Chapter 3481 Bacteriophage armor
Of course, what Soshiyan thinks is very good is average in ancient artificial intelligence. Qingzhao actually doesn't like the things produced by the Van Sauer family. Although they are also technological products from the past, at Soshiyan's request, a more advanced individual armor was made based on the appearance of the spider armor of the Van Sauer family and the Wanderer armor model (an ancient armor passed down from the Alexei family) provided by Soshiyan, and gave them a very unique name - bacteriophage.
The bacteriophage armor adopts the mainstream neural link control method of the Empire, which is similar to the power aura, but does not have too high requirements for the user. It also has a highly intelligent system, which can realize complete self-circulation and self-repair functions, ensuring that frequent maintenance is not required during use, and also provides users with an environment similar to a survival pod. In the most extreme state, it can survive for seventeen months without any supplies.
Its protection ability is also quite special and does not pursue extreme strength. At least the overall defense ability is not as good as that of the Power Armor, because it targets very single enemies, so it is extremely special in function. The outer layer is a bulletproof layer, which is not very special. It is mainly a high-strength alloy to fight against the firepower of the cultists of gene stealers. The real focus is the honeycomb buffer layer below the bulletproof layer. This layer of armor is specially used to fight against the most powerful weapons of hybrid and pure blood gene stealers, their claws.
After Qingzhao studied the sharp claws of gene thieves and Tyron organisms, he discovered the unusual secret of Tyron organisms' strong attack power. The first point is that the mechanical claws are actually based on the self-sharp single-molecular blades of nano-microorganisms, but the other is quite controversial. There is a tiny gland behind the claws of the gene thieves. This gland needs to be activated in an excited state. Once activated, a very special energy field will be generated. The effect of this energy field is far beyond the force field used by conventional power weapons. This also explains why the sharp claws of the gene thieves have such terrifying destructive power.
However, the output power of this autogenous biological energy field is actually very low, and the coverage is very small, basically the few centimeters of the claw tip, but it is very destructive to the solid surface.
In view of the energy field characteristics of gene stealers' tearing claws, Qingzhao chose a variable frequency armor from the human technology library - ionic electroactive polymer liquid armor.
Soshiyan also doesn't understand the principle of this armor. It roughly means that they are in a jelly-shaped honeycomb structure under normal conditions. Once the outer armor is broken through by abnormal energy, they will react at a microsecond level, forming a similar energy field and tighten the material by shrinking the muscles of the honeycomb structure, neutralizing the effect of the decomposition force field and counteracting the impact of the claws to achieve a defensive effect.
However, this material is not as strong as that of ceramic steel or pure gold. If it faces powerful physical impacts, such as explosive bombs, or even large-diameter live ammunition, and too powerful energy impacts, such as high-energy lasers, ions, etc., it will have little effect.
When he first saw this kind of unique armor, Soshiyang immediately thought, could he also equip the Space Marines?
However, after proposing it, Qingzhao did not agree with this suggestion. After analyzing the current mainstream Astart Power A, she came to a conclusion that the design redundancy of this armor is very low, especially for the models after MarkVI. There is almost no room for transformation or transformation value. At most, it can only be a minor repair and no structural modification can be carried out, otherwise it will affect the use of other key functions.
To add ionic electroactive polymer liquid armor, you have to redesign a power armor because it is lined armor. But the problem is that ionic electroactive polymer liquid armor is not a cheap product. In fact, it requires quite a lot of rare metals and complex production processes. Gailan's efficiency in manufacturing it is not high, and many rare metals need to be purchased from Funers - the efficiency and stability of other channels are too poor, while Wang Ting is very good at all aspects, but he is not good at mining minerals, because the demand is very low.
Moreover, ionic electroactive polymer liquid armor is a highly specialized protection capability, and it exists almost simply to fight the weapon of tearing claws. Is it worth it to invest so much just for this protection?
In addition, the protection area of Astart's armor is also very high, which means higher requirements for output. Now Gailan can be said to be fully meeting the tasks assigned by Soshiyan. Qingzhao complained to him many times that she is not a professional "factory ball". Soshiyan threw all the production tasks for hundreds of years on her at one time. Excessive production load for a long time will cause continuous losses to the main energy system of the astral body. If this part is broken, it will be troublesome to repair it.
Qingzhao did some calculations for Soshiyan. The amount required to protect an Astate with ionic electroactive polymer liquid armor can basically meet the protection needs of two standard-shaped men with a height of about 180cm. He is planning to deal with gene stealers, but this creature likes to hide in narrow and dark places. Astate's too large body shape is actually not very suitable. He is definitely unwilling to waste such precious troops on long-term execution of such tasks. So why not use good steel on the blade?
After being persuaded, Soshiyang gave up the idea of using this protective material for power abrasion. At least for now, it is indeed as Qingzhao said, unnecessary and not cost-effective.
Of course, even with such protection, phage armor is not really foolproof. Due to the production of ionic electroactive polymer liquid armor, even phage armor can only protect the trunk and upper limbs, and there is no protection for the lower limbs. In addition, the head is not protected due to neural links. However, Qingzhao himself said that according to simulation tests in various environments, phages can guarantee that there is an 86% chance of being fatally damaged in the first thirty seconds when facing gene steward attacks. In Soshiyan's view, this is enough. After all, there is no so-called perfect defense in reality, and the gene stealers themselves are not very powerful enemies. They also belong to glass cannons in a sense, which extremely strengthens the melee armor-breaking ability, but they are not "hard". Therefore, the attack strategy is basically ambush or attack, and the battle is to kill the target in an instant. As long as they survive their initial raid, they can easily be killed.