cosmic hegemony

Chapter 156, Sky City Project

In Longling Town, Meijiang County, compared with the lively moon tourism outside, Fuyun Group has become quite low-key at this time, and has not produced new technological products for a long time, so that some people wonder whether Li Fu is Jiang Lang is exhausted.

Here at the space center in Longling Town, on the huge parking lot, several huge "Hercules" aerospace planes are quietly parked next to their respective terminals. The space shuttle replenishes energy, compresses air, and supplies that need to be transported into space.

Here at the command center, Li Fu is currently discussing with Yu Liang, Chen Bin, Cao Haitao, and Yang Yiping about building his own space station. The Sky City project is a huge plan formulated by everyone. Build a space station, and then slowly build a huge space city around the space station.

As for the city in the sky, just by hearing the name, one can tell that Li Fu and the others are obviously not willing to just build a space station.

A detailed planning map is being played on the huge monitor. This is what the whole sky looks like in the planning. According to the planning, the city in the sky can be divided into a space agriculture area, a space factory area, a space port, a scientific research area, and a living area. Each of the five parts is a separate structure, and they are connected with each other by passages to form a huge space city.

"Should we consider adding a weapon system? Otherwise, if a meteorite or a scrapped satellite hits our city in the sky, it will cause inestimable losses."

Yu Liang looked at the big screen, the planning of the entire Sky City has already been done, and the construction will start soon, everyone is discussing now is to improve the Sky City, to see if there are still areas that need to be improved .

After all, space is not the ground. Once a mistake occurs, it is definitely not an easy task to make up for it, especially from the very beginning of the design, all aspects should be taken into consideration.

"This is a question we haven't considered, but when we applied for the construction of Sky City, we didn't apply for a weapon system. Would it be illegal to add a weapon system now?"

Chen Bin nodded as soon as he heard it. The investment in Sky City is huge and the relationship is very important. It is the bridgehead for the Fuyun Group to enter space. Naturally, there is no room for loss. But in space, if there is no self-defense weapon system, meteorites, satellite debris, etc. It is easy to cause huge damage to Sky City.

In history, the International Space Station has been hit by debris from abandoned satellites, almost crashing the International Space Station. You must know that since the decades of human space exploration, satellite debris, rocket wreckage, abandoned satellites, The number of spaceships and so on is already quite large.

And as time goes by, there will be more and more space junk in space. As long as these space junks moving at high speed in space collide with satellites, spacecraft, space stations, etc., they will cause huge losses.

Therefore, the International Space Station and Tiangong Space Station are equipped with advanced detection instruments, which can detect these space junks on a large scale. Once they are found and calculated to have space junks that will hit them, they will immediately use weapons to destroy them, or carry out Change track to avoid.

"Our city in the sky will definitely be very large in the future. Even if we install many large plasma engines, it will not be easy to change orbits. If there is no weapon system, it will definitely be subject to frequent attacks in the future." The impact of space junk."

Li Fu also nodded. Space junk is a problem that has to be carefully considered. Thinking of this, Li Fu couldn't help frowning.

"According to international practice, this outer space does not belong to any country. It does not violate the laws of any country if we equip it with a weapon system on Sky City. However, we are Chinese people after all, and our company is also in China. It stands to reason Speaking of which, the Sky City we built should also be regarded as the territory of China, and naturally it must also be under the jurisdiction of China, and must abide by China's laws, so this matter is not easy to handle."

Yang Yiping also frowned, telling the key point.

"If you apply to someone now, do you think the higher ups will agree to equip us with weapon systems in Sky City?"

Cao Haitao stroked his chin and thought about it carefully.

"We in Huaxia are very strict about weapons management. If a private company wants to equip a weapon system, it is definitely not an easy task, let alone in space."

"Our company has gone through many applications to equip the security personnel with weapons. Up to now, we can only equip them with some simple weapons, and they must be inspected regularly. I think so!"

