Origin

Generally speaking, for low-level interstellar civilizations, a warship's offensive power always far exceeds its defensive capabilities. For example, an electromagnetic cannon with a small caliber can easily tear through an opponent's armor. Even an asteroid over a meter in diameter can pose a fatal threat to a warship.

At this level, the more weapons a warship possesses, the greater its combat effectiveness naturally becomes.

However, as civilization levels increase, a warship's defensive capabilities gradually cease to be a weakness and instead begin to surpass its offense.

As for Kindling Warships, they are equipped with energy shield modules from the start. When the energy shield is activated, attacks below a certain intensity can, to a certain extent, be largely immune!

Only attacks exceeding a certain intensity can affect the energy shield and consume its durability.

In this situation, no matter how many main cannons a warship has, without sufficient attack intensity, it's as good as having none.

Thus, attack intensity becomes an important metric for main cannons. Higher attack intensity requires a more abundant energy supply, and a warship's energy supply capacity has its limits, making "less but refined" the standard for main cannons.

As for auxiliary firepower, a few high-rate-of-fire secondary cannons can handle it. With the reinforcement and improvement of the hull structure modules, the attack intensity of the secondary cannons on the warship will also increase accordingly, so they won't hold it back.

Furthermore, and most importantly, the capabilities of shipboard fire seeds are also limited. Standardized warships that can integrate shipboard fire seeds can only have one main cannon slot, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

Wang Dong feigned sudden realization.

At this point, the War Axe had already moved far from its previous location.

Wang Dong stared at the sky patrol radar's imaging for a moment, then reached out and tapped a new coordinate.

"War Axe, engage Silent Navigation towards this coordinate."

After issuing the command, Wang Dong turned to Yuan Shu and explained, "The more I think about it, the more something feels off. The War Axe just released Mie Particles over there, and they won't dissipate anytime soon.

Within the range of Mie Particles, detection equipment like sky patrol radars and communication signals are greatly restricted, but they are also easily detected themselves.

As long as a Jin Family warship gets close, they can easily discover the area covered by Mie Particles.

Although the celestial environment within the asteroid belt mining area can severely affect the detection accuracy and range of sky patrol radars.

But who knows if the sky patrol radar on their ship is a high-quality one?

I think it's better to move further away."

Yuan Shu chuckled, amused. "Your prospects might improve by another three points."

Wang Dong's expression remained unchanged. He's just laughing at me for being cowardly, isn't he?

So what if I'm cowardly? Am I proud of it?

That's called "following your heart," the "heart" in "following your heart's desire," not the uncultured kind.

"Since there's still some time, I'll briefly introduce you to some common knowledge about Kindling Warships."

Perhaps finding Wang Dong's unconventional actions interesting, Yuan Shu's mood improved, and he proactively began to speak.

Wang Dong raised an eyebrow. This segment didn't happen before I was reborn. Yuan Shu just lay there on his chair until his last breath without saying much.

It seems the butterfly effect is showing some results.

Fortunately, it's nothing major.

"The ancestors of our human civilization were actually a seed fleet from a defeated civilization. Do you understand what a seed fleet is?"

Wang Dong nodded.

When a civilization develops to a certain extent and attempts to expand, it sends out pioneering fleets.

When a civilization is on the brink of extinction and wishes to preserve its legacy, it sends out a seed fleet.

"After a journey of escape lasting over a thousand years, this seed fleet was fortunate enough to discover the ruins of a prehistoric super-civilization.

After a arduous journey, they uncovered the inheritance of the ruins and gained the authority to use a mysterious creation, the fire seed source.

Subsequently, by combining it with humanity's own racial technology and integrating the fire seeds stripped from the fire seed source as shipboard fire seeds with specifically structured warships, the Kindling Warship was born."

Yuan Shu's eyes seemed distant.

Wang Dong was also slightly taken aback.

He had heard some rumors about the history of his human civilization.

But this was the first time he heard about the origin of the Kindling Warship.

No one gave me this explanation before I was reborn.

"Normally, creations from different civilizations are rarely interchangeable. After all, there are always some differences in the skill trees between different civilizations and races.

Taking the main cannon off a warship of one civilization and installing it on a warship of another civilization for use is simply impossible; that's something out of fantasy novels."

Yuan Shu continued.

Wang Dong nodded in agreement.

To give a simple example, even between two countries on Earth, the caliber of screws used might be inconsistent, making them incompatible.

Let alone between two interstellar civilizations?

You use screws, but they might use biological adhesive – can that be universal?

"But Kindling Warships are different.

Through the unique module slots of Kindling Warships, even creations from completely different civilization systems can potentially be used normally on a Kindling Warship.

What an incredible innovation!

And this is just one of the special characteristics of Kindling Warships!"

Yuan Shu's enthusiasm grew.

Wang Dong nodded silently.

Just this point alone made the Kindling Warship formidable enough.