Industrial Manufacturing Upgrade

Because this is not as simple as just piecing things together; there are many things to consider when building such a large warship.

The coordinated operation and control of the engine, the aiming and firing of the Main Ship Cannon, the close-in Secondary Cannon command, Target Acquisition, detection, and fuel control of the warship—all these must be linked into a single system in order to more effectively coordinate the warship's behavior under various actions.

Planet-Class Warship are large enough that their interior space is far greater than that of Sea-Class Warship. Furthermore, the advent of Gravity Potential Well Technology allows warships to be designed with compartmentalized, layered structures, enabling them to be divided into many layers and to accommodate a large number of buildings.

Of course, constructing numerous buildings is for Residential Spaceship. The interior space design of humanity's New Flagship was not for large-scale human habitation, but for combat capability. Therefore, even though there is a lot of space inside, it is mostly filled with military equipment.

Besides essential components such as Warp drive, conventional propulsion, main gun, and various Secondary Cannon, the interior is filled with various production factories serving the war effort, such as Ammunition Production Workshop for various naval guns, multiple Nano Repair Factory, various Parts Warehouse, and even an Antimatter production workshop.

This warship is fully capable of importing various mineral resources and energy materials from the outside, and then it can process them internally and turn them into combat power.

As a flagship, it was designed as a Comprehensive Warship.

Besides the facilities and production workshops serving the war effort, the New Flagship will naturally also have a comfortable living area for humans. After all, most of the high-ranking human leaders will reside on this flagship, so comfort and luxury are essential. However, the design of the daily living area will certainly differ from that of the Residential Spaceship, as it needs to meet combat requirements. Therefore, many living facilities will not be the type that can be moved and placed at will, but rather most will be designed to extend from the warship's structure.

Tables, chairs, beds, sofas, and other items are all arranged in this way, with the aim of minimizing the number of items without a fixed place. In fact, previous warships were designed in the same way, so it can be said that they are consistent with this design.

Judging from the design drawings of the New Flagship, the interior of this yet-to-be-released flagship is actually quite large. If it weren't for the functional requirements of a warship, building roads and cities inside wouldn't be a problem. This feature can't be used on warships, but it could be used in the future on the Residential Spaceship of Level 4 Civilization.

Of course, even if it's Residential Spaceship, you can't actually build roads and skyscrapers inside. After all, it's a spaceship, and besides Warp Speed Travel, it sometimes needs to accelerate and decelerate normally. However, spaceships have their own construction plans. Buildings and roads like those on Earth are difficult to create, but building some dwellings that are firmly connected to the spaceship's structure is quite easy.

For example, in the design of new-style Residential Spaceship, there are many building modules embedded between the upper and lower layers that serve as both support columns and living rooms.

The design of the new Residential Spaceship has been finalized. The entire Residential Spaceship is no longer designed as a cylinder, nor is it the Sunflower Seed shape of a warship. The Residential Spaceship looks more like a fatter warship, with a somewhat round and chubby appearance. From a distance, its overall shape is actually quite cute.

This design primarily considers the issue of living space. The chubby shape allows for a larger interior space, enabling various living facilities to be arranged freely without spatial constraints, thus making human residents more comfortable.

The entire Residential Spaceship is approximately 150 kilometers long, and about 90 kilometers wide and high. The interior of the spaceship is divided into many levels, with each level having a spacious area of about 50 meters in height. The ceiling serves as the floor of the level above, but it is not just a ceiling and floor; humans have also crammed many devices into it.

The ceiling has functions that simulate blue sky, white clouds, and sunlight, while on one side of the floor, many devices based on Gravity Potential Well Technology are placed. The positions generated by these devices are intertwined to provide the superstructure with an Earth-like Gravity Environment.

Because the Gravity Environment is achieved using Gravity Potential Well Technology, the 50-meter-wide open space cannot actually be completely and uniformly covered by simulated gravity. The upper part receives less potential force than the floor part. Therefore, each floor of the building will generally have a blank area, which is the height area where no one lives.

Also due to the Gravity Potential Well Technology, various devices need to be placed inside the ceiling of each floor, so the floors and ceilings are actually thicker than the living space. After all, basically all the functional devices related to life are crammed inside, so it is normal for them to be thicker.

Fortunately, the new Residential Spaceship is large enough to provide sufficient space for human use.

It's easy to imagine that building such a Residential Spaceship is far more complex than building a modern city. Its various levels, supports, structure, and facilities are all meticulously arranged. Its internal structure is incredibly complex; even a Level 3 Civilization couldn't build it.

This massive spaceship is the largest that humans can build besides using the Strong Interaction Force as the main structural support; any larger and it would face the problem of falling apart during normal high-G acceleration and deceleration.

While Warp Speed Travel could allow for larger structures, it's pointless because even at Level 4 Civilization, humanity still needs conventional propulsion. The fact that Warp Speed Travel is affected by planetary Gravity and that Level 4 Civilization still rely on Star System suggests that this applies not only to humanity but also to other civilizations.

New Warship were built, new Residential Spaceship built, and other types of ships also needed to be upgraded. All of them needed to be replaced with ships of the Level 4 Civilization and equipped with Warp Engine.

Humanity plans to upgrade its own ships first, followed by upgrades for the Crimson Flame Civilization, the Nair People race, the Kuntai People race, and the Dog-Headed People race. These Alien Race have become vassals of humanity, and humanity will certainly keep them around, as they still hold great value. This upgrade project will be a massive undertaking.

Especially the flagship, which is the most difficult to build. Judging from the design drawings, its complexity may require humans to spend several more centuries to complete it, even with Strong Artificial Intelligence.

The Heavy Element in this space have been determined to be insufficient to support humanity in continuing such a large-scale upgrade project. Therefore, at this stage, humanity plans to build several Sample Ships for testing and to refine its shipbuilding technology.

Once the prototype ship is completed and various Warp Speed Travel experiments under different Gravity environments are successful, humanity will leave this space.