Chapter 523 Dyson Ball

The Colossus has 3 main parts:

1. Targeting system: Colossus' targeting system uses mechanized artificial intelligence and gravity-sensing gyroscopes to analyze target composition and their movement patterns. ￠￡￠￡ǎn￠￡Xiao￠￡ said that in this way, it can be ensured that the beam of the thermal energy ray gun can move in the path that causes the most damage to the enemy troops. The aiming system is so precise that the Colossus can aim directly at the target without risking damage to the body.

Two, thermal ray guns: These two cannons fire plasma beams of high heat enough to incinerate a large number of enemy ground targets. Even though it is so powerful, the weapon of the Colossus still has design flaws, that is, the range is insufficient, so Carlisle's phase craftsman created an advanced version of the thermal energy ray gun, which improved the airflow design, so that the ray gun can be used at a higher Operating at higher temperatures, thus increasing muzzle velocity and effective range without sacrificing power.

3. Insect legs: The long and thin legs of Colossus can easily carry huge weight, and it is also very suitable for moving on uneven ground and steep slopes. The tall tower design made of four legs utilizes multiple gyro stabilizers to maintain the stability of the Colossus body when firing and moving, and can make the enemy lose its advantage in height.

In addition to the three regular ability upgrade items of protoss unit attack, armor, and shield, the colossus also has the passive "cliff climbing" skill, and the "extended heat ray gun" that needs to be researched separately in the Mechanical Research Institute.

Next, Tang Fang moved the cursor to the colossus icon in the production menu, and the resource consumption displayed surprised him, 9000 crystals and 6000 gas, occupying 6 people.

9000 crystals, 6000 gas... 30 times that in the game.

Although he had been prepared for a long time and knew that this big guy who could climb the cliff was big enough, he thought that more than 100 meters was the limit. He didn't expect it to consume 30 times the resources, which meant that it was about 300 meters tall.

300 meters... He subconsciously looked up at the ceiling. It was found that this hall was only about 20 meters high.

But if you think about it carefully, the legs of the colossus account for about 60% of its height, which is about 180 meters. If it is not 300 meters high, but more than 100 meters as I think, how can such short legs climb over the cliff? ?

The resource cost of 9000 crystals and 6000 gas is too high. However, it also guarantees its absolute dominance on the ground battlefield. Just imagine putting a colossus on the ground battlefield, and then cooperate with Thor, and the thunder beast that may appear in the future. This combination is definitely a crushing existence. Let alone the Star Alliance, In a country like Monya, the army of the "Abyssal Knights" beat him until his mother didn't even recognize him.

This kind of existence like a giant golden tower is a god on the ground battlefield!

The fifth production item is the golden beetle,

The most impressive ground unit of the Protoss in the StarCraft 1 era...the demon king of transport planes...a professional slaughterer...the invincible kite king...

Gold Beetle:

There is always a high price to pay for raiding an opponent's base. In order not to sacrifice the lives of their own troops at will, the Protoss developed a robotic war machine called the Golden Scarab, which can be used as a mobile artillery. Scarabs are heavily armored and have a tiny manufacturing factory inside them that produces small, highly explosive drones called Scarabs. While Scarabs themselves do not have any weapons, the Scarab Bombs they unleash can only be placed properly. But it can damage enemy buildings and troops at the same time.

There are three main structures of the golden beetle:

1. Scarabs: Scarabs are small intelligent machines. Produced and launched by the Golden Beetle, it can trigger high-explosive mechanical peaks. They are fired in groups at enemy live forces and devices etc. Because of this offensive method, they can instantly destroy the enemy's base. Unlike Interceptors (carriers' smaller planes), they do not return to the Scarabs but instead ram them to detonate an explosion of focused electromagnetic energy that severely damages their target. The Scarab's attack has an extremely long range and has a splash effect that damages enemies in an area.

2. Miniature production platform: The golden beetle is improved from a civilian mobile production unit, which has a complex and strict scarab production line inside. Restricted by size. It was not possible to store too many scarabs, until later the high-level protoss carried out a thorough military transformation on them, removed the previous civilian modules, replaced the most advanced production equipment, and expanded the internal capacity. Scarab's capacity has been increased.

3. Combat armor: When the golden beetle was put into military use, because the civilian armor was extremely fragile, it was easily torn by the sharp blades of the Zerg army. The scarab's deficiencies in defense have integrated a set of combat sensing systems to improve the accuracy of the scarab's attack. On the other hand, due to the heavy armor and scarab production line, the mobility of the Golden Scarab is affected to a certain extent. Without the cover of the carrier unit, it will easily become the target of the enemy's siege.

Since the golden beetle itself has no attack power, it only has two regular upgrade items of defense and shield, but you can upgrade the two items of "scarab power upgrade" and "gold beetle capacity upgrade" in the Mechanical Research Institute to increase the explosion of the scarab power and capacity.

The system shows that the resource consumption of the golden beetle is 400 crystals, 200 gas, and occupies 3 people. Considering that the resource consumption is twice that of StarCraft 1 battle mode, the body length of the golden beetle should be more than 20 meters.

