Seeing Wang Dong's genuine curiosity, Yuan Shu began to explain: "Generally speaking, for lower-tier interstellar civilizations, a battleship's offensive power far exceeds its defensive capability. For instance, even a relatively small-caliber electromagnetic cannon can easily tear through an opponent's armor. In fact, a small asteroid over one meter in diameter could be fatal to a battleship.
At such a level, the more weapons a battleship carries, the more powerful it becomes in combat.
However, as a civilization's technological level rises, battleship defenses gradually stop being a weak point—and eventually surpass offense.
Take Spark Warships for example. From the start, they are equipped with Energy Shield modules. Once activated, these shields can significantly neutralize attacks below a certain threshold.
Only assaults exceeding that threshold can impact the Energy Shield, depleting its durability.
In this scenario, no matter how many main cannons a battleship has, if the attack strength isn't high enough, it's essentially useless.
Thus, attack intensity becomes the key performance indicator for a main cannon. And the higher the intensity, the more energy it consumes. But a battleship's energy output is always limited—so fewer, more powerful weapons have become the standard.
As for auxiliary firepower, that's handled by several high-rate-of-fire secondary cannons. With upgrades to the Ship Structure module, the secondary cannons' strength also increases, ensuring they don't become a burden.
Additionally—and this is the most critical factor—there are limitations to the Shipborne Fire Seed's capabilities. A standardized battleship that fuses with a Shipborne Fire Seed can only support one main cannon slot. No one can change that."
Wang Dong nodded with a look of realization.
By this time, the Battle Axe had already moved far from their previous location.
Wang Dong studied the image on the Sky-Survey Radar for a while, then tapped a new set of coordinates.
"Battle Axe, Silent Navigation to this coordinate."
After issuing the command, Wang Dong turned to Yuan Shu and explained, "The more I think about it, the more uneasy I feel. Back there, the Battle Axe released Mikowski Particles—they won't dissipate quickly.
Inside a Mikowski Particle field, devices like Sky-Survey Radars and communication signals are heavily disrupted. But the field itself is also very noticeable.
If a Jin family battleship gets close, it'll be easy for them to detect the Mikowski Particle zone.
Sure, the celestial environment within the Asteroid Belt Mining Zone can severely distort the range and accuracy of a Sky-Survey Radar...
But who knows what grade the enemy's radar system is?
I think... it's better to put some extra distance."
Yuan Shu chuckled and said cheerfully, "Your odds just got a little better again."
Wang Dong remained expressionless. Laughing at me for being cautious?
I'm cautious and proud of it.
That's called following your heart—a truly instinctive sense of survival. You wouldn't get it.
"Since we've got some time, I'll give you a quick rundown of some basic knowledge about Spark Warships."
Perhaps he found Wang Dong's maneuver interesting—Yuan Shu was in a good mood and took the initiative to speak.
Wang Dong raised an eyebrow. In his previous life, this part hadn't happened. Yuan Shu had simply lain in his chair, quietly passing away without saying much.
Looks like the butterfly effect had already started to take shape.
Thankfully, nothing too drastic yet.
"Our human civilization's ancestors were actually the seed fleet of a defeated civilization. You know what a seed fleet is, right?"
Wang Dong nodded.
When a civilization reaches a certain stage and seeks to expand, it dispatches pioneering fleets.
When it's facing extinction and wants to preserve its legacy, it sends seed fleets.
"This particular seed fleet, after fleeing for over a thousand years, was fortunate enough to discover the ruins of a prehistoric super-civilization.
After enduring countless hardships and unlocking the site's secrets, the fleet gained access to a mysterious construct—permission to use the Spark Source.
From there, using humanity's own technological foundations, they extracted Spark from the Spark Source and created the Shipborne Fire Seed. When fused with specially structured battleships, the Spark Warship was born."
Yuan Shu's eyes gleamed with depth.
Wang Dong, too, looked stunned.
He had heard fragments of history about this human civilization.
But the origin of Spark Warships? This was the first time anyone had ever explained it to him.
In his past life, no one had ever told him any of this.
"Normally, creations from different civilizations are rarely compatible. After all, different races follow different tech trees.
Taking a main cannon from one civilization's battleship and installing it on another's... impossible. That kind of thing only happens in science fiction."
Yuan Shu continued.
Wang Dong nodded in agreement.
To give a simple example—even on Earth, two different countries might not use the same screw dimensions, let alone make them interchangeable.
Now imagine two entirely different interstellar civilizations?
You use screws, the other uses bio-gel—how could that be compatible?
"But Spark Warships are different.
Thanks to their unique modular slots, even tech built from entirely different civilization systems can sometimes function normally aboard a Spark Warship.
What an achievement!
And that's only one of the Spark Warship's unique features!"
Yuan Shu was getting more and more animated.
Wang Dong silently nodded.
That alone was enough to make the Spark Warship incredibly formidable.
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