Deep Space Fleet

The maintenance period of just two and a half years has passed quickly...

The human army almost turned the Riley star upside down, but still did not find any more traces of the "initiator civilization". The other party seemed to come and leave in a hurry, leaving only an elusive breeze behind.

Now that the maintenance and repair work of Kunlun Mountain has been completed, it is impossible for human beings to continue to survey this planet. The entire fleet is ready to start again.

However, there has been fairly good technological development in the past two years.

First of all, the first "Falcon-III" destroyer appeared in this world.

The design work of the "Falcon-III" destroyer has already begun in the decades of sailing in the past. During the manufacturing process of more than two years, several scientific teams have carried out urgent research on various difficulties, and the more powerful The magnetic field is applied to every corner of the spaceship.

The "Falcon-III" spacecraft uses supermagnetic-A materials to realize the interstellar ramjet technology with better performance. Its maneuverability will become better, and weapons such as electromagnetic guns and ion cannons will also become more powerful. , the speed is higher and faster.

It is simply estimated that the firepower of one "Falcon-III" is comparable to the previous two "Falcon-II"!

This is a very big improvement, because the population of Kunlun Mountain is limited, and before another industrial upgrade, the spaceships that can be maintained are also limited.

The current military strength of mankind has a total of four falcon destroyers and 26 Haiyan-III frigates.

A falcon-type destroyer requires 3,000 permanent soldiers, and a Haiyan-class frigate requires 200 permanent soldiers. In total, there are 17,000 permanent soldiers.

This is just resident soldiers. Soldiers also have to hibernate, take turns, and return to the mothership to recuperate. It is impossible to perform military missions in the vast universe for a long time. Calculated in this way, the total number of soldiers on rotation has almost reached 100,000.

In addition, Kunlun Mountain itself needs a large number of soldiers to be able to exert its true strength. The firepower of Kunlun Mountain is far stronger than these small and medium-sized spaceships. There are a large number of logistics personnel, engineers, and all kinds of messy R\u0026D personnel. If calculated this way, the relevant military population exceeds 500,000!

This kind of military power is already the limit that society can carry, and there can be no more.

It is impossible for the entire civilization to be militaristic. It is definitely unrealistic for everyone to be a soldier, or to maintain a spaceship or be a military engineer.

It is more important for human beings to maintain the normal operation of all walks of life and maintain social stability. If the spacecraft is manufactured, there is not enough population, or there is not enough maintenance capacity, and it has been idle, it will be abandoned soon...

So, what people can do is to improve the quality as much as possible, not the quantity.

If it is just quantity, it can be made up with various mass-produced drones.

In addition, for the Kunlun Mountain mother ship, a great degree of improvement has also been made. After all, even the "Falcon-III" uses a more powerful magnetic field, so the mother ship can also upgrade related military equipment. equipment.

In addition, the installation of the magnetic field generator will make the cosmic particles wear less on Kunlun Mountain, and the mothership can accelerate to a higher speed. Probably from the original rated 10% of the speed of light, it has risen to 11%. Don’t underestimate the difference of 1% of the speed of light. This is already a very good achievement. The acceleration of kinetic energy, it is really not easy to accelerate to the current state. Can't ask for too much.

In the meeting before the departure, Zhang Yuan summarized the achievements of the past two years and the main research directions for the next one.

"...The next thing we have to do is mainly two things. The first is to miniaturize and normalize the supermagnetic-A material.

"If this magnetic field technology can be applied to drones, the performance of drones will undergo a qualitative change."

"If a larger magnetic field can be used in industry, it can also drive the upgrading of certain industries...especially the plasma smelting system in an ultra-high magnetic field environment, as well as the research and development of special metal materials. This aspect is the top priority. "

"Even if the theory of subatomic material science has not been broken through... But we don't insist, let's develop what can be developed to the best."

Materials science is the material basis for the survival and development of human beings, and the core of all scientific and technological progress industries; the continuous development of new materials is an important criterion for measuring the level of social technology and future technological development.

The development of many technologies is essentially the development of materials science. Human beings smelted bronze and black iron, which opened a new era.

The successful development of ultra-pure silicon and gallium arsenide led to the birth of large-scale and ultra-large-scale integrated circuits, which increased the computing speed of computers from hundreds of thousands to hundreds of billions of times per second; the core part of the turbine engine is the turbine blade, the The blade needs to operate at a high temperature of about 1500 degrees, and it needs to be resistant to high temperature and high pressure. After 40 years of hard work, it was not until 1980 that the United States officially developed a qualified duplex nickel-based alloy, which made the birth of the turbine engine possible.

Of course, these are old days. Under the ultra-high magnetic field, it is an important topic to make all the atoms in the material order regularly to achieve higher performance.

Many people in the conference room were silent, and no one issued a military order, saying that there will be a breakthrough in the next few decades. The foundation construction in this area is indeed difficult, requiring a lot of geniuses, some hidden inspiration, and even a little bit of good luck.

Speaking of this, Zhang Yuan paused for a while, and then continued: "Don't think that our civilization is already very strong and can easily feed everyone. We are not enough. Can we build a Dyson sphere? No. "

"Can we hollow out a metal planet and build a planetary spacecraft? It may be possible, but it will take tens of thousands of years, hundreds of thousands of years!"

“We still have a long way to go on our development path.”

"Second, it is about the research on brain-assisted memory chips. The materials in the laboratory are sufficient, enough to be squandered to the next foothold...so please don't worry about resource issues."

"Next, I invite Professor Luo from the Human Brain Institute to introduce the latest developments in brain-assisted memory chips!"

Brain-Assisted Memory Chips!

The people below were a little agitated, and many reporters also refocused, showing expressions of interest. In every summary meeting, they are most interested in these.

Since Professor Li Zhendong cracked a part of the memory code in the neural network decades ago, there have been some small breakthroughs in the research of brain-assisted memory chips...

In fact, the research on the human brain chip has been going on for thousands of years, and there are many application results on the earth. For example, the love chip can make people feel as sweet as first love when they meet a specific lover. This kind of chip controls the cheating rate of the whole society, and things like unspoken rules are also greatly reduced, which greatly improves the clarity of the whole society.

What else is there to focus on chips, which can make people happier in certain jobs... Some boring learning is no longer so boring, but full of fun.

In fact, these chips achieve a certain purpose by controlling the secretion of certain hormones in the brain, that is, regulating the conditions for the production of "happiness". The principle and actual operation are not particularly difficult.