Six hundred and ninetieth chapters prepare for danger in times of peace
After leaving the Mars base, the group took the Titanium Star to go directly to the Mars Shipyard, which is actually a space station attached to Mars, located at a Lagrangian point on Mars.
From the large porthole of the Titanium Star, there is a silver-gray space station in the black space, and outside the space station is a larger giant ship that is obviously not yet completed. If Titanium Star is compared to an apple, then the Fubai-class frigate is probably the pineapple level, and this ancestor-class Nuwa battleship can be regarded as jackfruit. Although the names are only one word different from the front and back, the size and weight are completely different.
There are still many differences between the ancestor level and the Fubai level. The Fubai level is just made by Yiti who took inspiration from the previous design drawings and then added some of his own understandings. However, the ancestor level did not make any modifications at all. The main reason is that the ancestor level itself is perfect, and Yiti does not have much energy to make precise adjustments to such a large warship.
The overall appearance of the ancestor level looks very similar to the organ, not the keys, but those pipes. The organ's pipes are diverse, but most of them are placed side by side. The ancestor level looks more like a bunch of pipes of varying lengths and sticking together without logic, pointing in a certain direction in parallel. This design looks a bit hideous.
As for what Liu Shuquan saw, the giant ship is far from complete. At least it can still be seen in the internal structure. The flashes from the large opening of the hull indicate that construction operations are still underway. The huge hull is surrounded by a large number of robots, and these robots are of different shapes. Most of them are absorbed on the hull with suction cups for operation. The largest robot is as high as an 18-story building, and the small ones are even more difficult to see the number.
Titanium Star closed its power and drifted in space, but it still maintained a distance from the ancestor level. Everything you saw from the window made everyone feel an alternative industrial beauty. The number of robots of all sizes and layers of assembled warships are indeed dazzling.
However, Liu Shuquan still raised his own question: "Is this construction method really feasible? Can the welded decks resist the enemy's weapons?"
His view is probably the idea of many people. According to the requirements of the Shanghai Army on Earth in the early stage of building ships, armor must be guaranteed, and the best warships must be strong and powerful. However, the Earth Navy has begun to reduce its tonnage. Because large-tonnage ships and large-caliber main guns are of little significance to modern naval warfare. The reason is stronger destructive power and larger-scale reconnaissance cooperation.
Without the protection of the other side's war system, it is no longer difficult for advanced fighter jets to launch missiles against ships outside the line of sight to guide attack ships by satellites. Therefore, war has become a collision between one system and another, rather than being able to win just by passion and courage as before.
The same is true for interstellar war. The distance most suitable for battleships to fight is about hundreds of thousands of kilometers away. In this way, their main guns can fully exert their power. But real wars have never been that perfect. Battleships also have to face the close-range firepower of hostile forces. For example, anti-ship torpedoes or bombs thrown by interstellar warplanes. On the one hand, the battleship has enough close-proof firepower, and on the other hand, its size ensures that it will not sink or crack because of hundreds of strikes.
Volume is the best protection. The huge body of the battleship is not only equipped with powerful main weapons and massive auxiliary weapons. It also has the strongest survivability. There were two types of debates at the beginning of the design of the ancestor-class battleship. One side believed that the framework structure should be used to enhance protection and internal stability; the other side tends to be larger hulls and more abandonable shells.
The final result was that both factions won the victory, and their requirements were combined into one. The core part of the ancestor level was a frame structure, which was very hard and had an energy shield. If necessary, all shells could be abandoned and fought alone. In addition, its size was almost doubled. In addition, the excess was not only left for the energy core, but also installed a large number of weapons and abandonable shells.
If you want to eat such an Ancestral Battleship, there are only two ways. One is to make it surrender on its own initiative, which is obviously very difficult; the other is to knock off the hard shell bit by bit from the outside and destroy it before the core of the internal frame escapes. This is also difficult to do. The Ancestral Battleship is not without the ability to counterattack, but while knocking the shell, it is also a process of constantly throwing the battleship into the crusher.
If a ancestral class loses its entire shell, it can return to its original shape in a very short time after returning to the shipyard, as long as there are enough spare parts, this is one of the reasons why the Titanium Stars could rule the Milky Way tens of millions of years ago. They have a fleet that is difficult to eliminate, and they can fight again and again after defeat, without any fear of any challenges.
After listening to these introductions, Liu Shuquan had a question that everyone would have: "So where did the once prominent Titanium Star people go?"
Liu Jinpeng replied: "It disappeared, and no one knows where they went. Maybe it was an electromagnetic storm that swept the entire Milky Way. After all, they are all energy bodies."
