The "Dragon-Emperor Super War Artificial Intelligence" was the easier to understand: an artificial-intelligence system prepared expressly for war, which can assist a fleet's system of command in reaching the fastest and most fitting decisions in battle.
The "Dragon-Emperor quantum transmission," at first sight, one might take for some technology of information transmission.
But upon closer looking, it proved not to be.
This was a technology for transmitting the human body!
Within a certain compass about the T5 Dragon Emperor Interstellar Command Ship, using dedicated transmission equipment and beacon equipment, a human body may be transmitted outright!
To carry a captain, for instance, straight from an interstellar warship's bridge to the T5 Dragon Emperor Interstellar Command Ship.
Exceedingly convenient.
It may look like a most ordinary technology.
But at a critical hour it can serve for the evacuation of personnel, for emergency councils, for the emergency movement of people, and much besides.
Its one shortcoming was that it must be within a certain compass of the T5 Dragon Emperor Interstellar Command Ship.
"The single-hull build cost of the T5 Dragon Emperor Interstellar Command Ship is 3 trillion star coins; and even with the T5 Galaxy-class Large Interstellar Industrial Base in charge of the building, a full month is wanted. Though when the time comes, the T4 Geminis can be set to build alongside it," Lilith said from beside them.
"And this T5 Holy-Redeemer-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Heavy-Artillery Battleship! This is simply the summit of the interstellar battleship's art!" As Charlotte spoke of this class, there was an excitement in her tone she could not cover over.
Holy-Redeemer-class Heavy Interstellar Armored Heavy-Artillery Battleship
Ship type: interstellar battleship
Technology grade: T5
Hull armor strength: 1,200,000–1,500,000 units
Star-shield energy value: 20,000,000
Cruising speed: 800 star-knots
Warp engine: grade-9 warp engine
Hull length: 46 kilometers
Mass: 26,880,000 tons
Complement: 20,000
Starship weapons: one Redeemer-class 300M-bore super-electromagnetic railgun (can fire Redeemer impact-type shells and Redeemer cluster-type shells)
4 Holy-class cluster laser cannon
18 20M-bore heavy electromagnetic cannon (can fire 19 kinds of solid shell — electromagnetic-pulse, armor-piercing, proton, plasma, fusion and the rest)
366 eight-mount heavy particle-energy rapid-fire cannon
1,000 fully automatic high-density eight-mount close-in laser guns
Zhao Chen looked at the description of this class upon the data panel; and of all its figures, nothing was more dazzling than that super-cannon of 300M bore, whose barrel length reached an astonishing 3 kilometers!
"A 300M-bore electromagnetic railgun — heavens! One could stuff a T2 interstellar warship straight into that muzzle!" Charlotte was beyond all excitement.
"This class costs 4 trillion star coins, but the build time is likewise only a month." Having said it, Lilith glanced at the Commander, but said nothing further.
By rights, strategic super-starships such as the T5 Hades and the T5 Dragon Emperor should have cost far more than the T5 Holy-Redeemer.
But the core technology modules within them were all brought out directly by the Commander, which cut the cost by none knew how much.
There were far too many secrets about the Commander; but if the Commander did not speak of them, no one would ask.
Zhao Chen noticed the look in Lilith's eyes, and made as though he had not seen it, and said in banter, "Then by my estimate, once this interstellar battleship appears, Xue Xiaoxiao's disease of not being able to choose will break out again."
This great cannon of 300M bore uses only two kinds of solid shell.
The Redeemer impact-type shell and the Redeemer cluster-type shell.
The former is easy enough to understand: it is a shell with no warhead at all!
To put it more plainly, this is a solid shell of one material only — or rather… a hard stone ground into the shape of a shell.
This "hard stone" is the hardest material known within the universe, and exceedingly scarce in quantity.
It is generally used for the main armor modules of interstellar battleships.
And the attacking principle of this Redeemer impact-type shell is very simple: by way of the exceedingly long barrel and an astonishing electromagnetic acceleration, this shell of 300M bore is accelerated to its utmost speed and fired at the target.
At the last, this shell, hard past all comparison, strikes the enemy ship.
The result of which may be imagined!
That Charlotte was so excited was in great part because she wished to see the dazzling showing of this shell, which would assuredly be a splendid thing.
And the other shell, the Redeemer cluster-type, is the more common kind — likewise a solid shell, whose warhead holds a great number of small shells.
It may be used against a rather densely packed enemy fleet, or against star-shield defenses.
It can produce an exceedingly strong strike within a small compass, surpassing in some degree the firepower output of interstellar missiles and interstellar heavy artillery.
Before Charlotte could go on to the next class.
Lilith spoke first. "This T5 Fire-Qilin-class Heavy Carrier Starship likewise wants 4 trillion star coins, and a build time of one month."
Fire-Qilin-class Heavy Carrier Starship
Ship type: carrier starship
Technology grade: T5
Hull armor strength: 300,000–360,000 units
Star-shield energy value: 15,000,000 units
Cruising speed: 400 star-knots
Warp engine: grade-9 warp engine
Hull length: 98 kilometers
Mass: 138,880,000 tons
Complement: 3,000,000
Starship weapons:
Fire-Qilin H-I regular interstellar fighter: 1,000,000 may be carried
Fire-Qilin H-II heavy interstellar fighter: 100,000 may be carried
Fire-Qilin H-III transformable dual-purpose interstellar fighter: 10,000 may be carried
Fire-Qilin H-IV heavy interstellar stealth bomber: 100,000 may be carried
Fire-Qilin H-V multi-function combat interstellar drone: 30,000,000 may be carried
Fire-Qilin F-I electronic-interference interstellar stealth drone: 20,000 may be carried
Fire-Qilin F-II interstellar scout craft: 100,000 may be carried
Fire-Qilin F-III interstellar stealth scout craft: 10,000 may be carried
5,000 heavy fully automatic high-density close-in guns
300 missile launch silos (may store 50,000 defensive interstellar missiles of every model)
"A loading capacity of above 30 million interstellar fighters and interstellar drones of every model. Who could stand against its interstellar air war?" Charlotte, looking once more at those equipment loadings, was gasping at the sight of them still.
"Su Lan will assuredly be exceedingly fond of this carrier starship." Zhao Chen recalled that campaign before, when, to win a clear lane for the Owl Dragon's main fleets.
Chitong's Owl Dragon Second Legion and Su Lan's Owl Dragon Fourth Legion had taken that task upon them.
In the fighting, the interstellar fighter and interstellar drone swarms in Su Lan's charge had made a most outstanding showing upon the field.
And Su Lan's own specialty, the command of interstellar air war, might be called the strongest in the whole Owl Dragon Legion.
"Lilith, once the T5 Galaxy-class Large Interstellar Industrial Base is built. Before the end of April, I want at the least one of each of these three classes off the line and in service," Zhao Chen said, in a tone that brooked no refusal.
Charlotte too looked at Lilith in expectation.
Lilith, that mistress of the household accounts, looked at the two of them without words. "I shall speak with Annie when the time comes."