Chapter 95: Aerospace Carrier
The numerous satellites launched by Tom decades ago had already entered the Inner Solar System, orbiting the Sun, or orbiting the eight major planets, or even orbiting the moons of the major planets, dwarf planets, etc., collecting all information related to them.
A wider-ranging deep space communication network, which could even be said to cover the entire Solar System, had also been completed. At this moment, there were hundreds of communication satellites distributed at different nodes in the Solar System, ready to communicate with Tom at any time, allowing him to link to every single satellite.
The second generation of secondary pressurized thrusters, which were more stable, safer, more reliable, smaller in volume and mass, yet more efficient, had been successfully developed.
The resources of God-Enemy Star and Loshen Star were already close to depletion.
It was estimated that in about another 260 years, the vast fleet of the Blueprint Civilization would arrive.
"Then, let’s go, let’s go, it’s time to leave, time to return to a place closer to the Sun and with more abundant resources.
Only there could I develop better and more freely.
Only there could there be enough resources to support my development to a higher technological stage, and only then could I have hope of confronting the Blueprint Civilization that had come from afar..."
At this moment, on God-Enemy Star, the last batch of clones, as well as the final mechanical equipment, basic resources, and the most crucial resource, the one Tom valued most, yellowcake, had all been loaded onto ships.
There was not a single clone left on God-Enemy Star now.
The tens of thousands of factories that usually roared all day had all ceased operation at this moment.
On the railway tracks where trains used to speed and run non-stop all day, there was no longer any trace of trains.
The electromagnetic launch bases, which used to be busy with cargo transport and launched cargo containers into space all day, had also fallen silent.
"I can’t move these resources and equipment myself, but I can’t leave them for the enemy either."
Thinking this, Tom controlled several warships and directly launched hundreds of interstellar missiles with atomic warheads.
Thus, in the next moment, the desolate, dead, and dim surface of God-Enemy Star seemed to suddenly erupt with hundreds of suns.
Violent high temperatures and radiation swept through everything. In an instant, countless ices and solids were directly sublimated, dispersing into space and disappearing.
Those tall, sturdy, seemingly indestructible steel structures were also like papier-mâché under this violent energy, disappearing in an instant.
They were also vaporized. Even if they could cool down later, they would only re-condense into dust-sized particles, merging with the land of God-Enemy Star.
Unless re-smelted, it would be impossible to separate them again.
Having razed everything he left behind on God-Enemy Star, this heavy cargo ship, accompanied by several combat ships, embarked on the journey back to Loshen Star.
At this moment, a new round of construction had begun on Loshen Star.
This round of construction was different from any previous round. Because for this construction, Tom had only one goal.
Tom wanted to build an unprecedentedly large spaceship.
Supported by the last batch of materials that could be mined on God-Enemy Star and Loshen Star, countless factories began to roar again, and countless clones became busy once more.
The dual-purpose spacecraft shuttling back and forth between space and the surface also kept busy, non-stop.
In space, there were also a total of 50 construction sites, and 50 of these unprecedentedly large spaceships were being built simultaneously!
In the past, even the largest heavy cargo ship could be built by Tom with his efficiency in just a few months.
But for this type of spaceship, Tom had spent two years and still hadn’t completed it.
It ultimately took a full three years for Tom to build the main framework of this large spaceship. It took an extra year to complete the installation and debugging of its internal equipment, the laying of pipelines, and other work.
At this moment, what was presented before Tom were 50 rectangular-shaped spaceships.
The length of this spaceship reached an unprecedented 1100 meters, its width reached 300 meters, and its height reached 20 meters.
This type of spaceship did not have a unified outer shell. What constituted it were things that looked like steel pipes from a distance.
The diameter of each steel pipe reached about 5 meters, and the distance between two steel pipes was 95 meters. Thus, a total of 4 steel pipes with a length of 1100 meters formed one layer of it.
Within this 1100-meter length, every 95 meters, there was a horizontal steel pipe 300 meters long intersecting with it.
There were a total of 12 horizontal steel pipes.
4 longitudinal steel pipes and 12 horizontal steel pipes intersected with each other, jointly forming this large net.
On this large net, the area of each grid reached about 9000 square meters. Including the height of 20 meters, its volume reached about 180,000 cubic meters.
And there were a total of 33 such grids on this spaceship.
Among them, the last row of three grids at the rear was used for installing the spaceship’s thrusters, equipment cabins, etc.
In each of these three grids, Tom installed 10 larger models of secondary pressurized thrusters. Three grids meant 30 engines.
Each of these engines could continuously accelerate a giant cargo ship with a mass of several hundred thousand tons. But at this moment, these 30 such massive engines were gathered together, serving only to propel this single spaceship.
Aside from the three occupied grids, such a spaceship could still utilize 30 grids.
Each grid could securely transport about 300,000 tons of cargo. 30 grids meant 9 million tons.
Including the spaceship’s own weight, the mass of this single spaceship exceeded ten million tons!
For a spaceship so massive and with such high mass, Tom felt that describing it as a cargo ship was no longer appropriate.
It wasn’t a cargo ship, but... an aerospace carrier!
An aerospace carrier, similar in nature to the Blueprint mother ship he had captured, capable of accommodating other spaceships and transporting an unimaginably huge amount of supplies!
At this moment, all 50 aerospace carriers had been manufactured, and it was time to load materials, equipment, and personnel.
A large number of small spaceships, like ants, began to converge towards the aerospace carriers.
During this process, one huge cargo container after another, spaceships of various sizes, and numerous ecological cabins for the survival of clones, livestock, and poultry, either took off directly from the surface or were completed in space factories, and then arrived at the aerospace carriers one after another, being secured onto the grids of the aerospace carriers.
Chemical fuels in quantities so vast as to be almost endless, such as liquid hydrogen, liquid oxygen, methane, ethane, etc., as well as large amounts of uranium 235 and plutonium 239, were also poured into the fuel tanks.
It took Tom almost a year to complete the transfer and loading of all personnel, materials, and equipment onto the ships.
So... it was time to set sail.