Chapter 425 Zero

With our current half-baked Xiling technology, can we mass-produce real star warships?

That is of course impossible...

What is the real Xiling Planet Battleship? Putting aside the "Glory" special ship, which is already out of specification and has a strategic significance almost equivalent to the entire empire's territory when operating at full strength, even the regularly installed star warships are enough to sweep across the entire galaxy. Their power With the support of the infinite psionic abyss, the system can almost allow these behemoths to fight from the birth of the universe to the end of the world. Its main weapon system even has the ability to launch law-like strikes, and its mainstream shields far exceed those of psionic shields. "Damage Definition Device", this kind of heaven-defying thing, even the ordinary star domain protoss cannot compete with it - they all have law resistance and even conceptual resistance.

Of course, we can no longer create such perverted things...

The hundreds of star warships that we now put on the table and are moving from their respective orbits to the territorial planets of various races are just rudimentary imitations with simple technology and single structure. In Tavel's words, they are "similar to the real ones." Compared to Star Wars, it has nothing but size."

Our expansion army transformed more than a hundred suitable solid planets found in the area they occupied in the past few months, using material transformation technology to directly transform the interiors of these planets into huge and complex fortresses and weapons depots. The core energy of the planet served as the main power source for the entire construction process, and the material conversion technology made the rapid progress of the project possible. In order to build these things, even the Xiling hosts left behind in the Shadow City were all mobilized to the front line. Finally, A few days ago, these outrageously huge fortresses were successfully activated.

Due to the limitations of material conversion technology, these planetary fortresses naturally cannot have the power to make Pandora salivate (of course, we can't create it) such as law strikes. The main weapons they are equipped with are still close-range gravitational tide devices and long-range The space cutting cannon, these two conventional equipment are the most sensational things that our current technology can create. Fortunately, neither humans nor Protos have the power to resist such attacks.

Moreover, thirteen of these planetary fortresses have been installed with experimental new weapons by Tavel. I have to say that although scientists seem to have little combat effectiveness, once they give up the last shackles of humanitarianism, what these crazy guys can do The destructive power caused is definitely no less than that of the entire imperial fleet!

Just a strange idea that suddenly appeared in her mind inspired this respectable female scientist to precious inspiration. She began to study how to use a sniper cannon that dismantles the basic structure of matter and directly converts it into energy. The ability is miniaturized so that it can be installed on the planet fortress. This process sounds incredible, because I always thought that matter is decomposed under the huge energy pressure of the sniper cannon, and finally turns into energy due to a chain reaction. This is This means that the size of the planet fortress is not enough to install such a huge energy circuit, but in fact this process is more complicated than I thought, and its energy requirements are not as high as I imagined.

As we all know, the source of psionic energy is highly active void energy. Although it has attenuated in intensity and intensity, psionic energy still possesses some of the properties of void energy, such as assimilation and phagocytosis. This allows psionic energy to always be in operation. It creates a huge amount of extra power.

The principle of the sniper cannon to dismantle matter is based on this, emitting a huge amount of psionic energy at a specific frequency and intensity. This energy is not destructive in the early stage of penetrating into the material structure, but after a very short delay, the psionic energy Energy will begin to interact with the force between molecules. Molecular bonds are easily destroyed by the psionic energy derived from void energy. When these connections that maintain the stability of the material form are converted into psionic energy, the material will naturally Decomposed, and this is only the first part. After the material disintegrates from the molecular level, it will also undergo a second decomposition. The connections between atoms are shattered by a similar process. The planet under the attack of the sniper cannon will be here. It is transformed into an atomic cloud for a moment, and then the nether energy will continue to deepen, and the connection between electrons and protons will also be cut off. Although the strong and weak forces do not belong to energy, they are still the targets of the assimilation of nether energy...

Eventually, such a deep chain reaction will complete its final mission at an extremely microscopic level: breaking down the barriers between matter and energy and turning it into the third state between energy and matter, which involves quantum science and quarks. , the ultimate microscopic theory that humans still don’t understand, and then in an instant, these third-state things will all turn into energy in an instant in the surging nether energy environment around them.

It is not the violent release of energy such as nuclear reactions that causes matter to turn into energy, but that they are dismantled again and again until they are "disassembled into energy."

I know many people don’t understand, because I don’t understand either…

Tavel found a way to miniaturize this specific psionic energy generator. Although it is expensive and has limited power, compared with the immovable sniper star cannon, which can only use the hyperspace port to release the huge losses caused by the attack, and the former The fatal flaw of being unable to be mass-produced is that these mass-produced portable sniper cannons have unparalleled strategic advantages - except for the short range.

A star warship equipped with this equipment named "Mass-Energy Conversion Core" can emit a beam 100,000 kilometers away. The material swept by this beam will be directly converted into energy, and then with the help of a large number of experimental energy skimmers ( There is an upper limit to the energy that an energy skimmer can absorb). This huge energy will be recovered, compressed, and activated into psionic energy, which will become a supplementary energy source to maintain the beam. Although the efficiency is a little lower than that of the sniper star cannon, it The effect produced during the attack is definitely more shocking than the sniper cannon without process.

