Seeing Wang Dong’s genuine curiosity, Yuan Shu explained, "Generally speaking, for low-level interstellar civilizations, the attack power of warships always far exceeds their defensive capabilities. For example, a small-caliber electromagnetic cannon can easily tear through an opponent's armor. Even an asteroid exceeding one meter in diameter can pose a fatal threat to a warship.
At this level, the more weapons a warship possesses, the more combat power it naturally has.
But as civilization levels rise, the defensive capabilities of warships gradually cease to be a weakness and instead begin to surpass offensive capabilities.
Take the Fire Seed warships, for instance, they initially possess energy shield modules. When the energy shield is activated, attacks below a certain intensity can be largely neutralized to some extent!
Only attacks exceeding a certain intensity can affect the energy shield, thereby consuming its durability.
In this situation, no matter how many main cannons a warship has, without sufficient attack strength, they are essentially useless.
Therefore, attack strength becomes a crucial indicator for main cannons. And the higher the attack strength, the greater the energy supply required. A warship's energy supply capabilities have their limits, so fewer but more powerful cannons become the standard.
As for auxiliary firepower, it can be handled by a few high-fire rate secondary cannons. As the warship's structural modules are strengthened and upgraded, the attack strength of the secondary cannons will also increase accordingly, ensuring they don't fall behind.
Furthermore, and this is the most important point, the capabilities of the onboard Fire Seed are also limited. The standard warships that can fuse with onboard Fire Seeds can only have one main cannon slot, and no one can change that."
Wang Dong feigned understanding.
At this time, the Battle Axe had already moved away from its previous location.
Wang Dong stared at the celestial radar image for a moment, then tapped his finger on a new coordinate point.
"Battle Axe, silent navigation to this coordinate point."
After giving the order, Wang Dong turned to Yuan Shu and explained, "I'm thinking, it's getting increasingly wrong. Just now, the Battle Axe released some M particles in that area, and they won't dissipate for a while.
Within the range of M particles, it can greatly limit the detection capabilities of equipment like celestial radar and communication signals, but it's also easily noticeable.
As long as Jin's warships get close, they can easily detect the presence of the M particle-enclosed area.
While the celestial environment within the asteroid belt mining area can severely affect the detection accuracy and range of the celestial radar,
who knows if the celestial radar on the opponent's ship is a high-quality piece of equipment.
I think it's best to move further away."
Yuan Shu chuckled and said, "Your prospects might be even better by three points."
Wang Dong remained expressionless. Isn't he just laughing at me for being cowardly?
Am I proud of being cowardly?
That's called "following my heart," following my heart's desires, you uncultured swine.
"While we have some time, I'll give you a brief introduction to some common knowledge about Fire Seed warships."
Perhaps finding Wang Dong's unorthodox actions interesting, Yuan Shu took the initiative to speak with enthusiasm.
Wang Dong raised his eyebrows. He didn't have this part in his previous life. Yuan Shu just lay on the chair until his last breath, without saying much.
It seems the butterfly's wings have had a slight effect.
It's fine if it's nothing major.
"Our ancestors of this human civilization were actually a seed fleet from a defeated civilization. You understand what a seed fleet is, right?"
Wang Dong nodded.
When a civilization develops to a certain stage and seeks expansion, it will send out pioneering fleets.
If a civilization is on the verge of destruction and wants to preserve the seeds of its civilization, it will send out seed fleets.
"This seed fleet, after experiencing a thousand years of escape, luckily discovered the ruins of an ancient super-civilization.
After a difficult journey, they unveiled the heritage of the ruins, and this seed fleet obtained the right to use a mysterious artifact, the Fire Seed Source.
Then, combining human race technology, they used the Fire Seeds extracted from the Fire Seed Source as onboard Fire Seeds, fusing them with warships of specific structures, giving rise to the Fire Seed warships."
Yuan Shu's eyes were filled with a distant gaze.
Wang Dong was also slightly taken aback.
He had heard a little about the history of the human civilization he was in.
But he was hearing about the origins of the Fire Seed warships for the first time.
No one had ever given him a rundown in his previous life.
"Normally, artifacts from different civilizations rarely work together. After all, the skill trees of different races tend to have some discrepancies.
Taking the main cannon from a civilization's warship and installing it on another civilization's warship would be impossible. That's something you'd only find in fantasy novels."
Yuan Shu continued.
Wang Dong nodded in agreement.
For example, even two countries on Earth might use screws of different diameters, making them incompatible.
What more two interstellar civilizations?
You might be using screws, but they might be using biological glue. How could that be compatible?
"But Fire Seed warships are different.
Through the unique modular slots of the Fire Seed warships, even creations from completely different civilization systems can be used normally on the Fire Seed warships.
What a feat!
And this is only one of the special characteristics of the Fire Seed warships!"
Yuan Shu's enthusiasm grew.
Wang Dong silently nodded.
This alone would be enough to make the Fire Seed warships powerful.