The first Grim Slayer was manufactured near Earth Two. Unlike the Wind Master, it was not triangular in shape, but rather cylindrical, resembling a missile. Grim Slayer Grim Slayer's interior, with a nearly 3,000-meter-long area occupied by a space compressor, was protected by multiple layers of armor with a combined thickness exceeding 100 meters.
Besides its multi-layered composite armor, the Grim Slayer's defenses still rely on anti-gravity defense and the defense of the space around its irregularly curved hull. Among the dozens of warships from captured Star System-Level Civilization, scientists discovered that these two defense mechanisms are the most common, the most basic, and the only ones that Star System-Level Civilization can use.
In other words, Star System-Level Civilization are only fit to possess these two defensive methods. Intelligent civilizations can use them, while less intelligent civilizations might want to but not know how. Attacking is always easier than defending. These two defensive methods can only defend against attacks from lower-level civilizations or long-range attacks from civilizations of the same level, making them rather useless defensive systems. As the level of civilization increases, their attack power becomes increasingly terrifying, and how to defend against them is indeed a major problem. Scientists are also trying to find ways to improve the defensive capabilities of warships.
The armor layer looks thick, but there are actually many hollow areas inside, which buffers the impact of an explosion. If it were solid, the shock wave from the explosion would reach directly into the warship, causing great damage to the internal instruments.
The Grim Slayer did not abandon the warp drive; instead, it used both the warp drive and the space compressor. The space compressor continuously moved space from the rear of the ship to the front, increasing the spatial density in front. With the warp drive working, the warship finally reached 3,000 times the speed of light, essentially achieving parity with the Xuan Star Civilization and no longer being chased and attacked.
The Grim Slayer can launch energy balls of various sizes through a space compressor, and can also rotate the space with the compressor to attack with high-energy lasers. The laser was picked up again after being abandoned for hundreds of years. The new laser beam was given higher energy and a temperature of over 50 million degrees. When used in conjunction with the rotating space, it can at least be considered half a space weapon.
Gravity bombs have also been improved, becoming more powerful and having a wider range. At close range, they can directly kill the creatures inside enemy warships and damage their vulnerable components. At long range, they can create spatial chaos, preventing the enemy from entering warp drive. Regardless of how a warship uses warp drive, it relies on space as its medium. As long as space is chaotic, the warship's navigation will be greatly affected. This is why the Xuan Star Civilization, even after reaching the Small Star Sector Civilization civilization, still dared not enter the space vortex. Of course, this is also largely due to the excessive speed of that space vortex. If the rotation speed of that space vortex were slower, the Xuan Star Civilization's warships might have rushed in.
After a series of tests, the Grim Slayer met all design requirements in all aspects. Moreover, scientists made every effort to minimize the modifications to the machinery and equipment so that the Grim Slayer could be mass-produced as quickly as possible. It took Hu Yu and the planetary base near Earth Two more than ten years to complete the improvement of all the equipment and production lines. The Grim Slayer was finally ready to go into production.
The production of the Grim Slayer is much slower than that of the Wind Master. The Wind Master are only small warships one kilometer in length, while the Grim Slayer are more than ten times Wind Master. Even with a large amount of steel stored up previously, the annual production of the Grim Slayer is only about 60,000, of which 20,000 are produced at the base near Earth Two. Hu Yu does not plan to use these Grim Slayer in the battle against the Xuan Star Civilization, but rather to keep them as a reserve force. Just as Luo Zhigao said, the enemies they will face in the future will become stronger and stronger, and the combat power of the Wind Master is already insufficient.
Hu Yu halted some of the production of the Grim Slayer and shifted the focus to producing various machines and equipment, building more production lines, and striving to increase the Grim Slayer ' production capacity to 100,000 ships per year within a hundred years.
Don't underestimate this seemingly simple increase of 60,000 ships in production. It means that the number of most production lines and machinery will double. It seems that it really won't be possible to launch an attack for another one or two thousand years. Although Hu Yu doesn't know how many warships the Xuan Star Civilization and the civilization that raises Insect Race have, judging from the strength of the Wind Star Civilization, these settled civilizations must have a considerable number of warships, at least in the hundreds of millions.
In the 380th year, the miniature spaceship arrived at the first civilization base predicted by Hu Yu. Sure enough, it was a breeding base. Moreover, the creatures being bred this time were not as diverse as those in the Wind Star Civilization, but only one kind: humans, or rather, creatures similar to humans. The miniature spaceship had absorbed a lot of interstellar dust, and now it was like an ordinary meteorite, slowly flying within the planetary system where the breeding civilization was located.
After extensive information gathering, Hu Yu learned that this civilization was originally called the Mu Star Civilization. It possessed 112 grazing planets, 45 of which were habitable for its Mu Star Civilization life forms. It had over a trillion human beings under its care, and its own civilization had over 300 billion life forms. It also possessed over 600 million warships of various types. The triangular defensive perimeter formed by three Wind Star Civilization, was filled with various weapon systems. In terms of strength, this civilization was more than twice as strong as the Wind Star Civilization. Even if its strength were several times greater, it wouldn't matter; the Grim Slayer was fully capable of defeating a hundred with one.
The origin of these humans was a big question mark in everyone's mind. It was certain that this group of humans was not modern Earthlings, and Academician Xiao was also certain that the original place of origin for humans on Earth was definitely Earth. Why would another group of humans exist in the universe? Could they be humans who were abducted from Earth by an alien civilization sometime in ancient times? Everyone felt a sense of unease and crisis, and they couldn't wait to invade the territory of the Mu Star Civilization to find out the reason. However, everyone also knew that now was not the time.
Strangely, the Fish Horse Star Civilization has clashed with humans more than once or twice. They clearly know that there is some kind of relationship between Earth's humans and the humans here. Even if there is no relationship, it is still very strange for two completely identical species to appear in the universe, separated by tens of thousands of light-years. Why does the Fish Horse Star Civilization civilization have no interest in Earth's humans at all?
The miniature spaceship continued to wander within the territory of the Mu Star Civilization, gathering information bit by bit. Hu Yu hoped to find the location of the hundred Fish Horse Star warships, but now that it was inside the territory of the Mu Star Civilization, the miniature spaceship's movement was greatly hindered. In addition, Hu Yu had plenty of time and there was no need to risk being discovered by conducting warp drive within the territory of the Mu Star Civilization.
The Fish Horse Star Civilization's warships were not found, but Hu Yu found the Xuan Star Civilization's warships, numbering around two hundred million. They were anchored around one of the Mu Star Civilization's inhabited planets. Sure enough, both the Xuan Star Civilization and Mu Star Civilization were subordinates of the Fish Horse Star Civilization, or rather, pawns.
If Hu Yu was somewhat impressed by the strength of the Mu Star Civilization, then the discovery 20 years later almost drove Hu Yu to despair. Twenty years after the first batch of micro-spaceships arrived at the territory of the Mu Star Civilization, the second batch of micro-spaceships reached the territory of the second civilization that Hu Yu suspected. This civilization's sphere of influence reached a diameter of 100 light-years.
Analysis of the past warships confirmed Hu Yu's suspicions: this was indeed the territory of the Xuan Star Civilization. While there were many planets here, unlike the Mu Star Civilization where dozens of planets were crammed around a single star, each star had seven or eight planets around it. Moreover, the stars here had clearly been rearranged; out of more than two hundred stars, there were no binary or multiple star systems, only single stars, and their characteristics were all largely the same. This situation was unlikely to exist naturally in the Milky Way, indicating that the Xuan Star Civilization had personally selected suitable stars and planets and reshaped this starry sky.