Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones-Chapter 401: Unified Force Field

Over 1 million intelligent beings entered this massive spaceship with reverence and a sense of sacredness that is difficult to describe in words.

For a period of time thereafter, any news from this spaceship would attract widespread attention throughout the entire intelligent being population.

Those who did not get a spot looked at the scenery inside the Homeworld One spaceship and at the spaceship they were currently living in, and an uncontrollable urge and expectation always surged in their hearts.

Even though Tom repeatedly announced that more Homeworld spaceships were being built and that every intelligent being would relocate to a Homeworld spaceship in the future, not a single person would be left behind, and they only needed to wait patiently now, the network belonging to intelligent beings was still submerged by a tidal wave of urging voices.

Fortunately, with the experience gained from building the first comprehensive Homeworld spaceship, the construction of the second batch should be much faster. And for this batch, Tom planned to build 20 at once, one for each race.

Because it was not necessary to accommodate the landscapes that fit the aesthetics of all 20 races, but only the landscape corresponding to one race, although these 20 Homeworld spaceships were also comprehensive spaceships, the number of people that could be accommodated in each one was further increased, from 1 million to 5 million.

Thus, a total of another 100 million spots appeared, and they would be realized within at most 5 years.

This time, Tom announced that the selection would be open to all races. The criterion for selection would be individual contribution.

The higher one’s contribution to the civilization as a whole, the greater the probability of being selected. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

After this selection criterion was announced, a total of over 120 billion intelligent beings instantly fell into a frenzy, and their work enthusiasm increased by an unknown amount.

Seeing this scene, Tom nodded with satisfaction.

"Although it cannot compare to the Demonic Eye Civilization whose internal organizational power has reached its limit, at this stage, the organizational power and productivity of these intelligent beings are certainly capable of surpassing the previous Havilah Civilization."

With the sudden increase in assistance from the intelligent being population, Tom’s overall technological development speed increased again.

Soon, the first Mercury-class battleship, built with entirely new technology and equipped with multiple fusion reactors, Gravity Cannons, Gravity Shields, new deep space radar, conventional high-speed thrusters, and other facilities, was built.

For the first batch, Tom built ten thousand of them, then sent them all into space to conduct practical exercises and find areas for optimization and improvement during the actual combat.

Next were the Venus-class battleships, followed by the Earth-class, and Mars-class.

At this moment, over 100 Mars-class battleships were also put into practical exercises. But this was not the end of Tom’s research into military technology.

He had a premonition that with the breakthrough in Gravity Technology, the time was ripe for him to develop a new generation of super-large battleships, Jupiter-class battleships, which would be larger and more powerful than the Mars-class battleships.

To develop the Jupiter-class battleship, Tom specifically allocated 5 billion clones, along with millions of intelligent lifeforms, spacecraft, and weapons experts, to the research.

In total, there were over twenty major fields and hundreds of thousands of sub-fields, each corresponding to at least a dozen large research institutes, requiring the use of more than two supercomputers and several factories, fusion power plants, etc. Tom spared no expense and invested fully.

Finally, Tom built a giant spacecraft that looked like it was assembled from a dozen heavy iron blocks, somewhat resembling an airplane overall, but many times larger than an airplane, and its surface was not smooth, covered with various equipment.

Space battleships naturally do not need to consider aerodynamic performance. The reason it resembled an airplane was entirely because of the Gravity Technology now available; Tom no longer needed to consider whether the combination of the spacecraft’s various parts adhered to gravitational principles. When designing the spacecraft, he only needed to consider practicality.

This shape could maximize the performance of internal systems such as energy, propulsion, weapons, storage, defense, and maintenance, achieving maximum combat power.

This new generation of Jupiter-class battleships had a total length of about 9 kilometers, more than 20 times that of the Mars-class battleship, and its fully loaded total mass also increased from about 300,000 tons for the Mars-class battleship to about 10 million tons.

The performance of the giant Gravity Cannons equipped on it was further enhanced to the point of generating positive and negative 150 times Earth gravity due to ample design space and sufficient energy supply.

When two Gravity Cannons fired simultaneously, one applying a positive 150 times gravity attraction to the target and the other applying a negative 150 times Earth gravity repulsion to the target, under the total tidal force of 300 times Earth gravity, even a Mars-class battleship built using the same Gravity Technology would be easily torn apart by it.

And as many as 100 such heavy Gravity Cannons were equipped on this Jupiter-class battleship!

Its gravity defense system also had extremely powerful performance; not only could any part of the entire spacecraft counteract up to 120 times Earth gravity, but the specially designed spacecraft structure could also keep a single area intact under more than 20 times Earth gravity.

In addition to the gravity system, weapons originating from the Strong Nuclear stage but upgraded and enhanced again during the Gravity Civilization stage, such as energy cannons, energy shields, high-energy scorching lasers, radiation lasers, artillery, missiles, etc., as well as weapons unique to the Gravity Civilization stage, such as space mines, missiles, and shells loaded with gravity bombs, were all equipped on it.

This was a killing monster born entirely for war. If it were allowed to unleash its full power, even a dwarf planet would be completely torn apart by its continuous attacks.

Its formidable combat power was fully displayed during the practical exercises.

In interstellar battles that originally only involved Mars-class and lower battleships, after one side welcomed the addition of Jupiter-class battleships, the other side instantly faced utter defeat.

