Before the development of the four-dimensional mold, Academician Li Youwei had already solved a small problem of the Fifth Reversed State. Previously, the Reversed State was produced in small cubes, but injection molding was obviously not suitable. With a slight improvement, Academician Li made the Fifth Reversed State into ordinary matter, producing as much matter as given energy, and it would no longer appear in the form of cubes, because the small cubes were only created by Academician Li for the convenience of laying them out.
The current annual production of the Exterminator is ten million ships. Academicians estimate that if the injection molding method is used to build ships, this speed will increase at least tenfold, reaching a super production of one hundred million ships per year. Moreover, with the continuous increase in injection molds, this speed will continue to increase. Based on the current population participation capacity, it could reach as high as 500 million ships per year.
If this production capacity is achieved, there will be no need for a long period of time to accumulate warships. Hu Yu also hopes to increase the number of warships in a short period of time. Currently, the new technology has not yet been equipped on the Exterminator. The academicians are also designing new types of warships, which are designed to complement the new production methods.
The design of the new warship and the design of the injection mold were carried out simultaneously. Neither of these two projects had major technical bottlenecks. Since settling in the Solar System, the academicians have been working on these projects. If it weren't for the new method of dimensional reduction attack slowing down the progress, these two projects would have been completed long ago.
The attack power of the hypersphere was somewhat insufficient. After the academicians saw the attack method of the worm that appeared when attacking the Fish Horse Star Civilization, they were greatly inspired. That kind of continuous dimensional reduction attack was countless times more efficient than the single hypersphere attack. The worm did not need to enter the fourth dimension to carry out the dimensional reduction attack. It was obvious that the worm's body was connected to the fourth dimension.
The warship's interior is also connected to the fourth dimension. The Reaper and Exterminator both operate using energy from the fourth dimension. Now, with a slight modification, it can not only extract energy from the fourth dimension but also extract space from it, then launch it out continuously like insects. The warship's attack is like a rifle replaced by a machine gun.
There are also issues of sailing speed and four-dimensional combat. Although the fourth dimension does not require warships to have high sailing speeds to complete missions, warships still need to operate in the three-dimensional universe. Therefore, the speed of light, which has only been improved to 6,000 times over tens of thousands of years, also needs to be enhanced. The four-dimensional combat problem was solved hundreds of years ago, but the spatial attacks of the fleet will be greatly weakened in the fourth dimension, so it must also be enhanced.
While the theoretical bottlenecks have been overcome, achieving this technically remains challenging, which has hampered the overall progress. It has been over 3,000 years and is still unsolved. However, the new method of dimensional reduction attack, injection molding ship technology, and the design of new warships are nearing completion. If all goes well, the remaining work should be completed within 500 years.
In 64232 AD, a massive warship, 60 kilometers long, appeared in the Alliance territory. This warship was painted black, with an equilateral triangular shape, high in the middle and gradually decreasing in the three sides. At the very edge, it had a sharp, blade-like edge, and the three corners were also extremely sharp. This was the new warship Conqueror.
The Conqueror warship is equipped with powerful space weapons such as space cutting, space compression, Space Shockwave, Space Barrier, and continuous four-dimensional sweeping, as well as two-dimensional Virtual Matter weapons and antimatter weapons. At the same time, its sharp triangles can also use kinetic energy to attack like Stinger, and its flat design is for laying out Two-Dimensional Basic Space in the future.
The equilateral triangle design eliminates the strict distinction between forward and backward on warships, as any corner can be forward. Such giant ships are far less maneuverable than smaller warships in confined airspace. Therefore, the academicians devised a new approach, giving the Conqueror warship three bows, which doubles its maneuverability.
Zhang Yuanshan is already testing the ship. After being rescued by the Tree Race, Zhang Yuanshan Zhang Yuanshan still busy on the front line of shipbuilding. His busy figure can be seen in every aspect of warship production, assembly, testing, and maintenance. People who have never experienced death cannot understand the preciousness of this loss and recovery. Zhang Yuanshan desires a stronger fleet more than anyone else, so he has been working tirelessly on the front line.
" Yuanshan."
"General, Chief of the General Staff, Academician Zeng, you have seen the test results; all data meet the standards."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work."
"General, this is nothing. Ever since I came back from the dead, I feel restless if I'm idle for even a day. I only feel comfortable when I have some work to do," Zhang Yuanshan said with a smile. Hu Yu was relieved to see Zhang Yuanshan in this state. In the past, Zhang Yuanshan was mostly serious and stern, but now Zhang Yuanshan had changed. He smiled more and was much gentler with his subordinates. In Zhang Yuanshan's words, "Smile more, it's good to be alive."
" Yuanshan, does your testing team have any feedback?"
"Not yet, everything is going well, especially the speed, which has reached 7200 times the speed of light. That's a huge improvement. However, I still need to randomly select 100,000 commanders for manual control tests to hear their opinions. I will then report any useful feedback to the academician."
" Yuanshan is as meticulous as ever. Good, I await your final opinion," Academician Zeng praised.
A month later, Zhang Yuanshan submitted the final test results to Academician Zeng. Upon reviewing them, Academician Zeng found that the designers and users indeed had many different ideas. In some areas, changes made according to the users' opinions were indeed more conducive to the warship being better controlled. However, these were minor modifications. In major aspects, the academicians could not allow any problems. They had to be extremely rigorous before making a final decision, otherwise the modification project would be very large.
The academicians quickly made minor modifications to the shipbuilding mold based on Zhang Yuanshan's final suggestions. The mold shipbuilding machine was finalized, and Hu Yu authorized its immediate production. The mold shipbuilding machine was also manufactured in the fourth dimension and hidden in a series of giant Reversed State spheres.
This shipbuilding method and speed were too terrifying. Hu Yu didn't want to attract any unnecessary trouble, so the entire shipbuilding process was kept strictly secret. The size of the mold-built ship was much smaller than that of the planetary shipbuilding machine. The planetary shipbuilding machine was really as big as a planet, but the mold-built shipbuilding machine was much smaller, only a little over a hundred kilometers long, so it was easy to hide.
After the mold-making ship-building machine shut down, the robot began to pour energy into the injection-molding ship-building machine through multiple openings, while simultaneously reversing the energy. A few minutes later, the mold opened, and a Conqueror was born. It would then be immediately sent back to the three-dimensional universe, as the subsequent work would be much easier to complete in the three-dimensional universe, while it would be quite troublesome in the fourth dimension.