After arranging everything, Ye Chen entered the Morning Moon Cave alone to begin researching the technology needed for a Level 2 civilization's spaceship.
Typical technologies of a Type II civilization include antimatter technology, warp drive technology, Dyson spheres, strong artificial intelligence, supermagnetic railguns, gravity weapons, and electromagnetic shields.
Researching any of these requires a lot of manpower, resources, and time. Ye Chen roughly estimated that for the spaceship he was developing to be able to compete with the spaceships of alien civilizations, its speed could not lag too far behind theirs.
The saying goes, "In martial arts, speed is the only way to break through defenses," and this principle also applies to interstellar warfare.
Ye Chen considered the technologies that needed to be developed and decided to start by developing warp drive technology.
Human spacecraft currently also use warp drive technology, but it is only in its early stages, and the highest speed reached is only one-fifth of the speed of light.
To reach the level of an alien spaceship, the warp drive must at least be advanced to the next generation of technology, i.e., the intermediate stage.
After determining the research order, Ye Chen directly ordered, "Zhi Zi, prioritize the manufacturing of the equipment needed to develop the warp drive. Let's start from here!"
"Yes, Master."
The intelligent robot beside him agreed, and immediately all the production equipment in the entire Morning Moon Cave Heaven began to be converted to produce the equipment needed for the warp engine and a large number of experimental prototypes.
The development of the next-generation warp drive involves conducting extensive experiments and continuously improving its performance based on the previous generation engine.
Ten years after the dawn moon cave, Ye Chen successfully increased the maximum speed of the warp engine to 30% of the speed of light!
Ten years later, the warp drive's top speed increased to 35% of the speed of light!
Ten years later, the warp drive's top speed increased to 40% of the speed of light!
However, as research continued, it seemed that the warp drive had reached a limit, and no matter how much performance it was improved, it could not exceed 40% of the speed of light.
Once this critical point is reached, the warp drive will explode!
“Master, the materials used to manufacture the warp drive are insufficient. We need to achieve a breakthrough in materials. According to my calculations, to reach more than 50% of the speed of light, we need materials with strong interaction forces.”
Finally, after analyzing numerous failures, Zhizi found the reason.
Although the super alloys currently used to manufacture warp drives are already very powerful, they still cannot meet the requirements.
Ye Chen had no choice but to stop his research and leave Chenyue Cave to retrieve the statues left behind by the mythological civilization.
The material used to make the statue is the same material used for strong interaction forces. With a sample as a reference, Ye Chen is confident that he can create the strong interaction force material he wants.
He stayed in Chenyue Cave for almost 25 years, which is equivalent to four months in Earth's time.
Ye Chen spent a day outside, not only to spend time with his wife and children, but also to distribute the results he had obtained to various research institutions so that they could cooperate in verifying them.
At the same time, they also went to the Kuiper base to extract raw materials.
Afterwards, Ye Chen continued his research inside the Morning Moon Cave.
Five years later, the strong interaction material was successfully developed.
It took another year for Ye Chen to create a warp drive using this material, which broke through 50% of the speed of light in a single test.
Moreover, this is not its limit. With enough power, this warp drive could theoretically reach the speed of light!
Ye Chen was overjoyed and sent the warp drive out of Chenyue Cave Heaven to Li Muyue so that she could conduct experiments on it in the outside world.
He then returned to Morning Moon Cave to conduct his next scientific and technological research.
This time, he targeted the weapon systems—the supermagnetic railgun and the antimatter annihilation cannon.
Through his research over the years, he has been able to deduce that alien spacecraft, which are also at the level 2, must already possess an outer shell made of materials equivalent to those used in the strong interaction force, as well as an energy shield.
With current human attack methods, we probably couldn't even break through the outer shell of an alien spaceship.
Therefore, in addition to having speed, you also need weapons with sufficient offensive power to break through the spaceship's defenses and cause damage to it.
The supermagnetic railgun accelerates projectiles to near the speed of light, enabling it to penetrate the outer shell of a material with a strong interaction force.
The antimatter annihilation cannon utilizes the annihilation reaction that occurs when antimatter and matter meet, generating a huge energy release to destroy the target, making it perfect for dealing with energy shields.
With this double protection, it should be enough to penetrate the alien spaceship's shields!
The development of the super-magnetic railgun is relatively simple, since a first-level civilization has already made significant progress in the study of electromagnetism.
The remarkable thing is that it releases enough energy to accelerate the projectile to near the speed of light in a short period of time.
After five years in Chenyue Cave, Ye Chen finally overcame this problem and created a cannon.
The principle is actually quite simple: the burst of energy after the annihilation of matter and antimatter is controlled by a super magnetic field, which is used to accelerate objects.
Through multiple simulations, it was found that the energy released from the annihilation of 1 kilogram of matter and antimatter is enough to accelerate a bullet-sized object to near the speed of light in 0.1 seconds.
The principle behind the antimatter annihilation cannon is to send a sufficient amount of antimatter to the target, so that the matter and antimatter meet and annihilate, releasing powerful energy that destroys everything around them.
The cannon Ye Chen built was the size of a three-story house. It was powered by nuclear fusion and could be used as both an electromagnetic cannon and an antimatter annihilation cannon.
Load it with physical bullets, and it becomes a super electromagnetic cannon.
If you replace it with a projectile equipped with antimatter, then it becomes an antimatter annihilation cannon.
The only challenge now is to produce enough antimatter.
Antimatter is not easy to produce. It requires the use of high-energy particle accelerators. By accelerating particles to extremely high energies and then colliding them, there is a chance to produce antiparticles.
Then, by collecting these antiparticles, and having enough antiparticles aggregate together, antimatter can be formed.
This process requires a great deal of energy and time to accumulate gradually.
Fortunately, the energy currently used by humans is generated by nuclear fusion, which is sufficient to support the production of antimatter.
Ye Chen's time was precious. After handing over the task of creating antimatter to the United Government, he continued to devote himself to the research and development of the next technology.
Twenty years after Chenyue Cave, Ye Chen had completed 30% of the development of the second-level spaceship.
Twenty years later, the development of the second-stage spacecraft reached 40%.
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After spending nearly 200 years in Chenyue Cave, Ye Chen finally completed all the technological development of the second-level spaceship!
The rest is to build the spaceship. The manufacturing time for a spaceship is about 10 years in the outside world.
Moreover, a level two spaceship could not possibly be built within the small world of Chenyue Cave Heaven; it could only be constructed in an environment with more perfect external rules.
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