Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

After testing and confirming that the new "stern firing" function fully complied with the specifications, Hong breathed a sigh of relief.

The jump tactical maneuver is very incomprehensible for the first sight kill, it can be called some kind of dimensionality reduction strike - if it is an ordinary civilization, who will make a special design to target the enemy when the speed of light has no clue? What about fast jump maneuvers?

Just like the pre-space age, in the era of aircraft carrier + guided drive, no one would choose to install an anti-ship missile specially designed to wear heavy armor.

What's more, if the designer's reason is that they are worried that one day, a few light missiles will suddenly fall from outer space, and the alien warships that can't be moved by leapfrogs will design such an extreme waste of resources just in case. heavy missiles, then he can probably only say "I used to have a job".

But if it does appear, with demand and motivation, the design bureau can come up with a reliable armor-piercing anti-ship missile in a few weeks.

The same is true for Hong. Knowing the data, having a goal, making a targeted design and deploying it in the army, it only takes a few months.

With the support of the newly installed, powerful side thruster engine, the single pusher can complete a 150-degree roll in 180 seconds at the fastest—this speed is astonishingly fast. You must know that the single pusher is already quite long. For a 200-storey building, a roll is completed in two and a half minutes, including the acceleration and deceleration time, which is equivalent to moving a full 10 meters per second when the outermost circle is the fastest.

In a particularly urgent situation, the solid-state propellant rocket on the side can be activated to further shorten the turning time-but this kind of thing is a consumable and will not be used lightly.

Note that the purpose of being able to fire at the stern of the ship is to have the ability to fight back when the opponent leaps, and at the same time to avoid the situation where extinct units take continuous leaps to chase their butts and beat them.

In other words, this is a trick, the purpose is that if the other party sneaks up behind her and lifts her skirt, it will eat a big tube hidden in the skirt instead of shooting it head-on.

Although due to the characteristics of the free electron laser, the firepower of the bow and the stern is exactly the same, but there is still a big gap in the fight - the bow adopts a super-high-inclination thick armor + segment + compartment design, In terms of ability to resist beatings, none of the five sides can compare to the front face.

The stern of the ship is designed without armor. The big heads are all on the engine nozzles that are tens of meters long. One shot is a hole. Unless the processor is pumped, no one will let the most vulnerable buttocks face the hardest enemy The face of the war.

Her purpose is very simple, a round of volley, after knocking the opponent into a daze, and then perform a 150-second speed turn for it - you know, the sneak attack itself is not without cost, in order to ensure that the bow of the ship is facing her fleet , the extermination unit must face the red firepower and turn to the corresponding angle in advance before it can start the leap.

Assuming that the skills of the two sides are equal, it takes 150 seconds for the opponent to turn around, which is equivalent to eating Red's superior firepower for 150 seconds, and then jumping over to eat her stern cannon before outputting 150 seconds of superior firepower against Red.

In this way, it means that neither side has made a profit, and the extermination unit has spent a round of Red's stern salvo in vain—this way, according to Hong's estimation, the opponent will give up the jump strategy after one or two unsuccessful attempts Choose to face her face to face.

And confronting Gang is her favorite part - there are no fancy tactics, only the purest shooting.

Firepower and damage resistance are king!

Of course, the steering speed can't be faster, but in order to achieve the current speed, Hong has modified and strengthened the main structure and keel of the battleship so that the battleship will not fall apart under high-speed maneuvering.

You must know that compared to vehicles in the atmosphere, space battleships are actually very "fragile"-the needs of space and the needs of the ground are completely different things. If a battleship that is extremely capable in space reaches the ground, it is even difficult to support itself The weight will crush yourself in minutes.

Fighters in the atmosphere often fly with an overload of more than a dozen Gs, while space battleships, with an overload of 0.1G, are considered "substantial maneuvers". Those that can reach 0.2 and 0.3G are life-saving maneuvers that are only used for survival.

How much is 0.1G?One meter per second, the acceleration is slower than normal walking speed.

Although this gap is also related to the causes of the two types of overloads, it can be seen that since space battleships can accelerate and decelerate at a few tenths of a G at their highest, it is impossible for Hong to reduce their speed. The structural design is too strong - that is useless except to waste materials and man-hours and reduce combat effectiveness.