Even their own Mars-class battleships, considered flagship spacecraft, were torn apart. The most solid defense lines would be instantly breached under the opponent’s assault, and destroying Earth-class, Venus-class, and Mercury-class battleships was like slaughtering chickens. How could they possibly fight back?

At this moment, Tom felt as if he was witnessing a scene from the era of cold weapon warfare, where ferocious war elephants, clad in full armor, completely obedient to their handlers, charged into infantry formations.

With the Jupiter-class battleships, Tom’s combat power directly doubled.

"These Jupiter-class battleships are good, but unfortunately, the cost is too high, and the number of warriors required is also far too many."

Tom sighed and gave up the idea of building one or two thousand Jupiter-class battleships.

Jupiter-class battleships were no longer something that could be mass-produced simply by accumulating industrial strength.

There were some special parts that even with Tom’s industrial strength could not be manufactured quickly and could only be slowly accumulated through the passage of time.

Even though Tom’s maximum consciousness connections had increased to 100 billion at this moment, and these 100 billion clones did nothing else, dedicating all industrial strength to building Jupiter-class battleships, it would still take an average of 10 years to build one Jupiter-class battleship.

Furthermore, a massive maintenance team was required afterwards to maintain and service them after each deployment, incurring astonishing costs.

The number of clones required to operate this Jupiter-class battleship was as high as 600,000.

This was even with the premise of having AI of an equivalent level as assistance.

For an ordinary civilization, accounting for internal friction and communication costs, it would likely take over 150 years to build each Jupiter-class battleship, and each one would require at least 2 million soldiers to operate simultaneously, and every single one of them must be a highly trained, exceptionally excellent warrior.

Calculated on a three-shift basis, for merely one Jupiter-class battleship, a civilization would need to equip a total of 10 million people, including logistics personnel, to support its operation.

Of course, during non-combat periods, this many people wouldn’t be needed, but who knows when war will break out? Even if it’s currently a peaceful phase, which civilization would dare to withdraw these people?

Not only would they probably not dare to withdraw them, but they would also have to deploy this Jupiter-class battleship occasionally to maintain the team’s skill level and prevent a talent gap.

According to Tom’s estimation, during the Gravity Civilization stage, the population limit for orthodox intelligent civilizations is around one trillion.

And, even if the internal organization of this civilization was very high, as long as it was still in the normal stage, it would probably not be able to possess more than 20 Jupiter-class battleships simultaneously, and at most only 10 could be deployed at the same time.

If the number were any higher, the daily consumption alone could drag a vast civilization to its death.

Of course, Tom had unique advantages in this regard. But even so, after a comprehensive evaluation, Tom did not dare to build too many; he would only build about 200 for storage and maintenance, with a maximum of 100 deployed simultaneously.

Having completed the design of the Jupiter-class spacecraft and maintaining production step by step, Tom’s attention shifted to another even more important aspect.

This would also be the last important task Tom needed to complete in this solar system.

As early as before breaking through gravity, Tom had considered a question: based on the unified force, could the Unified Force Field also be upgraded after unifying gravity and upgrading the unified force into the Universal Force?

The principle by which the Unified Force Field causes damage to enemies is by releasing a large number of the carrier particles of the unified force, namely X and Y bosons, to induce the Strong Nuclear Force within the materials composing the enemy fleet, forcibly converting mass into energy and thereby causing damage.

Then... could the Universal Force particle after unifying gravity also do this?

Based on this conjecture, Tom conducted a large number of experiments and finally confirmed that this was entirely possible.

Furthermore, merging the Universal Force particle that carries the Universal Force with the X and Y bosons that carry the unified force yielded even better results!

Because the Universal Force particle acting on the hull of the opponent’s battleship would rapidly undergo symmetry breaking, releasing real gravitons. These real gravitons, acting on matter, would reduce the object’s inherent resistance to the unified force, making it easier to induce the Strong Nuclear Force existing between nucleons, thus releasing more energy and causing greater damage.

Furthermore, after introducing the Universal Force particle, the more advanced energy shields possessed by the Gravity Civilization, whose stronger intercepting effect on X and Y bosons, would also be broken through by the Universal Force particle, making it easier for X and Y bosons to react with matter itself.

The basic principle was clear; what needed to be done now was implementation.

At this stage, Tom encountered significant difficulties.

The reason was simple: the speed of spontaneous symmetry breaking of the Universal Force particle was too fast, and the time was too short. The real gravitons generated by Tom simply couldn’t be delivered to the opponent’s battleship in time.

After a great deal of thought and experimentation, Tom finally found a feasible path.

"Since the Universal Force particle cannot be delivered over long distances, then... why not treat the enemy battleship itself as the production base for the Universal Force particle!"

The specific implementation logic was also very simple: Tom only needed to build a particle collider with sufficient energy levels, accelerate helium nuclei, and then fire the helium nuclei to collide with the enemy battleship’s hull, treating the enemy battleship as the target within the particle collider. After the collision, a miniature black hole would be immediately generated at the corresponding location and instantly annihilated, releasing real gravitons.

The real gravitons would quickly react with matter, simultaneously affecting the material structure while transforming from real to virtual, and also affecting the energy shields, opening a path for the arrival of X and Y bosons, allowing them to also act on matter smoothly.

With this combination of attacks, the combination of multiple factors could release more powerful energy and achieve greater results!

However, this would inevitably increase the complexity of the Universal Force Field by several times, even more than ten times. This, in turn, placed higher demands on Tom’s computing power.

But, feeling his consciousness connection count that had already increased to 100 billion, Tom did not take the increase in complexity to heart at all.