Chapter 654: Chapter 374, Alliance Shipyard_2
Moreover, building the ship’s hull and then sending it to others for processing would significantly reduce the profit.
However, this problem was also resolved soon after.
Among these twenty consecutive draws, Gu Hang also got six elite technologies, which included two M-classification weapons: [M-classification ‘Heat Hammer’ Colossal Cannon] and [M-classification ‘Sky Splitter’ Missile].
The firepower of M-classification could certainly serve as the main gun of a destroyer. With these two items, the Alliance could even develop two types of destroyers: a missile destroyer that focuses on missiles, and a gunship that focuses on the Colossal Cannon. Both could play different tactical roles in naval battles.
As for the many S-classification secondary guns, whether it is the Kinetic Cannon or the Energy Cannon, or even the Scalpel Missile, the Alliance had corresponding technological reserves.
Also, among these twenty draws was an advanced technology named [Energy Shield Generator].
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Although it was not a Void Shield, an energy shield for a destroyer was decent enough. Void Shields were good, but equipping them would cause costs to soar. Besides the fact that the cost of Void Shields themselves was much higher, they also required more energy supply, which meant that more Spirit Infusion Engine Modules were necessary. And increasing the number of engine modules wasn’t a simple addition; the design difficulty would skyrocket along with the costs.
Looking at it this way, with this series of technologies acquired, plus the past technological reserves, the Alliance Shipyard had a lot to look forward to.
As for the second technology, [Skyburn Torpedo], it was an even more terrifying thing.
This was a planet-slayer weapon; the manufactured products were as big as several hundred-story buildings tied together. At least a cruiser or larger starship would be required to launch it, or it could be placed on the ground and manually detonated.
Its main function was to ignite a world’s entire atmosphere post-explosion, forming a terror wave sweeping the global surface. Lighter materials from the air to water and surface would all burn up eventually due to a chain reaction, turning the whole world into a giant fireball within one or two weeks. Depending on the size of the planet, the burning could last from a few months to several to years.
It couldn’t certainly destroy a planet, but it could destroy all life on it. Only life forms that were extremely resilient and that hid in very deep and almost hermetically sealed places, avoiding the celestial fire, might have a chance to survive for months or years—that was just a chance. The horrific burning would cause severe geological activity, and the subsurface structure would likely collapse easily.
But even if one were to survive that, whether the underground environment could support the survivors for months to years was another question. And even if they truly survived, when the planet’s surface was burned to nothing, what would be the prospects of life, and how would they sustain their lineage?
This kind of extinction-level weapon might not guarantee the eradication of every living individual on the surface, but it was enough to wipe out species. For the very few survivors, life on a planet worth nothing after the burn was also meaningless.
However, in conventional wars, it was rather useless.
It was extremely expensive, its manufacturing cost coming close to that of a cruiser.
Its penetration ability was very weak, very easy to intercept; a single Defender or Reflector hit could render it useless, and using it to attack enemy ships was pure fantasy.
As an Extinction Order weapon, it was viable, but if one intended to occupy the planet, it was clear that this thing could not be used—once used, the planet would also become useless.
If it was an extinction-level war, the harsh launch conditions would also require complete orbital control of the planet by the launch party. Otherwise, if the enemy’s anti-orbital firepower exploded it in the atmosphere, it would be moot.
The most common scenario for its use was having full control of the orbit while the surface battles were unwinnable, and if there was no intention to keep the planet, then launching one would suffice to exterminate everything.
A few months ago, Korolya almost took this route. If Gu Hang hadn’t solved the problem and assessed it to be unsolvable, he would have submitted an application, found a big shot who could take the responsibility, settled the matter, and arranged for a Skyburn Torpedo to be sent. While the Cult had not yet deployed Anti-Orbit Cannons to cover the entire planet, they could have deployed the Skyburn Torpedo on the opposite side of the planet from Fino City and that would have been Korolya receiving the Extinction Order.
Gu Hang thought it over, this technology was very sensitive, more than anything he had obtained in the past.
Things like Knight Mecha and Warhound Titan were already quite problematic. Rifles, tanks, armored vehicles, and warplanes, the Sect of Mechanics didn’t care much about the diffusion of these technologies.
From another perspective, this might also be a tacit agreement between the Empire and the Sect of Mechanics.
However, when it came to Knight Mecha and Titans, two of the Sect of Mechanics’ most iconic products, the restriction was much more stringent.
Although there had not been any wars reported over this matter, as far as one could see, except for the Sect of Mechanics’ Foundry Worlds and a few places with especially tight relations with the Sect, other places had not been seen making them.
Not to mention manufacturing, there were hardly any non-Sect of Mechanics forces heard of that could operate such war machines—except for Knight Mecha, as many feudal worlds often bought them or directly became Knight Worlds under the Sect of Mechanics’ command.