really like a pocket that always follows you. It is a large warehouse that is independent of the current world and established by the higher-level Space Distribution Administration. The Space Distribution Administration created this super huge "warehouse" ”, and then divided it into countless small areas. Just like the folders on the hard disk, what each soldier obtains is actually the access code of one of the folders, or the virtual path and opening password of this space. As long as you master this access code, you can open a different space at any coordinate in any universe. And using these access codes, you can also link all different spaces together. For example - arsenal.
When the authorized upgrade begins, the soldier only needs to place his equipment in a different space, and his superior officer will link the equipment to a general upgrade center. Normally, this upgrade center will be connected to the arsenal closest to the station. Direct connection, by directly modifying information, these equipment will be upgraded in a very short time, waiting for the next time the soldiers take out the equipment. It is already an upgraded and strengthened model. If it is a relatively large improvement, the imperial soldier will also download a "weapon learning tutorial" authorized by the imperial high command. After one or two seconds of learning, they will be able to master their new weapon proficiently. Then he happily used the more powerful killing weapon to open people's heads.
This is the entire process of the "Authorized Upgrade Agreement": the R&D department conducts research and development, and then makes blueprints and other information into data packages, which are distributed to all the empire's troops together with authorization letters and tutorials. Each war machine of these troops can be used on-site. Produce parts for yourself and complete the replacement. Or use the alien space arsenal to change the equipment of your lower-level units. An authorization upgrade can be completed in as little as thirty minutes - now do you know what the crazy development model is?
If the top research institute develops a new cannon, it will take at least thirty minutes. Every ship in the empire that can afford such a cannon is capable of driving the steaming muzzle into the forehead of its enemy - all produced on site!
Of course, the "Authorized Upgrade Agreement" is not omnipotent. It can only be applied to regular upgrade projects, if it is a component that exceeds the production capacity of the grassroots unit (such as a new model of Galaxy main gun), or has special production requirements and resources. Required projects (such as raw materials that cannot be manufactured using "information-matter" interchange technology such as source energy ore) can only be produced through conventional means in specialized inland production bases and then slowly and slowly. The replacement is slow. Basically, this is a large-scale replacement. It may only be carried out every few years or even decades. For ordinary small-scale upgrades, such as updating a gun mount and replacing an armor, the "Authorized Upgrade Agreement" Already able to cope completely.
Well, I didn’t expect that it would be quite troublesome to explain “authorized upgrade”...
At this time, Tavel's team of assistants finally completed the debugging of the sample spacecraft, and the steady broadcast of the starport host rang out in the observation hall: "Attention No. 2 slipway, the evacuation channel is clear. All B-level work groups will leave the slipway within one minute. All B-level work groups leave the slipway within one minute. A-level work groups check the initial energy injection level."
"The initial energy injection is 75%, which has reached the target value. The A-level working group evacuated the slipway, and the site was taken over by autonomous machinery."
"Connected to the verification starship, the starship is currently in external takeover mode and is detecting the operating status of each system."
"The energy system is normal, the security system is normal, the core control system is normal, the power pack is powered on...normal. The armor enhancement system is powered on...normal, the shield is powered on...normal, the weapons group is normal...the communication array is powered on...normal, start Verify the combined link of devices 1 to 36...the links are all online, boot up normally, and respond normally. Confirm that all necessary equipment is online, the core warm-up is completed, the emergency stop push component responds normally, and exit the self-test program."
"Start the verification starship host - external activation...the host is powered on. Hello, starship, this is the starport."
"Hello, Starport, this is an unnumbered starship. This aircraft has woken up and is operating well."
"Starship, His Majesty the Emperor will personally inspect you. I wish you success and long live the Empire."
"Starship would be honored. Long live the Empire."
From this moment on, the star port host disconnected the external control of the new spacecraft. The newly awakened starship host officially took over control of the spacecraft. At the same time, under Tavel's order, the slipway also lifted the stealth disguise of the spacecraft.
As the invisible force field like a water film quickly faded away. A silver-gray behemoth appeared in front of Sandora and me.
Elegant, majestic, perfect as a work of art - it's not coffin-shaped!
