1337.Particle Beam Lance (Part 2)
In this Particle Beam Lance system, the original eight super-heavy laser cannons on the left and right sides of Calamity-class battlecruiser were transformed into 16 energy node arrays to provide energy for the entire system. After the design is completed, the energy supply structure of the entire system is like a Christmas tree. The trunk is the central Tachyon Lance transmitter, and the surrounding 16 groups of branches and leaves are energy nodes.
It is precisely because of this that the design of this battleship is regarded as the best load-carrying prototype ship by Arroyo-Barlow.
Particle Beam Lance is actually a high-energy light speed particle emitter. However, like all laser weapons and Energy Weapons, due to the principle of wave-particle duality, the energy will show diffusion. Therefore, Energy Weapons cannot focus for a long time. Often after a certain distance, the dispersed energy is almost the same as that of a flashlight.
Therefore, the biggest difficulty of this technology is how to keep the light speed particles focused for a long time. After the single shot of Particle Beam Lance is completed, the gradually extinguished ion beam can clearly show two trajectories - one is a straight line trajectory of direct emission, and the other is a spiral trajectory wrapped around the emission trajectory.
This spiral trajectory is an intuitive expression of the technology of constraining and focusing light speed particles.
In this era, the galaxy's war model is still immature. With new types of weapons emerging one after another, everyone is trying to cross the river by feeling the stones. For example, the emergence of Wraith fighter and Banshee Fighter allowed Galactic Republic to accelerate the research and development of Anti-Stealth-shaped technology, and the emergence of Kohl-class Battlecruiser and Hypermatter Railgun of Ragnarok-class Titan warship forced Galactic Republic to start paying attention to countermeasures for kinetic energy weapons.
However, now, a brand new weapon has appeared - ultra-long-range light speed Energy Weapons, Particle Beam Lance!
As mentioned before, if Hypermatter Railgun and stealth technology are actually just the development of existing technologies in the galaxy, then the emergence of Tachyon Lance is an epoch-making progress! This is a super weapon that is at least 100 years ahead of the current technology in the galaxy!
In fact, if there is no Kyber Crystal, even if Fourth Civilization has all the data of Tachyon Lance, it will take at least more than ten years for other related technologies to be perfected and this technology to be developed. The existence of Kyber Crystal is equivalent to taking a shortcut.
In the "Star Wars" universe, the similar technology is naturally Death Star, and in the case of Kyber Crystal, the construction of Death Star will take at least 20 years. Up to now, the energy system of Death Star is still just an idea. Not to mention applying this weapon to battleships for mass production!
The emergence of Particle Beam Lance caused Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems, and even Fourth Civilization itself, to face earth-shaking changes in their tactical structure.
For example, in the past, although the battles in the Milky Way spanned a large area, the width of the battlefield was only tens of thousands of kilometers, and at most it would not exceed 100,000 kilometers. Therefore, even in the interstellar battlefield, it actually took place around the planet. At this distance, Energy Weapons is basically launched instantly and hits instantly, while Sublight weapons such as missiles can first detect and then intercept or avoid.
However, the emergence of Particle Beam Lance made ultra-long-distance lightspeed strikes at the planetary system level possible. This creates a situation where at ultra-long distances, although even a light speed strike would take dozens of minutes or even hours, there is no possibility of evading this strike.
Because with current technology, all observation methods are based on the speed of light. When you discover the other party's movements and send the message back, the same light-speed blow has already arrived - even if the light-speed particle has been flying for more than ten hours.
Therefore, this puts forward a requirement for both parties to transmit information at faster than light speed. Whether the attacker needs to get attack feedback instantaneously, or the defender needs to get attack information instantaneously, super-light communication is required.
For now, this technology is very mature, that is, hyperspace communication. Hyperspace communication can enable real-time communication across galaxies. It is not difficult for you to achieve real-time communication within a planetary system, but the only problem is that you need to build a tactical-level hyperspace communication base station.
Otherwise, if you use a hyperspace communication base station on a planet, firstly, it will not be able to transmit very complex data, and secondly, it will be easily interfered by various interference signals on the battlefield.
Therefore, the final conclusion is that it is not difficult to detect the ultra-long-range strike of Particle Beam Lance. The difficulty is that you need to modify the supporting facilities of your entire fleet. And even if you can use hyperspace communication technology to prevent yourself from being beaten half a galaxy away like this time, the opponent's attack range is here. Even if you shorten the distance, you can have a very broad and flexible tactical range.
It may be unrealistic to hit you from a dozen light hours apart, but it will be the same if I hit you from a dozen light minutes apart. Apart from using hyperspace communication technology to know that you are about to be beaten, you have no way to counterattack and can only be beaten passively.
When the opponent increases the speed of the battlefield to the speed of light and increases the size of the battlefield to light minutes and light hours, weapons such as conventional missiles and Turbolaser guns become meaningless.
But now, such a problem is in front of the Galactic Republic Fourth Army Fleet Commander, General Davis.
After being attacked by Particle Beam Lance at an ultra-long distance, he immediately ordered all warships to be in an evasive state and change their positions at all times. At the same time, 10 Hunter Class Battlecruisers were divided into an assault formation to attack the three warships at the edge of the galaxy.
"If the other party wants to launch an ultra-long-distance attack on us, they must have hidden detection outposts in the galaxy! Send out spaceships immediately to find these hidden outposts!" General Davis said loudly, "Also! Immediately evaluate the possibility of using a hyperspace engine to perform short-distance hyperspace jumps in the galaxy!"
"General, we have evaluated it and it is very difficult. According to the current orbits of the seven planets Semirres system, if we want to make a short-distance hyperspace jump from near Semirres Planet, then Fives and Planet Seven in the galaxy will form in hyperspace. It will form a mass projection and interfere with our jump. The other party obviously took this into consideration, so it chose this location. It will take at least 10 days until Fives and Planet Seven orbit away and reveal the available hyperspace channels in the galaxy." The navigation engineer shook his head.
"Then if we use the Sublight engine to attack, how long will it take?" General Davis asked.
"It will take close to three days to stay close in the avoidance state. I have formulated a plan to use ultra-short hyperspace jumps multiple times to avoid the mass projections of Fives and Planet Seven, which can shorten the time to one day." said the navigation engineer.
General Davis looked extremely ugly. He waved his hand and said, "Then stop this attack plan! Let's retreat!"
"If we retreat against the enemy's ultra-long-range laser attack, once our warship stays in place for too long, the other party can send target information from the planet through hyperspace communication, and then the other party can directly fire and attack. Then our warship cannot stay in the same position for more than 16 hours, but if we want to receive our army boarding, it is impossible to stay for less than 16 hours no matter how you calculate it." The adjutant said at the side.
"Abandon all the armies, they are just cannon fodder in our plan anyway." General Davis said coldly, pointing to another document on the table, "We have contacted Wilhuff-Master Monn and confirmed that all Clone Trooper died due to unknown reasons. In other words, there is nothing we can do on Semirres Planet."
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