Chapter 267: The Strength of Human Warships

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Crisis Era, year 263, 60 years after the Battle of the Doomsday.

According to Lin Sen's prediction, the Trisolaran fleet might have already arrived near the Solar System and are currently lurking less than a thousand astronomical units from us.

Humanity has failed to detect them, likely because the Trisolarans have employed stealth technology more advanced than our own. At present, apart from relying on gravitational wave detectors, we have almost no other effective means of detection to discover them.

However, regrettably, at such a vast distance, the effectiveness of the gravitational wave detectors is minuscule, hardly having any effect.

The Trisolarans are quietly lurking in the darkness beyond the Solar System, like cheetahs waiting for a mistake from their prey. Should any significant turmoil arise within humanity, they would not hesitate to act, taking advantage of human chaos to strike directly with a ferocious hurricane-like assault.

After 60 years of development in the human world, the strength of humanity has indeed significantly increased compared to the era of the Battle of the Doomsday.

In the Elixir Nation, they now possess more than 6000 of the latest models of human warships. Of course, the highest-end technology within the sanctuary has not been widely shared, and the technology of Elixir Nation has not made any fundamental breakthrough compared to the Battle of the Doomsday.

Even so, each warship today has significantly increased in strength compared to the warships of the federal fleet during the Battle of the Doomsday.

These warships are all equipped with Sophon-Blocked Zones, ensuring that The Waterdrop no longer dares to attempt crashing into them easily. The warships' shielded zones are equipped with weapons like antimatter that can pose a threat to The Waterdrop, indicating that The Waterdrop is no longer a threat to the warships.

Moreover, key parts of the warships have been fitted with Strong Interaction Armor, greatly increasing their defensive power. Of course, the technology for this strong interaction material is not yet perfected, and the production process also has certain difficulties.

But overall, modern warships have achieved a significant leap in technology and defensive capabilities.

Through the unrelenting efforts and continuous research and development by scientists, modern warships have achieved a huge improvement in offensive and power performance.

The main cannon design of modern warships has abandoned the concept of large calibres and instead adopted a new approach of small calibres with multiple main cannons. Although the calibre of each main cannon is only 46 centimeters, its energy intensity is tens of times that of the main cannons of the federal fleet during the Battle of the Doomsday, which is the limit humanity could achieve.

The several key parts of these main cannons are made of resilient strong interaction material to ensure they can withstand such immense energy. Although the internal calibre of the main cannons is small, to support such energy intensity, the external diameter of the main cannons remains quite large.

Each warship is equipped with 6 such main cannons, tightly mounted in a unique hexagonal layout to form a more stable and concentrated turret structure. The overall design of the warship continues the concept from the Battle of the Doomsday, but with a larger overall diameter, it appears even more majestic and spectacular.

In practical tests, when these six main cannons concentrate fire at close range, using phased array technology to attack the same point, it is possible to destroy the strong interaction material on The Waterdrop's surface. This is also inspired by The Waterdrop's use of phased array technology during the Battle of the Doomsday to destroy Sophon-Blocked Zones.

Thanks to the installation of Strong Interaction Armor on key parts of the warship and innovations in energy utilization technology, the highest speed of human warships has reached 25% of the speed of light. In fact, it is not that warships cannot accelerate further, but relativistic effects become significant at high speeds, and further acceleration would bring unnecessary losses. Therefore, warships typically choose to travel at 1% of the speed of light during regular navigation.

More critically, under the insistence of Hines, humanity has now conquered faster-than-light communication technology. By deploying detectors in advance on the battlefield, the warship can obtain real-time information from the battlefield even when far away.

The breakthrough of this technology not only changes the communication mode of the warship but also profoundly affects the command mode of the warship.

Modern warships can be dispersed in a vast space, receiving unified combat instructions from the command center at the same time, and this new mode of command undoubtedly greatly enhances the overall combat performance of the warship, doubling its combat power.

Additionally, the maneuverability of the warships is also excellent, reaching a maximum acceleration of 700 Gs, equivalent to the acceleration experienced by a cannonball fired by black gunpowder within a cannon barrel. With such speed, they could accelerate to 10% of the speed of light in a little over an hour. Possessing such powerful acceleration capabilities allows the warships to effortlessly dodge many common attacks.

In the Natural Human Nation, there are more than 3000 of the latest model human warships, nearly half the strength of Elixir Nation, causing Elixir Nation to feel profound anxiety and unease.

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In recent decades, the technological might of the Natural Human Nation has surged, with the performance of their warships surpassing that of the Elixir Nation's warships. Yet, resource scarcity has continually been a bottleneck preventing the Natural Human Nation from further expansion.

By contrast, almost all of the Elixir Nation's warships were built efficiently by intelligent robots. In times of abundant resources, they even proclaimed a bold slogan, "For every new Human Warship the Natural Human Nation builds, the Elixir Nation resolves to build two."

The competition between the two nations has grown increasingly fierce, a quiet unfolding of a contest of technology, resources, and strategy.

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In the War of Doom, the Trisolarans indeed taught Humanity a lesson, not to blindly trust any of their own judgments. Faced with the absolute defense of The Waterdrop, most of Humanity's offensive means and defense systems became mere decorations.

60 years have passed, and Humanity seemed to have gradually forgotten the lessons of the War of Doom.

Now, Humanity felt confident again, both in the Elixir Nation and the Natural Human Nation. Although not yet as arrogant as they were in the original timeline, they generally believed that the Trisolarans would not dare to initiate a second battle.

They had their reasons:

Two hundred years ago, the Trisolarans chose to send The Waterdrop to the Solar System, which itself indicated that The Waterdrop represented the pinnacle of Trisolaran technology.

Moreover, the use of The Waterdrop as a means of attack was likely also for economic efficiency, a strategy of resource optimization.

The pace of technological development of the Trisolarans appeared to be slow, so the possibility of them developing a whole new level of technological power within a mere 200 years was extremely slim.

Humanity has meticulously divided scientific and technological eras into multiple periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Age of Black Gunpowder and Industry, the Nuclear and Information Age, the Hadron and Higher Dimensions Age...

The Trisolarans are currently believed by Humanity to be in the Hadron and Higher Dimensions Age.

We have now also entered this technological era, even though they took the first step 200 years earlier. Yet, this temporal gap does not imply that it cannot be overcome.

We have a wealth of resource advantages, which fully enables us to contend with the Trisolarans, and even surpass them in certain technological areas.

Most crucially, Humanity still holds the Dark Forest as the ultimate deterrence, so even if the war situation is unsatisfactory, it does not necessarily mean the doom of Humanity.

In these 60 years, the Trisolarans have also persistently carried out subtle cultural invasions on Humanity, which to some extent has led Humanity to lower their guard against the Trisolarans.

Trisolaran literature is filled with comforting tranquility and optimism, be it movies, novels, poetry, music, or painting, all radiating a beauty of nature and humanity that had not been previously noticed.

Civilization is like a mirror. In the original timeline, the Trisolaran World's imitation of human culture reached a high standard from the start; this is a kind of cultural reflection.

Now, this cultural transmission also exists, and has become even more complex and bi-directional. The Trisolarans, by absorbing human culture, are gradually altering their societal structures, and the impact is profound and multifaceted.

At the same time, Humanity is also deeply studying Trisolaran civilization, using its unique attributes to drive their own transformation and development. Particularly after the capture of the Trisolarans and their arrival in the Solar System, which created an opportunity for Humanity to better understand Trisolaris.

Among these, the contributions made by Mozi and Cheng Xin are, of course, the greatest.