Chen Ming did not pay too much attention to the affairs of the empire afterwards.

He has done everything he should do.

He should always focus on his own affairs.

He can remember all the random things he is doing or arranging others to do in his mind.

Check on it from time to time and see the progress.

As time goes by.

Chen Ming has more and more people he can use.

Gradually, the only project he really needed to keep an eye on was the design of his own capital ship.

The progress of this battleship project is approaching the end as half a year has passed.

Previously, Chen Ming spent half a year planning and deciding on the type of main control system for the spacecraft, and then spent several more months deciding on the direction of the spacecraft's energy source, engine, armor, and weapons.

In the past six months, he would naturally decide all these things.

When the energy source of the battleship is first considered, it is always the antimatter engine, which is a dimensionality reduction attack compared to any technology of the same era.

As long as it can be equipped with an auxiliary biomass engine to ensure that the spacecraft will not encounter an energy emergency situation at any time, it can almost be said to perfectly meet Chen Ming's needs.

but.

The engine that was finally decided to be installed was a composite engine that Chen Ming made himself experimentally, which combined the effects of antimatter engine and biomass engine.

Once you master the mechanical and biological fusion technology, you will eventually have to put it to use.

The final test results of this composite engine are indeed very good.

But when Chen Ming developed the engine, many researchers in the project team who were in charge of the engine were worried about the stability and adaptability of this half-mechanical, half-biological technology.

Chen Ming actually had a similar idea at the beginning.

But after he replicated several composite engines and tested them on different models and levels of spacecraft.

No one has this problem anymore.

The ship's composite engine is equipped with the latest battery technology based on energy crystal technology.

This battery technology uses not only the energy crystals created by Chen Ming himself.

Ever since he shared some biotechnologies including energy crystallization technology with An Wuping some time ago, almost all the technologies have undergone several iterations.

Energy crystallization technology has just been developed and has great development prospects.

The empire is so big that there must be someone who can see these things and develop the energy crystallization technology in a very short time.

Today, the energy crystal worms that produce energy crystals have undergone the extraction and fusion of genes from species that are rare in the empire many times. The crystals produced have greatly improved the energy storage limit and efficiency compared to before, while the energy self-dissipation efficiency has been extremely reduced.

After further battery encapsulation processing, the energy dissipation efficiency of crystalline batteries is almost close to zero.

It has very good performance in terms of long-term spacecraft endurance and short-term high-energy usage.

Even during the design process of the battleship, the energy crystal technology underwent several iterations.

The engines and supporting equipment that had been installed on the spacecraft had to be removed several times, which wasted some time.

But it’s time well spent.

The spacecraft's engine is of course also equipped with additional functional engine accessories.

This includes hyperspace channel engines and jump engines, as well as the hyperspace channel jump engines which have also been iterated several times.

However, the spacecraft does not have a phase engine.

The reason is very simple.

This capital ship, built from the corpse of a Phase Beast Leader, possesses that power in itself.

It just so happens that the Empire's psychic technology has also been developing rapidly in recent times.

Chen Ming relies on psychic power to study and interpret various relics obtained from the Shining Civilization, such as the Infernal Core and Synchrotron Core, as well as the psychic theories exchanged by the Empire from the survivors.

The Empire has its own initial methods of studying various psychic matters.

In the beginning, we just need to follow Chen Ming's initial ideas in researching the core of Purgatory. Later, many people will integrate these technologies and research other things to achieve results.

The Empire has plenty of ways to replicate these psychic creations.

Although the effect may not be as good as that of the original Shining Civilization, this is only the first step taken by the empire.

After special research, these methods can be transformed into power for regulating the phase power of phase beasts.

Although the phase power of the phase beast is not a psychic power, this special power is similar to psychic power in nature.

It is precisely because of the special advantages brought by the spacecraft’s own structure that the large type model of Chen Ming’s battleship can basically be determined at present.

Phase battleship.

The specific name has not been decided yet. Chen Ming just has an idea. It will depend on his mood to decide what the name will be.

The battleship not only had an engine, but its armor was also improved during this period.

The innermost layer of the spacecraft's composite armor is made of phase beast scales from the corpse of the phase beast leader, which have had some of their properties modified by the Queen.

These scales not only have a protective effect, but they also serve as the basis for the Phase Beast to use phase power to a certain extent.

Therefore, replacement is not possible.

