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Volume 13: Stand alone 1573: The stars form an army

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    The history of automatic machinery in the human world can be traced back hundreds of years, and floating guns are not a new concept. However, due to safety considerations, the military has been cautious in the application of automatic weapon platforms for hundreds of years.  , even if it is equipped with a drone, in most cases it is only unmanned inside the aircraft, but there are people on the ground controlling it.  ¡Ü Therefore, the design department really does not have much experience in the design of floating guns. The most recent example is the short-lived attack on the Shang clan.  However, there are no technical obstacles to the floating gun. All difficulties are issues related to design concepts and tactical requirements.  In order to comply with the requirements of the military as much as possible, the design department even found Black Bear and asked about the design requirements in person.  Although Hei Xiong knew what was going on, the design specifications of the new battleship could not be determined by him in just one sentence. He turned around and found Ye Fei.  The two closed the door and discussed for an entire afternoon. After that, they called back all the heads of the fleet and the heads of the design department stationed at the base star. More than a dozen people sat around Ye Fei's office, and the stars were full of dazzling stars.  dazzled.  Everyone held a meeting in Ye Fei's office. One party was a general who had been fighting the enemy at the front for many years. He was extremely familiar with the needs of the fleet. The other party was a professional from the design department. The two parties came together and it was like  When drowsiness hits the pillow, the discussions are so heated that one can hardly get a word in, but mostly it's the military commanders who go back and forth and argue.  People in the design department have low military ranks and dare not talk nonsense. Their main job is to record the design requirements that the generals came up with after the quarrel, and conduct a rational analysis on them to determine whether the plan is feasible. If there are any problems, they need to explain the details.  What difficulties exist.  A group of senior officers came and rolled up their arms and sleeves.  They almost didn't stage a full-scale martial arts show. After three and a half days of arguing, they finally came up with a plan acceptable to everyone.  ¡°It¡¯s just acceptance, it¡¯s still far from satisfaction.  "Both Ye Fei himself and the professionals in the design department are quite helpless about this. After all, the technical level of the military is there, unless the technological race in the Light Alliance is hired to do the work.  Otherwise it would be impossible to meet the different requirements of so many people.  The problem is, even if Ye Fei and other big guys in the military are willing to do this, they can still contact the right race through fear of people. It is not certain whether they are willing to do the work for them.  More importantly, battleships are not only weapons platforms for the military, but also the lifeline of the country. Even if the Republic's technical level is a little worse, it is produced and sold by itself, controlling its own lifeline, and leaving it in the hands of a strange foreign race.  If an alien tried to do something on the battleship, wouldn't it cost him his life?  The most important weapon of the country must not be passed on to others.  After receiving the design requirements, the design department immediately started the corresponding design work, but soon discovered that if the floating gun was to fully meet the design standards, the final finished product would be more than 400 meters long!  Although this length is inconspicuous compared to current battleships, it is actually longer than the 100,000-ton aircraft carriers of the old era.  It has broken away from the level of floating guns and is simply a small battleship.  The design department tried their best.  They were unable to reduce the size of the floating gun. In the end, they could only report this shocking result and request that the design requirements be reduced.  Since the design of the new battleship was personally directed by Ye Fei, the design plan was quickly placed on Ye Fei's desk.  Without saying a word, Minister Ye Da immediately made a decision: just follow this plan!  Ye Fei also comforted the design department, saying there was no need to be too cautious.  If the performance can be improved, the hull of the floating gun can be further enlarged.  Such an answer is simply devastating. If you enlarge it again, it becomes a medium-sized warship. What else do you call a floating gun?  How did they know that Ye Fei had his own considerations.  If the size of the floating gun is too small.  I'm afraid that if it reaches the eyes of the parasites, they won't take a second look. He doesn't think the size of more than 400 meters is enough.  Although the new floating cannon bears the name of a floating cannon, it is actually a small remote-controlled battleship!  After clarifying this point, the design work of the technical department moved forward rapidly. It only took half a month to design three remote control warships with different focuses. In the end, Ye Fei selected the design with the best overall performance.  So a dumbfounding scene appeared. The new warship eventually turned into a big man with a length of 8.7 kilometers, consisting of a mothership and 444 large floating guns.  