Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 166 Altair

True interstellar voyage is different from the voyage from Luoshen to Jupiter that Li Qingsong had previously undertaken.

The two are simply incomparable, just like an ordinary person visiting a neighbor on Earth compared to traveling to Mars on a spacecraft, or even more exaggerated than that.

Even at the peak of human civilization, this feat had never been accomplished. Now, Li Qingsong had to complete this great journey single-handedly.

At this moment, Li Qingsong has already determined his migration destination.

Altair.

That’s right, it’s Altair, which holds an extremely important position in human culture.

The real Altair is a massive star with a mass about 1.8 times that of the Sun, a radius about 1.63 times that of the Sun, ten times its brightness, and a surface temperature of around 7000 degrees Celsius.

Its distance from the Sun is about 16.8 light-years, which is about 158 trillion kilometers, more than times the distance from Luoshen to Jupiter.

The reason why Altair was chosen as the end point of this migration is that Li Qingsong has confirmed through observation that there is a huge gas planet and two rocky planets on Altair.

Added to this is a vast debris disk and an asteroid belt, which likely contains many dwarf planets.

Gaseous planets can be used as collection sites for deuterium fuel, and rocky planets can be used as sources of various mineral resources. In this way, Altair has the foundation to quickly collect various materials.

There is another reason. That is that Altair is located far away from the Gliese 625 star system. Fleeing there can further distance oneself from the intelligent machine disaster and reduce the possibility of being discovered by it.

Moreover, the distance to Altair is also relatively suitable, neither too close nor too far, which is just right for Li Qingsong to use as a practice for his first interstellar navigation.

Of course, Altair was merely a transit point chosen by Li Qingsong. After gathering all the necessary supplies there at the fastest possible speed, Li Qingsong would embark on another interstellar voyage until he was completely free of the threat of the Omnic Scourge.

Once the migration target was determined, large-scale construction began.

This time, Li Qingsong’s construction goal was very clear.

Build spaceships, build big spaceships, build spaceships big enough for interstellar travel!

As a result, the original aerospace carrier was far from enough. Even for Li Qingsong, the Bluetuk aerospace carrier was a bit too small.

The industrial strength of the Bluetuk civilization is limited. During migration, they can only carry the minimum resources needed and are unable to carry out any scientific research activities.

But I am different!
Not to mention conducting large-scale scientific experiments and research during the voyage, at least I should be able to conduct research with low resource consumption, right?

Li Qingsong couldn't accept wasting time on sailing without doing any scientific research.

So Li Qingsong designed a new super-giant aerospace mothership.

The shape of this aerospace mothership is derived from the original design, but it is more complex and larger.

Overall, it is a rectangular box-like structure with 50 thick longitudinal axes on each plane, which are used to support the overall structure, serve as internal passages, and maintain a living environment.

Intersecting the 50 vertical axes are the same 50 horizontal axes. These 50 vertical and horizontal axes intersect to create 2500 small cubes, like mesh cages. But this is just one layer. Li Qingsong designed this aerospace mothership with 10 layers, bringing the total number of "mesh cages" inside to 2.5.

It is 6 kilometers long and wide, and 600 meters high. Roughly speaking, its internal volume is about 18 cubic kilometers.

Those cages can be used to hang warships, passenger ships, industrial ships and other spacecraft, as well as material boxes, life support cabins, various living cabins, hibernation rooms, factory modules, production lines, etc., and have a variety of uses.

It is equipped with a total of 5000 high-speed ion thrusters, not only distributed at the stern but also distributed throughout the spacecraft. These thrusters are driven by a total of 100 large nuclear fusion reactors also distributed throughout the spacecraft.

Such a large number of reactors and thrusters allow it to carry a mass of up to 3 million tons while flying in space, and it can also easily change its attitude and direction during the flight.

Li Qingsong plans to build 500 such huge aerospace carriers!
In addition to the most important aerospace mothership, Li Qingsong also plans to build more than 1000 heavy transport ships, each with a full load mass of 2000 million tons.

These heavy transport ships are not only a supplement to material transportation, but can also transport large amounts of materials. Secondly, they are smaller in size and more flexible than aerospace carriers.

Another important construction category is warships.

After digesting and absorbing the technology of the Bluetuk civilization, Li Qingsong's warship-related technology also made rapid progress. In this case, a comprehensive upgrade of the warship system became necessary.

The universe is not peaceful. Li Qingsong doesn't want to encounter the enemy and have no warships available.

The manufacturing scale of the latest warships will be larger than the fleet owned by Li Qingsong.

Li Qingsong plans to build 1000 large warships, even those like Earth-class battleships.

After that, there are 5 Venus-class battleships, and 60 Mercury-class battleships, the smallest class!

In addition, there are more than 500 million unmanned warships, more than 1000 interstellar artillery batteries, more than million satellites of various types, as well as interstellar missiles, interstellar mines, and so on.

For the Mercury-class battleships alone, Li Qingsong would need 10 aerospace motherships to accommodate them.

Including Venus-class and Earth-class aircraft carriers, as well as various unmanned combat equipment, as well as supplies and fuel to support these combat forces, the number of aerospace carriers required is as many as 100!
Building 100 super-giant aerospace carriers specifically to transport warships and combat supplies is something that people in the blueprint cannot imagine.

Momorans was extremely amazed by this, and even very loyally advised Li Qingsong not to do this, claiming that it would be a waste of transportation capacity.

Li Qingsong scoffed at this.

Have you forgotten how your Bluetuk civilization was defeated? Wasn't one of the main reasons the long interstellar voyage and insufficient supplies?
How could I possibly make the same mistakes you made?

On this interstellar voyage, Li Qingsong plans to carry a total of 50 billion clones.

Among them, 40 billion clones will be in hibernation for a long time, and the remaining 10 billion clones will always remain awake.

There are fewer industrial production tasks during the voyage, and Li Qingsong plans to devote at least 10 million of the billion clones to scientific research that consumes less resources.

(End of this chapter)