Great Fleet of Ten Million Warships
Although Magnetic Propulsion Thruster technology cannot be directly used in warship weapons, a civilization that can develop Magnetic Propulsion must have conducted more in-depth research on magnetic field technology.
Therefore, aside from the weapons possessed by Level 3 Civilization, the only other apparent weapons Level 2 Civilization would have are swarms of Nanobots. However, this isn't the whole story. Due to their deeper research into the field of Electromagnetic Force, Level 3 Civilization will take a significant leap forward in the application of magnetic fields.
Just as people today have seen many derivative technologies emerge from research in nanotechnology and Magnetic Propulsion.
This makes the New Warship's Magnetic Shield more powerful than before, and similarly, the antimagnetic layer is more stable, meaning that the harsh space environment will have less impact on the New Warship.
Take the Quasi-Magnetar as an example. Places that were previously inaccessible can now be easily accessed by New Warship. This is a direct manifestation of the benefits of technological progress.
Similarly, advancements in weaponry will lead to the development of more powerful Plasma Cannon. While such Energy Weapon can be countered by Polarization Shield, maintaining Polarization Shield also requires energy.
If the force of the impact exceeds the Polarization Shield's tolerance, it can be broken. Yes, the so-called Polarization Shield is an improvement on the Low-Temperature Plasma Shield, capable of defending against energy-based weapons such as lasers and plasmas.
Human scientists believe this is one of the hallmark technologies of Level 3 Civilization.
Of course, Polarization Shield cannot defend against kinetic weapons, so the main gun of the new Flagship Lyra is still an Electromagnetic Railgun, but not the same one as before, but Electromagnetic Railgun upgraded by Level 3 Civilization.
To put it simply, in comparison, the new Electromagnetic Railgun, by firing a single shot at a planet from its orbit, could create a meteorite-like force comparable to the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Although it still cannot directly destroy a planet and is not a planet-destroying weapon, it can easily completely destroy the ecological environment of a planet.
Under repeated bombardment, even Life Planet can be blasted into a massive volcanic eruption, causing global warming and the extinction of all life on Earth, turning it into a true hell.
Such a powerful strike would require humanity, at Level 2 Civilization, to spend a great deal of time burying a massive number of high-yield hydrogen bombs, but now it can be accomplished with just one warship in a short period of time.
Technological advancements have resulted in vastly different power disparities.
It can be said that after reaching Level 3 Civilization, humanity truly possessed the power to directly shake the stars through violence and had the ability to easily destroy an ecosystem.
These are forces that can crush Level 2 Civilization.
Originally, there were no rankings among civilizations in the universe. It was only after a certain technology was utilized that the civilization that possessed that technology gained the ability to overwhelm other civilizations, and thus the concept of civilization rankings gradually emerged.
Humanity has progressed step by step from Level 0 civilization, and this feeling is very intuitive, because each leap forward has created warships that can crush the previous warships.
Now that we've reached the Level 3 Civilization, this feeling is even more pronounced. Just looking at the various parameters of the Sea-Class Warship that have been manufactured, one such warship is enough to overwhelm the entire combat power of a Level 2 Civilization.
The universe is not a mystery; there is no such thing as a superior being able to defeat an opponent of a higher level. At least for now, humanity has not encountered any civilization with such an ability.
Besides its size, the new Lyra also features innovations in the projectiles for its main Electromagnetic Railgun, incorporating many technologies from Level 3 Civilization.
For example, in True Nano Technology, after years of research, humans have successfully incorporated ant-like Nanobots into artillery shells as warheads. In a hypothetical war, these shells would be used in Nanobots warfare between enemies.
Because these Nanobots possess the ability to sever chemical bonds, they can easily 'melt' a hole in a warship. Yes, chemical bonds, not the metallic bonds that humanity has only recently mastered this technology for; this is one of the manifestations of technological progress in recent years.
If some people are researching offensive weapons, then surely others are researching defensive weapons.
Plasma and laser Energy Weapon have Polarization Shield for protection, Positron Cannon have Magnetic Shield for protection, and Electromagnetic Railgun with conventional hydrogen bomb warheads also have multi-layered composite armor for protection. So what about Electromagnetic Cannon with Nanobots swarm warheads? Weapon experts' answer is Repair Nanobot Swarm.
In their plan, each New Warship must be equipped with a Military Industry Department to produce various types of shells and Nanomite Repair Robot. The warship must also maintain a certain number of Nanomite Repair Robot in its inventory so that if the warship is hit by the enemy's Nanobots shells, they can be released to fight against the Nanobots attached to the warship that are damaging it.
It's not hard to see why True Nano Technology is the hallmark technology of Level 3 Civilization. With other weapons proving less effective, the point of contention between the two sides becomes True Nano Technology. Whoever conducts more in-depth research in the field of nanotechnology and whose Nanobots swarm is stronger will have a greater chance of winning.
Of course, the fact that Human Civilization was so lucky to discover No. 2 Alloy Material from an unknown Alien Civilization spaceship is another kind of advantage.
Time flies. One hundred years, two hundred years, three hundred years, four hundred years, five hundred years have passed. Humanity has used the time of "one Five Finger Mountain" to create one large space structure after another in this red Dwarf Galaxy, and to manufacture one Sea-Class Warship after another, one new type of Residential Spaceship after another, and various types of spaceships and carriers.
It was in this short span of five hundred years that humanity, with the powerful industrial productivity of its Level 3 Civilization, finally transformed the entire civilization.
The residents moved into the new spaceship, and the administrative and military Command Centers of Human Civilization were also moved from the old Lyra to the new Lyra.
Brand new spaceships, brand new warships, brand new instruments and equipment—everything is brand new.
The fact that humanity has not experienced hibernation for nearly five hundred years has allowed its population to grow from 200 million to 5 billion. While this growth rate seems large, it is actually not that fast.
The root cause lies in the Life Elixir. If it weren't for the limitation on the Life Elixir's effective period, with a five-hundred-year non-hibernation development period, exceeding 50 billion people would certainly not be a problem.
Assuming each Sea-Class Residential Spaceship can accommodate 500,000 people, 10,000 Sea-Class Spaceship would be enough to house 5 billion people. Of course, a single Sea-Class Residential Spaceship could actually hold even more people, with a maximum of about 1 million, but for the sake of residents' comfort, the New Government felt that 500,000 people would be appropriate.
In any case, a mere ten thousand Residential Spaceship are no big deal for humanity these days, since we can produce tens of millions of warships.