As the crystallization of Protoss technology, the power of the golden beetle is naturally far from that of human units such as the vulture chariot and the crow. Although the actual power of the scarab has not been seen with my own eyes, it is not low. The kite tactics of the "Golden Beetle" are used to attack opponents because of the gameplay. If it is put into the real universe... Tang Fang thinks it is completely a small suicide drone carrier used by land.

Unlocking the Colossus and the Golden Beetle at one time today is definitely something worth celebrating, but he still has a bit of regret in his heart. Unfortunately, these two units are ground overlords, unable to attack the air, and they are most likely to unlock the "Star Wars". The Ypsilon shipyard at the "gate" is too far away, so it is difficult to get through this time.

But after thinking about it, there are so many perfect things in the world. If the "Star Gate" can't be unlocked, isn't there a large number of Ypsilon battleships in "Delta-5"? For example, will the huge battleship with a body length of almost 5 kilometers unlock the core of the mothership? Again, if it can be fixed. Driving around in human society, I’m afraid it’s more shocking than Bechymos, not to mention there are many other small and medium warships in good condition, the value of which is higher than the scattered remains of “Omega-2” many.

In the end, he moved his focus to the "Mechanical Research Institute" because it synchronized with the technology of the StarCraft 1 era. There are a total of 4 upgrade items in it, and the resource consumption is 2000 crystals and 2000 gas. They are "scarab power upgrade" - as the name suggests, increase the explosive power of the scarab; "golden beetle capacity upgrade" - increase the number of scarabs carried by the golden beetle , but the system did not introduce the specific added value; "Gravity Drive"-an optimization and upgrade project, used to increase the movement speed of the first-generation Protoss transport aircraft and the second-generation transmission prism; "Extended heat ray gun"-increased the range of the Colossus;

Add 4 items to the upgrade queue in turn, and the resource value is reduced to 1054345, 154514.

Emma sent news that the useful data contained in the psychic flame had been collected. All are stored in the database of the star track command center.

Through "her" narration, Tang Fang learned that "Greeland" was safe and sound not because it was not the center of the battlefield, but because it had been abandoned long ago.

The facilities on "Greeland" and the "Ashtolando" hall on the asteroid were built earlier than the Dyson ball system, and they were only the front-line supplies when the Ipsi dragons built the Dyson ball system, which made him even more so. The frightening thing is that the original "Gamma-3" star system does not only have the planet "Greeland", but also 9 other planets...but all of them have been dismantled by the Epsilon to build a Dyson sphere.

Tang Fang no longer knew what words to use to express his mood at this moment, if Bai Yue were here. I'm sure you'll be pissing these guys off, because stupid philosophers think the phrase "man can conquer nature" is bullshit. People want to "follow the sky" instead of "conquer the sky". The Yipsilong people are a good example. They dare to destroy a planet casually.

In fact, he himself also felt that what the Ipsilonians had done was a bit excessive, if it followed the human way of thinking. With such a huge Dyson sphere, the energy can be described as inexhaustible. It is environmentally friendly, clean, and low-carbon. It is really a good place to live.

How many people can an artificial celestial body with a radius of 100,000 kilometers be used to house?

But in the hands of the Yipxi dragon people. It is nothing more than a power plant, an upgraded version of the underground zero isotope refinery on Nami. Of course, this evaluation may be biased. There are not only zero isotope refining lines in the Dyson sphere, but also smelting and casting workshops for other metals such as titanium, steel, palladium, and platinum.

The available information obtained by Emma covers almost the entire refining industrial system of the Ipsilonians, as well as derivative processes such as Dyson Cloud and Dyson Foam, as well as nearly non-destructive solar energy conversion technology.

However, what made him depressed was that the available database network of the entire Dyson sphere system had very few records of the original "Lost War", and there were only some fragmentary scenes of battleships bombing. After breaking, in order to prevent the central control system from being paralyzed by electronic storms such as p and magnetic coupling, which will cause the displacement compensation system to become unbalanced and eventually endanger the Dyson sphere itself, a will automatically switch to the conservative operation mode, with the spiritual flame as the central node, each Manage the corresponding area, focus on monitoring the external force of the system, and adjust the force through the thruster group on the outer wall to maintain the stable operation of the Dyson sphere.

Thinking about it carefully, in fact, apart from the great benefit of unlocking the "Mechanical Research Institute", the value of those materials is even higher. According to Emma's analysis, considering the level of human science and technology, the space environment of "Dilar", material consumption, construction cycle and other issues, not to mention the Dyson ball, even if the Dyson cloud and Dyson bubble are built around the "Dilar" Difficult, but you can take a step back and construct a rope network that revolves around the stars, similar to the space facilities in the science fiction "Ring World". , integrating the mineral refining line of "Morning Star Foundry".

In this way, the production capacity of "Morning Star Foundry" can be thousands of times higher than that of similar enterprises such as "Wanderer Technology Consortium" and "Iga Industry", and it can save costs to the greatest extent.

