Chapter 96: Warp Engine Voyage Trial, Secretary Tangyuan (Two in One)

As time passed day by day, three years passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, a piece of news came out that made the Yanhuang Empire, with a population of nearly 80 billion, excited.

That is, after many years, the warp engine technology was finally completely cracked and realized.

The significance of warp engine and superluminal technology to a civilization is self-evident.

Warp drive technology is essentially a navigation technology that compresses space-time and bends and folds it.

The principle of this technology is simple to say, but it is harder than climbing a mountain to realize it.

If development had continued normally, it would take the Yanhuang Empire at least fifty years to completely master this technology, but fortunately Ye Chen could cheat.

Not only does he have a system plug-in, he also has a plug-in for his wife, Azhui. The technical information she brought to him included technology on how to distort time and space.

Relying on this technology, coupled with the Empire's original research on warp engine technology, the two were combined.

Countless scientific researchers in the empire came one after another, expended countless resources, and spent so many years to finally crack this technology.

And the preliminary verification was also successfully carried out.

The border of the empire, the outer solar system.

A huge fleet is stationed in the empty starry sky. This fleet is called Pingyuan Fleet, and its captain is Tang Ping.

The name comes from his sister Tangyuan and a character from his own name.

The core mothership Pingyuan.

In the captain's office.

Tang Ping was wearing a slim-fitting captain's uniform, and standing next to him was his sister Tang Yuan, who now serves as his secretary.

In addition, there is also adjutant Liang Yu in the captain's command room.

At this time, the three of them stared with wide eyes at the news from the Empire in front of them. It was the news that the Imperial Academy of Sciences had broken through the warp engine technology.

Now, twelve years have passed since the interstellar migration, and the small dumplings of the past have become big dumplings.

Although Tang Yuan is not as powerful as his brother Tang Ping, he became the commander-in-chief of a fleet.

But there is no doubt that I have a brother who is very capable.

After graduating from military school a few years ago and accumulating three years of experience in an officially assigned job, she was transferred to a civilian position in the Pingyuan Fleet through Tang Ping's relationship.

Then, after several years of training, he worked as Tang Ping's secretary.

Although everyone has known about her relationship with Tang Ping in recent years, no one has said anything.

After all, as the commander-in-chief of the fleet, there was nothing wrong with helping his only sister.

Besides, Tangyuan is not incapable of doing so. Even without his help, he will be able to rise in a few years.

Now, he just brought the time forward a little.

It is very normal in the empire for people like Tangyuan to use their connections to get to the designated fleet.

Because the empire doesn’t care whether you rely on connections or not, as long as you can pass the empire’s strict assessment and have good abilities.

Then even if it depends on connections, it is your ability.

In other words, you can rely on connections, but you can't be too incompetent and you have to have enough ability.

"Brother, you said that the Empire has already developed the warp drive technology. Should we install it on the fleet next?"

Looking at the news from the empire, Tang Yuan couldn't help but look at Tang Pingdao curiously.

Hearing this, Tang Ping shook his head and said, "There is no specific news from the Empire yet, and I don't know whether the major fleets will be renovated next.

Moreover, something like a warp engine is estimated to be very expensive. It is unrealistic to install and convert all the warships into warp engine warships at once.

However, each fleet's mothership should be able to be assigned a set of warp drives."

Hearing what the two said, Liang Yu, an adjutant not far away, smiled and said, "According to the information I have heard, the warp engine is the current top technology of the empire, and the Imperial Academy of Sciences has just cracked this technology.

Currently, only preliminary verification has been carried out, and no real human-driven navigation has been carried out.

Moreover, it has only been tested on some small fighter planes. Whether it can be adapted to large warships like the fleet requires further research and cannot be completed all at once."

"Brother Yu, are you saying that the Imperial Academy of Sciences is going to look for a fleet to test for seaworthiness?"

After hearing Liang Yu's words, Tangyuan's little head reacted immediately and his eyes lit up.

Seeing that Tangyuan reacted so quickly, Liang Yu smiled and said, "Little Tangyuan is really smart and guessed it right away.

