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

Hong sighed, and turned off Bai's psychological evaluation report.

This is how to do ah......

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Although it took Hong a lot of brains to deal with the relationship between the cubs, the development of space is still in progress in an orderly manner. After the defeat of Aixing, the resources that were originally limited by the distance and could not be developed suddenly became within reach. In time, no one in the entire planetary system could stop Hong's footsteps.

The rocky planets in the inner circle, the rich metal asteroids, and countless resources are waiting for her to develop.

During this period of time, except for the four docks used to build the "Catmao Single Pusher Class" warships, all the other shipbuilding forces are doing their best to manufacture engineering ships and cargo ships-compared to extremely complex warships, these cheap The spaceships built are much faster. On average, new ships leave the port every day, carrying a full ship of equipment or supplies to that distant new region.

Especially for cargo ships, Hong is not even interested in loading cargo into the cabin - it takes extra man-hours to build a hull to wrap them up. Anyway, space doesn't need hydrodynamics, and they don't need armor or high-energy-consuming weapons. Simply keep it simple, just refer to the container ships on the ocean.

The structure of the entire cargo ship is very simple, a nuclear fusion engine that runs through the hull, with a large body that is difficult to achieve with a warship to achieve the highest possible specific impulse, a small power pile for powering equipment, a strong frame, Used to hold engines, reactors and containers.

To complete, you only need to load the transported goods into the container, and then connect the container to the interface reserved on the frame. The engine in the middle is the longest man-hour required by the entire ship.This is due to the characteristics of the fusion engine. The longer the nozzle, the higher the specific impulse. In order to increase the economy of transportation, Hong had to make it bigger.

Even, after the early development is completed and the colony becomes self-sufficient, Hong plans to change some electric propulsion spaceships, and even light sail spaceships to transport goods with low timeliness—although the speed of these two types of spaceships is slower, but Compared with the fusion engine that needs to consume working fluid to increase the thrust, the material consumed by electric thrust and optical thrust is almost zero, and the cost is further reduced, which is very economical.

The space environment is like this. No matter how slow the acceleration is, as long as the specific impulse is enough and enough time is given, it can still reach a very high final speed. Due to the need for fast transfer, the battleship needs to complete the transfer in a relatively short period of time. , you can't blindly pursue specific impulse, but the delivery is not so particular.

"Dream back to the era of great navigation and pioneering."

That's probably how it feels.

Volume 14 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] New Ship Design

"This should be the normal rhythm of interstellar development." Hong looked at another batch of cargo ships heading to the inner planets, and said with emotion, "Go to the sky, explore, develop satellites, establish space industries, feed back to the surface, make technological leaps, and build bigger and more Good ships to develop other exoplanets and establish colonies."

"Instead of having an inexplicable life-and-death duel with aliens who are invincible as soon as they go up to the sky."

In fact, until now, Hong is very puzzled as to why the Ai Xing people are so obsessed - rejecting communication, turning off diplomacy, and opening fire when they meet, as if it is a heinous thing to let Catus people live in this world.

Previously, some Catus scholars speculated that the Star Ai civilization might be extremely xenophobic, thinking that all aliens are bugs and must be eliminated.But this kind of theory can't explain why when Catus just ascended to the sky, the Ai Xing people who already had space battleships didn't come to directly crush them to death in the planet, and even took the initiative to contact them and provided a lot of information to express their kindness.

The difference between the two attitudes before and after is so huge that when the Ai Xing people just declared war, many people still found it difficult to understand, because it was unreasonable to say that it was false to think of a snake.If Ai Xing really wanted to exterminate them, he could have done it long ago, instead of waiting until Katus developed the ability to fight back before suddenly launching a war.

You can't think that Ai Xing people have the spirit of chivalry, and they don't kill unarmed people, so what is the purpose of nuclear leveling the city?

"In short, I can only hope that after so many years, Ai Xing can still leave relevant documents to decipher."

