Upon returning to the JD6 Alliance territory, the academicians immediately went back to their respective laboratories. After arranging their work, Academician Zeng led several other academicians to analyze the space cannon. He had seen the combat power of this thing before, and it was definitely no less than the attack power of the Fish Horse Star Civilization civilization's warships. The Far Watcher Civilization's mere 3,000-plus space cannons rendered the Grim Slayer, whose warships were far superior to theirs, completely ineffective.
If the Far Watcher Civilization more space cannons, the Grim Slayer wouldn't be able to enter their territory at all. If hundreds of thousands or even millions of these space cannons could be built, they would be excellent weapons for both territorial defense and attacking other civilizations or Zerg swarms.
With Academician Zeng's leadership, the analysis work of the space cannon immediately began. What was revealed to everyone was a huge, bottomless pit with a diameter of thousands of kilometers and a depth of over 5,000 kilometers. It was clear that the core of this planet had been extinguished, and the Small Star Sector Civilization no longer needed the planet's magnetic field to protect its ordinary people. Even Star System-Level Civilization are capable of operating without a magnetic field, and many organisms do not need a magnetic field for protection at all; they are capable of withstanding various harmful rays from the universe and their parent star.
The excavation of this huge hole alone will take countless hours. This is not something that can be completed quickly with advanced technology; rather, it requires countless people and machines to painstakingly work out it bit by bit over time.
The massive excavation required 4 billion cubic kilometers of rock and soil, amounting to hundreds of billions of tons. This is unlike manufacturing industrial products such as the Grim Slayer," where the more people and machinery there are, the faster the production speed can be. Space is limited and can only accommodate a limited number of people and machines, and this massive amount of rock and soil also needs to be transported.
Everyone finally understood why the Far Watcher Civilization trillions of warships but only 3,000 space cannons. One reason was that they probably didn't think it was necessary to build space cannons, and another reason was the impact of construction speed.
Academician Zeng led everyone to the cave wall of the large cave. Instead of a smooth and neat wall, it was covered with countless pieces of equipment of various sizes, but they all seemed to be space-related devices.
Descending to the bottom of the large cave, the equipment here becomes even more complex and larger in scale. In a circular area with a diameter of one thousand kilometers, various huge machines stand densely packed together, many of them exceeding ten thousand meters in height, and occupying a very large area.
Seeing this situation, Academician Zeng roughly calculated that the construction cost of this huge hole was no less than the time and resources required to build a fleet of one billion Grim Slayer.
It seems unrealistic to build a massive space cannon fleet in the short term. However, the fleet has plenty of time now, so it's not too late to build it slowly after completing the technological analysis of the space cannons.
After numerous discussions, a strategic plan to win over the Xuan Star Civilization was finally approved. The next task was to figure out how to defeat the one hundred Fish Horse Star Civilization warships within the Mu Star Civilization and completely destroy the Mu Star Civilization.
Although there were only a hundred Fish Horse Star warships, defeating them was no easy task. Even if the Fish Horse Star warships remained stationary, the Grim Slayer's attack power could not inflict any damage on them.
Virtual particle weapons might be able to cause some damage to the Fish Horse Star warships, but this has not been proven. Moreover, the production of virtual particles is too slow. Initially, only 100 kilograms could be extracted per day. Now, the fleet is working hard to produce equipment to manufacture virtual particles, but it has only reached 400 kilograms per day. The equipment produced every thousand years is only enough to increase the daily output by 100 kilograms. The production of virtual particles is more difficult than the production of antimatter.
The Fish Horse Star warship is not only strong in defense but also in attack. The entire ship has almost no weaknesses. The First Reversed State Armor is useless in front of the Fish Horse Star warship. Although the Second Reversed State is stronger than the First Reversed State, it should not be strong enough to defend against the Fish Horse Star warship's spatial cutting.
Hu Yu had no choice but to ask Academician Li Youwei about the progress of the Fourth Reversed State. Academician Li regretfully informed Hu Yu that there was no progress at the moment. The Fourth Reversed State consumes a hundred times more energy than the First Reversed State, and the amount of matter consumed per cubic centimeter is about the same as that of a neutron star. Academician Li himself did not know when there would be any progress. It might be a million years, or it might be tomorrow.
Without effective armor protection, ordinary space distortion protection and anti-gravity protection are inadequate against equal attacks, let alone against attacks from the Fish Horse Star Civilization's warships.
For now, the only solution is to attack. The warships of the Fish Horse Star Civilization are enormous, reaching 50 kilometers in length. Although the Virtual Matter arrows might penetrate the interior of the Fish Horse Star warships, who knows if the Fish Horse Star warships have the ability to defend against such weapons?
The fleet must make thorough preparations. It would be unwise to attack the Fish Horse Star warships with only Virtual Matter as a weapon; we must find another powerful weapon. Furthermore, this war may also attract the Great Star Region Civilization, and this problem must also be addressed. Although it was instructed by Mr. Daozi, we must devise a foolproof plan; now is not the time to make a mess of things.
The academicians of the Space Science Branch Academy have begun to re-examine the several space attack methods they currently possess, hoping to improve the destructive power of these space attacks. However, just like the threshold of a thousand times the speed of light for warp drive, the ultimate attack power of these space attacks has certain limits. If the attack power is forcibly increased, the energy consumed will increase exponentially.
Another important issue is that the Heavenly Peak Civilization stated that high-level Zerg swarms can sever all kinds of long-distance communication methods at any time. If the fleet goes to fight the Zerg swarm, the four-dimensional channel technology may not be effective. Therefore, the fleet must focus on developing artificial intelligence technology. Although artificial intelligence can now walk on the street and make it indistinguishable from ordinary people, a computer is still a computer and can never compare to the human brain in many aspects.
The fleet doesn't need to be stationed at the front line for the time being, but we still have to consider this direction. If long-distance communication is cut off, electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves will have difficulty transmitting information in the complex battlefield environment. Until new communication methods are developed, artificial intelligence will have to take over the field, and then all command systems will be of little use.
While current artificial intelligence can barely compete in combat, human assistance is still needed in critical moments. Academicians at the Fleet Computer Branch have been working hard to completely replace human labor with artificial intelligence, and the progress in recent years has been very significant. All production tasks have now been fully automated.
The role of personnel is only to eliminate some logical problems and prevent such errors from accumulating. Only in war is it that artificial intelligence cannot completely replace human wisdom for the time being. There are no logical rules to follow on the battlefield. Even if academicians and countless scientists write trillions of instructions, they still cannot achieve the expected results in simulated war.
In simple terms, computers can only see the surface; they cannot understand the deeper meaning of an action. For example, if an enemy ship suddenly retreats on the battlefield, should we pursue it or not? If we leave this simple question to a computer, the result will be very different.