At this stage, with the continuous evolution of Hestia AI and Tom’s persistent dedication of brainpower and energy to biotechnology, the slow improvement process that began over a hundred years ago has never stopped.
Over these years, his maximum consciousness connection count has continued to increase at an average rate of a few tenths of a percent per year.
By now, it has increased to 170 million.
It is estimated that in another fifty or sixty years, it will be able to reach 200 million.
"When the Bluetoth Civilization’s main fleet arrives, I will be able to simultaneously control 200 million clones.
In that case, the largest manned fleet I can support will consist of approximately 140,000 Mercury-class battleships, 6,000 Venus-class battleships, and 120 Earth-class battleships, plus various manned auxiliary spacecraft.
The total size of the manned fleet will be around 160,000 spacecraft."
The construction of 160,000 spacecraft and battleships of various types is undoubtedly an extremely massive project.
Calculated by mass alone, the total mass of this fleet will be as high as over 100 million tons.
To produce these 100 million tons of war-related spacecraft, the total amount of materials required would probably be measured in tens of billions of tons.
What’s more, Tom doesn’t plan to build only this many spacecraft.
The reason is simple: although he doesn’t have enough clones to control more spacecraft at once, he can build them in advance and store them.
This way, if spacecraft are destroyed in battle on the front line, new spacecraft can immediately take their place from the rear.
The number of war-related spacecraft Tom ultimately plans to build is not 160,000, but 1.28 million!
In that case, the material demand would probably truly reach hundreds of billions of tons.
This material demand is already vast enough to make even the Human Civilization in its peak era shiver with fear.
But for Tom, this is merely a part of the solar system defense line he plans to build.
Besides this, Tom also has even larger construction demands.
One is the production of clones.
Just like reserving battleships, Tom will also embark on large-scale clone reserves.
This way, if a clone is killed in battle, a backup clone can immediately take its place.
In the past, Tom was unable to reserve too many clones.
Because clones also need to survive; they need food, oxygen, and water; they need a place to rest; and he has to expend energy every day to make them exercise, otherwise they will get sick.
If the maximum consciousness connection count is 170 million, then a total of 500 million clones is roughly the limit.
Any more would take up too many of Tom’s connections, affecting other production and construction.
But this time, the number of clones Tom plans to produce is 3 billion!
The reason is simple: with the concerted efforts of Hestia AI and himself, a crucial technology has achieved a breakthrough.
Hibernation technology!
Now, Tom has managed to use technical means to make clones enter a state of hibernation, much like poikilothermic animals on Earth hibernate in winter.
Clones in hibernation have a heartbeat frequency of almost once per hour, extremely slow metabolism, basically no aging, and no illness.
What is needed to support clone hibernation, besides the construction of fixed hibernation bases, is only some electricity, nutrient solution, and a small number of clones for maintenance and upkeep.
The cost of life support is greatly reduced, and it does not occupy consciousness connection count at all, eliminating the need to expend energy daily to make them exercise, eat, or drink.
Based on comprehensive calculations, Tom set the number of backup clones at 3 billion.
This also means extremely vast construction demands.
Assuming a single hibernation pod weighs 2 tons, the total mass of just the hibernation pods would reach 6 billion tons.
For production, it would probably require preparing hundreds of billions of tons of raw materials.
But having only hibernation pods is clearly not enough.
He also needs to build massive hibernation bases and have various supporting factories.
Assuming a hibernation base covers 1 square kilometer, is 100 stories high, and one floor can house 1 million hibernation pods, one hibernation base can accommodate 100 million clones.
For 3 billion clones, he would need to build 30 such super-large hibernation bases!
The materials involved are like mountains and seas.
But compared to the third construction, the first two are nothing.
The third construction is another crucial component of the solar system defense line: unmanned combat forces.
Since his Goku AI is predicted to have more powerful performance than the opponent, there’s no reason for him not to maximize this advantage.
To maximize it, it inevitably requires a sufficient number of unmanned combat devices.
So Tom planned an extremely massive construction of unmanned combat forces.
Unmanned combat cannot function without supercomputer control.
Given this, he will mass-produce supercomputers, not only mobile supercomputer ships but also large numbers of ground-based supercomputer bases!
Build ten thousand supercomputers!
For ground-based supercomputers, every large and significant planet must have enough of them.
The eight planets, moons, and dwarf planets must all have sufficient supercomputers!
There must be at least 5,000 supercomputer ships, with some hidden in deep space as backups and some capable of freely roaming every battlefield, providing computing power support for every unmanned combat device.
He wants Goku AI to truly be able to transform into thousands, spreading to every corner of the solar system!
Once the computing power is resolved, the next step is the actual combat devices.
Although space mines have low power and slow speed, they are also cheap to build and can sometimes play a significant role.
Assuming one minefield contains one million space mines, the solar system is so vast that it would require tens of millions of minefields, which means trillions of space mines.
Assuming one space mine weighs 1 kg, that’s tens of billions of tons of mass.
Various satellites play a crucial role in the battlefield.
Communication satellites, reconnaissance satellites, armed satellites... and so on.
Build millions or tens of millions of them!
Interstellar nuclear missiles can also be quite useful in space battles.
The most crucial thing is that they are easy to conceal.
Just throw them into a deep space corner, and they can maintain good stealth.
Once needed, activate them, and propelled by an unstoppable, irreversible nuclear-powered engine, their speed can quickly increase to an unprecedented 100 kilometers per second or more.
And their power is immense.
An atomic bomb, even a low-yield one, exploding at close range, is something no spacecraft can withstand.
Build hundreds of thousands or millions of them, and then distribute them throughout the solar system.
Besides these, interstellar forts are also extremely critical.
Imagine a massive space fortress, equipped with various electromagnetic cannons, laser cannons, electromagnetic artillery, interstellar missiles, electromagnetic jamming bombs, and other weapons—how much of a role can it play in a battlefield?