This planet-class battleship was eventually named the Heavy Star, but those familiar with the matter knew that it would be more appropriate to call it the Multi-Star.  Strictly speaking, heavy-star battleships are the latest development of combined battleships, taking the path of heavy firepower and high output.  The battleship itself serves as a combat platform.It is quite satisfactory, but the floating cannon has a special purpose. It is heavy on mechanical power and offensive firepower but light on defense. It can be said that it is the warship with the worst defense level since mankind came out of the solar system. It is thin-skinned and big, and can be killed by a standard shot.  Another change in the heavy-star battleship is that there are finally more people on the ship, no longer just two or three kittens.  The additional personnel are mainly floating gun operators. After all, it is a small warship more than 400 meters long. It is impossible for one person to fully utilize the performance of the floating gun. Therefore, the military has equipped each floating gun with three operators.  personnel, and the two operation teams also added an additional spare personnel. With this alone, the number of personnel on the heavy-star battleship exceeded 1,500.  Such changes not only made the battleship's firepower very powerful, but also greatly reduced the battleship's self-sufficiency capability, which caused many complaints from the logistics department. Not only did they not be able to train enough floating gun operators in a short period of time,  personnel.  However, these two problems were quickly solved. One was to optimize the design, add automatic control equipment for the floating guns, and reduce the number of people operating each floating gun to one person, thus reducing the number of people on the ship.  By two-thirds, the logistical pressure is greatly reduced.  The second is to reduce the control training plan. Anyway, as long as the floating cannon can die together with the parasites, it will be considered a profit, and there is no need for too complicated control.  To be honest, Ye Fei never thought about designing the floating cannon in such a comprehensive way at the beginning. He just wanted to design a suicide battleship that could die with the parasites. However, everyone did not agree with him at all.  After all, humanity¡¯s enemies may not only be parasites. A comprehensive combat platform such as a battleship must have comprehensive capabilities and cannot be biased.  Ye Fei regretted his decision to find a group of people to discuss the design standards of the floating cannon.  The end of October 2231.  The Chongxing completed its testing work and was officially delivered to the fleet for use.  After being seaworthy for half a month, the Heavy Star left the base star and rushed to the near-core far end of the Orion Arm. It became the main warship of the expedition fleet. Its mission was to escort its own warships performing high-risk missions.  The expeditionary force has a wide range of operations and heavy tasks, and one battleship is simply not enough.  It can be said that there are too many monks and too little food, and the Wolf Cubs have to reduce the number of missions in the dangerous area. Until this time, the swarms of parasites that crossed the front line have not been cleared away, and the swarms of parasites that the expeditionary force encountered were only a few bugs that crossed the border.  One of the groups.  The various races of the Light Alliance have been busy clearing out enemy forces during this period, and even the expeditionary force has been assigned several combat support missions.  Although there is no need to fight the parasites head-on, the wolf cub still does not dare to be careless. Every time, he makes excuses to suspend the expeditionary force's elimination mission, and then sends another star to join the battle.  The Heavy Star lives up to expectations.  During the war, more than a hundred parasites were killed.  Because there is a fleet of the Light Alliance in front, the Heavy Star is just a sap character, so its own battle losses are almost negligible.  With the continuous entry of heavy-star warships into service, the situation of stretched combat power has been alleviated to a certain extent. Before the end of 2231, the expeditionary force received a total of seven heavy-star warships, which can basically meet the current mission needs.  The military¡¯s plan is to replace all the battleships of the expeditionary force with heavy-star ships. It is expected that all replacement work will not be completed until mid-2232.  During this period.  The Damai Fleet was the first to fly out of the Orion Arm and enter the vast interstellar space outside the spiral arm.  The seemingly peaceful interstellar space is not really peaceful and peaceful.  Ultra-high-intensity cosmic rays envelope the fleet, and the dangerous space that cannot be seen with the naked eye is like a trap waiting for prey in the universe. Once caught, it will be doomed.  Not long after the Damai fleet left the Orion Arm, it lost a battleship, but Wu Han didn't even know how the battleship was lost.  All we know is that the battleship suddenly lost control and all the people on board died mysteriously, but the cause of death was found.  Afterwards, the military spent a lot of time analyzing the detailed data sent back by the Damai fleet and found that the fleet's route happened to pass through the pole of a pulsar. This pulsar could only be observed from the position of the Damai fleet.  