You guessed it right. Next, the Imperial Academy of Sciences will need to make the warships seaworthy, and it is likely that they will select some people from our fleet."

After hearing Liang Yu's confirmation, Tang Yuan looked at Tang Ping and said, "Brother, this next thing is a good opportunity, we should strive for it."

Tang Ping nodded. He would certainly not miss such an opportunity. After all, this was the first time that the Empire had conducted a long-distance voyage experiment in a superluminal battleship.

For all participants, it will be a great experience and also a huge honor.

Although given his status, he doesn't care about these resumes, but don't forget that a fleet is not just about him, there are many other crew members.

As the captain of the fleet, those crew members are all his people. It is what he must do as a captain and it is also his duty to fight for benefits for his people.

Moreover, as one of the imperial fleets, there are conflicts of interest between the major fleets, and the official holds a series of competitions and large-scale joint exercises every year to determine the rankings based on strength.

These rankings are linked to the resources allocated by the empire.

At the same time, a good captain can also recruit top students from the major military academies of the empire.

If he didn't fight for the interests of the crew, those top students from major military academies would never come to him.

Since the top students were unwilling to come to him, he would always lose in the annual competitions, and then come last, getting the least resources, and then falling into a vicious circle.

"Next, I will ask the headquarters whether there are plans for a trial voyage. If so, I will apply for it.

However, we can think of this matter, and the captains of other fleets can probably think of it too, so the competition for this trial mission is expected to be quite fierce."

At this point, Tang Ping couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking about how he had lost so many military competitions every year since he became a captain that he began to question his life.

Also, at the annual captains' meetings, the captains would fight each other every day in order to compete for talent, resources, and reputation, and they would even beat each other's brains out.

To be honest, before he became a captain, he always thought that these captains, as high-ranking interstellar commanders, should be majestic and domineering.

But I didn't expect that these people are no different from ordinary people. Sometimes when they can't win an argument or are angry, they will shamelessly launch a sneak attack and directly hit others.

There were also some captains who bullied him because he had no background, put obstacles in his way, and suppressed him, which made him extremely annoyed.

All in all, it was because he had no background that he suffered, and it was also because he was too arrogant in the past.

In the past, he was a super genius in the Interstellar Command Academy, dominating his peers. As a civilian, he defeated everyone in the final move and won the position of the final chief commander.

Then he crossed countless classes from a first-class commoner to become a new noble of the empire. At that time, he was an idol of ordinary families across the country and was regarded as the brightest new star of the empire.

After all, defeating those monsters who have been trained with countless resources as a commoner is a feat that only happens once in a century. He deserves the title of the brightest new star.

But he was too young, too confident, and too aggressive.

He simply disdained the attempts of many big families to recruit him and did not want to marry into those big families.

In the eyes of the big families, marriage is a normal thing. After all, although marriage is not good, it is indeed the best way to bring the two sides closer.

At the same time, it is also considered by big families to be the most reliable method.

In the end, although Tang Ping still received some investment resources from his family, the support was very limited.

Moreover, those forces that suffered defeat at his hands also acted within the rules and wanted to temper his arrogance.

He also noticed this at the time, but he didn't care about it. He thought that as long as he was strong enough, all the small things would be nothing.

But after becoming the captain, he realized that arrogance will bring bad consequences.

He may be very capable, but a fleet cannot be managed by one person alone.

In addition to one's own abilities, resources and connections are all indispensable.

And after a few years, when he became a captain and became more mature, he realized how low his emotional intelligence was and how immature he was.

Even if they were unwilling to marry into those families at that time, they should not have refused so forcefully, making those people feel embarrassed.

In the end, he was so angry that he asked someone to trip him up.

And those captains who tripped him up were related to those people.

Those captains would never refuse to trip up their opponents, because there is competition among them, and it is normal to trip up the opponents.

Moreover, this kind of thing is an unspoken rule that everyone knows about and is not a big deal.

Yanhuang calendar, 290 years.

After a round of selection, some elite crew members were chosen from each fleet and combined into the crew of a warship for seaworthiness.

Sunlight is the name of this battleship.

This battleship is very large, comparable to the mothership level of major fleets.

