Those who face the wall, but are in the Nascent Soul stage.

Chapter 437 The New Solar System Fleet (4k)

Europa's Fleet Military Academy (Children's Class)

Teacher Qian stood on the podium, holding a pointer, giving a space military lesson to the Fleet International Children's Military Personnel, whose oldest age was no more than seven.

Over the past six years, the young space force personnel, who have been immersed in 'martial arts training', have found it difficult to be competent in the rapidly changing fleet work due to a lack of relevant information and the explosion of technology.

Therefore, it is necessary to allow these space force infants, who are at an average early stage of innate development, to undergo theoretical relearning.

"Who knows what the strong interaction technology might be used in in the future for new star-class warships and interstellar warfare?"

"Come on, Commander-in-Chief Vitalis, you're the squad leader, answer this question."

Vitalis rolled his eyes at Qian Mengjian.

"Stand up when I tell you to answer? What kind of attitude is that?" Teacher Qian scolded with a stern face.

Vitalis muttered a beautiful French phrase under his breath, stood up ramrod straight, and gave a standard answer.

"Currently, the application of strong interaction technology on stellar-class warships falls into two main categories. One is the main armor, which uses 'strong interaction materials' as the outer layer of the hull. Its strength is two million times that of the nanomaterials used in the Doomsday War and forty thousand times that of the 'Iron Curtain' force field. It can damage the surface of water droplets upon impact. Using strong interaction materials as the main armor can make the warship immune to attacks from conventional weapons, including nuclear explosions, gamma laser beams, and electromagnetic railguns."

Secondly, it forms the core of the weapon system. Using it as the outer shell for the antimatter space torpedo's body can effectively prevent interception by conventional enemy weapons and render it immune to the effects of interstellar dust. In addition, this technology has the potential application of 'droplets.' Although our work on replicating droplets is currently limited to the laboratory, once the technology is perfected, it will replace existing carrier-based space fighters to fulfill the function of escorting the main ship.

Vitalis's voice was clear and steady, and after he finished speaking, he sat down with a dark expression.

The other 'kids' were lying on the table, trying not to laugh.

The new commander's move to punish the old commander is quite amusing. Although it was only his first day on the job, Qian Mengjian had clearly been preparing for this for a long time, which can be considered as revenge for being 'reprimanded' by the veteran at the old solar system fleet joint meeting.

Since the establishment of the Solar System Federation, the former NATO Supreme Commander has withdrawn from his two major international diplomatic duties and returned to Europa. As Grant's focus has shifted to political work with the Jupiterian government, the position of Commander of the Solar System Fleet has been temporarily vacant.

As one of the very few senior officers with fleet command experience, Qian Mengjian naturally returned to the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Solar System Fleet.

However, the Solar System Fleet is no longer divided into three major fleets, but has been completely integrated. Considering that there is no war in the near future, the fleet commander-in-chief has temporarily assumed the position of 'teacher'.

Before the final battle, almost all of these students were his peers or even his superiors.

"Yes, the class monitor has a very solid theoretical foundation."

Teacher Qian nodded in satisfaction at Commander Vitalis's answer, and then tossed Vitalis a small red flower as a reward.

The latter grabbed the little red flower and threw it into the trash can.

Qian Mengjian lightly tapped the holographic screen in front of the podium with his pointer, and the originally blank screen instantly lit up, revealing a silver and blue model of the "Paradox Engine" warship floating in mid-air.

"Although the squad leader's answer was standard, his understanding of new technologies was not deep enough. The application scenarios of new technologies are not limited to armor and attack methods. They can play a key role in all aspects, such as serving as the engine of a controlled nuclear fusion engine."

“In the past, due to the design flaws of the ‘Ding Shiyi’ controlled nuclear fusion confinement ring, even the most advanced controlled nuclear fusion engines had to suffer from the effects of a large amount of ‘activation material’ accumulating after nuclear fusion. This made it impossible for controlled nuclear fusion engines to operate at full power for a long time, and they needed to use phased acceleration as the main means of propulsion, and even divided it into acceleration levels such as forward one and forward two.”

(Note: Activated materials refer to the structural materials inside the reactor (such as metal walls) that produce a certain amount of radioactivity when bombarded by high-energy particles. Although this radioactivity dissipates within a few hours, a large accumulation of activated materials can seriously affect the nuclear fusion efficiency of the reactor.)
"Although the addition of the glowing puffy later helped humans clean up the accumulation of nuclear activated materials and improved the acceleration rate of the warships to some extent, it was just like carving flowers on wood and did not play a fundamental role in changing things."

"By using a strong interaction material as the inner wall of the engine compartment, nuclear fusion will not have any physical reaction with the magnetically confined inner wall, which allows us to accumulate nuclear fusion power without limit."

