220: Chapter 220 Three sets of weapons wiped out in one fell swoop, the White Emperor has grown fangs!

sentry ship arrival countdown, day 64.

Pangu Laboratory, Level B2, morning.

Academician Li Zhengyang cleared off the workbench in the weapon adaptation area, removing all the test fixtures left over from when he worked on the Solar System version of the directed energy weapon for the Xuannv, clearing the entire table.

Su Che stood before the master console and dragged the two red empty slot markers from the complete blueprint of the White Emperor to the center of the large public screen.

Medium-sized aerospace directed energy weapon system, aerospace close-in miniature missile swarm system, plus the quantum fire control command terminal.

Three systems, the White Emperor's entire firepower and command capability.

Deep in his mind, a blue and white panel popped up.

"Ding! Detected that the White Emperor's full-machine architecture development has entered the weapon adaptation phase, all prerequisite technologies are in place! Mainline R&D task triggered!"

"Task Name: Equip the White Emperor with three blades!"

"Task Content: The White Emperor has bones, a brain, and eyes, but now it lacks teeth! The medium-sized aerospace directed energy weapon system, the aerospace close-in miniature missile swarm system, and the quantum fire control command terminal—these three firepower and command systems must be adapted synchronously!"

"All core and auxiliary technologies are upgraded based on the mature frameworks of the Xuannv Solar System version and the luan bird shipborne firepower system; there is no need to start from scratch, redeem the upgrade packages directly!"

"Task Reward: 500,000 skill points."

"Total redemption points for core and auxiliary technologies: 300,000."

"The host's current main skill point balance is sufficient; redeem all at once?"

Su Che scanned the list.

The core technologies, auxiliary blueprints, adaptation plans, and material and equipment lists for the three systems were densely packed across three screens.

But he understood the underlying logic clearly.

The medium-sized directed energy weapon is a power amplification and dual-mode fire control adaptation of the Xuannv Solar System version; the close-in missile swarm is a brand-new system but with low technical difficulty; the quantum fire control command terminal is a miniaturized version of the luan bird shipborne fire control system plus swarm formation scheduling.

It was all about adaptation and integration based on existing technology.

"Redeem all."

"Ding! Consumed 300,000 main skill points; all core technologies, auxiliary technologies, design blueprints, and adaptation plans for the three systems have been unlocked! The material and equipment list has been pushed synchronously!"

Three sets of technical frameworks flooded in simultaneously.

Su Che spent nearly five minutes digesting the information, went over the technical points of the three systems in his mind, and then walked to the large public screen to refresh the division of labor table.

"Academician Li, the medium-sized directed energy weapon system will be led by you. The emitter cavity, optical path, focusing module, and power regulation are all yours."

"Academician Sun, for the power supply branch, recalculate the peak power consumption when all three weapon systems fire simultaneously and interface it with the White Emperor's independent cooling circuit."

"Zhao Mingyuan, for the swarm formation scheduling module of the quantum fire control command terminal, integrate the human-machine collaborative decision tree of the Cognitive Graph."

"Academician Qian, align the quantum encrypted communication channel of the fire control command terminal with the data sharing protocol of the luan bird's central control."

"Academician Zhang Weide, calculate the structural strength of the launch module for the close-in missile swarm system and the load impact when the magazine rotating door opens."

"Wen Bo, for the thermal protection coating on the inner wall of the weapon bay, you need to handle the temperature inside the bay when the directed energy weapon fires."

Six names, six lines, the same pattern as when the White Emperor's skeleton was built.

Academician Li Zhengyang had already sat down in the weapon adaptation area, with the cross-section diagram of the medium-sized directed energy weapon's emitter cavity spread out in front of him.

"Chief Engineer Su, the power of the medium-sized directed energy weapon is forty percent higher than the Xuannv version. The emitter cavity length has been extended from thirty centimeters to fifty centimeters, and the navigation particle cluster has been increased from one hundred clusters to one hundred and sixty clusters."

He flipped the blueprint to the optical path design page.

"The optical path folding structure is different from the Xuannv. The Xuannv has a straight-through cavity, while the White Emperor's emitter cavity has undergone a ninety-degree fold to save longitudinal space and make room for the magazine. The precision requirement for the mirror at the folding point is two levels higher than that of the straight-through cavity."

"The material for the mirror."

Wen Bo came in from the corridor. What was clipped to his waist wasn't a vernier caliper or a measuring tape, but a small digital micrometer.

"Silicon carbide substrate with a gold-plated film, same material and process as the mirror for the luan bird's shipborne cannon. Zhulong can produce the parts directly."

Academician Li Zhengyang marked a check on the blueprint.

Su Che set up the dual-mode fire control adaptation logic for the medium-sized directed energy weapon at the master console.

