Rebirth of the Super Battleship-Chapter 608: Breakthrough, Breakthrough
For the Divine Ark Civilization, the computer was the foundation that supported everything. With sufficient computational power, the entire Divine Ark Civilization was developing at a speed that would leave other civilizations dumbstruck.
Xiao Yu had already completely finished the work of integrating the technologies of the Level 5 Civilization Alliance and the Divine Ark Civilization. This was across all disciplines; no matter which aspect of technology it was, Xiao Yu had already fused the technologies of the two civilizations together and derived even more advanced technologies. Then Xiao Yu began to publish his insights, for scientists to study and research, so that these scientists could quickly catch up to his pace.
After the technological integration was completed, the period of true great development arrived. Fifteen years after the light computer was put into use, Xiao Yu could already manufacture spaceships with a cruising speed of eighty times the speed of light. After twenty years, space weapons based on the foundation of space science were successfully developed. At this time, all the space weapons obtained from the Trolor Civilization were retired. After all, those were castrated versions of space weapons. Even if Xiao Yu’s current space weapons were quite rudimentary, their power was much stronger than that of the castrated versions.
According to Xiao Yu’s calculations, under the same power, the space weapons he manufactured had about three point seven times the power of those castrated space weapons of the Trolor Civilization. Moreover, the space weapons he manufactured still had quite large potential for development. As various technologies continued to advance, in the future, the power of these space weapons would further increase.
After thirty years, spatial broadcast technology was successfully developed. Although the existing tachyon communication technology could achieve superluminal real-time communication, it had a fatal shortcoming, namely that the communication radius was too short, only about one hundred fifty light years. If the distance exceeded one hundred fifty light years, then to use tachyon communication, relay instruments would have to be built. Spatial broadcast communication technology, however, could achieve practically delay-free precise communication within a range of one thousand light years, and its reliability was also much higher. There was another point. After this period of research, Xiao Yu confirmed that spatial broadcast communication technology was the essential technology for connecting the main universe and the small universe.
When technology developed to a certain stage and a small universe was manufactured, one had to use spatial broadcast communication technology to connect the two universes, because superluminal communication could not fulfill this point. Tachyons could only propagate within the main universe and could not propagate into another universe.
After forty years, curvature flight technology within strong gravitational fields achieved a breakthrough. From this moment, the spaceships Xiao Yu manufactured would be able to freely employ curvature flight technology within a star system, without worrying about being interfered with by the gravity of massive celestial bodies.
After fifty years, the space folding shield was successfully developed. From now on, in the original modular shield system of the spaceships Xiao Yu manufactured, another layer of space folding shield would be added. Xiao Yu discovered that when the four-dimensional shield and the space folding shield worked together, they would exert an even stronger defensive effect, far from being as simple as one plus one.
Breaking through together with the space folding shield was the atomic polymer material technology. Now Xiao Yu could already fix the atoms of helium elements, turning gas into solid, thereby manufacturing materials with formidable performance yet very low weight. Compared with lithium-atomic polymer material, helium-atomic polymer material possessed more advantages.
Going one step further on the foundation of helium-element atomic polymer material would be hydrogen-atomic polymer material. The spaceship of the Blood Blade Squad captured from the Guardian Civilization, as well as the 90s Model Spaceship, were both manufactured using hydrogen-atomic polymer material. Of course, Xiao Yu had not yet reached that level.
[T/N: I think the author made a mistake here since Xiao Yu has been able to create some hydrogen-atomic polymer (previously called hydrogen-atom polymer or hydrogen polymer) during his sun explosion plan. I’m not sure if he meant he hasn’t quite yet reached the level of creating spaceships with the material or not.]
Xiao Yu could be certain that above hydrogen-atomic polymer material there must be even more formidable materials. The Meson spaceship of Technology Taihao, as well as the Radiance spaceship of the Guardian Civilization, were very likely manufactured using such materials. However, what exactly those materials were, for the time being Xiao Yu could not yet know.
But for the present Xiao Yu, helium-atomic polymer material was already formidable enough. It could even be placed at a distance of less than fifty thousand kilometers from a star and remain stable in such an extreme environment.
These were relatively major technological breakthrough projects. Within these fifty years, the branch technologies that achieved breakthroughs were too numerous to count. These more than one million new technologies brought Xiao Yu’s science to an entirely new realm.
Although these several important technologies had achieved breakthroughs within expectations, Xiao Yu was not in a hurry to launch large-scale construction tasks at the current stage. This was because Xiao Yu’s science was still advancing rapidly. Spaceships built with present-day technology might become completely obsolete after only a few decades and would then have to be dismantled and rebuilt. This was a very wasteful behavior and had no meaning. No matter how sufficient Xiao Yu’s computational power was, it could not be squandered like this.
