Chapter 161 The Possibility of a Giant Ship

The giant ship that Ella mentioned is actually on the agenda.

Strange matter can resist super-strong pressure, or in other words, strange matter itself requires super-strong pressure.

Then if a large mass object is created inside the battleship, the gravity of this large mass object can be used to provide energy for the battleship.

It didn't work before because a large mass object inside the battleship would definitely cause the battleship itself to be unstable and deformed. After all, a large mass object that can provide sufficient gravitational energy is not as simple as a dwarf planet, but requires stronger gravity.

The difference between a battleship and a star city is that the star city itself does not need to move super fast. Compared with a battleship, it is more like a space fortress, or a command ship that lacks mobility.

Moreover, according to the latest research, the star city cannot leave the star system, because the way to resist gravity is balance, using the large mass gravity of the star and the star city itself to achieve a balanced state, and using some matter to collect and consume the energy of gravity, so that the interaction force of gravity on the star city is reduced again.

It can be said that the technical aspects of the Star City itself are not difficult.

Does that mean that the Olive Branch Civilization cannot build giant warships?

This is naturally impossible.

The reason why the Olive Branch Civilization built the Star City is that it can provide living space and can continuously use gravitational energy to store energy, which is a function that warships do not have.

And the main reason is the technological form of the Olive Branch Civilization itself. The Star City can be decomposed into a huge fleet, so they have no reason to build giant warships, which is redundant for them.

Especially the reality is different from any interstellar game. Your warship is placed there. In reality, the warship itself represents a huge expenditure, just like the various expenses of ordinary people after buying a car.

Take the medium-sized aircraft carrier in the Earth era as an example. The annual expenditure of a medium-sized aircraft carrier is generally above 1 billion. The additional expenditure for going to sea is between 30 million and 50 million. The expenditure for coordinating fleet training is usually hundreds of millions. The total expenditure of an aircraft carrier from retirement to retirement is easily over 100 billion, and its service life is only a few decades.

Just as the maintenance cost of general military equipment is much higher than that of ordinary cars, the annual expenditure of a warship is generally much higher than that of an aircraft carrier on Earth, which is generally 20 to 40 times the cost of a warship. The service life of ordinary warships in the Federation is much longer than that of aircraft carriers, generally 2,000 to 5,000 years, that is to say, the funds consumed by at least one warship from service to retirement are 50 times the cost, and at most 250 times.

For example, the Kunlun has actually stayed in one place for a long time without moving, but it burns 16.2 billion energy coins every year. It has been more than 2,000 years since Yan Xia last boarded the Kunlun, nearly 3,000 years. It is conceivable how much money the Kunlun burns.

You should know that the company with the highest market value in the Civilization Federation is only more than 300 billion energy coins, and 20 years will directly bankrupt the largest company in the Federation.

/The maintenance cost of Star City itself is already very high, and the Olive Branch Civilization has no need to add burden to itself.

Similarly, this is why Ella does not replace some old warships in the galaxy, because the new warships are bigger and stronger, which means that the cost of construction and maintenance is higher, and the Federation cannot afford such huge consumption.

However, the era of giant ships is very necessary for the Civilization Federation.

The advent of the era of giant ships means that the Civilization Federation does not need to build more small warships. Each star system only needs one giant ship. According to Ella's calculations, as long as the giant ships completely replace those small warships, the maintenance cost will actually be reduced by about 103%, which is very useful.

You must know that the Federation is now in a state of war preparedness, and the number of warships is actually a bit too much. If it is just to maintain the stability of the Federation and deter foreign enemies, the number of warships in the Federation can be directly reduced by 50%.

Ella didn't feel too bad about destroying so many warships in the battle with the Olive Branch Civilization before, because it was better for these warships to be destroyed. After all, they can no longer be transported back to the Federation, and the cost of driving them back is far more than directly rebuilding them in the Federation.

There is another factor that saves costs for the giant ships themselves.

That is, small warships need to cooperate with multiple types of ships, and each type of ship needs to play different functions, but because the giant ship is large, these functions can be concentrated on one warship, that is, one warship can be equivalent to a fleet or even multiple fleets.

The coverage problem can be solved by using more fighters and spacecraft. The giant ship is large, so it can accommodate more of these small things, and these small things do not even need maintenance. If they are broken, they can be replaced directly.

As for the firepower problem, a small warship can only carry a maximum of 3 main guns, while a giant ship can carry dozens or hundreds of main guns, and even powerful main guns can be installed, so the firepower of the giant ship is also better.

These reasons have led to the fact that the Federation is actually developing towards the era of giant ships.

Kunlun is the first trial giant ship.

The giant ship in Ella's plan is not a dwarf planetary giant ship like Kunlun, but a real planetary giant ship or a giant planetary giant ship.

These two types of giant ships provide space for another thing.

That is the white dwarf.

The huge ship can accommodate a white dwarf, using the terrifying gravity of the white dwarf to drive the ship, providing it with energy that will last for billions of years.

This is simply crazy.

But with the strange substance of Merkin, the white dwarf giant ship became possible, and Ella even had a crazier idea. Yan Xia looked through the records of the simulated universe and found that Ella had experimented with a neutron star giant ship in the last 200 years.

If it weren't for the fact that the specific characteristics of black holes are not yet understood, the simulated universe cannot simulate black holes. Yan Xia thinks that Ella will test the black hole giant ship, or the super-large black hole giant ship, which is tens of millions of times the mass of the sun.

Of course, these are still in the fantasy stage.

As far as Yan Xia knows, Ella's current goal is still pragmatic. It will use a small black hole inside the Kunlun to first create a high-density celestial body, and then use a huge amount of energy to maintain the stability of this high-density celestial body. Finally, it will create a gravitational energy device around the stable high-density celestial body. Finally, the energy produced by the gravitational energy device is higher than the energy consumed to maintain the stability of the high-density celestial body, so as to achieve positive energy acquisition.

For this reason, Ella and Zhu made a deal.

The content of the deal is advanced gravitational energy technology!