It is like an eraser, erasing the entire planet from the background picture of the universe one by one in front of you. Since the energy skimmer absorbs the excess energy, there will be no annoying explosions to affect this process until the entire planet is wiped clean. Clarity - Tavel.

A Zerg colony star named Italas was honored to be the first victim of this starship fleet. In the beam of the huge starship, Italas was erased from the universe bit by bit. The broadcast was broadcast to every corner of the entire star region. Of course, during this process, the Zerg had sent a large number of troops to intercept. The entire Italas was completely covered by the Zerg. Therefore, when as many as 6.3 billion Zerg formed a dense When the human shield tried to stop the starship, the scene was so spectacular that it was unforgettable, but even if it was a copycat version that "only installed a bunch of weapons and a bunch of engines, and had no technological content except that it was very big and thickly armored," Star battleships were not something that these insect armies could fight against. The huge star battleships did not even deploy their own air defense troops, but simply passed through the insect swarm blockade in a way that shocked the Queen of Blades.

Star battleship...it also has the ability to jump in space...

Why do you think Tavel could think of designing such a painful function for such a huge gadget?

Allowing something with such a large mass to teleport through space, even the Xiling people's technology is not easy to do. Without the assistance of equipment such as star gates, "Zero"'s own space jump distance limit is only 10 million. Kilometers, in a space war, this distance is not even enough for an assault ship to carry out patrol missions. The only significance of installing such a large energy-consuming device on a starship is to prevent this huge natural target from becoming a sandbag due to its clumsy body. , it is similar to Maiev Shadowsong's flash, it cannot let you return to the base, but at least you don't have to be surrounded by a large group of heavy cavalry. However, if used properly, the escape skills will also have amazing lethality. The intercepted starship accelerated and crashed into the sea of ​​​​worms before jumping forward in space. The planet measured in billions of tons suddenly teleported through time and space. The resulting space collapse directly killed nearly half of the 6.3 billion worms. , and the bugs that were left behind could no longer catch up with the star warships that had gone away: even if those flying dragons grew up drinking helium 3, they would not be able to catch up with them. They were driven by a coordinate-like engine and completely ignored their own mass and inertia. Star battleship?

When they arrived at their homeland, there was only a lifelike "apple core" space sculpture left there, and a line of large characters spelled out with blue navigation lights on the sculpture: "downstairs sb."

"It is not easy to carve a planet into the shape of an apple core. The high-temperature molten core of the earth is not so easy to solidify. In comparison, the line of soft and elegant black artistic calligraphy is much easier."—— An unnamed starship commander said this in an interview.

Of course, when the star warships first started taking action, the three-community coalition tried to launch a joint attack on our base camp to prevent this catastrophe in advance. However, the entire Imperial First Army with the "Imperial Admiral" as its flagship had already arranged In addition to the impregnable defense line, coupled with the heavy fire support of more than a dozen nearby planet fortresses, and the impossibility of complete unity within the three-community coalition, their several attacks ultimately failed, and the planetary battleships were gradually put in place. It also left the soldiers who served as death squads without any fighting spirit. In the end, the enemy gave up the useless attempt to attack our base camp, and instead went to their respective battlefields to closely defend the colonial star named in the timetable, with a posture of looking forward to death.

"It seems that our low profile and forbearance at the beginning were indeed valuable." Finally, we no longer had to be in an embarrassing situation due to insufficient troops. Even Sivis, who always appeared as a calm lady, had a high-spirited smile on her face, "Your Majesty, Massive panic has spread throughout the Independent Federation. Human civilians are now holding huge demonstrations everywhere, criticizing their rulers for provoking a group of Gods of Destruction without thinking. As for those members of the Tal'darim, It has withdrawn its main colonial planet and vowed to coexist and die with its homeland.”

The first step is to make them fear the end of the world. The mentality of being destroyed will destroy your last vestige of resistance. This is what Sandora, who has sufficient experience in destroying the world, said.

"What about the Zerg side? Or what is the reaction of the Queen of Blades?"

I studied the star map for a long time, and finally gave up trying to find the enemy's location from it, and asked Sivis directly.

"The Zerg are the calmest race now. Their absolute unity, or simply the fact that the entire race is equivalent to an individual, prevents these guys from the possibility of internal collapse. Except that the planet Char is being wrapped by layers of bugs. Outside the turtle shell, the Zerg on other planets are still silent and are just passively resisting the harvest of our conventional troops."

"Kerrigan is not such a negative person," I shook my head, "By the way, how about letting Bubble analyze the process of the 'artifact crystal' next to Zeratul? Is there any way we can copy it?"

"Research on the Protoss has made some progress."