"Take the new stellar-class warship 'Paradox Engine' as an example. The current 'Paradox Engine' can skip the acceleration process of stages 1 to 3 and directly enter the forward stage 5. At the cost of consuming a large amount of nuclear fusion fuel, it can stack nuclear fusion power without limit and increase the warship's speed from zero to 50% of the speed of light within 24 hours... This has approached the theoretical speed limit of a controlled nuclear fusion propellantless engine, which was unimaginable seven years ago."

Qian Mengjian tapped the podium: "I would even say that those 'starship Earths' equipped with chemical fuel engines are far slower than our acceleration. In fact, this acceleration far exceeds the acceleration power of the matter-antimatter annihilation engines of the Trisolaran First Fleet and the Trisolaran Second Fleet... If such engines were used in the Doomsday War, at least 4000 starships could survive the siege of the droplets."

Qian Mengjian: "But this is the limit of backward technology. A fast horse can leave a train behind in the first 10 seconds, but that doesn't mean the fast horse can outrun the train."

Qian Mengjian: "The students here have all experienced the apocalyptic war, so they naturally know how big the gap is between warships due to the difference in basic physics, and how tragic the technological asymmetry wars are. The former solar system fleet was just 5000 big wooden ships. This false power has deceived us."

Now, the 'Paradox Engine,' piloted by AI, can single-handedly annihilate the three major fleets before the apocalyptic war within 24 hours, and can also single-handedly destroy ten incoming droplets using antimatter weapons.

Qian Mengjian: "But there's nothing to be happy about. The droplet is just a probe in the Trisolaran First Fleet. It's expected that a warship can destroy 10 probes."

The holographic projection in front of the podium changed again, and the 'Paradox Engine' star-class warship began to shrink rapidly, but more warships emerged densely, eventually forming a holographic matrix of 500 star-class warships.

"The Solar System Fleet currently has a total of 500 such new star-class warships, similar to the 'Paradox Engine,' and any one of them has the power to destroy the three major fleets that perished seven years ago."

At this point, Qian Mengjian smiled slightly.

"I understand your eagerness to return to the warship immediately, and I'm sure you've all fantasized about commanding the new solar system fleet to fight the Trisolaran Second Fleet to the death."

Teacher Qian waved his hand, and the phantom images of another 415 warships drifted away opposite the Solar System Fleet.

The Second Fleet of the Three Bodies.

The two fleets were locked in a fierce confrontation.

Five hundred ships against four hundred and fifteen—this slight numerical advantage offered the students absolutely no sense of security.

Qian Mengjian said, "Just as a new star-class warship can destroy the old solar system fleet, a three-body light-speed warship can also destroy the new solar system fleet."

The current solar system fleet is nothing more than a wooden ship covered with iron, with its weapons upgraded from bows and spears to rifled guns. Even the propulsion system is still just boiling water; there's no fundamental change.

The holographic projection was magnified in some areas, and the 415 light-speed warships of the Second Fleet appeared in full detail before the eyes of all the students.

"The images you are seeing now are from the front lines, sent by the Sophon. Because the Second Fleet also uses a strong interaction material to completely seal its hull, the Sophon cannot penetrate its hull to observe it. We can only guess its function by observing the outer shell of the Second Fleet."

Qian Mengjian: "And now, apart from the cysts on the warship that look like 'swimming rings' and that we can guess are warp drives, there are no other weapon units that we are familiar with on the entire warship. This is obviously not a good sign."

"We still cannot know the weapon systems of the Trisolaran Second Fleet, just as an ancient person cannot understand the purpose of a tank's cannon barrel and tracks." The holographic image suddenly shrunk, and the two sides began to fight under quantum simulation.

Qian Mengjian said quietly, "Since we don't know what the weapon systems of the Trisolaran Second Fleet are, I uniformly replaced them with spears and bows and arrows—that is to say, they use what we use, so it's fair and just."

"As for the outcome of the battle, you can see for yourselves."

The results of the holographic battle came out quickly.

The Trisolaran Second Fleet deployed a light-speed warship, annihilating the fully upgraded Solar System Fleet with a casualty ratio of 0-500.

The specific combat process was also extremely brief. The tripoite warship controlled by the AI ​​activated its warp drive in a mere second, transitioning from zero light speed to light speed gliding. Utilizing the spatial warp drive trajectory, it intercepted all projectile weapons launched by the solar system fleet, including antimatter weapons, and traversed to the vicinity of the star-class warship battle group at the speed of light. The moment the warp drive's contrail spread into a slow mist, it tore apart the star-class warship, which possessed a shell made of highly interactive material.

After just a few trips, most of the solar system fleet began to disintegrate.

