Chapter 87 Plasma Cannon

When Oliver made up his mind, suddenly there was a sense of dawn, he still thought too much, many conservative experts and scholars are also too much to consider the ground. They still stand on the basis that humanity is a weak civilization and play their role with fear and trepidation. How can they act well in this way?

If humans are really a strong civilization, how can they be so fearful?

Think about it, the Americans faced the Filipinos who crossed the border, even if they were the first to shoot, the other side did not dare to say anything more because the Americans were more powerful. By the same token, the more aggressive, the more worry in the other party's mind, the more they dare not test you ...

After all, the new human civilization can not afford to test ah, a test will be revealed, must be brutal, must be tough, in order to really perform a powerful civilization's aura!

"Well, all don't need to argue!" Oliver suddenly snapped, and the whole room was instantly silenced.

"One shot! Wade, you go prepare the charging stage of the ion cannon!"

"Yes!" With a happy face, Wade gave a military salute and quickly walked out.

The Noah did have a real ion cannon on board, or one that had been removed from a Martian flying saucer, and after being modified by humans, it could barely be used for some time. The core part of this ion cannon was provided by the alien creation, but its acceleration pipeline was designed by humans themselves, a full 33 kilometers, firing a cannon, which required a lot of electrical energy consumption.

Because of the energy system, superconductivity system and a lot of other technical failures, its power may be only one-tenth of the original version, but it doesn't matter, it just needs to deter the other side.

People don't know which is more powerful, the Mars flying saucer or this unknown alien civilization, and they don't know how technically advanced the ion cannon is, and whether it will be exposed because it is too low-end. But when you think about it, the ion cannon is just like human firearms, and should be considered a relatively conventional space weapon, the probability of being directly eliminated is relatively small.

Just like human firearms in general, after more than a hundred years, the progress is actually very small, still gunpowder kinetic weapons, and people are still using them.

"Such a shot requires a very high degree of accuracy as well as a great deal of calculation, and we have to get a handle on it." Oliver said seriously, "Go and get Mr. Quentin!"

To shoot an ion cannon to a distance of 310 billion kilometers required extremely, extremely high precision, which was a considerable challenge for humans. This near-speed-of-light cannonball would require a voyage of seven or eight days to reach the set location.

And ... the alien ship is in constant motion, even the images people currently observe are from ten days ago. People need to keep projecting the future trajectory of the alien ship to debug the target of the ion cannon.

Such ultra-high precision stuff is inevitably done by super engineer Quentin.

People only have the chance to fire one shot, if they fire more, the other side will think it's war ... but fire one shot and it's occupying reason, there shouldn't be much problem ...

Oliver's requirement is that this one shot ion cannon to appear in the 100,000 km perimeter of the alien ship. That is, the diameter of this target is around two hundred thousand kilometers.

Two hundred thousand kilometers, this requirement does not seem high, in fact, ridiculously high!

For now humans can not accurately calculate the location of the alien ship, because the speed of light propagation is limited, the images that humans see, all happened ten days ago, and this alien ship is constantly changing speed. Humans do not even know the specific location of the other side, how to fight?

Moreover, the universe is really too empty, "a hair's breadth, a thousand miles", this saying is not just a joke, as long as the muzzle moves up or down so much as a micron or even a nanometer, a slight deviation from the angle, this error will be magnified hundreds of billions, trillions of times, and then may be off by hundreds of millions of kilometers!

If this happens, the problem can be serious ... If an alien civilization detects the error of a gun, what will they think? They will certainly wonder why human technology is so garbage? A shot can be off by several hundred million kilometers? This kind of suspicion is the most important thing to avoid.

So, Quentin's responsibility is huge, he can't let the human camouflage operation leak!

His heart was always on edge, even building a helium-3 nuclear bomb had never made him this nervous. This gun was an important part of the whole "camouflage" plan, and even the lives of all mankind were at stake, so he couldn't afford to be sloppy! But Quentin had nothing to complain about, he came over as soon as he was informed, he had no choice but to do this!

The computer already had the approximate orientation aimed, and really only needed to fine-tune a little something. What he had to do was to wait for an inspiration, or rather an intuition.

Nowadays, humans don't even know the exact location of the alien ship, all are estimates ... Well, it also requires a certain level of accuracy, which seems a bit forced. All is unreliable, except for the use of his unique sensitive intuition.

Also can only rely on intuition, or his special ability to gamble that much ...

This can be said to be the biggest challenge in Quentin's life. Gradually, he fell into a peculiar state where his heart became calm, his heartbeat rate became consistent, and he kept catching that glimpse of inspiration.

Five minutes, ten minutes, fifteen minutes ...Quentin hadn't moved for half an hour, just standing there frozen in the control room of the ion cannon.

Everyone stood a dozen meters back, the atmosphere did not dare to come out. james, Wade and other soldiers stood straight, the rest of the people are also motionless, the atmosphere is very odd, the crowd is also very nervous, the heartbeat accelerated a few scientists automatically walked out. Immediately after, more and more people walked out of the control room, they were afraid that their breathing as well as heartbeat affected Quentin.

Oliver also just quietly waiting, he knows Quentin's character, absolutely impossible to desert or in sleep, they have to do, just trust and wait patiently.

Finally, after another ten minutes, Quentin seemed to have woken up from his sleep, looking focused, his muscles rigid, staring dead at the screen.

Inspiration ... had appeared! At that very moment, he gathered all his muscles and hammered the switch of the ion cannon!

"Buzz!" Ground a sound, a large amount of electrical energy gathered in the electromagnetic pipe, the Noah's electrical system at this moment is somewhat overwhelmed, all the electric lights in the entire ship flickered several times in a row.

At this time, the Noah's power station has been turned on, in a state of full load, but still can not eat the peak power of this ion cannon, can see the horror of its energy consumption!

Then, a searing white beam shot out from the muzzle of the gun. The same high-energy particle beam, but this gun is more than ten thousand times more powerful than the Gauss rifle's, this string of proton beams, more numerous and closer to the speed of light!

According to Einstein's theory of relativity, the closer matter is to the speed of light, the greater the amount of energy required, the more powerful this one ion cannon shot is already comparable to a small nuclear bomb!

"Well?" Oliver hurriedly walked over and asked.

"... don't know, but it shouldn't be too bad." Quentin scratched his head neatly, he really didn't know what the result would be.

Everyone is talking and whispering, now all that should be done has been done. Do your best, listen to God, the rest, the only thing is to wait ...