Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 386: Orbital Compression

Letting the Purple Moon witness the destruction of the Demonic Eye Nation was the most important reason Tom kept them alive and didn’t directly kill them.

Don’t you Demonic Eyes willingly dedicate everything to the Demonic Eye?

Don’t you endure any pain for the sake of the Demonic Eye?

Don’t you prefer to die entirely to ensure the Demonic Eye’s interests?

Then I will let you witness the destruction of the Demonic Eye Nation!

Mere physical torture, no matter how painful, would not vent the anger in my heart! Not just physically, I will also inflict the greatest spiritual torment upon you!

Just wait, just wait...

Tom’s gaze turned to the enormous star, which had already expanded to a radius of 50 million kilometers.

On that star, the battle of the Electromagnetic Life had already concluded.

Those life forms, resembling red light spheres, had left the star and arrived within Tom’s main fleet.

"Your Excellency, we have... killed all of our ancestors. They have all been liberated and no longer have to endure that torment."

Electric Disaster’s words were filled with grief and sorrow.

Tom sighed and said, "Things here are finished. Electric Disaster, are you still willing to follow me?

If you wish to leave and live freely in this universe, then I can let you go."

To this day, strategic weapons like the Stellar Cannon are extremely important to Tom. Even if he advances to a Gravity Civilization in the future, this weapon will still be immensely powerful and can still be called a strategic weapon.

But similarly, Tom is unwilling to force anyone or anything that poses no threat to him.

For entities like the Purple Moon, with whom he has deep-seated hatred, Tom can unhesitatingly inflict the most cruel punishments, from physical to spiritual torment. For entities like Electric Disaster, he never hesitates to show kindness.

Only by continuing to uphold the values and moral concepts left behind by Human Civilization can Tom feel that he is still a human.

Facing Tom’s inquiry, Electric Disaster remained silent for a long time before replying, "In this vast universe... where else can we go?

Our very existence is a sin.

I hope to continue following you and contribute all we can to the development of your civilization. At least by following you, we won’t have to worry about what happened to our ancestors happening to us again."

"Very well."

Tom slowly nodded: "From now on, you are a member of Human Civilization, just like the Viller Race, Bluetoth Clan, and Red Ear Race. You are the Electromagnetic Clan! Electric Disaster, you are the Leader of the Electromagnetic Clan."

"As you command, Your Excellency."

"Now, return to your spacecraft and rest. There will be tasks for you to carry out later."

"Yes."

After resolving matters related to the Electromagnetic Life, Tom truly dedicated himself and the industrial might of his many intelligent life forms to the task of detonating the supernova.

The first thing to do was simple.

Push the planet closest to the star to collide with it!

It was evident that the more the star expanded and the larger its volume, the lower its gravitational control over the outer stellar matter. This would make it easier and faster for the white dwarf to capture stellar matter.

How to make the star expand further?

It was simple: push a planet into it, and the goal would be achieved.

Although compared to this star, that planet was extremely small. Neither its volume nor its mass was significant.

But a collision of this magnitude was entirely sufficient to disrupt the entire stellar structure, destroy its internal layering, make its stellar activity several times more intense, and further accelerate its expansion rate.

Just like when the Shoemaker-Levy comet collided with Jupiter in the Solar System.

In the first impact, merely a four-kilometer-sized comet fragment—utterly insignificant compared to Jupiter, which has a radius of tens of thousands of kilometers—created a haze zone larger than Earth on Jupiter, completely disrupting Jupiter’s climate.

Now, the impact of this planet would have a similar effect.

Only...

Tom had only ever pushed dwarf planets with radii of a few hundred kilometers at most. He had never pushed a large planet like the one before him, which had a radius of 3,600 kilometers, larger than Mars.

The engineering difficulty was also incomparable.

Such a massive planet could essentially be regarded as a "water ball" at the planetary level.

At the planetary level, even tough rock layers would flow like fluids, and the distinction between solids and liquids was not very clear.

This meant that if the power of the planetary thrusters was large enough, they would inevitably penetrate into the planet’s interior. If the power was not large enough, it would be impossible to move the planet at all.

Fortunately, even before reaching this solar system, Tom had already found an engineering solution to this problem.

From a planetary perspective, there is no solid surface on a planet? No problem, I will artificially create a solid surface!

Now that the Purple Moon Civilization had been dealt with and there were no more threats within the solar system, Tom immediately launched large-scale industrial construction simultaneously on a total of five large planets.

Factories, power plants, mines, shipyards, machinery factories, and so on, sprung up like mushrooms after rain.

In just one year, over a trillion general-purpose robots and numerous intelligent machines descended upon planet G76a.

According to the planet’s topography, one large pit after another was rapidly excavated.

Each of these large pits had a depth of at least 10,000 meters and an area of at least 1 square kilometer.

After excavating to the bottom, Tom would also extend outward in layers, at least to an area of 100 square kilometers before stopping.

For each such large pit excavated, Tom needed to move 10 cubic kilometers of earthwork, approximately 26 billion tons or more.

According to Tom’s estimation, the total mass of the famous Mount Tai on Earth is only about 270 billion tons. At this moment, for each such large pit excavated, Tom was equivalent to moving one-tenth the mass of Mount Tai!

But at this moment, the number of large pits Tom excavated on this planet was over 2 million!

