858, Equal Judgment (中)
"Endless-class Super Carrier!" Newt Gunray's eyes almost burst into flames. "This is... this is the complete design blueprint! If this thing is put on the black market... no, the people at Kuat Drive Yards are absolutely willing to spend trillions of credits to buy this thing!"
"This is the power of knowledge, Newt Gunray. Now, I hand over the power of Eye of God to you... You will hold this powerful power in your hands to defeat Galactic Republic, defeat Darth-Sidious, and more importantly, defeat your fear! That's right... this is the power of knowledge!" Darth-Malthael's smile was a bit scary.
Everyone present looked at the data displayed in this memory...
Endless-class Super Carrier, with a length of 5694.2 meters, a maximum width of 833.3 meters, a maximum height of 1041.2 meters, and a standard mass of 907 million tons... can carry individual atmospheric assault pods, various tank armor units, a large number of fighter jets, and even 10 heavy frigates!
There is no doubt that this is an extremely powerful battleship!
This battleship is equivalent to a fleet, plus a powerful mechanized army!
The eyes of everyone present changed. You must know that the design of such a super battleship has always been the patent of a super industrial giant like Kuat Drive Yards, and the development cost of such a battleship is conservatively estimated to be hundreds of billions of credits!
Even though Trade Federation and InterGalactic Banking Clan are so rich, they still cannot design such a warship.
For example, Trade Federation, their Luukri-Hok-class battleship is a modified cargo ship. It is said to be a battleship, but it cannot be the opponent of professional battleships. As for Deceiver-class destroyer, they spent huge sums of money to design Rendili StarDrive before the war broke out.
As for Rendili, they just took out the original upgrade plan for Dreadnought-class heavy cruiser and modified it to become Divine-class, which almost made Trade Federation kneel down to get it.
But in fact, Deceiver-class destroyer is not a qualified battleship. Because although this kind of battleship is indeed very powerful, the ratio between its power and cost is extremely low. In other words, you spend more money, but you get a battleship that is not much stronger than Hunter Class.
This is a typical way to fool rich people - giving you the most expensive everything, but not the best, which is not guaranteed.
InterGalactic Banking Clan is even more miserable. They can't replace the Munificent-class communications frigate. It's not that they don't want to replace this junk warship with extremely low combat effectiveness and high cost, but because they simply can't come up with a better warship design.
The reason why Generous-class showed off its power before the war was because Galactic Republic authorized InterGalactic Banking Clan to own such a large 825-meter warship. Compared with the small warships of other organizations and enterprises, which are no more than 200 meters long, it is naturally a dimensionality reduction attack, but this cannot cover up the fact that Generous-class is garbage.
In the original plot, InterGalactic Banking Clan, the richest organization in the galaxy, has been unable to come up with any new type of warship to replace Generous-class, which can only be said to be sad.
This shows how precious the complete battleship design is. This is really something you can't buy with money.
And now, Das-Malthael actually came up with the design of such a battleship, which is a super battleship with a height of more than 5,000 meters!
Knowledge is power, and at this moment, it is vividly reflected.
It is precisely this that completely calms everyone present. These big guys who can shake the galaxy with just a stomp of their feet, now look at Darth-Malthael, and look at the roar of the scale sign in the middle, their eyes have completely changed!
That is a kind of crazy worship and fanaticism!
Das-Malthael wants this effect! This is much better than directly selling these technologies with a clear price tag! He doesn't sell it, he gives it away! No, it's not a gift, it's a gift!
What you give away is technology, but what you receive is something even more precious...
Faith.
And Das-Malthael chose to hand over Endless-class Super Carrier to Trade Federation with careful consideration.
First of all, only the wealthy Trade Federation has the ability to build a costly and luxurious warship like Endless Class. If this thing were left to the current Fourth Civilization to make, it would go bankrupt in a matter of minutes.
Secondly, what Trade Federation and even Confederacy of Independent Systems lack most now is the projection of land power, especially the ability to forcibly break through the defenses of outer space and send Marines into the planet's atmosphere when the fleets of both sides are in balance or even when one's own side is at a disadvantage.
And this is what Endless-class Super Carrier is best at.
It should be pointed out that before this, the role played by Confederacy of Independent Systems's fleet was not actually Luukri-Hok-class battleship, but Diamond-class transport cruiser.
Luukri-Hok-class battleship is too bulky. To break through the atmospheric defenses, ground troops must be transferred through the C-9979 transport ship, which is extremely inefficient.
Although Diamond-class can play the role of direct penetration, it is too small after all. It is only a fan-shaped hull with a diameter of about 200 meters, and its carrying capacity is limited.
Therefore, due to these flaws, in the later stages of Clone Wars in the original plot, you rarely see Luukri-Hok-class battleship and Diamond-class transport cruiser on the battlefield.
The former is because they have no longer adapted to the needs of war, and the latter is because basically all of them have been shot down and there are not many left.
In the later stages of the war, Confederacy of Independent Systems could only rely more on Deceiver-class destroyer's transport cabins to deliver army troops. However, in view of the cost and limited transportation capacity of Divine-class, Confederacy of Independent Systems's army troops were retreating steadily in front of more and more Clone Army.
Therefore, Endless-class Super Carrier is just a timely help!
And the last reason is that this super aircraft carrier is exaggerated and shocking enough. If you just come up with a more cost-effective design like Orion-class Assault Carrier, it will not have the effect of shocking everyone present.
Darth-Malthael knows very well that although several people here have terrible resources, whether it is Thunbark Tula, Newt Gunray, or Thorn Hill, they are actually cowardly people.
Among them, maybe Thunback-Tula will explode if you push her too hard, and the other two will scare them so much that they may actually shrink into their turtle shells. Therefore, he also needs to build a strong self-confidence for them, a self-confidence that is enough to counter the fear brought by Darth-Sidious.
And this confidence is the Endless Class, a 5694.2-meter super aircraft carrier!
Only in this way will these cowards have the courage to fight Galactic Republic and Darth-Sidious!