New Flagship

Well, humanity, which was originally prepared to return to the Great Universe, is now forced to stay here again. But there's nothing we can do; humanity can only do what 'Illusion' has set up.

Thus, the massive project of the New Flagship was launched.

The New Flagship planned for construction is enormous. To accommodate the Planet Destroyer Cannon, it is 300 kilometers long, about 200 kilometers wide, and over 100 kilometers high—truly a behemoth in space.

Before this, the designers had already completed the blueprints. Although they needed to make room for the Synchronized Consciousness device, they only needed to optimize the core parts of the warship's interior, which the designers completed in a short time.

The New Warship's name remains unchanged; it's still called the Lyra. However, this time it's a Planet-Class Warship Lyra. Its exterior design, just like the blueprints, resembles a large sunflower Sunflower Seed and employs a multi-engine linkage propulsion system.

The designers had already calculated that generating Warp Bubble large enough to completely envelop the warship would require four large Warp Engine —two more than conventional New Warship. These engines were placed in appropriate locations within the warship and then centrally controlled.

It's worth noting that Warp Engine don't actually need exposed nozzles like conventional warp drives, so all four can be housed entirely inside the warship—a significant difference from the Warp Engine depicted in the movies. However, because the human-designed Warp Engine was inspired by the alien spaceship that crashed on Callisto, it retains the nozzle-like structure, just like the Warp Engine that was dismantled years ago, with the nozzle attached to the Warp Engine.

Those are conventional large Magnetic Propulsion Thruster, four at the head and four at the tail. They are mechanical structures that can rotate, extend, and retract into the warship and extend outwards for operation. Humans have long been able to do this easily in terms of mechanics, which is why the thrusters on the sides and up and down are eliminated, saving a lot of space for the warship.

This design saves space and allows excess heat generated during Warp to be expelled from the spacecraft through a conventional power exhaust system. The conventional power system is also connected to the warship's cooling system. This design was inspired by the spacecraft that crashed on Callisto, and it has proven to be a very good design.

The manufacturing process of the Planet-Class Lyra is extremely complex; in terms of complexity alone, it surpasses that of Astronomical-Level Particle Collider. Its outer shell must be entirely constructed from No. 2 Alloy Material, and its main support frame must be made entirely of Strong Material.

These two items alone constitute a massive undertaking.

However, the construction of a warship involves more than just materials; it also includes the construction of a shipboard Supercomputer capable of supporting comprehensive and Strong Artificial Intelligence. Yes, as the flagship of Level 4 Civilization, humanity cannot use the original Supercomputer, so everything needs to be rebuilt using the latest technological advancements to construct this warship.

Furthermore, weapon systems, propulsion systems, and detection systems all need to be newly built. The weapon systems alone include many categories, such as Planet Destroyer Cannon with acceleration reaching 150 kilometers per hour, Force Field Shield systems with components distributed throughout the warships, as well as various Secondary Cannon and Gravity Bomb and Antimatter Bomb delivery devices.

All of these things must be produced from scratch, from nothing to something.

These components will be constructed along with the structural hull of the Planet-Class Lyra. Like the Warp Engine, they will be manufactured in different factories and then transported to the warship, whose framework has already been completed, for installation.

Because the warships are so huge, humans no longer intend to build a huge Space Dock first and then construct them, as before. Instead, they will directly build a basic Work Platform in space and start construction from the basic Work Platform.

Such a large warship could not possibly be formed in one go. Therefore, both its hull and frame needed to be fabricated piece by piece in a space factory before being transported to the construction site for secondary processing and assembly. This presented a challenge— Strong Material could not be processed in this way.

Humans cannot mold the entire framework of a warship from a factory in one go, so they can only rivet and connect it by manufacturing various Mortise and Tenon Structure, interlocking, screws, and external reinforcement. This is a huge and difficult task, and some parts cannot even be fully automated. They must be built slowly by manning Engineering Ship, like bees building a nest.

Building such a massive warship involves not only these major projects, but also an extremely complex internal structure. With a size that spans hundreds of kilometers, its internal structure is more complex than that of several large cities, including various compartments, decks, partitions, living facilities, workplaces, command centers, weapons and ammunition depots, and resource warehouses.

It must possess everything needed for human life and warfare, including various scientific research departments, technical colleges, and industrial production and machining plants. In short, such a warship is a comprehensive entity, a culmination of all Human Civilization's creations.

It's no exaggeration to say that if this warship were placed on Earth, it would be larger than Treasure Island. An island can only be built on a single plane, but this Planet-Class Warship has multiple layers inside. To put it another way, the entire Treasure Island only spans 395 kilometers from north to south and 144 kilometers from east to west. A comparison like this will give you an idea of the warship's enormous size.

Building such a complex warship, while ensuring its formidable combat capabilities, will undoubtedly take a long time; experts estimate it will take approximately five hundred years.

In order to accommodate the 'Synchronized Consciousness Device', the interior of this New Flagship must be designed according to the design drawings given by the Awakener Intelligent System. In particular, the various devices in the Command Center must be placed according to the layout given by it, so that the warship can use the equipment provided by the Awakeners.

Moreover, these devices are completely different from the various devices that humans usually place in Command Center. Visual display systems like large screens are not needed at all, nor are external input devices such as workbenches that humans have always used.

These are no longer needed, but many other devices are required. For example, a lot of external input devices are needed. Humans have to make room in the interior to accommodate that set of devices and set up a large number of densely packed access ports here. All the ports of the warship's control systems have to be connected here. The purpose is self-evident: to link the 'Synchronized Consciousness device' with the entire warship.

Of course, the Command Center still exists, and humans will need to build at least eight thousand cockpits here.