With our current half-baked Schilling technology, can we mass-produce a real planetary battleship?
Of course, that's impossible …
What is a real Schilling planetary battleship? Putting aside the "Glory" special battleship, which was already beyond the specifications and had strategic significance equivalent to the entire Empire's territory under full operation, even a conventional planetary battleship was enough to sweep the entire galaxy. Their power system, with the support of the Infinite Psionic Abyss, could almost allow these behemoths to fight from the birth of the universe until the end of the world. Their main weapon system even had the ability to launch law like attacks, and their main shield was a "damage defining device" that far exceeded the psionic shield. Even a star Protoss couldn't compete with such a heaven-defying thing — they all had law resistance, and even concept resistance.
Of course, we could no longer create such crazy things now …
The hundreds of planetary battleships that we had now pushed onto the table and were moving from their respective orbits to the territories of the various races were only preliminary replicas. The technology was simple, the structure was simple, and in Tawil's words, "compared to the real planetary battleship, there's nothing good about it except for its size."
Over the past few months, our expanding army had modified more than a hundred suitable solid planets that they had found in the Sky Zone. Using matter conversion technology, the interior of these planets had been directly transformed into huge and complex fortresses and armory. The energy from the planet's core was the main power source for the entire construction process, and the matter conversion technology made it possible for the rapid progress of the project. In order to build these things, even the Xi Ling mainframe that had stayed behind in the Shadow City had been mobilized to the frontline. Finally, a few days ago, these huge fortresses that made one's hair stand on end were successfully activated.
Due to the limitations of matter conversion technology, these planetary fortresses naturally couldn't have the power to make Pandora drool over law like attacks (of course, we couldn't build it either). The main weapons they were equipped with were still close-range gravitational tide devices and long-range space cutting cannons. These two conventional weapons were the most sensational things we could create with our current technology. Fortunately, whether it was humans or Protoss, they didn't have the power to resist such attacks.
Not only that, thirteen of these planetary fortresses even had new experimental weapons installed by Tawil. I had to say, although the scientists didn't seem to have much combat power, once they gave up the last shackles of humanitarianism, the destruction these crazy fellows could cause would be no less than the entire Empire's fleet!
It was just a strange idea that suddenly appeared in her mind that triggered this respectable female scientist's precious inspiration. She started to research on how to miniaturize the Star Sniper Cannon's ability to dismantle the basic structure of matter and directly convert it into energy so that it could be installed on the planetary fortress. This process sounded inconceivable because I had always thought that matter was decomposed under the immense energy pressure of the Star Sniper Cannon and ultimately turned into energy through a chain reaction. This meant that the planetary fortress's volume wasn't large enough to install such a large energy circuit. But in reality, this process was much more complicated than I had imagined and the energy requirement wasn't as high as I had imagined.
Everyone knew that the source of psionic energy was the highly active Void Energy. Even though it had weakened in intensity and intensity, psionic energy still possessed some of the properties of Void Energy, such as assimilation and devouring. This allowed the psionic energy to generate a large amount of additional power during its operation.
The principle of the Star Sniper Cannon's dismantling of matter was based on this. It fired a large amount of psionic energy at a specific frequency and intensity. This energy wasn't destructive at the beginning when it seeped into the physical structure, but after a very short delay, the psionic energy would start to interact with the molecular forces. Molecular bonds were easily destroyed by psionic energy that originated from Void Energy. When these bonds that maintained the stability of matter were converted into psionic energy, the matter would naturally decompose. And this was only the first part. After the matter disintegrated from the molecular level, it would undergo a second decomposition. The connections between atoms would be shattered by a similar process. The planet that was attacked by the Star Sniper Cannon would instantly turn into an atomic cloud. Then, the psionic energy would continue to penetrate deeper and the connection between electrons and protons would also be severed. Although strong and weak forces weren't considered energy, they were still the target of psionic assimilation …
In the end, this deep chain reaction would complete its final mission at the extreme microscopic level: breaking the barrier between matter and energy, turning it into the third state between energy and matter. This involved quantum theory and the ultimate microscopic theory that humans didn't understand yet. Then, in an instant, these things in the third state would instantly turn into energy in the surrounding surging psionic energy environment.
It wasn't a violent energy release such as a nuclear reaction that caused matter to turn into energy. Instead, it would be dismantled again and again until it was "dismantled" into energy.
I know many people don't understand because I don't understand either …
Tawil had found a way to miniaturize this specific psionic energy generator. Although it was expensive and its power was limited, compared to the immobile star sniper cannons that could only use the hyperspace port to release attacks, which resulted in a huge loss of energy and the fatal flaw of the former being unable to be mass-produced, these mass-produced portable star sniper cannons had an unparalleled strategic advantage — except for the short range.