The White Emperor's directed energy weapon needed to support both manned and unmanned fire control modes.

In manned mode, the pilot directly controls the firing timing and target selection via the Brain-Computer Interface, while the fire control system provides auxiliary aiming. In unmanned mode, the main god ai takes full control of the fire control, following the same logic as the Xuannv.

The key to dual-mode switching lies in the handover of fire control decision-making authority, which is the same mechanism as the physical toggle switch on the flight control bus.

Flip the switch up, and the fire control listens to the human.

Flip the switch down, and the fire control listens to the AI.

Zhao Mingyuan pushed his chair over from his workstation and leaned over to look at the fire control command terminal architecture on Su Che's screen.

"This quantum fire control command terminal is essentially a miniaturized version of the luan bird's command and control center, but its computing power is only five percent of the luan bird's."

"Five percent is enough. The White Emperor will command at most thirty-six Xuannv aircraft simultaneously, not three hundred."

"Thirty-six aircraft."

Zhao Mingyuan turned this number over in his mind.

"Using the Cognitive Graph to perform tactical deductions for thirty-six Xuannv aircraft is more than enough in terms of computing power, but when the tactical intent issued by the pilot via the Brain-Computer Interface conflicts with the autonomous deduction of the main god ai, how should the decision tree rule?"

"Just like the flight control, listen to the human."

"Then what if the pilot's intent is wrong?"

"Still listen to the human. The AI will give a red warning prompt, but it won't override."

Zhao Mingyuan pushed his chair back to his workstation and didn't ask any more questions.

He opened the decision tree code editor and wrote a line of comments at the very top: "Humans are always right, machines shut up."

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sentry ship arrival countdown, day 63.

Level B2, morning.

The three weapon lines were pushed in parallel for a day and a night.

Academician Zhang Weide finished running the structural simulation of the launch module for the close-in missile swarm system on the supercomputing terminal.

The launch modules for the miniature missiles were installed on the sidewalls of the White Emperor's ventral weapon bay, twelve on each side, for a total of twenty-four.

The launch method was not gunpowder ejection, but electromagnetic ejection.

The recoil force at the moment of ejection was transmitted through the weapon bay sidewalls to the main structure of the airframe.

Academician Zhang Weide ran a set of extreme operating conditions with a twenty-four-round salvo.

"The peak load of the salvo recoil generated a stress concentration point on the seventh segment of the airframe's main beam, with the peak stress reaching eighty-nine percent of the material's allowable stress."

Su Che walked over from the master console.

"Eighty-nine percent, the margin is only eleven percent."

"The normal design margin is at least twenty percent." Academician Zhang Weide pushed the stress cloud map of the simulation results to the large public screen; the deepest red area was right at the cross-sectional change of the seventh segment of the main beam.

"Add a reinforcing rib at the cross-sectional change."

"Added it. The weight increased by 1.4 kilograms, and the peak stress dropped to seventy-three percent of the allowable. The margin is twenty-seven percent."

Su Che glanced at the number.

"Pass."

Academician Sun Qiwen came out of the U-shaped array area. He wasn't holding an enamel mug, but a paper cup filled with cool boiled water.

"The peak power consumption for firing all three weapon systems simultaneously is out."

He placed the paper cup in an empty spot next to the cabinet and walked over to Su Che with a handwritten power consumption table.

"The medium-sized directed energy weapon firing at full power, plus the electromagnetic ejection of twenty-four miniature missiles, plus the quantum fire control command terminal running at full load—the instantaneous peak of the three combined is fourteen percent higher than the rated output of the White Emperor's high-order fusion reactor."

"It exceeds it."

"It exceeds it. But this is not a scenario that happens simultaneously. The directed energy weapon and the missiles won't fire in the same frame; the directed energy weapon hits long-range targets, and the missiles hit short-range ones. In actual combat, their firing windows will be staggered by at least 0.3 seconds or more."

Su Che recalculated the staggered power consumption.

"After staggering, the peak is within ninety-one percent of the rated output."

"Correct. The nine percent margin is left for sudden requirements of the shields and flight control. It's tight, but it's usable."

"What about the margin for the independent cooling circuit?"

"The cockpit cooling is completely isolated from the weapon cooling; the weapon cooling goes through the main airframe fins. The thermal load when the medium-sized directed energy weapon fires is forty percent higher than the Xuannv's, the heat dissipation area of the main fins has been increased by thirty-five percent accordingly, and the temperature equilibrium time has been extended from the Xuannv's two seconds to 3.2 seconds."

"Can it fire continuously within 3.2 seconds?"

"Yes. But after the third shot, the fin temperature will enter the yellow zone, requiring a reduction to half power for 1.5 seconds to dissipate heat, and then it can return to full power."

Su Che wrote these thermal cycle parameters into the constraints of the fire control scheduling framework.

