Different from What They Imagined

As the main guns fired, dozens of Laser Weapon located on the bottom and sides of the Callisto Warship also roared in unison. A thick beam of light, along with dozens of smaller beams, tore through the darkness and hurtled towards the Silver Mist three million kilometers away.

"Positron Cannon cooling countdown: 30 seconds. Prepare for next round of firing."

The Magnetic Confinement coils and other components of the Positron Cannon are made of superconducting materials, so there is no problem with resistance heating. However, the various gold and platinum plates that generate positrons and the various facilities that separate positrons and electrons cannot be made entirely of superconducting materials. Therefore, after the main gun of the Callisto Warship, the moon I, fires a shot, there is still a certain cooling time.

Laser Weapon are high-energy Photon Beam.

Clearly, Laser Weapon travel at the speed of light; unless there is faster-than-light detection technology, they will hit you as soon as you see them.

Positron Cannon is a beam of positrons. Because electrons have mass, their speed is slightly slower than the speed of light, but on a scale of three million kilometers, this difference is negligible.

Therefore, even though Silver Mist is a creation of Level 3 Civilization, it couldn't possibly detect the approach of such weapons in advance. In fact, not only Silver Mist, but even humans only knew "I fired," and whether it hit or not, they would have to wait twenty seconds to see.

Real Laser Weapon are actually invisible from an observer's perspective; they don't produce the dazzling beams of light seen in movies.

If there really were such a God's-eye view, one could probably only see the laser activation state of Laser Weapon and Positron Cannon before they fired, and after such cannons were fired, one would not see a bright beam of light like lightning.

Of course, after Laser Weapon is fired, due to the presence of some gas and dust in outer space, some photons in the emitted beam will collide with those hydrogen-based gas and dust particles. These photons will then undergo diffuse reflection, so an observer can still distinguish the direction of the laser beam from the few diffusely reflected photons.

Simply put, you will see a blurry and hazy beam of light.

However, Positron Cannon are a different matter entirely. Because they emit positrons, the human eye cannot see a real beam of light, and neither can detection instruments.

The reason is that what the human eye "sees" is actually the result of sensing photons, and although various detectors can detect Electromagnetic Wave of various bands, positrons are obviously not something that detectors can directly observe.

Therefore, if the Positron Cannon were fired in a vacuum without gas or dust, even the person firing it would probably not be able to see anything.

However, True Vacuum environments are rare in the universe. Although most of the universe is called a vacuum, there are still some rare Hydrogen Element scattered around.

The beam of the Positron Cannon was observed using these gaseous dust particles. A small number of positrons annihilated with the electrons in these particles, releasing photons. The detector then used these randomly flying photons to track the trajectory of the Positron Cannon.

Therefore, everyone on the Hope's bridge, including Yue Yuan, who was looking at the big screen, was actually only seeing a dim light flash by.

Unless it's computer-generated, this is what Laser Weapon firing looks like on a big screen.

This is why Laser Weapon and Positron Cannon are subject to a certain degree of attenuation before hitting their targets. This is an unavoidable process loss due to environmental factors.

In the atmosphere, the losses are even greater.

From this perspective, Positron Cannon are not suitable for use in atmospheric environments, because electrons in the molecules of air are the first targets that Positron Cannon come into contact with. Before hitting the actual target, all the electrons in the air along the way must be neutralized.

Well, actually, it's possible if the power is high enough. Also, using Positron Cannon in the atmosphere would indeed produce a bright beam of light shooting towards the target.

In fact, no one on the bridge of the Hope was surprised to see such a scene, which was completely different from what they had imagined, because they all had common sense about physics.

Therefore, after the main gun was fired, Yue Yuan and the Science Officer focused on the timer on the screen that had started counting down from the moment the gun was fired.

5 seconds, 9 seconds, 10 seconds

11 seconds, 13 seconds, 14 seconds, 16 seconds, 18 seconds, 19 seconds.

The timer had just ticked to 20 seconds when the constantly refreshing screen suddenly changed, and a burst of light appeared on the quiet screen.

It looks like a flashlight shining into thick fog, but there are differences; there are many dense flashes where the beam of light touches the target.

The reason is that when a positron comes into contact with the target, it undergoes an annihilation reaction with the target's electrons, which in turn triggers a series of explosive reactions.

Of course, in space, this type of explosion cannot be an explosion in the traditional sense, because its mechanism is that the high-energy photons generated by the Electron-Positron Annihilation destroy the structure of the target.

And so, less than a second later, people saw a large hole in the Silver Mist on the right side, under the radiant light.

This is what the Hope optical telescope saw.

In another split screen, the content displayed is different due to the different types of detectors. Some screens only show a single quadrant wave, while others show many light spots.

Upon seeing these images, the Fire Control Officer, signal specialist, communications officer, and other staff on the Hope ship immediately used a computer to summarize and analyze the information.

Based on this feedback, they need to determine whether the target hit or not, the next direction of the target's deviation, the time difference, and other factors, and then quickly adjust the Hope's orientation so that the main guns of Callisto Warship are aimed at the position where the next target may deviate.

"The Positron Cannon has hit the target and penetrated it! The estimated damage is 5% of the target's total mass. We cannot determine the location of its core or whether it has caused a fatal wound."

"Blue Laser Weapon number 14 missed its target!"

"Blue Laser Weapon number 6 missed its target!"

"Blue Laser Weapon number 8 missed its target!"

"Missing the target"

"Blue laser weapon No. 7 hit the target, with an impact time of 1.78 seconds, and did not cause any obvious damage."

After a series of misses, a hit notification finally appeared on the fire control combat system, but the result was that the enemy was completely unharmed.

Unlike other types of weapons, Laser Weapon require a certain amount of time to accumulate after hitting a target before they can cause high-temperature burning damage.

It won't be like in the movies, where a single laser shot causes a Big Bang.

This is determined by the principle of Laser Weapon.

Of course, it also depends on the power of the Laser Weapon. If the technology is advanced enough, and the Laser Weapon produces high-energy Gamma Ray, then the damage will definitely be much greater, and it will be no problem to melt the target upon impact.

Unfortunately, humanity had only just entered the Tier 1 Civilization, and all that time was spent focusing scientific research on Positron Cannon; high-energy Gamma Ray Laser Weapon had not yet been developed.

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