Yu Liang shook his head, Fuyun Group has developed to the present, with a large scale and many high-tech technologies, so it has also invested a huge amount of money in security to build a huge security team, and has also applied for weapons. It is also because the technology of Fuyun Group is too important, and foreign spies are frequently discovered. In order to protect their own technology, they naturally have to agree.

"The weapon system in space, and it is still used to destroy space junk, the power of this weapon must be acceptable, preferably a weapon system similar to laser weapons."

Chen Bin didn't think about whether it was legal or not. Instead, he was thinking about what kind of weapon would be more appropriate to use.

When the others heard about laser weapons, they couldn't help nodding. Traditional weapon systems are not easy to use in space. You must know that the speed of space junk is very fast. In space orbit, the speed can reach several kilometers, or even The speed of more than ten kilometers per second.

Such an astonishing speed, on the one hand, has very high requirements for detection equipment, which can detect these space junks from a long distance. Small space junk.

It is possible to use missiles to attack space junk, but after the missile explodes, it will generate more space junk. As for other weapons, they are basically useless in space.

On the contrary, laser weapons are very suitable. The advantages of laser weapons are very obvious. The light energy output of laser weapons can reach the level of the speed of light, which is really as fast as lightning; laser weapons can accurately target attacks; the energy release of laser weapons is controllable Sexuality - High energy beams can be used for lethal strikes and high-speed cutting, while low energy beams can cause non-lethal damage.

Using laser weapons to destroy space junk in space is definitely the most suitable method at present. No other weapon system can destroy space junk as quickly, accurately, and pollution-free as laser weapons.

"Laser weapons are of course a very good choice, but laser weapons are currently the top weapons. There are no more than one country on the planet that has mastered laser weapons. Moreover, these laser weapons are only limited to laser stunners. In fact, using lasers to Physical attacks have not been heard of actual combat cases yet.”

"Let's not talk about whether it is legal or not. It is definitely not an easy task for us to develop laser weapons that can be used for physical attacks."

Cao Haitao frowned bitterly. Laser weapons are often seen in sci-fi movies. In the attack between space fighters, laser beams flashed continuously in the void, and vehicles were hit by laser beams. Exploding spaceships, etc., can be described as very cool.

However, in reality, the current level of science and technology of human beings is not yet capable of producing advanced laser weapon systems similar to those in science fiction movies. Otherwise, missiles will be needed to deal with missiles.

As long as there are laser weapons, if the laser beam traveling at the speed of light intercepts the missiles, wouldn't it be able to destroy the enemy's missiles casually? Now all the famous anti-missile systems can be thrown into the trash can.

"If laser weapons are not used, then what weapon system can be used in space? What's more, it is used to deal with high-speed moving space junk."

Chen Bin, who was the first to propose the use of laser weapons, shook his head and objected. You must know that as early as the last century, advanced Western countries had experimented with anti-satellite weapons, which were actually experiments to destroy targeted targets in space.

The means used are anti-satellite missiles and anti-satellite satellites, which use physical propulsion means to collide or explode to destroy targets. The response speed of this means is relatively slow and very troublesome.

To launch missiles and satellites into space, then calculate the orbit of the target, etc., and finally achieve the goal of destruction, if Fuyun Group needs to use such means to deal with space junk in space, the cost is obviously very high. And it's not cost-effective, and it will generate more space junk.

"It is not impossible to manufacture laser weapons, and laser weapons are also a weapon system that is very suitable for use in space. If we really install a laser weapon system on Sky City, the safety of Sky City will be guaranteed. There's nothing to worry about."

Li Fu, who had been silent all this time, nodded slowly. From the civilization seeds of the super-civilized Dahan Technology Empire, Li Fu knew that this laser weapon can be regarded as a very mainstream attack weapon in the universe, and even more so. To be precise, it should be a type of energy weapon.

Laser weapons are very rudimentary energy weapons, and basically all cosmic civilizations can master this kind of weapon.

(End of this chapter)