A Seed for a Starship
"Yes, Commander Lin."
Katerina blushed, and though she smiled faintly on the surface, she was extremely embarrassed inside.
"..."
"What am I thinking... Commander Lin so busy with important matters, how could he have the mind to think about such childish games?"
"Even if... even if Commander Lin wants something to happen between us, it should happen in peacetime. The war with the Demon Pet Civilization is about to begin, where do we have time for all this nonsense?"
Katerina kept imagining things, her mind practically forming a mini-drama.
Lin Ye picked up the coffee pot and poured a cup of hot coffee for Katerina.
Katerina obediently sat down on the sofa, holding her coffee cup, and looked at the images displayed on the big screen.
The image shows a spaceship traveling in space, with a black Wake behind it.
"Miss Carter, do you remember the three stories I told you before?"
"The Kingdom's New Painter, the Taotie Sea, and the Story of the Prince of the Deep Waters."
Katerina nodded repeatedly.
"Commander Lin, I remember."
"These three stories are about Dimensional Weapons. Higher dimensions view lower dimensions like a piece of paper, and Curvature Technology itself is a type of Dimensional Weapons technology."
She was very attentive; she would write down every word Lin Ye said.
She doesn't fully understand things like dimensions, but she has a general idea of what they are.
"Yes, Curvature Technology is indeed a dimensional technology, but it's not entirely weapon technology, and dimensions aren't just Dimensional Weapons; in fact, dimensions have many applications."
"Do you remember the soap in the story of the Taotie Sea? Actually, that soap is a metaphor for the Curvature Spaceship."
Katerina's eyebrows twitched slightly as she slowly began to ponder.
"Commander Lin, your Star Destroyer is already a very powerful Universe Spaceship. All my current efforts are aimed at achieving that goal. Will this Curvature Spaceship be even more powerful than the Star Destroyer?"
"Haha." Lin Ye smiled faintly. "These two are not from the same system."
"Star Destroyers are powerful Universe weapons, but they also have limitations. Warp drive, on the other hand, is more of a technology—a technology for achieving ultra-long-distance interstellar travel!"
"These two are not contradictory; Star Destroyers can also utilize Curvature Technology."
While explaining to Katerina, Lin Ye was also constantly adjusting his thoughts.
To be frank, his current Star Destroyer technology is not yet perfect.
Star Destroyers in interstellar systems rely on Hyperspace Jump Technology to achieve interstellar travel. This requires a very strong foundation in spacetime technology.
The Star Destroyer in Solar System Online, while capable of long-distance travel and even approaching sub-light speed, is still far from true light-speed travel, let alone hyperspace jumps.
That's something that only exists in the fourth Civilization Sequence. This Civilization Sequence simply cannot accomplish it.
This means that the Star Destroyer ships in the current Instance cannot freely travel between star systems.
Compared to hyperspace technology, Curvature Technology is actually easier to implement...
"Miss Carter, I can explain some basic principles of Curvature Spaceship to you. How much it helps you depends on your comprehension."
Lin Ye took a sip of coffee and spoke slowly.
"The biggest difference between Curvature Spaceship and ordinary spacecraft is that conventional navigation involves 'ships breaking through space to move forward,' while Curvature Spaceship are propelled by space itself."
"Just like the vast ocean on the Azure Star, a ship moves forward by cutting through the water; the water is still, but the ship is in motion. In the Universe, space is that ocean. No matter how fast a conventional ship is, there is a speed limit, and it can never break through the constraints of spatial resistance."
Lin Ye naturally understood these principles.
After all, science fiction novels from my previous life had already thoroughly explored how to achieve light-speed travel.
But understanding is one thing; actually realizing it is an incredibly long road...
Lin Ye remembered that in the original the Three-Body Problem novel, the Trisolaran Civilization did not possess Curvature Spaceship technology when it first clashed with Earth.
Later, during the Dark Forest Deterrence Era, the Trisolaran Civilization achieved Technological Explosion and finally comprehended Curvature Spaceship technology.
With Alice's super brain in his own Creation Space, as long as Lin Ye transmits the theory, Alice will be able to deduce the Curvature Spaceship sooner or later.
The reason I'm telling this to Katerina now is to inspire her, to plant a seed in her heart.
Lin Ye has always believed that technology is driven by all of humanity, but the key moments in technological evolution are achieved by one or two geniuses.
Some geniuses can accelerate technological development by hundreds or even thousands of years.
He felt that Katerina would be such a genius in the field of shipbuilding technology.
"Curvature Spaceships don't move on their own."
Katerina kept repeating Lin Ye's words to herself.
These few words overturned all of Katerina's knowledge of navigation.
She recalled her days sailing at sea.
Going with the current is indeed the fastest way to achieve navigation speed.
Some strange thoughts began to take root in her mind!
Lin Ye continued patiently, "If we rely on the Curvature Engine to reduce the curvature of space, forcibly compressing the space in front and stretching the space behind, the spaceship itself remains relatively stationary; it is the distorted space that forcibly pushes it forward."
"This is equivalent to not rowing across the sea, but pulling the water in front of you to behind you, and the entire sea moves forward with your boat."
"Without spatial resistance and without a speed limit, as long as the engine power is sufficient, it can infinitely approach the speed of light, and even surpass the normal speed of light!"