Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 176 Space Vacuum Cleaner

Following Li Qingsong's order, in the hibernation chamber of the aerospace mothership, the hatches of countless hibernation chambers that had been closed for hundreds of years slowly opened, and the equipment inside each hibernation chamber began to inject awakening drugs into the bodies of the clones sleeping inside.

One by one, the clones opened their eyes and restored their consciousness connection with Li Qingsong. Then they either walked on their own or came to the recovery room with the assistance of robots to begin the recovery process.

Of the approximately one billion clones that had been awake, about half of them now arrived at the berth of the aerospace mothership and various spacecraft.

The spaceship, which had been silent for hundreds of years, finally moved at this moment.

The nuclear fusion reactor began to operate, and surging heat and energy surged in. From the engine nozzle, under the ejection of the hot tail flame, millions of spaceships of various types left the main fleet like a swarm of bees and flew towards the huge satellite near the fleet.

Long before the fleet docked, Li Qingsong had already dispatched an environmental survey fleet to comprehensively survey the environment of the Altair system, investigate the resource reserves and distribution of each major planet, large satellite, and dwarf planet, and draw up an engineering plan in advance.

At this moment, Li Qingsong no longer needs to delay and can start the construction process directly.

The development of this phase will undoubtedly focus on this large satellite, which is comparable to a large planet. Because it is large enough, its resource reserves are rich enough.

At the same time, it is close enough to the gas planet - it is originally a satellite of this gas giant planet, which means that it can obtain fusion fuel very conveniently.

At this moment, under the illumination of the dazzling Altair and the gaze of the huge gas giant planet that appears overall gray, this huge satellite with a thin atmosphere and active geological activities on its surface has finally welcomed the first guests with intelligence and self-awareness since its formation.

Hundreds of millions of clones, billions of intelligent machines, millions of spaceships of various types, and endless equipment converged on this planet like a flood.

Under the command and manipulation of Li Qingsong, and the actual execution of Shengong AI, the huge construction began instantly.

As a result, a strange scene appeared on the surface of the planet.

In some geologically stable areas selected by Li Qingsong, countless machines moved back and forth, and in a short while, the surface was leveled and compacted, the mountains were broken, and the canyons were filled.

Factories are rising from the ground, heavy-load railway lines are extending everywhere, trains are speeding everywhere, spaceships are taking off and landing everywhere, and smart devices and clones are busy everywhere.

Outside the geologically stable area selected by Li Qingsong, violent volcanic activity erupted into surging lava, and violent earthquakes instantly tore the flat earth apart. This change was already as violent as the collapse of the sky and the earth, and many asteroids came to join in the fun.

A large number of asteroids hit this large satellite every day.

Smaller asteroids can simply create a crater, but larger ones can even trigger strong earthquakes and send material flying into space.

On one side, there was bustling construction, a civilized atmosphere, and stability. On the other side, it was like purgatory, with disasters of annihilation level occurring one after another.

This gas giant planet named Altair A by Li Qingsong is too massive and has too much gravity, and the number of celestial bodies inside the young Altair Galaxy is too large.

So, this gas giant planet is like a powerful vacuum cleaner, attracting endless small celestial bodies of various kinds and then colliding with itself.

Li Qingsong estimates that, on average, over 1 million celestial bodies, both large and small, collide with Altair A every day, with a total mass of over one trillion tons. It's these frequent collisions that have caused Altair A to become gray, rather than the pale yellow of Jupiter.

Because the collisions were too frequent, the satellite named Altair A1 by Li Qingsong was also affected.

Even if only one ten-thousandth of its mass hits it, it would be as high as 10 million tons, equivalent to tens of thousands of asteroids with a radius of meters.

Because the gravitational acceleration of Altair A is so huge, even if such an asteroid hits it, the energy released is as high as 3.2*10^15 joules, which is equivalent to the energy released by the explosion of about 80 tons of TNT!

Such violent explosions occur tens of thousands of times a day on this planet on average.

One can imagine how harsh the environment on this planet is.

Of course, asteroid impacts are not picky about where they hit, and they will not deliberately avoid the geologically stable areas where Li Qingsong is building.

The reason why this place was not hit was simply because Li Qingsong dispatched a large number of spaceships to destroy or push away all the asteroids that were originally going to hit this area.

While the massive ground construction is underway, the development of the gas giant Altair A has not stopped.

Li Qingsong deliberately selected an area with relatively stable airflow and released a large number of modified Jupiter aircraft into it.

It would be impossible without special modifications, because the gravity on the surface of this planet is as high as ten times that of the Earth. Without modifications, it might fall apart under its own weight as soon as it is placed inside.

In this environment, the clones working in the Jupiter aircraft also suffered tremendous torture, resulting in an extremely high loss rate.

But there is no other way. If you want to mine enough deuterium, you must operate in the atmosphere of Altair A.

With Li Qingsong's full investment regardless of cost and loss of clones, huge amounts of deuterium gas were continuously mined and then poured into the fusion power station like a flood, supporting all the industrial construction needs led by Li Qingsong.

In just less than a year, Li Qingsong had more than 10,000 large factories under his command, and the entire industrial system had been initially completed.

In addition to numerous nuclear fusion power plants, mines, steel mills and other basic factories, Li Qingsong can now even localize the production of highly integrated technological creations such as warships and spacecraft in the Altair galaxy!
But the current scale of industry is still too small. The next step is to develop more planets and build more factories, supported by the existing industrial base, until the entire industrial system is fully developed and industrial production capacity reaches its maximum.

Whether it is to stay in the Altair Galaxy to develop technology or to collect supplies to prepare for the next interstellar voyage, it will have to wait until that time.

However, if Li Qingsong wants to expand the scale of industry and reach the highest production capacity, he is facing a difficult problem at this moment.

It was still the problem that had troubled Li Qingsong to a certain extent before.

The Altair galaxy is too chaotic, and there are too many small celestial body impact incidents. We must find a way to solve this problem before we can talk about expanding the scale of industry.

(End of this chapter)