In a space battle where the two sides were separated by 15 astronomical units, this Trisolaran warship, which launched a solo attack, annihilated the current solar system fleet in 27 simulated hours. Compared to the actual apocalyptic war, the simulated result was far more tragic. In reality, some starships could escape to Earth, but under the light-speed warships of the Trisolaran Second Fleet, not a single surviving warship was left.

Even if five hundred stellar-class warships had started fleeing at the very beginning of the battle, it would have been the same—by the time the five hundred stellar-class warships had accelerated to 50% of the speed of light, the warp-speed light-velocity spaceship had already drawn a circle, forming a slow fog blockade.

There's no way to escape.

Throughout the entire process, this AI-driven Trisolaran warship did not use any "bows and arrows" or "spears," nor did it use conventional propulsion. After destroying the entire solar system fleet, the warship shut down its warp drive and returned to a standstill within a second.

The classroom was completely silent.

These young space force soldiers, who had spent years honing their martial arts skills in a closed environment, were speechless when they attended their first military theory class. They were confident in their status and qualifications and even looked down on Qian Mengjian, their so-called teacher.

The situation seems to be no different from what it was seven years ago.

It became even darker.

"The warp drive is different from a conventional engine. The warp drive can enter the speed of light the instant it changes the curvature of the space in front of the warship when it is activated at full power. The time taken is extremely short. In comparison, the 8000 g acceleration of the droplet is just a toy."

"The droplet is merely a drop of water splashed out of the ocean of Trisolaran technology. This is a Class 1A civilization personally recognized by the Carbon-Based Federation. It will take a long time to close the technological gap between the two."

“However, I also have some good news,” Qian Mengjian said.

This made the students in the class raise their heads again.

"Although the Trisolaran world's technological compensation to Earth only lasted for two years, we have completely acquired the crucial warp drive technology. The latest achievement is that we can make a hair travel several centimeters at the speed of light in the laboratory. If scientists make rapid progress, we may see the prototype of the light-speed warp drive in 50 years."

"Fifty years from now, you will be at the age where you shine, so we still need to teach this class well, understand?" Qian Meng said with an air of maturity.

“Do we have 50 years?” Vitalis asked, looking up.

"Yes... Luo Qing and Li Bai have gone to the Trisolaran world. These two immortals can travel at the speed of light. I believe they can use their power to intimidate the Trisolaran world and force the Second Fleet to change course... But the Second Fleet seems to have remained unchanged so far, which is indeed something to be wary of. However, I believe that with the existence of the Carbon-Based Federation, the Second Fleet would never dare to act rashly."

"Therefore, there is still about 50 years," Qian Mengjian said with certainty.

But no sooner had he finished speaking than a live broadcast from the moon began.

[Luo Ji: All indications have confirmed that the Trisolaran Second Fleet has restarted its engines and is heading towards Earth.]

Qian Mengjian: "..."

Vitalis: "..."

all the classmates:"……"

Qian Mengjian suddenly realized: "The Second Fleet uses conventional engines... Why is that? Could it be that they really care about the light pollution caused by the slow fog? Do the Trisolarans have such a high level of morality?"

Vitalis joked, "Looks like we'll never grow up."

Qian Mengjian pressed his head in thought: "Wait a minute, let me contact Grant. She's at a meeting on the moon on behalf of the Jupiter government and the Solar System Fleet. What's going on? Has the Second Fleet gone mad?"

But before he could act, Jupiter shone brightly, and a beam of bright yellow light, thousands of kilometers in diameter, burst forth from the Great Red Spot, hurtling toward Earth at the speed of light. Its intensity was so great that it illuminated the entire Europa as brightly as daytime on Earth.

Everyone stared in stunned silence at the beam of light.

"I knew that Wallfacer would make a move, even if he wasn't here," someone whispered.

Qian Mengjian took a deep breath: "Grant did say that Luo Qing had reserved a formation, but I thought it was a small formation to envelop the planet."

Almost simultaneously with the activation of the light pillars, they also saw light pillars generated by distant planets such as Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus through a live screen broadcast.

Qian Mengjian looked at Vitalis and said, "Comrade Vitalis, with cultivators backing you up, I believe you can all grow up."

"but……"

Qianmeng walked towards the window and looked at the bright yellow beam of light that pierced through the dark universe.

"If we humans only ever hide and develop, growing up timidly and hesitantly, then it will truly be no different from extinction."

He looked at the whole class.

"Comrades of the Space Force, I'm giving you three months to master all the course content of seventeen theoretical courses, including 'Deep Space Physics' and 'The Relativity of the Speed ​​of Light.' After that, you'll be directly enlisted. I've already reserved positions for you in various star-class warships... I started as an ordinary crew member, and I believe you can do the same."

"No one knows how much time we've allocated for the future, so let's hurry up and make the most of it."

(End of this chapter)