Chapter 173 Battleship Sequence and Economic Issues

Some spaceships paused in this starry sky.

Because a terrifying thing appeared in the distance.

It was a huge eyeball, which was rotating like a living thing.

"We received a response from the Federation Star Patrol, telling us not to get close. This eyeball is a new type of biological warship of the Federation."

The citizens of the Federation who heard the news found it incredible.

"Are you saying that our Federation will go to the interstellar battlefield to fight in this thing in the future?"

It feels a little unacceptable.

In fact, Yan Xia felt the same way.

"Why is it in the shape of an eyeball? It looks a bit sanity-depleting."

Ella handed Yan Xia a cup of tea, and there happened to be an eye floating in the tea, which shocked Yan Xia and threw the tea out directly.

Ella said seriously from behind: "This is the best eye tea in the Federation. This eye is a plant that looks like an eye."

Yan Xia felt that Ella was definitely intentional.

The tea actually looks a bit like an eye. Normally, Yan Xia would never think of anything else, but when he saw the battleship and the tea, which was black tea, he almost thought Ella had handed him a cup of blood.

"So, why was it made into an eye?"

Ella called up some information.

"The giant ship is already in the research and development stage. When we enter the era of giant ships, the rest of our battleships will become auxiliary."

"So the biological battleship was determined to be an auxiliary direction 580 years ago. The giant eye battleship has a simpler structure and more outstanding capabilities, so it was created."

"It is mainly used for reconnaissance rather than attack. One advantage of the biological battleship is that it can hide its own energy source and achieve the effect of invisibility in the universe. The giant eye has very good vision. Its eyeball resolution can reach 100 billion pixels. It can see high-frequency rays such as alpha rays, and can also see ultra-low-frequency low-frequency rays."

"This is a very good light detection tool."

Yan Xia was actually a little disappointed, because he originally wanted a more handsome battleship, not this Cthulhu-style battleship.

Ella seemed to know Yan Xia's thoughts.

"Don't be so depressed, Yan Xia."

"The core part of the biological warship is that it is a living thing, and the plasticity of living things is stronger than that of metal."

"So, we have also thought about letting the warship realize a function."

"This function is temporarily called [Battleship Sequence]."

Individuals have sequences, so what kind of warship can't have a sequence?

Ella looked at the giant eye that stopped in the deep space, and the giant eye seemed to feel its gaze and began to expand.

Something pierced the eyeball from the front, and the object grew out of the eyeball with a layer of bony scales. It was a head, the head of a sturgeon.

Then the body of the sturgeon came out, and the eyeball itself began to shrink, forming the tail of the sturgeon.

This sturgeon has a more prominent feature, that is, a relatively long snout, which is a more striking feature of the Acipenseridae family.

"The Chinese sturgeon, a creature that became extinct with the industrialization of the earth."

"In order to adapt to the universe, this sturgeon has a slimmer and longer body. The cells of its skin can change color at will. It is now white, but it can also be black, gray, colorful, seven-color, camouflage, etc."

"The scales and bones of the whole body have been strengthened. Now it should be considered a bony fish. This kind of creature in nature should be more in line with your aesthetic taste."

Indeed, the appearance has changed from -100 points to 100 points.

"What are the specific abilities?"

Sequences generally have corresponding special abilities.

"No."

"Biological warships are different from ordinary creatures. Their real function is still to reduce the cost of warships."

"So the creature itself is just the shell, and the real function is the internal machinery."

"From the eyeball to the sturgeon, some internal mechanical structures will be activated, and the reconnaissance ship will be transformed into a battleship."

"You have noticed that the thing protruding from the mouth of the sturgeon is the main gun."

The appearance of the 40,000-meter-long giant sturgeon is not exactly the same as that of a real creature, but it has some metal devices, such as a huge main gun, and a row of thrusters at the end of the tail fin to provide power for the biological warship.

"The main function of deformation is still the transformation of function. It is much easier for the flesh to do such things."

"If it is metal, then enough liquid metal must be used, which is too expensive, or it must be made into a very complex structure like Transformers, which is also not low in cost, and the biological sequence can reduce the cost to a large extent."

"In this way, one ship can be used for two purposes, which is also a cost saving item."

Ella can't do without the word "cost" in every sentence.

The biological warship itself was developed to reduce the cost of the warship, so Yan Xia felt that the most important thing was the cost.

"So how much does this warship cost?"

Ella split the drawings of the biological warship into the external organism and the internal mechanical parts, and marked the corresponding prices.

"The price of the weapon system is 1.09 million energy coins, the price of the energy system is 7.07 million energy coins, the price of the powertrain is 1.61 million energy coins, the price of the detection system is 840,000 energy coins, the price of the main engine is 380,000 energy coins, and the cost of the remaining cabins inside the warship plus the external organisms is 170,000 energy coins."

A total of 11.16 million energy coins.

This is a 40,000-meter-class warship, and it can complete the transformation of two forms in a very short time.

Yan Xia remembered that the cost of warships of the same level is generally more than 50 million energy coins. Of course, the performance of biological warships is definitely not as good as the original steel warships, but the cost difference between the two is more than 4 times, which is enough to wipe out everything.

"On average, it should be able to save 80% to 90%."

"The military expenditure can be much more than this. The manufacture of 10,000 biological warships is more than 100 billion energy coins, which can basically only build two dwarf planet-class warships."

Yan Xia held his chin with his hand.

The Federation has not yet entered a normal development mode, and the economy and actual production capacity are decoupled.

A level 2.2 civilization can produce 100 trillion energy coins per second, and 310 trillion energy coins per year. Logically, the Federation should have sufficient funds of at least 100 trillion energy coins per year.

But in fact, the Federation is very "poor" now.

The available energy is too low.

The additional energy that the entire Federation can use each year is less than 200 trillion, which is one-fifth of the expected amount.

Why is this so?

Because the Federation has been in an accelerated construction period, and excess energy is used for construction within the Federation and to maintain these constructions.

For example, the Mobius ring world of the Water Commission, to maintain the operation of the entire ring world, two stars are actually not enough, and additional energy needs to be continuously transported from other star systems.

For example, the mechanical gods of each star system, their temporary energy accounts for almost more than 50% of the total energy of a star system, and there are also star cities in each star system.

The maintenance of a battleship requires an astronomical amount of energy coins, not to mention the star city.

There are interstellar factories outside the star city, and there are various giant structures outside the interstellar factories.

If you ask what is the most resource-hungry glutton in the Civilization Federation?

Then every citizen of the Federation will answer without hesitation that it is the simulated universe.

At this stage, the Civilization Federation has only two simulated universes, but the total consumption of these two simulated universes is 8% of the total energy produced by the entire Civilization Federation.

The laser transmission developed by Yan Xia before also consumes a lot of energy.

This is why Yan Xia and Ella both want to save energy to the extreme, and even the Federation will have places like cleanup sites for scavengers to collect energy.

"It will be too late when the war comes, with so few battleships."

"The development of the triangle area must be fast. We need to increase the current total energy to 100 trillion levels, so that we can complete the transformation and enter the era of giant ships and biological eras."

"Pay attention to the internal economic balance, Ella."

"The proportion of robots can also be reduced, so that more federal citizens can replace robots in some important positions."

Yan Xia felt a headache when he thought of this.

It is not an easy task to perfectly control a huge organizational structure spanning 200 star systems and with nearly one hundred trillion citizens.