And if it is just used as armor lining, there is really no better material.

The armor outside the innermost layer is covered with the most common biological material Chen Ming currently has on hand, the Zerg shell, with an additional buffer layer inside.

Although Zerg shell is a very common material, the Zerg shell itself has a very powerful effect.

Moreover, the Zerg carapace installed inside the armor is a new type of Zerg armor that the Queen specially strengthened for battleships and cannot be effectively used on mid- and low-level spacecraft.

The name is still the same, but the difference in strength is huge.

The outer armor is still metal armor like other spacecraft.

The outermost layer of the spacecraft's armor is coated with a layer of artificial star-eating fluid, which can also be considered a layer of star-eating armor after solidifying.

This layer of Star Devourer Armor exists not to allow battleships to enter stars, but for other purposes.

Because the material ratio of artificial star-eating fluid has also undergone some changes in the past six months.

The original effect of the Star-Eating Fluid was simply to protect against the high heat and radiation of the star.

But someone in the Empire saw an opportunity in this and changed the actual direction of the Star-Eating Fluid's effect by changing the ratio.

Liquids that originally prevent the effects of energy such as heat and radiation can limit the actual effects of energy weapons to a greater extent.

Just a thin layer is enough to reduce the direct hit effect of most energy weapons by more than 20%.

This layer of Star-Eating Fluid Armor itself is an additional attachment and can be easily repaired.

And this is the general structure of the armor.

There is no need to mention the biomass material inside the armor.

The best shell materials that the Queen Insect can produce will be used on it, and Chen Ming has repeatedly optimized and strengthened it, so the quality is there.

The metal material of the spacecraft's armor is even more outrageous.

When Chen Ming first built this battleship, he thought of it as his most important spaceship and the flagship of the fleet.

In addition, the corpse of the phase beast leader is not an easy material to obtain. It is impossible for Chen Ming to obtain the phase and protection from the phase space and then slaughter the beast that protects the phase space as material.

Therefore, when he designed and built this battleship, he did not consider the issue of mass production at all, and he just piled materials wherever they could be piled.

Ultimately, ordinary-grade materials accounted for less than 20% of the spacecraft's armor layer, high-grade materials accounted for 46%, and the rest were all special-grade materials that Chen Ming invested in regardless of cost and only looked for the best results.

The manufacturing cost is extremely high, and the maintenance cost is endless.

But Chen Ming also thought it through. If he only had one such spaceship, there would be no problem at all with the support of the entire Zerg and Yuhui, who was also developing rapidly.

Many people in the project team once complained that Chen Ming was wasting resources. After all, those high-end and special materials could be used to build more battleships.

However, after Chen Ming made public several incidents in which he used Zerg battleships and Leviathan, such voices became less frequent.

How important it is to have top combat power of equal strength when facing top combat power.

Whether this top combat force is a psychic or a powerful spaceship.

But even so, there are still people talking nonsense.

For example, why Chen Ming did not use such materials to build Titan-class ships.

Not to mention whether there are any phase beasts that can reach the size of a Titan.

The size difference between the battleship and the Titan class alone is enough to cost Chen Ming half his life, and he simply cannot produce so many materials.

Subsequent maintenance and repairs would completely ruin Chen Ming's finances.

What's more, the theory of Titan-class ships was only proposed half a year ago, and the theoretical research has not been completed yet, so it is nonsense to build a Titan ship.

Chen Ming was too lazy to pay attention to them and continued to do what he was supposed to do.

Anyway, he is the leader of the project, and his ideas are the most important in the design of this battleship.

Therefore, the shield of this battleship was also installed with a psychic shield under Chen Ming's mandatory request.

The shield was one of the earliest issues discussed when this spacecraft was first designed.

However, Chen Ming looked down upon most of the shields at that time.

So he forced himself to suppress the problem with the shield.

Until the Plane Nightmare was killed and the research on the Plane Nightmare's psychic shield was completed, the Empire had a certain level of psychic knowledge, which was enough to replicate the psychic shield.

Chen Mingcai decided the development direction of the spacecraft shield.

This decision is absolutely correct.

No shield in the Empire can match the power of the Psionic Shield.

As for weapons, which can be considered external objects compared to the main battleship itself, Chen Ming has also been researching and developing them.

It is impossible for a main force weapon to be used simply by enlarging the power of a large weapon.

