Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 289: And So, It Began

At this moment, the total number of manned warships under Tom’s command had climbed to approximately 4.5 million.

Of these 4.5 million warships, 1.8 million were stationed at the Third Planet, a gas giant, while 1.2 million were stationed at each of the remaining two planets, leaving about 300,000 to serve as a mobile space fleet.

In comparison, Tom’s statistics showed that the Mechanical Disaster Alliance’s total number of warships had also climbed to around 4 million.

Now, the answer to which planet the Mechanical Disaster Alliance’s main attack target would be was about to be revealed.

Given that both sides were operating their warships using super-range communication, Tom knew that the opponent would most likely not adopt a strategy of attacking all three planets simultaneously. This was because, in addition to facing an equal number of warships, they would also have to contend with the pressure of three separate unmanned combat systems.

Selecting one planet and committing all their main forces was the most suitable combat method. Both he himself in the past and his current opponent would choose this approach.

So, after a period of preparation, Tom saw the Mechanical Disaster Alliance’s fleet mobilize in full force, flying towards the Third Planet.

"The Third Planet, then... It truly is it."

The Third Planet had numerous moons, offering much more combat space than the two rocky planets, making defense more difficult and more conducive for the Mechanical Disaster fleet to leverage its technological advantages.

Having identified the opponent’s main attack target, Tom immediately began deploying his forces.

The fleets originally stationed at the other two planets, after leaving a portion for necessary defense, all began to move towards the Third Planet.

Anyway, there was no such thing as a sneak attack in interstellar warfare; any large-scale fleet movement was transparent. Even if a location was lightly defended, there was no need to worry about the opponent suddenly mobilizing a large-scale fleet to attack.

If such a thing were to happen, he could simply recall his fleet.

In just a few months, the number of Tom’s stationed fleets at the Third Planet surged to 4.2 million, even exceeding his current simultaneous control limit.

But even so, the massive warship production tasks on the Third Planet’s large moons had not ceased, with a continuous stream of new warships being produced for backup.

The warships deployed by the Mechanical Disaster Alliance, large and small combined, totaled around 3.6 million. Similarly, at the Flying Star and dwarf planet in their rear, they were also engaged in large-scale industrial production, continuously producing new spacecraft to replenish their fleet.

At this moment, in the vast expanse of space, millions of warships and an even greater number of unmanned combat equipment simultaneously decelerated, their tail flames connecting like a constantly pressing Milky Way, creating immense psychological pressure just by observation.

Facing this immense pressure, Tom’s heart was filled with solemnity and passion.

"I’ve waited thousands of years for this war... Come on, come on, let’s settle this here, you and I!"

A grand war then began.

If the previous moment was like dark clouds pressing down on a city on the verge of collapse, this moment was like thunder and rain arriving, with wind sweeping through the towers!

In an instant, the interstellar space, which had been peacefully solemn, was filled with a deluge of energy cannon projectiles.

Large and small, fast and slow, hundreds of billions of them emerged in this starfield in a single moment.

Emitting either dim, faint red, or yellow-white light, they crisscrossed through space with an unstoppable momentum. If they encountered even a slight obstruction and their own balance was broken, they would immediately release the energy hidden between quarks, exploding with dazzling light like a nuclear bomb.

Beam after beam of laser cannon, of various frequencies, wavelengths, and energies, transmitted at light speed through space, wantonly scorching all targets in their path. Due to their extremely high directivity, they were completely invisible if not in their propagation path. And for those in their propagation path, seeing them was equivalent to being struck by them.

Various types of high-speed interstellar missiles, equipped with nuclear fusion and ion propulsion engines, dragged long tail flames through space, rapidly increasing their speed from a standstill to even thousands of kilometers per second within a short time. Some interstellar missiles, after superimposing the speed of the launching spacecraft, could even reach over 5,000 kilometers per second.

This ultra-high speed provided them with powerful penetration capabilities. The large-yield nuclear warheads contained within their combat sections would, with each explosion, clear all facilities within dozens of kilometers, vaporizing all technological creations.

Although the rocket projectiles fired by energy cannons were a bit slower, they were smaller, more concealed, more flexible, and more numerous. Each projectile, like a grim reaper, wantonly harvested the lives of opponents on the battlefield.

Countless space mines were concealed in the vast, deep space like interstellar dust. Minesweepers continuously swept with energy cannons and laser cannons, clearing tens of thousands of mines in just one second, but minelayers were also frantically scattering them, similarly deploying tens of thousands of mines into space every second.

They lay dormant there, swarming any target they encountered. Even if one mine could only cause a tiny bit of damage, hundreds of thousands or millions of mines could destroy a warship. And due to their extremely low cost, this exchange was very cost-effective.

Supported by countless supercomputing spacecraft, Goku AI and Akakenu AI controlled tens of times more unmanned combat facilities than manned warships, engaging in an equally brutal slaughter, even more cruel than the engagements between manned warships.

Less than an hour had passed since the battle erupted, and Tom roughly estimated that at least ten million tons of technological facilities on both sides had either been vaporized or turned into scrap metal.

These were all high-tech facilities that required advanced precision technology to produce, not primary resources like iron ore or copper ore.

To produce these more than ten million tons of technological facilities, at least ten times the amount of primary resources would have been used. And such a massive production demand would require at least tens of thousands of giant factories to produce at full capacity for a year, necessitating millions of clones to work day and night to complete.

But such a massive amount of material was completely expended in this battlefield in just one hour.

And this was just the beginning.

Tom, whose consciousness had already been transferred to the Third Planet, gazed at the myriad twinkling stars, his heart filled with an unprecedented solemnity.

Under his control, the clones’ industrial production efficiency was almost pushed to its limit. 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

Dozens of large moons and dozens of small moons were constantly producing immense quantities of materials, which were then thrown into the interstellar battlefield.

Throwing materials into water would at least make a sound, but throwing them into the interstellar battlefield at this moment, not even a sound could be heard.