A planetary battleship equipped with this "mass-energy conversion core" device could directly launch a beam from 100,000 kilometers away. The matter swept by this beam would directly turn into energy. Then, with the help of a large number of experimental energy leavers (there was a limit to the amount of energy an energy leaver could absorb), the huge energy would be recovered, compressed, and transformed into psionic energy, becoming a supplementary energy source to maintain the beam. Although the efficiency was a little lower than the star sniper cannons, the effect of its attack was definitely more shocking than the star sniper cannons without any process.
It was like an eraser erasing the entire planet from the background picture of the universe in front of you. Because the energy leavers absorbed the excess energy, there would be no annoying explosions to affect the clarity of the process until the entire planet was wiped clean. In Tawil's words.
A Zerg colonial planet named Itaras had the honor of becoming the first victim of this starship fleet. In the beam of the huge starship, the scene of Itaras being erased from the universe bit by bit was broadcasted live to every corner of the entire sector. Of course, during this process, the Zerg had already sent a massive army to intercept the starship. The whole of Itaras was completely covered by the Zerg, so when as many as 6.3 billion Zerg formed a dense meat shield to try to stop the starship, the scene was so spectacular that it was unforgettable. However, even a knockoff version of the planetary battleship, which was "only equipped with a bunch of weapons and a bunch of engines, and had no technological content except for its large size and heavy armour", was still not something that the Zerg army could resist. The huge planetary battleship did not even deploy its own air defense force. It directly passed through the Zerg blockade in a way that shocked the Queen of Blades.
A planetary battleship … it also had the ability to warp …
How did Tawil think of designing such a troublesome function for such a huge thing?
Even with Schilling's technology, it was not easy to teleport something with such a huge mass. Without the assistance of equipment such as stargates, the limit of Zero's warp jump distance was only 10 million kilometers. In a space war, this distance was not even enough for an assault ship to carry out a patrol mission. The only purpose of installing such a huge energy-guzzler on a starship was to prevent such a huge natural target from becoming a sandbag because of its clumsy body. It was similar to Maiev Shadowsong's Blink ability. It could not allow you to return to base, but at least you would not be surrounded by a large group of heavy cavalry. However, if used properly, the skill for escaping would also have amazing lethality. The intercepted starship accelerated and crashed into the sea of Zerg before it performed the warp jump. The sudden warp jump of a planet weighing hundreds of millions of tons killed nearly half of the 6.3 billion Zerg, and the Zerg that were left behind could no longer catch up with the planetary battleship that had already left. Even if the Wyverns drank helium-3 to grow up, they would not be able to catch up with the planetary battleship, which was driven by a quasi-coordinate engine and completely ignored its own mass and inertia, right?
When they arrived at their home, there was only a lifelike 'apple core' sculpture and a line of words written in blue navigation lights on the sculpture: "Downstairs Idiot."
"It's not easy to carve a planet into the shape of an apple core. It's not that easy to solidify a planet's high-temperature molten core. In comparison, it's much easier to carve that line of Microsoft's Art Nouveau," a starship commander who wished to remain anonymous said in an interview.
Of course, when the planetary battleships first started moving, it wasn't that the three-race alliance didn't try to launch a joint attack on our base camp to stop the catastrophe in advance. However, the entire Empire's First Army, with the Empire's Admiral as their flagship, had already set up an impregnable defense line. In addition, with the heavy firepower support from more than a dozen planetary fortresses nearby, and the fact that the three-race alliance couldn't truly be completely united, their several attacks were ultimately futile. Furthermore, the planetary battleships gradually took their positions, causing the soldiers who served as suicide squads to lose their will to fight. In the end, the enemy gave up on the pointless attempt to attack our base camp and turned to defend the colonial planets that were named on the timetable, as though they weren't afraid of death.
"Looks like our low profile and forbearance at the start was worth it." Now that they were no longer in an awkward situation due to a lack of military strength, even the usually calm and mature lady Sylves had a spirited smile on her face. "Your Majesty, large-scale panic has spread throughout the Independent Federation. The human civilians are now staging large-scale demonstrations everywhere, criticizing their rulers for foolishly provoking the God of Destruction. As for the Tadalim members, they have retreated to their main colonized planets, swearing to live and die with their home."
The first step was to instill fear in them as if it was the end of the world. The mentality of imminent destruction would destroy the last shred of resistance — that was what Sandora, who had ample experience in destroying worlds, had once said.
"What about the insectoids? Or how did the Queen of Blades react? "
After studying the star map for half a day, I finally gave up on trying to locate the enemy's position and asked Sives directly.
"On the contrary, the insectoids are currently the calmest race. Their absolute unity, or rather, the attribute that the entire race is equivalent to a single entity, has prevented the possibility of internal collapse. Other than Char, which is currently being encased by layers of insectoids, the insectoids on the other planets are still motionless. They are only passively resisting the harvesting of our conventional troops."
"Kerrigan isn't such a passive Lord." I shook my head. "Right, how's the progress of getting Bubble to analyze the 'Artifact Crystal' beside Zeratul? Do we have a way to replicate it? "
"There has been some progress in the research on the Protoss."