Liu Shuquan was not satisfied with this answer. He frowned and said, "You should pay attention to this issue. It may not be a natural factor that destroys the Titanium Star people. If it is a force hidden in the dark, your behavior may arouse their vigilance."
"Are you talking about the black guys who come to harvest every 50,000 years?" Liu Jinpeng replied with a smile.
"I didn't joke with you," Liu Shuquan criticized this guy with pain. "It is something that every leader must learn to be prepared for danger in times of peace. But I can understand why you have a sense of crisis. In short, human beings are not lonely in the universe, but this may not be a good thing."
"You're right," Liu Jinpeng didn't laugh anymore. "In fact, every time I see politicians on Earth fighting, I feel that their vision is too small, they only stare at their own acre of three-point land, and have no courage to have the universe. Some people say that human history itself is the history of intra-fighting. If one day there is no intra-fighting, human beings will perish. I think that's nonsense."
"What do you mean?" Liu Shuquan was a little suspicious, "If humans don't fight intra-fight, they have to fight with aliens? Isn't it?"
"Born from distress and die from happiness," Liu Jinpeng did not answer Liu Shuquan's question directly. "The earth is too comfortable. It is huddled in this home, and humans can never really grow up. Now the universe is like a black curtain covering it. Everyone can treat it as nothing there through the curtain, but I will soon tear off the cloth. I am looking forward to what expression they will have at that time."
"Your plan is very radical," Liu Shuquan said in contemplation, "You can never tell me why you should bring me here?"
"If I say that you are Mei'er's father, do you believe it?"
"The genius believes in you."
"That's right," Liu Jinpeng replied without changing his expression, "You may not believe anything I say, so I'll just say nothing and take you over and see you, and you'll be relieved."
"I can't feel at all relieved, okay?" Liu Shuquan shouted angrily, "You suddenly told me that you have built such a big stall, how could I feel relieved?"
In fact, Liu Shuquan felt a lot more relieved, but he felt even more disappointed. This emotion caused him to refuse to admit that he was relieved. Liu Jinpeng did not reveal it and replied with a smile: "No matter whether you are at ease or not, I never keep it secret from you anymore. If this doesn't satisfy you, I really have no way to do it."
What else did Liu Shuquan want to say, but Xiao Yanran ran over and grabbed him and said, "Grandpa, don't quarrel with dad, okay?"
The old guy loved his granddaughter the most, so of course he hugged her and said, "I didn't quarrel with your dad, we just argued about some issues."
"Don't quarrel, okay?" Liu Yanran didn't care about the argument. She thought that the two of them were quarrels when they spoke loudly.
After being forced by his granddaughter, Liu Shuquan had no choice but to bow his head: "Okay, Yanran has the final say, I won't make a noise."
Having said that, Liu Shuquan said to his son-in-law: "Anyway, it's better to be irritated with the old fox in this matter. He is not as easy as me. He is worthy of being an emperor, and he is very arrogant."
Liu Jinpeng refused to comment on Liu Shuquan's prejudice, but he still agreed to communicate with Li Jingwen as soon as possible.
On the way back, Liu Jinpeng invited Liu Shuquan to taste the food made by the Titanium Star survival system. This time, Titanium Star explored the entire solar system and several surrounding galaxies, collected some ingredients that were not on the earth, and cooked them according to the recipe and the physique of the Earthlings. This is the main dish of the alien food restaurant that Liu Jinpeng plans to launch.
There are many things here that look weird but taste good, and they also contain many trace elements that the human body cannot synthesize. Liu Shuquan is used to eating good things and has a good review of this meal, but he mainly appreciates the taste and criticizes his shape.
"The key to Chinese food is to have both colors, fragrance and taste, but the most important thing is that it looks good and has a bright color combination. You definitely have room for improvement, so don't sell the top-quality goods at a low price." Overall, Liu Shuquan's suggestions are still very pertinent.
While having dinner, Liu Jinpeng also suggested to his father-in-law that he would start the development of the moon and Mars tourism projects, and may open an interstellar cruise from Earth to Mars in the near future. However, the initial plan is to open a Moon-Earth Travel Express, and to set up an Earth-Moon Travel Company. This is a business that will definitely lose money in the early stage. It is very likely that he will make a way but will be cheaper for the people behind him.
However, because of the existence of the lunar base, Liu Jinpeng believes that as long as the Earth and Moon Travel Company survives the early stage, it should have a big leap. Especially after the establishment of the Moon City, more and more people travel between the Earth and the Moon, and the Earth and Moon Travel Company can gradually transform into a solar system tourism company. (To be continued...
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