The first warships that humanity uses to destroy each other, or other intelligent beings, in the vaccum of space will be cheerfully primitive and will pack a hard-hitting punch !
We will have to get a space elevator built to haul building materials into low earth orbit from the surface of earth, to dodge the staggering costs involved with sending anything to space.
Building materials can be transported cheaply into space and then assembled into a colossal orbiting space dock to build the solar sailors of the future!
The first space warships won't have an array of exotic weaponry, laser, microwave rays, or other elemental weapons, they will be like a sponge to the finite amount of power that the ship will have on hand to operate with.
Solar arrays can be installed into the ships which will regenerate power over time and will enable sustainable weaponry to inflict some brutal damage on the enemy. However, a weapon that consumes a gargantuan amount of energy to fire their exotic beast weapon could put the crew in danger of their life support systems failing! Imagine floating, while suffocating, in the middle of a fucking space battle!
The fleets of the near future will possibly be looking to exert control over the lucrative industry of asteroid mining, much like the east Indian trading company did with its fleet! A country or a corporation may have the first fleets and countries looking not to give one nation all the power in the conquest of space will likely build their own space elevators.
You may have a situation where a country is angered by the competition and may lead them into space warfare to destroy the threat to their economic power, other countries pose with their space elevators!
A mining vessel from one corporation may clash with another, there will be laws and protection in such an event, but will a bootstrapped country have enough funds to build a fleet to enforce these rules, perhaps not! Corporations may fight escalating space battles for profits.
Martians may want their independence and seek to gain it by any means necessary! The space wars of the future could span planets! The expanse is a perfect example of such a scenario.
Aliens may wish to, destroy, maim, enslave, or breed with us in the future and we may go to war to stop our orifices being penetrated by strange multi-barbed genitalia! The aliens may want to harvest our biomass for themselves and if colonialism has taught us anything, it's that the weak will be subjugated and paraded around in zoos!
The weapons we will use to smash the aliens into stardust will be low tech but hard hitting:
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1)Railguns are massive electromagnetically charged cannons that will launch large metal slugs at its galactic foes! The slugs are solid metal and will travel at tremendous speeds after being fired with this cannon and can be fired from a safe distance to have an advantage over their enemy.
The metal slug will have the added advantage of being able to smash through any type of energy shield with ease! In contrast, a charged laser bolt would simply tickle the shield.
Why not lasers you ask? The sheer power required to fire a laser at present requires the same amount of energy that a power plant produces! However, Perfecting cold fission, more efficient solar panels, and superior batteries could enable lasers to be mounted on a badass ship. yet, The rowdy martian rebellion must be crushed and a weapon system that drains a lot of power before even getting to the battle is more useful than a flaccid cock on a wedding night!
You can smash a massive lump of molten metal into the side of your enemies ship and watch them swim around like fish in the toilet, what is not to like!?
The warheads could come in a variety of flavours for the solar sailors of the future to try, radiation flavour, explosive flavour, and nougat filled hollow point flavour that leaves bits of flavour once eaten!
Imagine the carnage!
simple can be sexy !