When designing each battleship, a dedicated person will be responsible for designing various weapons specifically designed to match the battleship.

Able to maximize the advantages of battleships.

For example, the offensive-level main weapon that Chen Ming is most familiar with is the thermal pulse laser.

This thing has extremely terrifying energy consumption, and when in use it takes up most of the spacecraft's energy supply.

When a normal spaceship fires, the radiation energy value rises rapidly. Only battleships like the Offensive, which have extremely thick armor and almost useless shields, can save a lot of energy and be able to adapt to such weapons.

Therefore, when Chen Ming designed his own battleship, he fully considered the nature and advantages of the ship, as well as his own ideas.

In the end, based on his knowledge of space and the power of phase space, he developed a space distortion generator called "Chaos".

It is equivalent to an extension of some of Chen Ming's abilities.

Although the space distortion effect was not very good when we fought the Jellyfish Leviathan some time ago, the Jellyfish Leviathan is an electromagnetic life form.

Space weapons are definitely the best choice against most types of enemies.

To this day.

Most of the structures of the battleship designed by Chen Ming have been manufactured, and only the final steps of the ship's development phase remain before the assembly, optimization, and shipment process can be carried out.

In three months at the latest, the research and development process of this battleship will be completely completed.

In Chen Ming's office.

Chen Ming closed the reports that had been scattered around from various battleship project teams on his computer in recent times and breathed a sigh of relief.

That’s about it for today.

He will have more time to look at these things when he starts to wrap up in a few days.

Thinking of this, Chen Ming stood up from his desk and prepared to leave.

Although he is now able to concentrate on doing one thing for about ten days without sleep.

But there is more to his life than just work, and he is not alone now.

Moreover, before the war between the Empire and the Mechanical Race began, Chen Ming had already discussed the time of his wedding with Xinghai with Bai Quan.

Since the war ended faster than expected, the wedding should be held earlier.

The wedding is still three months away.

Chen Ming raised the corner of his mouth slightly and was about to turn off the computer.

Suddenly I saw two messages sent to my computer one after another.

One is from the Minister of Psionics, and the other is from the Fourteenth Legion.

Thinking of dealing with distant matters before nearby ones, Chen Ming first looked at the message from the Minister of Psychic Power, which contained a document.

The content of the document is the archaeological progress inside the Shining Civilization Cultural Memorial Hall that Chen Ming discovered some time ago underground on a planet in the pulsar system where the jellyfish Leviathan first appeared.

The Empire sent a total of two teams to investigate the ruins.

One team starts from the beginning of the historical record of the Shining Civilization and works backwards, while the other team works from the back to the front.

The team from front to back has already determined the history of the Shining Civilization during the primitive biological period and the intelligent life period, and will soon be able to study the history of the Shining Civilization's entry into civilization.

This has little to do with Chen Ming. What matters more is the group that is conducting research from the bottom up, that is, from the time when the Shining Civilization was destroyed.

Their progress was less than ideal compared to the other team.

After all, in the past, detailed records did not necessarily require writing.

The early era spanned a long period, and biological evolution can be traced. As long as there are enough ancient artifacts, we can always analyze something.

But studying the last period of the Shining Civilization from the bottom up inevitably requires text to accompany it.

The text in this relic has been worn out by time and there are no clues at all.

The ruins of the Shining Civilization in other places do not have any written records like this ruins.

All we can say is that the pulses of pulsars in the galaxy have a great impact on many things, causing electronic equipment to be damaged and rusted, and also causing these texts to be worn out and completely unreadable.

even so.

The archaeological team is still trying to conduct research based on the Empire's understanding of the Shining.

And recently, they discovered a strange place on the ground floor of the Shining Civilization Cultural Center.

On a floor close to the ground floor of this cultural center, there is a row of rusted equipment.

Through an investigation using equipment specifically used for archaeology, the team discovered some kind of imprint on the wall next to it.

There was a device nearby that created a three-dimensional projection for a long time, leaving a projection mark on the wall.

The archaeological team took all the photos, handed them over to their superiors, and finally to the Minister of Psychic Powers.

And the reason why the Minister of Psychic Power sent the photos to Chen Ming.

It lies in the appearance of those projected marks.

When Chen Ming finished reading the document, he discovered that these marks looked like the Leviathan he had seen before.

Chen Ming had seen a total of four types of Leviathans before.

