I had to admit, an Eternal-class "standard spaceship," built by Empire Technicians constantly challenging the limits of sanity, was an utterly outrageous monstrosity. I figured that aside from the Shilin Apostles, nobody in the world would be crazy enough to build a warship nearly a hundred kilometers long—and make the first twenty-plus kilometers of it a single cannon. A twenty-kilometer main-gun compartment! No wonder people said the Eternal-class was designed as a gun barrel with engines attached. Did the Empire Technicians who designed this thing have any humanity left?
Such an enormous interstellar warship remained spectacularly huge even after breaking apart. Even its largest fragment was nearly ten kilometers long. Naturally, a starship that massive also had an equally complex energy supply network, ensuring that power to all its sections would not fail simultaneously under extreme circumstances. Using one unified circuit to power a seventy- or eighty-kilometer ship—some special models even exceeded a hundred kilometers—would be idiotic. The Eternal-class Energy System consisted of countless modules. Aside from the core reactors powering the Star River Main Gun and main engines, it had a small psionic extraction plant every ten kilometers or so, while each warship module had its own independent small reactor. It was basically covered in batteries and generators. As a result, even if it was blasted into fragments, every fragment retained considerable residual energy—enough to keep any intact machinery within running for a long time. So don't assume an Eternal-class starship that had been blown to pieces was safe and harmless. Back in the day, plenty of idiots trying to seize Imperial starship wreckage during wars died to point-defense guns that kept stubbornly operating after their ships disintegrated, even when those guns had been reduced to nothing but a cannon and a charred mounting plate.
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