It can¡¯t be seen at all in the direction of the Orion Arm!  In other words, this is a pulsar that did not take long to form!  The newly formed pulsar was at its strongest radiation stage, and the lost battleship was a guard ship located on the outside of the fleet. From this, it can be inferred that the battleship accidentally entered the super pulse range of the pulsar before it appeared.  this accident.  After receiving the notification from the headquarters, Wu Han was terrified. If the flight direction at that time was a little more biased, the entire fleet would fly into the radiation zone, and the consequences would be disastrous.  In order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, Base Star had to urgently provide a batch of unmanned spacecraft. From then on, the Damai Fleet always put unmanned spacecraft in front of the battleship for half an hour to an hour to explore the voyage, and suffered losses one after another.?More than a dozen unmanned spacecraft have successfully avoided several fatal dangers.  Wu Han originally planned to find a suitable habitable planet at the far end of the Orion Arm to serve as a fleet logistics base. However, considering the situation in the Orion Arm, he felt that placing the logistics base inside the Orion Arm could not guarantee safety.  Finally, Wu Han gritted his teeth and flew out of the Orion Arm with his fleet. He made a few turns along the way and visited more than a dozen independent stars that did not belong to any spiral arm. He successfully found a second-class habitable star and two terraformable stars.  Third-class habitable star.  After receiving the report, the General Logistics Department dispatched personnel and led an army of engineering robots to establish bridgeheads on these planets and began the work of transforming the planets. With the efforts of a large number of engineering robots, I believe it will not take long for these planets to be transformed.  One planet can provide sufficient supplies to the two fleets of barley and wheat.  However, there are also different views within the military. They believe that galaxies independent of the spiral arms are like isolated islands in the sea. Any force that leaves the spiral arms will notice these conspicuous islands, which will increase the chance of exposure of these planets.  .  The logistics base placed in the spiral arm is surrounded by stars, like a hilltop in a mountain, and is safer in comparison.  This kind of thing has always been justified by public opinion and mother-in-law, so Ye Fei simply refused to comment and calmly transferred the three fully-manned main fleets to resources nearly ten thousand light years away.  Star, protect the safety of these planets.  It is not only the logistics base of the expeditionary fleet, but one day in the future, it may also be the rear area of ??the entire Republic!  The barley and wheat fleets are still far away from their target, but the fleets flying to Centaur Arm and Perseus Arm have successively entered the mission area.  The first to arrive at the mission area was the fleet flying to the Sagittarius Arm. The three fleets entered the Sagittarius Arm from different locations. Through feedback from each fleet, it can be found that the number of stars outside the Sagittarius Arm is rare, and habitable stars are even rarer. Exploration  The fleet outside the Sagittarius Arm only found a few low-level habitable stars that could not even meet the minimum transformation conditions. Apart from unexpected encounters with a group of cosmic creatures, there were no other discoveries.  There are more stars in the middle, but they are far lower than the density of stars in the Orion Arm. No extraterrestrial civilization has been found, but a few planets with tall insect pillars have been found.  The density of stars on the inner side of the Sagittarius Arm is a little higher than that of the Orion Arm, but it is already dominated by parasitic insects, and there is no loophole to exploit. The fleet did not even enter the Sagittarius Arm, but turned around and returned.  Rather than wasting time in the hinterland of parasitic worms, it is better to try your luck elsewhere.  The discovery of the Centaur Arm detection operation offset the military's idea of ??developing the Centaur Arm. Before the parasites were discovered, they could cross the arm space and attack Huanglong, and promptly issued the return order to the three fleets.  Rather than returning directly, we will take a detour to the far end of the Orion Arm and return with the support of the expeditionary force to avoid being tracked by parasites.  In comparison, the situation in the Perseus Arm is much better. No matter which position the fleet entered from, they did not encounter parasites. The density of stars in the outer, middle and inner directions is not low. Although habitable planets have not yet been found.  A few, but as the investigation deepens, there will definitely be more and more.  However, the stable environment means that the local forces of Yingxian Arm have the natural advantage of stable development. Although they have not encountered any interstellar civilization yet, it is probably only a matter of time.  If humans want to develop in the direction of the Persimian Arm, the first problem that needs to be solved is how to avoid the sphere of influence of the local civilization. Therefore, we must first understand the distribution of the local forces in the Persian Arm.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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