Voyage of the Stars

A few years have passed, and people have obviously seen that the construction facilities in space have doubled, and the number of auxiliary construction spacecraft that come and go has become even more dense, making people feel what the power of technology is. The space area where humans are located this time has become like Like a bustling night market, it becomes brightly lit.

And those bright lights are new space docks, new battleships, new residential spaceships, new biosphere spacecrafts, and new industrial spacecrafts.

If someone who sees these spaceships and battleships for the first time is asked to describe them in one word, then he will definitely say: huge!

Yes, huge.

In the second-level civilization, the largest lake level that humans could create was the Tianqin, which was about five kilometers in length, three kilometers in width and two kilometers in height.

Larger space structures could also be built by humans at that time, but they were too big and heavy to move with a large fleet. Therefore, large structures like the space multi-point particle collider needed to be modularized.

The same is true for battleships. If they are too big, there is no way to push them to the highest speed in a short time with the propulsion technology of the second-level civilization.

But things are different now. The emergence of magnetic propulsion technology has given humans the ability to build larger warships, and the size of the magnetic propulsion device also requires humans to build larger warships.

When the first new warship was launched from the space dock, it attracted people's attention. Some enthusiasts even lived in the spacecraft and used telescopes to look at its huge figure through the portholes, because there were people coming and going near the space dock. other ships, so these enthusiasts can easily intuitively feel the bulk of the new battleship.

Those spaceships next to it are like wasps and hornets' nests. This strong contrast is very shocking to people's senses.

According to data released by the military, these new conventional warships are about 10 kilometers in length, about 6 kilometers in width, and 4.5 to 5 kilometers in height. Of course, these data are based on the most prominent part. In fact, it is not a rectangular parallelepiped, but more like a traditional layout with a small head and a large tail.

In appearance, it is in the same vein as the Lake-class battleship, and it looks very sci-fi.

For this reason, the design department called this new type of warship a sea-class warship according to the classification of human warship levels.

Of course, at ten kilometers long, it is not as vast as the sea, but it is almost twice the size of a Lake-class battleship. In addition, various supporting facilities and technologies have been updated, so it can no longer be called a Lake-class battleship. .

In terms of the internal layout of the new warship, especially in the design of the living area and combat area, the ideas are similar to that of the Lake-class warship. It also has a built-in rotating device for resting and hibernating areas.

Civilizations without artificial gravity technology can only generate simulated gravity through rotation. The best performance of the same structure still depends on the residential spacecraft.

The previous residential spacecraft was relatively large, but generally it was composed of suspension modules that were not very spacious. Therefore, people living on the residential spacecraft could easily feel that the place they were in was a narrow cabin. Even if it is made to look like a street, it still feels intuitive because each suspension module is really not big.

But things are different now. The residential spacecraft is almost the same size as a battleship, which allows designers to design larger suspension modules. Thanks to this, the width of the streets in this generation of residential spaceships has reached ten meters, and there is even space to plan other functional buildings on both sides.

It is no longer a problem to drive cars, battery cars and the like on the residential spacecraft.

Well, there must also be electric vehicles to transport humans on board the spacecraft. After all, the new spacecraft has really become larger, and you may have to walk several kilometers to go to other places from your residence.

After physical enhancement, humans can run very fast, but most people still prefer to use transportation tools.

It can be said that with the advancement of technology, human living environment is getting better and better. Under the hands of some designers with earth feelings, these good environments are designed in a style that is very characteristic of the earth, even when space is abundant. , many plants that were used as food at the Callisto base are now also used as green decorations in some scenes.

These plants are considered to be one of the few plants on the human home planet. Although they are also vegetables and food, they are still very familiar when used as decoration.

The structure of the habitation spaceship also cannot escape the shape of a large roller, but it is just larger.

This also caused another problem, that is, the difference in gravity effects inside the spacecraft became larger. In order to solve and alleviate this problem, the designer divided the rest area and housing area into relatively suitable gravity environments, while other activity areas and functional areas Then place it in a ring where the gravity environment is significantly different from the gravity of the earth.

It is true that humans after genetic modification can adapt to high G shocks, but staying in a weightless environment all year round will still have other effects. Scientists have not yet completely found and eliminated these effects.

In fact, even if these factors are found, humans do not dare to directly and drastically modify this billion-year-old gravity-adapted gene. As I said before, it is a factor that will affect the development and functions of the entire human body in all aspects.

Therefore, as of now, mankind still places its desire to get rid of this rotating residential spacecraft on future technology, rather than crudely transforming itself. Of course, if one day we can fully understand all the mechanisms of the human body to adapt to the gravity environment, then it is not impossible to completely live and grow in a weightless environment. However, by then, activities in the earth's gravity environment will become a feeling, hobby, and habit.

This is a problem in biology and life research.

Now the focus of mankind is on the new battleships and new spaceships known as sea-class battleships.

Conventional sea-class battleships were designed on the original experimental sample spacecraft. Only the current spacecraft, which has just started construction, is designed independently.

Its size is larger than that of conventional sea-class battleships, with a length of 14 to 15 kilometers and a height and width of 6 to 8 kilometers. The reason why it is larger than conventional sea-class battleships is because humans require it to have stronger armor and more comprehensive capabilities. That part is larger than a conventional sea-class battleship, and most of the space structure is composite armor, layered on top of it like some animal scales.

Obviously, this battleship is the new flagship of mankind in the future, and its name has not changed, it is still called Tianqin.

Due to the existence of polarization shields and magnetic field shields, humans imagine that wars of level three civilizations must be dominated by kinetic energy weapons. Therefore, if they want to improve the survivability of warships, the only way is to use Diejia. Of course, you can't blindly superimpose, you have to ensure the power.

The new Tianqin is the final design plan that was arrived at after considering various factors.

According to the plan, Lyra will be completed in a hundred years.

However, it is obviously impossible for humans to set off in a hundred years, because there are still a large number of warships that need to be built.

Humanity needs to complete the upgrading of various spaceships and battleships in this red dwarf galaxy. As for the original Lake-class battleships, humans do not intend to throw them away. Instead, they build a transportation platform to take them away together. Although these Lake-class battleships are completely inferior to the Shanghai-class battleships, they can still be used for other purposes in the future.

The high command has not forgotten the plan to cultivate kobolds and Kuntai people. They feel that these warships may be used to confuse the enemy in the future when necessary.

In short, nothing is useless as long as it is used properly.

The old habitation spaceships that have been eliminated can also be used to inhabit the kobolds and Kuntai people after changing the rotation speed. However, these spaceships are the same as Lake-class battleships. Humans must equip them with special magnetic transport platforms, otherwise they will not be able to keep up with the large forces.