Adapt to the Situation
"Are there only two types of spaceships? Or are there smaller Escort Ship that we can't detect yet?"
Upon receiving this news, Yue Yuan had a new question, but this question would probably not be resolved until the enemy fleet arrived at Aldebaran, and it would not affect his judgment.
There are two years and three months left.
Humanity has gained a little more information about the composition of the unknown fleet, so some arrangements over the next two years will need to be adjusted based on this information.
The first echelon, led by the Kunlun-Class Warship, has now completed half of its refueling. Next up are the Lyra and Mount Wudang-Class Warship and Mount Emei-Class Warship formations.
In addition, after two years of hard work, the extraction and transportation of resources and energy are now on the fast track, so the two Space Dock can be started.
As soon as the news was sent to the Engineering Department, the heads of the Production Department and Ministry of Industry rushed to the bridge of the Lyra and found Yue Yuan.
"Chief of Staff, isn't it too hasty to build warships at this time?" The Minister of the Production Department shouted as soon as he stepped halfway onto the bridge.
He was heartbroken. He had worked hard for two years, and the various resources he had mined were just enough to replenish the various items consumed by the people and society. But before he could even be happy for a few days, another message came to his ears from the Engineering Department.
Upon hearing the news that the two Space Dock were going to be fully operational, he felt a sense of militarism and thus went to the bridge.
Hearing the somewhat unfriendly tone, Yue Yuan wasn't angry. He simply turned to look at the Minister of the Production Department and the Minister of Ministry of Industry, and after they both floated up to him, he smiled and said, "Where did you hear the news that you're going to build warships? We're not building warships."
"Not building warships?"
The two were taken aback. If they weren't building warships, why activate the Space Dock?
"Since you're here, let's take a look together. It just so happens that we need you to conduct a resource assessment of this plan," Yue Yuan said.
Construction has begun on the Space Dock, but it's not going to build Mountain-Class Warship, nor is it going to build Callisto-Class Warship and Escort Ship.
Yue Yuan was well aware of the current situation. Building these spaceships would take a lot of time, not to mention training the shipborne combat personnel. Last-minute efforts were not advisable.
"Chief, what is this?" Upon hearing that it wasn't about building warships, the Minister of Ministry of Industry couldn't help but feel curious.
"Please be patient." Yue Yuan pointed to the empty seats in the bridge, indicating that the two should wait a moment.
Yue Yuan didn't care where the news that he planned to build warships came from. Instead, he sat down next to the two men and waited. However, he found that the bridge of the Lyra was actually in Weightless State, so sitting or not made no difference.
So he simply turned around and looked out the porthole, waiting quietly.
Because Long Xiaolin had already notified them, Yue Yuan didn't have to wait long before he discovered that the automatic bridge door had been opened.
He turned his head and saw two people floating in along the guide rod. After arriving not far from Yue Yuan, they skillfully activated their Magnetic Boots and came to a steady stop on the bridge floor.
"Chief!" X2 "Well, how's it going? Have you finished the design drawings?" Yue Yuan asked directly.
"With Doctor Yu Nanfeng's cooperation, there are no problems, Chief. The design drawings are all done."
The speaker was Gao Kun from the Research Institute. He was no longer the fat man he used to be. After taking some gene expression drugs related to muscle, he also had a good physique, except that his height remained the same.
The person who came with Gao Kun was Yu Nanfeng, whom he mentioned. What Yue Yuan asked him to do was indeed inseparable from this leading figure in engineering and dynamics.
"You two come and take a look too." At this moment, Yue Yuan said to the two ministers who had come earlier, and asked them to take a look at the design drawings that Gao Kun had brought.
The two men also came over, but before they could speak, Yu Nanfeng began to explain. It seemed that Yu Nanfeng also knew that sufficient resources and energy were needed to start the project, and the cooperation of these two was indispensable.
"Ministers, this thing is called Simplified Self-Detonating Intelligent Shuttle. Its structure is very simple, consisting of a shuttle hull, a conventional Fusion Thruster, Steering Engine, and an independent combat-type Artificial Intelligence (AI) system. Inside the shuttle is a hydrogen bomb with a yield of 100 megatons."
The chief's intention is to have the Space Dock operate at full capacity for the next two years to produce these items specifically for indiscriminate attacks against the Residential Spaceship of the unknown fleet.
Yue Yuan looked at the two ministers and then took over the conversation, saying, "Take a look at the list of materials needed to build the Self-Detonating Shuttle and estimate how many we can produce in two years."
Humanity has three Space Carrier equipped with Self-Detonating Drone, but these Self-Detonating Drone can only carry a small amount of ammunition. They are generally used for jamming or specifically to destroy the outer structure and Secondary Cannon of warships, or to finish off breaches in already damaged Main Battleship.
It's simply impossible for these Self-Detonating Drone to blow through Main Battleship.
Moreover, a drawback of suicide bombers is that their command AI is carried on the mothership.
Yue Yuan felt that there were too few Self-Detonating Drone; each of the three motherships carried only 10,000 units, for a total of only 30,000 units.
This was far from fulfilling his plan to launch a surprise attack on the enemy's rear.
"If it's really as the design blueprints say, then building two thousand shuttles within two years shouldn't be a problem, but that only applies to shuttles; the hydrogen bombs they carry are a separate matter," said the head of the Production Department.
"Although it's a bit less, with the support of 30,000 drones from the three Space Carrier, it should be about right." Yue Yuan stroked his chin. Hydrogen bombs don't need to be produced in shipyards; as long as enough Hydrogen Element is collected, there are as many hydrogen bombs as needed.
Humans are extremely skilled at manufacturing hydrogen bombs, and currently only 1% of the manufacturing process requires human intervention.
In fact, Yue Yuan only told Yu Nanfeng about the general purpose of these Self-Detonating Shuttle. He had even figured out how to deploy them.
That is to disperse these Self-Detonating Shuttle throughout the Asteroid Belt, so that they can be used as surprise attacks if a real war breaks out.
If Yue Yuan hadn't discovered that the enemy only had two types of ships: Main Battleship and Residential Spaceship, he wouldn't have had this idea, because these things would most likely not be able to break through the Escort Ship's defensive perimeter.
We can find out by simulating the various parameters of human-made Escort Ship.
Although we don't know why the enemy fleet only has Main Battleship, we should take advantage of the opportunity now that we've discovered it.
After the matter was settled, time passed again as people worked feverishly to complete the task.
More than two years have passed in the blink of an eye.
Meanwhile, humanity had already completed all the preparations three months in advance, and was now quietly waiting for the Unknown Civilization's fleet to enter the deceleration phase.
"Slow down, slow down!"
As they waited and waited, while the fleet remained silent, a glimmer of light suddenly appeared in space in that direction.
This ray of light traversed the darkness of space and reached the telescopes that humanity had been watching for so long.
"It's the probe's exhaust plume! Their probe has finally slowed down!"
The information observed by the telescope was immediately synchronized to the bridge of the Lyra.
The crew, who had been holding their breath and waiting anxiously on the bridge, breathed a sigh of relief. The ship had finally slowed down. If they hadn't, they would have crashed directly into the Asteroid Belt. Perhaps before the enemy Great Fleet could even slow down, the probes would have already discovered the human warships hidden behind various asteroid fragments in the Asteroid Belt.