Humanity is missing, luckily I have billions of clones.

Chapter 56 Huge Consumption

At this moment, in the orbit around Luoshen, in addition to the originally built space laboratory, another larger space base appeared.

The space laboratory is long and narrow, and although it is long enough, it lacks thickness and width.

Although this space base is not as long as it, it is spherical in shape with a diameter of about 600 meters.

Many supports extend from it, like needles stuck in a big ball.

Those are berths for spacecraft.

When the spacecraft needs supplies, it can move closer and fix itself on these brackets, and then pipes will extend out to supply the spacecraft with various supplies.

In addition to the material supply racks, there are also numerous personnel passages, spacecraft maintenance stations, etc.

This large sphere has a diameter of 1200 meters and a total internal space of about 0.9 cubic kilometers.

At the core are numerous huge tanks that are stored in strict isolation strategies.

A batch of tanks store liquid methane, ethane, hydrogen and the like, with a total reserve of 150 million cubic meters and a total mass of about 80 tons.

Another batch of tanks stores pure oxygen, with a total reserve of 100 million cubic meters and a total mass of approximately 110 million tons.

In addition to these two most important material reserves, there is also storage space for numerous spacecraft parts, maintenance tools, artillery shells, bullets, missiles, generators, various equipment, etc., as well as densely packed and extremely complex internal passages.

At the same time, it also possesses Li Qingsong's most intense firepower and most powerful defense so far.

Its entire shell is made of special bulletproof steel with an average thickness of 100mm, followed by a buffer layer, a blocking layer, a fiber layer, etc., with a total thickness of up to 300mm.

Unless it is bombarded with artillery shells, even continuous machine gun fire will not penetrate its defense.

In addition to its thick shell, it is also equipped with a variety of weapons and facilities.

It is equipped with 1500 high-rate machine guns alone, 200 machine guns, and 200 interstellar missile launchers.

It is also equipped with 20 high-precision radars newly developed by Li Qingsong, which can scan the entire surrounding airspace continuously around the clock.

Moreover, Li Qingsong also planned to immediately deploy at least 100 warships around the space base for protection once a battle broke out.

This whole set of measures is the limit of the protection that Li Qingsong can achieve.

If we can't even protect this base, there is nothing we can do.

This is the first work Li Qingsong has completed in the past two years.

The second task was that Li Qingsong finally formed his first space battleship fleet.

More than one million clones worked desperately, thousands of huge bases and factories roared day and night, and with the abundant material support from Luoshen Star, Li Qingsong finally built a full 500 Mercury-class battleships!

At this moment, they are parked around Space Base No. 1, guarding it and flying with it.

Machine guns, cannons, missiles, radars, optical observation equipment, optical positioning equipment...

All kinds of combat equipment make this fleet look murderous and majestic.

Numerous cargo ships transported supplies and fuel from the base cluster on the surface of Luoshen to the space base. The warships did not need to land on the surface and could directly obtain sufficient supplies from the base.

So, they broke free from Luoshen's gravitational field with murderous intent and headed for deep space. Here, they split into two teams and began to maneuver at high speed again and again, coordinating with each other again and again.

A large number of blank bullets were fired, and a large number of lasers simulating interstellar missiles were launched. For a moment, this airspace was full of war.

This is a drill.

At this moment, Li Qingsong only had some knowledge of interstellar combat from paper deductions, and had no practical experience at all.

Just like when the clones used cold weapons to face the flock of strange birds, they had to quickly accumulate experience in cold weapon combat. The same is true now.

After the collective combat drill, the next step is the pursuit battle, then the melee, the planet defense battle, and so on.

Because the deep space communication network had not yet been built, Li Qingsong had to temporarily lay out a communication network for this exercise and have every warship enable coordinate sharing so that the exercise could proceed. Otherwise, it would have been a mess.

After a day of exercises, the fleet returned to the base.

Without bothering to analyze the gains from the day's exercise, Li Qingsong first noticed a piece of data.

Just for one exercise, this fleet consumed 2.5 tons of fuel, and various blank shells and simulated shells consumed several thousand tons. Including the consumption of the clones themselves, more than tons of supplies were destroyed.

These 1000-plus tons of supplies would require cargo ships to make two round trips to replenish them. Adding the cargo ships' own consumption, nearly tons of supplies were gone.

"If there were fewer clones, I wouldn't be able to even conduct drills."

Li Qingsong sighed.

After a short rest and replenishment of supplies, the fleet exercise began again.

There is no way. We don’t know when the enemy will arrive. If we don’t prepare for war now, it may be too late later.

While carrying out large-scale production, large-scale material transportation, and large-scale exercises, Li Qingsong was also controlling tens of thousands of clones to carry out the last of the three scheduled tasks, technical research on deep space communication networks.

Two years have passed, and thanks to the clones' painstaking efforts, this technology finally achieved a breakthrough.

"Once the communication network is established, I can send a probe to the enemy planet, and the fleet can also move away from the planet and into space, so it won't always be circling around Luoshen."

Li Qingsong immediately mobilized his brainpower, drew up a blueprint for the deep space communication network, and then immediately began production and construction.

The most critical component of this communication network is 100 large antennas with a diameter of up to 45 meters.

Originally, they didn't need so many, only 20 would be enough. However, to prevent them from being destroyed during the war, Li Qingsong increased the number fivefold.

Some of these large antennas are laid out roughly evenly at the poles, equator and other parts of Rosene in accordance with a certain geometric structure, while the other part is laid out in the orbit around Rosene.

Li Qingsong has done his best to protect every large antenna, striving to maximize its survivability.

In addition to these large antennas, Li Qingsong also created thousands of satellites, scattered them around Luoshen like sand, and even launched some satellites to make them revolve around the sun.

Thus, a dense and huge communication network was built with Luoshen as the core.

As soon as this communication network was built, Li Qingsong launched a detector.

(End of this chapter)