The one who answered me was Tarver, the scholarly elder sister who exuded a scholarly aura. She pushed up her decorative glasses, her expression so gentle that it was impossible to imagine just how many sensational weapons of mass destruction she had created in the past few months.
"First is the psionic energy on their bodies. With Zeratul's help, we have obtained very good energy samples. After analyzing them, we have confirmed that the energy is very similar to the psionic energy we use daily, although it is much weaker."
"They have already begun to learn how to use void energy?" I was surprised. "The Proteans have mastered the technology to set up a psionic reactor outside the world?"
"Of course, that is impossible." Tawil shook her head. "The technology required to break the world barrier is quite complicated. The Proteans have used another primitive but creative method."
As Tawil spoke, she turned on the projector in front of me … but then she turned it off right away. She knew that I couldn't understand it …
"From our point of view, the evolution of energy levels goes like this: Void energy decays and differentiates to form psionic energy. Psionic energy decays and differentiates to form the conventional energy in the universe. The conventional energy in the universe will undergo various mutations due to the evolution of the universe itself, forming energy of the same level, such as mental power, souls, energy creatures and so on. We use void energy to directly decay into psionic energy, while the Proteans do the opposite. They collect all kinds of energy in the universe and restore it to psionic energy.
Theoretically, that is how it works. I was confused for a long time before I finally asked, "This … doesn't it violate the law of conservation of energy?"
Why do I remember that my teacher in high school said … Ugh, alright, I don't even remember the name of my high school teacher …
"Within a single world, the law of conservation of energy is absolute. The creation of psionic energy by the Proteans is just a transformation of the form of energy. It doesn't violate this law," Tawil had an interested expression on her face. Her fingers subconsciously tapped on the recording crystal tablet in her hand. "And their spiritual power is even more interesting. Using meditation, they have a vague understanding of the nature of energy. A Protean can also absorb the free energy around them and transform it into pseudo-psionic energy without the help of machines. Maybe when they develop this technology to the limit, they can really glimpse the true meaning of the world."
Liliana's big bright eyes rolled around. Suddenly, she jumped out and shouted, "I understand! The Proteans are all cultivators! "
Us: "…"
Someone throw this lass out!
Ignoring Liliana's behavior that was purely causing trouble, Tawil brought up the picture of the "artifact". Below the picture was a dense list of data that made my scalp tingle.
"Apart from the study of the Proteans' psionic energy, the structural scan of this thing has also been completed. It is not something we have seen before … It can even be said that it does not belong to anything that can exist in theory."
Tawil said with confusion. He zoomed in on a messy picture that looked like a clumsy jigsaw puzzle, "This is its basic structure. Any substance that exists in this structure will have its stability infinitely close to zero, and we have not found anything similar to atoms or molecules in it. This is simply unimaginable in this universe that uses atoms as the basic structure of matter. The replication of it has also failed. With our current technology, it is still impossible to make matter exist in this form without collapsing …"
"Even Schilling technology can't replicate it?"
I was shocked. I thought this should be a relatively simple thing, but … with Schilling's technology that is almost like a bug, we actually can't replicate an antique of the Proteans?! Is this possible?!
"Of course we can't replicate it."
Just as we were all in shock, Sandora suddenly broke the silence.
"This thing is not created by the Proteans … It is a product of the God Realm."
"God Realm?" I didn't react for a moment. I thought that Sandora was referring to the "Protoss" of the Proteans, but after a few seconds, a lightning-fast thought rushed into my mind, "You can't be saying … that the people in Star Field are out of the norm, right!?"
"Who else could it be?" Sandora shrugged, "Other than the product of the Star Field's God Realm, is there anything that even we can't analyze?"
Uh, that's true.
"This thing is from the God Realm?" Shallow Shallow's curiosity was piqued. She leaned on the back of her chair and put her head over. "It's not even in the Empire's database?"
Sandora revealed a look of reminiscence, "A long time ago, there was a Protoss from Star Field who came to my territory to collect materials for his academic thesis. He gave me some ornaments from the God Realm as gifts, and this' crystal 'was one of them. As I have always hung it in my bedroom, I still have some impression of it. I suddenly remembered it just now … Yup, speaking of which, that guy seems to have claimed to be a senior researcher in the field of creation. Speaking of which, Jingle has been taking make-up exams for thousands of years and still hasn't graduated. Could it be related to the difficult thesis that he wrote back then?"
That stupid Goddess who has been at the bottom of the rankings for tens of thousands of years was shot even though she was just lying down.
"What is this thing used for?" I couldn't hold back my curiosity and asked. If it was a product of the God Realm that could interfere with the navigation equipment of the Schilling's soldiers, it would be easy to explain. I just didn't know what the Protoss people used this thing for back then.
"It has many functions. Usually, it can be used as a beacon to provide navigation for the army. Due to its high transmission power and the fact that it ignores all interference methods, including the World Barrier, even our military navigation equipment would be affected. However …" At this point, Sandora suddenly revealed an expression that she didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Because the Star Field Protoss's army has never needed navigation. They have always treated this thing as an ornament …"
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