Stellaris from the Automata Era

Strictly speaking, the Starlight-class battleship does not have a so-called main gun muzzle, at least no similar device can be seen from the outside.

However, when the magic main gun was about to be charged, the front end of the battleship suddenly stretched forward, and then this position expanded like a blooming flower, exposing its inside.

The exposed areas were also covered with dense angelic writing.

But compared to the angel words written on the outside of the hull, the meaning of the words written inside this time was completely different. It was probably words with more practical significance such as destruction and enemy search.

Of course, the inside actually only serves as a guide. As the so-called main gun begins to charge, the inside emits light pollution that is stronger than other "lines".

Then, a circular 'halo' with an outer diameter larger than the diameter of the warship appeared out of thin air in front.

"Huh? Magic circle?" Yan Luo almost shouted out.

And you say you are not magic?

In fact, you can't blame him for thinking so. The "halo" is not simply a huge circle, but has patterns and text filled in it.

Anyone with a bit of middle school syndrome would take one look at Ding Zhen and no matter how they identify it, they would just say it's a magic circle, there's no other possibility.

Of course, today's topic was not to discuss its scientific composition, so Yan Luo quickly suppressed his complicated emotions and continued to watch the "performance".

The highlight of the 'main gun' position has begun to dim, which should mean that its charging has ended. What confirms this idea is that the ship girl humanoid controlling it begins to shout out crucial words.

"Main gun level three charging complete, firing at maximum power!"

As the words fell, the halo magic circle immediately gathered a beam of light, extending straight out.

In just less than a second, the asteroid locked by the warship collided directly with the light beam. In a situation that was invisible to the naked eye, a hole as large as the light beam was directly hollowed out in the asteroid. Moreover, this planet did not seem to be enough to offset the energy released by the light beam, and there was still enough energy to penetrate the entire beam behind it in a straight line.

"A hole nearly half the diameter of the battleship?"

Unlike the situations in science fiction movies where asteroids would immediately disintegrate after being hit by a beam of light, the humanoid's main gun did not damage the stability of the asteroid's overall structure.

But that doesn't mean it's not strong.

Compared to those bombs that explode at the slightest provocation and create craters with kinetic energy, the humanoid main gun is more like eliminating an object.

It can be understood as the difference between high-explosive shells and armor-piercing shells. However, unlike weapons that leave residual debris after a round of armor-piercing shells, the magic element main gun is more efficient. It is more like vaporizing all objects that are touched.

Guaranteed to leave no residue.

Anyway, it is definitely more than enough to deal with the current situation.

Among the currently known races, no warship can withstand its attack as long as it hits. Even if it is just slightly touched, it will be directly destroyed by this real damage.

Similarly, a warship cannot have only main guns. In fact, in addition to the main firepower, the Starlight class also has thirty-six secondary guns and various anti-aircraft turrets.

In the current universe, they are absolutely armed to the teeth. Even their functions are different from the main guns, at least they have words like "blast" written on their gun barrels.

"Perfect." Yan Luo stood up and applauded first. "Rui, I have a question, can I learn magic?"

"Sir, this is science! You are a scientist too, you can't be superstitious."

"Then let me put it another way. Can I learn magic elements and angel writing?"

......

The Starlight-class battleship performed perfectly on the asteroid and, unsurprisingly, was presented to the office of someone with ulterior motives.

In fact, after a group of senior staff watched the video recording, the topic gradually shifted from "Should we fight?" and "When?" to "Should we do business with this country?"

Of course, they don’t know what Earth’s attitude towards Terran is now, and trade between civilizations is only discussed as a possible option.

At least their expectations are not too high, as the Terran Empire currently has no record of successful trade with other alien civilizations.

"Everyone, you must understand that I called you here not to discuss the upcoming diplomatic negotiations, but to discuss military countermeasures. When did you change from military aides to politicians?" Emperor Mengsk of Terran had an aura of majesty without even getting angry.

As a ruler who came to power through extreme means, his methods must be bloody and violent.

He might be a monarch who could lead his race to expansion and progress, but he was definitely not a good person. At least, kindness was not something he had in common with.

Understanding the true nature of this leader, almost everyone present began to tremble.

