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Chapter 817: Golden Eagle
🕑 Added 2023-11-12 10:00:29 +0000 UTCTransformers Begin : Table of Content/Chapter List
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The armed transport ship is the project with the lowest gold content among those we are about to harvest.
The prototype of the armed transport ship was designed by Sun Cheng himself, and later transformed by his subordinates, the Decepticon engineers, into the Hope-class experimental spaceship.
Initially, Sun Cheng piloted this spaceship and successfully delivered the first batch of Decepticons to Mars, establishing a new base there.
After returning from Mars, the Hope-class was taken over by Sun Cheng's Decepticon engineers to collect various data.
As the first spaceship produced by the base capable of Universe travel, although smaller in size, Sun Cheng's well-trained Decepticon engineers began a secondary design of the Hope-class, developing several new models from it.
Eventually, a prototype of the armed transport ship emerged based on the Hope-class.
Sun Cheng arrived at a low-lying mountain range over twenty kilometers from the Base TwoControl Center. Inside, in an almost hollowed-out huge parking apron, there were more than a dozen spaceships, barely recognizable as the Hope-class, docked.
Looking up unconsciously towards the top of the mountain belly, huge metal plates replaced the mountaintop, allowing these vertically taking-off and landing spaceships to fly directly from the parking apron inside the mountain.
It seemed that a young Decepticon engineer had received news of his arrival and hurried over.
His name was Magnifier, a peculiar name not chosen by Sun Cheng but by his teacher, Hephaestus.
"Commander, welcome to inspect the parking apron!"
Magnifier, now a senior engineer, was once Hephaestus's assistant. Starting as an engineer, he participated in the transformation and manufacture of various warships and submarines under Hephaestus.
With this experience, when Sun Cheng acquired the technology to build Explorer-class cargo spaceships, he assigned Hephaestus, experienced in designing and building large ships, to take charge of the Explorer-class cargo spaceship production project.
Magnifier, as his assistant, also participated in the construction of the Explorer-class cargo spaceship for a while.
Until Sun Cheng proposed the Hope-class experimental spaceship project, Magnifier was assigned by Hephaestus to help with its optimization design and construction.
Afterward, Magnifier never returned to Hephaestus's team.
This ambitious young Decepticon engineer saw great potential in the Hope-class experimental spaceship.
After the construction of the Hope-class, during a time when Sun Cheng was in a good mood, Magnifier proposed establishing a separate project to continue perfecting the Hope-class.
Sun Cheng, about to head to Mars, didn't reject Magnifier's proposal.
Unexpectedly, Magnifier used the resources from the project to create the first batch of three armed transport ships, equipped with weapon systems and fully optimized transport bays.
A few months ago, when Vehicons invaded Terindad Island, although the three armed transport ships arrived at the Black Market at the last moment, their unique design and series of improvements indeed impressed Sun Cheng.
Consequently, Magnifier, who originally needed to use the pretext of improving the Hope-class to apply for resources from the base, was officially appointed as the main person in charge of the 'armed transport ship' project.
With the help of a group of Decepticon engineers and technicians, he spent nearly half a year comprehensively remodeling and upgrading the 'armed transport ship' from start to finish.
At the current landing field, these dozen or so completely unrecognizable Hope-class vessels were now state-of-the-art weapons.
The final product of the "Armed Transport Ship" program had officially been given the name "Golden Eagle."
Modeling itself after American military transport aircraft, two different models were developed: Type I and Type II.
The official name of Type I should be "Golden Eagle Fighter Carrier," which had been thoroughly transformed into a combat spaceship.
It measured 27.7 meters in length, had a wingspan of 33.4 meters, stood 16.4 meters tall, and had an empty spaceship weight of 94.2 tons, with a maximum takeoff weight of around 179 tons.
A regular Decepticon warrior could handle such a fighter carrier well, but when flying in outer space, it would require the simultaneous operation of two Decepticon warriors.
It was armed with a 120mm caliber Plasma Cannon, two sets of rocket launchers, and eight sets of missile launchers, capable of carrying over ninety tons of missiles and other ammunition.
With the prospect of nuclear weapons in the future, the Golden Eagle Fighter Carrier could even be used as a launch vehicle for nuclear warheads.
When designing this fighter carrier, Magnifier had clearly drawn inspiration from the design concepts of Earth's fighter jets, fighter bombers, and bombers.
However, unlike military planes on Earth that couldn't breach the atmosphere, it could engage in combat in outer space.
It was designed as a short-range escort unit for future transport fleets, and at least escorting between Earth and Mars posed no problems. For longer journeys, the propulsion system would need further upgrades.
The official name of Type II should be "Golden Eagle Armed Transport Ship," with a stronger focus on transport.
It measured 55.3 meters in length, had a wingspan of 59.6 meters, stood 21.8 meters tall, and had an empty spaceship weight of 196.2 tons, with a maximum takeoff weight of around 579 tons.
The weapon systems on the spaceship were streamlined to include two sets of rocket launchers and four sets of missile launchers, ensuring it had at least minimal defensive capabilities in unexpected situations.
Because it was more complex than the "Golden Eagle Fighter Carrier," the "Golden Eagle Armed Transport Ship" required a minimum of two regular Decepticon warriors to operate. In the case of outer space flight, at least three Decepticon warriors were needed.
The finalized version of the "Golden Eagle Armed Transport Ship" had the capacity to simultaneously transport up to 60 Decepticon warriors or over three hundred tons of supplies.
Compared to the three prototype vessels that had appeared on Terindad Island initially, there was no doubt that the current Golden Eagle Type II was truly deserving of the title of an armed transport ship.
"It's a pretty good design!"
Two beams of blue light shot out from Sun Cheng's eyes, scanning the two Golden Eagle Spaceships on the landing field carefully. After a while, he nodded in satisfaction.
His gaze lingered especially long on the Type I Golden Eagle Fighter Carrier. His current transformation form had not been decided yet after switching to a new mechanical body.
The Golden Eagle Fighter Carrier did fit Sun Cheng's aesthetics; after transforming, Cybertronians could fully master the capabilities of a certain military weapon or transport equipment.
Therefore, he hadn't easily decided to scan the Golden Eagle Fighter Carrier to use it as his current transformation form.
After all, while transforming into the Golden Eagle Fighter Carrier would bring about an astonishing transformation in his speed, and he could even fly across planets more easily after transforming, based on Sun Cheng's research on Cybertronians in recent years, the energy consumption for cross-planetary flight in the Golden Eagle form would likely be extremely taxing on his Spark energy.
Conservatively estimating, he probably couldn't even fly to Mars in the Golden Eagle form without running out of energy in his Spark.
However, Sun Cheng didn't have much time left for consideration.
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