After the large pits were excavated, numerous cement-like special reinforcement materials produced from other planets and this planet’s local resources were poured in, filling all the empty cavities.

These materials would quickly solidify, possessing extremely high strength, and ultimately form a "base."

It was upon this base that Tom began the construction of the planetary thrusters.

One by one, colossal planetary thrusters, like towering swords, with heights of over 10,000 meters and radii of over 5 kilometers, were built, densely packed, making the planet resemble a hedgehog.

This project was so vast that even with Tom’s industrial capabilities, it took him a full decade to complete.

Afterward, all these planetary thrusters were activated simultaneously under Tom’s command.

Energy from numerous nuclear fusion power stations surged forth, accelerating the pulverized earthwork—excavated from the large pits—through an electromagnetic acceleration mechanism to speeds of tens of thousands of kilometers per second, then violently ejecting it into space.

Millions of gigantic planetary engines started simultaneously, ejecting at the same time. The next moment, a massive comet tail appeared on this planet, extending rapidly into deep space.

A rough calculation showed Tom that the total kinetic energy of this planet’s rotation was approximately 2.38 times 10^28 J.

This amount of energy was so immense that if there were a method to completely transfer it and use it to boil seawater on Earth, it could boil all the seawater on Earth to complete vaporization six times over!

And what Tom needed to do now was to completely counteract this energy, stopping its rotation.

With the activation of the planetary engines and the surging energy pressing against the planet’s surface, violent earthquakes immediately began to occur on the planet, one after another, ceaselessly.

Volcanoes also began to erupt, with endless smoke and dust rolling forth. At the same time, mountains collapsed, valleys filled, and the world was turned upside down.

Finally, under this immense reaction force, the planet’s rotation slowly ceased, and it began to always face the star with one side and always turn its back to the star with the other. The planet’s surface was now almost entirely covered by molten rock.

Because the energy of its rotation and the energy of the planetary thrusters canceled each other out, they had been converted into heat. Thus, the entire surface of this planet was melted.

Fortunately, Tom’s planetary thrusters were sturdy enough and performed well enough to continue operating under these conditions.

After stopping the planet’s rotation, the next step was to compress its orbit.

Normally, a more economical method would be to slow down its orbital speed, which would cause it to slowly fall under the star’s gravity.

While this method was simple and economical, it had one problem: it was too slow.

Tom didn’t have that much time.

So, he adopted a faster and more direct method.

Directly compress its orbit, directly push it into the star!

The 2 million planetary thrusters were all activated again, pushing with full force towards the star.

This time, because the direction was the same as the star’s light pressure and radiation pressure, the exhaust plumes from the 2 million planetary thrusters were not dispersed by the star, but instead maintained a relatively straight state.

Thus, the enormous "comet tail" extending from this planet was like a sharp sword, stretching straight for billions of kilometers, even encompassing the other few large planets, and could be clearly seen even from trillions of kilometers away.

As if an arrow flying through the air had been violently struck, the planet’s orbital path suddenly lowered. Based on the star’s gravity, its orbital speed began to increase.

Its orbit gradually changed from a nearly circular ellipse to increasingly flattened.

Its periapsis moved closer and closer to the star, while its apoapsis moved further and further away.

Eventually, its periapsis shortened to only a few hundred thousand kilometers from the star.

The star’s radius had now expanded to about 50 million kilometers. If it were shrunk to the size of Earth, then the planet’s perihelion, when converted, would be only about 50 kilometers from the star’s surface!

There was no clear boundary between the star and interstellar space; Tom simply used the point within the star’s atmosphere where the stellar matter density reached a certain standard as the boundary.

There was also stellar matter beyond this boundary.

At this moment, it could be said that the planet was still hundreds of thousands of kilometers from the star, but it could also be said that the planet had already entered the star’s atmosphere.

Thus, the planet began to rub violently against the thin matter in the star’s outer layers.

Its surface temperature began to rise sharply once again, even exceeding 6,000 degrees Celsius. It dragged a long tail of flame behind it, making it look like a giant meteor.

The 2 million planetary thrusters built by Tom simultaneously lit up with pale blue energy shields, protecting all components and isolating all stellar matter to prevent damage to themselves.

Amidst violent flight and intense friction, the planet quickly escaped the star’s atmosphere.

But this time, its aphelion was tens of millions of kilometers shorter than the last time.

The reason was simple: its orbital speed was severely weakened during the intense friction with the star’s atmosphere.

According to Tom’s calculations, the next time it reached its perihelion, it would plunge directly into the star!

This moment did not make Tom wait too long. Just over ten days later, it reached its aphelion and then approached the star again.

Seizing this last working period, the 2 million planetary thrusters were still pushing violently.

As the distance to the star shortened, its speed became faster and faster.

Friction with the stellar matter began again. But unlike last time, this friction was more intense, the deceleration effect was better, and the planet’s surface temperature was higher!

This time, even Tom’s energy shield could not withstand such intense energy intrusion.

The giant engines, which stood like mountains on the planet’s surface, at this moment seemed to be ground down by a grinding machine, gradually becoming smaller and shorter, eventually disappearing completely.

Tom completely lost contact with this planet and could only obtain its real-time position and movements through external observation.

Finally, the planet completely disappeared and could no longer be seen.