"Your Majesty, we are in need of more intelligence for now. However, based on our experience dealing with the Protoss, they also appear to be a species that uses energy weapons. Our newly developed shield should be able to effectively counter them."

That's true, but no one knows whether it's really possible.

After all, the technology of the Terrans is not that of the Protoss. Their shield generation technology is currently only installed on large warships such as battlecruisers, and the effect... is just so-so.

Otherwise, how could the topic of discussion change so quickly? There's no telling!

In fact, they should be able to guess who the Earth’s actions this time are for.

But sometimes, the higher the level, the more susceptible to this kind of routine: you show off your military strength, I'll see if I can fight you, if I can, I'll send you an Oriental Express, if not, we'll just trade...

Unless one's thinking is abnormal, when it comes to military exercises, everyone will think about whether they should continue to confront each other. If they provoke again, they may really resort to weapons.

"That's enough! Get out of here!"

The huge Terran senior staff are all a bunch of good-for-nothings. Others who do trade are at least being pried open with a "national corkscrew", and at least they resisted for a while.

When they got here, they opened themselves up first! Did they even save on the black ships?

Oh! The humanoid magic armor is entirely black. If it weren't for the light pollution patterns on the periphery, it would seem to be a unique example of the Black Ship Incident.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that the inside story has been revealed, and now it depends on what decision Terran makes.

"Sure enough, the empire's greatest worry is never from outside, but from within."

For now, the supreme ruler of the Terran Empire does not seem to have any intention of continuing to provoke the Earth. The person who bears the survival of the race is sometimes more cautious than anyone else.

Even if his selfish motive is just for power.

Chapter 206: There's a problem with the production line, let's sacrifice the designers

Yan Luo's idea of ​​finally learning magic elements and angelic writing was sternly rejected by the humanoid.

A big reason for this is the harmfulness of magic elements to humans.

Although the current version of magic essence is a youthful and harmless version that has been improved by the humanoids, the first batch that can cause white salt disease was thrown back to the parallel time and space by the humanoids.

However, as the research on humanoids continues, no one can guarantee whether the magic element will return to its previous hideous appearance and turn back into a state that is incompatible with the human body and causes illness.

Moreover, since the humanoids and the parallel world are blaming each other, it is difficult for them to trace the true origin of this magic element.

Considering that everyone from the parallel world has sent it, maybe this first batch of magic elements was developed after they became humanoids, and thrown into the earliest period to form true logical consistency.

Although everyone understands the dangers of this thing, research cannot be stopped just because we want to.

With the current achievements of the human form, Yan Luo would never let them stop. The universe is too dangerous now. Even for his own sake, Yan Luo must let the human form continue on the path of magic.

"What a shame! If I were allowed to study magic elements, I might immediately create the Heart of the Rising Sun." Yan Luo said, revealing his age. (Note)

Compared to the rigid human-like attempts to apply science, Yan Luo always felt that he could use his imagination to create some wonderful gadgets.

"Heart of the Rising Sun? My lord, do you still like this thing?" Bobo La heard Yan Luo muttering to himself, touching her wine-red hair, wondering whether to dye it chestnut.

It seems that humans in the old days had a term called cosplay.

"..." Yan Luo was silent for a moment, then his face twitched. "You've clearly thrown away most of the information from the old times, but why do you still retain some strange knowledge?"

It's just...it's outrageous.

The humanoid figure always manages to pick up his words at some inexplicable places.

The only thing he could be thankful for now was that there was no other human being of his generation. Otherwise, the conversation just now would have been a public execution of his otaku nature.

Its power is weaker than viewing web page records.

Anyway, this topic must be changed quickly. After all, how can a doll who knows nothing have a serious discussion with you?

With the amount of old-fashioned knowledge they possess, it's definitely not them who are embarrassed.

"Ahem, how's the Starlight-class production plan going?"

"The Space Force is already preparing a detailed report, but given our current situation, their actual production may be less than half of the battlecruisers."

The humanoid battlecruisers can produce five per month. Considering the word "less than half", the maximum number is probably only about two.

Compared with their predecessors, this efficiency has dropped a lot.

"It's too slow. What's the reason? Is it because there aren't enough minerals?"

"That's not the case." Bobo La swiped the panel on her hand and explained patiently. "It's mainly because our dock can't accommodate any more production space."

