Mars City No. 1
Laser weapon research and development laboratory.
"Professor Wilson," Lu Yongchang's voice came from the doorway, "How's the research progressing?"
Upon hearing the voice, Wilson's eyes lit up, and he quickly stood up from his seat and strode towards the front door to greet the sound.
"professor."
As Lü Yongchang, dressed in a white coat, approached, Wilson bowed slightly and greeted him respectfully.
"Has the electromagnetic railgun testing ended? How were the results?"
Seeing the defiant look in Wilson's eyes, Lü Yongchang smiled and said, "The effect is very good! The initial velocity of the projectile reached 6,000 kilometers per second!"
"Based on Yevgeny's suggestion, we added miniature nuclear bombs inside the electromagnetic railgun projectiles, greatly increasing their destructive power!"
"An asteroid with a diameter of 100 kilometers was reduced to dust in one minute."
Wilson froze, a flicker of doubt crossing his eyes. He muttered to himself, "This...this electromagnetic cannon is that powerful?"
At that moment, Wilson even pictured Yevgeny showing off in front of him.
"How about your side? How powerful are your laser weapons?"
Lü Yongchang's voice interrupted Wilson's "daydream".
“Professor, I was just about to come to you.” Wilson said softly, a hint of embarrassment in his eyes, “We’ve already developed a laser weapon, but…”
Lu Yongchang's face lit up with joy: "There have been results already? Take me to see them!"
With that, Lü Yongchang walked directly into the laboratory.
Wilson quickly followed behind Lü Yongchang: "Professor Lü, currently our laser weapons have an effective attack range of only about 50,000 kilometers."
"Once the distance exceeds 50,000 kilometers, the power of laser weapons will decrease rapidly."
"In addition, in order to increase the power of the laser, we..."
"Holy crap!" Lu Yongchang's exclamation echoed through the laboratory. "It's so big?!"
“…we’ve slightly adjusted the size of the laser emitter,” Wilson added in a low voice.
Lu Yongchang stared blankly at the laser emitter that occupied most of the laboratory: "You call this a slight adjustment?"
"This laser emitter must have a radius of at least 10 meters, right?"
“…To be precise, it’s 9.5 meters.” Wilson said cautiously. “Professor Lu, don’t let its size fool you, it’s incredibly powerful!”
Lü Yongchang sighed deeply.
These weapon makers are all incredibly unreliable.
The former only had nuclear weapons on his mind, while the latter was focused on "growing bigger and stronger".
"For example?"
Upon hearing this, Wilson's expression immediately became excited!
"Professor, according to our tests, even the armor of the Luan Bird Starship cannot withstand it for a second."
Lu Yongchang was stunned for a moment.
He looked up again at the disc-shaped laser lens in front of him, which had a radius of 9.5 meters.
He suddenly realized that the huge disc in front of him seemed much more pleasing to the eye.
"Cough cough!" Lu Yongchang coughed twice, leaned closer to Wilson, and asked in a low voice, "Can the power be increased?"
Wilson: "???"
“You know, we are about to face a difficult interstellar war. A range of 50,000 kilometers seems a bit short to me.” Lu Yongchang straightened his expression and continued, “Furthermore, without knowing the thickness and strength of the enemy ship’s armor, we can only try to increase the power of our weapons as much as possible.”
"What do you think, Professor Wilson?"
Wilson snapped back to reality: "Professor Lu, I think you're right!"
"It's just that... there's the range issue; this is already the highest power we can support right now."
Lü Yongchang frowned: "The problem with the fusion reactor?"
“Not entirely.” Wilson’s eyes showed a hint of bitterness. “It’s mainly a heat dissipation problem.”
"Professor, as you know, it is difficult to dissipate heat in space."
"We can only achieve active cooling through a large amount of coolant, so this laser weapon is currently the limit of what we can do."
Seeing Lü Yongchang's slightly disappointed expression, Wilson gritted his teeth and said again, "In addition, due to heat dissipation issues, the effectiveness of laser weapons in actual combat may not be as good as you imagine."
"In order to increase power and reduce heat dissipation pressure, we specially designed this laser weapon to be pulsed."
"In other words, it cannot provide continuous illumination."
Lu Yongchang's face grew increasingly grim.
This is undoubtedly bad news.
The inability to provide sustained illumination means that this laser weapon poses less of a threat to enemy ships than an electromagnetic railgun!
"Then what's the use of this laser weapon?" Lu Yongchang shook his head with a look of disappointment.
In his original vision, laser weapons could serve as the main offensive weapons in interstellar warfare.
With its immense power and high speed, this is undoubtedly a weapon born for interstellar warfare!
But reality dealt him a heavy blow.
“Professor, we believe that the true purpose of this laser weapon should be to intercept enemy kinetic weapons,” Wilson whispered a reminder.
Wilson's words enlightened Lü Yongchang.
His eyes lit up, and the scene of the zero-control electromagnetic cannon sweeping through his mind not long ago immediately came to mind.
"That's right..."
Lu Yongchang muttered to himself, "If Zero were to control this laser weapon, we could construct an interception zone spanning 50,000 kilometers!"
"But what should we choose as the primary weapon?"
He frowned and slowly walked to a seat to the side.
"Professor Lü..."
Seeing Lü Yongchang's somewhat "disheartened" appearance, Wilson's eyes revealed a hint of worry.
Hearing the call, Lü Yongchang raised his hand and waved it casually: "Don't worry, give me some time to think it over."
As he spoke, he sat down in the chair and closed his eyes.
Humanity has little time left; he has no extra time to try.
...
Inside the fluorescent green space of the technology tree.
Lu Yongchang silently watched the increasingly robust technology tree in front of him.
In the upper left corner of the tech tree, two faint white lights are slowly extending.
[Initial Mastery of Kinetic Weapons: Electromagnetic Coil Gun Technology]
[Prototype of an energy weapon: High-energy laser technology]
The two dim cursors gradually lit up.
The white light spots continued to extend upwards.
Until the next dim cursor, the white dot slowly faded away.
The cursor was very dim, and even the text on it was barely legible.
Lu Yongchang stared at the dim cursor, focusing all his attention on it.
After the familiar dizziness, a prompt slowly appeared in his mind.
Particle Beam
As the notification appeared, a strong sense of fatigue welled up from within my body.
He looked up.
They are only one step away from achieving the "initial mastery of energy weapons," a symbol of a Level 2 civilization.
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