Therefore, during this period, the spaceships Xiao Yu possessed were still the original ones. It was just that, to ensure his own safety, Xiao Yu manufactured countless interstellar gun turrets, fortresses, interstellar bomb clusters, spatial weapon bases, and so on, tightly protecting the entire star system. Xiao Yu confirmed that, with the cooperation of his Specter companion, even a proper Level 6 Civilization would probably have to expend a great deal of time to break through his defenses. And during that period, Xiao Yu would long since have built tens of thousands of warships.
With these technological foundations, Xiao Yu could finally begin attempting a full analysis of those Blood Blade Squad spaceships. After dismantling these spaceships into pieces and carrying out comprehensive analysis from the aspects of material performance, energy transmission, computer technology, spaceship control systems, weapon systems, and so on, Xiao Yu benefited greatly, and at the same time once again recognized the formidable technological strength of the Guardian Civilization.
“I can be certain that these spaceships were only the most ordinary and lowest-grade spaceships within the Guardian Civilization, yet they still possessed technological strength that amazes me. Many of their components are ones for which I only know the general principles but have no way to realize them. Hm, at the same level, the ratio of the Guardian Civilization’s spaceships’ combat power to that of the most cutting-edge spaceship I can currently manufacture is about one to five. If even the lowest-grade spaceships possess such formidable strength, I truly do not know to what degree how formidable the elite forces of the Guardian Civilization are. The Guardian Civilization truly deserves to be an existence that has confronted the Sweepers Civilization for tens of millions of years. Although, during that time of confrontation, the Guardian Civilization was always fleeing, to escape with life from the hands of the Sweepers Civilization is already formidable enough, is it not?”
Xiao Yu was silently pondering this question. Although the gap was still huge, Xiao Yu knew that between himself and the Guardian Civilization there was no longer an essential difference. It was like the comparison between airplanes of the World War I era on Earth and the most advanced airplanes of the twenty-first century. This was only a difference in technology, not a difference at the level of science itself.
This meant that Xiao Yu had now truly stepped into the scope of a Level 6 Civilization. It meant that Xiao Yu had truly become a top-tier existence within the Milky Way.
“It is just that I still cannot be considered a complete Level 6 Civilization at present. After all, I still cannot manufacture a small universe of my own, and a Planet-Class spaceship cannot be built. The strength of the existing materials is still insufficient. They cannot support the massive power and toughness requirements of a Planet-Class spaceship. The weapon systems and defensive systems also do not reach the level that matches the name of a Planet-Class spaceship.”
If he forced it, Xiao Yu could barely build a Planet-Class spaceship with a diameter of seven to eight hundred kilometers, but without sufficient science as support, such a spaceship would only possess pitiful maneuverability and defensive power, completely without practical value.
“A Planet-Class spaceship can be put off for a while, but the matter of the small universe cannot be delayed. Without a small universe, habitation-type spaceships and supply vessels, as well as repair docks and other equipment, would all have to move together with the warship group. This is extremely unsafe. Intelligent beings have already taken an extremely important position within the Divine Ark Civilization. Every intelligent being is a very precious resource. The importance of supply vessels and repair docks and other various auxiliary facilities needs no further elaboration. These things must be kept within the small universe to be safe. Let us continue developing here. We must manufacture the small universe before I can set out on my journey with peace of mind.”
After thinking it over, Xiao Yu made up his mind.
“In the past few decades, we have achieved many splendid accomplishments. We possess space weapons, space shields, spatial broadcast technology, and the light computer. But this is still not enough. At this moment, we still cannot be considered a complete Level 6 Civilization, because we are missing the most important thing for a Level 6 Civilization, the small universe. Without a small universe, our Divine Ark Civilization will always be in danger. Various logistics facilities, habitation ships, resource ships, and so on will always be under threat. Only by hiding all these things within the small universe can the safety factor be greatly increased.”
“Therefore, the next scientific research goal is set. In the time ahead, our Divine Ark Civilization will take the technology of manufacturing a small universe as the main direction of assault. We must, within fifty years, develop the technology capable of manufacturing a small universe and manufacture the small universe.” At a work summary meeting facing all scientific workers, facing the hundreds present at the conference venue or the nearly ten million scientists participating via communication instruments, Xiao Yu spoke thus. “As long as we possess a small universe of our own, we will become a true Level 6 Civilization. The survivability of our Divine Ark Civilization will be increased by several times at least…”
