Chapter 198: Ten Years
Crisis countdown: 10 years!
Blue Star, Space Hub, Xinghai Chairman’s office.
“Boss, the Punisher has currently built 10,000 ships. Unlike the early batch that used unprocessed silver-like super metal to build the Punisher, the subsequent ones all used processed silver-like super metal for the hull material.
And all Punishers are equipped with our second-generation nuclear fusion engines. Overall, whether in acceleration performance, maximum speed, or even hull armor strength, they are superior to the initial Conqueror.”
Fan Ren listened to A’dai’s report, glancing at the countdown on the wall, feeling a trace of tension in his heart.
10,000 Conquerors, as well as the Young Dragon C-types that A’dai hadn’t reported yet, also built using processed, compressed, and reinforced silver-like super metal.
This is the scorecard handed in by all Great Xia-related industry workers over the past decade-plus.
Similarly, after Fan Ren developed molecular-level metal compression technology, nuclear fusion engines can release more thrust without worrying about the materials bearing it.
Overall, the space battleships currently in service with the Great Xia Space Force are not only astonishing in number.
In terms of quality and technology, they represent all the high-end precision technology that Xinghai can currently produce.
Hull material: Silver-like super metal.
Structural design: A’dai’s optimized structural design under the large model.
Equipped firepower:
Heavy dense missiles with a maximum speed of 6,000 km/s.
Electromagnetic railgun with an instantaneous muzzle velocity of 20% speed of light.
Electromagnetic shield bombs.
Light fast missiles with a maximum speed of 10,000 km/s.
This is an extremely pure firepower monster. Its electromagnetic railgun can already cause low-level damage to the Conqueror’s armor at close range.
This is also why the Punisher’s hull is 2,000 meters long. The middle section of this ship, from the tail to the front, is occupied by the electromagnetic railgun’s rails.
And below the hull, there is no idle space either, stuffed with a massive number of various types of missiles for any eventuality.
Now, that spaceship is less than 1 light year from the Solar System.
At this distance, Xinghai’s super astronomical telescope can clearly photograph the appearance of that spaceship.
It is a small spaceship that looks rusty and dilapidated all over, built in an irregular shape overall.
If A’dai hadn’t clearly detected it accelerating to 10% speed of light in a short time, Fan Ren would never believe this thing is a spaceship from an extraterrestrial civilization.
The photo shows that to anyone, this spaceship is completely a scrapped item.
But it can fly at 10% speed of light.
This leaves him utterly speechless.
In the hands of the Space Force, which Punisher isn’t treated like a treasure, with the exterior always kept spotlessly clean.
The contrast is really too great.
After showing this photo to Liu Shengzhan, he even suspected if Fan Ren deliberately created this many years of fear to get all of Great Xia to embark on the path of space development with him.
This is too ridiculous.
But the fact is just that.
The Space Force’s development is now advancing by leaps and bounds. With warships entering service one after another, countless Great Xia men full of infinite longing for space have boarded their long-dreamed-of warships, undergoing high-intensity training day and night.
Crisis: 5 years.
Former Qingluan Brigade Captain Wang Wei leads 5,000 Punishers and 20,000 Young Dragon C-types to Neptune Orbit 4 billion km away, establishing a frontline base facing the Alpha Centauri galaxy direction, organizing the first line of defense.
Accompanying are Giant Elephant Class ships responsible for transporting supplies and Gale ships for personnel transport, with no fewer than 100,000 sorties.
The Jupiter-Mars Hub Space Force Department where Li Jian is located, with 30,000 Punishers, 100,000 Young Dragon C-types, and countless fixed defense facilities, forms the second line of defense 500 million km from Blue Star.
Among the suggestions from Fan Ren and various Great Xia commanders, the warships and firepower deployment of the second line of defense are the most massive.
Ahead of him are the extremely important Qiming Base for the entire Jupiter-Mars Hub, and the super-large human settlement Pioneer Base composed of former South Australia miners and some United States refugees.
Also on Europa, the energy supply base that has been providing blood transfusions for Great Xia space industry.
The Jupiter-Mars Hub has now become an ultra-large industrial production base with 95% industrial chain and enormous scale.
The dockyards here complete 99% of Great Xia space ship manufacturing.
The remaining 1% is in the earliest dock at Blue Star Hub.
That place is now mainly used for building experimental verification-type ships, without considering production capacity.
It can be said that all of Great Xia’s current industrial production has basically moved to the Jupiter-Mars Hub 500 million km away from Blue Star.
Moreover, behind it on Mars, the population scale has now expanded to a terrifying 150 million people.
These are also from United States refugees who lost their homes.
Mars’s existence is purely to provide basic minerals for the Jupiter-Mars Hub, such as copper, iron, aluminum, and the like.
This place is equally important and cannot be lost.
Finally, at the Blue Star Hub Great Xia Space Force Headquarters, only 15,000 Punishers and a relatively small number of 50,000 Young Dragon C-types are deployed.
The only consolation is the large number of early-built hundreds of thousands of Young Dragon AB-type warships here.
However, since these are far inferior in speed and firepower configuration to the upgraded Young Dragon performance, they are not highly valued.
Here will be the last line of defense for Great Xia and all humanity.
If it falls in the future, the entire human civilization will be in peril.
Ultimately, at Liu Shengzhan’s suggestion, engineering personnel urgently dispatched from the Jupiter-Mars Hub began laying an electromagnetic fixed railgun with a track length of 10,000 meters.
Once completed, it will be humanity’s most powerful kinetic weapon in terms of lethality.
But the drawback is extremely poor flexibility.
But Fan Ren did not reject this proposal.
Three years!
He can feel that most personnel in the Space Force Department nowadays are starting to have some indescribable emotions.
Not tension, but rather like the eerie calm before a storm, terribly quiet.
Every time Fan Ren sees military personnel passing by him, he feels like in these people’s hearts, a flood-like fierce beast is suppressed, just waiting for the final three years to arrive and rush out to tear apart any possible enemies.
At this moment, he stands in front of Zeng Yingying’s hibernation pod.
Zeng Yingying still has that expression of smiling with eyes closed, but only Fan Ren knows that the irregular skin on his wife’s cheeks indicates her mind was not calm before hibernation.
She agreed to Fan Ren’s ‘accepting again’ that treatment to satisfy Fan Ren.
A warm smile appeared on Fan Ren’s face, and he gently said: “A’dai, thaw her.”