Hong turned her perspective back and continued her development plan.

and the battleship plan.

Taking advantage of the current period of peaceful development, Hong plans to eliminate all the old-fashioned fiber laser warships and replace them with cat-mao single-pushers using free electron lasers. The initial budget is 500 to [-] ships, with a total tonnage of close to [-] million. Ton.

No way, these small warships from earlier eras are no longer up to date. The reactor output is insufficient, the size is too small, and the design level is backward-such as the crew cabin that is meaningless to red, the life support system, and in order not to let organisms The cooling system that was overheated and made a lot of compromises was useless.

The man-hours wasted in refitting are greater than building new ones, so they can only be decommissioned.

Red didn't even plan to recycle them, because most of the components on them couldn't be used in new ships, and they were rebuilt—still more wasteful than building new ones.

With the awakening of Hong, the warship that used to be the main force quickly became a tasteless and a pity to discard.Maybe some people who like nostalgic style will be interested in them in the future and buy these historical relics that have personally experienced the Katus Restoration War, but at least for now, Hong can only use one word "garbage" to describe them.

In addition, Hong also canceled all the anti-ship missile bays on the Maomao single pusher class to make room for an additional laser launch port. Although the free electron laser is installed in the center of the hull as a shaft gun, it is The nature of the laser is such that it does not necessarily need to be fired from the front.

It is entirely possible to open a few ports on the side. Although the output is not as good as the main launch port, it is more flexible, so that when the bow is destroyed, the output does not drop too much.

But in this way, there is no place to install the nuclear bombs used to destroy enemy ships, so Hong also designed a missile ship that uses ultra-long-range missiles as output, or it can be called an arsenal ship. It completely abandons laser firepower, so There are no longer high requirements for power or heat dissipation, and the cost has plummeted.

"Isn't this just a cargo ship with missiles?"

To Xi'er who raised the question, Hong nodded heavily.

"Yes."

This kind of arsenal ship named Queen Bee class is not too different from a cargo ship. It is different from ordinary warships. It is equipped with an inertial fusion engine. Its propulsion ability and jet speed are superior to the audience, and its thermoelectric efficiency is extremely high. An emergency reactor, even as a nuclear fusion reactor, it needs other reactors to power it.

Yes, the electricity it generates is not enough to maintain its own operation, and it needs an additional small power pile to work normally. This is a completely unacceptable thing for laser ships-electromagnetic guns, particle cannons Neither can.

Therefore, on any spacecraft that uses these power-hungry households as the main force, the inertial fusion engine cannot appear on the stage, but the missile ship is different, and the missile does not need the power supply of the mother ship.

Without considering power generation, the excellent propulsion capability of inertial fusion can shine.

"After the battleships are specialized, these missile ships don't need to move forward with the laser fleet. They can follow the main force far behind until the laser fleet starts to meet the enemy."

Red gestured.

"Once the frontal battlefield starts, they will start to add extra working fluid, sacrificing specific impulse in exchange for high acceleration in a short period of time, until they are about to enter the range of the enemy laser ship, throw all their missiles, and rely on their speed Quickly climb the track, leave the battlefield, and return to Hong Kong to reload.”

"Even if it is destroyed, it's fine. Don't look at the 15-ton mass of the Queen Bee class, which is larger than that of the cat-mao single-push man class. After removing 600 100-ton missiles and fuel, there is nothing left. .”

"600? That's a lot!"

Xier was really shocked by the number.

"This is why we need to specialize the battleship. In order to increase redundancy, most of the sections of the laser ship are fully occupied by equipment, and there is no room for a few missiles.

"After the separation, the redundancy of the laser ship has also increased, and the damage resistance has been improved a lot. The missile ship does not need to carry those laser weapons that take up space. Kill two birds with one stone.”

Hong turned off the overview map of the two warships and explained.

"But as a price, these missile ships will only have missiles left."

"Oh oh, yes."