You must know that the characteristic of space vehicles is the truss structure, which has no aerodynamic influence. As long as the engine can move, the structure can support it, and it can be built as big as you want.

Although the standard DV of a single pusher class is 25 kilometers per second, if necessary, she can increase the DV to [-] or [-] by temporarily installing a working fluid compartment on the hull. This is just the cost It's just a problem.

Therefore, if you don't consider efficiency, redundancy, etc., and just want to "have" a certain equipment, you can screw a truss directly on the surface of the ship's hull, and then install the equipment on it.

Spaceships are that simple and crude.

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PS: To be honest, for surface ship girls, looking at the bottom of the boat = looking at the bottom of the skirt

So for space battleships, look at the engine =?

Volume 66 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Bailu and Baixue

In addition, there is something very special.

Space battleships are actually very "moisture".

Since there is no need to support its own weight as on the surface of the planet, the pressure on the structural layer is greatly reduced, coupled with the special properties of the armor used to resist lasers, the space battleship is actually very puffy.

This can be seen from the single pusher data.

Without counting the heat sink, the whole ship is 550 meters long and 45 meters wide, but its mass is only 11 tons—the extra 10 tons is due to continuous technological upgrades. The original version even It's only worth [-] tons.

For comparison, the largest vehicle ever used in the Catus Unified War, the Union-class battleship, had a total weight of 340 tons with a length of 45 meters and a width of 14 meters.

If the proportion of the joint class is enlarged to the volume of the single-pusher class, its total mass will reach about 30 tons. Compared with the 10 tons of the single-pusher level, she really knows how much the density is different.

The reason is very simple, apart from the structure, the armor is the thing with the most moisture.

The airgel protective layer specially used to resist lasers can easily reach the meter level in thickness, but the total mass is almost negligible—the mass per cubic meter is only about 3 to 5 kilograms, which is only about two or three times the density of air.

However, although its mass is small, its effect is not small at all.

Taking silicon dioxide and graphite aerogels as examples, they have high melting points, extremely low thermal conductivity, and excellent insulation capabilities. They can effectively withstand laser irradiation and absorb a lot of energy without worrying about being opened by high-energy lasers.

Under the barrier of the meter-level airgel and its servo gap armor, the hole opened by a single shot is difficult to affect the equipment inside the armor, and as long as the first shot is resisted, the probability of the next laser hitting the part again will become very small.

After all, boats move.

This kind of airgel is cheap to manufacture, easy to repair, and has almost negligible impact on the quality of the ship. It can be easily piled up thick, so as to obtain ultra-high resistance to extremely specialized lasers.

Of course, in the face of live ammunition weapons, the role of airgel is almost zero, but generally speaking, warships only need to wrap a thin layer of Whipple shield on the outside to prevent space debris from damaging the airgel protective layer. Just cause damage.

In addition, under several layers of airgel armor, there is also a combination of tungsten carbide armor and anti-caving lining that is specially designed to resist live ammunition weapons—but this kind of armor is not only expensive, but also very heavy, occupying A lot of dry weight, so it is only set on the innermost layer, and try to make it as thin as possible to reduce its mass ratio.

However, as one of the hardest alloys, after solving the toughness problem to a certain extent, only a very thin layer is needed, and the anti-caving lining can also effectively resist the high-speed bullets of the electromagnetic gun. The pusher level only has electric heat resistance" and if you go to the kinetic energy team, you will die very rhythmically.

In addition, the length of 550 meters is also very large.

The first is the bow. Although the bow is the only part with heavy armor and has a high density, due to its extremely high inclination angle, it is relatively slender as a whole, not as thick as the back, and its quality is naturally unimaginable. It's so exaggerated.

As for the stern of the ship, it is easier to understand. The engine nozzle, which is huge and low in mass, is naturally filled with water.

Just planing off the giant nozzle that is close to 60 meters long can reduce the length of the entire battleship to as much as 500 meters, and its moisture can be imagined.

