War and Technology
The Great Commander of the Crimson Flame Civilization was certainly aware of the surprise attack on the mothership; he had even participated in the seminar on the new military weapons.
Weapons experts envision that with the Magnetic Propulsion Miniaturization Technology Magnetic Propulsion, they could transfer it to small spacecraft designed with the principles of small mass, high acceleration, and large payload.
This was specifically designed so that Earth's flagship civilization could enter an overload state.
In fact, the weapons experts of the Crimson Flame Civilization originally wanted to mount Magnetic Propulsion on Electromagnetic Cannon gun shells to turn them into Electromagnetic Cannon missiles, but they were obviously daydreaming. Even if Magnetic Propulsion were miniaturized, they could not be that small.
Therefore, they had to settle for second best and design a small unmanned assault ship, which can also be called a small Assault Ship.
Designed to be used against Human Flagship, these small Assault Ship consist entirely of Super Micro Nanobots, aside from the basic Magnetic Propulsion fuel tanks.
Under the pressure of war, the research centers of the Crimson Flame Civilization have all shifted their focus towards military industry. It is precisely this sense of urgency that has allowed them to unleash previously unimaginable potential. Against this backdrop, the Magnetic Propulsion Miniaturization Technology has also been put on the fast track from its original slow research, enabling a technology that was previously thought to take one or two hundred years to achieve to be realized in fifty years.
War undoubtedly brings endless pain to civilization, causing countless tragedies of lost life. However, in some cases, it can also promote technological development.
Of course, this doesn't refer to all of our technology, but rather to the concentration of technological development resources in certain countries due to need. The foundation of this progress remains the basic technology of this civilization, at the cost of lagging development in other areas.
There's a saying that technological development is a double-edged sword. While war is not a true catalyst for technological development, the fruits of technological development are often prioritized for use in war, thus becoming a catalyst for conflict.
For example, gunpowder, which was discovered by chance in human history.
The only difference between it and the technologies that the Crimson Flame Civilization has invested heavily in developing due to the needs of war is whether they were unintentional or intentional.
This relationship has existed throughout human history, and it remains so in the cosmos today, even among Alien Civilization, just as the Crimson Flame Civilization intensified its research into Magnetic Propulsion Miniaturization Technology in order to achieve victory in war.
Similarly, humanity also made corresponding changes in the construction of new warships. It's not that humanity knew about the Crimson Flame Civilization before they had even developed miniaturized Magnetic Propulsion, but rather that humanity reflected on the results and tactics of their own fleet after many battles with the Crimson Flame Civilization.
As Yue Yuan mentioned earlier, the structure of human warships is too simple and cannot cope with various emergencies in war, especially when there are special missions or emergency repairs.
Therefore, among the newly built warships, in addition to the Engineering Mothership dedicated to maintenance, humans also added dedicated warships for surprise attacks, which humans call Assault Ship.
The word "miniature" wasn't added before because humanity hadn't mastered Magnetic Propulsion Miniaturization Technology at all. Moreover, unlike the Crimson Flame Civilization, which had a main civilization here, humanity in this Star System was practically nonexistent, let alone having begun researching Magnetic Propulsion miniaturization.
Therefore, humans had to find another way and focus on design.
The Assault Ship will be designed as a warship with a single Electromagnetic Railgun as its main gun, and the type of shells will also abandon the Nanobots warhead and replace them all with Armor-Piercing Hydrogen Bomb warheads.
This design was naturally aimed at the New Warship of the Crimson Flame Civilization. The armor of the Crimson Flame Civilization's New Warship used human Alloy No. 1. Human micro- Nanobots could indeed dismantle it, but given that the technology of Super Micro Nanobots was inferior to that of the enemy, the efficiency of this projectile warhead was very slow. It would be better to directly use Armor-Piercing Shells projectiles to penetrate the enemy ship's armor and then explode inside.
It just so happens that when humanity sold Alloy No. 1 to the Nair Civilization, they specifically developed this Armor-Piercing Shells.
In addition, in order to meet the high acceleration and maneuverability requirements of the Assault Ship, the design of the Assault Ship also directly abandoned the installation of Nanomite Repair Robot, and the fuel tank was also reduced as much as possible. It was basically designed as a disposable warship.
Even the armor doesn't use alloy material Alloy No. 2, which is difficult to produce, but instead uses Alloy No. 1, which has a larger production volume.
The corresponding tactic is to have the Main Battleship provide cover while the Assault Ship engage in close combat, aiming to trade one Assault Ship for one enemy Main Battleship – that would be sufficient.
On the surface, it's a one-for-one exchange, but in terms of production costs, humans have the advantage.
Humanity had also considered developing Assault Mothership and then deploying smaller Assault Ship on Assault Mothership. This was similar to the idea of Crimson Flame Civilization, but unfortunately, they lacked the Magnetic Propulsion Miniaturization Technology.
This is the core technology that makes the concept of Assault Mothership a reality. Without Magnetic Propulsion miniaturization, small Assault Ship would not be able to catch up with enemy warships using the propulsion technology of traditional Level 2 Civilization.
The Crimson Flame Civilization only proposed this solution after the miniaturization of Magnetic Propulsion became a possibility. Of course, that was fifty years later.
Faced with this situation, humanity can only focus on optimizing its fleet structure and increasing production capacity. The fact that the First Fleet failed to capture the enemy's Second Planet base in one fell swoop during the last battle proves that humanity needs to make changes.
As can be seen from past wars, war is not static, but rather it is subject to adjustment as the war progresses, as new technologies emerge, and as new problems are discovered.
If this war really does last for fifty years, humanity will naturally see the Crimson Flame Civilization using small-scale Magnetic Propulsion Technology on the battlefield, and thus devise countermeasures in the future.
Similarly, during the course of the battle, both sides will gradually learn about the other's technology over time and then try to master it.
Reverse engineering by salvaging the wreckage of enemy warships is possible among civilizations of similar level. Of course, this requires a lengthy process and far more advanced computer technology than the enemy.
Time flies, and twenty years have passed in the blink of an eye.
During this period, relying on abundant resources and the highly efficient production of Strong Artificial Intelligence in the four bases, humanity manufactured seven million Assault Ship and four million Main Battleship.
It was also in this year that another large-scale battle broke out between the two sides. Again, the human side took the initiative to attack, with the Second Fleet leading the attack on the Second Planet base of the Crimson Flame Civilization.
In this battle, the Crimson Flame Civilization was pleasantly surprised to find that they had achieved a 1:1 kill ratio with the human warships. However, their surprise did not last long, because they discovered that the human warships were now almost equal in number to theirs, and their numerical advantage in warships was reversed within that year.
When this news reached their Main Civilization, the high command of the Crimson Flame Civilization realized that they truly could not defeat the Earth Civilization. However, they did not give up. Instead, they further narrowed their defenses, focusing all their defensive efforts on the core star system, hoping to buy themselves another thirty years.
As the saying goes, fortunes change every thirty years. When the Magnetic Propulsion Miniaturization Technology is realized in thirty years, that will be the time for them to turn the tide.