Chapter 1416 Dark Matter Reactor
Spring of 82 in the Era of Crisis.
The second year of the human expedition fleet stationed in the dwarf galaxy v232 in the Sculptor constellation.
With a roar of dark energy exploding in the laboratory, the first dark matter reactor was successfully built.
In fact, the Palesean civilization had already researched the dark matter reactor ten years ago, and completed the process of transforming dark matter into energy.
It's just that the dark matter reactor studied by the Palesean civilization requires too much ignition and consumes a huge amount of energy, which makes it impossible to maintain the continuous reaction of dark matter.
The best scientific research team of human civilization spent a year opening the door of the dark matter reactor with a "key", and solved the problem of excessive ignition energy demand of the dark matter reactor.
And this key is Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan has conducted thousands of experiments and successfully ignited the dark matter reactor.
However, the current ignition process has a shortcoming, that is, Fang Yuan must personally use dark energy to ignite.
The scientific research team is working hard to solve this defect. According to the progress of the experiment, it is expected to be able to ignite autonomously in one year.
Since v232 has been in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy for a year.
The Carbon-Based Alliance has proposed many times to require humans to participate in other frontal battlefields.
Among them, the three-eyed civilization has begun to be yin and yang in terms of language.
If the human expedition fleet continues to stay in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy v232, it is likely to arouse the suspicion of the Carbon-based Alliance.
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"We have stayed in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy v232 for too long, we need to participate in the battle, otherwise the carbon-based alliance should be suspicious. Professor, when will the dark matter reactor be installed on the fleet?" Fang Yuan is not sure when the dark matter reactor will be implemented. Pack.
"The dark matter reactor currently manufactured requires you to assist in the ignition. If it is installed in the expedition fleet, it is not difficult. It is possible to expand the production of the current laboratory version and install it directly. It is not difficult to replace the energy system of the battleship. But if we wait another three months, the dark matter thruster should come out." Yang Yuping said.
Fang Yuan opened his eyes and asked, "So fast?"
"It's not too fast. Science and technology is not difficult, but it is not difficult. Once the dark matter reactor breaks through, a series of corresponding technologies can be upgraded." Yang Yuping replied.
"If the entire fleet is equipped with dark matter propellers,
How long will it take? "Fang Yuan thought carefully.
"The entire fleet will be installed, and there will be no problem after half a year."
The speed of scientific research projects that gather the strength of all human beings is beyond imagination.
Half a year is not a long time, as long as you find a reason to upgrade the battleship and specify the time for the battle, the Mechanical Empire will not be too tough.
However, there is a problem, that is, how much the combat power can be improved after the battleship is upgraded. If the improvement is not much, then there is no need to upgrade now.
"If all dark matter reactors and dark matter thrusters are installed, how much can the battleship's combat effectiveness be improved?" Fang Yuan asked the most concerned question.
Yang Yuping laughed, and said: "I guessed that you would ask this question, and this question has been simulated and calculated many times.
"Let me tell you this. If the structure of the battleship can withstand a higher curvature speed, the speed can be at least doubled.
"This is not the point, the most important feature of the dark matter reactor is that it does not need to carry the reaction raw materials.
"At this stage, the antimatter reactors used by Palesi and the Machine Empire need to carry a large amount of antimatter raw materials.
"Due to the existence of antimatter raw materials, warships need to leave a lot of space to load these raw materials, which imperceptibly drags down the battleship's combat effectiveness.
"The dark matter reactor is different. This is a more advanced energy system than vacuum zero-point energy. It does not need to carry raw materials, and it can extract dark energy from space to supply energy."
Fang Yuan understood as soon as he heard it.
One of the design principles of warships manufactured by advanced civilizations at this stage is the utilization of space.
Battleships, cruisers, and destroyers, the three most common types of warships, have different roles.
Destroyers are fast and have relatively weak firepower.
Battleships are powerful, but relatively slow.
The reason why this happens.
The reason is that warships must have four major systems, energy system, power system, weapon system, and shield system.
The four major systems all need to occupy part of the space of the battleship.
As the space occupied by one of the systems becomes larger, the space of the other systems naturally becomes smaller.
Ultimately, the design of the battleship will emerge in several directions.
Either highlight the firepower, or highlight the speed.
Warships with outstanding firepower need to confront enemy warships head-on, so the shield system also needs to be strengthened.
The proportion of weapon systems and shield systems has increased, which will further squeeze the space for energy systems and power systems.
The energy system is the foundation of everything, without which none of the other three systems can function.
Therefore, the last thing to be squeezed can only be the power system.
This is the real reason why battleships are slower.
"How much can it be improved?" Fang Yuan couldn't wait to know what kind of improvement the dark matter reactor and dark matter thruster would bring to the battleship.
"At the current level of the dark matter reactor, only upgrading the energy system and power system can double the speed of the battleship. Due to the upgrade of the energy system, the data of the corresponding weapon system and shield system will also increase by more than 50%. This is just the beginning of the improvement of dark matter technology, and it will continue to be optimized in the future, and there is still a lot of room for improvement." Yang Yuping replied.
When Fang Yuan heard this, his eyelids jumped again.
The battleships of the advanced civilization at the present stage are all designed after compromises, and every detail is selected to design the combat effectiveness of the battleship to the limit.
Therefore, although there is a generational difference between the battleships of civilizations such as Palesi and Machine Empire, the battleships of 20,000 years ago and the main battleships in active service, the gap is not very big.
Because there is no technology that breaks the balance, even if it is continuously optimized, there is actually not much room for improvement.
Now, the emergence of the dark matter reactor directly doubles the speed of the ship, and increases the data of the weapon system and the shield system by 50%.
The weapon system and the shield system are increased by 50% at the same time. The result is not that the combat power of the battleship is increased by 50%, but the increase in combat power data is a multiplier increase.
The increase in combat power value will be 125%.
In other words, facing Boom head-on, 1vs2 can be achieved.
However, this is not the most terrifying thing, the most terrifying thing is the speed of the ship.
"Can the speed of a battleship be doubled? Doesn't that mean that all battleships have the speed of a destroyer?" Fang Yuan's breathing was a little short.
"Yes, as long as the structure of the battleship is strong enough, the speed of the battleship can reach the speed of the current destroyer after assembling the dark matter reactor and dark matter propeller. This is the simulation result." Yang Yuping confirmed.