"Therefore, on the whole, the structure of an axle gun battleship is composed of a main gun, a reactor, and an engine. The slender core area is the core, and the middle part is the servo, redundant equipment, built-in working fluid and core armor layer. The outer It is the airgel protective layer, heat dissipation layer, external equipment and working medium tank layer."

This is Hong's analysis of the axis gunship she is currently using in the class of Introduction to Space Combat.

Although in the actual design, different battleships will adjust the distribution of each layer, but from an overall point of view, it basically follows the above design idea - as long as she is still using the axis gun design, the core area-servo-redundant - The allocation of working fluid and armor will basically not change.

"As long as the core area of ​​an axis gunship does not completely lose its effectiveness and maintains the heat dissipation capability above the water level, even if all other parts are destroyed, it can still maintain considerable combat effectiveness."

This is a new section of "Introduction to Space Combat" that she just opened recently. In order to take care of the acceptance ability of new students, she had to start from such a basic part to ensure that the two of them could understand.

Yes, there were only two of them—and they were still lovers. Hong suspected that the younger one came to attend the class simply following the interest of the other.

It's not that this course is unpopular, but because other boys who are interested in this course have already completed it a few years ago, and now they are learning advanced courses, and even the level of simulated battles in the supercomputing array .

These two cubs are just because they were too young before.I had to wait until I was a little older to take this course.

"However, in that case, if the core area is seriously damaged and the main gun is completely damaged, won't the other parts have no combat effectiveness at all even if they are intact?"

The older Bai Lu raised a question, and although the younger Bai Xue didn't speak, she could see the same doubt in her red eyes.

"In theory yes, but from a design perspective, no."

Hong snapped his fingers, and projected a design drawing of a useless axle gun battleship, which meant that a "person" like Hong could use a complete set of design drawings of a battleship to popularize science for elementary school students.

You must know that even if it is a waste case, for the alliance, it is still a design that can crush their active battleships.

If relevant scholars of the Alliance could see this scene, they would surely shed tears of regret—why am I not a cute little girl? !

"The core area has the best protection at any angle. The front end has the bow and gun port armor, the rear end has the engine radiation protection layer and the stern armor, and the surrounding area is wrapped by thick outer armor, and there is a middle compartment. as a buffer."

"Segmentation technology allows the free electron laser itself to have considerable redundancy. Even if the bow is broken, just discard the acceleration section at the front and activate the acceleration section in the middle-although this will lose a certain amount of firepower. , but compared to the fault tolerance it brings, it is quite worth it.”

"I see......"

The two of them made gestures on the touch screen in front of them, and they probably understood.

To be honest, the two of them have basically zero talent for space combat, and they are considered to be the worst group of the Red Sect.

If Hong is allowed to choose, rather than letting them compete in the weak link of space warfare, Hong is more inclined to let them concentrate on learning their strengths-you know, after her observation, the real talents of the two are actually In condensed matter physics, as far as how good the talent is, the youngest and second youngest have reached the same level as or even slightly higher than other cubs in the same subject.

But since it was their interest, Hong would naturally not stop them. After all, the most important thing was for the cubs to be happy. Even if none of them had any interest in scientific research, Hong's affection for them would not weaken in the slightest.

Family love doesn't need too many reasons.

Volume 67 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Society and Ethics

The very few that have deteriorated are exceptions.

Hong directly ignored those cubs who wanted to take their relationship further—or rather, every cub here wanted to go further with her, but a very few showed it very clearly.

However, whether it is family affection or love, the relationship between her and any cub is much closer than the relationships in ordinary creatures.

If, even if they only want to eat and wait to die every day, or even use Hong's name to bully foreigners, as long as they maintain harmony within, Hong will never feel disgusted.

Having said that, almost every one of the hundred or so cubs has some talent in scientific research, which is really beyond her expectations.

This has nothing to do with the improvement of intelligence brought about by gene modulation, but their real talent - this is something that Hong didn't know until after some research on the Federal Internet.

Moreover, not only are they talented, but they are also willing to work hard, which is the most important thing.

As long as she is willing to work hard and is interested in scientific research—or at least not disgusted, Hong is willing to do her best to help the cubs embark on the road of scientific research.

