Until now, the number of people who had consumed the wisdom elixir had reached 60,000. It was a shocking number.
Each of them had intelligence that exceeded the limits of humans. Their thinking speed was comparable to that of a computer. At the same time, they were full of energy and strong bodies. Compared to them, top human figures like Einstein, Newton, and Gauss were not worth mentioning.
As long as a country had such a scientist, the speed of technological development would increase by at least 10%. If it was in a professional field, it would be able to help a particular field to improve.
If it was just one of them, there was no need to mention 60,000 of them. Such a terrifying research power was hundreds or even thousands of times stronger than the research power of all the countries in the world before the apocalypse.
Over the past few years, technology had been changing at a rapid pace, almost on a yearly basis.
The technology left behind by the Glassians had been absorbed and improved by leaps and bounds. If the spaceship was not already in flight, humans would have been able to build a spaceship that was better than the Glassian mothership nine years ago.
Unfortunately, the spaceship was already far away and humans did not have the time to build such a spaceship.
Now, nine years had passed, and the development of human science and technology had once again advanced a step further.
Luo Yuan had seen the blueprint and related technical information of the new spaceship that was about to be built. It was the culmination of most of the technological development in the past few years.
Although the armor of the spaceship was made of critical metal, its compressibility was 20 times higher than the original and its density was 800 tons per cubic meter. Its physical properties were beyond common understanding. It was 3,500 times harder than a diamond and could only be melted at a temperature of a million degrees Celsius. Even if it was hit by a nuclear bomb, as long as it was not at the center of the explosion, it would not be able to do anything to the armor. As for the main cannons of the Glassian mothership, they were like tickles in front of the armor. They did not pose any threat at all. In addition to the energy absorption effect of the alloy, unless it was hit by a large mass of sub-light speed meteorite, it would be almost indestructible.
The only disadvantage was that it was the same as the Glassian mothership, it did not have any energy defense system.
In the past few years, humans had developed energy defense systems.
Including plasma defense and electromagnetic defense systems, they were quite mature and even some of the new fighter jets were equipped with them. But when he installed it on the new battleship, he realized that it didn't have any practical value.
That was because this kind of battleship was too fast in long-distance flight. Its maximum speed could reach 240,000 kilometers per second. Once a meteorite hit, the speed of the meteorite would be like a flash of lightning. It would be a fool's dream to use energy to block or weaken the impact of the meteorite in such a short period of time.
But if they flew slowly, installing an energy shield would be a waste of energy and completely unnecessary. Just the armor alone would be enough to defend them.
In fact, it was not that the energy defense was useless against sub-light speed collisions. It was just that the energy output of the spaceship was far from enough. According to the calculations of some scientists, in order to weaken or block an attack of this level, the energy output of the spaceship would need to be increased by at least three orders of magnitude.
In fact, if one wanted to, this new battleship could barely increase its energy output by 1,000 times. As long as they built enough fusion furnaces, it would meet the requirements. However, if they did that, the water consumption would be astronomical. The resources that could originally be used for 100 years would only last for one or two months. The effect would only be to weaken the impact of the meteorite impact.
On the other hand, it meant that no matter if it was the Glassian or the Humans' level of technology, they were still far from being able to install an energy shield on the spaceship.
The Humans could not afford such a huge amount of energy consumption.
In comparison, thickening the armor was more cost-effective and more economical.
As long as it did not exceed 10 grams, with the strength of the defense of this new battleship, it would be enough to ensure that the spaceship would not be damaged. Moreover, the new generation of the main control quantum computer was more efficient. In addition to the more advanced detection system, as long as they were not too unlucky, they would be able to avoid the meteorite that was more than half a light year away.
The armor was only a small part of the results of these years. The weapons inside the battleship had also been upgraded and the layout had also changed.
The propulsion force of the four antimatter electromagnetic cannons had been increased by thousands of times. The firing speed of the electromagnetic bullets had reached 0.1 light speed. Four of the neutron cannons had been replaced by four laser cannons.
The neutron cannon was a short-range weapon that overlapped with the electromagnetic cannon. The laser cannon, which was originally used as a defense array, had become one of the main cannons. The reason for this was that the humans had a new breakthrough in laser weapons.
The beam that it emitted was more condensed and the energy it carried was stronger. In just 0.1 seconds, it could heat up the matter to millions of degrees Celsius. At the same time, the effective distance had reached 0.01 light years.
However, strictly speaking, these were the conventional weapons of this battleship. The only strategic weapon was a gamma-ray cannon.
This was an extremely terrifying weapon. The entire weapon system alone took up an entire floor. If it was placed on the ground, it would not be much smaller than a town. Among them, two-thirds were giant high-energy battery packs that were the size of skyscrapers.
Every shot it fired was equivalent to the total amount of energy produced by the humans for hundreds of years. The energy stored in all the battery packs could only be used for three shots.
If it were to be recharged, even if this new battleship was at full power, it would still take an entire year. If it were to fly, the actual time would be even longer.
Of course, this was when it was attacking at full power. In reality, the energy output could be reduced according to the situation.
This weapon was naturally built using the interstellar creature as a reference.
These high-energy batteries and other high-energy batteries were relatively independent from each other. They had their own energy conversion device and their own acceleration system. This was because humans did not have a material that could concentrate such a huge amount of energy.
When the attack command was given, all the high-energy batteries would go through energy conversion and accumulate energy in front of the energy valve. After accumulating energy for a second, the quantum energy transmission device would be activated at the same time. Thousands of gamma-ray rays would be released at the front of the launch port in the form of transitions.
Within 100 nanoseconds, all the energy would be depleted.
The most terrifying thing about this weapon was that it was able to release such a concentrated amount of energy in such a short period of time.
Compared to the energy released by the interstellar creature, the energy of this cannon was much more concentrated. It was like a real gamma-ray burst. Nothing could stop its advance. According to the simulation of the quantum computer, if it were to be fired at full power, it could even penetrate the moon.
Luo Yuan believed that even a spaceship from a higher civilization would not be able to withstand such a weapon. This was the scariest weapon of this new interstellar battleship.
Moreover, the application of the energy quantum transmission technology had completely liberated the power of the weapon from the limitations of the barrel material. No matter how powerful the energy was, it could be continuously stacked synchronously through the energy quantum transmission. As long as there were enough batteries and enough energy, the power of the weapon could be almost endless.
Nowadays, this technology was not only used in the military. It was also widely used in the field of electricity in the virtual world. Especially in the field of energy transmission, it had completely replaced electric wires.
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