A set of holographic images appeared in front of us at the same time, showing the appearance details of this new spacecraft from all angles. So that Sandora and I can see every corner of it. At the same time, the holographic projection also displayed various parameters of the spacecraft, but I only noticed its size: six point two kilometers. In the Imperial battleship family that generally takes the giant route, it is considered a small figure, much larger than a small spaceship, but it should be the lightest among medium-sized starships. However, this is a brand new special warship, so there is no need to delve too deeply into its scale.
It still retains the rough structure of the sketch I saw in Sandora's room, which is a catamaran with two main bodies arranged in parallel, but these two parts of the hull have abandoned the angular rectangular shape. The shape is replaced by a streamlined shell, like two extremely elongated footballs. This streamlined shell only covers the upper half, while the lower half seems to be exposed, but is additionally protected by a dense translucent shield: I believe it will be stronger than the heavily armored part. Through the translucent lower shield, one can see the deep black structure inside, as well as the blue energy flow pulsing like a capillary network. All energy flows are concentrated toward the middle of the hull, forming two holes below the catamaran. A dazzling blue halo.
What connects the two streamlined hulls is a series of arc-shaped "arch bridges" located at the middle and stern ends of the hull. These arch bridges also have graceful lines, like the curved necks of swans, on their silver-gray armored hulls. It is also inlaid with golden stripes. According to the consistent style of Xiling Apostle, those stripes are definitely not decorations, but no matter what they are used for, they make this swan-like elegant streamlined catamaran look like a giant star in space. As perfect as a piece of art.
I stared at this new spaceship in amazement. My first reaction was that I finally no longer had to visit Tavel’s laboratory with the mentality of visiting the martyrs’ cemetery. My second reaction was to pat the arm of the girl with glasses next to me: “This look... …You didn’t design it, did you?”
Tavel had a rare expression of embarrassment on his face: "It is true, Your Majesty, after listening to your... teachings, I realized that my aesthetic sense may be a little bit rigid, but I really suffer from not having more styling inspiration. So I asked Lady Lilina to give me some advice. I have often heard Your Majesty mention that you like the graceful lines of the buildings of the Gods, so I guess her idea will satisfy you..."
I suddenly smiled and thought to myself that the black lolita who was constantly in trouble all day long could do some good things. Then I connected the spiritual connection with Lilina and planned to praise that girl. I first talked about the inspection and acceptance of the spacecraft here. Then he asked with a smile: "Lilina, you helped improve the shape of the new spaceship, right? Where did you get the inspiration? It looks quite beautiful."
Lilina was finally praised once, and her voice was obviously very excited. She replied happily: "The connecting bridge is an imitation of ribs, and the hull is a stretched waist..."
I:"……"
"Your Majesty?" Tavel couldn't help but speak after seeing that I hadn't moved for a long time.
I shed tears in my heart, hung up the call, and hit myself on the head with my fist: "Forget what you just did, forget what you just did..."
Shandora also overheard the call between me and Lilina, but she didn’t show any sign of her dream being shattered. Instead, she looked at the spacecraft outside the observation window and suddenly gulped: “Tavel, let’s start, let’s start with the weapon system. exhibit."
"Yes, you will be satisfied with its new attack method."
The new spacecraft on the slipway surfaced silently, and quickly advanced to a place several kilometers away from the star port, turning deftly to face the A-2 tower. I can't see where the propulsion device of this spacecraft is, so it probably skipped the external engine and used a high-end thing like a coordinate engine as its main thruster.
At the same time, a giant sphere that was used as a target was also launched into space and pushed to a distance of more than ten kilometers in the blink of an eye - because now we are only verifying the power and operational stability of the new weapon, and the range verification will come later. project.
When the attack command was given, the new spacecraft did not fire directly from the front as I imagined. Instead, it was instantly wrapped in a black and twisted giant sphere and disappeared into space in the blink of an eye. At the same time, the target seemed to be covered by rubber. It disappeared in the distance, and then the black sphere with a diameter of nearly seven kilometers reappeared, but it was already several kilometers away from where it disappeared. After the sphere faded, the spacecraft reappeared in front of us.
"My subordinates designed a new firing program for it," Tavel said with a smile. "It is now more like an assassin. As for the sphere... I have to thank Lady Alleria for her technical guidance. It is a shadow field. "