The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5376

Chapter 5376 Space Suppression Technology

Of all of the hyper tech introduced by the Lord of Thermodynamics, space suppression technology trumped everything else in importance.

The Star Designer allocated a lot more time on explaining the uses and implications of this new tech.

"The new age has introduced us to new possibilities but also exposed us to greater dangers. Without access to reinforcements from the Milky Way, we must defeat the native alien races by ourselves. As long as you have paid attention to the battles that have already been fought, you will know that defeating any alien force starts with blocking their warp drives and overcoming their transphasic energy shields. Space suppressors are notably effective at facilitating both outcomes, but there are many nuances to their usage."

The Star Designer entered into lecture mode and began to project several typical space suppression modules that were mainly different in size.

"We have already developed space suppressors of different scales that can be applied to infantry gear, mechs and starships. The range and suppression strength of these devices vary greatly according to scale. Other variables that determine their effectiveness are power draw and the presence of phasewater."

The projection gave everyone a more intuitive understanding of what that meant by simulating different outcomes.

The space suppressors projected several different spherical fields. The strength and range of the smallest one was miniscule compared to the one that could be produced by a starship-grade module.

Each of these fields grew stronger and reached further when they increased their energy consumption. The opposite happened when their energy consumption dropped.

The inclusion of phasewater produced the most drastic difference.

As long as any space suppressor incorporated transphasic components, the range and suppression strength improved dramatically!

There was a real qualitative difference between a regular space suppressor and a transphasic space suppressor.

Although the former was still useful enough to be valued, the latter could truly make a lot of alien lives miserable!

This meant that space suppression technology did not make phasewater technology obsolete.

The fact that transphasic space suppressors worked a lot better meant that the demand for phasewater would definitely remain as high as always!

The Star Designer addressed another important topic related to this tech.

"As you can see, the current generation of space suppressors can only produce an omnidirectional field. We have yet to develop any products that can limit their effects to a more specific direction. The simpler space suppressor modules are also indiscriminate in function. They suppress all forms of transphasic products and spatial phenomena without regard for whether they are utilized by friendly or enemy units."

That caused a lot of people to lose a bit of enthusiasm for this tech. While it still remained essential to many forces, the fact that they could also suppress the transphasic technologies of friendly units severely dropped their practicality!

It would be quite annoying to keep units with space suppressors separate from units with transphasic parts.

Fortunately, the Red Two already had an answer to this problem.

"Fear not. We have developed more advanced space suppressors that can selectively ignore most transphasic products utilized by known friendly units. They are more expensive to produce, but you can program them with the P-frequencies of all of the transphasic products that you wish to whitelist."

Everyone who has studied phasewater technology was familiar with this variable. Each transphasic object possessed a special frequency resulting from the interaction between phasewater and other matter.

The full explanation was a lot more complicated and elaborate than that, but the easiest way to understand it was to equate it to a phasewater fingerprint that was unique among different designs.

"That is useful." Gloriana remarked. "However, the need to constantly update the databases of the space suppressors with new P-frequencies adds an extra burden. I wonder how you can prevent the enemy from adopting the same P-frequencies to circumvent the space suppression effect."

Ves briefly fell in thought. "The P-frequencies of every transphasic product can be slightly changed if you mess around with them a bit. You can even change it on the fly by changing a few variables. That should massively increase the safety of using this tech."

No one was sure yet how much more expensive it was to build these selective space suppressors, but Ves was determined to equip them onto his own mechs!

The Lord of Thermodynamics continued to explain a few more basic theories, but he eventually wrapped up his technical explanations so that he could address the greater implications of this tech.

"If you have kept up with me so far, you will know that space suppression fields are more effective at close range but drastically drop in effectiveness at greater distances. Much like the gravity of a planet, as long as you travel far enough, the gravitational force that attempts to pull you to the surface becomes negligible. Let me demonstrate what that means in a visual exercise."

All of the projections disappeared in order to make way for a basic combat scenario.

A human warship squared off against an alien warship.

Both of them possessed all of the expected pieces of tech that were common before the Age of Dawn.

When the latter produced a typical segmented transphasic energy shield, the former produced a space suppression field!

A warship equipped with a sufficiently powerful space suppressor should have been able to reduce the effectiveness of many pieces of tech installed on the alien warship. This should negate the advantages of the latter so much that it should have suffered a defeat.

However, the actual outcome was much different. What actually happened was that the human warship's space suppression field was ineffective when the enemy vessel was hundreds if not thousands of kilometers away!

The human warship needed to close the distance in order to envelop the alien warship into the space suppression field, but the aliens weren't stupid enough to let that happen!

The alien vessel took advantage of her warp drive to maintain the distance as much as possible to prolong the interception.

In the meantime, her gun batteries constantly fired back at the pursuing human vessel, eventually causing the poor ship to succumb before using the space suppressor for its intended purpose!

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