Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 281: Huge Improvement
Nearly a millennium had passed since he first broke through to Strong Nuclear Civilization.
During this period, he was either in a state of space escape or engaged in battles with other civilizations. From beginning to end, Tom never had a peaceful and stable environment for development.
At this moment, with the complete resolution of the electromagnetic disaster, Tom could finally develop without any other interference, dedicating his full effort.
"Peaceful time is so precious, there’s no room for a bit of waste..."
Muttering with emotion, Tom directed a total of 3.5 billion clones, all under consciousness linkage, into research-related tasks.
In space, massive transport ships once again appeared, shuttling back and forth between different planets. Unlike before, they no longer needed to be specially equipped with cumbersome anti-laser facilities, nor did they need to frequently perform random maneuvers.
On each planet, space elevators rose from the ground, like blood vessels, connecting the "blood" circulation between different planets. Of course, they no longer needed to consider defending against external attacks, as there were no external threats in the Lyra G16 Solar System at this moment.
Factories, massive laboratories, huge energy plants, nuclear fusion power plants, chip factories, clone factories, and so on, converged like an enormous blanket, rapidly covering the desolate surface of the planets.
Inside various large scientific installations, countless clones rotated day and night, generating all kinds of technological data 24 hours a day.
In space, Tom’s fleet, under the control of tens of millions of clones, engaged in real life-and-death combat, with battleships constantly exploding and turning into wreckage.
Beyond the manned battleships, hundreds of millions of unmanned battleships, turrets, satellites, mines, missiles, and so on, under the control of Goku AI, engaged in even more brutal battles than the manned battlefield.
Typically, manned combat and unmanned combat would also be combined. In a single battlefield, there would be both the will of the clones and the will of Goku AI, making the forms of combat even more diverse.
Planetary offense and defense battles, planetary counterattacks, battles in the strong magnetic field environment of gas giants, space encounters, dwarf planet skirmishes, near-stellar environment encounters, and so on—Tom spared no effort in every environment and every combat method, deploying large forces for practical drills.
Under these circumstances, not only were Tom’s combat experience, skills, and insights rapidly improving, but Goku AI was also doing the same.
Its intelligence level was also rapidly increasing.
The entire Lyra G16 Solar System was bustling, with cannons roaring and activity in full swing.
Under these circumstances, after more than a decade of continuous research, Tom finally ushered in his first truly significant technological breakthrough.
In terms of energy technology, Tom developed a new fusion mode based on the original protium fusion.
Protium plus deuterium-helium-3 combined fusion!
A certain stage of protium fusion would produce helium-3, and then helium-3 and helium-3 would continue to fuse, completing the entire fusion process.
But now, Tom actively intervened in this process. After protium fused into helium-3, instead of letting the helium-3 fuse with each other, he added deuterium, allowing helium-3 and deuterium to fuse.
This seemingly simple change in process, however, implied immense technical difficulty.
The reason is simple: different elements require different fusion environments. Tom had to develop a unified model that could simultaneously accommodate the fusion of different elements and organically combine them to improve energy utilization efficiency, thereby increasing the Q-value.
This placed extremely high demands on materials science, engineering, optics, high-energy physics, and other fields.
After lengthy research, Tom finally overcame these technical challenges one by one, ultimately achieving the fruitful results seen today.
Originally, the mass-energy conversion efficiency of protium fusion was only about 0.7\%. But now, Tom directly increased the mass-energy conversion efficiency by about 40\%, reaching approximately 1\%!
What previously required carrying 100 kg of fuel could now be accomplished by Tom with only 70 kg of fuel.
This not only meant that the overall fleet speed could be further increased during future interstellar voyages, but also that even within the Lyra G16 Solar System, the endurance of each spaceship would be significantly extended.
The average resupply time for battleships in the space battlefield could also be greatly extended, which not only reduced logistical pressure but also enhanced combat power!
If your battleship needs to return for resupply after 5 hours of combat, while mine can fight for 7 hours before needing to resupply, it’s clear who has the higher combat power.
After a comprehensive overhaul of energy technology, Tom also saw significant advancements in Stellar Communication Technology.
With the establishment of numerous quantum supercomputing bases, Tom’s research in the field of mathematics progressed by leaps and bounds, and highly abstract disciplines like quantum mathematics also made great strides.
Coupled with the technological improvements in quantum modulation equipment, Tom’s quantum analysis capabilities significantly increased.
Originally, the limit of quantum Stellar Communication was around 1 billion kilometers, and with relays, it could at most extend to 10 billion kilometers.
But now, Tom’s newly developed Stellar Communication equipment has increased its one-way communication limit by 60\%, reaching 1.6 billion kilometers, and the relay noise reduction technology has also greatly improved. He can now perform 12 relays, bringing the maximum communication distance to 19.2 billion kilometers, almost doubling it!
The increase in communication distance meant a significant increase in Tom’s battlefield control.
Previously, Tom could only apply real-time Stellar Communication within a radius of 10 billion kilometers, a total volume of 419 quadrillion cubic kilometers, to control battleship combat.
Once outside this area, Tom could not control the battleships in real-time, leading to a significant reduction in their combat power.
But now, with the maximum communication distance reaching 19.2 billion kilometers, the corresponding controllable battlefield volume has increased to approximately 2,960 quadrillion cubic kilometers, a seven-fold increase!
At the same time, with Tom’s tireless research day and night, besides energy technology and communication technology, he also made significant progress in all aspects, including materials technology, computing technology, high-speed ion thrusters, high-speed energy cannons, precision radar, hull structures, and industrial production.
In just a few decades, the total number of all technological breakthroughs, big and small, has almost exceeded 100 million!
This manifested in industrial productivity as Tom’s overall industrial capability increasing by approximately 30\% out of thin air, even without any increase in the maximum consciousness linkage count.
In terms of combat power, it meant that the average combat power of battleships of the same class manufactured by Tom increased by approximately 20\% compared to before.
A 20\% overall performance improvement might seem small, but in an era of highly advanced technology where even a tiny improvement is exceptionally difficult and requires repeated research and refinement, it can almost be considered a generational leap.
This level of improvement is already enough to completely overwhelm the previous generation.
But this is also not the end of Tom’s technological development.
At this moment, Tom had an even more ambitious plan.
To develop a new generation of large battleships that are bigger, heavier, and more powerful than the Earth-class battleship, and can truly be called strategically significant.
Mars-class Battleship!
