Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 178 Peak Industrial Strength
The masses of asteroids vary greatly.

In addition to larger asteroids that are several kilometers, hundreds of meters or even several meters in size, there are also many tiny asteroids that are only tens of centimeters or even a few centimeters in size.

These asteroids cannot be pushed away by thrusters.

Judging from the number alone, this group of asteroids is the largest.

After all, for a mass of 10 tons, only one larger asteroid is needed, but for such a tiny celestial body, it may be tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of them.

In order to deal with these asteroids, Li Qingsong began to build another component of the Skynet project.

Space-based and land-based air defense bases!
Using the same idea as the battleship defense system, we can build giant radar stations on the surface or in space to comprehensively scan all tiny celestial bodies that dare to break in, and build numerous electromagnetic gun positions and laser gun positions. With the help of data from the radar stations, we can smash them or melt them with kinetic energy impact or laser burning!
Altair A1 has a thin atmosphere. Although the effect of this atmosphere is not very strong, it can still burn up the tiny stars that are shattered by the collision.

For other satellites without atmosphere, the lethality of these tiny celestial bodies will be greatly reduced after being smashed or melted, and they can be resisted by thickening the steel plates of buildings.

Various types of automatic cruising thrusters, a large number of automatic space bases, and a large number of space-based and land-based air defense bases constitute the entirety of Li Qingsong's Skynet plan.

The entire Skynet project is highly automated.

At present, Li Qingsong has spread more than 1000 million thrusters of various types into space, built more than 1000 space bases, and built more than 76 land-based and space-based air defense bases on a total of 2000 large-scale satellites of Altair A. The scale of the entire system has become extremely large.

However, the number of clones needed to maintain the entire system was less than 50. Even if the clones used to produce various facilities were included, the total number would not exceed .

The roles of Shengong AI and Wukong AI were once again fully demonstrated at this moment.

At this moment, there are still a huge number of small celestial bodies breaking into the space every moment, but every threatening small celestial body will face a change in orbit or be hit by electromagnetic cannons or laser cannons.

The entire Cowherd A system is like a big umbrella or a giant net, blocking all external invasions.

Li Qingsong turned his gaze to the rocky planet located inside Altair A, closer to Altair.

This rocky planet was named Altair b by Li Qingsong.

Like Altair A, Altair B is also subject to a seemingly endless stream of impacts from a large number of small celestial bodies. At the same time, Altair B also holds an important position in Li Qingsong's plans.

"Then let's include Cowherd B in Skynet's protection!"

A fleet immediately set off, carrying numerous cruise thrusters, space bases, air defense bases, and construction materials and machinery for various other factories, leaving Altair A and flying towards Altair B.

So after just a few months, no small celestial body could collide with Altair b anymore.

After completing the entire construction of the Skynet project and completely resolving the threats from the environment, Li Qingsong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

“Finally, we can proceed with subsequent construction without any worries.”

He thought secretly, "It's just that this system is not good for the subsequent development of Altair A, Altair B, and their satellites... But I can't worry about it now."

The collision of small celestial bodies was originally a necessary process for large celestial bodies to increase their own mass and grow. Now this process was abruptly interrupted by Li Qingsong.

Large-scale construction then began. Still following the original process of developing the solar system, Li Qingsong began constructing a space elevator at top speed. Through the space elevator, he completely connected the dozens of large satellites of Altair A with Altair B. At the same time, he began to build large-scale factories on various planets.

Mines, power plants, chemical plants, robot factories, spaceship factories...

Etc., etc.

Including spares, a total of more than 2 billion clones are busy on various planets, hundreds of thousands of spaceships are shuttling between different planets, and endless supplies are flowing between different planets.

The Blueprint People also played some role in this process, but all of them were limited to a more "advanced" level, such as formulating strategies, planning blueprints, and directing the Divine Craftsman AI to build factories.

Li Qingsong does not allow blueprint people to interfere in more basic production.

This was of course Li Qingsong's attempt to deprive the Blueprint People of their ability to be independent, but this unexpectedly won them the gratitude of their Blueprint People.

Seeing that many humans work in harsh environments, on the front lines, and perform a large number of extremely heavy and tiring tasks, while their own Blueprint people can sit in an office with a suitable temperature and fresh air to do mental work, and all basic tasks are done by humans and AI, completely away from danger and fatigue, the Blueprint people are grateful.

Only with comparison can we feel it.

We have never enjoyed such days in our motherland civilization before!
Now that he has been defeated by his opponent and taken prisoner, he is living a life that is like heaven.

There are all kinds of luxurious means of transportation for travel, big houses for living, and all kinds of goods in stores seem to grow out of the shelves. There is no need to worry about shortages of supplies. If you get sick, there is a complete medical system, and children have the best education.

There is no need to worry about the pressure of life, all you need to do is contribute your brain power - and contributing your brain power is also a very fulfilling job.

You only need to stand on a high position and give orders, without having to put in any effort, and your ideas will be truly realized.

Is there any better job than this?

If I am not loyal to such a master, who can I be loyal to?

Is the real purpose of humanity to exploit our brain power and essentially use us as slaves?
So what? Being a slave is actually pretty good.

For a time, Li Qingsong's reputation in the Blueprint society was truly at its peak. Countless Blueprint people even truly regarded Li Qingsong as a god and pledged their allegiance to him.

With the joint efforts of Li Qingsong's numerous clones and the entire Blueprint Society, a truly complete and sufficiently large-scale industrial system was truly built in just over a decade.

At this stage, Li Qingsong's industrial strength is no less than his peak moment in the solar system, and is even slightly higher.

Because during the hundreds of years of interstellar travel, although technological development was slow due to insufficient material supplies, there were still some technological advances.

Those technological advances are now fully applied.

So, it’s time to start the next step.

(End of this chapter)