"Space Battleship: A slow-flying heavy Cosmic Battleship, it ranks top among battleship types in terms of size, mass, armor, and firepower. Most civilizations regard the Space Battleship as the command ship of the fleet, essentially using it as the mother ship."
At this point, He Xingzhou said, "The last type is the Star Destroyer, right?"
"Correct!" Bai Ningxiang said, "Star Destroyer, strictly speaking, ninety-nine percent of Level 1 civilizations can’t build it!"
"Its definition is having at least ninety-five percent of light speed in navigation speed, and firepower sufficient to destroy all military bases on a planet!"
"Generally, only top Level 1 civilizations and Second-level Civilizations can manufacture it."
"If you have a Star Destroyer, you can defeat most Level 1 civilizations."
He Xingzhou asked, "If I remember correctly, do several members of the Maoshi Star Union have Star Destroyers?"
"That’s different!" Bai Ningxiang said, "Their Star Destroyers weren’t manufactured by themselves, but given to them by their main civilization, the Maoshi Star Civilization!"
"How does a Star Destroyer fare against a Planet Devourer?" He Xingzhou was more concerned about this issue.
Bai Ningxiang thought for a moment and said, "There’s not much intelligence on this. I’ve heard a saying in the Virtual Universe."
"It says the Zerg’s Planet Devourer is divided into juvenile, growth, mature, and complete stages."
"Star Destroyers can deal with juvenile and growth stages of Planet Devourers, but it’s already very difficult against mature stages!"
"As for the complete Planet Devourer, don’t even think about it, even if you have a Star Destroyer, it cannot be their match!"
He Xingzhou remembered that the Quantum Light Computer once said that a planet-level ultimate weapon can deal with Planet Devourers, which should refer to the complete Planet Devourer.
"I understand." He Xingzhou got it; he now needs to first design Space Reconnaissance Ships and Escort Ships to ensure the safety around Blue Star, while exploring Mars and nearby planets to find the Space Insect Nest!
"If you want to learn more about battleships, you can go to the Civilization Arena," Bai Ningxiang said, "there, in the civilization virtual war, you can obtain design drawings of battleship components, various weapons, and the like."
"Thanks a lot," He Xingzhou expressed his gratitude.
"Anyway," Bai Ningxiang looked serious, "you have to make an effort, I’ve placed all my bets on you!"
"Don’t worry, this concerns the survival of our civilization, I’ll naturally do my best!" He Xingzhou assured.
Bai Ningxiang went offline, and He Xingzhou immediately returned to the Tower Research Institute to prepare for developing technologies related to Space Battleships.
"Spend 200 energy units to unlock Space Battleship structure design."
"Spend 200 energy units to unlock nuclear ion drive technology."
"Spend 300 energy units to unlock battleship armor material information."
"Spend 300 energy units to unlock combined space propulsion technology."
"Spend 400 energy units to unlock stealth coating technology."
He Xingzhou unlocked the related technologies; he needs to simultaneously manufacture K1 level Space Reconnaissance Ships and K1 level Space Escort Ships.
The design difficulty of these two types of battleships is similar; the weapons of reconnaissance ships are smaller in size and mass, carry fewer weapons, and have more propulsion units to enhance mobility.
Whereas, Escort Ships are larger in size and mass and carry more weapons.
"Lu Mi, list all the space engine model diagrams," after He Xingzhou finished speaking, Lu Mi had already displayed several space engine modules.
Including nuclear thermal engines, nuclear electric engines, and so on.
Nuclear thermal engines have great power, consume a lot, more suitable for navigation within the atmosphere; nuclear electric engines, also called plasma thrusters.
In the weightless environment of space, as resistance can be ignored, only very little thrust is needed to move objects.
Moreover, plasma thrusters constantly eject plasma, maintain stable acceleration, and consume less energy.
"Our Space Battleships need not only to fight in space but also descend to fight on planetary surfaces, so both engine types are necessary."
He Xingzhou began designing the combination of nuclear thermal and nuclear electric propulsion, and combining them isn’t difficult.
The challenge is how to quickly accelerate battleships to ten percent light speed!
"Just relying on these two isn’t enough; a speed-up device needs to be designed."
He Xingzhou began designing the structure of the first generation space propellers.
Meanwhile, within the Academy of Sciences, related scientists also started synchronized designing.
For achieving the fastest results, they plan to directly upgrade based on the Space Air Mother Ship’s structural foundation, now humans already have dozens of Space Air Mother Ships.
Theoretically, Space Air Mother Ships are supposed to handle outer space planetary defense missions, and space navigation was considered during initial design.
Now restructuring is happening to upgrade them into Space Battleships.
On the Moon, the damaged base is being rebuilt, while Xiao Mao led a team to the Moon to start constructing the lunar Space Elevator.
By then, through Blue Star Space Elevator and the lunar Space Elevator, a lunar logistics system can be formed overnight, reducing the time from Blue Star to the Moon to within two hours!
Blue Star Civilization continues its development construction, the Blue Star Alliance simultaneously also announced the Zerg situation.
He Xingzhou wants to let people know they cannot rest easily; to maintain a peaceful life, they have to keep pushing interstellar construction.
Unknowingly, another year has passed.
Subspace Virtual Universe, interstellar construction conference. This is already the second year of the rookie competition, and He Xingzhou is still absent.