No matter how poor the talent is, a whole set of tailor-made courses + top-level equipment that even the highest scientist in the alliance can't use can be smashed into a scientist with a high level. Generally, the level gradually rises.

Although the reason for their hard work is basically locked in "I want to help Hong do something", Hong is a bit dumbfounded-because no matter how hard they study, except for a very small number of real geniuses, they can't get back their money.

You know, the materials and computing power it takes to train them is an astronomical figure in any organic civilization. At least, no one would be willing to build a [-]-kilometer-level collider for master-level students. for learning.

Of course, Bai Lu and Bai Xue's talent in condensed matter physics is worthy of the cost of cultivating them--on the one hand, the talent is good enough, on the other hand, the cost of training condensed matter physics is relatively low.

At least it is much lower than the military department that needs to manufacture small warships in space for testing, and the particle physics that needs to use accelerators.

By the way, it's no coincidence that they all have white in their names.

That's right, it has something to do with Bai, the most sinful woman among all the cubs.

Bai named himself Bai in order to correspond with Hong. Similarly, the reason why they both have Bai in their names is also for some unclear purpose.

There is a statistic that may help this phenomenon-three-quarters of the cubs in the entire congener have the word white in their names.

The rest is more straightforward, and they have plans for Hong, but Hong's name is really hard to form, so they retreated and chose another name.

In short, in the entire homogenous body, except for those who chase after red, both red and white chase after each other, without exception.

This can be regarded as one of their characteristics. They have no parents, and the name is completely chosen by themselves, so this kind of trend of expressing intimacy through names has formed.If this social system continues, it may become the characteristic culture of the same ethnic group in the future, and even form a certain kind of cultural export.

Since they are all chasing red and white, how did the relationship between the two of them come about?

Just in response to that sentence, you like my wife, and I like my wife, aren't we in the same group!

That's probably what it meant, anyway, on a month-long night that wasn't too dark and windy, under the witness of Hong, the two of them talked like this.

Pretty outrageous.

"All of today's classes are over, and you have no further classes scheduled."

Hong checked the class schedule and said so.

"Do you want to go for a walk in the central lake together?"

"Um..."

"Is Hong coming?"

"No, you go."

Unsurprisingly, after being rejected by Hong, they said "secret words" that Hong understood clearly, and slipped to the park for a "walk".

Although through the Skynet system, Hong can watch their kisses on the park benches all the way every time, but out of reserve, she still routinely declines their invitation to go together.

They just stopped at kissing, and out of physical considerations, Hong would definitely let them do other things—they themselves knew this kind of thing clearly, and the so-called secret actions were just to heighten the atmosphere.

"I always feel that the cubs are weird."

Looking at their backs going away, Hong stroked her long silver-gray hair, thinking so.

In a sense, this can be regarded as a "disadvantage" of homogeneous society, that is, they take ethical relations very lightly and don't care much.

Although in the final analysis, ethics is only a moral constraint applicable to certain groups at a specific time and place, but such fraternity still makes Hong a little worried.

The main reason is that she is worried that some cub will be trapped by love. Although the probability is extremely small at present, if it happens, then she will be inhumane at both ends-the front and back of the motherboard are all components, so both sides have to care.

By the way, the original sentence is "the palm of the hand and the back of the hand are all meat", which is the cyber version.

To understand the special social and emotional relationship of the cubs, one thing needs to be known first—all the citizens of the entire clan have an unusually close connection with Hong.

From a spiritual point of view, the largest, most important, and most caring person in everyone's life is red. If a new generation is born in the future, the effect will be even more dramatic-a person from birth, growth, work, and life. , feelings, and finally to distant death, the mechanical intelligence that is always together has an extremely huge impact on a person.

In a normal society, there will be many other things that divide these feelings, and the authorities will also issue laws to prohibit a single artificial intelligence from exerting too much influence on someone.

But here, no one is restraining, and it is impossible for Hong himself to hand over these things to the "non-self" weak artificial intelligence, thus forming this kind of "deformed" relationship that ordinary people seem to have.

This kind of closeness is unimaginable for people of normal civilized background. No matter how many analogies you make, it is a little worse than the relationship between Hong and them. Hong believes that they will definitely do it without hesitation.