The person who answered me was Tavel. This scholar-type sister who is full of bookishness pushed up her decorative glasses. Her expression was so gentle that it was impossible to imagine how many sensational exterminations she had created in recent months. arms.

"The first is the psionic energy in them. With the help of Zeratul, we have obtained very good energy samples. The conclusion obtained by analyzing them confirms that these energies are very close to the psionic energy we use daily, although the intensity is much weaker. .”

"Have they begun to learn to use void energy?" I was surprised. "The Protoss have mastered the technology of deploying psionic energy reactors outside the world?"

"That is of course impossible," Tavel shook his head. "The technology required to break the world barrier is quite complicated. The Protoss used another primitive but very creative method."

Tavel said, turning on the projector in front of me...but then turned it off, this guy knew that I couldn't understand...

"In our point of view, the hierarchical evolution of energy proceeds like this: Void energy decays and differentiates to form phantom energy, and phantom energy decays and differentiates to form conventional energy in the universe. The conventional energy in the universe will produce various forms due to the evolution of the universe itself. A variety of mutations, forming horizontal energy, such as mental power, soul, energy creatures, etc. We use void energy to directly attenuate into psionic energy, while Protos, in turn, collects various energies in the universe and converts them Restored to psionic energy - that's the theory."

I was confused for a long time, and finally asked in a daze: "Doesn't this... not violate the conservation of energy or something?"

How do I remember what my teacher said in high school... Uh, okay, I even forgot what my high school teacher was called...

"Within a single world, energy conservation is absolute. Protos's creation of psionic energy is only the transformation of energy forms and does not violate this code." Tavel said with an interested expression on his face, tapping his fingers unconsciously The record in his hand uses a crystal plate, "And their spiritual power is more interesting. Using meditation, they have a vague understanding of the nature of energy. A Protos can absorb the free energy around him and transform it without the help of machines." To achieve pseudo-psionic energy, perhaps when they develop this technology to its limit, they might actually be able to get a glimpse of the true meaning of the world."

Lilina's big shining eyes moved around, then she suddenly jumped out and shouted loudly: "I understand! The Protoss are all cultivators!"

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Someone throw this girl out!

Ignoring Lilina's purely chaotic behavior, Tavel called up the picture of the "artifact", and underneath the picture was a dense list of mind-numbing data.

"Except for the research on Protos' psionic energy, the structural scan of this thing has also been completed. It does not belong to anything we have seen... It can even be said that it does not belong to anything that can theoretically exist."

Tavel spoke with confusion and enlarged a picture that seemed to me like a poor puzzle piece: "This is its basic structure. Any substance that exists with this structure will have its stability infinitely tend to zero." , and we have not found anything similar to atoms or molecules. This is simply unimaginable in this universe with atoms as the basic material structure, and its replication has also failed. It is still impossible to use our existing technology. Let matter exist in this form without collapsing..."

"Can't Xiling technology restore it?"

I was shocked. I originally thought this should be a fairly simple matter, but... with the almost buggy technology of the Xiling people, we can't copy an old antique of the Protos people? ! is it possible? !

"Of course we can't replicate it."

Just when we were all in shock, Sandora suddenly broke everyone's silence softly.

"This thing was not made by Protoss... it is a product of the divine realm."

"God Realm?" I didn't react for a moment, thinking that Sandora was referring to the Protos "God Clan", but a few seconds later a lightning-like thought rushed into my mind, "You can't be Say...the guys in Star Territory are out of specification, right?"

"Who else can it be?" Sandora shrugged, "Aside from the products of the Star Realm, can there be such a thing that even we can't analyze?"

Well, that's true.

"Is this thing from the God Realm?" Qian Qian was also aroused curiosity, lying on the back of her chair and leaning her head over, "It's not even in the empire's database?"

Sandora showed a look of reminiscence: "A long time ago, a Star Realm God Clan came to my territory to collect materials for his academic paper. He gave me some decorations from the God Realm as gifts, including this Planting a 'crystal', because I have always hung it in my bedroom, so I still have some impressions of it. I suddenly remembered it just now... Well, speaking of it, that guy seems to claim to be a senior researcher in creationism. Now Dingdong Could it be that the difficult paper he wrote at that time had something to do with the fact that he has taken thousands of consecutive retakes and failed to graduate?"

That stupid goddess at the end of a thousand-year-old crane was shot even while she was lying down.

"What does this thing do?" I couldn't help but asked curiously. It can interfere with the navigation equipment of Xiling soldiers. If it is a creation of the gods, it would be easy to explain. I just don't know what the gods used this thing for in the first place.

"It has many functions. It can usually be used as a beacon to guide the military. Because its transmitting power is extremely powerful and it ignores any interference means, including world barriers, even our military navigators will be affected, but... ..." At this point, Shandora's face suddenly showed a look of laughter and tears, "Because the Star Territory God Clan's army never needs navigation, they have always regarded this thing as a decoration..."