Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 54 The Three Goals
Faced with this record, Li Qingsong was still quite satisfied.

Although his combat power is only strong at the current technological level, and he doesn't know the technological level of his opponent at the moment, he has already reached the limit of the current technological level.

It's just that the fuel consumption is a bit too much.

While maneuvering the Mercury-class battleship back home, Li Qingsong sighed softly in his heart.

After only a few hours of fighting, 50 tons of fuel were consumed.

Not only that, but also tons of bullets, artillery shells and interstellar missiles were completely consumed.

"This was just one battleship fighting for a few hours.

An interstellar war would involve at least several hundred warships, wouldn't it? It would take at least several months or years, right?

Let’s not even talk about how much the entire war cycle would consume. Just deploying 500 warships once and fighting once would consume at least 2.5 tons of fuel and thousands of tons of ammunition…”

Li Qingsong has always known the saying "War is fought with logistics", but he never really understood it before.

He had understood this sentence himself after experiencing the expeditionary force wiping out the cluster of strange birds, which consumed thousands and tens of thousands of tons of combat supplies at one time.

But at this moment he found that his understanding of this sentence was still too superficial.

"Since so much combat material has been consumed, the model of launching warships from the surface of Luoshen will not work when war breaks out."

To take off from the surface of Roselle and enter space, one must first accelerate to a speed of about one kilometer per second, which obviously consumes a lot of fuel.

"The best way is to build a large integrated logistics base in space.

When there is no fighting, the warships can be anchored in this logistics base, always maintaining a speed of about one kilometer per second. When a battle occurs, they can set sail immediately.

At the same time, the methane, liquid oxygen, bullets, artillery shells, missiles, and various consumables needed for combat can be stored in the base in advance for easy access.

Even a spacecraft repair factory can be built here so that it can be repaired quickly if damaged.

Just a logistics base like this, how big must it be..."

There was obviously no point in storing less fuel and supplies at the logistics base.

To be truly effective, it must be built very large and be able to store at least millions of tons of supplies.

Taking into account various facilities and its own weight, the total mass of a base is probably more than two million tons, which is larger and heavier than the previous space laboratory.

In particular, such a large logistics base will inevitably become the enemy's main target of attack, so it must have heavy armor and a huge defense weapon system.

In this case, the total mass is likely to reach more than four million tons, and it is possible that it will be even higher.

"But there's no other way. I must have a base like this to support any subsequent wars that may break out."

Li Qingsong gritted his teeth and made up his mind: "Then next, I will have three key projects to carry out.

1. Make every effort to expand warship production capacity and quickly build more warships.

Second, make every effort to build a large-scale comprehensive logistics base.

Third, a deep space communication network must be established.”

As the number of warships and spacecraft increases, the demands for communication, positioning, and interaction will surge. As your fleet grows, how do you determine the location of each warship? How do you dispatch them?
This requires a complete deep space communication network.

After confirming the three key construction projects, Li Qingsong glanced at the nearby dwarf planet with some worry. At this moment, Li Qingsong had named it the Enemy Star, meaning the planet where the enemy was. He sighed again in his heart: "I don't know when they will make the next move.

I hope they can give me a little more time. Unfortunately, I still can't send a probe there at this stage.

But it shouldn't take too long. Once the deep space communication network is established, not only will spacecraft and warships be able to receive information support, but deep space probes will also be able to do so. Then I can launch."

At this moment, Li Qingsong's maximum consciousness connection number still fluctuates around 70.

In order to maintain a state where there are 70 clones working at all times, the total number of clones mobilized by Li Qingsong at this moment is about 140 million.

The number of clone reserves is around 160 million, and the total population is 300 million.

But at this moment, the workload of the 70 clones connected by Li Qingsong has almost reached saturation.

The best they can do is to support the production of Mercury-class battleships at the current production capacity level, which is an average of one every two days. If they want to do anything else, they are probably not capable of it.

After all, warships are much more difficult to build than ordinary cargo ships. Not only do they require higher precision, but they also have a larger tonnage.

"Building a deep space communications network doesn't require a lot of manpower, but it's a technical undertaking, and there are still some technical difficulties that haven't been overcome. It's estimated that we'll need about 10,000 clones for scientific research and another 10,000 for logistics. Only then can we hope to overcome it in a relatively short period of time.

As for the rest, building a comprehensive space logistics base would probably not be possible without 20 clones.

This does not take into account the problem that once the number of warships and spaceships increases, more fuel will be consumed, and more manpower will be needed on the mining and purification ends.

I'm afraid my consciousness connection count will need to be increased to 100 million to be barely sufficient."

Li Qingsong looked at the biotechnology experimental area of the space laboratory.

There, a dozen clones wearing white coats, hats, masks and gloves were carefully operating something in the clean room.

"Whether we can produce higher quality clones depends on this one time."

Time passed quietly, and in the blink of an eye, more than ten days had passed.

At this moment, the clone who came to the petri dish again took a closer look, and a feeling of joy arose in Li Qingsong's mind.

He saw that under the cultivation of the latest culture medium, the mouse, rabbit and human cells used in the experiment showed a trend of rapid division and rapid development!

Obviously they have more vitality!

"Okay, that's it!"

After obtaining first-hand experimental data, Li Qingsong immediately mobilized more than 20,000 clones and rushed into the culture medium preparation factory and clone cultivation factory to upgrade and transform the equipment according to the latest needs.

So just a few days later, the first batch of culture medium, enough for 100 people, was successfully produced.

Without waiting for more culture medium to be produced, Li Qingsong immediately began the cultivation of only one hundred clones.

Regardless, let's first increase the number of consciousness connections. As for the average quality of the clones, we can leave it for later improvement.

(End of this chapter)