Modern Ship Technology

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**A record of the important shipbuilding technology to date**

## 01 - Shipbuilding Material

   During the reign of the Old Empire, an HSS (High Specific Strength) composite material with extreamly high tenacity waas developed by Carilion Materials, an affiliate of St. Andrews Group. Its ceramic-like structure is formed by increasing the attraction among metal atoms to a great extent.

- A Brief History of Space Materials, p. 21

## 02 - The Development of Ship Scales

This HSS composite material has been widely used in ship keel and component manufacturing, enabling ships to be built at an unprecedented length of more than 2,000 meters.

With the widespread use of this material, the shipbuilding industry ushered in a new era. This composite metal remains on of the most commonly used materials to manufacture ship cores and other components.

- A Brief History of Space Materials, p. 45

## 03 - Warp Drive Technology

A warp drive propels a ship by warping space around it and is usually engaged for long-distance traveling. Before initiating warp drives, the coordinates of a destination must first be acquired to calculate the traveling distance.

## 04 - Precautions for using a Warp Drive

Subject to various gravitational interferences, distorting the space surrounding a vessel requires considerable energy input and computing power. As a result, a ship needs to disable a majority of its functions while engaging warp drives and cannot enter warp in the vicinity of large-sized buildings and celestial bodies.

## 05 - Warp Speed Limit

Warp drives can propel a ship at speeds ranging between 30,000 and 100,000km/s, with the highest speed reaching one-third of the light speed. Regrettably, interstellar travels are still beyond reach with warp drives alone.

## 06 - Pulse Drive

Following the achievement of controllable nuclear fusion, technologies for the safety assurance and miniaturization of nuclear fusion devices were realized, causing tremendous adjustments to the entire Earth's industrial infrastructure and energy structures. This period, when most old energy structures were obsoleted and replaced, was later called "the fourth power revolution."

The achievement of controllable nuclear fusion was followed by breakthroughs in space technology. Using the high-temperature plasma generated by fusion energy, the EmDrive was successfully developed. The tremendous thrust delivered by super high-speed plasma ejection boosted the speed of spacecrafts to an astounishing 3,000-9,000 km/s.

-- Textbook Introduction to Basic Science, UniTech Press, p. 335

## 07 - B-86 Manned Spacecraft

After the development and commercialization of the high-energy pulse drive, the
B-86 manned spacecraft took over three decades to reach the Oort Cloud,
becoming the first manned spacecraft to leave the solar svstem.

-- Textbook Introduction to Basic Science, UniTech Press, p. 335

## 09 - Shipbuilding

To build a ship that can navigate in space, it is necessary to construct the cylindrical framework at the center of the ship. The framework runs through the entire hull and is called the "core." A ship may also be built with multiple cores that are made of reinforced allows with high mechanical strength, and which can support the ship's sailing and combat mobility.

-- Shipbuild Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology, p. 12

## 10 - Core Structure

According to the ship's structural design, it is usually necessary to construct a cylindrical framework at the center of the ship and install transverse supports at intervals to form stable mechanics as a whole. The core usually runs through the entire hull, its cross-section occupying more than 50% of that of the hull. Build using high-strength material, the core has independent mechanical support and can support the entire ship's overall surge and sway acceleration.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology, p 12.

## 11 - Core Description

The core is not closed, but a cylindrical structure with many openings. According to
the functional areas it contains, the core is equipped with additional supporting
keels and partitions. The surface of the core and the ship armor is also covered with
supporting keels, on which the armor system is laid.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology, p. 12

## 12 - Ship System Installation

System construction and installation: First, install and fix all the core equipment in
or around the core. All equipment within the core, such as the energy system,
combat compartment, and engine, is usually installed first. Afterward, lay the
surface armor, and finally install the turrets, antenna detectors, etc., outside the
armor. All the signal, energy, and transmission pipelines should be handled during
the installation.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology, p. 459

## 13 - Ship Armor System

Armor System: Composed of reinforced armor plates. The armor is made of separate prefab plates and welded to the keel outside the core. The armor covers most of the ship's surface and is thickened at important parts such as the main weapon, ammo depot, engine, and energy core. Armors of light ships are usually around 500 mm thick, while those of super-large ships may be as thick as 5 meters. The armor plates are made of a variety of heavy metal alloys reinforced by Lyman crystals with anti-tensile interwoven mesh structures and super-hard energy-receiving components. The armor plates are multi-layer composite structures pre-embedded with a large number of sensing and active-cooling systems. They can form a unified armor system once laid on the entire ship.

--Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology, p. 459

## 14 - Ammo Storage and Supply System

A weapon system is usually equipped with auto-reload devices. A launcher nest
device is usually uniformly reloaded after all the ammo has been fired. A vertical
launching system allows a longer buffer time and can be reloaded while firing.
Compared to cannons, missiles are of a larger size and require a bigger ammo
depot, which is usually mounted near the launchers or silos. Equipped with
real-time missile production lines, some ships do not require much ammo storage
space, and can provide continuous missile launches.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology, p
1246

## 15 - Quantum Computing Core

A quantum computing core, after receiving the spatial info and coordinates from
the command system, can perform super high-speed computation for the control
parameters of the warp movement path and control each warp drive's operating
parameters in real-time.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology, p.
3452

## 16 - Vector Engine System

Most ships nowadays are mainly driven by ion engines, which use a magnetic field
to accelerate the ions to an ultra-high speed until the ions eject outward. By doing
so, a thrust is created to propel the ship. The engine can steer the directions of the
thrust by maneuvering the magnetic field. This type of engine is easy to control and
comes in all sizes, allowing them to be used in ships of various dimensions.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology,
Chapter 2

## 17 - Vector Engine Composition

The main engine is usually installed at the rear of the ship to propel the ship
forward, and stronger thrust and control can be obtained by installing multiple
engines in parallel. Large ships also have smaller maneuvering engines distributed
on the sides to help them move in three-dimensional space. Common structures
are as follows

1. Ion Generator: Tank-shaped, usually directly facing the engine.
2. Acceleration Engine: Uses superconducting coils to accelerate the ion source to gain a thrust. Usually cylindrical, densely surrounded by superconducting magnetic field-generating wires, with nozzles at the rear. Multiple acceleration engines can be installed in parallel at the rear of the ship.
3. Energy Output Device: Connected to the engine body's power supply line. The engine needs a large amount of energy input when working at full capacity.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology,
Chapter 2

## 18 - Energy System

Ships are usually equipped with nuclear fusion energy units, which use super-strong
magnetic fields generated by superconducting coils to heat up and confine the fuel
plasma, trigger fusion reactions, gain electric power through the heat, and transmit
the power to be used by the entire ship.

For ships equipped with a large number of energy weapons, their energy units will
also generate high-energy ion or plasma sources, which are directly output to the
weapon system. The energy units can adjust the output power and allocate the
resource output to specific systems according to the ship's demands.
The energy units usually need to take up around 1/8 of the ship's space and are
installed near the rear of the ship. For energy weapon ships, however, the units are
placed closer to the center.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology,
Chapter 6

## 19 - Energy System Composition

The energy system usually includes the following components

1. Reactor: Includes a reaction core controlled by the superconducting magnetic field, a ring-shaped cavity, and a cylindrical external structure.
2. Energy Conversion System: Includes the energy-absorbing medium part connected to the reactor, which can absorb the heat generated by the reactor, and is connected to the generating unit. It is the piping system and energy-transducing components surrounding the reactor. Note: Two sets of energy conversion systems are required for the co-generation of ion and plasma sources, one to transmit power-generating, energy-absorbing media to the generator set, and the other to absorb energy, as well as generate and transmit ion or plasma sources to the weapon system.
3. Power Generation System: Accepts high-energy media to convert energy to electric power, then transmits the power to be used by the entire ship, and returns the exhausted media back to the reactor. It is a horizontal barrel-shaped generator structure equipped with a piping system.

-- Shipbuilding Technology Series Textbook: Space Shipbuilding Technology,
Chapter 6

## 20 - Encrypted Black Box Technology

It's a special encryption method developed in the age of war to store technical
materials in a specially-made large failure-proof chip component for long-term
storage.

These chip components are usually embedded on a thin sheet made of
high-density materials, then encapsulated in a protective alloy box together with an
energy device designed for encryption. It looks like a "sealed black box" from the
outside, hence the name Blackbox Encapsulation Technology.

Fairly damage-proof and secure, this black box is suitable for transportation and
trading. Many companies thus use the "Blackbox Encapsulation Technology"
to encrypt and store their blueprints or weapon tech materials.