After Hong's careful teaching, Xi'er was not as dazed as before, and she didn't know what to ask. These simple things became clear as soon as she said them - Hong was very relieved by this.

It feels like my silly daughter has grown up.

"But isn't there no enemy in the planetary system now? Why build so many warships?"

Forget it, it still looks silly.

Hong retracted her previous thoughts.

"Jeffrey, the wormhole."

Upon hearing a certain keyword, Xier reflexively said: "Vox!"

"..."

"Oh, wormhole." Xier quickly changed the subject, "Isn't there no wormhole here in Katus?"

"The existence of wormholes and the arrival of Jeffrey's spaceship all show that superluminal technology is feasible." Hong decided not to care about the "vixen" that popped up all of a sudden——as time went by, she became more and more concerned about Xier. There is also a little feeling of the true feelings in my heart.

Probably, I treat you like a daughter, but you actually want to rush at me.

It is definitely not annoying to say that I hate it, but I don't want to accept it that much-the difference in life form between them is like a big mountain, not to mention, Hong still doesn't want to take advantage of others.

Hong, who is familiar with the psychology of the Catus people, knows that Hill's feelings for her are largely due to the fact that she is alone, has no peers, and has no one to communicate with. Produce the so-called dependent psychology.

This is not normal, it is deformed.

But Hong didn't intend to correct it, because it was too difficult—this kind of feeling wanted to dissipate, and it could only be resolved when Hong revived the real Catus and let her live with the real organisms of the same race.

As for now, just pretend not to know.

"But we can't sit still. If a wormhole suddenly appears and brushes directly into our planetary system, it will be too late to build a battleship by then if there is something like a million soldiers from the Super Galactic Empire on the opposite side."

"That's right..."

Volume 15 Cats and Space: Chapter [-] Soymilk in vain!

Of course, the battleship is only incidental. Red's current focus is still on things like developing planets and building space factories. After all, military industry, military industry, and military industry do not have a strong industrial system to support them. Where can they explode so many? fleet.

This batch of warship red was divided into two plans to complete. The first batch used the four empty docks to build [-] ships in three years. After the first batch was completed, the initial industrial development should have been completed. Let the remaining twelve shipyards join in the construction together, and it will take three to five years to build the remaining sixty or so ships.

These powers should be enough to compete with most civilizations of the same level. Even if they can't, with the space station on the orbit of the parent star, at least they will not be bulldozed by the enemy, and enough time will be bought for other planets. industry turnover.

"However, how to point out the superluminal technology?"

Red is in a bit of trouble.

As the scope of control continues to expand, from a small planetary system to other planets spanning hundreds of millions of kilometers, the speed of light—the fundamental law of physics—becomes a hindrance to Red’s development. Even efficient production with a delay of more than ten minutes, no one.

There was an accident in the colony, and it took several minutes for Red to receive the news, several minutes for the order to arrive, and several minutes for the feedback of the order to come back... Hong could not accept such an inefficient production model at all.

The current expedient measure is to use artificial intelligence to control the production of external colonies. Red itself is only responsible for overall planning, but the efficiency of this is not so high. The alien planet is a completely unknown environment, and Hong's self-learning has been lost. /The ability to solve problems, it takes an unknown number of years just to try out a way.

Although Hong still doesn't know how to achieve faster-than-light speed, and doesn't even have a reliable theory, he only knows that wormholes are feasible, and there is also an unknown method of faster-than-light navigation, which is the reason why the Jeffrey immigrant ship suddenly appeared here. method, although she does not know which path is feasible in the short term and which one cannot be replicated in the short term.

But she wants it all.

Fundamental physics research is imperative.

Thousands of years ago, if one were to ask the scholars of Catus what their most dreamed-to-build scientific research facility would be, the answer would be surprisingly unified, a super particle accelerator.