At this time, the battleship was filled with the empire's elite crew members, each of them doing their job with high-spirited looks on their faces.

This is the first superluminal test flight in human history. Their names are destined to be recorded in the history of the Yanhuang Empire, which is a great honor.

However, this trial voyage is both an honor and represents some danger.

After all, any new technology involves certain risks.

Although the researchers at the Imperial Academy of Sciences have conducted many simulations using the central intelligent computer and reduced the danger to a minimum.

Inside a warship, crew member Li Qing looked at his comrades around him and said with a smile: "Brother Xing, do you think we will succeed this time?"

Yuan Xing smiled and said, "Needless to say, it will definitely succeed, so don't be such a pessimist."

“I don’t want any accidents to happen. After all, I’m not tired of living.

But after this success, my name will probably appear in school textbooks in the future.

By then, I will have something to brag about to future generations."

Hearing this, Yuan Xing couldn't help but shook his head in amusement: "You are just that capable, can't you think about becoming a general of the empire? Wouldn't that give you more bragging rights then?"

"Brother Xing, I don't dare to think about the general. It's too far away."

As they spoke, the two of them quickly checked the various functions of the warship to ensure that there were no problems.

"Begin, the battleship starts, accelerate to the preset value, and start the engine!!"

"receive!!"

As the captain's order was given, the battleship slowly started and flew out of the solar system.

As the speed reached the preset value, the warp engine started immediately. Suddenly, a layer of transparent space-time bubble emerged from the periphery of the battleship, slowly wrapping the battleship.

As the space-time bubble evolved, the surrounding gravitational space began to distort, and the dark starry sky slowly disappeared.

"Report to the captain, the battleship's space-time bubble has begun to wrap around the battleship, and the surrounding space distortion value has fluctuated violently."

"Keep increasing the energy!"

"receive!!"

With the supply of energy, the space-time bubble slowly wrapped the entire warship and immediately entered a colorful passage.

"The space distortion value has returned to stability, Captain, the battleship has entered the warp channel stably."

"Very good. Keep an eye on it. We will fly to the target location according to the original plan."

One month later, after a series of tests, the battleship arrived at the designated coordinates and tested various indicators, all of which were stable at normal values.

Finally, they started their return voyage, and when they returned to the solar system, everyone couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Then I felt happy. After all, everything went very smoothly this time.

Afterwards, the battleship uploaded the navigation log and data from various tests to the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

With the successful verification of the warp engine, the major fleets of the Empire began to undergo major updates and upgrades.

The first to be updated was Ye Chen’s vehicle, the Ziwei Palace battleship.

As the empire's strongest individual warship and the emperor's mount, its significance is self-evident.

At the same time, the Imperial Academy of Sciences is also preparing to make some modifications to the Ziwei Palace battleship.

For example, the Ziwei Palace battleship was transformed into a larger one, and various new systems, technological weapons, detection equipment, shield technology, etc. were installed on it.

It can be said that this warship, built by scientists from all over the country, is the highest crystallization of the current warship technology of the Yanhuang civilization.

As Ziwei Palace began its transformation, the space fleet also began to undergo synchronous transformation.

With the investment of national resources, major fleets replaced engines based on the actual data of each warship.

And because of this reason, there is no way to increase the speed.

We can only replace the mother ships of the major fleets first, and then replace the other warships in the fleet.

As time goes by, each fleet is updated and transformed.

Then they began to perform their own duties.

Some fleets are mining as they should be, and some are carrying out exploration missions as they should be carrying out exploration missions.

With the warp engine, the flight range of the major fleets of the Yanhuang Empire expanded greatly at once.

At the same time, the empire's borders were expanded further outward.

If the warp engine had not just been developed and could only reach 1.2 times the speed of light, it would take two or three years to travel to the neighboring Proxima Centauri star system.

In addition, the main fleet of the Yuluo civilization is about to arrive, and Ye Chen wants to send a fleet to the Proxima Centauri star system to collect resources and incorporate the Proxima Centauri star system into the empire's territory.

However, this is only a matter of time.

From now on, all the surrounding star systems will be the fat meat in Ye Chen’s mouth.

(End of this chapter)