Earth Calendar year 3760.
Spatial Rift Manufacturing Technology was approaching maturity. The rifts could now persist for up to ten minutes, and their travel speed had increased from 500c to 600c.
A lethal range of 100 light-hours was not particularly long, but it was enough to replace the various short-range weapons aboard Human Civilization's warships.
As for strikes over extreme distances...
Yevgeny had also put forward a proposal.
By integrating spatial rift generators directly into Curvature Missiles, Human Civilization would be able to launch spatial attacks against targets hundreds of light-years away.
Of course, for now, it remained nothing more than a proposal.
Until they had more powerful grand unified field generators and higher-output antimatter reactors, integrating Spatial Weapons into Curvature Missiles remained a goal they could see but could not reach.
Yevgeny was naturally well aware of this.
Unwilling to give up, he soon proposed an alternative.
They could build a batch of small, disposable unmanned warships equipped with Spatial Weapons.
These small warships were not particularly large, averaging between five hundred and eight hundred meters in size.
According to Yevgeny's plan, apart from a large number of Antimatter Reactors and a few basic functional modules, these small warships would carry only a single spatial rift generator.
Although they were somewhat oversized, they could already perform the role of spatial Curvature Missiles-launching spatial attacks against targets hundreds of light-years away.
These attacks would be single-use and extremely costly.
Still, Human Civilization now had a small ace up its sleeve.
Meanwhile, following the minor breakthrough in grand unified field technology, Wilson had also become a very busy man.
The power of Energy Weapons was strongly linked to the strength of the grand unified field, so Wilson was now even busier-and happier-than Yevgeny.
The Academy of Sciences' regular show had consequently