However, the initial investment in this grand project is too high, and the 800 billion star coins on the books are less than one-thousandth of the total project investment. Judging from the current situation, he must either cooperate with the Star Alliance government. Either learn from the Ipsilon and destroy a few planets. Of course, the premise is that he has enough manpower, material resources, and technical strength to support such a project as blowing up planets.

Hearing what "her" said, Tang Fang recalled the scene when he bombed Star Nami and the spectacular scene at that time, and now his spine is still a little numb. I don’t think it’s good to do this. I feel like an unscrupulous real estate developer is forcibly demolishing residential buildings. Besides, the Star Alliance government only rents out the right to use “Dilar”. , Those patriots in the government still don't play with him?

...Although the Star Alliance has no sovereignty at all, but that is relative to other countries.

Since the method of bombing the planet is not suitable, the only way left is to cooperate with the government. It is difficult to get the government to fund the construction of a project for a hilltop like him, but... it is not impossible, it requires some external conditions.

Thinking of this, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, terrified by his own terrible thoughts.

"Emma, ​​can you design and develop a space refinery that can be used as a space station in combination with the refining process of the Ipsi Dragons, and can be mounted to the 'rope network' when the article permits in the future."

"Commander. This idea is very good, there should be no problem."

"That's good. You can execute it immediately."

Repelling Emma, ​​he came down from the high platform and walked out the door with the little girl who had just recovered her ability to move.

Although the Dyson sphere system of "Gamma-3" is ready-made, the damage is too serious. The system has already used most of the energy just to maintain the balance of external forces, and the refining process it belongs to is either seriously damaged. Either offline, too expensive to fix. You must know that this is a Dyson ball system, not a dimension lock, and it is far from something that a few "Cupids" can play. Moreover, there are too many unstable factors in "Lost Land". No one can be sure whether the huge artificial celestial body under their feet will suddenly become unbalanced in the next second, and finally hit "Gamma-3", causing a century-long explosion.

He can only use it as a large garbage dump, occasionally to disassemble a few parts he needs, or to develop the tourism industry when the conditions are ripe.

He didn't say a word, thinking about all kinds of things, sometimes laughing happily, sometimes laughing wildly.

Freya also remained silent, looking at his face, sometimes aggrieved, sometimes angry, sometimes puzzled, and finally with a worried look on her face, thinking whether he was stimulated by something, but don't be a fool, Idiots, brain-damaged and other abnormal people are good.

She would be very sad... So she couldn't help but said: "Tang Fang, you must not become an idiot, in exchange... I... I don't blame you, okay?"

The smile on his lips froze on his face, dry and astringent.

Take the vulture chariot back to the entrance again, return to the apron through the crystal tunnel, drive the shuttle to the asteroid next to "Greeland" where the hall of "Ashtolando" and the passenger terminal are built, and pass through the dimension roaming terminal Back to "Tikal".

Tang Fang glanced back at the "door" structure behind him, feeling like he was dreaming.

The refining of minerals is nearing completion, and "Cupid" reported him two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

Like any man, he chose to hear the bad news first.

Affected by mineral dryness, humidity, impurity content, etc., the number of dimensional locks prepared is less than expected, and because of the superposition of dimensional storms in the subspace tunnel network, repair the subspace tunnels from "Tikal" to "Delta-5" star system The number of dimension locks required for the task has increased, and the initial estimate is that there are 3 missing.

Only 3 are missing!

Tang Fang's face turned pale, it was killing him, "Alpha-7" was too far away, he couldn't bear it, and now "Delta-5" couldn't get there, how could he accept it?

"You...you group..."

He thought for a while, and it is better not to say the latter word, if "Cupid" is trash, let alone s, just be dumb and accept the reality with peace of mind.

At this moment, Emma's voice came to mind: "Commander, there should be some refined raw materials in the Dyson sphere system of 'Gamma-3', but because the warehouse for storing iridium leaked, it is impossible to prepare a large amount of dimensional locks. , but more than ten should be no problem."

"That's right, why didn't I think of it, why did the Yipsi dragons build the Dyson ball system? Isn't it for refining and casting mineral resources."

He simply asked Freya to wait here, took a "Cupid" to enter the dimension roaming terminal again, returned to "Gamma-3", used the Hercules transport plane to go to the Dyson ball system, and awakened a "Ashtolando" hall , It took more than an hour to prepare the raw materials into 12 dimensional locks, and handed them over to "Cupid" to continue the suspended subspace tunnel repair work.

During this period, he suddenly thought of one thing. There are refined raw materials left in the warehouse of the Dyson ball system. What about the isotope of the zero source element? That is something more precious than ordinary zero elements.

Emma's answer disappointed him. A part of the warehouse that stored zero isotopes was damaged in the war, and another part of the warehouse that was intact was also empty for unknown reasons.

Tang Fang scolded: "A bunch of bastards!" (To be continued...)

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The "Lost Lands" chapter was so hard to write. . . . . . . Brain hole A civilization that is about the same level as the Protoss and has a different level of technology is simply killing brain cells.