Resurrection Empire

Chapter 1320 - 500: Plans and Changes (Part 3)

"Currently we possess an army of nearly 400 million troops, along with more than 3,300 armed battleships, as well as a larger number of Eye Reconnaissance Ships, Shuttle Ships, Viper Fighters, and other medium and small-sized warships. I propose a reorganization in the distant orbit of South Nine C, and simultaneously utilize new technology to implement upgrades on all vessels, enhancing their performance to catch up with or even surpass that of the Space Pirates. The upgrades should focus on improving the ships’ speed, reconnaissance, and stealth capabilities. Then this fleet should immediately take action to conquer the numerous Space Pirate bases located in the Shattered Star Ring, seize resources urgently needed for development, while maintaining and strengthening the combat effectiveness of the fleet."

Zheng Tian’s proposal immediately gained the approval of the majority.

However, Ren Zhong’s considerations were even more comprehensive.

He said, "I initially agree. But currently, the fleet’s stockpiled resources and energy are insufficient to complete the modification of all battleships and medium and small warships. According to the calculations of ’the Net,’ we can only dismantle half of the battleships and medium and small warships to fully strengthen the performance of the other half and the individual equipment. It is initially estimated that the cruising speed of the armed battleships can be increased to 0.2 times the speed of light, in line with the Empire’s regular troops, stronger than the ships of the Space Pirates."

"Regarding reconnaissance equipment, both Space Pirates, Empire regular troops, and our super long-range reconnaissance devices heavily rely on information flow technology. The Empire’s regular forces have learned a lesson from their disastrous defeat by the Sublimers and completed rapid iterations, being a generation ahead of us. Both we and the Space Pirates are on the same starting line. However, we have some unique features at the level of photoelectric radar and gravitational wave radar that can be enhanced. Coupled with indiscriminate information flow interference technology, it can give us the advantage in information transmission and reconnaissance levels in engagements with pirates."

"Furthermore, the fleet’s super long-range missiles, after modification, can also be equipped with reconnaissance and radio transmission devices, which is the Source Star Fleet’s unique skill. As for stealth capacity..."

Speaking of this, Ren Zhong showed a smile on his face and continued, "Our decades of research on the Fourth-Class Mother Empress Ship have also reached the stage of bearing fruit."

After the initial Mother Empress Ship campaign ended, the fleet not only harvested the vital ovary giant reproductive cells but also collected substantial remains of other subservient species, including Critical Poison Sting.

After decades of deciphering research and before submitting the giant reproductive cells, the Source Star Fleet had already completed translating the genetic library of that Fourth-Class Mother Empress’s giant reproductive cells and stored them in the database.

Of course, understanding the genes is one thing; producing them in batches in a way similar to the Mother Empress Ship through artificial synthesis is entirely unrealistic. One reason is the lack of sufficient resources and energy. Another is the technology isn’t up to par yet, knowing all of a person’s genetic information and actually creating one by assembling atoms are two different things. Moreover, even with the fleet’s biological science research capabilities, they can’t reasonably segment the massive genetic information within the giant reproductive cells to determine the specific genetic information compositions for different reproductive subunits."

However, the Source Star Fleet has indeed reaped some rewards. The greatest achievement currently is being able to collect the keratin layer of the Critical Poison Sting’s surface, which can completely absorb information flow, and synthesize and dilute it with structural parts from other Sublimer reproductive subunits to create a coating.

Applying this coating on the surface of the ships using an extremely thin layer can enhance their absorption and diffuse reflection abilities of information flow by over 5%.

This seemingly minimal improvement, while not comparable to the essence of Critical Poison Sting, is already capable of providing the Source Star Fleet’s vessels with considerable stealth capabilities on the Space Pirates’ information flow radar at sufficient distances. During relatively close combat, it can also effectively confuse the adversary’s detection methods, for example, making the information flow projection of large ships appear as medium-sized ships."

"In summary, the military upgrades can proceed as scheduled. The quantity of combat ships and individual equipment will be reduced by half. The number of combat personnel that can join the fleet will also be halved. However, the other two hundred million soldiers are not without a role; they will transition to engineering troops and be engaged in the landing operations. Given South Nine C’s harsh environment, the initial landings will be fraught with peril, requiring ship crew members to possess better piloting skills and psychological resilience. The manufacturing facilities within the Tracker Spaceships are also swiftly producing improved medium and small engineering ships catered to South Nine C’s atmospheric conditions. No matter what, we must first establish a foothold on South Nine C. All right, that’s the end of the meeting; may all departments strive for cooperation, and the time we take root on South Nine C will be quicker than imagined. Meeting adjourned."