Scavengers, Planar Nightmare, Star Eater and Tricolor Jellyfish.

In the past six months, when he let Yuhui start to explore the surrounding galaxies, he encountered two more and killed them all.

Each is a Leviathan that hatched from an egg that disguised itself as a habitable planet but actually devoured all life on the planet.

and a crystalline Leviathan that exists in an asteroid belt in a certain system.

At first, Chen Ming didn't think the latter was Leviathan, but just some kind of space creature.

Because they were initially scattered throughout the asteroid belt.

But when Chen Ming was handling them, they suddenly merged into one, forming a giant crystal beast.

Of course this did not affect Chen Ming's final solution.

The bodies of the two Leviathans were dragged back to the Gaia galaxy, thrown into orbit, and a space station dedicated to studying them was built.

During this period, the two new Leviathan space stations also produced their own results.

The Leviathan in that egg is special.

It will look for some suitable planets and inject its eggs into the planets, and the injected eggs will transform the interior of the planet into nutrients for the Leviathan in the process.

This kind of nutrition is a very scarce volatile liquid resource in the empire, and it is very valuable even in gaseous form.

The Leviathan space station studies the principle of this transformation.

Another Crystal Leviathan space station has recently produced a spacecraft crystal coating.

Just a small layer can improve the structural strength of the hull to a certain extent.

Of course, Chen Ming used this technology in the design of his battleship.

So he was deeply impressed by all Leviathans.

Even if he only saw a silhouette, he could be sure that these marks were those of Leviathan.

Except for the Nightmare of the Planes, he saw traces of other Leviathans in the photos recorded by the archaeological teams.

And there are many more Leviathans that Chen Ming has never seen.

There are at least hundreds of them in a whole row.

And at the very edge of this row of Leviathan projections, there is a very blurry projection of a star map.

The archaeological team is not sure what the star map means.

After all, a star map should be three-dimensional, and it is really difficult to see anything from a two-dimensional projection.

But since this star map is placed next to these Leviathan projections, it means that these star maps are definitely related to these Leviathans.

The Minister of Psychic Powers hopes that Chen Ming can check the situation by looking at the star map.

After all, this most likely means that Leviathan has a close relationship with the Shining Civilization.

If this relationship really exists, then Leviathan is likely related to the survivors, which can explain a lot of things.

Chen Ming thought for a while and replied to the Minister of Psychic Power that he knew the news.

He would do it, but in no hurry.

Immediately following.

Chen Ming opened the message sent from the 14th Legion again.

The news from the Fourteenth Legion was not sent by Baiquan, but from the legion commander.

Although the legion commander stayed on the front lines of the Empire and Yuhui all year round and Chen Ming met him seldom, Chen Ming still had a very good impression of the legion commander.

If you come here at this time, you must have something to ask.

Chen Ming looked at the content of the message.

There are no documents this time, basically all of it is the commander's oral statement.

It was probably about that some time ago, because the Empire won the war with the Mechanical Race and showed its determination to deal with nearby enemies, Yuhui was ready to retreat.

At that time, the Minister of Psychic Powers came over specifically to ask Chen Ming about this matter.

Chen Ming had no objection anyway.

He only controlled the part that Yuhui separated from, and did not control Yuhui's main force.

Especially after Yu Hui confirmed his existence, he became extremely wary of the outsider Yu Hui.

Chen Ming was stopped several times when he tried, and the distance was too far, so Chen Ming was too lazy to care about them.

What's more, he already has a copy of Kletka.

This replica only needs to be optimized with his psychic powers to be able to do everything that the original Kletka can do.

He even thought that when the Empire pursued Yuhui's main force, he could take advantage of the situation and get some cores that did not need to be used in the Empire but could be taken away.

So he had no opinion on this matter.

Then the 14th Corps was responsible for the pursuit.

Yu Hui has been in conflict with the empire for so many years, and if he wants to escape, he must first get the empire's consent.

The pursuit has been going on for the past six months.

But just a few days ago.

The afterglow that was originally retreating violently suddenly fell silent.

They disappeared on their way to escape.

Only countless supplies piled up in different galaxies were left, left to be seized by the Empire's pursuing troops.

Chen Ming thought of many situations.

For example, Yu Hui surrendered completely and reintegrated into the Empire.

Or commit mass suicide rather than surrender.

But getting it lost was something Chen Ming had never expected.

(End of this chapter)