Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 276: Demolish the Planet

Inside the Lyra G16 Solar System, Tom’s massive industrial construction and technological development activities were still ongoing.

The highly concentrated stellar light from the star continued to persist. At this moment, it was like a giant porcupine with infinite sharp quills and boundless power, constantly firing its quills into interstellar space, causing immense trouble for Tom.

Enduring these attacks, Tom hardened his resolve and directly extracted a considerable portion of his industrial strength to form a colossal industrial fleet, which then arrived near a dwarf planet.

The definition of a dwarf planet is a celestial body whose self-gravity is sufficient to make it spherical (i.e., achieve hydrostatic equilibrium), but which has not cleared its orbit of other objects.

Based on this definition, the minimum radius for a dwarf planet is approximately 400 kilometers.

At this moment, Tom’s target was precisely such a smallest dwarf planet.

Its radius was only 410 kilometers, primarily composed of water ice and rock, with an average density of approximately 1.9 grams per cubic centimeter.

From this, its total mass was calculated to be about 5.5 times 10^17 tons.

Among planets, it was undoubtedly a small one. But as a celestial body, it was still a massive entity.

It should be known that the Flying Star that Tom painstakingly manufactured back then had a total mass of only 200 trillion tons, which was just 1/2,750th of this dwarf planet.

And now, what Tom wanted to do was actually very simple.

Dismantle this dwarf planet

Break it into pieces, then install thrusters on all of them, and throw all these dwarf planet fragments onto the star

Hydrogen bombs couldn’t deal with you Electromagnetic Creatures. Now, I’ll dismantle a dwarf planet and throw it over. Let’s see if you can still withstand it!

This implied a massive engineering workload that even Tom found somewhat challenging.

After all, this was a truly enormous celestial body.

However, his technology had now advanced to the Strong Nuclear stage, and had undergone significant development during his long escape. Furthermore, in the war with the Havilah Civilization, he had established a complete industrial system, and the Poseidon AI had also seen a performance leap during this period.

All these factors combined gave Tom sufficient confidence that he could achieve this while ensuring that technological research and industrial production, the two most important matters, continued to advance, and while enduring the harassment from the Electromagnetic Creatures.

At this moment, numerous giant industrial spacecraft, supercomputing spacecraft, passenger spacecraft, energy spacecraft, and so on, were already in position.

Countless clones and countless robots also gathered around this dwarf planet.

Because this dwarf planet contained a large amount of water ice, which could be electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen, and hydrogen could be used for fusion to provide energy, Tom didn’t even need to deploy additional energy transport fleets; he could obtain ample supplies directly from this dwarf planet.

Thus, countless giant machines, like ants, began their busy work.

The first thing to be built was the space elevator.

The surface gravity of this dwarf planet was only about 0.24 m/s^2, which was only 1/40th of Earth’s gravity. Building space elevators here was very simple and convenient.

In a short time, Tom built 1,000 of them.

The next step was the celestial body cutting operation.

On this dim surface, filled with towering mountains and deep valleys, cutting tools made of Strong Nuclear materials effortlessly sliced through hard rock and water ice as if cutting tofu.

These planetary materials were cut into cubic blocks, each 100 meters in length, width, and height.

Their volume was one million cubic meters, and their mass was approximately 1.9 million tons.

On a large planet similar to Earth, transporting such a 1.9-million-ton cube into space would not be an easy task.

But the gravity of this planet was too low. Low gravity not only greatly reduced the weight of these cubes but also greatly increased the carrying capacity of the space elevators. 𝐟𝚛𝕖𝚎𝕨𝗲𝐛𝚗𝐨𝐯𝐞𝕝.𝐜𝗼𝗺

Thus, these cubes were pulled into space one by one and temporarily stored in the same circum-stellar orbit as the dwarf planet.

While mining large quantities of rock cubes, Tom also did not neglect the extraction of water ice.

In space, Tom had specialized industrial electrolysis spacecraft responsible for processing this water ice.

This water ice was first melted, then purified, removing impurities. After that, it was placed into electrolysis cells and decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen.

Oxygen was used for breathing, while hydrogen was supplied to the giant nuclear fusion energy spacecraft also orbiting, and then transferred via superconducting cables or wireless power transmission technology to other industrial spacecraft and the massive number of machines working on the planet’s surface.

The power transmission field created by Tom already enveloped the entire dwarf planet. All machines working on the dwarf planet’s surface required no cable connections and no self-contained energy sources.

As long as they operated within this power transmission field, they had virtually unlimited electricity supply.

Thus, under the direct manipulation of the Poseidon AI and the decisions of the clones, the towering mountains on this dwarf planet were directly leveled, and the crisscrossing valleys gradually disappeared.

It wasn’t that these valleys were filled in, but rather that the land on both sides of the valleys was directly excavated lower.

One massive cube after another was cut from the planet and temporarily stored in space, and the radius of this dwarf planet continuously decreased.

At this moment, its radius had already decreased to only 350 kilometers, and its overall mass had shrunk by 38%!

Conversely, in space, Tom had conjured an asteroid belt out of thin air, containing approximately 200 billion celestial bodies!

Due to the decrease in mass, the dwarf planet’s surface gravity further decreased, from the original 0.24 m/s^2 to only 0.14 m/s^2 at this moment. Its escape velocity also dropped to only about 280 meters per second, forcing Tom’s various spacecraft in space to further decelerate to maintain their orbit around it.

If their speed were any faster, they would directly break free from its gravity and fly away.

Time continued to pass rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, more than twenty years had gone by.

At this moment, a colossal asteroid belt had truly formed. And in the place where the dwarf planet originally was, only a cube-shaped celestial body with sides only a dozen kilometers long remained.

Tom was too lazy to dig out this little "core" anymore.

It was too small, and the working surface was also small. Besides, the number of small celestial bodies was already sufficient, so there was no need to continue digging.

At this moment, looking at the dense, total of 500 billion small celestial bodies in space, Tom once again sent a message to the Lyra G16 Solar System.

"Electromagnetic Creatures, listen up!"