Chapter 817

Some laser weapons even have enough power to pierce through a planet!

Of course.

Actually...

Any weapon, as long as you adjust its power, can blow up a planet.

You could even use a bow and arrow; if you built that bow to be the size of a star system, with an arrow one light-year long, and you were able to draw it...

Then you could likewise shoot and shatter any planet.

Therefore, discussing the power of a weapon in isolation is completely meaningless.

A weapon with a smaller volume, lower consumption, faster fire rate, and the ability to maintain the same or even greater power—that is the progress of a weapon civilization.

Therefore!

Energy weapons don't actually require less ammunition than kinetic weapons!

So...

Speaking of which, there isn't much that needs to be customized; it's basically all about the same.

In any case, just stack the firepower like crazy, and that's it.

Compared to Qin Fuyue's *Huiyue*,

Bai Bai Bai Xiaoyuan's *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan* was the one that truly cost Xu Zi'an quite a few brain cells.

In fact!

For a period of time before this, Xu Zi'an specifically used Bai Bai Bai Xiaoyuan's *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan* as a blueprint to improve his own strength in evolution simulations.

Support ships.

They are very important.

And yet, they are not important at all.

This is because.

A good support ship is very, very, very, very important.

But a support ship that hasn't evolved very well...

Is completely useless.

For example, a fairly ordinary support ship.

The repair effect is average; the support effect is average; the reconnaissance effect is average... then what is the point of having it?

Therefore, the main evolutionary direction for the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan* was to do everything possible to improve these capabilities of her starship!

First, repairs.

Repairs are very important.

Especially when there is Tai Mei in the team.

Let's use an analogy.

For instance, if Tai Mei's *Jushi* is also an Immortal-class ship and can block all attacks from two enemy Immortal-class ships for twenty minutes.

Then, with the repairs from the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan*, Tai Mei could block these two Immortal-class ships for thirty minutes, forty minutes, or even longer!!!

The stronger the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan*'s repair capability, the longer Tai Mei can hold them off!

This is the importance of a support ship's repair function!

Second, support.

The support effect is mainly targeted at the two firepower ships belonging to Hu Hu Hu Qiqi and Qin Fuyue!

For example, Hu Hu Hu Qiqi and Qin Fuyue, combined, can suppress two Immortal-class ships for ten minutes, keeping them from lifting their heads.

But!

With the support of the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan*, this suppression could reach twenty minutes, thirty minutes, or even directly cause them to suffer heavy battle damage, or even blow them up entirely!

Third, reconnaissance.

Reconnaissance has always been done by Miao Miao Miao Miao Xiaomi.

However, large-scale, highly stealthy reconnaissance is absolutely no match for countless drones with high stealth capabilities!

Therefore, reconnaissance is equally important!

Additionally...

A support ship can also have cultivation rooms, living quarters, medical bays, and so on.

There are also massive cargo storage systems.

In short.

Ordinary support ships.

Actually don't have much use.

Sometimes, because they lack combat power and are targeted by the enemy, they end up dragging the whole team down.

But a badass support ship is just too, too, too important for an entire fleet.

Therefore!

The procurement of parts for the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan* alone cost a massive amount of money!

Or rather.

From the day Bai Bai Bai Xiaoyuan joined the Brilliant Fleet.

Xu Zi'an had already been selecting all the parts needed for the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan*'s subsequent evolution!

Only the most high-end would do.

Only the most badass would do!

Repair bay.

Can store a total of 3 small repair drones;

6 micro-repair drones;

12 ultra-small repair drones.

Can perform massive repairs on multiple targets simultaneously.

The repair system mounted on the drones uses a very advanced repair beam.

Furthermore, the amount of repair materials that can be carried by a single ultra-small repair drone includes over a hundred types!

Not to mention the slightly larger micro-drones and the even larger small repair drones.

In short...

With this configuration for the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan*'s repair bay, let alone one Brilliant Fleet, even two Brilliant Fleets could be repaired, provided they aren't all collectively suffering from critical damage!

And Xu Zi'an set it so that, at the limit, it can repair three fleets with this configuration, or repair one Brilliant Fleet that has suffered over eighty percent battle damage!

Support bay.

A total of six small support drones, each capable of carrying twenty thousand kilograms of ammunition at once, to be resupplied to any target starship in the shortest possible time.

Six drones, if only supplying Hu Hu Hu Qiqi and Qin Fuyue.

Are enough to keep them firing continuously.

Until the ammunition reserves on the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan* are also completely exhausted!

Finally, the reconnaissance bay...

Needless to say.

48 ultra-micro stealth reconnaissance drones are set up.

These three major bays.

Are the main component configurations of the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan*!

It's hard to imagine.

When these three major bays of the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan* are all evolved to Purple Peerless quality...

Just how badass the overall support effect of the *Bai Bai Xiaoyuan* will be!