This used to be one of the manufacturing docks for the Space Air Mother Ship, and it has been modified to build space battleships.
He Xingzhou is floating in mid-air, and under his feet, the hatch of the dock slowly opens, revealing a pitch-black interior.
"Where’s the battleship?" The audience is curious; they can’t see the battleship at all. The lights are clearly on inside, but it’s still completely dark.
"Yeah, there’s nothing there, right?"
"Is it not here? Could it still be underground?"
He Xingzhou says, "Turn off the camouflage color!"
After he speaks, they finally see a space battleship, slightly larger than the Space Air Mother Ship, slowly revealing its shape and appearing before people’s eyes.
"Wow, was it invisible just now?" People are amazed.
"Yes, we couldn’t see it at all!"
"Such a large battleship, it’s like it disappeared!"
"How is that even possible?"
He Xingzhou explains, "The Black Dragon lives up to its name; it has the ability to change its paint color. What everyone just saw was its black paint!"
"It is actually composed of countless tiny nanometer black particles that absorb up to 99.995% of light!"
"To the human eye and general optical detection equipment, it is almost completely undetectable! When it flies in space, it essentially becomes invisible! So it has powerful stealth and camouflage capabilities!"
"666! It’s really black!"
"It almost doesn’t reflect any light! No wonder we couldn’t see it just now!"
"Flying up there, it’s like a piece of black cloth in the sky!"
He Xingzhou continues to introduce: "The Black Dragon is 1,500 meters long, its overall shape is somewhat similar to a rocket, being a vertically elongated bullet shape, with a bullet head shape at the front to reduce airflow resistance."
In space, there’s no air resistance, so a space battleship can be designed in any shape: a cube, a long monolith, a sphere, or any strange shape imaginable.
But human space battleships also need to enter planetary surfaces to fight, so air resistance must be considered.
Future battleships, He Xingzhou also plans to design with streamlined hulls like the Space Air Mother Ship — these battleships will all engage in interplanetary warfare!
Especially Jupiter, which is a gas giant planet; when a space battleship fights on Jupiter, the impact of air resistance becomes very noticeable.
"Besides having excellent stealth and detection capabilities, it also carries a shipboard fusion reactor. Space laser weapons, proton missiles, plasma beams, electromagnetic guns, space nuclear bombs, etc."
"Compared to the Space Air Mother Ship, its most powerful aspect is its speed!"
At this point, He Xingzhou has already entered the interior of the Black Dragon, where the interior design and architecture are filled with a sense of technology. The highly intelligent shipboard AI system can meet all human needs.
He Xingzhou makes his way to the engine room and says, "The Black Dragon uses the fusion reactor as its power source and adopts both nuclear thermal thrusters and nuclear electric propulsion modules!"
"They can operate simultaneously. In space, the Black Dragon’s top speed can reach up to 15% light speed!"
"Let me explain; the closest distance from Mars to the Blue Star is 55 million kilometers. Before the Catastrophe Era, our fastest spacecraft would have taken ten months to get from Blue Star to Mars."
"But for the Black Dragon, at full speed, from Blue Star to Mars, theoretically, it only takes 1,300 seconds, or about 21 minutes. Considering acceleration and deceleration time, if the two planets are at the closest distance of 55 million kilometers, the Black Dragon only takes a little over two hours to get from Blue Star to Mars."
"And for the farthest distance of 400 million kilometers, the Black Dragon still takes less than 16 hours!"
"Within a day, a round trip to Mars will become possible!"
After He Xingzhou finishes, all of humanity is in awe.
"Within a day, going to Mars? Awesome, it used to take at least six months to reach Mars!"
"With this speed, our Blue Star Civilization can become an interplanetary civilization!"
"With 15% light speed, is going to other planets still too far off?"
"Commander He is the best in the world!"
"Brothers, two years ago we were still talking about space battleships, originally thinking it would take ten years to accomplish, but now it’s here! Hurry and enlist in the space force to serve on a space battleship!"
After introducing the Black Dragon, He Xingzhou moves to the adjacent dock. The hatch opens, and this time the battleship is not in light-absorbing paint, and its size is even bigger!
It’s as if the Dapeng Space Air Mother Ship has been enlarged twice!
The ship body length reaches 2,000 meters, with a wingspan of 1,300 meters, also a bird-like ship body shape. The current paint is silver-gray, majestic and imposing!
He Xingzhou says, "Now, what you are seeing is our first space escort ship, Silver Dragon! It is a type of small space battleship."
At this point, someone can’t help but quip, "This is still a small battleship? It’s almost the size of a Planet Dominator!"
"Yes, a giant mecha would only be this size after being assembled from at least five or six giant mechas!"
"How big will a large battleship be?"
He Xingzhou says, "The size of a large battleship is unlimited! It’s like a mobile Space City!"
"It, like the Black Dragon, indeed belongs to the small space battleship category. In the future, we will build even larger space battleships."
"The Silver Dragon’s highest space speed is 12% light speed. Due to its greater mass, it’s slower than the Black Dragon."
"Compared to the Silver Dragon, its stealth and reconnaissance capabilities are weaker. But its defense and firepower are stronger."
He Xingzhou flies into the Silver Dragon’s hull, pointing to the thick ship body armor, saying, "The Silver Dragon has double-layered ship body armor, even if hit by space weapons, it suffers less damage."