Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 122 Live ammunition
The total number of 7.5 ships was calculated by Li Qingsong based on his current maximum number of consciousness connections, as well as the corresponding engineering strength, technological level, etc.

A fleet of this size is almost the limit of what he can currently support.

Over the years, Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousness connections has been slowly increasing with the development of biotechnology and the continuous improvement and enhancement of Nuwa AI.

Although there has not been the huge increase from 10 million to 100 million as before, there are still small increases, such as a few tenths of a percent each time.

Almost every new generation of clones will have more or less improvements.

In this case, Li Qingsong's maximum number of consciousness connections has now increased to 1.2 million.

Li Qingsong believes that in a normal social intelligent civilization, the ratio of its total population to the population that is completely off-duty and engaged in military industry and combat-related activities can be as high as about one hundred to one.

In other words, a civilization with a population of 1.2 million can support approximately 120 million military personnel. On average, it takes 100 people to support one soldier.

After all, soldiers are completely off-duty. They do not produce any resources themselves, but they can consume a lot of resources.

The fuel for the spacecraft, the manufacturing of the equipment, the salaries of the personnel, even the electricity and equipment used for research, etc., all of them are extremely expensive.

100 people can support one soldier, and this is when technology is highly developed, resources are abundant, and productivity is highly improved.

Among this one percent of military-related personnel, the vast majority are responsible for logistics, maintenance, production, scientific research, training, and civilian duties. The ratio of front-line combat personnel to total military personnel is approximately 1 to 50.

That is to say, it takes 50 military personnel to support one front-line combatant.

In this way, this civilization with a total population of 1.2 million and 120 million military-related personnel can probably support 2.4 front-line combatants.

Taking into account factors such as rest and rotation, even if all of these 2.4 front-line combatants operate Mercury-class battleships, given that one Mercury-class battleship requires eight people to control, they can only support a fleet of 3000 Mercury-class battleships.

But don't forget, a Mercury-class ship is operated by eight clones, something only Li Qingsong could do. An ordinary intelligent civilization would probably need at least 16 people.

The fleet was then reduced in size again to only 1500 ships.

If it were an Earth-class battleship, Li Qingsong would need 688 clones to operate it, and an ordinary civilization would need at least 1300 people, which would mean they could only support less than 20 ships.

But for Li Qingsong, the situation is different.

The reason is simple. The clone society under Li Qingsong is completely deformed.

The entire society has almost no other consumption except scientific research, military and basic life.

No wages, no entertainment, no leisure, no waste.

Across society, resource utilization has almost reached its limit.

Under such circumstances, although the effective total population is only 1.2 million, Li Qingsong can support the consumption of 1200 million military industry-related personnel, with a ratio of one to ten, which is ten times more than that of ordinary civilizations!
These 1200 million military industry-related personnel can support approximately 120 million front-line combat personnel. The ratio is still one to ten, which is five times that of ordinary civilization!
The total added up to fifty times. According to this calculation, although Li Qingsong currently only has a population of 1.2 million, in terms of military strength alone, it can roughly be equivalent to an ordinary intelligent civilization with a population of 60 billion.

In fact, Li Qingsong believes that a more accurate estimate should be around 100 billion.

The reason is very simple. Ordinary civilizations can achieve the above proportions based on the unity of the entire civilization, which greatly reduces internal friction and waste.

With a little waste, the total population size will increase a lot to support the same proportion of front-line combatants.

If we take into account scientific research, industrial capacity, the contribution of each effective population and many other aspects, Li Qingsong even believes that this number will increase three times, and only an ordinary civilization with a population of 300 billion can compare with himself.

It is precisely because of this that Li Qingsong dared to build a huge fleet with a total size of more than 1.2 various types of spacecraft at a time when the country only has an effective population of 7.5 million!
This goal was so grand and so enormous that even Li Qingsong had to give it his all.

Under his control, the entire Jupiter system was truly busy.

A total of about 2.2 million clones take turns resting and working, ensuring that there are 1.2 million clones on the job at all times.

In the numerous newly built mines, under the unified coordination of the Jade Emperor AI and the maintenance and decision-making of countless clones, countless machines roared, and large amounts of minerals were continuously produced. They were then processed on-site and then transported along the railway line to the space elevator base or to another factory.

Thousands of transport and passenger ships shuttled back and forth busily in the space routes, like threads connecting every planet and every base.
In uranium enrichment plants, tens of millions of high-speed centrifuges are running non-stop, extracting uranium 235 from natural uranium, which is either used as fuel for power plants or transported to spacecraft to power them.

With this comprehensive support, Li Qingsong truly realized the assembly line manufacturing of various types of spacecraft.

A spacecraft is made up of tens of millions of parts, and the tens of thousands of factories involved are running non-stop.

High-speed radar modules, chips, supercomputing modules, electromagnetic guns, laser gun modules, propulsion modules, fission reactor modules...

And so on and so forth, endless parts converge into 100 final assembly plants.

Among so many final assembly plants, 80 are dedicated to the production of Mercury-class battleships, 15 are dedicated to the production of Venus-class battleships, and 5 are dedicated to the production of Earth-class battleships.

Li Qingsong had carefully calculated this production capacity. Only in this way could the production speed of each level of warships meet expectations.

Under such circumstances, all new equipment was adopted, whether it was the propulsion system, defensive weapons, or detection and offensive systems, all of the most advanced and powerful warships at the current stage were produced in an endless stream.

Before his fleet was fully completed and only about 3000 warships were produced, Li Qingsong had already started the next step.

Actual combat drill!

It will be a real combat exercise with real guns and live ammunition, in which a large number of clones will die and a large number of warships will be destroyed!

The existing total of about 3000 warships are divided into two parts. With each part having an Earth-class warship as its flagship, they are heading to deep space in a mighty force, and a war is about to break out.

(End of this chapter)