Earth year 3760.

Space rift manufacturing technology is nearing maturity, with a maximum lifespan of up to 10 minutes and a flight speed extended from 500°C to 600°C.

A kill radius of 100 light-hours, while not far, is enough to replace various close-range weapons on human warships.

As for long-range strikes...

Yevgeny also put forward a proposal.

By directly integrating the space rift generation device into the warp missile, human civilization can launch space attacks on targets hundreds of light-years away.

Of course, as of now, this is just a proposal.

Until a more powerful unified field generator and a more powerful antimatter reactor are mastered, integrating space weapons into warp missiles remains an unattainable goal.

Yevgeny was well aware of this.

Undeterred, he quickly came up with an alternative.

To manufacture a batch of disposable small unmanned warships equipped with space weapons.

These small warships are not very large, with an average size of 500 to 800 meters.

According to Yevgeny's plan, these small warships would carry only one space rift manufacturing device, in addition to a large number of antimatter reactors and some basic functional modules.

Although they are a bit large, they are still capable of performing the function of warp drive missiles—launching space attacks on targets hundreds of light-years away.

This type of attack is a one-off event and is extremely costly.

But in any case, human civilization has gained a small trump card.

On the other hand, after achieving a small breakthrough in the unified field technology, Wilson also became a very busy man.

The power of energy weapons is strongly correlated with the strength of the unified field, so Wilson is likely to be busier and happier than Yevgeny at this time.

The Academy of Sciences' signature program thus came to an end, which even left researchers in the weapons development department with a sense of regret.

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Besides a minor breakthrough in the unified field technology, the development of space weapons has also driven breakthroughs in spacetime theory.

Lin Yongnian, a new generation academician specializing in spacetime theory, also proved his strength to Lü Yongchang and Fang Xu during the research and development process.

He not only successfully incorporated the phenomenon of spacetime discontinuity into the existing spacetime theory system, but also significantly filled the gaps in the original spacetime theory.

More importantly.

Through his research on spatial fissure phenomena, he proposed several further applications of spacetime theory.

Spacetime Trap Technology

The prototype of this technology had already appeared during the final battle of the Enrogett civilization.

By stimulating key spatiotemporal nodes, a resonance can be triggered in the spacetime ocean, thereby limiting the opponent's warp drive and space weapons.

After further refining the spacetime theory, Lin Yongnian discovered that the interference effect of this technology that induces spacetime resonance on space weapons is actually not very serious.

Once the "depth" of the spatial fissure exceeds a critical value, the effect of spatiotemporal resonance on it will tend to level off.

Simply put, in that final battle, humanity got incredibly lucky.

If it were a real space weapon, or if the energy output of the Enroget civilization were several times higher, the rudimentary spacetime tsunami created by human civilization would be completely ineffective.

This does not mean that spacetime resonance technology is useless.

In Lin Yongnian's report, the "spacetime trap" based on the spacetime resonance effect has an extremely powerful limiting effect on the warp drive.

As long as the enemy cannot decipher the fluctuation patterns of the [Space-Time Trap], they will be unable to enter warp drive mode.

For human civilization, even within a spacetime trap, a specific algorithm can still ensure the low-power operation of the warp drive—allowing for travel at a low speed of light, less than 1c.

The effect is similar to the tripwires used in ancient human civilization.

The first move was to capture the opponent's "horse".

Regardless of whether this technology is feasible, Lü Yongchang was quite satisfied with the solution when he saw it.

You understand the People's Federation.

The second is an enhanced version of the spatial rift based on the spacetime theory system.

[Space Annihilation].

It is somewhat similar to the principle of spacetime resonance, which involves applying external forces to several key spacetime nodes to directly break the flat spacetime.

It's like hitting the edge of bulletproof glass with a hammer.

Theoretically speaking, the destructive power of this spatial fragmentation phenomenon is enormous!

It can directly pulverize any object within the target space down to the atomic level!

Throughout history, attacking has always been the simplest method.

Therefore, although Lin Yongnian proposed several solutions for applying spacetime theory to weapons, he had little clue as to how to defend against these attacks.

Lu Yongchang wasn't in a hurry; he just told Lin Yongnian to thoroughly study the plans at hand first.

Humanity's understanding of spacetime theory is still in its early stages. Once the theory is perfected, the necessary technologies will emerge.

Of course, after seeing off Lin Yongnian, who came to the office to report on his work, Lü Yongchang also entered the technology tree space again.

Over the years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has accumulated a growing body of technology and theoretical knowledge.

The once incredibly bleak tech tree now has a few bright lights appearing at its bottom.

Lü Yongchang turned his attention to the main section of the technology tree.

The theory of spacetime forms the backbone of the sixth-level civilization's technology tree, and on this backbone, there is a cursor with a brightness of less than 20%.

The writing on it was also very blurry, but the word "shield" could still be vaguely seen.

Undoubtedly, this is a defensive measure belonging to a Level 6 civilization.

Looking at the cursor whose brightness had hardly changed over the years, Lü Yongchang couldn't help but feel a little confused.

While all technologies are on the same main trunk, their brightness has changed to varying degrees over the past few years—the changes at the top of the technology tree are relatively small, while the changes at the bottom are relatively large.

The only thing that hasn't changed much is the cursor, which relates to defensive measures.

Is it because our understanding of space and time is insufficient?

Or is it because some crucial pre-processing technology is missing?

Lu Yongchang was somewhat puzzled.

Because the cursor's brightness was too low, he couldn't easily force the tech tree system to analyze it.

Left with no other choice, he had to temporarily set aside his defensive measures.

He has more important things to do now.

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Breakthroughs in basic theories have brought unprecedented "vitality" to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

This applies not only to weapons development departments, but even more so to other departments.

The simultaneous breakthroughs in grand unified field theory and spacetime theory have led to a surge in the number of papers and research findings recently published by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The same applies to the optical computer research and development center led by Academician Mo Zeyang.