The main materials of the Starlight Battleship are magic steel plates and high-energy crystals. In front of the humanoid's complete set of industrial (alchemy) (gold) chain (techniques), it should be enough to support the consumption of the battleship's production.

As for the high-energy crystals used to draw angelic text, they are basically inexhaustible in the Koprulu sector. Coupled with the professional Engels excavator, the storage quantity may be even greater than that of steel plates.

Moreover, the earth has not yet produced any so-called currency, and all materials are mobilized in a unified manner. If we want to fully support the production of warships, there should be no shortage of resources.

Therefore, even though there were no major problems at the upstream source, an embarrassing incident finally occurred.

The 'processors' in the middle don't seem to be able to handle so much.

It has been mentioned before that the actual scale of the humanoid space dock is not suitable for the production of battleships. After all, it was originally designed to cope with the production line of battle cruisers.

After being converted into a battle line, they soon discovered that there was a large additional space in the dock. However, the embarrassing thing was that the extra space could not accommodate either a battle line or a battlecruiser.

How could a dock that could clearly accommodate three battleship slots on paper become like this?

Therefore, after the original designers were sacrificed, everyone fell into deep contemplation as if they were in an unknown territory.

Anyway, if the humanoids want to make the most of the dock, they will probably have to make a complete overhaul.

It may take several more months because other shipyards are currently being built to support the construction of engineering ships that can support major modifications.

In view of the current urgent need for ships, we will just... make do with them for now.

In any case, when faced with a complex and messy production line, humans would rather build a new one than transform it, and the humanoids who inherited human civilization are not much better.

At least after listening to the explanation, Yan Luo said that he could fully understand it.

After all, he is really short of warships now, and the neighboring Terran Empire cannot be intimidated by a few mechanical life destroyer groups.

This kind of small boat is really let Tyran go to storm, they feel that they can also storm a lot, and according to their thinking, these things are not the real main force! Expelling elementary school students and protecting young children, who would be afraid!

Without the big sister of the battleship to come out and support the situation, it is really easy for people to misjudge the situation.

If Terran had some kind of illusion, given Yan Luo's previous close relationship with Renault, he might really be punched.

When that time comes, whether the Tyranids' dungeon will open "The Iron Tower Remains" or "Winter Has Arrived" will depend on the actual situation on the battlefield. (Note 2)

"In that case, let's add more space docks."

To be honest, if the humanoid battlecruiser wasn't so difficult to use, he wouldn't mind going back to use the battlecruiser first.

But this can easily make people feel that the Earth does not have its own technology tree. Facing these Terrans who started out as bandits, criminals, and mutants, Yan Luo cannot show his strength.

Then the other party will really think that they are weak. These guys don’t know what it means to hide their weaknesses. They only know how much benefit they can get from you.

Typical Western power thinking.

This is also the truth between civilizations.

Note 1: Heart of the Rising Sun...this...I won't explain this. Those who understand will understand, and those who don't understand...just know that it will reveal your age.

Note 2: In the Eiffel Tower instance, you must capture the French capital, Paris, before they surrender. In the Winter instance, you must defeat the Soviet Union in winter. This instance is jokingly called the most difficult instance of World War II.

Chapter 207: Three Views Follow the Five Senses

When Yan Luo was still thinking about how to increase the number of battle sisters, a new event quickly caught his attention.

Nearly one hundred YoRHa dolls went through the process of death and returned to their new bodies through data reflow.

When Yan Luo heard the news, he was shocked and thought that a small-scale conflict had occurred somewhere for which he did not know the reason.

However, when he looked over there with the help of his psychic power, he found that it was a Ranger commander who had already started the final battle.

Char, the main star of the Zerg.

In fact, this planet was once one of the core areas of the former Terran Federation. Although its lava planet characteristics are not suitable for the ideal living environment of the Terrans, it has too many mines.

Faced with the choice of curing poverty and having an ideal living environment, the Tairen people ultimately chose the former.

It is famous for its many mines, but it is also destroyed by its many mines.

In order to fight for this planet during the civil war, the corrupt Terran Federation launched countless nuclear weapons on it without restraint, turning it from uninhabitable to uninhabitable in the glory of peace.

Of course, until this time, it was still in the hands of the Terrans.