Once the buildings and trap equipment were in place, the focus of the plan shifted to fleet deployment.

This is the largest combat fleet Bai Yi has ever commanded.

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of this plan, more than 100 Titan-class super battleships alone have gathered here.

In order to provide combat endurance and logistical supplies for these more than 100 Titan warships, the Upper Blackstone Fortress also dispatched almost all of its combat auxiliary ships.

More than 300 combat auxiliary ships can provide a large number of bonuses and maintenance services for the spacecraft on the field.

The long-range shield transmission units and armor repair units they carry can greatly improve the pressure resistance of all spacecraft present, especially flagship-level spacecraft.

In addition, there are also a large number of dreadnought-class battleships gathered here.

As a representative of tough, durable, and capable ships, the dreadnought is the absolute mainstay in real large-scale fleet battles.

It can be said that its number directly determines the firepower intensity of the warring parties.

In comparison, battleships with a tonnage smaller than that of dreadnoughts play a much smaller role in fleet battles.

Their main purpose is to fill the line, provide battle zone control and firepower supplement.

As for the more light conventional spaceships below the battleships, they are usually not used as firepower units in fleet decisive battles.

Instead, they are assigned to various other harassment missions, or use their strong mobility to harass the enemy's logistics, or carry special equipment to perform interception missions.

After gathering, the huge fleet formed a dispersed hollow barrel-shaped structure along the Dyson beam portal.

The entire fleet was initially arranged most densely, and then gradually widened with the diffraction of the Dyson beam.

The Dyson beam is like a stream of water sprayed from a high-pressure faucet. It is not a straight line, but will gradually spread as the emission distance increases.

If conditions permit, all flagship spacecraft will arrive at their positions in advance before the official battle begins.

These positions have been carefully planned in advance to ensure that each warship can receive maximum support from nearby spacecraft.

Among all the flagships in the layout, there is a new type of spaceship that really attracts Bai Yi's attention.

This type of ship is not a new type of ship. On the contrary, it has existed long before humans left the Earth. Moreover, its appearance quickly changed the pattern of naval warfare within the atmosphere, extending the battlefield from the water surface to the sky.

This type of ship is an aircraft carrier.

Generally speaking, aircraft carriers don't play a big role in space.

This is because in space, large spacecraft have incomparable advantages in all aspects.

The first thing to consider when traveling in space is the fuel issue.

Larger ships can carry more fuel, even if the Galactic Alliance's technology has advanced to the point where it can use antimatter or even zero-point energy reactors.

The cost of miniaturizing these reactors remains a huge number.

Larger spacecraft often have larger internal space, which allows them to install reactors with greater power and lower unit costs.

In addition to fuel, the life support system is also a very big difficulty.

In order to carry out long-distance and long-term voyages in a vacuum, the quality of life of the crew members on the ship must be guaranteed to a certain extent.

Larger spacecraft have stronger self-sustaining capabilities, their internal environment has a higher carrying capacity, and the internal circulation is less likely to be disrupted by human factors.

At the same time, more spacious activity space can also contribute to the mental health of crew members, enrich their daily lives and reduce the occurrence of diseases.

In addition to the above two points, large spacecraft have another particularly important advantage that is usually easily overlooked, that is, heat dissipation.

As we all know, heat engines inevitably generate losses when converting internal energy into mechanical energy, and their thermal efficiency is inevitably less than 1.

Ultimately, these extra losses will manifest themselves in the entire system as waste heat.

Dissipating heat in space is very difficult.

Even though 99.9999% of space is in an ultra-low temperature state close to absolute zero, the matter in the universe is too sparse to form effective heat convection and heat conduction.

Therefore, the waste heat generated when mechanical equipment is running can only be dissipated in the form of thermal radiation.

However, the heat dissipation efficiency of thermal radiation is very low.

When a naked person is exposed to a vacuum, they will not freeze quickly as shown in movies and TV shows, nor will they explode due to the pressure difference between the inside and outside.

He would lose body heat slowly, as slowly as if exposed to a summer morning breeze, and eventually die from asphyxiation and systemic organ failure caused by ruptured capillaries.

It is precisely because of the extremely low thermal conductivity of thermal radiation that in the timeline in which Bai Yi lived, the ISS, also known as the International Space Station, flew with a large number of white heat sinks plugged in.

Applying this conclusion, we can see that although large spacecraft will generate more heat when working, they also have more material to carry this waste heat.

These spacecraft can be equipped with more complete and powerful recovery and cooling systems.

It's like the desktop computer at home and the mobile phone in your hand.

Desktop computers have more space for heat dissipation, so the hardware inside the case can run at a higher power consumption.

Even if more heat is generated, it can be actively accelerated by increasing the fan speed or transferring the heat to the coolant.

However, mobile phones do not have space to install these devices, so once the temperature rises, they can only passively dissipate heat by limiting their own performance.

In addition to the above advantages, large spacecraft also have absolute say in detection power, damage redundancy, protection, and firepower.

Even in terms of mobility.

Since larger spacecraft can be equipped with larger thrusters and more efficient reactors, in the long run, the total amount of acceleration that a larger spacecraft can achieve will inevitably exceed that of a smaller spacecraft.

That is due to the reasons mentioned above.

After a long period of development, humans entered the space age, and the outdated concept of tonnage advantage was once again picked up.

Therefore, for a considerable period of time after entering space, the aircraft carrier, the overlord of the planet, had little presence.

Even though the Galactic Alliance has an aircraft carrier in its current fleet, its significance is more to serve as a mobile logistics base, providing supplies and support for small spacecraft.

After all, carrier-based aircraft have no advantages in space. Due to their limited tonnage, their range and the weapons they can carry are very limited.

At the same time, the high-power radars and supporting analysis hosts installed on large platforms can lock onto carrier-based aircraft before they launch an attack.

But during this preparation, aircraft carriers were sent back to the battlefield as the main ships on the front line.