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sentry ship arrival countdown, day 62.

Level B2, afternoon.

The individual verification for the three weapon systems was all completed.

Su Che loaded the three modules—medium-sized directed energy weapon, close-in missile swarm, and quantum fire control command terminal—into the White Emperor's full-machine simulation environment, connecting them in series with the flight control, communication, navigation, stealth, and Brain-Computer Interface.

The first full-system joint debugging.

Simulation scenario: The White Emperor encounters twelve heterogeneous targets while commanding thirty-six Xuannv aircraft to fight in coordination.

The pilot issues tactical intent via the Brain-Computer Interface: The White Emperor itself uses directed energy to take out two large targets directly in front, the close-in missiles intercept four high-speed small targets on the flanks, and the remaining six are left to the Xuannv formation to surround and annihilate.

Running.

The directed energy's folded optical path showed a 0.12-millisecond pointing deviation during the first shot.

Academician Li Zhengyang stood up from the weapon adaptation area and walked to the large screen.

"Thermal expansion of the mirror at the folding point. The energy pulse of the first shot caused the mirror temperature to instantly rise by seventeen degrees, and the expansion of the silicon carbide substrate caused the reflection angle to shift."

Su Che converted the deviation amount into strike precision.

"At a distance of 300,000 kilometers, a 0.12-millisecond pointing deviation equals a terminal deviation of thirty-six meters. It's fine for hitting large targets, but it will miss small targets."

"Preheat for the first shot."

Academician Li Zhengyang returned to his workstation and added a piece of logic to the firing control program.

"Fifty milliseconds before firing, use five percent power to perform a preheating pulse on the mirror, allowing it to expand to the operating temperature in advance, then fire the official full power shot."

Rerunning.

The pointing deviation dropped from 0.12 milliseconds to 0.007 milliseconds.

At a distance of 300,000 kilometers, the terminal deviation was just over two meters.

"Enough." Su Che locked the parameters.

The electromagnetic ejection of the close-in missiles performed cleanly during the joint debugging; the twenty-four-round simulated salvo did not trigger any structural abnormalities, and the stress margin of the reinforcing ribs remained stable at over twenty-five percent.

The quantum fire control command terminal's swarm scheduling for thirty-six Xuannv aircraft.

In the test case where the pilot's intent and the main god ai's deduction diverged, the decision tree strictly enforced the "listen to the human" rule; the AI's red warning prompt popped up but did not override the pilot's instructions.

Zhao Mingyuan was half-lying on a cot in the corner, his hands crossed over his stomach, staring at the pop-up style of the red warning prompt on the large public screen.

"Chief Engineer Su, I adjusted the position of that red warning pop-up, placing it in the lower-left corner of the pilot's field of view so it doesn't block the main view. If placed in the center, a large red box suddenly popping up while the pilot is aiming using the Brain-Computer Interface would interrupt their focus."

Su Che glanced at the pop-up position.

"Lower-left corner is fine, but reduce the pop-up duration to one second; it should disappear automatically after one second. Pilots in battle don't have time to look at a two-second prompt."

Zhao Mingyuan changed the parameters and reran a set.

The pop-up flashed and disappeared, without affecting any operations.

Su Che archived the joint debugging results of the three weapon systems, marking it "White Emperor Firepower System - First Round Joint Debugging Passed."

Deep in his mind, the blue and white panel popped open.

"Ding! Mainline R&D task 'Equip the White Emperor with three blades!' completed!"

"Medium-sized aerospace directed energy weapon system adaptation passed! Aerospace close-in miniature missile swarm system adaptation passed! Quantum fire control command terminal adaptation passed! All three firepower and command systems are integrated into the White Emperor's full-machine architecture, with no abnormalities in the first round of full-system joint debugging!"

"Task Reward: 500,000 skill points!"

500,000 received.

Su Che closed the panel.

Academician Li Zhengyang gathered and archived the blueprints on the table in the weapon adaptation area and drank the remaining water in the cup in one gulp.

Liu Huaqiang walked out from the communication area, his notebook opened to the page for the White Emperor.

On the progress markers for the seven lines, he used a pencil to fill in a checkmark in the space for weapons.

Su Che stood before the master console and switched the White Emperor's complete blueprint to panoramic mode.

Airframe structure, flight control bus, thermal management, communication and navigation, stealth skin, Brain-Computer Interface, directed energy weapon, close-in missiles, fire control command terminal.

All nine modules were lit up.

But there was still one module on the panoramic view that was gray.

Full-machine integration and full-system joint debugging.

The bones were there, and the teeth were installed.

Next, he had to make the White Emperor truly move.

Su Che turned off the panoramic mode and glanced at the corner of the main screen.

sentry ship arrival countdown, 62 days.