Chapter 214: Star Cannon.

Ten projectiles, one large and nine small, hit the Killer Whale-Class Battleship at a speed infinitely close to the speed of light, causing waves upon waves on the Energy Shield.

According to Bai Zixuan’s previous statement, the ten barrels were specially arranged to ensure that ten projectiles would hit at the same time. The power created by the impact would resonate with each other, causing greater damage.

“Commander, the target ship has relayed feedback. The Energy Shield was depleted by 12%!”

The tester was very excited when he reported the information. He didn’t expect such an outdated weapon to have such power. 

“Alright, how soon can we shoot again?”

Lin Fan listened to the tester’s report and nodded with satisfaction.

“Since it uses physical ammunition, it needs to be reloaded after firing, the loading speed is about 15 seconds. At present, this rail gun is loaded on the battleship. There is no problem in charging it. But if it runs independently, we need to provide it with a powerful source of energy!”

Hearing this, Lin Fan frowned. This was indeed a big problem.

They couldn’t possibly install a nuclear fusion reactor for every railgun, that was just ridiculous.

Then, how should they power the rail guns?

Wait, there was one source! Laika Crystals, the Energy Crystals from the Laika Empire were now called as such.

Laika Crystals had been specially tested before. After each one was full of energy, it could be used by a Killer Whale-Class Battleship to carry out a high-intensity battle.

If it was used on the new rail gun system alone, it would definitely last for many years, and this was under heavy use!

Besides, there were huge reserves of this in the Laika Empire’s Capital Circle. Almost every Resource Planet had huge reserves. According to the results of the exploration, there were at least 10 trillion Laika Crystals deposits in the entire Laika Empire’s Capital Circle.

As for the purchase price, it was quite cheap. Only 10 points a piece, which was almost no different from robbing or paying nothing.

Currently, the annual mining volume of the Laika Empire was about 100 million, and 60% of it would be acquired by the Human Federation. So far, the Human Federation had acquired more than hundreds of millions of Laika Crystals.

“Is it possible to use the Laika Crystals as an energy source?”

Lin Fan asked the tester. After all, he was not a professional and he could only be rest assured after getting confirmation from a professional.

“Commander, it is absolutely okay to use Laika Crystals, but we don’t have Laika Crystals here and we need to prepare them from Earth!”

“You don’t have to worry about this. Liang Xue, help me contact the Earth. I need a lot of Laika Crystals, let them prepare 50 million for me!”

“Yes!”

“See? The problem is solved!”

After instructing Liang Xue, Lin Fan turned his head and looked at the tester with a smile.

The tester and several of his assistants were stunned for a while. 50 million Laika Crystals seemed to be nothing for the Commander.

Was this what a boss of the Interstellar Era was like?

“Hello, alright, back to the matter at hand. After you go back to the Research City, talk to Old Bai! The Laika Crystals will be delivered in a few months, let him make some changes to the energy system. Also have him do what I said beforehand. Design controlled thrusters and then begin mass production!”

“Okay, Commander. Is there anything else I need to tell him?”

“No, that is all.”

Lin Fan wouldn’t admit it, but the reason why he told them to tell it to Old Bai and not him personally was because he was afraid that he would be slapped by Old Bai.

After he finished speaking, Lin Fan took Liang Xue and left immediately.

After the matter with the rail gun was settled, Lin Fan and Liang Xue began to check the progress of the construction of the Star Defense Network. After all, this was one of the important means of this battle.

The so-called Star Defense Network was composed of tens of millions of fixed defense platforms and a star cannon.

The structure of the network was an incomparably complex three-dimensional structure with a total of 13.8 million nodes.

[Fixed Defense Platform (Remote Control Type)]

Class: Defense Platform

Tonnage: 200,000 tons

Hull Size: 382 meters long, 235 meters wide, 120 meters high

Main Weapon: Triple 15m Caliber Plasma Cannon, Quantity 1x

Secondary Weapon: 3M Caliber Twin-Armed Positron Cannons, Quantity 4x

Close-range Weapons: Rapid-fire Electromagnetic Catapult, Quantity 16x

Other Weapons: Multipurpose Missile Silo, Quantity 128x

Defensive Device: Third Generation Energy Shield

Number of Occupants: none (Remote Control Type)

It could be seen from the data that the so-called defense platform was basically a small fixed warship.

It had the Triple-mounted Plasma Cannon on a Killer Whale-Class Battleship and 4 Twin-Armed Positron Cannons, which had an impressive offensive capability!

Although compared to the Killer Whale-Class Battleships, the firepower was still far behind, the key was that the number was large enough. The entire Star Defense Network had 13.8 million of these defense platforms. 

Although this was already very powerful, the defense platform was not the focus of the Star Defense Network. The real core was the Star Cannon.

Its real name was the [Nuclear Gamma Ray Launcher]. As the name suggests, it was a long-range gamma ray cannon. It’s a technology that’s classified as early stage Level 5 Civilization. It was generally used as a fortress cannon in important strongholds.

This was a weapon of mass destruction in the Interstellar Era. Once launched, there will never be anything left within 2 million kilometers of the cannon’s diameter. Energy Shields were useless.

But there were also great disadvantages. This weapon recharges extremely slowly and can only be fired once every thirty minutes.

In addition, its size was very large, almost the size of ten warships. Therefore, a large number of warships must escort it to keep the enemy out of range at all times. Otherwise, there would be no possibility of a second shot.

Normally, a Level 4 Civilization couldn’t use the Star Cannon. After all, the energy consumption of this thing was too terrifying. Even with dozens or hundreds of nuclear fusion reactors, it wouldn’t be able to keep up with the energy it needs to consume. 

However, because of the Laika Crystals, the Star Cannon was made possible. In its internal energy compartment, it stored 100,000 Laika Crystals filled with energy.

Each time the Star Cannon was charged before firing, it would consume the energy stored in 10,000 Laika Crystals.

In other words, the Star Cannon could be fired up to ten times. Though this didn’t mean that Humans were reluctant to use more Laika Crystals, rather it was completely unnecessary.

Before they could shoot ten times, it’s either you had already destroyed the opponent or you had been destroyed by them!