It's not a little guy with tens of hundreds of kilometers, but a real "super", a particle accelerator that can span continents and even circle planets. For this giant building that only appeared on the draft, even whether it belongs to a straight line or There are different opinions on circular accelerators.

Planet-level scale, enough to blur most of the gap between the two, on the macro scale, it is ring-shaped, but from the perspective of the ground, this machine is too large to see the curvature, so that the particle turning caused by Synchrotron radiation will be reduced to a level similar to that of a linear accelerator.

Its cost is extremely high, and it cannot be built by a civilization that is at the critical point of life and death, but what is its return?

Maybe it could test the theory of supersymmetry?

Maybe it can penetrate the mysteries of dark matter?

Or could it discover the FTL key?

No one knows that scientific research is not a game where one clicks on the research and takes a fixed amount of time to get the expected result. It may be an accelerator built with all its strength, and the only thing it finds in the end is that it can't find anything.

The price of going the wrong way is too high, and they have to give up.

But today's Hong, has the ability to build it.

"Project: Global Particle Accelerator - Electron Positron Collider."

"Project: Global Particle Accelerator-Proton-Proton Collider."

Hong didn't even need to make advance preparations, because the geological conditions and hydrological conditions along the road had already been explored by scholars for thousands of years-for the planet, this time is fleeting, not enough to produce any geological changes worth recording .

"The day it's finished, it's sure to be a miserable day for future students."

Thinking of this, Hong couldn't help laughing, causing Xi'er, who was studying at the side, to turn her head in surprise, and the original serious atmosphere disappeared completely.

"Why are you giggling all of a sudden?" Xi'er pondered for a moment, then turned pale with shock, "You didn't make up another paper, did you?!"

"I'm giving questions to future students."

Hong followed what she wanted to say.

"Oh, that's fine."

With the mentality of being a dead friend and not a poor man, Xi'er quickly lost interest. After all, when she grows up, she might have to give questions to others—people will always live in the way they hate the most. She is no exception.

"By the way, Hong, teach me this question."

"Okay, let me see...you do this first, then this, and finally..."

The construction of the particle accelerator was like an episode, and life quickly returned to daily life. It was peaceful and boring, but Hong cherished it very much.

Who doesn't like a peaceful life if there is no threat of enemies?

Even though I am militaristic, nuclear bombs have wiped out the ground, and I have expanded my army, I have flattened other people's home planets in the first battle of my debut.

But please believe me, I still love peace.

If someone tells me that if you kill a person, you cannot go to heaven, then my answer is only three sentences——

Heaven?How many fleets does it have?

They will all fall at our hands!

Time passed slowly, and there was nothing too worth recording during the entire construction period.

But there was a small episode. A few days ago, after much deliberation, Hong finally chose the time when Bai seemed the happiest, and told the story that she was actually a robot.

Today is her "birthday" - not in the biological sense, but the day that Red rescued her, because she didn't know that she was born that day, and even if she knew, she didn't know that Jeff How to convert Rui time to Katus time.

Originally, Hong didn’t really want to tell her the truth (part of it) at this time. Think about it differently. On the happiest time of your birthday, you are suddenly told by your parents that you are not their own, but picked up from the garbage dump. yes, will you be happy?

But there is no way, Hong is really too empty, even if for various reasons, Bai's status in her heart is not as high as that of Xi'er, but after getting along for so long, how could it be possible that she has no feelings at all-she is afraid of Bai, so she is jealous of her, afraid of her. She, even alienated her.

But I didn't expect that Bai was not interested in the previous deception.

"That, I already knew." She pointed to her nose, "Jeffrey's sense of smell is very sensitive, no matter how well the smell of engine oil is covered up, there will be traces."

"!"

Bai's mood didn't seem to be affected, and he still celebrated his birthday happily, but Hong's mood became weak.

How should I put it, it’s probably the feeling of finding out that something you’ve been hiding for a long time has already been known to others, but if they don’t tell you, it’s just waiting for you to admit it.